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Arab Revolt flag and Pan-Arab colours

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* Arab Revolt Flag * 🔖The Palestinian people raised it as the flag of * the Arab National movement in 1917 * 🔖 The Palestinian people readopted the flag at the * Palestinian conference * in Gaza in 1948. 🔖 It was further endorsed by the PLO, the representative of the Palestinians, at the * Palestinian conference in Jerusalem in 1964. * 🔖After the fall of * Hejaz * the colors were used by Husain's sons ' * Abdulla * (emir of the Transjordan) and * Faisal * (king of Iraq). 🔖Later on they became known as the * Pan-Arab colors. * *Pan-Arab colours🌈*  * Red * : It symbolizes the * Ashrafs * [ie. Sharifians] of the Hijaz and the Hashemites, * descendants of the Prophet.*  * Green * : It 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.*  * White * :Symbolic color as a reminder of the * Prophet's first battle at Badr*  ...

Israel🇮🇱 Palestine🇵🇸 conflict

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Israel 🇮🇱- Palestin🇵🇸 conflict * ⚔️ The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the * world’s longest-running🗺️ and most controversial conflicts. * At its heart, it is a conflict between two self-determination movements — * the Jewish Zionist project and the Palestinian nationalist project * — that lay claim to the same territory. But it is so, so much more complicated than that, with seemingly * every fact and historical detail small and large litigated by the two sides and their defenders. * About Israel and Palestine * 🤔 * Israel is the world’s only Jewish state, *🇮🇱 * located just east of the Mediterranean Sea * 🌊.* Palestinians, the Arab population that hails from the land * Israel now controls, refer to the territory as Palestine, * and want to establish a state by that name on all or part of the same land. * The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is over who gets what land and how it’s controlled. * * History *  🔖 In the late 1800s a group in Europe🇪🇺 decided to coloniz...