Israeli Flag Incidents
- On 21 August 2011, an Egyptian carpenter named Ahmed al-Shahat scaled the 21-story high building in Cairo that housed the Israeli Embassy and took down the Israeli Flag, replacing it with the Egyptian flag (Egyptian demonstrators burned the flag afterwards).
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“...I want to see a film, they send the Israeli army reserves to escort me! What kind of life is this?”
—Golda Meir (1898–1978)
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Bowed with her fourscore years and ten;
Bravest of all in Frederick town,
She took up the flag the men hauled down;”
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