Opinion | David’s Star And Messi: Why Argentina Riles Up Islamists And The Global Left

When Argentina faces off with Spain on Sunday, a lot more than football will be at play

In August 2013, Lionel Messi stood quietly facing the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a kippah on his head, his right hand gently placed on the wall’s stones to feel a connection with the divine.

He was on a ‘Peace Tour’ to Israel with the Barcelona football team. Since then, the world’s greatest living footballer has visited Israel four times. Much football has been played. Argentina won the last FIFA World Cup and has reached the finals of this one, playing the most exhilarating football.

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But that Western Wall image seems to haunt Islamists and Communists in equally troubling measure.

It is astonishing that the practising Catholic superstar from an........

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