Zionist denials
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Denial of the Zionist flag
There seems to be no evidence for the claim that the two blue lines on the Zionist flag represent the two rivers, the Nile and the Euphrates, between which lies the land of Israel. The flag was first adopted in 1891.
Daniel Pipes calls this idea a yet more imaginative argument from Yasser Arafat who discerned a hidden symbolism of expansionist intent in the Israeli flag: its two horizontal blue lines represent the Nile and Euphrates rivers. Pipes and others claim that that the blue lines come from the Jewish prayer shawl, the tallit.[1]
- ↑ Imperial Israel: The Nile-to-Euphrates Calumny In another, yet more imaginative argument, Arafat discerned a hidden symbolism of expansionist intent in the Israeli flag: its two horizontal blue lines represent the Nile and Euphrates rivers. Daniel Pipes March 1994.
