If life were only as simple as the Olympics.
In the Olympics there have already been a couple of incidents in which an uncomfortable situation, or worse, between Israeli representatives and representatives of Israel's neighboring countries was averted.
The Lebanese team refused to allow the Israeli team to ride on the same bus to the opening ceremony.
A Syrian boxer refused to compete against an Israeli boxer at the World Boxing Championships and gave up his potential spot in the Olympics because of it, as these championship matches were qualifiers for the Olympics.
A judoka athlete from Saudi Arabia forfeit her match supposedly to avoid meeting the Israeli judoka Gili Cohen in the next round.
If we could only have avoided conflicts in real life so easily, so many thousands of lives would have been saved. Instead of having all those wars, the Arab countries and representatives could have taken this new approach already back then and just walked away from facing us all those times... Maybe Hamas can take lessons from the Olympics and help us all avoid an unnecessary summer war (whether this year or next or the summer after)...
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