Chargers-Raiders shared-stadium plan inspires Middle East initiative

Statement from Israeli soccer minister Shalom Brightside:

"If the Chargers and the Raiders — whose fans' hatred of each other seem to eclipse even their love for their respective teams, the game of football, and life itself — can manage to occupy the same stadium without reducing it to a pile of bloody rubble, then surely we, too, can learn to share a common space. We shall begin as they did: with a common sporting arena: half in Israel, half in Gaza, to be shared by the national football teams of Israel and Palestine. Despite our violent past, we look forward to a peaceful future, thanks to these American football teams' heroic example. Bless them for aspiring to something beyond tribal enthusiasm and selfish gain. Truly, sport is a field where man's innate nobility shines brightly, and enlightens the whole world."