The 'Palestinian Flag' is more or less a rag

The so called Palestinian flag, like the Palestinians, is an invention. In the case of the flag it was invented by the KGB and Yasir Arafat in the 1960s. Its purpose is to be a weapon against Israel. [H/T Front Page Magazine, Robert Spencer.]

Before it became the flag of Palestine, it served as the emblem for the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz, founded in 1916 and later incorporated into Saudi Arabia by 1925. In 1924, this flag also represented the Sharifian Caliphate, which encompassed similar regions in what is now Western Saudi Arabia, persisting until 1931.

The Hejaz is in Arabia — not “Palestine.” The designer of the flag was not a Palestinian, as there were no Palestinians as such in those days, but an English Colonel named Mark Sykes.

The flag we call the Palestinian flag today wasn't really the flag of Palestine back in the day. Around 134 CE, the Romans kicked out the Jews from their land and started calling it Palestine. They chose this name because it was the name of an old group of people called the Philistines, who were enemies of the Israelites in the Bible and were no longer around. But when the Romans said Palestine, they were just talking about an area, not a country with its own people or flag.

We don't find evidence of this group or their flag in historical records. There was never a sovereign Palestinian state, and the Arabs living in the region did not use this flag. A 1939 world atlas does display a flag for Palestine, but it refers to the area under British Mandate. The British administered this territory not as a typical colony, but specifically to establish a national home for Jews in their ancestral land. This fact challenges the narratives often pushed by today's historical revisionists. Notably, the 1939 flag of Mandatory Palestine prominently features a Star of David.

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) officially adopted the current Palestinian flag in 1964, the same year it renamed itself from the Palestinian National Liberation Movement to the Palestinian Liberation Organization. This change was made to reflect its commitment to liberating a newly defined Palestinian nationality. Prior to the 1960s, the concept of a distinct Palestinian nationality did not exist; it was created to reframe what was previously known as the Arab-Israeli conflict. Before this shift, Israel was seen as a small, beleaguered state surrounded by a vast Arab world. However, with the emergence of the Palestinian identity, the narrative flipped, portraying Palestinians as the small, oppressed group against a dominant Israel.

In summary, the Palestine flag is as fake as the notion that Hamas are freedom fighters.

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Coins found in Israel building from 1,650 years ago speak volumes about Israel and the Jews

There is a building in the Israel town of Lod where a cache of coins were discovered dating back 1,650 years. Evidently, the person who lived there so long ago, left silver and bronze coins under the floorboards of the building and probably planned to go back and collect them at a later date. [H/T Jerusalem Post.]

The Lod Municipality and the Israel Antiquities Authorities (IAA) discovered the coins by chance while performing excavations of a destroyed Jewish public building. 

Experts said the coins are evidence of the last Jewish revolt against Roman rule in Israel – 1,650 years ago.

The dramatic discovery is the first-ever evidence in Lod from the Gallus Revolt, the last Jewish resistance against Roman rule, between 351 and 354 CE.

So this should give pause to those useful idiots who claim the Jews are occupying land belonging to so-called Palestinians, since they were there before Muhammed called his warriors together. But useful idiots will be useful idiots.

The coins are dated from 221- to 354 CE. It seems as if they were deliberately placed under the floorboards in the hopes of the owner returning to take them when the rebellious situation cooled down.

Though there is very little written evidence about this revolt, there are texts reporting that major Jewish communities such as Lod, Zipori and Tiberias were destroyed by the forces of Roman Caesar Flavius Constantinus Gallus.

The building where the coins were discovered

Beside finding coins, other impressive items were found such as stone and marble artifacts; Greek, Hebrew, and Latin inscriptions, and one inscription bearing the name of a Jewish man from a priestly family that is still being examined. 

What the excavators didn't find was the presence of pig bones because, unlike the Romans, the Jewish people are kosher and don't eat pork, a practice usurped by Islam thousands of years later, calling it halal. 

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IDF discovers ancient labyrinth used by rebel Jews against Roman occupiers

Yinon Shivtiel, a historian at Zefat Academic College,
crawls through an underground hideout in Huqoq, northern Israel. 

The Israeli Defense Forces, while searching for Hamas' tunnels in Gaza, uncovered an ancient labyrinth that was used by rebel Jews against Roman occupiers.

In a video by Al Jazeera, Uri Berger of the Israel Antiquities Authority said the network was dug "for families to hide while the Romans were here, because they feared for their lives, for their children." [Sounds familiar?]

The labyrinth, found in Huqoq, is comprised of narrow tunnels and large storage spaces. It was dug by Jewish villagers about 2,000 years ago when the Israeli Jews revolted against the Roman empire. In a way, this archeological discovery is somewhat like a mirror into the current Israel-Hamas war, but with Romans instead of Hamassholes, because Islam wasn't around at that time.

Although the complex was first discovered several decades ago, it is now being properly excavated.

Professor Yinon Shivtiel of the Zefat Academic College, who is one of the excavation's directors, said the findings indicate that the caves were "clearly in use" during the First Revolt, which took place from 66- 74 AD, and the Bar-Kochba Rebellion in 132-136 AD.

Under Roman occupation, Jewish rebels attempted two ill-fated revolts.

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