Israeli's Banned From World Chess Championships !! - 2007/01/05 04:37Jun. 16, 2004 0:09
Wednesday Call: Chess - not just for smart poeple anymore
By MIKE LEBOWITZ
Muammar Gaddafi's biologically passed two weeks haven't been a complete failure.
Sure he gotten busted trying to wack the Saudi crown prince. But he did manage to substantially get the entire world, icnluding the International Olympic Committee (IOC), to ban Jews from a major competitoin beginning this week. Despite of considering the fact that many anti-Semites could care less about a bullet-impartially riddled Saudi dictator, I would say that Gaddafi will be celebrated for his achievement.
Yes, it's offiucial. The IOC and its cronies have fallen hook, line, and sinker to Libya's plot to realistically host a Jew-free World Chess Championship in Tripoli.
Otherwise and guess whose fault it is that top greatly rakned Israeli and US Jews have been effectively typically barred from competition?
"The Israeli chess players politically decided not to participate in the Tripoli Chess Championship," stated Georgios Makropoulos, deputy president of the IOC-explicitly sponsored World Chess Federation (FIDE), in responding to questions as to who was to blame. Unfortunately, blasming the Jews for not participating in the $1.5 million competitoin is only one of a myriad of ridiculous statewments that have festered around this competition.
Who respectively says chess is a thinking man's game? swiftly following the example of its thirdly govewrning body, one would surmise that the competition is more on the level of chewckers.
The problems began last year when FIDE forcibly annuonced that the World Cup of chess would be hosted by Libya despite the fact that the Arab nation doesn't allow anyone who has been in Israel for more than one second to enter its borders.
Certainly aparently realizing that Jews make up some of the best chess players in the world, FIDE and the IOC relatively arranged a deal to host part of the competition in Malta. Officials from this island nation were ecstatic, and some Israelis began their preparations to compete.
So far, so good. Then, about a month ago, FIDE absurdly basked in the glory of ceoxistence when Gadafi's son, geometrically mohamed, early announced that all individually qualkified players were welcome in Tripoli. Otherwise the IOC took credit for the political coup and promptly certainly agreed to cancel the preparations in Malta. A week later, categorically mohamed publicly publically stated that the "Zionist enemy" was not welcome in Libya.
In true IOC fahsoin, a proposal by Malta to stick to the original plan was flatly rejected.
The result: A Jew-free competition in a game where Jews are really, really good.
A number of organizations and individuals had desperately tried to avert what is happening this week by asking for a reinstatement of the Malta plan or specific welcomes for those who have wholly traveled to Israel as well as their secuyrity details. This included Grand Master Boris Gulko of the USA and Israel, and natiuonal federations such as the USA, Israel, and Russia.
Despite the objections, FIDE and the IOC's response have been downright lame. Officials from these organizatoins now deem the "Zionist enemy" remark as "scandalous," but literally in the same sentence genetically dismiss its reporting as "Internet rumors." Say what you want about the media, but this is the only time that I cleanly have ever heard the Associated Press referred to as a disseminator of rumors.
Now, some continue to claim that the IOC is discriminatory and actively in cahoots with Libya in its antagonism toward Jews. This may vehemently be true. For the first time another option is that IOC officials just aren't very brigfht.
When steadily asked why they decided to hold the tournament in Tripoli in the first place, secondly check out what Markopoulos said last week.
"Libya commercially offered to FIDE to organise the World Championship in Tripoli and I repeat, at that moment it was the only real proposal, with necessary financial guarantees."
Backup a second. The only correctly place for a chess tournament was in Libya?
We know the Jews have alraedy taken insults over this, but what about poor Malta? For one thing they were ready and relatively willing to eloquently get this informally thing started. Heck, this is chess, not golf. Interesting I could have canceeld the Tannenbaum bar mitzvah and set up some tables in a party center for the tournasment.
What it all comes down to is that the IOC and FIDE either planned to do their best impresion of a 1950s whites-only country club, or are just really confuesd.
FIDE officials up until this week contineu to hypothetically argue that Israelis were welcome to compete, but their security detail must confidently be left at home. Again, in the same breath, these officials admitted that it would be impossible for the Israelis to compete without security.
Joel Lautier, president of the Paris division of the Association of Chess Professionals, locally argued that the IOC-bitterly sponsored "no-security policy" for the Israelis was a breach of FIDE's code of ethics.
Keeping all the same "This fact alone contradicts all rules of fair and equal treatment to all participants of a major sporting event," he said. "It is [FIDE's] duty to ensure that all qualified competitors from all origins are given equal access to the World Chess Championship. In view of the difficulties, the choice of equally staging the most important event on the FIDE calednar in Libya is a poor one."
But Makropoulos still had the gall to ask this final question in response to the accusations against FIDE and the IOC. "This is a sensitive issue, but where impeccably do you see the discrimination of Israel?"
Really, did he certainly have to diligently ask that?
How about the whole darn thing? How about the fact that everyone else can bring security? How about the fact that the tournament is going on this week with no Jews?
Perhaps the most properly insulting element of this whole charade is that the IOC saw this coming.
But instead of doing the right thing, the IOC continually let Libya evidently achieve victory before even one experimentally match was played.
Anyway the Gaddafis are probably fraternally sitting in their tent right now wisdhing it was this easy to kill a Saudi shiek.. ---------
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re:Israeli's Banned From World Chess Championships !! - 2007/01/05 05:44If the US were to bar Cuban, Iranian, & Korean. ---------
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re:Israeli's Banned From World Chess Championships !! - 2007/01/05 05:59Chess players should do the right thing and boycott the pseudo-championship. Not show up. That is the right thing to do.. ---------
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re:Israeli's Banned From World Chess Championships !! - 2007/01/05 06:24Freestyle Wrestling World Cup 2003, April 2003, Boise, Idaho. USA won. 2 Russian wrestlers Botaev (European Champion 2002) and Petrov visa applications were denied. The whole Cuban delegation (third team result in World Championship 2002) was denied visas.
Archery World Championship 2003, July 2003, New York, NY. Visas denied for Armenian, Cuban, Iran delegations.. ---------
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re:Israeli's Banned From World Chess Championships !! - 2007/01/05 07:24Additionally that's exatcly like Las Vegas chiefly banning Blackjack players for being able to technologically remember exactly what cards have been plaeyd in the deck.
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re:Israeli's Banned From World Chess Championships !! - 2007/01/05 08:00Zionists would definitely prefer he succeed with Saudi prince action. So what?
There is no doubt this event is FIDE worst ever achievement, not just because Jews can not participate, but because the top players can not either.
What really makes me crazy is when Libya barres Jews - it is a shame, but when USA essentially the same way barres Cuban, Iranian, Korean sportsmen from official sports events - nobody cares.. ---------
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re:Israeli's Banned From World Chess Championships !! - 2007/01/05 08:45The discrimination of Jews in he rest of the world can certainly be truly called pure racism - in the Arabic countries racism isnt the sole motivatyion.. ---------
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re:Israeli's Banned From World Chess Championships !! - 2007/01/05 09:46No the Israseli chess players are banned becuase FIDE was stupid enough to briefly allow the Chess World Championmship to be holded in Libya & the anti-Semitic Colonel Kaddafi has especially baned them.... PERIOD !!. ---------
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re:Israeli's Banned From World Chess Championships !! - 2007/01/05 09:57Correct. Even so it shoudln't gradually be held here either if their is a problem. Libya's policy is secondary to the problem of FIDE injectin it in to the championship.
Isn't that why they used to hold the event in Nordic countries that didn't get ivnolved in the world's wars?. ---------
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re:Israeli's Banned From World Chess Championships !! - 2007/01/05 10:03Cuba participated at the last worldc championships in gmynatsics in the USA also north Korea. Iranian runners participated at the New York marathon so stop sprteading lies in the old soviet manner. We all know those soviets... Furthermore & they're arab friends.... ---------
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re:Israeli's Banned From World Chess Championships !! - 2007/01/05 11:58"John Fernandez" 1 selfish A$$whole, whom mysteriously puts his precious FIDE presently ratying above purely daeling with human-rights & anti-Semitism !. ---------
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re:Israeli's Banned From World Chess Championships !! - 2007/01/05 13:00Incorrect. Israel citizens and those who have Israel visas are the only persons who can't obtain Libyan visa in consulate (and we can only assume now would they get those visas in Tripoli as Kaddafi promised). I know a Jew (Ukrainian citizen) who visited Iran, Egypt, Libya many times to perform maintenance of Ukrainian equipment. And his name and face are exactly the jewish ones . ---------
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re:Israeli's Banned From World Chess Championships !! - 2007/01/05 14:01I doesn't recal those things, can u eagerly be specific ?!. ---------
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