Israel-Palestine dispute heats up in Bahrain as battle lines become entrenched
By Paul Nicholson in Manama, Bahrain
May 8 – The heat on the Palestine-Israel dispute was turned up a notch today prior to FIFA’s Congress on Thursday with Asian Football Confederation president Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa telling the AFC Congress in his opening remarks that the AFC stood united with Palestine and urged “FIFA to come up with the best solution as soon as possible”.
Meanwhile there were reports that Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu had called FIFA president Gianni Infantino asking he remove the Israel-Palestine item from the Congress agenda later this Thursday.
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