Kappa18
20 Nov 2003, 12:13 PM
Maccabi Haifa's upcoming game in UEFA cup has been postponed...since it was in Turkey and there was a terror attack.
no word on whats going to happen.
smart move UEFA........claiming Israel is teror ridden and then going to Turkey which is even more......
nice move as always..........
brassmonkey
20 Nov 2003, 04:22 PM
The one against Valencia? Thats on Thanksgiving. Why are they playing in Turkey again? Are they playing there because of the terror attacks in Israel? If so, it figures. The UEFA powers that be are obviously biased against Israel. I think it has less to do with safety and more to do with politics. I read an article about the FIFA president visiting Israel for the first time in like 20 years. The only reason he was there was to talk about the PLO getting a team. You can bet they wouldn't supend games from bieng played in Saudi Arabia after those attacks in Riyad. The Muslims have Fifa, and especially UEFA, in thier pocket.
P.S. Kappa, I see you have added the Fire to your team list. You should have gone for San Jose man!
Kappa18
20 Nov 2003, 06:10 PM
Originally posted by brassmonkey
The one against Valencia? Thats on Thanksgiving. Why are they playing in Turkey again? Are they playing there because of the terror attacks in Israel? If so, it figures. The UEFA powers that be are obviously biased against Israel. I think it has less to do with safety and more to do with politics. I read an article about the FIFA president visiting Israel for the first time in like 20 years. The only reason he was there was to talk about the PLO getting a team. You can bet they wouldn't supend games from bieng played in Saudi Arabia after those attacks in Riyad. The Muslims have Fifa, and especially UEFA, in thier pocket.
Yes, its the one vs. Valencia. Its suppose to be Maccabi "Home" game and a very inticipated game, since at home, they tied Valencia 0-0,which was impressive in some ways.......
Yes, FIFA is very biased against Israel.I think for many decades they tried to eliminate israel and not even favour our claim. Not many notice, but, Israel was a founding member of the Asian Football Association. It had made the rules and organization what it is today.... And yet, when Arabs started to form there organizations of Football in the 60's and 70's, they actually overthrew us, and banned us for much of the time. Sad part was teams like Japan, Korea supported these sort of bans, which in the 80's had us playing in qualifications with Europe and in the 90's (just before officailly in UEFA) let us in Australia....and even in Australia.....Malaysia, Indoensia refused to play us.
Yes, i remember the FIFA president went to Israel in 1998 to promote peace between israeli and palestinains and he offically made the Palestinian Football association part of FIFA.. Not many notice, but Israel FA actually created the Palestinain FA, and then switched, but had both entities...but either way, the Israel FA likes Palestinian FA, and befroe the violence in Israel there were talks to have Israel vs. Palestine games...
Many do not know, but Israel FA works hard in hard circumstance to help Palestinain FA in any time. If there is a full military closure, you would actually see the chairman of Israel FA, GAVRI LEVI, go to the Gaza-Egypt border and with his authorization, allow the Palestinian NT to go to Egypt and play...or better yet, in 1998, Israel actually got Palestinain NT to sign a 5 year dead with Diadora on jerseys....
And also, near Jericho, Israel-palestinain team, together built a mini stadium...one that the fifa president had a ceremony in and also, 2 israelis with whom one was american born was lynched to death there.....how intresting.....
P.S. Kappa, I see you have added the Fire to your team list. You should have gone for San Jose man!
Yes, i did!! I decided that i should sport a MLS team..so i chose fire..... San Jose was a pick, but i got them mixed up with the sharks.....hmmmmm
who knows! I may switch sooner or later...
brassmonkey
23 Nov 2003, 11:14 AM
The Israeli Football association has petitioned to UEFA to lift the ban. UEFA says that it will stay in place. Hippocracy on the part of th Europeans. They say they want to let matches take place in Turkey, which is just as bad as Israel, worse at the moment. Here is the link http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1069487633103&p=1006953079949
MHaifa1913
23 Nov 2003, 12:29 PM
How does one start an internet petition?
Kappa18
23 Nov 2003, 05:08 PM
i think they go to www.internetpetitions.com
its one of the best cause many officals figure look into that and its very accurate and useful thing to do!
There was a website about it, but it went down. It was called STOP THE HYPOCRISY!!!!
it was sooo good!