Support Israel, then apologize

Ghana apologized to the Arab League on Wednesday for one of its football players waving an Israeli flag after his country’s 2-0 World Cup win against the Czech Republic, the Arab League secretary-general said.

Defender John Pentsil plays for Hapoel Tel Aviv, and waved a small Israeli flag after Ghana’s win in Saturday’s match to acknowledge Israeli fans in Germany.

Amr Moussa said the league had received an official apology from the Ghanaian government expressing regret at the incident.

The memo said Pentsil’s action had no official support and Ghana hoped the incident would not affect Ghana’s relations with friendly countries.

The Ghanaian Football Association apologised on Monday for Paintsil’s conduct and said the Ghanaian FA was not trying to take sides in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

I doubt John Pentsil was taking sides in the Palestinian-Israel conflict. He was being provocative, but toward an entirely different audience. This is Germany after all, ground zero of the Holocaust which wiped out six million Jews.

If the Ghanian authorities had apologized to prevent the kind of storm that Danish cartoonists had whipped up, then it is a damning indictment on how the rest of the world generally regards Muslims.

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