The Palestinian flag (Arabic: علم فلسطين‎) was originally designed by Sharif Hussein for the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire in 1916. In 1917, it was raised as the flag of the Arab National movement. On October 18, 1948, the all-Palestine Government adopted the flag in Gaza and the Arab League subsequently recognized it as the flag of the Palestinian people. It was again officially adopted as the flag of the Palestinian people by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964. On November 15, 1988 the PLO adopted the flag as the flag of the State of Palestine. Today the flag is flown widely by Palestinians and their supporters.

Until Israel ends its latest acts of aggression against the people of Palestine I will fly this flag. A sign of solidarity with them. That all Americans do not stand with our Gov with Israel!

I will not only fly it here but also on my front porch and the antenna of my car.

Historical Meaning of The Palestinian Flag
By Matthew Taylor
Contributing Writer
Friday, December 5, 2008


Political Zionism-the quest to establish and hold a Jewish-majority state within historic Palestine-has largely been predicated on the belief that Palestinians should not have the right to live on their ancestral lands. In 1948, Israel's founders carried this philosophy to its logical conclusion and used military force to drive more than 700,000 Palestinians out of their homes in a carefully planned campaign of ethnic cleansing. In 1967, Israel conquered and occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and then proceeded to build hundreds of colonies in violation of international law while abusing the human rights of the indigenous Palestinian population.

In December 1987, Palestinians organized a grassroots uprising in an effort to liberate themselves from Israel's occupation. Palestinians refused to pay taxes, they boycotted all Israeli goods and they planted backyard gardens. And they displayed the Palestinian national flag, which was illegal under the terms of the occupation.

Then-Israeli defense minister Yitzhak Rabin ordered his soldiers to break the bones of Palestinians who participated in this uprising or who displayed their flag. Israeli soldiers injured, jailed and killed thousands of Palestinians for their crimes of struggling for human rights and self-determination.

On Nov. 13, three Palestinian students displayed their national flag from Eshelman Hall balcony. However, unlike in the occupied Palestinian territories, free speech is at least theoretically legal in the United States and on this campus. But that didn't appear to matter to the members of Tikvah and Zionist Freedom Alliance who apparently assaulted the Palestinians while yelling racist epithets. One wonders what would have happened had this assault taken place in the occupied territories, where so many bones have been broken, lives taken and land stolen.

The assault was a microcosm of Israel's oppression of the Palestinians. It was yet another example of right-wing Zionism attempting to crush any symbol of the Palestinian people's existence.

During the 1987 uprising, Palestinians sought an alternative way to affirm their existence. The Palestinian flag is green, red, and black, so instead of holding up flags, Palestinians held up watermelons. Perhaps to be safe on the UC Berkeley campus, Palestinian students should also hold up watermelons instead of their flag.

At a recent ASUC meeting, Senator John Moghtader refused to answer the question, "What do Tikvah members mean when they chant 'From the river to the sea, Israel will be free?'" Moghtader's response was, "It means the liberation of the Jewish people." Moghtader didn't want his fellow senators to know the truth: that this hateful slogan stands for the complete triumph of the Zionist project, resulting in a permanent Israeli Apartheid state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea in which all Palestinians are either subjugated or expelled. An independent Palestinian state would never emerge, and the Palestinian flag would effectively cease to have any meaning. Tikvah's vision is becoming more real every day, as the international community has done nothing to end Israel's Apartheid rule over the Palestinians. U.S. taxpayers fund Israel's military hardware, and this university is deeply invested in corporations that profit from Israel's Apartheid.

I hope someday the U.S. and the university end their shameful role in supporting the right-wing Israeli/Tikvah agenda of permanent Apartheid in Palestine. In the meantime, students on this campus have an opportunity to stand up for justice. Five conscientious Boalt Hall law students initiated a petition to recall Senator Moghtader as a result of his role in the Nov 13 incident as well as other behavior that "silences" others and "undermines the physical safety of students." Support the recall of Senator Moghtader.

http://www.dailycal.org/article/103806/historical_meaning_of_the_palestinian_flag_

I join you Fanta!

Id like to see them break my bones for flying it!

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers

STOP ISRAEL!

Free Palestine!!

Is there any cheese here????

Are you also planning on flying the Nazi flag?The two would complement each other very well.

The Nazis were pretty good at killing woman and children.

And Hamas isn't?

I prefer this one.


Neither side is totally in the right.

I'd like to see that too !!...

to quote my hero...Archie Bunker..." ...and I thought you was one of the good ones "...

Why? Because I know a military's power and understand it. I know a 800 bully fighting a 10 lb weakling. YES it was the same in Iraq. How many civilians were killed so we could show the world what a superpower could do to a country we already crushed. Why was the first Gulf war ended? Was it because the american people seen us just easily killing a severly out gunned opponent? Think about it.

Neither may be in the right but this is not how problems are solved or solutions found by an act of aggression and barbaric cruelty from a country with bombs and weapons of war America has helped them attain and a country with nothing to defend itself. America is fk'd anyway. China gives Iran weapons and materials for bombs, and Iran will probably send the first one flying to Israel.

then Hamas...shouldn't pick a fight it can't win...when Israel pulled out of Gaza in 05'...and handed over it over to the Palestinians...what did they do...nothing...no government...no infrastcture rebuilding...no constitution...nothing...anyone who thinks this is about land...is kidding themselves...it's about the destruction of Israel...and the Jews say...NO MORE !!...I've heard all the arguments about borders and land...well...it's been Israel for 60 years...and...it will be Israel forever...check their history out after WWII...see how many countries opened their arms to the Jews...and...why and where they settled in the Middle East...they returned to the land...of 2000 years ago...because thats all the knew...

This mentality is what brought America down. Kittens from hell.