Did US Indict Soccer Officials to Protect Israel Apartheid?

Posted by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor on May 28, 2015

 

Arrests by US as FIFA Mulls Giving Israel Boot

By Jonathan Cook

(Editor’s note:  A Global Research piece, something they can handle instead of tackling Israel’s use of nuclear weapons against Yemen.  What Global Research also missies is the obvious correlation between threats to oust Israel and the US indicting FIFA officials who support Palestine’s case against Israel.  You just can’t make this stuff up.)

FIFA, world football’s governing body, is due to meet this Friday in Zurich to decide whether to back a Palestinian motion to suspend Israel for its systematic violations of Palestinian footballers’ rights in the occupied territories, including preventing practice sessions and games, arresting players, denying entry to other teams, and bombing grounds, as well as for endemic racism towards non-Jewish players in Israeli football itself. I have written about this in the past: here and here.

Although a 75% majority is needed for the Palestinian motion to carry, there has been a growing sense that the mood at FIFA is shifting the Palestinians’ way. Israel and the US are, of course, deeply worried. Such a move would have strong overtones of the sports boycott against South Africa and further reinforce the idea that the description of Israel as an apartheid state holds. It would also disrupt FIFA tournaments Israel is due to host in the coming months, causing great embarrassment to Israel and FIFA’s president, Sepp Blatter.

Read more at Global Research

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/05/28/will-fifa-world-footballs-governing-body-suspend-israel/