PLO/HAMAS EMBLEM is the PLO emblem shared by Hamas. It shows rifles and hand grenades representing death and destruction and the genocidal aims to wipe Israel off the map and slaughter all its Jews. Its background shows a map of Israel replaced by an Islamic state.
The PLO/Hamas emblem illustrates the PLO “pay for slay”
policy that encourages Arabs to murder Jews and rewards them to the tune of
millions of dollars. It also graphically represents Hamas’ murderous and
genocidal intent as expressed in its charter.
HAMAS CHARTER: “Israel, by virtue of its being Jewish and of having a Jewish
population, defies Islam and the Muslims. Muslims will fight the Jews until the
Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew
hiding behind me, come on and kill him. I indeed wish to go to war for the sake
of Allah! I will assault and kill, assault and kill, assault and kill.'”
Historian of Islamic art, Elisabeth Siddiqui, writes in the
Arabic journal Al-Madrashah Al-Ula that art and design is the
mirror of a culture and its worldview.
She emphasizes that there is no case to which this statement more
directly applies than to the art of the Islamic world. “Not only does its art reflect its cultural
values, but even more importantly, the way in which its adherents, the Muslims,
view the spiritual realm, the universe, life, and the relationships of the
parts to the whole.”
ISRAEL’S EMBLEM shows a menorah and olive branches representing light and peace. It illustrates its Declaration of Independence that extends its hand to all neighboring states and their peoples in peace and good neighborliness
ISRAEL DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: "The State of Israel will
guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and
culture. We extend our hand to all neighboring states and their peoples
in an offer of peace and good neighborliness, and appeal to them to establish
bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people in its
own land."
The emblems of the five Arab countries at peace with Israel display peaceful images of eagles with national colors of Egypt and United Arab
Emirates, jeweled crowns of the kingdoms of Jordan and Morocco, and
a decorative abstract image of Bahrain.
Although I am an expert on the power of visual images as professor of art and education at Columbia University and research fellow at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, anyone can see the radical difference between the values and aims of Israel and PLO/Hamas expressed through their emblems.
There can be no peace until PLO and Hamas change their emblem.
President of the United States Joe Biden says it clearly, “Let’s get something straight here, until the region says unequivocally they acknowledge the right of Israel to exist as an independent Jewish state, there will be no peace.”
The writer Dr. Mel Alexenberg is author of Educating Artists for the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology and Culture (Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press) and Through a Bible Lens: Biblical Insights for Smartphone Photography and Social Media (HarperCollins).
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