Lester Golden
2 min readJul 3, 2024

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In 1937, 1939, 1945, 1947, 1967, 1979, 2000-01, 2008 and 2014 the Arabs of mandatory, then Jordanian-Egyptian occupied, then Israeli-occupied territory were given a choice between statehood together with a sovereign Jewish state or continued jihad-inspired Muslim supremacist war against Jewish sovereignty. Every time, without fail and with clockwork predictability, they chose the latter. Why? British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin explained why in February 1947: "The highest point of principle for the Jews is to have a state. The highest point of principle for the Arabs is that the Jews not have a state."

To pursue this Muslim supremacist objective the Arabs invented the Jews' intention to eliminate their sovereignty, no matter how many times it was offered because they defined their sovereignty as denying Jewish sovereignty they viewed as humiliating dishonor against Islam and the Arab nation, and said so repeatedly. To pursue this goal they invented their own non-existent indigeneity. You're just not listening to what they say. Read Einat Wilf and Ari Schwartz's War of Return (or watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1ku4cE_e4U&t=2625s) so you begin to take the Palestinians both literally and seriously instead of engaging in the typical deafness of woke-istan soft bigotry of low expectations.

Since I'm a prosciutto and lobster-loving Jewish atheist, but still a good and proud Jew and Zionist, scripture has nothing to do with my evidence-based writing. I read the books others never will to give them the evidentiary tools to see the true nature of the conflict which is right there in the mirror if the Arabs would only look. But, like Putin's empire-building Ruscists, American MAGA cult neo-confederates and evangelical theocrats, AfD Germans and Iranian mullahs, they never will.

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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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