Some may find watching a soccer match to be an exercise in pain as they watch very talented and conditioned athletes frustrate themselves repeatedly trying to get a ball to go where they want. And there’s the flopping. But the Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup (ZGWC) has benefited from watching matches and learned many things about the world. For instance, yesterday’s late night match between Austria and Jordan revealed one positive quality about the Hashemite Kingdom which is unrelated to soccer. The Jordanian national anthem is all of thirty-seven seconds long.  It starts with the lyric “G-d save the King,” and goes downhill from there. At thirty-seven seconds, though, it’s all........

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