Find yourself a different playground if the swings here are too high for you.

Just as Muffti think it would be a shame if Israel put future bans on Palestinians from competing in response to Dubai not letting in an Israeli player for political reasons, even if by your tit-for-tat reasoning it would be justified.

Soccer / Palestinian soccer team laments Gaza travel ban

By Reuters

The head of the Palestinian Football Association said his national team’s no-show at an Asian Cup qualifier against hosts Singapore yesterday was due to Israel’s refusal to allow players to travel from Gaza.

Ahmed al-Afifi said the fixture had to be canceled because players making up most of the team could not travel through the Rafah crossing from Gaza to Egypt. Another three players, Palestinian expatriates, were to have traveled separately.

He said Israel had also refused to allow team members to take an alternative route via Israel and the West Bank to Jordan for their onward journey to Singapore. They had planned to travel to Singapore on November 12.

The Israel Defense Forces denied the allegation, saying Rafah was open to the team at the time of their request to travel abroad. But a military spokesman confirmed that Erez, a Gaza border crossing used by Palestinians to enter Israel, had been closed due to security concerns.

Afifi said the Palestinian FA had appealed to world soccer’s governing body, FIFA, which he had urged to reschedule the match.

“Israel has refused to allow the team to pass through the Erez crossing to travel to Jordan and from there to Singapore but FIFA insisted that the game must be held on time,” Afifi told reporters in Gaza.

The Rafah crossing with Egypt has been closed intermittently since June 25, when Palestinian militants killed two Israeli soldiers and abducted another in a cross-border attack from Gaza.

Palestinian national team captain Saeb Jundeya said he was disappointed. “I had assured all my neighbors and people who asked me whether the game would be held on time that we would travel, but today I have to tell them that we were unable to make it because the occupation (Israel) did not allow it,” he said.

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This had nothing to do with sports.

You can dispute whether Al Kourd was fairly stopped or whether his home was fairly targeted, but you can’t say that this had anything to do with trying to stop sports or boycott sports. In fact, Al Kourd had just returned from playing abroad.

You were given an inch, took a foot, and got it wrong.

oh right, you are special blah blah blah

Recently, Israel’s refusal to issue exit visas has resulted in players or in some case the entire team being unable to represent their country. In November 2006, all players based inside Palestine were denied exit visas. The AFC, Asia’s governing football body decided to cancel the match since both teams had been eliminated from the competition by virtue of their previous results against China and Iraq. In October 2007, the second leg of a crucial World Cup qualifier between Palestine and Singapore was not played due to Palestine’s inability to obtain an exit visa.

That doesn’t justify banning Israeli players, Muffti doesn’t think, but it’s not cool.

even your idf couldnt explain, what can you explain?

and why the hell would i be worried if you came to bangladesh?

OCO, as usual your information is pure shit. You can’t even be bothered to Google the veracity of your assertions. This took me 5 minutes to find out from the NYT. Please stop citing whatever bullshit incomplete and biased source you’ve been gleaning your crap from. This was too easy. I’d tear the rest of your crap apart but I have a flight to catch. Don’t worry. It’s not to Bangladesh.

You can’t even spell “Fulbright” properly. Hint: It’s only got one L. Another hint: Don’t bother applying genius.

and ck scolds me for straying of topic??

wasnt the topic about athletes and their banning from events?

face the facts froylein israel gets away with a lot of stuff, all israeli athletes should be treated the same way palestinian athletes are treated

i bet many israeli athletes served in the idf and have beaten up palestinians at checkpoints

you guys as i have said are all right wingers, even your left compared to the left in other countries are right wing

why do you wanna play in arab countries anyway, doesnt your torah say you shouldnt interact with “ishmael”?

if they were terrorists, i wouldnt have mentioned them

and froylein the israeli athlete does support stealing land, torture, and using white phosphorus on civilians, so now you know why she was not allowed to play

as for bangladesh???…….so?

werent the greeks and romans who devastated the jews more advanced than the jews?

werent the ancient egyptians more advanced than the jews?

as for bangladesh, the people are tough here, they survived everything they have faced, they are going to survive the future

and there are lots of charities and NGO’s here, like the famous grameen bank, whose founder won a nobel prize

did the palestinian with downs syndrome a terrorist supporter?…….if the israelis think so, then you guys are fucking retarded, thats for sure

and one more thing, after the madoff scandal, you guys are talking about charity????

BTW, don’t you have more pressing problems in Bangladesh to concern yourself with? Why doesn’t your concept of a Muslilm brotherhood make you spend your time fighting poverty, low ife expectancy and high illiteracy rate in the country you live in? hdrstats.undp....

Or does compassion only leave a good taste in your mouth if you can claim it from others? One thing for sure, this blatantly contradicts Muslim ideals.

A 21-year-old Down Syndrome athlete from Palestine is forced to stay at home after being refused permission by Israeli authorities to leave for the Special Olympics.

Report on Special Olympics, Ireland 2003 (Irish Times 18 June 2003

i have provided the the date and the time of the newpaper report

you guys really are special, preventing a mentally disabled palestinian from being involved in the special olympics

so themiddle tell me, what does that make you guys?

who is the liar now