When you talk up football's ability to end wars and heal societies then go silent for a week after traumas, the eventual response can expose the timidity of leaders.
Trying to be uplifting while sounding fanciful. It took until the seventh day of mourning for FIFA President Gianni Infantino to offer any condolences. And when he did it was to claim football can play a role in ending hostilities between the Israelis and Hamas as a 'vehicle for peace'. That will seem a distant proposition for the Israelis grieving more than 1,300 victims of the Hamas massacres on their territory last Saturday.
He resigned as the Football Association's Faith in Football group chair after the governing body failed to specifically honour the 'victims of the worst single atrocity committed against Jewish targets since the Shoah' - the Hebrew word for the Holocaust. Rabbi Goldberg told Sky News: 'There's no moral equivalence. There's acts of violence that have led again into war.
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