THE FLAG FOR THE HOLY LAND
The flag is the symbol of reconciliation
and concord between the Jewish and the Arab people.
The long feud is ended.
Both peoples recognise themselves in the flag.
The flag represents one country.
Under this flag it would be nonsense to expel, fight or harm each other.
It would be like injuring oneself.
It would be like suicide.
The abstract and unnatural and unstable borders between the
Arab and Jewish people become irrelevant and disappear.
The flag does not represent some land defined by territorial borders.
The flag represents the new faith of the Semite people.
The flag is a symbol of a new era of mutual understanding and cooperation in the Orient.
It is the flag of the Promised Land.
It can be within Israel. It can be within Palestine.
It can be within the Orient.
It can englobe Asia and Africa.
It can concern the world.
The flag is white, symbol of peace and the end of war.The blue hexagonal star of David represents the Jewish world.
Blue is the colour of the sky,
of the water, source of crescent life and of the endless unexplored depth.
It is the colour of the visionary genius of man.
The green crescent moon is the symbol of Islam.
Green is the colour of vegetation and of the kingdom of trees.
It is the longing for endless fertile lands
full of woodlands and pastures where milk and honey will flow.
Green is the colour of hope.
Green is the colour of the Prophet. The colour of Mohammed.
Two religions are represented. Two peoples are united for a new destiny.
It is the flag of good will. The flag of tolerance
towards the faiths and lifestyles of the other community.
The flag represents a conciliatory fact of immense psychological consequence.
It is like a liberation from longlasting darkness.
The green Arab crescent moon is infinite like the horizon.
Like a cup of open hands,
holding the blue Jewish Star like a precious jewel.
The Arab Moon is protecting the Jewish Star
which cannot escape its destiny.
It is the symbol of interdependence
and of mutual fecundation.
The flag visualises perfectly the historical interrelationship
more than words can do.
Fighting and killing each other for borders would be meaningless.
The Semite people inside and outside the present and future borders recognise the flag as the symbol of their homeland.
The flag turns back far beyond the discords which have never been intended in the name of Zion and Mohammed.
It turns back to Abraham.
It is the flag of union.
It is the flag of the Promised Land.
Written in Kaurinui, Ao Tea Roa, New Zeland on 3 September 1978. The Peace Manifesto accompanies the flag design for the Holy Land.
Published in:
Catalogues of the World Travelling Museum Exhibition 1975–1987: English edition: London, 1983. German edition: Cologne, 1980; Vienna, Graz, 1981.
Schurian, Walter (ed.): Hundertwasser – Schöne Wege, Gedanken über Kunst und Leben. (Beautiful Paths – Thoughts on Art and Life) Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv), 1983, pp. 146-148 and ed. 2004 (Munich Langen Müller Verlag), pp. 180-184 (German)
Schmied, Wieland (ed.): Hundertwasser 1928–2000, Catalogue Raisonné.Vol. II: Fürst, Andrea Christa: Catalogue Raisonné. Cologne: Taschen, 2002, pp. 1056-1057 (German and English)
Hundertwasser. New York: Parkstone Press International, 2008, pp. 110-111