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The football carnival has ended in Qatar. Messi's Argentina is the FIFA 2022 champion, but the real winner at the biggest sporting show on earth is a country that wasn't even playing. Palestine.
Qatar's particular brand of journalistic repression has been on display for all to see as it hosts the 2022 World Cup.
From the blog of Allia Bukhari at The Times of Israel
The “normalization deals” between the Israeli regime and some Arab governments have failed to stamp out hatred of people in Arab countries towards the apartheid regime, says Iran.
Before the FIFA World Cup soccer championships began in Qatar 10 days ago, Israelis were optimistic that the event could break cultural barriers in sports and in the culture at large. The mood is more somber now, as Israeli journalists and other visitors encountered hostility and threats from anti-Semitic fans and Qataris in the general population.