"Injury Will Keep Federer Out of Davis Cup vs. U.S."
C1, Wednesday 2/18/09,
By Christopher Clarey
Considering the story about Peer came at the end of a larger article on Roger Rederer, there is no room to complain that this was insufficient reporting.
Tournament officials speak of "antagonized" fans "who have watched live television coverage of recent attacks in Gaza."
The tournament statement went on to cite "anti-Israel protests against Peer during a tournament last month in New Zealand raised security concerns for a prospective visit to Dubai," as well as the "many tennis fans of different nationalities that we have here" who would be "alienated" or "put at risk".
That tennis fans would be alienated by the presence of an Israeli tennis player, or that this is even being used as an excuse, speaks volumes about the global campaign to delegitimize Israel.
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Daniel,
ReplyDeleteDespite the banning of the tennis players, Dubai represents a different kind of arab-muslim nation. Dubai is a city motivated by commerce and profit. Qatar is another emirate driven by trade. In fact, it has among the highest GDPs per capita.
How do you propose the Israel fortify its trade relationship with these commerce driven countries?
Also, the Qatari PM told Sarkozy that he would advocate for Shalit's release. See article in link.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1065675.html
How can Israel engage countries like Qatar to be an advocate for normalized relations?
An equally relevant question is how the Qatar PM can influence leaders in the UAE since apparently Qatar is more friendly to Israel than the UAE.
ReplyDeleteDaniel,
ReplyDeleteYou refer to the banned tennis player as "israeli." What do you mean by "israeli"?
My understanding is that "israeli" is not a legal identification in Israel.
In other words, when you fill out a census in Israel, your options are "Jew, Muslim, Christian" ,etc.
Do you think Israeli should be a legal ethnicity?
How do you think such a policy strengthens or alienates arabs living, born, voting in Israel?
I am also interested in putting this question in the context of past leaders.
What would some of the 19th century zionists make of it?
What did Golda, Begin, Ben Gurion have to say?
Is this position identification by religion a directive of Israel's orthodox rabbis?
If so, what are the pros and cons of the role the orthodox rabbis play in the laws of the land?
Shabbat Shalom
Abes,
ReplyDeleteYou write that Qatar is more "friendly" than the UAE towards Israel.
It is unclear what you mean by "friendly" and, hence, its converse - not friendly.
Your use of "friendly" is so vague and subjective as to be worthless in a discussion that demands rational arguments based on empirical information.
Consider using a rigorous rubic to evaluate the degree of "friendliness."
ie (very concisely, consider the economic and diplomatic relationship)
Do the countries have direct diplomatic relations?
What is the trade between the countries?
Instead of emotional adjectives try specific, evidence based nouns.
In this way, you can put the "science" back into the social science of diplomacy and political analysis.