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Hamas Demands Israel Change its Flag, Concede Islamic Ownership of the Land
Arutz Sheva ^ | Jan 30, '06

Posted on 01/29/2006 6:54:04 PM PST by Fred Nerks

(IsraelNN.com) Hamas spokesman Mahmoud Zahar issued a demand Sunday evening that Israel remove the stripes from its flag.

"Israel must remove the two blue stripes from its national flag", Zahar said. "The stripes are symbols of occupation – they signify Israel's borders, stretching from the River Euphrates to the River Nile."

The Hamas official's comments followed Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz's assessment at the weekly Cabinet meeting that the newly elected terror group was "acting responsibly so far."

Zahar also told CNN's Late Edition that the world should not be asking Hamas to recognize Israel, but rather demanding that the Jewish State recognize that Muslims are the "owners of the land."


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To: Fred Nerks

they must have gotten PR people from North Korea.


161 posted on 01/30/2006 1:17:11 AM PST by WoofDog123
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To: Fred Nerks
How about rearrange the stripes into a cross and make the Star of David to a Crown of Thorns like this:

(no disrespect intended)

162 posted on 01/30/2006 3:40:53 AM PST by solitonic
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To: Fred Nerks
LOL! Hey maybe this is a way to disable Al Qaida, outlaw Burkas so the terrorists will buckle to their knees in full throated orgasm at the sight. Look at this hot mamma, you can see her hair..."Oh oh oh, Allah Akbah I am going to blow my wad!"


163 posted on 01/30/2006 4:48:09 AM PST by Screamname (Tagline)
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To: solitonic

How about NO.....????

SHALOM

DJ


164 posted on 01/30/2006 5:14:04 AM PST by dj_animal_2000
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To: popdonnelly

"Palistinian extremists" --my butt

Palestine is controlled by these people because the majority of the population just voted them in, thereby making the majority of palis extremists. IMHO, that paints ALL of the palis with a big red target.


165 posted on 01/30/2006 5:55:17 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: Howlin

It's their own propaganda.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Israel

Claims of "Nile to Euphrates" territorial ambitions
It has been alleged by some groups that the blue stripes actually represent the rivers Nile and Euphrates, which some Zionist thinkers (such as Avraham Stern and Israel Eldad) have claimed as the boundaries of Eretz Yisrael, the land promised to the Jews by God. They claim that this flag thus "secretly" represents the desire of Jews to conquer all of the land between the Nile and Euphrates rivers, which would involve conquering and ruling over much of Egypt, all of Jordan, and some of Syria and Iraq.

This allegation that Jewish territorial ambitions include all the land from the Nile to the Euphrates has been popular in Arab literature since the 1940s. Amin al-Husayni, former Mufti of Jerusalem stated:

The Palestine tragedy is unequaled in history. The Zionist imperialistic plot against Palestine was most inhumane and base. World Judaism plans to take over most of the Arab countries to fulfill its so-called historical dream of a homeland between the Nile and Euphrates. The Imperialist Jewish plot is not aimed at Palestine only...
Yasser Arafat in a September, 1988 interview with Playboy Magazine also made the allegation and in 1997, the Iranian parliamentary speaker Ali Akbar Nateq Nuri accused the Jews of attempting to live out a "Nile-to-Euphrates dream."

Both Zionist and anti-Zionist authors have debunked the claim that the stripes on the flag represent territorial ambitions. In his article "Imperial Israel: The Nile-to-Euphrates Calumny" in the March, 1994 Middle East Quarterly Daniel Pipes notes "In fact, the blue lines derive from the design on the traditional Jewish prayer shawl."[3]. Persistent critic of Israel and Zionism Israel Shahak is more explicit. In his The Zionist Plan for the Middle East he states

A good example is the very persistent belief in the non-existent writing on the wall of the Knesset of the Biblical verse about the Nile and the Euphrates. Another example is the persistent, and completely false declarations, which were made by some of the most important Arab leaders, that the two blue stripes of the Israeli flag symbolize the Nile and the Euphrates, while in fact they are taken from the stripes of the Jewish praying shawl (Talit).
Saqr Abu Fakhr, an Arab writer, has also spoken out against this idea. In his article "Seven Prejudices about the Jews" (published in the London-based pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat, November 12,13,14) he demonstrates that the "Nile to Euphrates" claim is one of seven popular misconceptions and/or myths about Jews which, despite being unfounded and having abundant evidence refuting them, continue to circulate in the Arab world.


166 posted on 01/30/2006 6:01:37 AM PST by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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To: bnelson44
That's bogus. They don't represent that at all. The blue stripes on the Israeli flag were inspired by the stripes on the tallit (prayer shawl).

You're right. The Palestinians are so out there they sound almost as nuts a member on DU. This sounds like a conspiracy theory they would believe whole heartedly.

167 posted on 01/30/2006 6:16:03 AM PST by foolscap
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To: Fred Nerks

The sacred land of Christianity and Judaism does not belong to the latecomer death cult.


168 posted on 01/30/2006 6:19:28 AM PST by tkathy (Ban the headscarf (http://bloodlesslinchpinsofislamicterrorism.blogspot.com))
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To: Fred Nerks

Eeeeewwwwww! Now that is a gaggle of some major butt-ugly folks! The cat we had when I was a kid used to kill better looking thing and leave them on the front stoop. Maybe this pic is an example of the 72 virgins the terrorists receive from Satan as they cross Hell's threshold!


169 posted on 01/30/2006 7:42:20 AM PST by Convert from ECUSA (Not a nickel, not a dime, stop sending my tax money to Hamastine!)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

"This whole situation would be hilarious if people weren't getting and going to be killed. "

The only saving grace is that now everyone will be able to see the boil that needs to be lanced. Hamas will run Palestinians into the Neolithic. They wanted to have their own way, well, here ya go. So, actually, democracy has worked and the Palestinians get what they want, self destruction.


170 posted on 01/30/2006 8:04:47 AM PST by FastCoyote
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To: bnelson44
The blue stripes on the Israli flag were inspired by the stripes on the tallit (prayer shawl).

Absolutely, and it was G-d who designed the prayer shaw...I shudder to think what will happen to those who try to remove it...

For this is what the Lord Almighty says: "After He has honored me and has sent me against the nations that have plundered you - for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye - I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them. Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me. Shout and be glad, O Daughter of Zion...

171 posted on 01/30/2006 8:40:17 AM PST by hope (Let no man deceive you)
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To: Fred Nerks

Oh, good. Hamas is going to act like a good neighbor with Israel, just like the Left told us they would.


172 posted on 01/30/2006 8:45:30 AM PST by Starve The Beast (I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused)
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To: familyop

I was watching the history channel about prophets of the old testaments and it was very interesting how the Jews have always been exiled at one time or another. There is always a group of people always trying to kill the Jews I don't get it what are they afraid of? Or is it just plain hatred? I have to admit this thing with Iran and now that Hamas is the government for the pals. things are about to get very nasty. And we have our beloved troops over there and I worry about them.


173 posted on 01/30/2006 9:31:48 AM PST by red irish (Gods Children in the womb are to be loved too!)
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To: Fred Nerks

Look I totally agree and am laughing my head off and I really really needed a good laugh. And I am a woman who hates the idea that these women go along with using these CHILDREN in the manner they are.


174 posted on 01/30/2006 9:39:58 AM PST by red irish (Gods Children in the womb are to be loved too!)
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To: Fred Nerks; Jonah Hex; jazusamo

I'll bet that Israel is preparing to visit the great aerial Zot upon Hamas....


175 posted on 01/30/2006 10:02:23 AM PST by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: Fred Nerks

Memo to Hamas Leadership Council: Please be advised that Israel will be removing the two blue stripes from its' flag as soon as it has removed you and your followers from the face of the Earth. May Allah be pleased to greet all of you soon. We hope you have a good and quick trip. With warm and personal regards, The Israeli Government


176 posted on 01/30/2006 11:05:12 AM PST by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: popdonnelly

I read his comment to mean the state of PALESTINE shouldn't exist, personally.


177 posted on 01/30/2006 11:38:32 AM PST by MortMan (There is no substitute for victory.)
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To: peyton randolph

Hmmm... a white flag with yellow stripes. No no it must remain white for surrender purposes.


178 posted on 01/30/2006 12:41:50 PM PST by Camel Joe (WANTED: Hot Tar and Feathers... I've Got a Rail)
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To: red irish
Our troops in Iraq should be okay. It is interesting and comforting to note that our real total troop strength hasn't been widely published for some time (last I heard about 15 years ago). What we see from the media is not always truth (sometimes understated for the purpose of cooperation). By the way, I wonder how the following program (the last to mount) is getting along.

Airborne Laser Completes Laser Ground Tests
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539125/posts
179 posted on 01/30/2006 1:06:46 PM PST by familyop ("The Romans and their Empire were but a bauble in comparison to the Jews." --President John Adams)
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To: Fred Nerks

Seems what they really demand is submission, and recognition of islams superiority to make up whatever trumped up charges the feel like.

Perhaps the only real lasting solution here is for them to rewrite their koran and discard all their hadeeths first.


180 posted on 01/30/2006 2:50:19 PM PST by USF (I see your Jihad and raise you a Crusade ™ © ®)
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