Don't you just love it when a sporting event is used to boil down the immense complexities of geopolitical circumstance to a few simplistic characteristics? It can be a dangerous game, it's true, especially when sportswriters suddenly think they're foreign policy experts. But more often than not, the use of sports to explain the world is an illustrative exercise. A few months back, we just couldn't help reporting on the optimistic joint Israel-Palestine bid for World Cup 2018. And considering all the hoopla surrounding Israeli politics these days, we were once again pleased to see traditionally volatile Middle East subjects in the innocuous sports sections of major news agencies this past weekend. As you can gather from the Sky Sports video above, the Palestinian national soccer team inaugurated their national stadium competing against Jordan on Sunday. Although the...

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