Both a gas and tears at once
This rather brilliant experiment in asymmetric humanism demonstrates the Palestinian and Israeli response to a recent advert. The TV commercial showed a hopeful world otherwise in which Israelis and Palestinians played soccer by bouncing a ball to one another over the enormous wall (built by Israelis) that separates their territories. It was one of those rainbow-and-unicorn moments that we'd all like to see more of.
Regrettably it was not to be. A video recently posted on YouTube tried to reenact the game in reality, but found that the result could not be further removed from the situation on the ground: when the Palestinians kick the ball to the other side of the fence, what they get in return is a salvo of tear gas grenades.
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