From: JNugent73@mail.com 
  
 On 24/08/2025 01:33 PM, Jethro_uk wrote: 
  
 > On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 12:51:33 +0100, JNugent wrote: 
 >> On 24/08/2025 10:55 AM, Jethro_uk wrote: 
 > 
 >>> [quoted text muted] 
 > 
 >> Not a condition, you'll find. 
  
 >>> [quoted text muted] 
 > 
 >> Good. Otherwise, in order to be consistent, you'd have had to go about 
 >> removing the "Palestinian" flags said to be on display from some 
 >> streetlamp standards. 
 > 
 > You are aware that the flag of the Feast of St. George - a Palestinian 
 > celebration - is also the St. Georges flag ? 
 > 
 > These numbnuts are busy decorating England with *a* Palestinian flag. 
  
 One of the oft-posted factoids showing up on the internet (obviously 
 usually posted by people who think it's "clever") is to point out that 
 St George was Turkish. 
  
 He was from Cappadocia (in modern-day Turkey) and was a high-ranking 
 soldier in the Roman army (in Rome, as a member of the Emperor's 
 personal guard. 
  
 He was martyred in April 303 AD for refusing to renounce Christianity 
 (presumably in favour of Roman paganism). 
  
 What does it have to do with Palestine, d'you reckon (if anything)? 
  
 If the connection is merely that Christians living in Gaza and the West 
 Bank celebrate the feast of St George, so do devout Christians all 
 around the world, especially in those other countries where George is 
 the state's patron saint. 
  
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