Lester Golden
1 min readJan 29, 2025

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The antidote to this fraudulent ahistorical idiocy is here: https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/stolen-land-myth-the-real-estate-part-of-the-settler-colonialist-blood-libel-5c8b87452294

In 1920, 1937, 1939, 1945, 1947, when there were no settlements, no occupation, no Israel, no IDF, no Netanyahu, the Arabs of mandatory Palestine rejected Jewish presence and sovereignty in ANY part of the land.

After the Dreyfus trial and the 1903 pogrom in Kishinev, which my paternal grandfather survived at the age of 8, it was logical to consider ANYTHING. But all those anythings were rejected.

Jews are the world's oldest nation, an ancient tribe of tribes, a religion. We're ancient and modern simultaneously. And gentiles don't decide Jewish identity, Jews do. Full stop. If you exclude Jews from the sovereignty club, throw in every European and Asian ethno-state also, or you're just another double standards anti-semite. https://medium.com/illumination/double-dealing-in-double-standards-4f66f3c73fb8

Read Aryeh Avneri's The Claim of Dispossession to see how not a single piece of Arab land was stolen. All was bought, often more than once due to the fraudulent racket of Arab tenant farmer land claims after buyouts, and often at exorbitant prices. Who were the sellers: the Husseini, Nashashibi, Khalidi and Alami clans who dominated the anti-Zionist Arab revolt against Jewish presence and shared sovereignty. As Ernest Bevin said February 1947, "their highest point of principle, for which they will fight to the last, is that the Jews not have a state."

Nothing has changed since Bevin.

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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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