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![[Manmasseh People's Flag]](../images/i/in_manma.gif)
by Nicholas Rucks
I saw yesterday in a program called "Quest for the Lost Tribes" the flag
of a people called the "Manmasseh" or "Manasseh". These people live in the
states of Manipur and Mizoram near the India-Burma border and they allege
that they belong to the tribe of Manasseh which is one of the 10 lost
tribes of Israel. According to the program they are trying to create a
sovereign Israelite state in that area. They display a flag that has three
horizontal stripes: Green, Red, and Blue. The red stripe is double the width
of the other two stripes. At the center of the red stripe there is a blue
Star of David on a white background. The white background has the same
contour as the star. The size seems to be 2:3
Victor Quinones, 17 Apr 2000
The white background of the Star of David does not quite touch the green
and blue stripes. The flag was designed for a proposed independent Manmasseh
state which is called Zaleg B'en or something like that. The Star of David
was selected because it was a neutral symbol among the different sub-tribes
that compose the Manmasseh or Manasseh people.
Victor Quinones, 19 Apr 2000
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