Lester Golden
2 min readJul 8, 2021

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Since you believe a two state solution won't work, please define what a one state solution with an independent Palestine means. How would your legal remedy for the "illegal Zionist state" work in practice?

What would happen to the 7m Israeli Jews who live in what is currently Israel? Will your new state allow them to stay? Most were born in Israel. Could they stay? Or would the new state of Palestine allow only those born in pre-1948 Palestine or those descended from them to stay?

If most Israeli Jews can stay, how would elections work?

If Israeli Jews can't stay, where do you propose they go?

What happens to the Israeli-owned property and assets created since 1948? Here's a list of NASDAQ traded Israeli companies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_companies_quoted_on_the_Nasdaq . What would happen to these assets in a new Palestinian state?

Would the new state take over the mgt and the ownership of Crowdstrike, Teva, Wix, Checkpoint etc.? Would the new state just place its own CEOs in charge and expect the current shareholders not to dump their shares, destroying the value of their employees' stock options, including the tens of thousands of Israeli Arabs (or Palestinians) who work there?

Would Palestinians under the right of return immediately inherit a share of the office towers, hotels, and shopping malls built in Israel since 1948? How would property rights work? Would Palestinians whose families owned land now located under a billion dollar office tower, own that tower automatically? I live in Latvia, where pre-war owners of buildings or their descendants who had their real estate confiscated by the Soviets got them back. Would Palestine follow this model?

Expulsions: what's your view on this video of Palestinians explaining why they left in 1948 and 1967: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxfJxuOWAz0&t=310s .

Who rejected and who accepted the Peel Commission's partition solution in 1937?

Who rejected and who accepted partition in 1947?

Who occupied the West Bank and Gaza from 1948-67?

Who rejected and who accepted the Clinton Parameters in January 2, 2001 (hint: ask Saudi ambassador to the US, Prince Bandar, who asked Arafat if he'd taken the deal).

How is a Palestinian's nationality different from a Jordanian's? Are Jordanians Palestinians and vice versa? Are Gazans Egyptians or Palestinians, or both? What differentiates them?

Do you agree with Zahir Muhsein's 1977 Trouw interview about the invention of Palestinian nationality? Do you agree with Yasser Arafat and King Abdullah about Jordanians being one and the same nation?

I look forward to a factual, evidence-based reply that tells us what you and your Palestinian countrymen intend to do when you have your state.

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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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