Posted on 01/29/2013 12:23:55 PM PST by Eleutheria5
A controversial soccer game between a Jerusalem team and a team from Um el-Fahm ended Tuesday night without incident, with the Jerusalem team winning 5-0.
The game was played under the watchful eye of some 600 police officers, who were equipped with anti-riot gear on the possibility that tensions could mount between Jewish fans of Beitar Jerusalem and Maccabee Um el-Fahm. In a game last week, Beitar fans protested against the possibility that their team was rumored to be considering signing two Muslim Chechen players, with fans calling out racist slogans against Arabs. Three Beitar fans were arrested.
Beitar initially demanded that the match be played in a stadium with no fans in attendance, but the Israel Football Assassination decided against this, based on Um el-Fahm's objections. As a precaution, police refused entry to Tuesday's game to anybody with signs supporting Beitar. Initially, police had attempted to ban Israeli flags from the game.
But it appeared that police had prepared for the wrong kind of disturbances. Arab fans of the Um el-Fahm team loudly shouted curses and epithets against the Jews and Israel. Eight Arabs were detained and released for attempting to start a riot, and for unfurling a Palestinian flag. They were ejected from the game, but police did not arrest them.
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One hell of a typo.
Yes. It was programmed to evade the Umis’ feet, knees, elbows and heads, and go straight at the J’lem team’s. A microchip guided it through the Umi goaly’s feet every time.
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If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Damned if I know. This whole thing sounds like a bad SNL skit in the first place, but that part of it is just weird.
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