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Posted on May 27, 2015August 20, 2019 By rayhanania 2 Comments on US cracks down on FIFA to avenge criticism of Israel
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Days after officials at the Federation of International Football Associations announced plans to allow a vote on whether or not to allow Israel to remain in the association, the United States launched a widespread prosecution against’s FIFA’s international leadership in Zurich Switzerland. That will teach FIFA for cracking down on Israeli racism

By Ray Hanania

The U.S. Justice Department issued arrest warrants for 14 leaders of the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) in Zurich, Switzerland on Wednesday, days after the head of FIFA announced he would permit a vote this week on a Palestinian resolution to suspend Israel from FIFA’s international soccer games.

Palestinians have accused Israel of apartheid discrimination and racism, citing Beitar Israel, the Israeli soccer team which bans non-Jews from playing and encourages fans to racist hatred and violence at games. They want Israel to allow non-Jews to play in its leagues and to crackdown on the racism and violence by Israelis against Christians and Muslims.

Israelis responded by arguing that there is racism and violence at soccer games around the world, so why crackdown on Israel?

But rather than allow the vote, the administration of President Barak Obama, who is in a tight Israeli political headlock, sent FBI agents to Zurich to arrest the 14 FIFA officials on charges of engaging in corruption “over the past 20 years.”

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Israel isn’t America’s 51st State.
America is Israel’s 51st Settlement

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Obviously there was an immediate need to crack down now, I mean, after 20 years of “corruption.”

The arrests are viewed as a typically cynical and hypocritical move by the United States to defend Israel, and to ignore Israel’s violations of human and civil rights.

Obama has tried to confront Israel but has had his teeth kicked in by the Israeli lobby, AIPAC, which wields a brutal influence over Washington D.C. politics. Americans and their elected officials are not allowed to criticize Israel. If they do, the critics are denounced as anti-Semitic and Israel pours millions into election coffers to remove them from office.

The Guardian Newspaper, in an editorial last week, wrote that the suspension should go through because of Israel’s racist policies against non-Jewish citizens specifically Christian and Muslim Palestinians.

“The IFA [Israel Football Association] welcomes teams from illegal settlements into its leagues and competitions. It has racially segregated part of its national children’s league, incurring legal action. It has never once disciplined Beitar Jerusalem FC for that club’s longstanding apparent ban on the hiring of Arab players, or taken serious action to curb the notorious anti-Arab violence of its supporters. Two years of diplomacy have failed to secure change, and FIFA must now take punitive action in defence of its humanitarian ethos.”

Word in Washington D.C. is that the U.S. Government has been exploring prosecuting the Guardian staff for violating the fundamental principle of American Journalism that you can’t criticize Israel without consequences.

Israel isn’t America’s 51st State. America is Israel’s 51st Settlement. Just ask Fox & Fiends!

“Fox & Fiends” is a new comic strip from The Arab Daily News that lampoons the vicious slander and lies on the FOX Cable TV morning show “Fox & Friends” starring propagandists Brian Kilmeade, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Steve Doocy. Meet our Fox & Fiends anchors: Brian UrKillingme, Elisatits Hasselfrick and Steve Doofus.

“Fox & Fiends” is a new comic strip from The Arab Daily News that lampoons the vicious slander and lies on the FOX Cable TV morning show “Fox & Friends” starring propagandists Brian Kilmeade, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Steve Doocy. Meet our Fox & Fiends anchors: Brian UrKillingme, Elisatits Hasselfrick and Steve Doofus.

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Ray Hanania is an award winning political and humor columnist who analyzes American and Middle East politics, and life in general. He is an author of several books.

Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 at the Daily Southtown and the Chicago Sun-Times. He began writing in 1975 publishing The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published “The National Arab American Times” newspaper (2004-2007).

Hanania writes weekly columns on Middle East and American Arab issues as Special US Correspondent for the Arab News ArabNews.com, at TheArabDailyNews.com, and at SuburbanChicagoland.com. He has published weekly columns in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, YNetNews.com, Newsday, the Orlando Sentinel, Houston Chronical, and Arlington Heights Daily Herald.

Hanania is the recipient of four (4) Chicago Headline Club “Peter Lisagor Awards” for Column writing. In November 2006, he was named “Best Ethnic American Columnist” by the New American Media. In 2009, Hanania received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the recipient of the MT Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award. He was honored for his writing skills with two (2) Chicago Stick-o-Type awards from the Chicago Newspaper Guild. In 1990, Hanania was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times editors for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.

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Comments (2) on “US cracks down on FIFA to avenge criticism of Israel”

  1. Steve Lewis says:
    May 27, 2015 at 6:18 pm

    My computer was attacked with multiple viruses that my computer fixer says he’s never seen before after I succeeded in getting anti-Zionist comments posted on Religious News Service. I am banned from posting there as this religious news venue too has been taken over by Zionists who will not allow any criticism of Israel, or Zionism. Rabbis especially hate to see my comments because I am exposing them as religious frauds who have swindled all of us Jews about the origin of Torah theology which they claim was originated by Hebrews. Well, it wasn’t. The Hebrew Torah comes from ancient Israelite association with the failed Hyksos Shepherd King invaders of Egypt from Canaan where the Egyptian Taurowet theology was learned, Taurowet a strange cartoonish hippo/lion/human animal person Mother Goddess whose Constellation, the biggest and most stable in the ancient Egyptian Zodiac, came to represent the Order and Harmony of Creation, a kind of MAAT symbolism every Egyptian could see. This is where Judah’s earthly Torah comes from. And if you tell rabbis this, they deny it and call you an “anti-Semite” and do things to stop you from spreading this historical information about core beliefs of Judaism. The world’s largest group of real anti-Semitic peoples are Zionist Jews and Evangelical Christians promoting a vicious genocidal racial war against Palestinian Arab Gentile Semites.

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  2. Pellam says:
    May 27, 2015 at 5:51 pm

    If Israel has that much influence over the United States, you have to give them credit. Israel is a tiny nation punching above its weight. Compare that to the disintegration of the nations around them.

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