(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Pinhas Inbari - Palestinian flags were waved in a demonstration by Israeli Arabs in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on August 11, 2018. The Palestinian flag is based on Hashemite flags first unfurled in the 1920s in Damascus as the flag of Hashemite Syria. The Hashemite emirate in Jordan adopted the same flag, adding a star. The flag does not symbolize anything specific to the land of Palestine, but rather the history of the Arabs and Islam: the Umayyad caliphate - white; the Hashemites - red; the Abbasid caliphate and Mohammed - black; and Islam - green. The Palestinian flag symbolizes a pan-Arab and pan-Islamic movement which does not accept anyone different from themselves - neither the Kurds in Syria nor the Jews in Israel.
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