Lester Golden
1 min readApr 28, 2023

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You need a history lesson: https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/palestine-israel-slogan-demolition-in-nine-minutes-59eb99f88836

Perhaps the best way to anchor the conversation in reality is with an old joke (old men like me don’t tell new jokes):

“Sharon sits down with Arafat at the beginning of negotiations regarding the resolution of the conflict. Sharon requests that he be allowed to begin with a story. Arafat replies, “Of course.”

Sharon begins his story: “Years before the Israelites came to the Promised Land and settled here, Moses led them for 40 years through the desert. The Israelites began complaining that they were thirsty and, lo and behold, a miracle occurred and a stream appeared before them. They drank their fill and then decided to take advantage of the stream to do some bathing — including Moses. When Moses came out of the water, he found that all his clothing was missing.

“Who took my clothes?” Moses asked those around him.

“It was the Palestinians,” replied the Israelites — “

“Wait a minute,” objected Arafat immediately, “there were no Palestinians during the time of Moses!”

“All right,” replies Sharon, “Now that we’ve got that settled, let’s begin our negotiations.” (URL: https://able2know.org/topic/57916-1)

Just so you learn how to do a title search on real estate.

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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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