Prior to 1948, this was the only flag used to denote “Palestine.” Until their calamitous defeat in 1967, the Arabs insisted that Israel be wiped out ..to be relace not by “Palestrina” but by territories occupied by Jordan and Egypt.
“There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not.”
— Arab Princeton Professor, Philip Hitti, before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in Jerusalem in 1946.
“Far from being persecuted the Arabs have crowded into the country (Israel) and multiplied.”
— Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, 1939.
“Brothers, half of the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis. Who are the Palestinians? Egyptian! They may be from Alexandria, from Cairo, from Dumietta, from the North, from Aswan, from Upper Egypt. We are Egyptians. We are Arabs.”
— Hamas Minister of the Interior and of National Security Fathi Hammad, Al-Hekma TV (Egypt), March 23, 2012