Lester Golden
1 min readJan 25, 2025

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That's not the Hamas and Fatah vision for Palestine's future. Listen to ordinary Palestinians interviewed on the streets of Ramallah and other towns in The Ask Project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BsdOGJp9to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VqmUgami_Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4iGFT9Yl9o

Almost all envision this:

1. Even Israeli-born Jews go back to their ancestors' countries.

2. They imagine all Israelis are from Europe.

3. They imagine all Israelis have foreign passports.

4. They all, with one or two exceptions, say that all the land is Arab. "Palestine, from the water to the water, will be Arab" is the Arabic version of from the river to the sea. That's Muslim supremacy restoration.

Find me a secular democracy that treats its minorities decently anywhere from Morocco to India and I'll consider your one state fantasy. Get Yazidis, Kurds, Berbers, Iranian and Pakistani Balochis, Armenians, Maronite Christians, Iranian Sunnis, Azeris, Arabs, Egyptian Copts, Iraqi Chaldaeans and Assyrian Christians to agree that your plan will work before you present it to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giktOwxfK-M

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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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