Steelman · slot A
A handshake cannot launder a genocide
A Palestinian football administrator would argue —I had just spent fifteen minutes at the podium explaining, with documentation, how Israeli clubs operate inside illegal West Bank settlements in direct violation of Fifa's own statutes — and the response from the chair was to wave the Israeli vice-president over for a photograph. That is not neutrality; it is participation. To shake that hand on that stage, while children are being pulled from rubble in Gaza and while the man on the other side speaks for Netanyahu's government, would have told every Palestinian watching that our suffering is a backdrop for someone else's reconciliation theatre. We are not a prop. The cameras do not get to resolve what the bombs have not stopped doing.