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Remember Club Deportivo Palestino? The Chilean soccer team that had replaced the number 1 on their jerseys with the map of Palestine? Their jerseys were banned by the league, so they made a new one. Maurico Abu-Ghosh, President of the Palestinian Federation in Chile, told The Santiago Times: I do not see how the matter is controversial. We use the map that belongs to us — the map that represents the old Palestine. This is the map that existed when our ancestors first came to Chile. I do not view the map as a political statement, it is a romantic notion, relating to the old Palestine. We are not at the mercy of what the Jewish community like or dislike — the reason why Palestino used the map is clear.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 23:00:44 +0000

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