Top High School Basketball Team Dedicates Season to the Israeli Army

Way to go, guys. I hope they follow through on this - if a kid on an opposing team fouls one of them during an away game, the whole squad should be sure to charge the stands and hospitalize a few dozen fans. 'Cause, you know. They can't just let people foul them, can they?

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Everyone from the Red Cross to one of the Pope's top people has condemned the way Israel is going about things. I know these kids mean well and most of the soldiers are good people following orders, but this is just..... I don't know.

Children are being killed and these guys are like "hey look at me, I'm over here in the safe USA dribbling my basketball!"

If Dwight Howard picked some controversial group in Africa to dedicate his slam dunk contest performance to, it might be a nice gesture on some level. But it would be creepy on another level and even creepier for ESPN to try to turn it into a feel good story.

"Hey sports fans! We got genocide going on in Africa. Dwight Howard is concerned about one particular group involved with that. Now let's watch him dunk a ball through a hoop in their honor!"

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"everybody thinks jewish guys are just little white boys who can't play ball."

posers. let's see 'em play Oak Hill a couple towns over, and see how they get throttled...

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/09/zeitoun.gaza.israel/index.html


-I myself, although not in agreement and disappointed with some of Israel's tactics, pray for Israeili as well as Palestinian soldiers, families, and civilians...its the leaders that I look down upon for this, no human rights recognized

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How ignorant to compare a foul in a basketball game to a rocket attack. People call Israel's response disproportionate. Of course it is. Should Israel match Hamas rockets one-for-one or should it respond the way that any other Western country would if attacked daily? Hamas was attacking before the blockade was put in place. If you support Hamas's right to attack Israel then let someone drop a grenade a day in your backyard and see how you respond. These boys, from a small school that emphasizes that for a student-athlete the student part comes first, aren't the best high school basketball players in the country. So what? Does that mean you should resort to ad homonym attacks against their religion?

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By the way. The pope was in the Hitler Youth, the International Red Cross regularly skews reports against Israel (AOL reported how the IRC claimed 20 civilians were killed in a house attacked by Israel, AOL then published another article about how the number was actually 7, including 4 women and children, and 5 militants). The attack against the U.N. school came "moments after Israel and Palestinian witnesses saw mortars being fired from the school." The U.S. and the Allies were not held responsible for the deaths of German civilians because, unfortunately, in war-time civilians get hurt. Especially when one side uses civilians as cover. The Gazans democratically elected Hamas in a free election. Just like Germans elected the Nazi party. The people share the responsibility for the way the government behaves. Nobody wants to see civilians hurt, but the responsibility lays with the Hamas government that led their people into a war they can't win, with Iran which armed and financed Hamas before backing out of this conflict, and with ignorant people who have never been to Israel or have had to live with the fear of rocket attacks but still feel qualified to judge. These boys are smarter and more educated than the knee-jerk Israel haters and made public a stand they knew would draw hatred on themselves. Maybe politics shouldn't be involved in high school sports, but these teenagers are brave for making a stand for the rights of a free people to be free from the fear of attack, even if it means that hatred and ignorance will then be focused on them.

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"How ignorant to compare a foul in a basketball game to a rocket attack."

How ignorant to mistake metaphor for equivalency. Fouling in a basketball game isn't as bad as launching rocket attacks. Beating the tar out of some homer fans isn't as bad as slaughtering hundreds of civilians. See how that works? Inability to process this kind of logical construct would seem to go hand in hand with the inability to fathom the possibility that wrong does not excuse wrong, or that the senseless murder of a Palestinian cannot be a negligible concern for those seeking to prevent the senseless murder of an Israeli.

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"stop hatin" complains about attacks on religion and then follows it up talking about the Pope being a Hitler youth?!? Are you suggesting the current Pope is a Nazi? LOL, otherwise you have no point.

Are you suggesting the Red Cross has some type of agenda? Their whole goal is to help people in need. They could care less about what governments are in power and such.

People related to those in Israel, and the USA who wants friends in an oil region, those are who support Israel. All unbiased groups and nations are condemning Israel.

Isn't that interesting? I guess it is an epic conspiracy against Israel by practically the whole planet.

If someone throws a grenade in your yard, the police follow procedures to deal with that person. They don't just start launching missiles into any apartment building that the person who threw the grenade might be in.

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Very Interesting story.

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how about the american military does that not matter very ignorant

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Not a very good idea!

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