Image via WikipediaA couple of personal observations regarding this controversy:Whose keffiyeh is this? This is another example of extreme ignorance, manipulation and despise for finding a common understanding and tolerance. Big words, isn't it?
- Even after the state of Israel was created, people who made Aliyah or Jewish people who didn't make aliyah were referring to the territory of the current state of Israel as: Palestine. And nobody ever was doubting that this is the state were Jews are living. This is an anecdotal aspect but good to have it in mind, mostly for those who didn't have the occasion to meet people from the generation surviving the war.
- Is Keffiyeh a national "Arab/Palestinian" symbol? Before being waved to various street meetings, when the flags of countries hosting those people are burned, this clothing element was having a strict practical use: covering the head - of human beings - against the hot sun. It was used by people living in this areas and nobody was disputing if it is Arab, Jewish or Korean or Laurence of Arabia. Abu Amar aka. Yassir Arafat relaunched this scarf as a national symbol. Nowadays, one of the main producer of this national symbols is China.
I deeply hope that the people from the Middle East can find real intellectual references for building their national and cultural identity than an outfit.
- I cannot but smile reading this idea of Pan-Arabic unity. I suppose nobody really takes it seriously, isn't it?.
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