If Argentina win tonight, the two people in this photo will face off in the World Cup Final 19 years later.
What are the odds that:
> Baby wins a raffle to get a pic with Messi
> Baby grows up to be a generational talent
> Baby becomes third youngest player to ever start a World Cup final
> Messi remains so great that he would be the oldest outfield player to ever start a final
> Both of their teams beat the odds of reaching a final in the same tournament
The odds of this happening are impossibly small.
And yet we're one game away.
The same year that photo was taken, Messi featured in an Adidas campaign about being too small to make it. The slogan:
"Impossible is Nothing."
Hany Ramzy was the last Christian player on Egypt’s national soccer team.
After he was seen making the sign of the cross following a goal for Egypt, an unofficial decision was made to exclude Christian players from the national team.
Although Christians make up an estimated 10–15% of Egypt’s population, they are banned from senior government positions and many other areas of public life.
Video footage which allegedly shows the launch of ground-based missiles, possibly ATACMS by M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), earlier tonight from Kuwait in the direction of Iran.
Churches are now "catching fire" across the United States.
Former Grandview United Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, which has stood since 1857.
Now destroyed.
300 people were evacuated on Saturday evening from a neighborhood north of Paris with a large Jewish community, following reports of a suspicious vehicle parked near a synagogue.
Vehicle was stolen and was found with an AK and a pistol inside.
https://t.co/5Z0QEsz9aY
Yahya Hamdan, the Hamas commander who led the horrific massacre at the Re'im base on October 7, has just been eliminated.
Israel blew him to a thousand pieces.
Jewish blood is no longer cheap and all those who took part in the massacre will receive their due.
Israel does not forget and the Mossad does not forgive.
- @IsraelVive1948
Los dueños de México ya nos están echando.
Autoritarios y fascistas.
Los ciudadanos tenemos el derecho constitucional de exigirle cuentas a los gobernantes sin que eso ponga en juego nuestro derecho de pertenencia a la nación.
Leaving out the Italian, Jewish, and Irish enclaves in NYC is like leaving out Mexican and Persian enclaves in LA.
It’s not an “oopsie!” This is deliberate subversion. The communist must erase your history so he can demolish your home and make it his own.
Trump shattered the Iran status quo that all administrations had preserved. For the first time in the history of the US-Israel alliance, Israel executed a full-scale military operation in complete operational harmony with Washington. He dismantled the missile-and-drone architecture that his predecessors had allowed to metastasize across the region for a decade. He mobilized Treasury and Energy simultaneously to prevent a global recession while a major military campaign was reshaping one of the world's most critical strategic chokepoints. He imposed sanctions against Chinese teapot refineries, the financial backbone of Iranian oil revenues, and still held the Xi summit, forcing Beijing to absorb the cost without an exit ramp. He brought the Gulf Arab states and Israel into operational collaboration under CENTCOM, something every prior administration deemed structurally impossible.
But yes, Trump is "doing like Obama," and ceasefires along the way are complete "capitulations."
Mengele was also technically a “German doctor.” But more importantly, he was a Nazi officer. I’m sure Abu Safiya went to med school. He’s also a Hamas officer.
The Talmud (Makkot 11a) says that the mothers of the High Priests made sure accidental killers living in the cities of refuge had enough food and decent clothes—lest they pray for their sons, the High Priests, to die.
Feed them. Dress them. Keep them happy.
Is there a more Yiddishe Mame story in all of rabbinic literature?
@urielromano Entiendo la prisa por enseñar estadística e inteligencia artificial. Es muy, muy popular.
Pero, pasar el guión primero por un erudito hubiera estado bien para @AlanDaitch