The full saying goes: "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" - a reference to the land between the Jordan River, which borders eastern Israel, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. “Between the river and the sea” is a fragment from a slogan used since the 1960s by a variety of people with a host of purposes. And it is open to an array of interpretations, from the genocidal to the democratic. The full saying goes: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” – a reference to the land between the Jordan River, which borders eastern Israel, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. [...]“Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea,” says the organisation’s 2017 constitution.

Source: The Guardian November 05, 2023 00:06 UTC