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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Netanyahu-fights-to-keep-politics-out-of-the-game-403537
International Soccer Head Opposed to PA Call to Suspend Israel
(Jerusalem Post) Allon Sinai - Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA - the international governing body of soccer - reiterated his stance that the Israel Soccer Association has not violated any statutes and should therefore not be suspended from world soccer's governing body, after meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Tuesday. The Palestinian Soccer Association and its president, Jibril Rajoub, support a Palestinian request to ban Israel, on the agenda for FIFA's Congress on May 29. Blatter said, "I will try until the Congress begins to avoid such a situation [where a vote will be held]. Israel knows it and the Palestinians know it. It is not appropriate that in the Congress we say we shall suspend somebody."