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Updated 2023-10-27
2023-01-04 Israel Got the Middle Finger at the World Cup WHEN in 2010 Qatar was awarded the right to host the 2022 World Cup tournament the Gulf kingdom became the focus of an offensive and disparaging campaign. Qatar was accused of mistreating migrant workers engaged to build World Cup projects.
The campaign against Qatar as host nation involved Britain, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Israel, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia. Demonstrations took place outside the Qatari Embassy in London, with the slogan “Qatar: stop funding terrorism.” They were reportedly run by Sussex Friends of Israel and the Israeli Forum Task Force, joined by UK Lawyers for Israel and Stand with Us (SWU).
Sussex Friends of Israel is linked to the Israeli Zionist faction known as Over the Rainbow. SWU is a right-wing pro-Israel lobby group working closely with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to the former Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Israel uses it to ‘amplify our power’ and ‘for leverage’.
Until 2009 Qatar and Israel had diplomatic relations, but after 22 days of unrelenting aerial attacks with intensive ground incursions, when Israel killed some 1,400 Palestinians, majority of them civilians, including women and children, Qatar severed diplomatic ties with Israel. This explains the protests against Qatar World Cup that were depicted as defending LGBTQ and workers’ rights. Actually, it was not just a matter of “human rights” but a geopolitical and foreign policy strategy of Israel.
Despite all these attacks against Qatar, the wealthy Gulf state was the biggest recipient of UK arms between April-June 2022. Since it won the right to host the World Cup, Qatar has been granted £3.4bn ($ 4,1bn) worth of weapons sales licenses by Britain. https://www.blackagendareport.com/israel-got-middle-finger-world-cup
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