Fatah’s new logo has essentially erased Israel from the map.
The image, created in honour of the party’s 48th anniversary, was launched on Monday in the official Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida and shows a Palestinian keffiyeh covering the territory between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
Also featured are a white dove in chains, the Dome of the Rock on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, and a key meant to represent the disputed “right of return” for displaced Palestinians and their descendents. In Arabic, the words “the state and victory” are present, as is the highly symbolic number 48.
For many Palestinians, 48 represents 1948, the year of the nakba, or “catastrophe” in Arabic, when the state of Israel was created.
