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Some bad news: Israel have been given permission by UEFA to play their qualifiers at home. Tel Aviv will not be the easiest place to go get a result. Would have much preferred to play them in a nutural venue.
Is anyone going to travel to this? I don't fancy it much.
aside from the fact that they shouldn't be in the UEFA zone because they're not a european country, no way they should be allowed play home games in "their" "country"
They were always going to play their game against us there as FIFA had previously given them permission to play all their WC2006 home qualifiers in Israel.Quote:
Originally Posted by finlma
There's no way I'd go there, not with Sharon hell-bent on goading the Palestinians and the wider Arab world into all-out war. But I digress...
:) PP
I heard it this afternoon too and there's a statement on the FAI site 'welcoming the news'.
I know every home fan (doesn't matter where you're from) has the right to see their team play on home soil but frankly, this is one fixture I'll be skipping.
Begs to wonder how large the FAI corporate group travelling to that one will be.
Wonder if the players have reservations about this? Wasn't there a similar issue with Chelsea players a few years back?
I'll be 16 so if my parents let me go I think it'd be one heck of an experience. I am signing up for a gap year programme at a hostpital in Jeruselam anyway.......not sure what Israeli fans are like though?Quote:
Originally Posted by finlma
Fair Play to ya... you sound like one crazy mofo!Quote:
Originally Posted by liam88
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Originally Posted by Robinski
I'm going.Obviously would have preferred Cyprus but what can you do.
Won't take any public transport(taxi's everywhere) and won't be staying to see the sights,just in for the game and if possible out the same day.
Flights are cheaper than I expected provided you go from London...
Setting aside the chance of violence (it's probably not as bad as ye think, judging by what people thought of the north and the reality of it), I wouldn't go on principle. I don't want to give any of my money to the Israeli economy or help fund Sharon's oppression of the Palestinian by paying taxes to his government. They shouldn't be in UEFA anyway.
[QUOTE=brendy_éire] I don't want to give any of my money to the Israeli economy or help fund Sharon's oppression of the Palestinian by paying taxes to his government[QUOTE]
Let's get some perspective here...By wanting to follow the national side,your hardly endorsing Israeli occupation,methods,poilicies,Sharon,Netinyahoo or anything else since the states formation.I just want to see the football first hand.
Big up Liam! I was 18 when I went to the ZOP in 84 in much more peacefull times even though when I popped down to Jerusalem there was a shoot-out in the morning and I got my a*se pinched by a souvenir shopkeeper in the afternoon. :eek: I was hoping for a neutral venue this time just out of pure selfishness as I'll give this one a miss. My Haj has been fulfilled and I will return to the Mount of Olives at Armegeddon, or whatever. Look, the Holy Land is a top place to visit: Shame it's currently run by a bunch of nazis. Stop the carping and f*ck the economics: How many here have visited the great satan on the other side of the pond. As for the hospital gap year lark: Good luck.Quote:
Originally Posted by liam88
Big up also to Mordechai Vanunu! :D
Very bad news, I would not be going anyway but I certaintly would
not go there, not in the current climate.
It will be prime target for terrorists, just like the Moscow? Olympics.
Catholics and Jews in the same stadium.
Wouldn't be surprised if Roys hip injury flares up for this one, I doubt
Fergie will be to happy sending O'Shea either.
I am surprised they didn't arrange it in Faluhja? to prove it was safe.
Bloody madness :rolleyes:
If it goes ahead in Israel and a lot can change by the time we play them next March I for one will be going. CAnt wait its a place id never visit otherwise so football gives us the chance. Will be an interesting experience to say the least but prob just do an overnighter maybe ..
Don't think this one's for me. Haven't got enough Karma left to be catching buses in Tel Aviv. Fair play to Liam88 and only1kilabne though. You'll be part a select but noble few.
the very existence of Israel endorses those policies because the country's founding is based on kicking palestinians out of their homes and shooting them if they argue. Israel should be boycotted and shunned in every way possible. I look forward to booing their national anthem loudly at Landsdowne RoadQuote:
Originally Posted by Beavis
What about the US? Kicking out and murdering the indigenous people! Australia? Canada? Even Ireland if you go back far enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Éanna
I'm no supporter of the ZOP, but as Europeans, let's take some of the responsibility for this mess. From the time my forefathers kicked the Jews out of Spain/converted to Catholicism on pain of expulsion or worse (take your pick really) to Heydrich's final solution, we've hardly made life easy for the Jews. Even in Ireland, that beacon of tolerance. X amount of Jews have been kicked out of Arabic countries since 1948 - many wealthy but arriving with nothing but their a*ses in the ZOP. Have these countries done anything to house the Palestinians in the homes of their former citizens. No, it's far more beneficial to have them dumped in refugee camps.
You're spot on there, no arguing with you. Europe is responsible to a large degree for the mess the world is in right now as far as I'm concerned. However, the way to atone for past mistakes is to show others what we did wrong and help them not to make the same mistakes- not actively fund them repeating our mistakes.
Defo with taking the taxi's dude, rather do a couple of hour's waiting for a taxi ala Dublin on a weekend night then trusting the local transport.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beavis
Think i'll leave this one out, and would go along with what Davros said :eek: for people going to leave travel arrangment's till as near as possible, had all that with Belgrade and Macadonia during the Kosavo crisis with the match's being cancelled at the last minute and rightly so cosidering in the situation, and there's every chance it could happon again with this one.
A good definition I once heard of the ZOP is of someone being thrown out of the first floor of his own house and who lands on someone else consequently breaking his arm. The person with the broken arm rightly complains and so the person thrown out of the window breaks the other arm while the one who threw him out laughs and shuts the window behind him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Éanna
I share peoples' atitudes NOT about the legitimacy of a Jewish State but where that state is. If the (Euro-American) UN were so concerned about founding a Jewish state they should have made one in Europe or North America, not on someone else's land because of some mystical land 2,000 years ago that most Jews have no link with whatsoever. Anyway it's a complicated argument and there's enough of those about Ireland. For once I'm with the 'keep sport out of politics' brigade only because IMO the Jews are not solely responsible for this mayhem, although they can do more to solve it than breaking any more bones.
What will happen when Israel play in Dublin?
I've read on other board that people will try to boo their national anthem which I think would be a real shame. It would just make us look like the ignorant english yobs who do it at every one of their games.
If everyone in the stadium turned their backs during it tho...