Was the Red Flag Flying There?: Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel, 1948-1965 - Paperbackby Joel Beinin (Author) Was the Red Flag Flying There? examines the Palestinian Arab Israeli conflict through the lens of Marxist politics. Joel Beinin asks how the proposal to partition Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish state a solution endorsed by international consensus in 1947 49 became an obscure and even unthinkable option by the mid 1960s. As the most consistent adherents of the two state solution both before and after the establishment of