@FrankFrank @capnthommo
Anyone that wants to protest against colonialism should be focused on what Putin is doing in Kharkiv this week! The globe's expanding empires are getting a free pass from most of the public because their political technologists have managed to get the kids to focus on the war that Hamas (puppets of Putin and Iran) started for just that reason.
@FrankFrank @capnthommo
Speaking of Palestine, I just saw two posts related to that region which are illuminating if accurate. Apparently, both the Palestinian flag as well as the black & white keffiyeh were designed and introduced by British bureaucrats that were attempting to bring stability into the remnants of the Ottoman Empire.
That's kind of ironic don't you think if true.
@GreenFire @FrankFrank @capnthommo Ok, so the keffiyeh had already been worn by rural Palestinian population during the Ottoman era, and the current Palestinian flag (neither designed nor introduced by Brit officials) is based on the flag of the Great Arab revolt of 1916 (Ottoman era/before Brit mandate) & is used in Palestine since the 1920s.
@ArenaCops @FrankFrank @capnthommo
The posts were on that foul site and I'm not going to try to find them, but that lines up with that but it was focused on a particular British officer involved with the Palestine mandate.
They talked about where the shapes and colors came from in the Arab tribes outside of Palestine where the major ones hailed. The one indicated the black & white was a color change post-mandate.
@ArenaCops @FrankFrank @capnthommo
Anyways, doesn't matter. History's history. Just have to go forward from where we're at.
I say that because nowadays we can't get much agreement on what actually happened in history anyways.
@GreenFire @FrankFrank @capnthommo All good & alright, Kevin. Just a few notes, that's all.
WWI changed everything. Before that Britain favored Turkey but after it refused to exit the War, Britain began to cultivate Arab nationalism against Ottomans.
Original Arab flag was designed by #Sykes of #SykesPicot that #Bolsheviks blew up
It was Russia that pushed Britain in Arabs’ arms. Sykes wanted to give Arabs a symbol of identity & pride and commissioned the original flag, which was later changed for Palestinians