Flag of Friesland Flag of Friesland The Flag of the province of Friesland or Frisian flag (West Frisian: "Fryske Flagge"; ), is the official flag of the Dutch province of Friesland. It consists of four blue and three white diagonal stripes; in the white stripes are a total of seven red "pompeblêden", leaves of the yellow water-lily, that may remind one of hearts, but according to the official instructions "should not be heart-shaped". The jerseys of the football club SC Heerenveen and the Blauhúster Dakkapel are modeled after this flag. The seven red seeblatts (or "pompeblêden", as they are called in West Frisian)
Flag of Israel Arafat, Iran and Hamas also made the allegation, and repeatedly tied this notion to the stripes on the Israeli flag. Both Zionist and anti-Zionist authors have debunked the claim that the stripes on the flag represent territorial ambitions. Daniel Pipes notes "In fact, the blue lines derive from the design on the traditional Jewish prayer shawl", and Danny Rubinstein points out that "Arafat ... added, in interviews that he gave in the past, that the two blue stripes on the Israeli flag represent the Nile and the Euphrates ... No Israeli, even those who demonstrate understanding for Palestinian distress, will