More Crap From Israel

Those of you who follow European Football as well as the Israel-Lebanon 'conflict' might be familiar with this. For the Champions' League and UEFA Cup qualifiers, for the sake of the players' safety, UEFA have decided that all matches that were suppose to be played in Israel shall now be played at a neutral venue instead of in Tel Aviv or any other Israel city.

And the Israelis are in an uproar about this. To quote the president of the Israel Football Players' Association, Avi Cohen,"The people who are not living in Israel do not understand Tel Aviv is out of the war. You do everything - you lie on the beach and go to discotheques. It is like living in London. It is very disappointing not to get Liverpool in Tel Aviv and (have) very big celebrations."

Jesus H. Christ! I have plenty of bones to pick with what is said. Firstly, apparently, it seems rather safe to play football in Tel Aviv, eh? One of the main reason why Israel invaded/bombarded/massacred Lebanon is because Hezbollah's rockets are threatening the safety of Israel's cities, wasn't it? So which is it? Is Tel Aviv safe from rockets or not? Or I suppose footballers do not die from rocket blasts right? Thats the only reason I can think as to why the footballers should still play in a country under 'threat' from hostile missiles and rockets.

Secondly, aren't we at war here? And yet the Israelis are still lying on the beach and going to discos. I certainly don't remember the British partying like there's no tomorrow during the Second World War or the North Vietnamese lying on the beach during the Vietnam War (dead Vietnamese lying on the beach don't count).

Thirdly, probably very much like the previous point. Did I see that the Israelis want to have a big celebration? So what are they going to celebrate? The 1000th Lebanon civilian killed? What a load of bull...