Sports and Politics are inseparable

A wide sector of world public opinion believed that there was no link between politics and sports, and considered that sport was another matter that had nothing to do with the political contradictions between countries and peoples. This view was promoted by the Western capitalist and Israeli media, with the aim of achieving purely political goals. Winter and other global sports platforms promote the consideration of sports as another matter, not linked to politics and its calculations. That is why they, out of a previous determination and insistence, first agreed to hold international matches in Arab or Islamic countries that reject normalization with the Israeli colonial state and deliberately included in their programs, and with previous design and insistence. The participation of players from Israel with Arab or Muslim players who reject free normalization in order to achieve penetration and normalization by bypassing methods with these countries, not through the participation of players only, but by raising the flag of the colonial state in the countries’ lands, and playing the “national” anthem, which means an acknowledgment of dealing with it, And allowing players, teams, clubs, coaches and their fans to travel and enter the country, and so on gradually it is entered into the cycle of free normalization, as happened in Malaysia And Indonesia, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and other countries that refused in principle the participation of Israeli delegations on their soil, or their meeting with players or teams from other countries with Israelis.

And during the past year, many heroes of the Arab and Islamic peoples refused to meet and match with any Israeli. Although some lost their world championship role for that, and by a decision of the international federations, these champions from teams and players were banned from playing for a number of years. Nevertheless, they sacrificed and gave up their personal gains in defense of their national and national convictions, and in solidarity with their brotherly Palestinian people in their liberation struggle.

Unlike many Arab and Islamic countries that opened their doors to the Israeli political, economic, sports and cultural leaders, and raised the flag of Israel and played its racist “national” anthem, which targets every Arab person. But this is not the title and message of the article, so it is not the time to discuss it.

What I wanted to stop in front of is the hateful racism in which the international sports bodies were involved in the Russian-Ukrainian war, the Paralympic Committee, FIFA and others, including the International Cat Federation, which imposed harsh conditions in dealing with cats bred in Russia, and those belonging to Russian people And it placed a veto on the import of cats from the Russian Federation, starting last Tuesday, corresponding to early March.

With the outbreak of war immediately, the Winter Paralympic Committee put conditions on the Russian and Belarusian teams and athletes, first that they not play under the name of their country, second that the flag of their country not be raised, thirdly after 24 hours, specifically last Thursday, corresponding to 3/3 of this year, canceled the aforementioned decision, and took a decision By banning the participation of Russian and Belarusian teams and players in international matches, FIFA has also moved football sports matches scheduled in Russia to other countries.

The Paralympic Committee justified its position after being criticized by some federations, saying that it had taken the decision to ban "in order to preserve the integrity of the Games and the safety of all participants." She added that some teams and some athletes threatened "not to participate, which would affect the success of the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games." The committee's racist and contradictory statement continued that "the situation in the Olympic Village for athletes is deteriorating and ensuring the protection of these athletes has become impossible." From whom? From the Russian and Belarusian bogeyman?

In light of this, the world federations were divided in the issue of dealing with Russian athletes, teams and teams, while the International and European Football Associations decided to exclude its team from the 2022 World Cup, and not allow its teams and clubs to participate in any tournament, and the International Athletics Federation followed suit, the Professional and Professional Associations decided In tennis let them participate. But under a neutral flag. Russia has also been stripped of sports championships on its soil, most notably in tennis, the World Volleyball Championship and the Russian Grand Prix in Formula One.

This is the capitalist West, with its wrath and its wrath that unveils its ugly racist face, as they did in distinguishing between human beings fleeing the war between the Ukrainians and the Russians, between those with blue eyes, blond hair, colored and black people, resorting to the same sorting and racial segregation in the field of sports, and aimed at dividing and disintegrating federations and clubs. sports. At the same time, they were the same, for today and for tomorrow as well, sending and forcing the players of the Arab and Islamic peoples to confront the colonial Israelis to impose normalization on them. I was with me, and international public opinion would understand that some sports teams or people from Ukraine or those in solidarity with them take a position on participating with Russian or Belarusian clubs. This is a concept and a project. But this is illegal, incomprehensible and not justified by international sports bodies, and they may not commit such a sin and the crime of apartheid, and work to separate sports from politics. But it is impossible to achieve this, as sport is an integral part of politics, whoever wants it and refuses it.

They know that such a decision was primarily aimed at sabotaging the winter session in Beijing, and this matter is directly related to the decision of the US administration, which announced that it and some European countries would not participate in the winter session; Secondly, confusion and it can reach the disruption of the football World Cup in Qatar 2022 by taking such a decision; Third, these decisions will result in a vertical and horizontal division in the international sports federations. Which carries with it deeper dimensions to the rest of the areas of life between the poles and countries of the world.

I hope that the Olympic and Paralympic bodies, the International Federation of Cats and other international institutions will realize the dangers and repercussions of unfair decisions against sports and athletes in all fields as a result of arbitrary policies against sports.