Lester Golden
1 min readMay 11, 2024

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"settlements": % of West Bank land occupied by settlements: 4%.

Two state solution: The most cursory examination of Fatah and Hamas media on https://palwatch.org and https://memritv.org shows Palestinians utterly uninterested in a two state solution. It was offered in 1937, 1939, 1945, 1947, 1967, 1979, 2000-01, 2008 and they consistently said no. After 1948 they consistently choose an endless War of Return over statehood--every time. Read Einat Wilf's and Ari Schwartz's War of Return. Until you read that you understand nothing about the true nature of this conflict.

Watch the Palestinians interviewed by Corey Gil-Shuster in The Ask Project. The % of those interviewed who accept Jewish sovereignty ANYWHERE in the land is nearly zero.

The motivation: Islamist. You need to take jihadi religious motives literally and seriously.

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/wartime-lies-hard-truths-3c2442f6957f

Until you read what Zuheir Mohsen, Arafat, Ernest Bevin, Azzam Pasha, King Hussein and Fathi Hamad have said about Arab priorities and the invention of Palestinian identity for "tactical reasons" you understand NOTHING about the real roots of the conflict and why there's no solution until Palestinians are forced to abandon their endless war of return to reverse 1948. Only when they explicitly choose statehood over return and acknowledge that 1948 is irreversible can there be peace.

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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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