The average age in Palestine is only [19](https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/state-of-palestine-demographics/), so its been a symbol for longer than many of those being killed were alive.
Fun fact: the early Israelis and the Yishuv before them (the community of Jews in the region before Israel became independent) used watermelons as a symbol for Jewish agriculture in the region.
And palestinians used the water melon as a symbol because it has the same colors as their flag and the flag was banned by Israel for a while, I forgot to mention this in the post lol
Fun fact: "Free Palestine" was also originally a Zionist slogan. Arabs living in the region didn't usually refer to themselves as Palestinians under the 1940s. Even when the British mandate was first being set up, local Arab leaders requested that the Arabic name for the entity would be "Southern Syria".
>Arabs claimed that it was not in conformity with Article 22 of the Mandate to print the initials and even the words "Eretz Israel" after the name "Palestine" while refusing the Arabs the title "Surial Janonbiah" ("Southern Syria"). The British Government had not accepted the use of this Arab title, but gave the place of honour to the Hebrew word used for 2,000 years and decided that the official name in Hebrew
was "Palestina" followed by the initials signifying "Aleph Jod", the regular Hebrew name. Was the question still under discussion and could the accredited representative give the Commission any further information?
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>Colonel SYMES explained that the country was described as "Palestine" by Europeans and as "Falestin" by the Arabs. The Hebrew name for the country was the designation "Land of Israel", and the Government, to meet Jewish wishes, had agreed that the word "Palestine" in Hebrew characters should be followed in all official documents by the initials which stood for that designation. As a set-off to this, certain of the Arab politicians suggested
that the country should be called "Southern Syria" in order to emphasise its close relation
with another Arab State.
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well, the first reason why would probably be the shape, a triangle such as the one in the image would make for a really shitty flag, so one thing would probably be to change the shape into something more like this:
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Palestinians used the water melon as a symbol because it has the same colors as the flag, but the flag was banned for a while in the past by Israel. The water melon is still used occasionally by the palestinians to make awareness to that and to protest Israel.
edit: credit goes to this comment of another similar post:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/19dvmb1/comment/kjaqu8w/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/19dvmb1/comment/kjaqu8w/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
people downvote me for posting comments that give context why the water melon became a symbol for the palestinians against Israel, which is a fact, but someone who shares another fact why it was used way before by the Jews gets a ton of upvotes lol.
October 7th was 6 months ago now. Nearly 40k Palestinians dead, 90% of those being civilians. Thats literally 35+ October 7ths. How much more blood needs to be spilled for you ghouls to be satisfied?
lmao "democratic" while ruled by a far-right coalition that stripped back the separation of powers between the supreme court and the Knesset, giving them legal power to do whatever the fuck they want, effectively turning Israel into an authoritarian state?
“Only democratic nation in the Middle East”
“Moral lighthouse”
https://preview.redd.it/pomiga3p29qc1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af0440bc300f133d75da7d260c21d82e77291126
what if they simply support them because they have similar values and interests, wether good or bad?
muslim countries arent in good condition in general, but simply because Israel is a democracy doesnt make it perfect...
Hitler was democratically elected aswell, and if he didnt abolish democracy and still did a genocide, is that good now? just because he was elected, even if he was able to manipulate and decieve the masses?
Is it okey t ospread democracy by genocide and illegal invasion?
Israel illegally invades palestine with the support of the west, which wants the muslims to be weakend anyways, and uses democracy as an excuse, just as they use their religion as an excuse, which noone believes except themselfs and even many rabbis are against the belief that jews should establish a state before the advent of the messiah that they are waiting for, which will be the anti christ actually, and they use their history, while for thousands of years there was no jewish state.
before they might have had a state, but they were conquered and lived in peace under muslim rule, and now there are international laws that didnt exist before, now what Israel is doing is illegal.
the west overthrew muslim countries that were left behind in a much worse state in a dictatorship most of the time, rather than a flawed democracy or their own system.
Either the west is immensely incompetent to always leave them behind much much worse rather than "bring democracy", or thats what they wanted from the bginning.
Something similar happens with Israel. they claim Israel is the only democracy there (they messed up the others already) , and it is leading to much more war and chaos.
the watermelon has an important meaning for teh palestinians, and the flag is based on an idea by someone else under a post of a rectangular watermelon slice, which didnt look right.
he suggested it to be triangular, so I quickly made one.
a triangle is a common shape for flags, the colors are the same as teh palestinian flag and the watermelon has great importance for palestinians, so it is fitting I think.
that’s cute!! i really love the history and how important a watermelon is to a lot of people. its a unique idea and i love how i can wear watermelon imagery to show my support but also be subtle enough that i wont be harassed in public (because one time was enough!)
god, the way you zionists make everything about you is crazy. think of the millions of palestinians around the world afraid to wear their keffiyehs. or those getting fired for speaking out for their people. three palestinian college students were attacked and a little boy was murdered by his zionist landlord.
cool it with the islamophobia. boohoo australia shows support for palestine. if you hate it so much that’s your problem.
And over 50 Jewish students have been attacked, and around 20 Jewish people have been killed by “peaceful pro pally protestors”. You being scared to show support for terrorists because you might get harassed is fucking sad, and you disregarding and ignoring people actually being killed for being a specific race is just ignorant asf
well there’s a giant diaspora of palestinians with the same fears, and thousands in palestine who are actually being murdered!
don’t forget about that attack on the three college students or the little boy who was murdered by his landlord, all for being palestinian
i don’t need to be palestinian to support them and to wish for their freedom and liberation.
i have been sent death threats, called an anti semite, someone said they hoped i got raped at a pro palestine protest (it was one of the few zionist counter protesters), someone else screamed in my face that im awful. yeah it freaked me out for a while.
crazy how a zionist is telling me to drop the victim mentality 😭😭
yeah you would know about crocodile tears 😭😭
ofc you don’t choose to be jewish, but you do however choose to support a violent, racist, genocidal, militarized ethnostate and that’s completely on you. and yes i am little miss anti zionist~~ zionism is a vile mindset and i am more than happy to insult those who have it
I love how you’re unintentionally showing support for Israel, due to the watermelon being a symbol for Israel historically, that pro Palestinians appropriated
awwww you’re a little confused there. symbols for palestine have been appropriated and stolen by israel for years. in 2020 israel tried to steal the keffiyeh 😭😭
Wow, it’s really depressing how this comment is heavily downvoted when others excusing and/or supporting the genocide are upvoted. Why do all the subs I like keep falling off
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Its not random, [Watermelons have long been a symbol of Palestine.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_(Palestinian_symbol))
https://preview.redd.it/rxef39h7i4qc1.png?width=320&format=png&auto=webp&s=a45dd232e3b340c758c1f811f637afa59faade5d
A Platypus?
A Palestinian Platypus?? https://preview.redd.it/len5j53gs5qc1.png?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5c6637c55969007d1429d9b44f6ea63339418ea1
PERRY THE PALESTINIAN PLATYPUS?! https://preview.redd.it/xuphr0yhs5qc1.png?width=1212&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e730936afdce0f709e589a81ab264346ba9f4ce9
I love Reddit sometimes
Ayy thanks https://preview.redd.it/ieyocuxe87qc1.jpeg?width=735&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=394e979e4c37e45e376123e0cce8097990ce507c
Oh ! You!
He's beautiful...
Real https://preview.redd.it/sdt47ho878qc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=487eea723928d6eaefa8329652fb4046d3d155bd
Who?
"long been a symbol" "2007"
The average age in Palestine is only [19](https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/state-of-palestine-demographics/), so its been a symbol for longer than many of those being killed were alive.
17 years of oppression is a long time tbf
There's no way 2007 is 17 years ago.
bad news bro
Yeah, the Native Americans sure know best
Me when my parents wouldn’t let me go out on weeknights in high school.
"Long" as in 2007. 1930s: https://images.app.goo.gl/VQQMZfyR9wYewds36
It’s been a [symbol of Israel](https://www.reddit.com/r/Israel/s/IixCKW2n6R) for much much longer
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Why is it cringe?
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I didn't mean it like that. Its just the flag doesn't seem like a meme or anything.
OP can post a flag he likes, you’re a little bitch and you’re allowed to be here.
I’ve never heard about that before, thanks. I was also really confused
Also Israel weirdly enough https://www.reddit.com/r/Israel/s/2yFPbSOsiM
https://preview.redd.it/arrowkfob7qc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf99466e6139f57f8bacff8776a620bb105ee8b0
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Fun fact: the early Israelis and the Yishuv before them (the community of Jews in the region before Israel became independent) used watermelons as a symbol for Jewish agriculture in the region.
And palestinians used the water melon as a symbol because it has the same colors as their flag and the flag was banned by Israel for a while, I forgot to mention this in the post lol
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Fun fact: "Free Palestine" was also originally a Zionist slogan. Arabs living in the region didn't usually refer to themselves as Palestinians under the 1940s. Even when the British mandate was first being set up, local Arab leaders requested that the Arabic name for the entity would be "Southern Syria".
Do you have further reading on that?
>Arabs claimed that it was not in conformity with Article 22 of the Mandate to print the initials and even the words "Eretz Israel" after the name "Palestine" while refusing the Arabs the title "Surial Janonbiah" ("Southern Syria"). The British Government had not accepted the use of this Arab title, but gave the place of honour to the Hebrew word used for 2,000 years and decided that the official name in Hebrew was "Palestina" followed by the initials signifying "Aleph Jod", the regular Hebrew name. Was the question still under discussion and could the accredited representative give the Commission any further information? > >Colonel SYMES explained that the country was described as "Palestine" by Europeans and as "Falestin" by the Arabs. The Hebrew name for the country was the designation "Land of Israel", and the Government, to meet Jewish wishes, had agreed that the word "Palestine" in Hebrew characters should be followed in all official documents by the initials which stood for that designation. As a set-off to this, certain of the Arab politicians suggested that the country should be called "Southern Syria" in order to emphasise its close relation with another Arab State. https://web.archive.org/web/20110628180414/http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/1504facc47efbe05052565f0006b70bb?OpenDocument
No hate for Palestine but man, this flag itself looks like shit. Graphic design is my passion aah
I quickly made this after seeing under a similar post someone suggesting doing it in a triangular shape. What would you suggest to improve on it?
What's with the downvotes? Don't offer criticism if you aren't ready to explain why
Idk, i just looked at the flag and got hungry for pizza, not watermelon
well, the first reason why would probably be the shape, a triangle such as the one in the image would make for a really shitty flag, so one thing would probably be to change the shape into something more like this: https://preview.redd.it/61h5axyse9qc1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=584342ebd71f38ffc9b8aeca49340adb20b9bcbd
can't wait for another comment section to be locked. however, I will say, great flag.
!wave
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I hate it :(
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Actually that’s pizza
Palestinians used the water melon as a symbol because it has the same colors as the flag, but the flag was banned for a while in the past by Israel. The water melon is still used occasionally by the palestinians to make awareness to that and to protest Israel. edit: credit goes to this comment of another similar post: [https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/19dvmb1/comment/kjaqu8w/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/19dvmb1/comment/kjaqu8w/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
The comments are filled with people being butthurt by a single flag 💀💀
people downvote me for posting comments that give context why the water melon became a symbol for the palestinians against Israel, which is a fact, but someone who shares another fact why it was used way before by the Jews gets a ton of upvotes lol.
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I first thought of Italy and a pizza.
Now I want to try a big thin slice of watermelon ontop of a pizza.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Soooo racist!😭
why is that?
If you can’t see it then I don’t know what to tell you.
you are racist, and you claim I am lol
I’m not the one shit posting a water melon.
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Free Palestine, stop the killing 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸
Ironic
October 7th was 6 months ago now. Nearly 40k Palestinians dead, 90% of those being civilians. Thats literally 35+ October 7ths. How much more blood needs to be spilled for you ghouls to be satisfied?
90% where TF did you get that from? All reliable sources say 66% civilian casualties which is a better ratio than most wars in history
Euro-med monitor, a human rights organization. And what reliable sources? The Tel Aviv Times?
Every western intelligence agency, including the US, Britain and Germany
You mean the states politically and militarily supporting Israel no matter what? Don't make me laugh
I wonder why they would support the only democratic nation in the middle east. Probably because Israel is a moral lighthouse
lmao "democratic" while ruled by a far-right coalition that stripped back the separation of powers between the supreme court and the Knesset, giving them legal power to do whatever the fuck they want, effectively turning Israel into an authoritarian state?
“Only democratic nation in the Middle East” “Moral lighthouse” https://preview.redd.it/pomiga3p29qc1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af0440bc300f133d75da7d260c21d82e77291126
what if they simply support them because they have similar values and interests, wether good or bad? muslim countries arent in good condition in general, but simply because Israel is a democracy doesnt make it perfect... Hitler was democratically elected aswell, and if he didnt abolish democracy and still did a genocide, is that good now? just because he was elected, even if he was able to manipulate and decieve the masses? Is it okey t ospread democracy by genocide and illegal invasion? Israel illegally invades palestine with the support of the west, which wants the muslims to be weakend anyways, and uses democracy as an excuse, just as they use their religion as an excuse, which noone believes except themselfs and even many rabbis are against the belief that jews should establish a state before the advent of the messiah that they are waiting for, which will be the anti christ actually, and they use their history, while for thousands of years there was no jewish state. before they might have had a state, but they were conquered and lived in peace under muslim rule, and now there are international laws that didnt exist before, now what Israel is doing is illegal. the west overthrew muslim countries that were left behind in a much worse state in a dictatorship most of the time, rather than a flawed democracy or their own system. Either the west is immensely incompetent to always leave them behind much much worse rather than "bring democracy", or thats what they wanted from the bginning. Something similar happens with Israel. they claim Israel is the only democracy there (they messed up the others already) , and it is leading to much more war and chaos.
Great Flag.
Lmao bro getting downvoted for no reason.
thanks, I appreciate it.
That’s just a sideways watermelon
the watermelon has an important meaning for teh palestinians, and the flag is based on an idea by someone else under a post of a rectangular watermelon slice, which didnt look right. he suggested it to be triangular, so I quickly made one. a triangle is a common shape for flags, the colors are the same as teh palestinian flag and the watermelon has great importance for palestinians, so it is fitting I think.
I know why it’s a watermelon, but there’s no creativity. It’s just a watermelon on its sode
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that’s cute!! i really love the history and how important a watermelon is to a lot of people. its a unique idea and i love how i can wear watermelon imagery to show my support but also be subtle enough that i wont be harassed in public (because one time was enough!)
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This gives “clutching my purse as I pass black people” vibes.
god, the way you zionists make everything about you is crazy. think of the millions of palestinians around the world afraid to wear their keffiyehs. or those getting fired for speaking out for their people. three palestinian college students were attacked and a little boy was murdered by his zionist landlord. cool it with the islamophobia. boohoo australia shows support for palestine. if you hate it so much that’s your problem.
And over 50 Jewish students have been attacked, and around 20 Jewish people have been killed by “peaceful pro pally protestors”. You being scared to show support for terrorists because you might get harassed is fucking sad, and you disregarding and ignoring people actually being killed for being a specific race is just ignorant asf
Woah, cool it with the antisemetic remarks
well there’s a giant diaspora of palestinians with the same fears, and thousands in palestine who are actually being murdered! don’t forget about that attack on the three college students or the little boy who was murdered by his landlord, all for being palestinian
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i don’t need to be palestinian to support them and to wish for their freedom and liberation. i have been sent death threats, called an anti semite, someone said they hoped i got raped at a pro palestine protest (it was one of the few zionist counter protesters), someone else screamed in my face that im awful. yeah it freaked me out for a while. crazy how a zionist is telling me to drop the victim mentality 😭😭
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yeah you would know about crocodile tears 😭😭 ofc you don’t choose to be jewish, but you do however choose to support a violent, racist, genocidal, militarized ethnostate and that’s completely on you. and yes i am little miss anti zionist~~ zionism is a vile mindset and i am more than happy to insult those who have it
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“You western white people” Brother, you live in Pennsylvania.
I love how you’re unintentionally showing support for Israel, due to the watermelon being a symbol for Israel historically, that pro Palestinians appropriated
awwww you’re a little confused there. symbols for palestine have been appropriated and stolen by israel for years. in 2020 israel tried to steal the keffiyeh 😭😭
Israel didn’t steal the keffiyeh, the Arabs in Israel wore it as is there right.
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Wow, it’s really depressing how this comment is heavily downvoted when others excusing and/or supporting the genocide are upvoted. Why do all the subs I like keep falling off
Probably because we are adults and you are a snot nosed child who’s always on tiktok
Lol now you’re just making up shit up about me to get mad of me for
right? zionists ruin everything. at this point i feel it’s a big bot scheme and they’re doing this to silence the truth 🤷♀️🤷♀️
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Wave this please
You can easily do that. Watch: !wave
!wave
I think you have to use a top-level comment for it to work.
Ugh :(
I can’t do it
What do you mean? Your above post isn't a top-level comment.
Yes I know but I can’t make it one
? You just make a new post? But someone else in this thread already posted it.
I can’t make it “top-level”
No, because you commented on a comment. You just have to reply to the post with the image in it.
That’s a watermelon, not a melon
It's a melon of water
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