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	Encyclopedia: Flag
		Flags are also used in messaging or advertising, or for decorative purposes, though at this less formal end the distinction between a flag and a simple cloth banner is blurred.
		Flag of Russia The flag of Russia is a tricolour.
		Flag ratio: 3:5 The flag of Paraguay was adopted in 1842.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Flag (4467 words)

	JTA NEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The June 30 event is the latest development in a flag war that began on a quiet, leafy Amsterdam street.
		After looking at Duisenberg’s flag for about five weeks, the Van der Wieken family asking her to remove it because some might consider the Palestinian flag as representing terror.
		Support for the Palestinians, who generally are portrayed as oppressed by Israel, is high in the Netherlands, as it is throughout Europe.
	www.jta.org /story.asp?id=020624-flag (657 words)

	The Palestinian Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1947, the Arab Ba'ath Party interpreted the flag as a symbol of the liberation and unity of the Arab nation.
		The flag was recognized by the Arab League as the flag of the Palestinian people.
		It was further endorsed by the PLO, the representative of the Palestinians, at the Palestinian conference in Jerusalem in 1964.
	www.pac-usa.org /flag.htm (101 words)

	Intifada goes on
		A Palestinian flag, foreground, flies among Islamic Jihad flags, rear, during a rally in support of their campaign against Israel outside of a mosque during a funeral in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2002.
		A Palestinian lobs a burning Israeli flag during clashes between Paletinians and Israeli soldiers at the entrance of Israeli Netzarim Jewish settlement crossing, in the southern Gaza City, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2000.
		Palestinians marked the 12th anniversary of their symbolic independence declaration as Israel enforced a tight blockade of Palestinian towns and villages for a second day.
	www.islamtoday.20m.com /photo.html (2720 words)

	flag of Palestine flags
		The flag specifications laid down in a decree of 1 December 1964 said that the triangle's length is half of its height.
		The Common Flag is flown on a daily basis in representative offices such as ours, and is a triband (from top to bottom: fl, white, green) with red triangle pointing to the middle of the white band.
		It belongs to the Arab Revolt grouping of Arab flags and is a deliberate copy of the Jordanian flag (minus the star), which presumably represents the historical link to 1920-23 when Palestine and Transjordan were one territory.
	www.flagsflagsflags.net /flags/ps.php (612 words)

	The Mac Weekly: Palestinian flag will fly thanks to new flag policy
		The previous policy only allowed flags of countries that had either U.N. membership or permanent observer status at the U.N. Palestine has permanent observer status to the U.N., but it is classified as an “entity,” not a nation.
		MCSG had drafted a resolution recommending to the committee that the flag policy be amended to allow flags of entities.
		The resolution also stated that any flag should be flown if a senior could submit a petition with 50 percent of the signatures of the graduating class.
	www.macalester.edu /weekly/032202/news2.html (318 words)

	www.Jalili48.com
		The Palestinian leadership readopted the flag at the Palestinian conference in Gaza in 1948 (Led by Haj Ameen Al-Husseini).
		Later on, t he flag was recognized by the Arab League as the flag of the Palestinian people.
		On the white flag was written, "There is no god but God (Allah) and Mohammad is the Prophet of God." Both fl and white flags were placed in the mosque during Friday prayers.
	www.jalili48.com /pub/EN_Artshw.asp?ID=237 (452 words)

	Fllags of the Middle East
		The Palestinian people readopted the flag at the Palestinian conference in Gaza in 1948 and the flag was recognized by the Arab League as the flag of the Palestinian people.
		The Jordanian one is the only that has survived, and the Palestinians use the same flag without the star as a tie to their original territorial integrity (Palestine and Transjordan were split in 1923) to clarify that a Jewish homeland did not apply to the latter.
		The flag was rectangular in shape and the width was one-third of its length.
	www.jordanjubilee.com /genjord/fllags.htm (1806 words)

	flag of Political Parties (Palestine) flags
		Hamas, the main Islamist movement in the Palestinian territories, was born soon after the first Palestinian intifada erupted in 1987.
		(...) Another factor, which served the popularity of the Islamic phenomena, was that the Palestinian nationalist movement and the PLO moved the center of their political power away from Palestine, by consolidating an external leadership at the expense of the internal one in the Territories.
		The leftmost flag in this September 2001 photo of a Palestinian group in Lebanon appears to be the same flag as in Jorge Candeias 's scan.
	www.flags-of-the-world.net /flags/ps}.html (1275 words)

	Sambar - Flag Info
		The flag was raised as the flag of the Arab National movement in 1917.
		The flag should not be used as a drapery, or for covering a speaker’s desk, draping a platform, or for any decoration in general.
		The flag should not be used as part of a costume or athletic uniform, except that a flag patch may be used on the uniform of military personnel, fireman, policeman and members of patriotic organizations.
	www.sambartrading.com /flagInfo.htm (578 words)

	map of palestine, palestinian map, palestine flag
		The evident of the first settlements of the Palestinians in Palestine is dated back to at least more than 1.5 million years ago in south of Tiberias ( sea of Galilee).
		While, the Palestinians found ourselves paying the price for being in the buffer zone ( the limits of super powers), the Jews always took advantage of the rivalry and took the side of the stronger ( see slide shows for details).
		The Palestinians offered again shelter and Job to moses, as they had done to Abraham, and due a wider invitation Moses along with the Jews were able to escape enslavement in Egypt.
	www.4data.ca /palestine (1581 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| True colours
		After participating in a demonstration in Amsterdam in support of the Palestinian people in April, Gretta Duisenberg hung a Palestinian flag on one of the balconies of her Amsterdam home.
		She has since been forced to remove the flag, but others have followed her lead and begun to display the Palestinian symbol in a show of solidarity.
		A Jewish cardiologist and his wife, a liberal town councilor, wrote the Duisenbergs a letter in which they said that their children were living in Israel and were suffering from the "blood-thirsty regime" and that the flag was a symbol of the Palestinian government.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2002/590/re7.htm (839 words)

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	www.flags-hq.com /africaflag/index.php (494 words)

	MIFTAH
		MIFTAH Media Coordinators opened the briefing by highlighting the urgency for international leaders to act to support Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his efforts to unify Palestine and to address Israeli human rights violations that impede a viable peace process, such as expanding settlement activity and violence in Gaza.
		Yesterday and this morning Palestinian security forces and members of Hamas clashed in Gaza killing two bystanders and injuring as many as 20 civilians.
		Palestinian factions need to understand that their continuous challenge to the rule of law is not in the interest of the Palestinian people and needs to stop immediately.
	www.miftah.org (560 words)

	yaledailynews.com - Palestinian flag breaks Yale's postering policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This flag, however, is a deliberate attack on the spirit of that policy.
		Because the flag is secured by chains, padlocks and metal bars and does not display the name of its makers, it is abundantly clear that whoever put it up intends for it to stay there indefinitely.
		By failing to punish these actions while allowing the flag to remain up for days, the University is showing that it believes some forms of lawful free speech are unacceptable while another form of political speech that violates the penal code and University regulations is perfectly fine.
	www.yaledailynews.com /article.asp?AID=19151 (759 words)

	Similarities between Jordan and Palestinian flags
		Similarities between the Jordanian flag and the "Palestinian" flag.
		In the seventh century, with the rise of Islam and subsequent liberation of Mecca, two flags - one white, one fl - were carried.
		The Abbasid Dynasty (750-1258), ruling from Baghdad, took fl as a symbol of mourning for the assassination of relatives of the Prophet and in remembrance of the Battle of Karbala.
	www.middleeastfacts.com /jordan-palestinian-flag-similarities.php (808 words)

	Raise the Palestinian Flag over City Hall : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There should be one unified protest united under a single Palestinian flag to tell Israel that they aren't the only ones, they're not right—that the two conflicting states have equal interest in the Middle East and that we as Americans do not necessarily support one over the other.
		The Palestinian suffering has NEVER been addressed and is STILL continuing and they deserve reparations, liberty, freedom, equal rights and the right to return to their ancestral homeland of Israel-Palestine as it is their right according to UN Resolutions, International Law and world opinion.
		Palestinian Arabs residing in the occupied land, are for the past 3 decades being held in the situation of no homeland no citizenship no rights / duties, while Israelis are held Hostage to the constant, under- threat situation.
	sf.indymedia.org /news/2003/05/1607372_comment.php (12268 words)

	Gritting Gretta Duisenberg
		She hung a Palestinian flag outside her home, started an organization that calls for economic sanctions on Israel, and is the target of sharp criticism from the Dutch Jewish community.
		Duisenberg has been at the center of a storm of controversy ever since she hung a Palestinian flag from the balcony of her Amsterdam home six months ago.
		Van der Wieken said that during her conversation with Duisenberg, the latter said that Israel was able to harm the Palestinians thanks to rich Jews that helped the State of Israel exist.
	www.bintjbeil.com /articles/en/021101_dar.html (3360 words)

	GN Online: Legitimacy of two neighbours
		I still remember that afternoon in the fall of 1993 when Palestinian pacifist Mubarak Awad unfurled a huge Palestinian flag from the office of the Palestinian centre for the study of nonviolence, which lies, next to the Orient House.
		The Oslo Agreement's five-year interim phase was supposed to prepare the road for a sovereign independent Palestinian state, with territorial integrity, alongside the state of Israel on the areas occupied in June 1967.
		Even flexible Palestinian positions to exchange portions of land on condition that it is in the same amount and quality were rejected by Israelis who duped the world into believing that they made a generous offer to the Palestinians.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/opinion.asp?ArticleID=25032 (999 words)

	Seeking a safe place to raise the Palestinian flag \| csmonitor.com
		Somehow, after the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, the Palestinian flag lost its meaning for me. The Israeli army finally allowed us to display our flag in any form, but I never did – because the four colors, no longer standing for what I adored, had faded.
		The Israeli army was not ambiguous about the consequences of carrying a flag, or anything that held those four colors in a way that resembled a flag.
		To us, the symbolism behind the colors of the flag went something like this: Green is for the land of Palestine, white is for the peacetime before we became refugees, red is for our blood spilled trying to liberate our land, and fl is for our life under occupation.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/1004/p11s01-coop.htm (695 words)

	The Mac Weekly
		Partly for that reason, Macalester officials have denied her request that the Palestinian flag be flown at graduation, alongside the flags of the 189 U.N. member nations.
		If she decided to hold a Palestinian passport, she said her Jerusalem ID card would be confiscated and she would not be permitted back into the city.
		At the beginning of this academic year, Muzaffar asked Dean of Students Laurie Hamre if the Palestinian flag would be flown at her graduation.
	www.macalester.edu /weekly/021502/news1.html (553 words)

	Palestine Media Watch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I had stashed a Palestinian flag under my seat to reveal once we entered the Palestinian-controlled part of Bethlehem, as a gesture of national expression.
		When we finally parked the cars to join the procession by foot to Manger Square, I decided to take the flag with me. A friend of mine was eager to carry the flag all the way into the Church of the Nativity, and he did.
		George proudly raised the only Palestinian flag in that procession, attracting foreign journalists and photographers, it was almost as glamorous as that VIP convoy.
	www.pmwatch.org /pmw/manager/features/display_message.asp?mid=207 (585 words)

	For Palestinian Runner, Carrying Flag Is Glory Enough
		But for Majid abu Maraheel, a distance runner, simply carrying the Palestinian flag at the opening ceremonies in Atlanta will be more than enough glory.
		Athough Atlanta will mark the first Palestinian participation in the Olympics, Palestinians have a long association with sports -- they were once among the Arab world's best boxers.
		And, according to Nahil Mabrouk, president of the Palestinian Track and Field Federation, the Palestine Olympic Committee was founded in 1931 and remained a member of the Olympic family until 1967, the year of the Six-Day War and the beginning of Israel's 26-year occupation.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/olympics/cntdown/0404oly-run-palestine.html (1117 words)

	Palestine Online Store --- Flags, pins, buttons, patches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Palestinian flag was originally designed by Sharif Hussein for the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire in 1916, and the Palestinian people first raised it as the flag of the Arab National movement in 1917, and later as the Palestinian flag.
		Palestinian women are the backbone of the struggle for freedom.
		Palestine written in Arabic and English, with the Palestinian flag in the middle.
	www.palestineonlinestore.com /flags.htm (479 words)

	Lawsuit Filed Against Woman For Displaying Palestinian Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jewish organisation Federatief Joods Nederland (FJN) lodged the complaint with spokesperson Loonstein alleging that Duisenberg's wife was guilty of anti-Semitism and inciting hatred.
		Out of solidarity with the Palestinians, Duisenberg's wife has for an extended period of time hung a Palestinian flag from off her balcony.
		Loonstein said Duisenberg's wife had also said the present misery of the Palestinian was the fault of rich Jews.
	www.rense.com /general25/pflg.htm (162 words)

	israelinsider: security: Israeli flag flies over Orient House after takeover by police, special forces
		Seven Palestinians present in the compound at the time were brought in questioning by Israeli police.
		It was considered the unofficial "foreign ministry" of the Palestinian Authority, and frequently served as a place where Palestinians would meet with foreign diplomats and journalists.
		Israeli officials repeatedly claimed that Palestinian Authority was not permitted by the Oslo accords to conduct political activities in Jerusalem, and former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ordered Orient House temporarily closed in 1997, but the offices soon reopened, although the PA subsequently kep a somewhat lower profile in the use of the facility.
	www.israelinsider.com /channels/security/articles/sec_0071.htm (773 words)

	Israel - Flag - Introduction - Background
		Following World War II, the British withdrew from their mandate of Palestine, and the UN partitioned the area into Arab and Jewish states, an arrangement rejected by the Arabs.
		Israel and Palestinian officials signed on 13 September 1993 a Declaration of Principles (also known as the "Oslo accords") guiding an interim period of Palestinian self-rule.
		In keeping with the framework established at the Madrid Conference in October 1991, bilateral negotiations were conducted between Israel and Palestinian representatives and Syria to achieve a permanent settlement.
	www.exxun.com /Israel/a_fg.html (341 words)

	Naive Spanish Judeophobia - Gustavo D. Perednik
		Everything takes place as if there were instructions: Never recall the faults and errors of the Palestinians, never recall their alliances with dangerous countries such as Iraq, in order to heap more shame on the United States and Israel.
		Barenboim asked that the Palestinian flag be exhibited (no one either noticed the asymmetry or imagined the possibility of Said requesting the Israeli flag).
		Nineteen percent were in favor of the Palestinians, 19 percent said they had no sympathy for either party, and only 4 percent favored Israel.
	www.jcpa.org /phas/phas-perednik-f03.htm (8013 words)

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