Palestine wants Israel out of FIFA, eyes a three-quarters majority to pass proposal

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Source: Jerusalem Post

Palestine's Football Association President has claimed that 'nothing had improved in the way Israel was "persecuting Palestine footballers, athletes and the movement of sporting equipment".

Palestine will seek Israel's expulsion from world soccer's governing body at this month's FIFA Congress, FA president Jibril Rajoub has told Reuters.

Last year Rajoub agreed to drop a resolution urging delegates to take sanctions against Israel at FIFA's Congress in Sao Paulo but he said on Friday he would press ahead with the same proposal in Zurich on May 29.

He added he "would not make the concessions" he made when withdrawing the proposal a year ago because nothing had improved in the way Israel "were persecuting Palestine footballers, athletes and the movement of sporting equipment".

Read more: http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Palestine-want-Israel-out-of-FIFA-eyes-a-three-quarters-majority-to-pass-proposal-400829

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1. Pleading for any form of justice from FIFA seems a lost cause

Hard to think of a more corrupt organization outside of politics.

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2. The IOC comes to mind.

Even Don King would admire their level of corruptness

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3. I think that shaming Israel enough to do the right thing is good enough.

The very fact that there will be a vote at all, shows that Israel is behaving badly.