Around 73 persons were proclaimed dead and another 180 seriously injured yesterday in Egypt following a soccer match between the local teams of Al Masri (of Port Said) and Al Ahli (the national champion).
When the news of this "football massacre" invaded the news channels yesterday, I could not really bring myself to "dig deeper" than the "handed-out" headlines. I got the sudden but automatic feeling I have been frequently experiencing: I am becoming increasingly intolerant to any party, and thus any news piece, explaining why yet another one dozen, two dozens, three dozen, ..., ten dozens, of Arab people died.
In the Middle East, and in Lebanon in particular, life has been seriously threatened by stupid, stupid, civil strife for so long that one gets "freaking-ly" accustomed to news about death.
However, brutal and blood thirsty Zionism never ceased, not for one day, to add insult to injury. The day-in day-out crimes of the Zionist so-called State of Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories brings the value of life to a new low, every single day. So one grows even more accustomed to news about death.
The US sponsored -but of course Zionist plotted- invasions of Afghanistan and of Iraq, and the subsequent "Arab Springs", managed to put news about the "tragic" death of hundreds of people at par with news about a cat stuck in a tree in Elk City in Idaho. The trend of US actions in "foreign policy" over the last decade, made the good old American "cowboyism" less about simple, filmed, occurrences where the US "hero", such as Sylvester Stallone, knocks-down the bad Russian boxer in the heart of Russia itself. It made it more about "complex" and "live" actions where, for example, the President of the USA oversees himself the killing of the leaders of the US-invented Al-Qaeda, and later on, brags about such accomplishment and reclaims suitable praise for it. The last era of US / Zionist deeds in the Afghani, Iraqi, and other Muslim and or Arab soils really managed to make one grow unimaginably accustomed to news about death.
Back to the "football massacre".
Did it really originate in the offensive slogans used by Al-Ahli fans (against the City of Port Said)? Or was it, as claimed in some newspapers, a plot by the Ministry of Interior to punish the Ultras (fans of the Al-Ahli) for being a major player in the Egyptian revolution of the 25th of January (of 2011)?
Whether the former or the latter, or whether it is a mix of both...the life of an Arab person has became more dispensable than the shoes we wear and tear everyday, and thus, change without thinking about it, also everyday!
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