Lester Golden
3 min readOct 14, 2023

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Letter to John Wight and others making excuses for Hamas' Islamist Nazis burning and beheading babies, laughing while parading naked women hostages in the streets, mass kidnapping citizens of 20 countries and INTENTIONALLY killing more Jews in a day than anyone since their 1945 Nazi ancestors,from Israeli Arab citizens:
"As we are exposed to the inconceivable sadistic horrors, of harming innocent civilians, youth, children, women, elderly, and infants, I ask that you have no doubt.
I want it to be clear to you and to the entire world that we, Israeli Arabs, Palestinians, Israeli Palestinians, Palestinian Israelis, Arabs of '48 - whatever you call us, we stand by you as your brothers, as fellow human beings and as citizens of this country, deeply sharing your grief, embracing it to our hearts, making it our own grief too.
It's our banal and inevitable, moral and humane duty, to express soulful anguish, to loudly voice our participation in your crushing and shattering pain.
A loud voice will rise against unspeakable crimes, echoing from every mosque, church, or house of prayer until God exclaims in shock: "This were not done in my name, scums of humanity."
Our voice will be sharp and clear, unapologetic, unhesitant, not mumbled, without "but...", without symmetry, without "understand... see what's happening there...". In the face of horrors, there are no dilemmas!
As citizens of the country, our place in these dark times is by your side as our brothers, sharing the same fate, to tear our clothes and sit in mourning together for seven days, ten days, or a year - however long it takes, to slightly numb the loss, to offer solidarity and support.
Know that our hands intertwine with yours, carrying together the heavy weight of endless coffins. Our voices will join in your lamentations, our thoughts are with you, and our tears will add to the rivers of your sorrow.
The upheaval did not spare us, and we too have suffered losses. Each of us knows someone, a colleague, a friend, a neighbor who was murdered, died in battle, was kidnapped, or a family member who was missing or hurt. Such is the extent of the horror, such is our shared human fabric.
In this bloody time, let us put aside all the heavy disputes between us, all the difficult history, and stretch our hands over the abyss that separates us, to hold one another in comfort. And at the same time, to shun and beware of all those who incite division among us, those who fan the flames, those who fuel the strife and war, all those fanatics who have brought us to this bloody state.
Jews, no matter how sensitive and empathetic, will never fully grasp the almost impossible, constant, inherent tear in our identity. Between our national identity as Arabs and our status as Israelis. But above all, we will always uphold our human values, who deeply understand human suffering.
In these times, it is not an option to sit on the sidelines or choose any side that does not vehemently reject evil, barbarism, and shocking fanaticism under the guise of religion.
Those few among us who see these satanic acts as a form of struggle or liberation, national pride or regaining lost honor, tarnish us, extracting themselves from the human family, becoming illegitimate mutation walking amongst us.
All that remains for me personally is to embrace you with trembling arms, trying to withstand the colossal force of your pain with my feeble strength.
And at the same time, to bow my head, in the face of the victims of hate, in shame that these murderers, these monsters, came from among my people. For this, my Jewish brothers, I ask for your forgiveness!
"May His great Name grow exalted and sanctified", and I say with you together in a voice of lamentation, آمين, Amen

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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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