Palestinian Soccer Union Punishes Peace Team Players
Haaretz reports,
The Palestinian FA plans to punish players under its jurisdiction for participating alongside Israelis in a “Peace Match” in Barcelona, an official said on Wednesday.
A ‘Peace Team’ of Israeli and Palestinian players lost 2-1 to Barcelona at the Nou Camp last week in front of 31,820 spectators, including many dignitaries.
“The Palestinian FA will form a committee to investigate the players who participated in the match … everyone involved will be punished,” senior FA official Jamal Zaqout told Reuters.
“We act in accordance with the attitude of our people who are against normalization (of relations with Israel) before the end of the occupation,” Zaqout said, referring to Israel’s hold over lands captured in the 1967 Middle East war.
Praise the shahids and reward them monetarily, punish those working for peace.
Typical PA.
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Yeah, those guys are really interested in peace. Let’s punish anyone who has any fun with Israelis, and G-d forbid they do anything else.
hmm.. that is ridiculous..
This says it all.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Ar…
“The Palestinian FA will form a committee to investigate the players who participated in the match … everyone involved will be punished,” senior FA official Jamal Zaqout told Reuters….
Makes you wonder why they’d bother with any pretense of investigation?
They have to say that to placate the EU and UN. The mafia often form ‘committees’ to ‘investigate’ matters which often result in broken kneecaps or worse, so I apply the same analysis with the PA.
Perhaps, Matityahu. But then you’d think Spain, EU member nation and the host country of the match, might want to put in their two centavos on the controversy.