Lester Golden
2 min readAug 20, 2024

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How the genocidal venom heard daily on PA TV is "hasbara" propaganda is a mystery to me. The jihadi bushido on PA TV and in Palestinian schools and summer camps shown on https://palwatch.org is identical to its Japanese predecessor, and equally delusional and remote from reality. Bassam Eid and Mosab Hassan Youssef are their only hope for getting a life worth living.

What we need to hear in lieu of your incoherent word salads to have peace instead of an endless delusional War of Return that will never come is in Dr. Einat Wilf’s “constructive specificity” challenge, which has yet to be taken down. This is because no Palestinian, except for Son of Hamas founder Mosab Hassan Youssef and peace activist/dissident Bassem Eid, is ready to openly and publicly and specifically renounce return to get statehood:

“What I need to hear from a Palestinian is this: the Jewish people, as a people, have the equal right to self-determination in this land which is also their homeland. I know that this means that we can build a state of Palestine next to the Jewish state of Israel and not instead of it. I understand that this means that living in Gaza and the West Bank I am not a refugee from Palestine. This means I do not possess a right of return into the sovereign state of Israel. I only want to build a prosperous state of Palestine in Gaza and the West Bank and nowhere else. And I always tell them go bring me one….and no one ever does. And just to be clear, it’s not that I’m sitting and saying, oh look at me you know no one ever comes back. As I said, as a long-term peace activist I’m looking for these voices.”

So far no voices but Bassam Eid’s and Son of Hamas founder Mosab Hassan Youssef’s have come forward. Wilf’s challenge, theoretically so easy to take down, still stands."

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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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