Ireland vs Israel - To play or not to play, that is the question Read OP for Mod Warning

I think a point many miss is hunger. As a nation we fell victim to a famine thanks to the British. So when the Zionist regime imposed famine on Gaza as well as a genocide it revolted the Irish people except for Alan Shatter and his fellow Zionists. I mention Shatter as he's probably the most high profile Zionist in Ireland and everybody knows who he is. The Israeli's forced malnutrition on the Palestinian people. That's sick.

Ultimately I'm not in favour of the match being played. If it is then let players be allowed to pull out on grounds of conscience and not be punished for so doing.

Might explain why theres such high levels of loneliness.

The guy in the Whitehouse always starts wars, he is the most likely one on earth to start one but I hear you😉

FAI have no real option but to play, their primary responsibility and obligation is to their employees and playing matches is the primary source of income to fulfil that obligation.

Its all very well for people who dont have to account for the fall out to criticise the FAI or demand a boycott, it's very different if you are the one who might end up having to explain to hundreds of employees why they havent been paid recently and wont be for a while etc.

Brian kerr was criticising the FAI recently for making people redundant yet now he wants them to boycott two games which could cost them €10M or more. The FAI are not going to be able to borrow their way out of that hole.

I have watched A lot of the SM clips of former players, pundits etc, and nobody seems to be bringing this up to any degree. The FAI are in a difficult position. But the simple reality is they cannot take a stand that pretty much nobody else is willing to, and sacrifice jobs etc and the expectation that they do that is nuts frankly.

The other thing that bothers me in general is the way the loony lefties bang the drum about all these issues around the world and go on like Ireland has some sort of actual influence on them. We are a tiny little dot on the global scale and the over inflated sense of self importance is staggering.

There is one person on the face of this earth who actually matters whennit comes to ending all this and that's Donald J Trump. No amount of posturing by Pb4P or the Shinners or Daniel Lambert is going to change that.

Back in 2025 the FAI voted to request that Israel be banned from international football competition.

But that vote came from the grassroots who can do these things without a care for the financial impact.

At the time the top brass said that they would play Israel if drawn against them.

But it's much easier for someone down the food chain to vote for something like this.

It's like the GAA and Allianz, the higher ups know why it would harm the association, but that doesn't stop the grassroots demanding a boycott.

Peter Canavan, Pat Gilroy are two recent examples. They are calling for a boycott based on their own personal opinion essentially. They aren't the ones who have to make ends meet etc, or deal with the fall out of breaking contracts.

Likewise Daniel Lambert, Brian Kerr, Roy Curtis, Stephen Bradley and the many pundits on TV etc. If FAI boycotted the games and made 50 people redundant as a result the same people would be up in arms over people losing their jobs.

I hope Bohemians draw an Israeli team in Europe, the fall out would be hysterical

I hope Bohemians draw an Israeli team in Europe, the fall out would be hysterical

So we get to the crux of your views, you couldn't really give a shít about any of it, you just want to stick it to the libs.

I wonder will the FAI reduce the prize of the tickets for this one. If so it may get more bums on seats. I'd be tempted myself if they were priced at a reasonable level. Let's see

Where did I say i didn't give a **** about any of it?

Doesn't really matter what I think, I cannot change any of it so im not going to stress myself endlessly like some people are when i have my own life to get on with