Lester Golden
2 min readFeb 14, 2024

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But you present no evidence to contest. Who's the "opposite side"?

Hamas' Jihadis? I don't debate Islamist Nazis with a genocidal covenant.

Holocaust denier Mahmoud Alzheimers Abbas?

Were Zuheir Mohsen still around to debate I'd agree with him that Palestinian national identity is nothing but a tactical invention. Same for King Hussein who said that there's already a Palestinian state called Jordan. No debate there either.

The Peel Commission tried "guidance" to partition. Palestine's Jews said yes. The Arabs said no, the first of six (followed by 1947, 1967, 1979, 2000, 2008), never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

The British mandatory government consistently allowed waves of illegal Arab immigration from the Hauran, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq while strictly limiting Jewish immigration, especially after the 1939 White Paper (a limit of 75000 in 5 years while the Nazis exterminated 6m Jews).

Listen to Bassam Eid and Son of Hamas founder Mosab Hassan Yousef.

The narrative is one-sided because the Arab response to compromise and partition is totally consistent since the mandate began in 1920: ethnic cleansing of Jewish settlements due to a Koranically mandated no to any Jewish sovereignty in the land that would abolish 13 centuries of Jewish dhimmitude. Full stop. Ernest Bevin understood it in 1947. 77 years later nothing has changed if you read Hamas' covenant. I take is seriously and literally, as you should.

Look in the mirror and ask yourself: do you accept a permanent Jewish state of Israel? If yes, you're one of 3% of West Bank Arabs who do. Listen to your compatriots interviewed by Corey Gil-Shuster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5ocDyVaMt8&t=4s.

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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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