FIFA capitulates to Israel again

‘FIFA has capitulated to intense pressure from the Israeli government and removed from the agenda of its upcoming congress the issue of Israeli settlement teams playing in Israel’s national league.
This came after the Israel Football Association presented a document to FIFA officials, seen by The Electronic Intifada, denying that an occupation even exists.
The Palestinian Football Association and more than 170 Palestinian teams have demanded that Israel be suspended due to its inclusion of settlement teams, its systematic violence against Palestinian athletes and its destruction of Palestinian sporting facilities.
But the council of world football’s governing body announced on Tuesday that there would be no vote on suspending Israel’s membership when national delegates gather for the FIFA Congress in Bahrain later this week.’
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