Original sentence: Amin al-Husayni, former Mufti of Jerusalem stated:.It has been alleged by some groups that the blue stripes actually represent the rivers Nile and Euphrates, as the boundaries of Eretz Yisrael, the land promised to the Jews by God.Notably Yasser Arafat in a September, 1988 interview with Playboy Magazine made this allegation.Some Jewish groups consider these charges to be anti-Semitic.The majority of early political Zionists (who designed and used this flag), explicitly denied that they had any such goals.The origins of the talith itself, however, remains a source of dispute, with some arguing that it is derived from the aforementioned river boundaries of the biblically-promised Land of Israel.They claim that this flag thus secretly represents the desire of Jews to conquer all of the land between the Nile and Euphrates rivers, which would involve conquering and ruling over much of Egypt, all of Jordan, and some of Iraq has been popular in Arab literature since the 1940s
Edited sentence: As described above, these charges have no connection with historical reality.For instance, Amin al-Husayni, former Mufti of Jerusalem and ally of Adolph Hitler, states:.Former leader of the PLO, Yasser Arafat in a September, 1988 interview with Playboy Magazine made this allegation.It has been alleged by some groups that are hostile to Israel that the blue stripes of the Israeli flag represent the Nile and Euphrates rivers.Jewish groups consider these charges to be anti-Semitic.The idea that the Jewish people wish to conquer and rule this large portion of the middle-east has been popular in Arab literature since the 1940s.They claim that it secretly represents the desire of Jews to conquer and rule over much of Egypt, all of Jordan, and some of Iraw