Even Their Flag is Colonized

You can tell a lot about a people by the flag they choose for their people.

metis flagMy people’s flag is a white infinity symbol on a blue background, which symbolizes the Metis people and our refusal to die. We believe our people are eternal and can never be broken. The infinity symbol shows that our culture will live forever.The colour is important as well – it should be blue which represents the Metis of the Northwest company; if its red it represents the Hudson Bay company.

I also like the Israeli Flag and its symbolism. The color blue comes from a dye called Tekhelet which came from a marine snail. This color is important in Jewish culture, since they have a commandment to have one of the threads of their Tzitzit (tassels) “so that they may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them.” (Num 15:39) The skills to make this dye were lost during one of the many times of upheaval, but seem to have been brought back in recent times.

The Magen David is a relatively new symbol, dating to the 11th century but there are some examples of it from much earlier, such as the ancient Synagogue at Tel Humm, which contains stones dating back to 3 or 4 CE with this symbol on them.

All in all, a pretty interesting flag that displays a love of the culture and tradition of the Nation of Israel.

Flag_of_Palestine.svgLast, we have an interesting flag, the one that the Arabs now calling themselves palestinians chose for themselves. Let’s look at this flag.

It is a red triangle with black, white and green stripes on it. I will now quote a palestinian source for the explanation of this flag.

RED: The Khawarij were the first Islamic group to emerge after the assassination of Caliph Uthman III, forming the first republican party in the early days of Islam. Their symbol was the red flag. Arab tribes who participated in the conquest of North Africa and Andalusia carried the red flag, which became the symbol of the Islamic rulers of Andalusia (756-1355). In modern times, red symbolizes the Ashrafs of the Hijaz and the Hashemites, descendants of the Prophet. Sharif Hussein designed the current flag as the flag of the Arab Revolt on June 1916. The Palestinian people raised it as the flag of the Arab National movement in 1917. In 1947, the Arab Ba’ath Party interpreted the flag as a symbol of the liberation and unity of the Arab nation. The Palestinian people readopted the flag at the Palestinian conference in Gaza in 1948. 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.

BLACK: The Prophet Mohammad (570-632)

In the seventh century, with the rise of Islam and subsequent liberation of Mecca, two flags – one white, one black – were carried. On the white flag was written, “There is no god but God (Allah) and Mohammad is the Prophet of God.”

In pre-Islamic times, the black flag was a sign of revenge. It was the color of the headdress worn when leading troops into battle.

Both black and white flags were placed in the mosque during Friday prayers.

The Abbasid Dynasty (750-1258), ruling from Baghdad, took black as a symbol of mourning for the assassination of relatives of the Prophet and in remembrance of the Battle of Karbala.

WHITE: The Umayyad Dynasty (661-750), Damascus

The Umayyads ruled for ninety years, taking white as their symbolic color as a reminder of the Prophet’s first battle at Badr, and to distinguish themselves from the Abbasids, by using white, rather than black, as their color of mourning.

Mu’awia Ibn Abi Sufian (661-750), founder of the Umayyad state, proclaimed himself Caliph of Jerusalem.

GREEN: The Fatimid Dynasty (909-1171), North Africa

The Fatimid Dynasty was founded in Morocco by Abdullah Al-Mahdi, and went on rule all of North Africa.

They took green as their color, to symbolize their allegiance to Ali, the Prophet’s cousin, who was once wrapped in a green coverlet in place of the Prophet in order to thwart an assassination attempt

There is absolutely nothing indigenous about this flag. Not one single, solitary piece of it symbolizes anything to do with the land they claim. Not a single thing differentiates this flag from the flags of other Arab Muslim countries. Then again, the palestinians have no distinct “palestinian” culture so it should hardly be surprising that the flag they created and chose for themselves is nothing more than a celebration of Arab colonialism. It is not the only evidence that palestinian arabs are colonizers who celebrate the colonization of indigenous people, but it’s another piece of an obvious puzzle.

They are colonizers. Hell, even their flag is colonized.

19 thoughts on “Even Their Flag is Colonized”

    1. Hard Little Machine

      All those Arab hellhole flags are the same. They’re interchangeable. Occasionally someone puts an AK-47 or some Arabic gibberish on them but that’s just local flavor.

  1. Ryan, you are a treasure – Thank you!
    A matter of interest: The two horizontal stripes of the Israeli flag are an iconic representation of a “Talit” – the Jewish prayer shawl. The Star of David is made up of two triangles – one pointing up, the other down. The triangle pointing up represents the spirit (soul) while the triangle pointing down represents the ‘flesh’. Israel’s flag is actually the graphic representation of a prayer to integrate the flesh with the spirit – the Golden Path of Judaism.
    There is much in common with your truly beautiful Metis flag of infinity. God is infinite. We are one.

  2. Nicely laid out. Would that more of our so-called “intellectual class” and the “media” would pay attention to basic history. But then that’d intefere with their narrative.

  3. I would also add that the blue dye was manufactured by the Zevulun tribe (1 of the original 12 tribes of Israel) at Achziv beach in northern Israel. You can still see the remnants of the holding tank for the snails in the shallow water of the tidepools there.

  4. I do not know that you can tell a whole lot from the flag design. What you’re saying is that ‘Palestine’ unlike, say, the Italian Mezzogiorno, Sicily, Liguria, Bavaria, or Scotland, does not have an extensive history as a discrete political unit within a certain proximate set of boundaries. It was assembled from a mess of Ottoman sanjaks in 1918 (and the boundaries thereof then modified) and evaporated during the war in 1948 and 1949. Nor does it have a discrete language. The vernacular Arabic consists of local variants of the Levantine Arabic spectrum, just as it does in Lebanon and most (not all) of Syria, and just as it has in Jordan (wherein the Eastern Bedawi dialect was modal prior to 1949). Nor, unlike southern Iraq or Mount Lebanon, does it have a distinct confessional profile. The people from the West Bank and Gaza and the UNRWA camps are Sunni Muslims with a leavening of Christians, as is the case in Syria (which has Alawites as well), in Lebanon’s coastal towns, in Jordan, and in central and northern Iraq. Nor is the landscape distinct from Syria, Lebanon, or western Jordan. Nor were there peculiar agricultures (as is the case with the Marsh Arabs).

    The one distinct element is an abiding and truculent sense of grievance. What fun.

  5. Ryan: The history of the Palestinian flag is slightly more bizarre. David Fromkin, in his book “A Peace to End All Peace: The fall of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of the Modern Middle East,” wrote “Among their [the Allies] banners was one designed by Sir Mark Sykes for Hussein and the Arab cause. It’s colors – black, white, green, and red -were meant to symbolize the past glory of Moslem Arab empires and to suggest that Hussein was their contemporary champion. Hussein’s only modification was to change the hue of the red. Sykes had ordered flags to be made up by the British military supply offices in Egypt, and then had them delivered to the Hejaz forces.” (Chap. 36, p. 315 paperback edition 1989 Henry Holt & Co.)
    This was in 1917 before General Allenby launched his invasion, and yes it is the Sykes of the Sykes-Picot Agreement. So not only is the Palestinian flag not indigenous to Palestine, it was not even designed by Arabs.

  6. RYAN you forget the most important part — this Baathist flag was the flag of the British instigated Arab revolt of WWI and ***WAS DESIGNED BY SYKES *** – THE BRITISH COLONIAL OFFICER (AS IN SYKES PICOT THOSE WHO DREW THE COLONIAL BORDER LINES IN THE MIDDLE EAST)

    1. I agree, but in order to make my point I used the palestinians own version, because they cannot argue it without losing their own legitimacy. The funny thing is , they celebrated arab colonialism, but in reality the flag was british created hahaha.

      1. Ryan: The flag of the Hejaz, which I refer to in my comment below, is in fact the current “Palestinian” flag. You can Google “Kingdom of Hejaz” and you’ll find it. So, in a sense, even though it is a British creation, it was indigenous in the sense that in 1917, those marching to those colors were in and from Arabia. The ironies, or should I say the falsity of the narrative, of the Palestinian cause just seem to multiply the closer you look.
        There seems to be a variant flag in which the green and white bands are switched – so they couldn’t even keep their flag stable.

  7. On target as always Ryan. 😉

    One bit to add about the Star of David is that it is a very ancient symbol and was in it’s own way (likely well prior to Abraham) the first “Yin/Yang” symbol.

    The common sign for the male gender, ie, masculinity is the triangle with the point UP, and for the female it’s the triangle with the point Down. Transpose one atop the other and aha.. the Six Pointed Star.

    Between that, and your Metis infinity symbol, I think we’ve got just about everything covered. 😉

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