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All of your points above spot onIsn't it just. One wonders what survivors of the recent and essentially internationally unpunished East Timorese genocide would make of all this.
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All of your points above spot onIsn't it just. One wonders what survivors of the recent and essentially internationally unpunished East Timorese genocide would make of all this.
Exactly. This is why I am wholly against banning countries. By all means, ban individual athletes whose personal conduct falls short and countries are of course free to stage a boycott if they wish.As with oh so many issues, a lot of people seem to forget that people who take the opposite view to them are just as sincere in their belief that they're obviously morally right.
You can't say it's fine for Country A to arbitrarily ban Country B's national team from an international competition for political reasons because you don't like Country B, but then complain when Country C (who you don't like) bans Country D (who you support).
Those cheering Indonesia today need to recognise that plenty of people would think it equally justified to ban Iranian footballers from taking part in the World Cup next summer, or ban Palestine from LA 2028.
It's just as well for Indonesia that no host nations decided to stop their athletes travelling to the Olympics etc when Suharto was conducting a genocide against the people of East Timor.
There are many that feel that October 7th was Hamas committing genocide on Israel.Israeli genocide of Palestine
The newest class of invertebrates !spineless cowards
That's appalling.The lack of communication with the Israeli delegation is disturbing as well: https://www.one.co.il/Article/503526.html
"According to various reports in the international media, the Israeli Association has learned that the authorities in Indonesia will prevent the Israeli delegation from participating in the upcoming World Championships without any excuse or legal basis. In addition, we learned this morning that the official website of the competition does not include Israel among the participating countries"
So they learned about it from social media, and it doesn't sound like the Indonesian federation, Indonesian government, or FIG reached out to tell them their visas were being revoked and they wouldn't be allowed to compete. Not shockingly, they're considering legal action.
If there were credible terrorism threats, I doubt that the Israeli athletes would have learned via social media that their visas had been cancelled.FIG statement mentioned safety and peace of mind. Maybe there was threats of a terririst attack on the event.