A tiny break in the cultural boycott of Israel

Shahar Peer, an Israeli tennis player, is the first Israeli athlete to play a tennis match in an Arab country; http://www.usatoday.com/sports/tennis/2008-02-18-peer-qatar_N.htm. You know what I find most heartening? That this is receiving so little attention because, well, it's so normal. I hope that this becomes the norm, and not the exception.