By Daniel Vanhove
Even without being a football fan, it is impressive to see how much the long-planned 2022 World Cup organized in Qatar is generating negative reactions, sometimes going so far as to call for a boycott. And for those who do not make the political link between these planetary sporting events and high finance, the most surprising – like the usual hypocritical astonishment of the politico-media sphere – comes from those who denounce today the way in which the draws for these World Cups take place and are awarded.
Some will say that it’s ‘so much the better’ and that everything needs a start in this world of sport and football in particular, which has become a world of more than indecent money in view of the astronomical sums that pass through it, rarely transparently. The fact that FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) is deeply corrupt is no secret and several of these senior executives are being prosecuted for various frauds and embezzlement, going as far as laundering dirty money.
Looking back, what do we discover? Would the draw for the allocation of Qatar as the host country have been the only one to be specifically rigged? Who would be naive enough to believe that? On the contrary, it seems that the practices surrounding the designation of the host country for the World Cup have always taken place in the same opacity, except for one constant: the amount of checks and kickbacks of which it is difficult to determine who the beneficiaries are, except that they all belong to this well-guarded sphere of money stashed in tax havens that States – despite being past masters in controlling the slightest acts and gestures of ordinary citizens – seem to have so much trouble tracing the footsteps.
Or perhaps we would suddenly discover that the working conditions for the construction of these gigantic sports complexes would have been particularly inhuman in the case of Qatar, leading moreover to the deaths of several thousand workers who came for the majority from third-world countries ? Certainly, but we could also be interested in and insist on, the thousands of African kids who dig gold and/or coltan mines – among others – for the well-being of our “democracies”. Or on that of immigrants who try to reach the shores of Europe by having risked their lives and who are suddenly allowed to drown by the tens of thousands in the Mediterranean, in a crass indifference that our countries ” cannot accommodate all the misery in the world,” according to this mantra now taken up by a number of Europeans, often themselves issuing from the immigration of their parents, grandparents or great-grandparents, repeating it to the winds as soon as it is a question of showing a little solidarity with the collateral victims of what our governments in the service of finance have put in place as a foreign policy regarding countries that they have become accustomed to exploiting as much as they can.
Thus, much has already been said and written about this World Cup in Qatar and certain analyses are really worth dwelling on, as they point to this double standard, two measures which now constitute the DNA of Western approaches to everything that does or does not relate directly or indirectly to their sphere of interest. To all these interesting analyses available to anyone who wants to open up to an approach other than that of the High Mass of “bought” journalists in the service of the dominant media (1), I would like to add an element which undoubtedly contributes to this somewhat “orchestrated” selective indignation behind the scenes .
In reality, the FIFA World Cup in Qatar – the first Arab country where it has taken place – has an eminently political aspect. Whose winner is already known, as well as the big loser. Whether in the stands or outside the stadiums, Palestine is ultra-present via its flag, its banners, its keffiyehs and other multiple armbands hoisted regularly by citizens who show their solidarity with this people martyred by a regime of assassins, regardless of the government that presides over it. And all the states that collaborate in the rise and development of this abject regime take it as the reflection of their high rank. This is to say that some are indeed struggling to multiply the attacks against Qatar and the anti-Israeli demonstrations that take place there every day. The Zionist journalists who were to cover the event are there at their own expense. They only know how to be creative to try to hide their place of residence and pass themselves off as citizens other than Israelis, so much are they rejected and jeered at. One or the other has already left the scene and returned to take refuge in this infamous colony, since many fans interviewed after a match bluntly declare the non-existence of Israel and rightly qualify the country of “occupied Palestine”.
The humiliation for Israel’s apartheid colonial regime is at its height. The pundits of this odious regime and all those who directly or indirectly support it have to “eat their supporters’ hats”. Not a day goes by without Palestine being honored by a multitude of fans of all origins. This is to say that, despite the colossal sums invested for decades in a false narrative portraying the Palestinians as terrorists and the Israelis as victims, the citizens of the world are not fooled. The image and reputation of this criminal regime is at its worst ever. No wonder some –it is interesting to point out which ones – are increasing calls for a boycott of the World Cup in Qatar. Behind their apparent humanitarian concerns, we understand what motivates them. In reality, the big winner of the 2022 World Cup is now known, it is Palestine. And the big loser is certainly the colony called “Israel”… or what’s left of it!
Source: https://reseauinternational.net/coupe-du-monde-de-foot-pourquoi-ce-qatar-bashing-insistant/
See also: Morocco celebrates historic Word Cup win with Palestinian flag | The Times of Israel
