Comments on: Controversial Cellcom Soccer Commercial (and the Reality via YouTube)

By: العاب

العاب — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:30:54 +0000

the best thing i like there is no political message in the commercial just about games and i love that book. How football game Explains the World.

By: SylvesterIsAnAssHat

SylvesterIsAnAssHat — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:56:20 +0000

Yay, lets commercialize the oppression of one people by another! Then send our sycophant bloggers out to defend it – even on football sites! We must not spare even sport from our putrid, disgusting practices.

Brilliant!

Sylvester, your a mouthpiece for darkness…

And an A**hat.

By: old apple

old apple — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:59:40 +0000

I wasnt going to respond, as a reasoned debate is clearly impossible on the internet. However tamin fictionalizing history is too much, the Israeli jews absolutely drove out palestinians and other arabs in 1947-48, its a historical fact. Interestingly jewish extremists engaged in all sorts of terrorist activities throughout the 40’s with the goal of establishing an independent jewish state.

By: CeCe

CeCe — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:03:20 +0000

What a great article… that should have had its comment section closed.

By: Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:33:47 +0000

Deleted for stupidity.

By: Dhaw

Dhaw — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:27:22 +0000

Nope. I grew up in Dubai.

By: JDunn

JDunn — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:03:28 +0000

The basic thing that a lot of people are missing is you can’t go back and change the past. I do still hope that someday in my life there will be peace. But that may never come to fruition if people insist on hanging on to past, especially if their version of the past is truncated by bias. Someone can say that Palestinians were thrown off their land, but if you go back further in history, Israelis were thrown off that same land also. It’s understandable why the UN set forth a plan to allow the Jewish people to finally go back to where they once called home as 6 million of them were systematically killed in one of the worst genocides in history.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:44:15 +0000

This is an amazing debate on a soccer site by a bunch of ignorant people. Go read some Noam Chomsky, maybe he can impart some knowledge.

By: tamim

tamim — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:49:47 +0000

Dhaw:

“You tell me what right does any frikking parent have to strap their kids with your so called plastic-harmless bombs and talk to them about jihad and how no jew is allowed to live and etc etc etc.”

actually, they don’t have to, they learn it by themselves when they israeli forces demolishing their houses and building new settelments over its ruins and when each one of them has lost one or more fimily remember.

“It’s Hamas who is spreading Terrorism, Palestinian civilian’s aint terrorist.”

i don’t agree with some of what hamas is doing but this is a naturaal response to 6p years of israeli terrorism, a country built on terrorism when jewish gangs used to kick people out of their houses nd steal their farms under british protection.

from your accent, i guess u were in either lebann, syria or jordan…right?

sylvester:

your dates are right but this isn’t the case here, the point is why divide a the country in the first place, weren’t there people living in this divided land where did they go? and how? wwhat was this land called before the israelis came?

it is the same like what happened in the united states, kicking out the original residents -red indians- annilating them and then declare a new country

“Residents were throw out of arab territories” is a complete lie”

loooooooooooool so where did they go?!!!!

By: BMatthews

BMatthews — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:34:49 +0000

Oh man…i’ve got a headache reading this whole exchange.
When I first watched this commercial I thought “hey…this is kind of cool, but sad.” The presence of a wall (no matter how much good it does) should sadden everyone.
The blame falls on the Palestinians and the Israelis and many more, but the sadness should be shared.
This commercial reflects a hope that one day differences can be forgotten even for something trivial (like football…or soccer), and the 2nd video reflects how far we are from a day where those differences can be resolved.
I wouldn’t say that I even have a solidly formed opinion about Arab/Israeli tensions….but I know that the gulf between the idealized commercial and the actual video should shame us all.