Jakarta, Insertlive –
People around the world are now busying social media with pictures and emoticons of watermelon.
This was done as a form of support for Palestine, which is currently still in conflict with Israel.
The watermelon image was first voiced by the Jewish Voice for Peace organization. They asked the public to share watermelon emoticons as a form of humanitarian crisis in defending Palestine.
Watermelon is used because when it is cut it has the same colors as the Palestinian flag, namely red, green, black and white.
However, as is known, Israel really hates watermelon which is used as a symbol of the Palestinian state.
The reason is, the use of the watermelon symbol is a substitute because Israel prohibited the flying of the Palestinian flag in public after the Six Day War in 1967, when Israel controlled the West Bank and Gaza and made it property of East Jerusalem.
Israel so hated the symbol of the watermelon that it closed 79 galleries in Ramallah that displayed works by Mansour and other artists who depicted the fruit.
“They told us that painting the Palestinian flag is prohibited, even the colors are prohibited. So Issam said, ‘What if I make red, green, black and white flowers?’, and the officer answered angrily, ‘It will be confiscated. Even if you paint a watermelon, it will be confiscated’,” Mansour said as quoted by The New York Times.
The ban was later lifted in 1993, as part of the Oslo accords which included mutual recognition between Israel and the Palestine Liberation organization.
It is also the first formal agreement to try to resolve the decades-long Israeli and Palestinian conflict.
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