lebanese athletes refused to share bus

We're not here to talk about Islam.

A reasonable(and rather obvious) assumption would be that the Lebanese team's behaviour is to do with their experiences with Israel(you know,the 2006 war), Israel's massacre of the Lebanese people ,and their continued threats against us.

You have a really shallow understanding of the civil war

Thats not the only war that Israel has fought with arab states and a lot of this conflict stems back to anti-semetism within Islam.To deny that has norhing to do with it is absurd especially considering lebanon has a large muslim population.These Islamic beliefs influence a persons actions and its not unreasonable to assume that that could cause the lebanese team to act in an anti-semetic way.When you say Israel massacred the lebanese people are you exagerating?Its like with palestine people demonise Israel but the truth is that if they wanted to truly, they could wipe out the palestinians no problem.The fact that they havent shows the restraint excercised on Israels part.

Did I say it was black and white, or that all Christians sided with Israel? No I did not. You should argue and respond to what I have actually said not what you would prefer I had said for the purposes of your argument.

The fact is that although different factions had declared ideologies, like Jumblatt's PSP, that could if one wanted provide a narrative of the conflict as an ideological clash of the Cold War (Marxism v Capitalism), the underlying reality was that the different parties and factions were ethno-religiously based

The leftist, Marxist groups were Druze and Muslim and allied with other ostensibly Arab but predominantly Muslim factions like the PLO and conservative/religious factions like Amal and Hezbollah. Many of them espoused Pan-Arab ideologies of a Nasserite or even Ba'athist complexion though of course you had the nascent Shi'a consciousness of Hezbollah and other Shi'a parties (nonetheless, allied with other Arab parties with their shared Muslim faith even though in their conservatism they might have some things more in common with certain Christian factions).

And against that you had the Christians, who mostly adhered to Lebanese nationalism, traditional free-market ideology, conservative/reactionary etc and an idea of Lebanon looking West not South and East. And looming over the whole thing was the shadow of Syria and Israel, but of course Syria much more (and later actual occupation by both Syria and Israel)

Of course it wasn't as simple as Christian vs Muslim, but broadly the conflict was along those lines, although admittedly you had shifting alliances and backstabbing at various points

Just a shame we don't treat these vermin like what they really are, no difference on the inside between them and the average skinhead troglodyte and his swastika tattoos.

Israel, though. Israel just has a free pass to shriek "anti-semitism" no matter how much they shred Palestinian children into red, fleshy pulp.

But they aren't at war

Technically they are at war.

Yes, but not practically. The two Koreas are nearer being at war, and just look at how their athletes are interacting.

You lot see the one about the Saudi judo competitor forfeiting her match against the Israeli competitor rather than compete against her? Pathetic*

if funny because a lot of Israeli athletes are Arab Muslims & Druzes themselves so their being racist & xenophobia toward their own people

You wouldn't put North and South Korea on the same bus would you?

Don't tar North Koreans with the Arab brush. Didn't you see this?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37018914

Mm fair enough, that's good to see. But it's still something you'd consider to avoid situations like what happened with the Israeli and Lebanese athletes.

I understand it goes against the spirit of the games, and don't support what they did. But it's not a smart idea to put two countries who dislike each other on the same bus. You wouldn't put North and South Korea on the same bus would you?