a sports analogy for every occasion

[rone]

Israel's like the obnoxious Yankees fan who insisted on moving to Boston because he can trace his ancestry all the way back to Plymouth Rock, then attends every Red Sox game at Fenway Park drunk to the gills, where he loudly taunts the locals about the Babe Ruth trade, Bucky Dent, Bill Buckner, Aaron Boone, and the Yankees' 26 championships.

And, to extend the analogy, Arab infighting is very reminiscent of the way Boston fans and media venemously argue over what the team should be doing next. And in the end, the Yankees and the Red Sox get way more notoriety than they deserve.

Comments

[arian1.livejournal.com]

So, out of guilt, we let Israel just dictate whatever it wants in the region? What sort of ass-backwards idea is that? They antagonize *just* as much as anyone else, even if their choice is not bombimgs.

[thedarkages]

If they antagonize "*just* as much as everyone else," then why is their behavior exceptional?

[arian1.livejournal.com]

Because when they do things such as current events, some how it's always "OK" in American eyes.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

Self-preservation is a legit motive in the eyes of the US; is Egypt's very existence threatened by the loss of the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip, or Jordan's, having lost the West Bank? No and no, and yet Israel's is when they lose same.

Some might see it as preserving some Zionist ambition or preserving the Jewish... I dunno, race or core or history or something. And of course various people are in favor of or against those things.