Lester Golden
2 min readNov 18, 2023

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Israel support Assad? Then explain why Israel took out Syria's nuclear plant? Russia, Hizbullah and Iran, not Israel, saved Assad.

Lebanon: After Black September in 1970, in which King Hussein's army killed 15000 PLO fighters, they decamped to Lebanon and triggered the civil war.

Libya: Euro-American intervention saved eastern Libya from mass murder by the Gheddafi regime. Post civil war, the Libyans' inability to govern themselves is one more example of the Muslim world's incapacity for secular self-government. Blaming Jews and the West is just the soft bigotry of low expectations and infantilizing the Arabs.

Morocco/Spanish Sahara: Morocco-Israeli normalization happened in 2020, 45 years after the Moroccan takeover. The two are uncorrelated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Morocco_normalization_agreement

The Star of David trashed: her sign said "keep the world clean"--meaning it referred to Jews, not just Israel. The Star of David is both a Jewish symbol and Israeli flag.

Corbyn called openly genocidal Hamas "a force for justice in the world." I rest my case.

Iran, 1953: the BP-Shell-CIA coup against Mossadegh that put the Shah back in power is one of the stem cells of Middle East chaos. A joint US-UK venture in old informal imperialist regime change to short circuit the threat of the good example. Others: the other 9/11 in Chile, the Contra war in Nicaragua, Colombia 1929, Guatemala 1954. I've written about this here: https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/post-cards-from-the-border-refugee-crisis-e152c3a7e96c

I apply Biden's rule to the American empire: "don't compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative."

In this case, Russia and China. As on June 23, 1941, it's a choice between bad and worse.

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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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