Lester Golden
2 min readSep 1, 2024

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Lebanese filmmaker Youssef El Khoury demolishes everything you've written in 4 minutes: https://www.memri.org/tv/lebanese-filmmaker-youssef-el-khoury-destroyed-lebanon-fake-cause-palestine-nasrallah-shut-up

If Palestine was a nation, when was it founded? By whom? The Cairo-born KGB agent Yasser Arafat paid $200k/month by his Romanian handler Ion Mihai Pacepa?

Its capital was where? How was its Arabic was distinct from Jordanian, Lebanese, Syrian, Saudi and Egyptian Arabic? What was its govt? Currency? Basis of its economy?

If King Hussein was right when he said "the truth is Jordan is Palestine, Palestine is Jordan", how is there not already a Palestinian state? How was Zuheir Mohsen wrong when he said Palestinian national identity was invented for "tactical reasons" and Arafat wrong when he said "the Palestinian people have no national identity".

How were all the migrants to Ottoman and mandatory Palestine named Masri not Egyptian? And the tens of thousands of Egyptian brought to settle in Gaza by Nasser between 1948 and 1967? Indigeneity fast food?

How were the Muslim Yemeni migrants to the Ottoman vilayet of South Syria indigenous and not the Jewish migrants from Yemen? Same question for migrants to Ottoman "Palestine" from post-French conquest of Algeria, post-Russian conquest of Crimea and Circassia, the Hauran, Iraq, Syria, Transjordan and the half of Palestinians Hamas leader Fathi Hammad said are Saudi.

How did the name Palestine go from referring to Jews like Golda Meir and my father in Brooklyn ("Hey Jewboy, go back to Palestine!") to referring to Arabs?

Golda's passport was issued by the British mandatory government in Palestine, not an Arab Palestinian government which never existed and whose statehood Arabs rejected when partition with sovereignty alongside a Jewish state of Israel was offered in 1937, 1939, 1945, 1947, 1967, 1979, 2000, 2008, 2014.

Jewish sovereignty in Israel is not negotiable. Zionazi is a blood libel hate speech term and you're breaking Italian law by using it.

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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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