Talk:Kalaniyot

Remove unsourced assertions

The page claims "The song was used as a code during the British Mandate to alert fighters of the Lehi and Etzel to the presence of British soldiers, alluding to their red berets." but cites no substantiating sources, nor have I been able to find any. It's possible this assertion is a mistranslation from the Hebrew Wikipedia; there it asserts that "As paratroopers , the soldiers of the 6th Division wore red berets, and because of this the people of the Yishuv gave them the nickname "Kalaniyot". Children stood at street corners and sang the song when they saw the soldiers, who took it as a stinging insult. Rad Wilson, who later wrote a book on the history of the brigade, wrote that the soldiers understood that the meaning of the song was that, like the anemone, their heads are red and their hearts are black, and this particularly hurt them" and provides citations. I propose to remove the unsourced assertion and replace it with some of this sourced information. Drkarger (talk) 04:47, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Is the word Anenomes a misspelling?

Thought I should ask instead of correcting it, as it may have been intentionally misspelled as part of the story. Gnarlodious (talk) 20:28, 14 March 2026 (UTC)