A play-by-play announcer turned his description of a Gaza soccer league game into provocative political commentary, hailing a goal as "a knife stabbing the bodies of the [Israeli] cowards, an axe tearing the veins of the idiots."
When each team scored, reported the Middle East Media Research Institute, announcer Hisham Muammar yelled "Alllahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!"
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The game between Ittihad Shuja'iyya and Khadamat Rafah was aired Oct. 10 on Amwaj Sport TV.
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After a goal by Fadhl Qanita, Muammar said the player "speaks in the language of the Lions of the East."
"All of Shujaiyya is with you, oh the West Bank. A knife stabbing the bodies of the cowards! An axe tearing the veins of the idiots! A car running over someone who plundered the land of the prophets! A bullet piercing the hearts of the evil ones! A stone humiliating the weak Zionists! Here are young men whose slogan is: Either we live in dignity, or we die alive [sic]," he said.
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When Rafah scored, Muammar said Rafah "is a name with a thousand meanings."
"It epitomizes the essence of sacrifice. The resistance has spoken beyond enemy lines. In the streets and the allies, an army of Zionists was crushed by our soldiers. At the Sufa crossing it was humiliated. A soldier was kidnapped and he screamed: 'I wish had never invaded a land whose soldiers show no mercy to oppressors.' This was Shalit, and more Shalits will follow, until the black box will talk."