Posted on 06/17/2014 6:53:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Who would have thought Israel would dream the impossible dream, fight and beat the undefeatable foe not only in the fields of science, startup companies, art, or culture, but in those of sport? Its barely imaginable world victory was registered on May 18, 2014 when the Israeli basketball team, Maccabi Electra TV, won the Euroleague Basketball Championship.
Maccabi beat Real Madrid 98-86 in Milan in overtime in the finals after defeating CSKA of Moscow and Emporio Armani Milan in earlier rounds. With its victory, Maccabi may have reached the moon, but its joy was not unalloyed. Maccabi supporters sang the Israeli song "Kol Haulam Kulo" (the world is a narrow bridge) with the words, “The most important thing is not to be afraid of anything.” In contrast, the immediate response to the Israeli victory by the biased, bigoted, and afraid boycotters of Jews and of Israel was the outpouring of 18,000 anti-Semitic messages posted on Twitter.
The action of these bigoted anti-Semites contrasts with the positive objectives of Euroleague Basketball which had been set up in 2000 under a private organizational model to arrange pan-European competitions among the top professional European teams, which in fact also included Israel and Turkey. At first the League was linked with Telefonica and then with different sponsors, but since 2011-12 Turkish Airlines has been the main sponsor. Turkish Airlines is now responsible for managing the Turkish Airlines Euroleague and the Eurocup in which 72 teams from 25 countries compete.
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...and history repeats itself. Jewish players were well-represented on New York teams of the turn of the century.
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