Lester Golden
2 min readFeb 21, 2024

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I certainly don't consider you one of Hamas' useful idiots spouting genocidal "from the river to the sea" idiocy.

But what you fail to see, by "westsplaining" it away is a "Palestinian" narrative that is as delusional as Japan's Bushido narrative that they were liberating Asia from European colonialism.

The difference between the two sides:

It's the Arabs' delusional war of return, to use Dr, Einat Wilf's book title, that has created messianic Jewish fascism on the Israeli side. Netanyahu, Ben Gvir and Smotrich are Arafat's, Zuheir Mohsen's, Meshal's and Sinwar's legacy. The delusion that 1948 is reversible, and the murderous campaign of suicide bombings of 2000-04 Arafat unleashed after saying no to the Clinton Parameters at Camp David, is the sine qua non of the rise of the fascistic Israeli right. Similarly, Netanyahu rode to power in 1996 on a wave of Arafat-sanctioned terror.

Ernest Bevin's 1947 diagnosis of Jewish and Arab priorities never ceased to be devastatingly accurate. And virtually every interview video by The Ask Project, every opinion poll of Palestinians and their media (https://palwatch.org/) prove it.

Your bothsidesism of "westsplaining" away what Palestinians have said they wanted for more than a century is part of the problem, as Dr. Einat Wilf makes clear:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHZyuposz3I&t=15s

And she's a former Labor Party MK who was from the peace camp who took a decade to understand that it's not a land for peace territorial issue. Only when they cease to fight their "war of return", to use Dr. Wilf's book title, will there be peace.

The UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan get it. But you don't.

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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