Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Futbol & Ronaldo
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/576798.html
for a long time i have been advocating getting both palestinian and israeli kids together under a cultural and sports guise. it seems that little by little people are beginning to realize that getting children together and having them see and participate with known icons and activities that are close to their hearts is a way of showing them that they are not so different from one another.
yesterday an attempt at bringing ronaldo into israeli backfired when the crowd got out of hand cutting short his visit.
i could write an entire essay on the failure of police in israel on knowing how to be 'real' police, this because they have been trained essentially regarding in dealing with security threats. they are not the best in dealing with crowds that get out of hand who are not a mortal threat to the country. they tend to let things get out of control and stand helplessly by as people nearly riot.
want an other example look at the gush katiff/ settler movement which shuts down the highways here when demonstrating against the pull out. the police are ineffective at best and allow the demonstrators freedom of movement causing delays on major highways and making it impossible for people in need to get to destinations. i witnessed an amubulance stuck in traffic yesterday, idling in place with its sirens wailing for fifteen minutes as it tried to make its way though a jam of cars on highway 4. but i digress.........
futbol, music, art, and other activities are ways of getting people and children together......
hopefully they will choose to be a bit more polite to their icons in the future though.
for a long time i have been advocating getting both palestinian and israeli kids together under a cultural and sports guise. it seems that little by little people are beginning to realize that getting children together and having them see and participate with known icons and activities that are close to their hearts is a way of showing them that they are not so different from one another.
yesterday an attempt at bringing ronaldo into israeli backfired when the crowd got out of hand cutting short his visit.
i could write an entire essay on the failure of police in israel on knowing how to be 'real' police, this because they have been trained essentially regarding in dealing with security threats. they are not the best in dealing with crowds that get out of hand who are not a mortal threat to the country. they tend to let things get out of control and stand helplessly by as people nearly riot.
want an other example look at the gush katiff/ settler movement which shuts down the highways here when demonstrating against the pull out. the police are ineffective at best and allow the demonstrators freedom of movement causing delays on major highways and making it impossible for people in need to get to destinations. i witnessed an amubulance stuck in traffic yesterday, idling in place with its sirens wailing for fifteen minutes as it tried to make its way though a jam of cars on highway 4. but i digress.........
futbol, music, art, and other activities are ways of getting people and children together......
hopefully they will choose to be a bit more polite to their icons in the future though.
// posted by Zevchi @ 9:13 AM 
