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Will I hang the flag?
By Gideon Levy

There is a flagholder installed in my garden. The previous residents used it to fly the flag of their favorite soccer team. Since they left, the holder has remained orphaned. During my childhood, there was no question about it: My parents would take the national flag out of the cupboard each year, proudly display it on the balcony, and it would drown in the street's sea of blue and white. I would look with excitement at our decorated balcony: I was proud of the flag.

That was a long time ago. During my first trip overseas, in a youth delegation to Europe, two years after the Six-Day War, we flew the state flag on the front of the bus in which we were traveling, between France and Italy. Back then they applauded us. How proud we were to be Israelis. In recent years, the flagpole at my house stands bare.

I clearly remember when I stopped hanging the flag. It was after I saw the settlers dashing through Palestinian villages, fearsome flags waving from their cars to confront and provoke the residents of the land they had invaded. I said to myself that a flag intended for provocation and confrontation is not my flag. I later saw the flag as a land marker, establishing ownership that is not ours. In every settlement and outpost they hung the flag that was my flag as well to "establish facts on the ground."
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How can I hang at my home the same flag that flies over the homes of the Jewish settlement in the heart of Hebron, which has expelled nearly 20,000 residents from their homes? How can I hang the flag that flies on the homes of Yitzhar and Itamar, and at dozens of checkpoints designed to choke the lives of our neighbors? How can I hang the flag that flies on the jeeps that burst forth in the dead of night and spread terror in the hearts of little children? The flag became increasingly distant from me; the national flag became the flag of extreme nationalism.

It is not easy to become alienated from a flag that once was yours. It is much easier to love it, to curl up in it, to be proud of it. The U.S. is drowning in a sea of flags; every far-flung car lot is adorned with flags of stars and stripes. Canadian, Swiss and Japanese backpackers tend to attach their national flags to their backpacks - these flags look so innocent. This is not the case with my flag, which has long ceased to denote innocence. Since it has become the flag of the occupation, I have remained without a flag.

The extreme nationalistic right stole the flag from me and with it the pride in being Israeli. This act of theft is unforgivable. From an emotional perspective, this is perhaps the most mortal of blows - a blow to those who wanted to be proud of their flag. A state that was portrayed in our childhood as more righteous than any other, the state of the Jews became the state of the occupation, and its flag was expropriated for criminal purposes. We no longer travel abroad with the flag flying in front of us. Only at the March of the Living at Auschwitz and at away games of Maccabi Tel Aviv do we still wrap ourselves in the flag bearing the Jewish star, only there is it still permissible to be proud and confrontational. In Europe, they are burning Israeli flags, as we burned the effigy of "the Egyptian tyrant" in our childhood at Lag B'Omer bonfires. With our own hands, we provided reasons for those who over the years became haters of Israel. They did not always burn this flag.

Importers of Chinese-made Israeli flags report a decline in sales this year. Nonetheless, a substantial number of cars and homes are again bedecked with flags. Perhaps this is the power of habit. Perhaps it is blindness that prevents those brandishing the flags from seeing the aims the flag serves. And will I raise the flag this year on the flagpole in the garden of my home? I am exempt from deciding: Like every year, my neighbors upstairs have covered the garden with the flags of Israel Defense Forces units and the national flag, a colorful and rustling sea of flags, which they have kept since their childhood. In any case, there is no room for my flag.
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  1.   Moral sensitivity becomes monstrous misjudment 08:48  |  Shalom Freedman 22/04/07
  2.   JUST GET OUT! 08:57  |  Meir Weinstein 22/04/07
  3.   You disgust me 08:58  |  BH 22/04/07
  4.   Gideon Should Move 09:00  |  Ron 22/04/07
  5.   why not leave? 09:13  |  Hannah 22/04/07
  6.   Oh just leave us you crybaby... 09:17  |  KJJ 22/04/07
  7.   LIBERATION- Not "Occupation" 09:17  |  Yishai Kohen 22/04/07
  8.   I won`t surrender my flag, Gideon Levy 09:19  |  Tzfonit 22/04/07
  9.   G.lEVY SAYS "there is no room for my flag". There is no room for 09:20  |  Vittorio 22/04/07
  10.   WHILE Hamas flies the flag of Jihadist ethnic cleansing&murder. 09:26  |  PETER. S.M 22/04/07
  11.   Shalom Freedman: apologetic for the occupation and its 09:35  |  human being 22/04/07
  12.   Gideon Levy 09:35  |  Rami 22/04/07
  13.   At 59, Israel looks like a veteran whore that expects 09:40  |  Khalid 22/04/07
  14.   levy shows his TRUE colours :o( 09:46  |  Ari ben Yisrael 22/04/07
  15.   levy, you have no right to fly my flag, you dirty pig. 09:47  |  vladimir 22/04/07
  16.   Gideon Levi 09:50  |  Deborah 22/04/07
  17.   The Israel I love 09:51  |  Yered Shmuel 22/04/07
  18.   Go Occupy Someplace You Are Proud Of 09:58  |  Efox 22/04/07
  19.   KHALID your kidnappers,thieves,liars &murderers are the problem. 10:02  |  PETER. S.M 22/04/07
  20.   I understand Gideon - but why is he still here? 10:08  |  Uri 22/04/07
  21.   Rami...Zionist flag and Swastika have much in common 10:10  |  Rami, from Gaza 22/04/07
  22.   Reading all these responses, 10:12  |  Dirk 22/04/07
  23.   Ari Ben Yisrael: for you information more 10:13  |  German 22/04/07
  24.   Vladimir...calling G. Levy pig says much about 10:14  |  Morrocan Jew 22/04/07
  25.   Proud of being Israeli 10:17  |  GF 22/04/07
  26.   Vittorio..the liar, the fascist settler 10:17  |  Levy 22/04/07
  27.   Levy and the flag 10:19  |  Connie 22/04/07
  28.   #2 Meir for once I might ALMOST agree with you 10:19  |  Ari ben Yisrael 22/04/07
  29.   Don`t hang the flag; hang yourself, Levy 10:21  |  McQueen 22/04/07
  30.   Now you know how Southern confederates feel 10:24  |  Brien Duffy 22/04/07
  31.   Khalid 10:30  |  Connie 22/04/07
  32.   Bravo Gideon Levy, lucid voice. 10:34  |  From Brazil 22/04/07
  33.   Destroying the country while waving the flag 10:37  |  www.kibush.co.il 22/04/07
  34.   RAMI from Gaza.Ethnic cleansing?Heard of the Hamas charter? 10:37  |  PETER. S.M 22/04/07
  35.   German 10:42  |  Connie 22/04/07
  36.   German 10:42  |  Connie 22/04/07
  37.   Steal the flag back Gideon 10:43  |  Niv 22/04/07
  38.   Leviticus 19:18,"Thou shall love thy neighbour as thyself" 10:51  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 22/04/07
  39.   You don`t know what Gidon Levy does for Israel! 10:52  |  Cord H. Kaldrack 22/04/07
  40.   Second thoughts 11:01  |  Esther 22/04/07
  41.   #23 German........unusual name!!!!! 11:04  |  Ari ben Yisrael 22/04/07
  42.   The Israeli Flag 11:07  |  JAn van Mil 22/04/07
  43.   You may be right,... 11:07  |  Dirk 22/04/07
  44.   @24, moroccan jew 11:09  |  vladimir 22/04/07
  45.   @24, mor. jew. and levy is pig. 11:09  |  vladimir 22/04/07
  46.   Controlled by Germans? 11:10  |  Dirk 22/04/07
  47.   Levy on the Flag - like US during Vietnam? 11:10  |  dana 22/04/07
  48.   Levy a sign of the cancer in Israeli society 11:14  |  Jon 22/04/07
  49.   # 35 11:16  |  Cord H. Kaldrack 22/04/07
  50.   Khalid`s Stable 11:16  |  ATLAS 22/04/07
  51.   Peter SM, your intellectual level doesn`t warrant 11:19  |  Khalid 22/04/07
  52.   suggestion for Levy (fly the Hamas flag) 11:21  |  Proud Zionist 22/04/07
  53.   Connie...you resort to lie and propaganda to 11:22  |  Khalid 22/04/07
  54.   Connie...does the blood of Jews take 65 years 11:23  |  German 22/04/07
  55.   Connie...we killed six million Jews..you killed 11:25  |  German 22/04/07
  56.   German.How many Russian Jews in Germany.How many in Israel? 11:26  |  PETER. S.M 22/04/07
  57.   Peter SM: have you heard of Zionism`s charter? 11:26  |  Rami From Gaza 22/04/07
  58.   Peter SM, and the Aussie flag 11:29  |  Marilyn 22/04/07
  59.   Gideon Levy is a delusional leftitist, typically suffering from 11:30  |  Uzi 22/04/07
  60.   Connie..you are the disgrace for the following reasons: 11:32  |  Torah Jew 22/04/07
  61.   Gideon flies the flag of Hamas. 11:40  |  SystemF 22/04/07
  62.   Gideon - You are courageous and correct 11:41  |  lennybruce 22/04/07
  63.   There`s the door... 11:43  |  Ovadiah ben Avraham 22/04/07
  64.   #34 PETER SM 11:43  |  Johnboy 22/04/07
  65.   "They did not always burn this flag." 11:46  |  Ovadiah ben Avraham 22/04/07
  66.   mr. levy, why do you give in to the extremist right-wing... 11:55  |  saul a. readner 22/04/07
  67.   People like Levy were in the Judenraat during the WW2 11:58  |  Absolute Sweden 22/04/07
  68.   To Morrocan Jew 12:02  |  Rabbit 22/04/07
  69.   This piece appears to be antisemitic 12:04  |  Andras Bereny 22/04/07
  70.   the poor man 12:05  |  solemnman 22/04/07
  71.   TZFONIT (Post No. 8) 12:06  |  Johnny Weintraub 22/04/07
  72.   like Hamas you 12:08  |  Nerys 22/04/07
  73.   Gideon Levy - your flag is mine 12:14  |  Tzemah 22/04/07
  74.   go read Gideon 12:16  |  Nerys 22/04/07
  75.   The courage of truth 12:16  |  From Chicago 22/04/07
  76.   German (Post No. 23) 12:19  |  Johnny Weintraub 22/04/07
  77.   To BH #3 12:35  |  cfs 22/04/07
  78.   star of david Jewish national flag 12:36  |  chaim 22/04/07
  79.   The Flag 12:42  |  Sam 22/04/07
  80.   Be Proud! 12:48  |  ATLAS 22/04/07
  81.   Flying the flag 12:50  |  Suzie 22/04/07
  82.   Filthy pig levy 12:50  |  shai 22/04/07
  83.   You people on the right are so full of hate! 13:05  |  Shai 22/04/07
  84.   The Most Courageaous Israeli 13:08  |  George Bush 22/04/07
  85.   The Ultra Right 13:24  |  Mark 22/04/07
  86.   Flag of Belarus 13:27  |  Sayid Ghannem 22/04/07
  87.   Atlas..I am not a fan of these despotic regimes. 13:34  |  Khalid 22/04/07
  88.   Self Hating 13:49  |  David 22/04/07
  89.   "The flag became increasingly distant from me" 13:52  |  Zev 22/04/07
  90.   Sayid Ghannem#86 has answered you Gideon 14:00  |  Mickey 22/04/07
  91.   Proof 14:03  |  David 22/04/07
  92.   @44 vladimir 14:17  |  Aliza 22/04/07
  93.   Khalid #13, the whore`s John 14:25  |  FOX 22/04/07
  94.   Why the double standard? 14:29  |  Sam 22/04/07
  95.   Cord H. Kaldrak #39 14:35  |  FOX 22/04/07
  96.   I will fly the Israeli flag because I`m not simplistic 14:38  |  Yonatan 22/04/07
  97.   Dana, Gideon`s lost youth 14:43  |  FOX 22/04/07
  98.   Flag poem for Gideon 14:44  |  Virginia 22/04/07
  99.   P.S. "occupation" was not the prophecy. 14:50  |  Virginia 22/04/07
  100.   Vladimir and all the Moroccan Jews 14:51  |  Benlolo 22/04/07
  101.   LET FLY STAR OF DAVID IN EUROPE 14:51  |  indrajaya 22/04/07
  102.   israeli flag and mr.Levy 14:56  |  Betty 22/04/07
  103.   David re #88, Spartacus! 14:57  |  FOX 22/04/07
  104.   Levy`s Grave Injustice to our Nation 15:06  |  Kate 22/04/07
  105.   hass and levi 15:06  |  Dr. Allan 22/04/07
  106.   # 101 Indrayaja; the only ones to throw stones at the Israeli 15:10  |  native European 22/04/07
  107.   Israeli flag 15:20  |  christa 22/04/07
  108.   Khalid Again 15:20  |  ATLAS 22/04/07
  109.   Stoning must be punishment for being a sensitive humanitarian! 15:27  |  Toronto`s Finest 22/04/07
  110.   #44 Vladimir; impossible to imagine Israel without his safardys 15:29  |  Alicia 22/04/07
  111.   Flag 15:29  |  Alan 22/04/07
  112.   severe Jewish self hatred 15:33  |  David 22/04/07
  113.   Why there is still room for the flag 15:33  |  Daniel 22/04/07
  114.   Gideon Levy 15:36  |  17 22/04/07
  115.   I agree with Gideon 15:38  |  Daniel van Dalen 22/04/07
  116.   # 106, NATIVE EUROPEAN 15:43  |  indrajaya 22/04/07
  117.   Connie: Evil never prevails? 15:43  |  David James Vickery 22/04/07
  118.   Mr. Levy , is their no blame ever for the Palestinians 15:44  |  Avrum 22/04/07
  119.   for-fathers 15:45  |  gum 22/04/07
  120.   @92, aliza 15:48  |  vladimir 22/04/07
  121.   @100, benlolo, i basically agree with you. 15:51  |  vladimir 22/04/07
  122.   #35/36 CONNIE 15:51  |  Labhras 22/04/07
  123.   occupation 15:53  |  habakook 22/04/07
  124.   Proud Israel has brave voice of Gideon Levy 15:53  |  Smadar 22/04/07
  125.   Yom Kipper war 16:03  |  John 22/04/07
  126.   G. Levi: "Will I hang the flag?". I have a better idea for you GL 16:07  |  Man deVoshkes 22/04/07
  127.   re :#1#2#3#4#5#6#7#8#9#10 16:16  |  Mark 22/04/07
  128.   FOX # 97 - Perhaps you know Gideon`s history better 16:20  |  dana 22/04/07
  129.   Smadar -"fair settlement" 16:20  |  Sam 22/04/07
  130.   The Flag 16:23  |  Linichka 22/04/07
  131.   Great article 16:26  |  Steve 22/04/07
  132.   Gideon would make a good USA Democrat 16:35  |  Massein 22/04/07
  133.   The fact that there are people lile Mr. Levy 16:36  |  West Norway 22/04/07
  134.   122#RETURN OF THE RABID LABHRADSOR 16:40  |  alonitzafoni 22/04/07
  135.   Rant against the wall 16:42  |  Massein 22/04/07
  136.   Israel liberated Judea and Samaria 40 yrs ago 16:49  |  David 22/04/07
  137.   No problem Gideon - GO FLY A KITE 16:51  |  Sal 22/04/07
  138.   How does hating Israel`s policies make you anti-Semitic? 16:53  |  newageblues 22/04/07
  139.   west norway 16:57  |  alonitzafoni 22/04/07
  140.   #8 Tzfonit 16:59  |  Boycott 22/04/07
  141.   #33, Norway meets Hamas with charter to kill Jews..sick 17:02  |  David 22/04/07
  142.   The way those articles progress, the next 17:04  |  S 22/04/07
  143.   How To Fly Flag of Occupation? Simple! 17:04  |  Paqid 16 Netzarim 22/04/07
  144.   Disgusting Article 17:14  |  Elisabeth 22/04/07
  145.   Write Something Positive Levy-What`s Your Plan? 17:24  |  Jane 22/04/07
  146.   alonitzafoni #134 17:26  |  Labhras 22/04/07
  147.   Ms Kohn #38 17:28  |  Danny Friedman 22/04/07
  148.   "Wallad Met"(still-born) in Hamas eys: Levy`s suicide 17:35  |  Dromit 22/04/07
  149.   A PROUD Israeli, no matter which "side" I am on! 17:37  |  Sandy 22/04/07
  150.   #141 David in Boston 17:38  |  Labhras 22/04/07
  151.   Not hanging the flag 17:39  |  Agnes 22/04/07
  152.   I love Gideon Levy! 17:47  |  Mike O`keefe 22/04/07
  153.   A Man of Courage 17:48  |  Janice 22/04/07
  154.   Gideon, fly the flag upside down 17:51  |  Tosefta 22/04/07
  155.   One step further... 17:59  |  Shet 22/04/07
  156.   to #153 just a thought 18:02  |  Mike O`keefe 22/04/07
  157.   Mr. Gideon Levy: So, Fly a Different Flag 18:06  |  Jeff Northridge 22/04/07
  158.   Gideon Levy, please don`t suffer any more 18:12  |  Danny 22/04/07
  159.   Mr. Levy have my respect for what I read about this colonial flag 18:19  |  arab 22/04/07
  160.   The problem is Israeli retreat, not "occupation" 18:24  |  Chaim 22/04/07
  161.   Hard choices 18:27  |  Gordon 22/04/07
  162.   Flag Schmag 18:27  |  Av 10,3830 22/04/07
  163.   #139 alonittzafoni re West Norway 18:40  |  Yonatan 22/04/07
  164.   After Bradley & Amos change of Anthem , Levy & the flag 18:43  |  Joseph E . Post 1 22/04/07
  165.   #161, flying Israel + Palestine flags side by side 18:50  |  newageblues 22/04/07
  166.   After Bradley & Amos change of Anthem , Levy & the flag 18:51  |  Joseph E . Post 2 22/04/07
  167.   She`s a grand old flag 18:52  |  Yonatan 22/04/07
  168.   Thank you Gideon Levy 18:57  |  redsmith 22/04/07
  169.   Tosefta # 154 Backwards Won`t Work Either 19:00  |  Jeff Northridge 22/04/07
  170.   G Levy: ONE SICK CONFUSED PUPPY 19:00  |  Yardena 22/04/07
  171.   153#YET MORE IRISH STUPIDITY 19:08  |  alonitzafoni 22/04/07
  172.   The problem, Gideon, is that we won in 1967 19:12  |  Eli 22/04/07
  173.   To Jeff, # 169 19:12  |  Gordon 22/04/07
  174.   Reverse the flag - from now on White over Blue. 19:12  |  Omran 22/04/07
  175.   Gideon Levy 19:14  |  Bill 22/04/07
  176.   Tzfonit #8 19:16  |  schafe82 22/04/07
  177.   I applaud you 19:20  |  Ray 22/04/07
  178.   German 19:25  |  Connie 22/04/07
  179.   #13 19:29  |  Moshe 22/04/07
  180.   Gideon 19:30  |  Ralph 22/04/07
  181.   The talkback page 19:40  |  Colin Wright 22/04/07
  182.   #153 19:41  |  Moshe 22/04/07
  183.   55#56# German & Connie 19:54  |  Bobby Thorpe 22/04/07
  184.   Dana, pick up let`s talk darlin` 19:58  |  FOX 22/04/07
  185.   SOLUTION FOR GIDEON LEVI 19:58  |  VICTIMSofARAB TERROR 22/04/07
  186.   Hey Omran you seem pretty keen 19:59  |  Alon Fisher 22/04/07
  187.   Dana let`s talk, part II 20:05  |  FOX 22/04/07
  188.   177#YES RAY 20:07  |  alonitzafoni 22/04/07
  189.   146# AND YET AGAIN OUR FAVOURITE IRISH HOUND CRY`S WOLF 20:25  |  alonitzafoni 22/04/07
  190.   Israeli behavior disgusts me so much 20:29  |  Chaim Rumkowsky 22/04/07
  191.   German and Connie: STOP IT! 20:30  |  Alicia 22/04/07
  192.   BRAVO FOR BEING COURAGEOUS!!!!!!! 20:33  |  Boyd 22/04/07
  193.   Gordon # 173 Symmetry 20:37  |  Jeff Northridge 22/04/07
  194.   " They (Israel) are indeed an occupying force" 20:52  |  Sam 22/04/07
  195.   Clark Gable said "Darling, I don`t give a damn" 20:56  |  Tomer 22/04/07
  196.   Chapeux Bas Gideon 21:00  |  Abby 22/04/07
  197.   You mean the flag of LIBERATION 21:02  |  dr David I. Gross 22/04/07
  198.   Hang the flag 21:03  |  Mitch Cohen 22/04/07
  199.   #194 - EVER BEEN THERE?? 21:03  |  Boyd 22/04/07
  200.   How 2 fly flag of Occupation? The way I fly the flagof Oslopation 21:11  |  Robert 22/04/07
  201.   Chaim Rumkowsky #190 21:13  |  Bruce 22/04/07
  202.   why? 21:13  |  Abby 22/04/07
  203.   #193 Jeff Northbridge and symmetry 21:17  |  Boycott 22/04/07
  204.   TRONTOS FINEST.Confused?.Stonning is carried out in Moslem lands 21:19  |  PETER SM 22/04/07
  205.   # 95 Mr Fox 21:19  |  Cord H. Kaldrack 22/04/07
  206.   To Jeff and Gordon 21:22  |  Shai 22/04/07
  207.   Backward flag (Jeff Northridge #169) 21:32  |  Tosefta 22/04/07
  208.   The current flag has got to go. 21:34  |  Timothy 22/04/07
  209.   196 Abby 21:38  |  daniel 22/04/07
  210.   risposta 21:44  |  anna 22/04/07
  211.   A sick joke (Rumkowsky #190) 21:47  |  Adan Czerniakow 22/04/07
  212.   Levy - How Can An A Self-Respecting Jew Stomach You 22:02  |  Tod Zuckerman 22/04/07
  213.   Peter SM..the Muslims took the stonings from the ancient Jews 22:20  |  convert to Islam 22/04/07
  214.   #190 Israel behavior disgusts you and you move to Poland????? 22:26  |  Efrain 22/04/07
  215.   Howdy Bobby Thorpe 22:26  |  Connie 22/04/07
  216.   Niv in Nehariyah Shai in Raanana. Gideon Levy 22:30  |  Broken Hearted 22/04/07
  217.   RAMI from GAZA.Shulchan Aruch?Tell us about it`s"Zionism charter" 22:31  |  PETER SM 22/04/07
  218.   # 204 Peter SM.Stoning is advocated in our Torah. Was quite ..... 22:31  |  Toronto`s Finest 22/04/07
  219.   Gideon Levy is a brave and good man 22:36  |  Kevin 22/04/07
  220.   MARYLIN Do not salute the Lebansese flag as the convoy goes by 22:40  |  PETER SM 22/04/07
  221.   German:"worldwide Jewish plot to enslave Muslims and christians" 22:42  |  Vittorio 22/04/07
  222.   Righ-wing arguments...same as Germany in 1930s 22:42  |  German 22/04/07
  223.   #213 German 22:54  |  Labhras 22/04/07
  224.   Chaim the Polack 23:02  |  Connie 22/04/07
  225.   Chaim the Polack 23:02  |  Connie 22/04/07
  226.   you spit on your name 23:04  |  trumpeldor 22/04/07
  227.   3 BH - don`t you say this ! 23:13  |  Nicolas from Paris 22/04/07
  228.   The Flag 23:28  |  mona 22/04/07
  229.   Gideon Levy Israel should be Proud of you. You are My kind of isr 23:29  |  Nina 22/04/07
  230.   Mr Gideon Levy : YOU are too good for Israel 23:30  |  Nina 22/04/07
  231.   Mr Levy : we need More people like you to have peace 23:31  |  Fatima 22/04/07
  232.   German 23:31  |  Connie 22/04/07
  233.   Tossi more nonsense #207 23:40  |  FOX 22/04/07
  234.   Hi, bobby thorpe, tennessee hillbilly 23:42  |  Axel 22/04/07
  235.   Finally I understand the EIREV RAV 23:46  |  DR ERIC 22/04/07
  236.   Aliza re: Vladimir #92 23:54  |  TonyL 22/04/07
  237.   Go to an ARAB COUNTRY 00:00  |  stuart 23/04/07
  238.   Gideon Levy : what occupation ?? 00:10  |  Mordechai B 23/04/07
  239.   # Ari ben Yisrael. I AM FURIOUS.......... 00:18  |  Kath` 23/04/07
  240.   Boyd 00:25  |  Sam 23/04/07
  241.   Jeff Northridge #169 - Something we can all agree on, Finally 00:29  |  dana 23/04/07
  242.   ****HAPPY INDEPENCE DAY****WITH ALL FLAGS FLYING**** 00:30  |  Kath` 23/04/07
  243.   # 93 FOX FROM KARKUR. **PUT YOUR FLAGS OUT** 00:35  |  Kath` 23/04/07
  244.   Redsmith, Canada 00:38  |  Sandy 23/04/07
  245.   People, like Gideon, are very familiar 00:39  |  TOMY 23/04/07
  246.   Mordechai B 00:39  |  Axel 23/04/07
  247.   # 54 German. YOU ARE NO GERMAN.IF YOU WERE YOU`D BE THROWN OUT!!! 00:40  |  Kath` 23/04/07
  248.   # 80 ATLAS.DON`T TRY TO REASON WITH THAT WORM... 00:44  |  Kath` 23/04/07
  249.   Gideons are crying, whenever they wake up 00:46  |  TOMY 23/04/07
  250.   # 214: This is a very stupid way to love your country! 00:48  |  Cord H. Kaldrack 23/04/07
  251.   fuss 00:48  |  christoph 23/04/07
  252.   # 83 Shai. YOU ARE WRONG.THE LEFT IS HERE AS MUCH AS THE RIGHT. 00:48  |  Kath` 23/04/07
  253.   # 98 Virginia.***YES*** ***HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY*** 00:53  |  Kath` 23/04/07
  254.   #13 Khalids humanity&justice 00:55  |  TOMY 23/04/07
  255.   # 189 alonitzafonit. ***ALL FLAGS TO BE FLOWN*** 01:03  |  Kath` 23/04/07
  256.   Consensus on Giddy Levy - get out or hang yourself 01:09  |  Maya 23/04/07
  257.   # 195 Tomer. IT SAYS;FRANKLY MY DEAR,I DON`T GIVE A DAMN.... 01:10  |  Kath` 23/04/07
  258.   If other Israelis abuse the flag, DEFEND IT!!! No Excuse for You 01:14  |  Dennis M Starkman 23/04/07
  259.   GIDEON L. YOU ARE A SCUMBAG.GET OUT OF OUR COUNTRY.... 01:20  |  Kath` 23/04/07
  260.   Rumsfreld, Olmert etc.. 01:21  |  Fritz 23/04/07
  261.   To German and Connie #35&36 01:23  |  American in NY 23/04/07
  262.   This isn`t Masada 01:27  |  Elias Khoury 23/04/07
  263.   # 227 Maya .WELL SAID! LET HIM HANG HIMSELF WE DON`T NEED HIS ILK 01:32  |  Kath` 23/04/07
  264.   Dear right-wingers: You can talk as much as you want 01:32  |  Yuval 23/04/07
  265.   Levy and flag 01:38  |  Esther 23/04/07
  266.   #75 - "from chicago" - Well said 01:39  |  Yuval 23/04/07
  267.   German # 55- What are you talking about ??? 01:40  |  Avrum 23/04/07
  268.   Symbolism 01:42  |  jean bourgeot 23/04/07
  269.   # 239 so-called American in N.Y. THEN STAY AWAY FROM ISRAEL..... 01:45  |  Kath` 23/04/07
  270.   RAMI from GAZA.Re"Zionism`s charter"in the"Shulhan Aruch"(3rd try 01:46  |  PETER. S.M 23/04/07
  271.   DJ VICKERY Evil never prevails. 01:51  |  PETER. S.M 23/04/07
  272.   #247 Fritz 01:51  |  Labhras 23/04/07
  273.   Re DR David I Gross #197 01:57  |  Colin Wright 23/04/07
  274.   American in N.Y. # 239 01:59  |  Avrum 23/04/07
  275.   VICTIMS OF ARAB TERROR.LET US PRAY TODAY FOR THE FALLEN... 02:02  |  Kath` 23/04/07
  276.   German 02:08  |  Leah 23/04/07
  277.   Tosefta # 207 I Meant Something Else 02:18  |  Jeff Northridge 23/04/07
  278.   # 193 Jeff Northridge. WE ONLY HAVE THIS, WONDERFUL FLAG... 02:22  |  Kath` 23/04/07
  279.   Will I hang the flag 02:32  |  Laurence Winer 23/04/07
  280.   G.lEVY SAYS "there is no room for my flag". There is room for 02:40  |  Van Gogh 23/04/07
  281.   LABHRAS&FRTIZ Good luck in proving where the border is... 02:42  |  PETER. S.M 23/04/07
  282.   # 276 Leah. SO CALLED GERMAN.TAKE NO NOTICE.. 02:44  |  Kath` 23/04/07
  283.   What kind of BS is this?? 02:44  |  Danite 23/04/07
  284.   Why are those proud of the glag 02:47  |  ChanahS 23/04/07
  285.   How this for an idea? 02:52  |  Danite 23/04/07
  286.   Alon - To wipe every last Jew 02:58  |  Omran 23/04/07
  287.   # 226 trumpledor. YES,HE SPITS ON MY NAME TOO,BY ASSOCIATION... 03:00  |  Kath` 23/04/07
  288.   # 191 Alicia. THE GERMANS ARE DOING A GOOD JOB.BUT NOT THIS ... 03:15  |  Kath` 23/04/07
  289.   TRONNOS FINEST.Stoning is not part of current Judaism just Islam 03:41  |  PETER. S.M 23/04/07
  290.   Thanks for clarifying (Jeff Northridge #277) 03:42  |  Tosefta 23/04/07
  291.   The flag ahs amutual feeling about you 03:51  |  Harry 23/04/07
  292.   # 260 Fritz. HEY FRITZY,ARE YOU A GERMAN?? 03:53  |  Kath` 23/04/07
  293.   Dafka because it is misused, you should display it 03:56  |  Fortuna Benmayor 23/04/07
  294.   Gideon Levy, a worthy candidate as the new leader of Balad 04:38  |  Jake 23/04/07
  295.   Hey Levy #26: Are you the shameful traitor Gideon Levy? 04:51  |  Vittorio 23/04/07
  296.   Just walking the streets of Tel Aviv 04:56  |  TOMY 23/04/07
  297.   #196 - what hate culture??? 05:17  |  Vic 23/04/07
  298.   #169 Jeff Northridge and symmetry 05:30  |  Johnboy 23/04/07
  299.   #160 Chaim makes some claims 05:44  |  Johnboy 23/04/07
  300.   colonial flag 05:49  |  kevin 23/04/07
  301.   Gideon Levy: Please Read 06:13  |  Yoni 23/04/07
  302.   Nu what else is new? 06:19  |  Jack 23/04/07
  303.   to # 237 06:24  |  Mike O`keefe 23/04/07
  304.   this is how you guys rationalize occupation? 06:28  |  Mike O`keefe 23/04/07
  305.   Respose to Axel #246 06:35  |  Yoni 23/04/07
  306.   Gideon should take also his name away... 06:43  |  Fortuna Benmayor 23/04/07
  307.   Gideon 06:44  |  Sarina 23/04/07
  308.   Respose to Johnboy #299 06:44  |  Yoni 23/04/07
  309.   Yuval #264 06:45  |  TonyL 23/04/07
  310.   Response to American in NY #261 06:51  |  Yoni 23/04/07
  311.   "Make a peace deal" -warnings to Israel 07:03  |  Sam 23/04/07
  312.   Don`t hope, Jew Haters: Israel was re-born 59 years ago to exist 07:06  |  Vittorio 23/04/07
  313.   shame on all of you 07:16  |  moses 23/04/07
  314.   Lea..you say Jews have never commiitted genocide.. 07:19  |  German 23/04/07
  315.   Kath #292....Is this site off limit to non-Jews..? 07:36  |  German 23/04/07
  316.   Love the emotional twaddle 07:38  |  Voice of Reason 23/04/07
  317.   Simplistic to abandon your flag 07:45  |  BP 23/04/07
  318.   Flag 07:59  |  Baruch 23/04/07
  319.   Ah,O`keefe,Mike O`keefe: Jews cannot rely on your thinking, Mike 08:04  |  Vittorio 23/04/07
  320.   Is he anti-semitic 08:18  |  Andrew Williams 23/04/07
  321.   Shame This is `Haaretz`s lead article on Remembrance Day 08:21  |  Shalom Freedman 23/04/07
  322.   "a veteran whore..." 08:22  |  sandra chitayat 23/04/07
  323.   Connie 08:26  |  shoshanna 23/04/07
  324.   #304 Hey Mike; read your well thought out post 08:28  |  ballistic 23/04/07
  325.   The Israeli flag is no longer symbol of pride, truth and justice 08:33  |  Dutch 23/04/07
  326.   Response to Yoni #308 regarding land and borders 08:49  |  Johnboy 23/04/07
  327.   Gideon, The extreme right are heartless. 08:56  |  Dutch 23/04/07
  328.   Response to Yoni #308 regarding RoR 09:03  |  Johnboy 23/04/07
  329.   Kath #248 09:10  |  ATLAS 23/04/07
  330.   Vittorio, the jingoist 09:12  |  a sober Jew 23/04/07
  331.   Sam, Israel has no right to be racist 09:14  |  Sami 23/04/07
  332.   Yoni...response to American from New York 09:16  |  Straight 23/04/07
  333.   my flag will waive from mexico 09:18  |  daniel 23/04/07
  334.   # 315 German 09:25  |  Cord H. Kaldrack 23/04/07
  335.   Response to Mike O`Keefe #303, 304 09:31  |  Yoni 23/04/07
  336.   CHANGE YOUR FLAG ISRAEL 09:32  |  indrajaya 23/04/07
  337.   Provocative Levy. 09:36  |  Vital 23/04/07
  338.   316 Voice of Reason: You are delusional 09:37  |  Tupac 23/04/07
  339.   Response to Mike O`Keefe #304 09:39  |  Yoni 23/04/07
  340.   Indrajaya # 334 09:47  |  Ian Williams 23/04/07
  341.   #329 Hey, Sami, YES, Stop breeding! 09:52  |  ballistic 23/04/07
  342.   the author is writing what Haaretz wants, he is doing a gig for $ 10:03  |  Pavel 23/04/07
  343.   Response to Johnboy 11:28  |  Yoni 23/04/07
  344.   masturbation 11:33  |  katherine 23/04/07
  345.   Response to Johnboy 11:44  |  Yoni 23/04/07
  346.   #325 11:45  |  Katherine 23/04/07
  347.   Indrajaya - 11:56  |  katherine 23/04/07
  348.   German and Connie: How long does Jewish blood take to dry up? 12:17  |  Katya 23/04/07
  349.   #39 12:19  |  katherine 23/04/07
  350.   # 347, KATHERINE 13:09  |  indrajaya 23/04/07
  351.   # 347, KATHERINE 13:26  |  indrajaya 23/04/07
  352.   Response to Yoni #343 13:45  |  Johnboy 23/04/07
  353.   Another response to Yoni #343 13:58  |  Johnboy 23/04/07
  354.   Response to Yoni #345 14:09  |  Johnboy 23/04/07
  355.   Another response to Yoni #345 14:18  |  Johnboy 23/04/07
  356.   Remember the Palestinians 15:50  |  the third man 23/04/07
  357.   FOX #184, 187 - Wanted to respond, but 16:16  |  dana 23/04/07
  358.   The Flag was defiled by Sharon at Gush Katif 17:21  |  Shachar Haamim