Anti-Israel stamps from Syria

Latest in a series... 1960: This picture was in a number of Arab stamps. It shows refugees pointing to the area of British Mandate Palestine. Note that Syria always included the West Bank, even though Jordan annexed it; Syria and most Arab countries never recognized that. 1961: What better way to say that Palestine is Arab than to show an Arab? 1965: This same...

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Anti-Israel postage stamps from Jordan

In 1964, Jordan issued a stamp showing...Greater Jordan. It included all the land of a certain state that wasn't recognized. No "pre-1967 borders" in this stamp: In 1969 there was a series of stamps about the "Tragedy of the Refugees" and the "Tragedy in the Holy Land." This 1973 stamp commemorated the 1968 Battle of Karameh between Israel and Jordan/PLO....

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Egyptian anti-Israel postage stamps

(Fourth of a series of articles about Arab anti-Israel stamps.) Egypt has published many, many anti-Israel stamps.  A great number of them were centered around Palestine refugees: World Refugee Year, 1960. Arabs pointing to map of "Palestine" 1961 "Palestine Day" 1968 The 1970 stamp glamorized PLO terror attacks: 1970 The 1972 stamp added a religious...

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Libyan anti-Israel postage stamps

This is the third in a series.  As far as I can tell, no one has ever compiled an illustrated list of anti-Israel postage stamps since the 1970s. Libya's first stamps on the topic, as far as I can tell, was this 1971 series promoting Fatah terrorism: There was a 1977 series called "Palestinian Fighters and their Families" but I do not have any images. In 1979...

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