July 2016

By 16 July the number of signatories had topped 100,000 and was still growing.   Following his visit to Gaza and Israel 1 July 2016 Tokyo Sexwale, leader of FIFA’s “Israel Palestine Monitoring Group”, will be meeting FIFA President Infantino to  decide how to proceed.  FIFA aims to present a solution to the FIFA Council meeting on 13/14  …

The HBK website made the following announcement (original text in French below). Algeria remains firmly opposed to the criminal Israeli entity. Algeria is one of the few Arab countries not to have diplomatic relations, trade and even less sports with Israel.  Indeed this country, which wanted to organize a friendly match with Ghana on September …

FIFA has taken the unusual step of producing a high quality video of football in Palestine.  It is entitled “Football unites – inspires in Palestine”, lasts just over five minutes, and is available at  http://www.fifa.com/about-fifa/videos/y=2016/m=7/video=football-unifies-inspires-in-palestine-2811289.html  and was published on 6 July 2016. After emphasising the importance of football in unifying Palestinian people and showing the …

Inside World Football reports that “Sexwale emphasises dialogue as search for Palestine solution stumbles”.  The text of the article is given below and reveals that Sexwale did not manage to meet with the Israeli Minister of Culture and Sport;  it seems that there was no progress in dialogue with the Israelis.  This is no surprise and …