{"id":2616715,"date":"2026-06-20T13:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soccer-fan-accuses-israel-of-killing-palestinian-team-pathetically-falls-apart-after-learning-palestinians-slaughtered-israeli-team-in-1972\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T13:47:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:47:34","slug":"soccer-fan-accuses-israel-of-killing-palestinian-team-pathetically-falls-apart-after-learning-palestinians-slaughtered-israeli-team-in-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soccer-fan-accuses-israel-of-killing-palestinian-team-pathetically-falls-apart-after-learning-palestinians-slaughtered-israeli-team-in-1972\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer Fan Accuses Israel of Killing Palestinian Team, Pathetically Falls Apart After Learning Palestinians Slaughtered Israeli Team in 1972"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsoccer-fan-accuses-israel-of-killing-palestinian-team-pathetically-falls-apart-after-learning-palestinians-slaughtered-israeli-team-in-1972%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2616715&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the return of the World Cup and highlights how Americans, especially as the U.S.is one of the hosts, are paying more attention to soccer. It touches on how the event has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-signals-support-for-silencers-widening-second-amendment-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Justice signals support for \u2018silencers,... widening Second Amendment - Washington Examiner\">generated positive reactions<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a>, with foreigners discovering that the U.S. is not as bad as some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-defends-herself-against-dem-attacks\/\" title=\"Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene defends herself against Dem attacks\">media portray<\/a>.Though, it also addresses political uses of the tournament, such as a viral claim by a pro-Palestinian social media user who suggested Israel killed all Palestinian players to exclude them from the World Cup-a claim quickly discredited.<\/p>\n<p>The piece clarifies that Palestine is not an self-reliant country in the same way as <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >recognized sovereign states<\/a> and that their soccer team\u2019s poor FIFA ranking and lack of qualification are due to performance, not violence. It discusses other nations with unstable governments or histories of conflict that have participated in the World Cup, such as Haiti, Algeria, Iraq, and Cura\u00e7ao.<\/p>\n<p>The article refutes the idea that violence or political conflicts are the sole reasons for Palestine\u2019s absence in the tournament. It references ancient violence, like the 1972 Munich Olympics attack by terrorists targeting Israeli athletes, and emphasizes that Israeli athletes are frequently enough victims of violence unrelated to Palestine\u2019s national team performance. Ultimately, it stresses that Palestine\u2019s non-participation is due to their soccer team\u2019s performance rather than violence or political conflicts, criticizing those who spread misinformation and use the tournament for political messaging.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The World Cup is here again, which means it\u2019s time for Americans to care about soccer for a few weeks. This is doubly true since America is one of the host nations.<\/p>\n<p>Most of this has been positive. If you\u2019re on social media, you\u2019ve doubtlessly seen foreigners discovering that the U-S-of-A is actually pretty cool and not at all like what their media tells them it is. However, for some pot-stirrers out there, it\u2019s a chance to bring attention to their pet political causes.<\/p>\n<p>In that vein, I give you a pro-Palestinian X user who managed to go bad-viral with the worst possible take on why Palestine isn\u2019t in the World Cup: Israel apparently killed all of its players while the world wasn\u2019t watching.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s too bad history doesn\u2019t exactly comport with the facts, as he was soon reminded of.<\/p>\n<p>Now, first, let\u2019s get one thing out of the way: Palestine is an independent country in the same way that Narnia is, only with one less lion and a lot more terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>However, it\u2019s worth noting that this isn\u2019t really a prerequisite for World Cup participation. In this year\u2019s competition alone, we have the non-independent geographical entities of Scotland and Cura\u00e7ao, which are part of the United Kingdom and Netherlands, respectively. (There\u2019s also Haiti, which is <em>technically<\/em> independent, but also failed state run by gangsters with monikers like \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-evacuated-bureaucrats-left-american-missionaries-die-haiti\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barbecue<\/a>,\u201d so, I mean, come on.)<\/p>\n<p>That said, here\u2019s what X user @Laddin_ said was the reason the Palestinian team didn\u2019t qualify:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Palestine would be in the World Cup if Israel didn\u2019t kill all its players<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Free (@Laddin_) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Laddin_\/status\/2065931644213567900?\">June 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I must have missed this one, which would have been reported on ad nauseam if it had actually happened. But hey, speaking of killing off a country\u2019s athletes, Mr. Laddin was swiftly reminded of who actually kills who:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Every accusation is a confession. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G0BXOKtStC\">pic.twitter.com\/G0BXOKtStC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eli Lebowicz (@EliLebowicz) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EliLebowicz\/status\/2066178889265619012?\">June 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who have blocked out this thing called \u201cthe news\u201d for more than half a century, during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/support-israel-non-partisan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1972 Munich Olympics<\/a>, a terrorist group stormed the athletes\u2019 village and ended up killing 11 athletes, coaches, and referees from Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, these weren\u2019t soccer players \u2014 most of them were involved in wrestling, weightlifting, and fencing \u2014 but to the extent that one side in the Israel-Palestine conflict is killing top-level athletes from the other side, it ain\u2019t Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery accusation is a confession,\u201d indeed.<\/p>\n<p>In case you were wondering why the Palestinians aren\u2019t in the World Cup, it\u2019s because they aren\u2019t very good. The Palestinians have a soccer team that is <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.fifa.com\/en\/fifa-world-ranking\/PLE?gender=men\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ranked 95th<\/a> in the world, according to FIFA\u2019s scoring system. That places them below powerhouses such as Benin and Thailand, and just above Belarus, a country whose best players are more likely to be killed, tortured, or jailed by their own government than the Palestinian players are.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the Palestine Football Association has <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.fifa.com\/associations\/PLE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">been in seven<\/a> World Cup qualifying tournaments and have made the big show a grand total of zero times. Why? Not because of anyone being killed, but because they keep losing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team\/results\/_\/id\/6167\/season\/2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This time around<\/a>, they actually managed to make it to the third round of qualifying, where they finished fifth out of six teams in their group. The first two teams qualified automatically, the second two made it to a fourth round.<\/p>\n<p>But even though no Palestinian players were killed by the Israelis \u2014 who, by the way, also didn\u2019t make the tournament \u2014 I guess you could make the point that the bloodshed in Gaza could theoretically be responsible for this.<\/p>\n<p>To that argument, I bring up the point again: <em>Haiti<\/em> made the World Cup. Haiti has been a violent hellhole since the Duvaliers were in power, and has somehow gone downhill since the days of Papa and Baby Doc. Other nations that aren\u2019t particularly stable but still managed to get in include Algeria, Iraq, the Ivory Coast, and Senegal. Plus, remember who <em>started<\/em> the violence in Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-pro-gaza-libs-fall-apart-tricked-watching-palestinians-torturing-jews-oct-7-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It wasn\u2019t the Israelis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, have I mentioned that freaking <em>Cura\u00e7ao <\/em>is in this tournament? Because they are, and if you can show me Cura\u00e7ao on a map, you\u2019re either from Cura\u00e7ao or won the National Geographic Bee as a kid.<\/p>\n<p>However, if we want to talk about killing athletes, sure: Let\u2019s have a discussion about 1972 in Munich, Mr. Laddin. My guess is that you\u2019re not terribly interested. Because, to the woke Palestinian supporter hive mind, killing Jews is always justified so long as it advances the cause.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t blame someone for having heard a lie. 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