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| By: israelinsider staff |
| Published: December 29, 2006 |
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For the first time in Israeli history, a sitting Prime Minister recognized the Palestinian flag, Israel National News reports.
The move came without notification of the public or the Israeli Knesset, and it seems as if Olmert's plan to take matters into his own hands -- regardless of public opinion or an electoral mandate -- by meeting with Abbas was also extended to recognizing a flag that for people on both sides of the conflict represents Israel's potential destruction.
The flag has been officially banned in Israel for decades, though the law did not seem stop Olmert from posting it outside the Prime Minister's office as he kissed the PA Chairman, Mahmoud Abbas, on both cheeks last Saturday.
The Palestinian flag was adopted by the Palestine Liberation Organization when the terror group founded three years before the Six Day War in 1967, when the "West Bank" (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza were in Arab hands, leading Israelis to understand that the desired liberation of "Palestine" included all of Israel. |
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