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Palestine Flag

Seems fair. The State of Palestine appears to have an ISO 3166-2 code of 'PS'.

I just looked at the flag pack the site uses ( www.gosquared.com/resources/flag-icons/ ), it seems to be included with the aforementioned ISO code as the file name under the 'flag-iso' directory. It would be reasonable for the somewhat-unrecognised state to be added.
I think the are is Hamas controlled now, the PLO is out of power. Do they have a flag?
I think Hamas have the yellow flag with the AK-47 on it ... unless I'm getting them confused with Hezb Allah again.

Anyway, there's precedent for it as to get the ISO country code they basically have to prove to the UN and accompanying standards bodies (through the UN) that they're an independent state under occupation. It was much the same story a bit over a decade and a half ago with East Timor.
#4, true, but as Hasimir pointed out, Hamas is a political faction.

The USA's head of state and head of government is Barack Obama, a member of the Democratic Party. It's not like the Democratic Party changed the flag of the USA when it was elected in 2008, 2012, or before that!

Not to mention that Hamas regularly uses the Palestinian flag insignia, whether they control Palestine or not. They don't want to set up a 'Hamas state' and do away with Palestine, they see themselves as rightful controllers of the *Palestinian* state.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states

Scroll down and you'll find "Palestine".

In the third column it says that Israel is the only state that disputes the existence of the "state of Palestine", while for instance Israel is not recognized by 32 states while China is not recognized by 22.

So it's fair that we recognize these guys exist and give them a flag..
I owe some mods an apology. A previous statement of mine appeared to criticise them all en masse for the fact that my post on this thread was removed.

Instead, I wish to criticise the mod who removed it. Freedom of speech is supposed to be championed at lichess. To the point where people get away with racist usernames and team descriptions. So why my point was considered worthy of censorship I cannot imagine. Perhaps the relevant moderator would like to explain?

Originally I suggested that the flag of Kernow (Cornwall) would be nice - but that was tongue in cheek in all honesty. The St George flag would be good too. We don't chuck missiles at anyone so I hope we'll be ahead of those who do, in the queue for flags.

Hamas, to clarify the on-going discussion, is a terrorist organisation - or so designated by many western and non-western governments. It is a Sunni Islamic organisation that has governed the Gaza Strip since 2007, after it won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Parliament and and defeated the Fatah political organization in a series of violent clashes.

Whether or not Palestine should be considered for a flag on lichess is an interesting debate. I am Jewish and in many regards a Zionist, and I think there SHOULD be a Palestinian flag. I do not think, however, there should be anything that represents Hamas, just as I don't think there should be any other political afiliation flags.

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