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...unambiguous representation of the national aspirations of the Palestinian people and of a possible pragmatic solution to the Middle East conflict. The moment that the flag is no longer in the hands of the current secular Palestinian leadership, those who seize power would either change it to a green flag??the color of the Islamists—or would advocate the idea of a bi-national state. In both cases, the prospect of stability for the region would be far-fetched, and the very existence of the state of Israel would be shaken...
...Many of them were killed willfully or unlawfully, and in some cases constituted war crimes. Fifty-seven-year-old Kamal Zghair, a wheelchair-bound man, was shot and then run over by IDF tanks on April 10 as he was moving his wheelchair—equipped with a white flag??down a major road in Jenin. Thirty-seven-year-old Jamal Fayid, a quadriplegic, was crushed to death in the rubble of his home on April 7 after IDF soldiers refused to allow his family to remove him from their home before a bulldozer destroyed...
...then I visited Hillard for a day. I soaked in all the welcoming smiles, the campers’ exuberant whoops and the feeling of freedom that a good game of “capture the flag?? provides. I devoured hot dogs and my coveted blue ice pop—a camp treasure—and I was filled with this crazy desire to ditch the office and finish out the summer at camp...
...intern there this summer, I work on an exhibit about the Star-Spangled Banner and the flag in American culture, and few things could be more American or encompass more of history than my exhibit, “For Which It Stands.” But for all the flag??s symbolism and emotional appeal, even it was not able to touch me in the way that a 200-year-old scribbled recipe...
...lack of relationship with the flag does not mean I lack appreciation for it. In the course of reading about our exhibit, my appreciation for the flag??s versatility and endurance has actually increased. Looking at photographs of Klu Klux Klan marchers and civil rights marchers in Selma both carrying the flag truly makes me proud to live in a place where two groups with such polar views can have the freedom to appropriate the same national symbol for opposite messages. I marvel at a Navajo weaving of the flag by a woman whose people were once scorned...