The Egyptian fencer defeated the Israelis and became a national hero: "Victory of all the Arabs over the Zionist invaders" | Israel today

Last weekend, the Egyptian fencer Muhammad Elsaid Sahib won the gold medal at the Youth World Cup held in Udina, Italy, but instead of celebrating the achievement, the popular social network in his country Egypt Sport chose to put up a defiant post, emphasizing that he beat three Israelis.

The social network, which has about a quarter of a million followers, declared the young fencer to be "a hero for defeating athletes from the Zionist entity."

Within a few days, the post went viral, and he received tens of thousands of people who congratulated him on his achievement, plus thousands of comments.

Some of the comments congratulated him on the achievement, but many of them asked the question, why did he compete against Israelis in the first place: "Stupid normalization... to simply compete with an illegitimate entity is to acknowledge its existence and legitimacy," wrote one of them.

Another surfer wrote: "Not going up against them, it means we give them championships, let them win without effort, take a medal, and the flag will be raised and their anthem will be played, but beating them in battle is much better than not participating."

Another comment read: "Your victory is a victory for all Arabs over the Zionist invaders, raise the Egyptian flag high", "How can the entity participate in the competition, if they don't exist?", asked one of the surfers.

Like it or not, Israel also had a very successful competition, when Alexandra Kravitz did it big and won the gold medal in the dagger competition for girls, and she did it after the silver medal of the swordsman Yonatan Cohen and the bronze medal of Lior Druk.

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