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Alarmed at the deteriorating situation, European soccer body UEFA said it had suspended all European competition matches in Israel and switched a March 14 UEFA Cup tie between Hapoel Tel Aviv and AC Milan to a neutral venue.
So Sharon and Peres have contacted Berlusconi so see if Tel Aviv can't be reconsidered.
"Berlusconi - è scritto in un comunicato dell'ufficio del premier israeliano - ha detto sia a Sharon, sia a Peres, che farà tutto il possibile per cambiare la decisione e consentire al Milan di andare in Israele affinché la partita si svolga come stabilito".
And what Berlusconi wants, Berlusconi gets.
War, Football, and the Israeli Media .
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."