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Sepp Blatter will visit Israel tomorrow to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before talking to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday, in an attempt to end what he calls his “biggest challenge.”
Palestine have been calling for a vote to expel Israel from football’s governing body.
But Blatter, who is currently running for a fifth term as Fifa president, is opposing the vote in hope that Israel makes it “easier for Palestinian and foreign footballers and sports equipment to get in and out of the Palestinian territories.”
Dabbagh and his Palestinian team’s World Cup campaign may have come to an end, but it has given fans hope amid war and tragedy, writes JOHN DUERDEN
The PFA is urging Fifa action against illegal Israeli settlement clubs and incitement to genocide, writes JAMES NALTON
