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Originally Posted by athegan

Very nice analysis of the situation, thank you. But I want to ask you about the part in bold. Galilee, where the village is in, is part of the Israeli lands of 1948. Now I don't know how Arabic you wanna be, but all Arabic countries and their conventions (which include Lebanon and Syria) agree that what is considered to be occupation is what Israel overtook after the 1967 and thus only demand that Israel withdraws to her borders post-1967. United Nations goes by the same standard. So basically what the world, including all the arabic world, conceive Galilee as, is part of a legitimate country called Israel. That was the first point. Second point is, the arabic community that live in 1948 Israel is fully integrated with the Jewish community. They vote, they pay taxes and they get benefits. They are polled in opinion polls and they are counted as Israeli citizens. After all I think no one, be it Lebanese or Palestinian, has done as much to this community as Azmi Bichara and he is a member (former member) of the Knesset.

So building on the two points, these ppl have agreed to be Israeli citizens and the blue and white colors are the colors of their flag. Now wa7ad e3ed be lebnen ekher hammo , can sit and sound smart about what should be Palestine and what shouldn't be but that doesn't matter. What matters are the people of the country who chose to put the colors of THEIR flag on their place of worship....

I will not salute them for nothing but their realism....but I think what they've done is expected and nothing to be frowned upon....

Peace

if syria\saudia comes and do the same as the israelis , and after 50 years of occupation for lebanon , some lebanese village do the same and paint the flag of the saudia or syria on its dome would u be happy like now??