Lester Golden
1 min readMar 14, 2024

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% of Gazans who would be alive today if Hamas had not broken the ceasefire in effect on Oct 6: 100%

% of Israeli civilian dead killed by Hamas that were intentional: 100%.

% of Gazans killed by Israel that were unintentional: 100%.

% of Gazans killed by Israel that were intentional: 0% since IDF unit 504 makes tens of thousands of calls and sends millions of text messages to announce targets, which removes its advantage of surprise and saves Hamas along with civilian lives.

Wars declared by Arabs to be genocidal ("wars of extermination") or to remove Jews from their ancestral homeland: 1936-39 revolt, 1948, 1967, 1973, 1987 intifada, 2000-02 intifada, 2006 Hizbullah war, 2006, 2014, 2021, 2023 Hamas wars.

Wars declared by Israel to be genocidal: none.

Wars that would have happened if Arabs had accepted Jewish sovereignty and not fought to restore Jews to 13 centuries of Muslim supremacist dhimmitude: none.

What's negotiable? Borders.

What's not negotiable? Jewish sovereignty and self-determination.

Which Arabs have the most civil liberties and democratic rights? Israeli Arabs.

What's reversible? Arab rejection of Jewish sovereignty. Ask Bahrainis, Moroccans, Saudis and Emiratis.

What's not reversible? 1948, 1967.

Rejection of any of the foregoing points = feeding Palestinians' delusional War of Return.

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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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