Lester Golden
2 min readMay 9, 2024

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Mostly right, but...

#19: Not true. In 1981 King Hussein said "Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan".

#36: Like Groucho Marx. I'm on my third and final wife, none Jewish.

#49: Hold these two contradictory thoughts in your head simultaneously: 1. Two states for two peoples is the only way to peace. 2. Two states for two peoples will never be accepted by Palestinians because it means no reversal of 1948 by an unlimited right of return. Every time when offered a choice between statehood and return, the Palestinians choose return over statehood. Ernest Bevin's diagnosis remains as true now as in 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."

Essential Fact #51:

""The Palestinian people does not exist … there is no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese", though Palestinian identity would be emphasised for political reasons. In a March 1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw he stated that "between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese there are no differences. We are all part of one people, the Arab nation [...] Just for political reasons we carefully underwrite our Palestinian identity. Because it is of national interest for the Arabs to advocate the existence of Palestinians to balance Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons"--PLO commander Zuheir Mohsen, 1977 interview with Dutch newspaper De Trouw.

"Who are Palestinians? Palestinians don't come from Palestine. Brothers, half of the Palestinians are Egyptians, the other half are Saudis."--Fathi Hamad, Hamas minister and Muslim Brotherhood leader

From Cairo-born KGB creation Arafat:

"The Palestinians people have no national identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel."

I'll accept the possibility of a single secular democratic state in the land of Israel when:

* Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens are required reading in schools in Ramallah and Gaza,

* The Palestinian minister of education is Bassem Eid.

* Its prime minister is son of Hamas co-founder Mosab Hassan Youssef.

* Gay Palestinians no longer flee the PA's territory for Tel Aviv.

* https://palwatch.org and https://memritv.org and Corey Gil-Shuster's Ask Project all close down because they're completely unnecessary.

* Israeli Arabs no longer freak out at the idea of being governed by the PA.

Until then, Jewish sovereignty is non-negotiable. As Golda Meir said, the days of Jews' fate decided by others are over....forever.

Some problems have no solution until the death cult party to a conflict confronts total, irrevocable apocalyptic defeat: https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/palestinian-bushido-postwar-japan-shows-how-to-remake-a-society-mobilized-for-death-41ab6830021b

Like Japan in 1945, only such defeat can free Palestinian society from its jihadi death cult.

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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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