Palestinians (L) are blocked by Egyptian police after Palestinian
militants exploded a part of the border wall in the southern Gaza Strip
city of Rafah. Palestinian militants have blown a hole in the
Palestinian border wall between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.(AFP/Thomas
Coex)

Where’s Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International when you need them? Look at that - Egypt has built an APARTHEID WALL between themselves and their fellow brothers, the innocent, oppressed Palestinians! And now, the Palestinians have brought down a section of the wall but they are being stopped by the Egyptian police from reaching freedom! Ohhhh, the oppression and tyranny!!!!

Hmmm.. shouldn’t Kofi Annan be joining a chorus of left-wing moonbats to condemn the construction of this strangely familiar "Apartheid Wall"? Oh, ya.. of course, they forgot that the "Apartheid Wall" in Israel was partially financed by Fatah under Yasser Arafat with constuction materials imported from Egypt, hence the similarities.

What? You don’t expect Israel to import the components of their Apartheid Wall all the way from the United States, do you?

I was actually laughing when England and Brazil lost on Saturday. These two teams are the most over-rated in this World Cup, and many people would like to see them go through. But alas, the quarter-finals is as far as they could go.

I had this dumb mail in my inbox not long ago, before the World Cup began:

This is an excellent calculation. Anyhow the result will be known by
9^th July!!!!! 

Brazil won the world cup in 1994. Before that, it had won
        the title for the last time in 1970.

1970 + 1994 = 3964

Argentina won the world cup for the last time in 1986. Before
        that only in 1978.

1978 + 1986 = 3964

Germany, though, won the world cup in 1990. Before that, Germany
        won in 1974.

1990 + 1974 = 3964

This could lead us to guess the winner of the World Cup in 2002,
        since it should be the winner of the 1962 World Cup

3964 - 2002 =
        1962

And Brazil won the world cup in 1962 and 2002.

This numerology seems to work…

And now, who would be the winner of the 2006 world
        cup?

3964 - 2006 =
        1958

And who won in 1958?

BRAZIL

Yeah, sure. So much for numerology.

Here’s hoping to see Germany vs France in the finals.. the Teutonic Knights vs. the Appeasers. On another note, with England’s defeat on Saturday, I wonder how much destruction have the English hooligans wreaked upon German cities that night.. If the World Cup had coincided with Oktoberfest, how much worse could the hooligan problem had been?..

During the England vs Portugal match, it wasn’t as rivetting as the Germany vs Argentina match but it got us all focused on the game nevertheless. On the other hand, during the Brazil vs France match, most of the mamak shop patrons were chit-chatting 15 minutes into the game. No one was paying attention to the game that early into the first half itself.

The game was absolutely dull.

Thiery Henry kept getting caught offside time and again. Brazilian midfielders and strikers just wanna do their own thing, attempting goal shots from halfway between the midfield and the goalpost and other stupid maneuvers. None of the Brazilians were doing stuff like helping strikers to set up shots and things like that. Everyone wants to be their own personal hero, hardly any teamwork. Most of the time, Ronaldinho gets the ball only to lose it to the French defense, though not as bad as how Crouch loses the ball repeatedly during the earlier match.

After France had scored a goal, the Brazilians started getting desperate as it was getting late into the game. And their lack of cohesion became more evident. There was absolutely no teamwork, it was like ‘every man to himself’, and in one bizarre moment, Ronaldinho, I think, dived for the ball, grabbed it with both hands and skidded past the goal line. We were like, "Huh? New Zealand’s THAT way, kawan. We play FOOTBALL here, not rugby".

Apparently, my pal told me that the Brazilians were so over-confident the whole time, as if they will definitely reach the finals at least and every stage in between is just a formality, that they only had their practice rounds with the junior team and didn’t really push themselves to the max.

They should have known better - all eyes are on this match as it’s something like "1998 redux", an opportunity for Brazil to settle the score. Being Zidane’s last World Cup outing, Brazil might have just helped to cement Zidane’s reputation as France’s Brazil-killer, helming the team that defeated Brazil decisively on two occasions.