Kosher US DOJ Attacks FIFA Days Before Israel Suspension Vote

[Idaho Kid]

The timing, just two days before the FIFA Congress, is extremely suspicious. Being kicked out of FIFA would be another major blow to Israel's rapidly disintegrating "legitimacy," and given the US government's long history of providing diplomatic cover for Israel at the UN, the possibility of a political motivation for today's actions by the Justice Department cannot be dismissed so easily.

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by Richard Edmondson

Is the US prosecution of FIFA politically motivated? If so, the message being transmitted isn't very subtle.

That's Loretta Lynch, America's brand new attorney general (she was sworn in exactly one month ago today) announcing indictments on corruption charges against officials with FIFA, the international soccer federation.

"This Department of Justice is determined to end these practices, to root out corruption and to bring wrongdoers to justice," says Lynch. 

Root out corruption? The US Justice Department still has not sent a single Wall Street executive to jail in connection with the 2008 financial crisis. In fact, back on February 17 of this year, Eric Holder, the former attorney general, announced that his department would determine within 90 days whether or not file charges against individual executives with the largest banks for actions taken pertaining to the collapse. That deadline passed on May 18 without a single indictment being announced.

Now we have the Justice Department patting themselves on the back over prosecutions of members of a football association. Are these people really put out with FIFA because of insufficient numbers of soccer fields built for children in developing countries, as Lynch alludes to in the above video? Or is there something else behind these indictments?

Lynch's press conference comes just two days before FIFA is scheduled to hold its annual congress in Zurich. One of the items up for consideration at the congress is a vote on whether or not to suspend Israel from the association. If two thirds of the organization's members vote in favor of the suspension, Israel will be barred from competing.

The measure has been introduced by the Palestinian Football Association and stems from a number of grievances including arrests of Palestinian football players and limitations on their movement between Gaza Strip and the West Bank. And on January 31 of this year, two players were critically injured by gunfire from Israeli soldiers as they were on their way home from a practice in al-Ram, in the central West Bank.

Jawhar Nasser Jawhar, 19, and Adam Abd al-Raouf Halabiya, 17, were both shot repeatedly and then beaten, and have been told by doctors they will never play football again.

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[yankeedoodle]

"Now, with FIFA's boat already rocking, member states will probably be loath to pile one controversy on another. FIFA President Sepp Blatter, already opposed to Israel's suspension (he met last week with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas) is probably looking to avoid two crises on his hands at once," the Times of Israel stated. 

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