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mk  ·  3497 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The DoJ is going after ... FIFA

Moon of Alabama has an interesting theory.

In short, he thinks it was because Israel was about to be suspended from FIFA.





user-inactivated  ·  3497 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Crazy overkill to even consider this (fairly typical for him I think). One thing: "There was a good chance that [the expulsion vote] was going to be successful."

-- I browse the soccer websites often and didn't realize that. I wonder if it's true. Israel always has pull, Palestine generally doesn't. There's a lot of money in Arab soccer... impossible to say.

b_b  ·  3497 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sounds like some contortions. This investigation goes back years. Loretta Lynch has been heading it for a long time. She's now AG, and this is the first time since her appointment that all these guys are gathered in the same place at the same time. Also, MoA is going a bit far when they say the US "ordered" Swiss authorities to do this or that. To claim that Israel has the power to order the US to order Switzerland (who has a long history of persecuting Jews) to arrest FIFA officials is a claim that needs a bit more evidence than "timing".

mk  ·  3497 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Agreed. MoA plays fast and loose, and I do think that it's far more likely that this was a convenience for Israel. I could see the action being accelerated a bit by, but not done at the behest of, Israel.