Lionel Messi along with his Barcelona teammates will be a part of a Middle Eastern tour in August that will include sporting workshops with regard to both Israeli and Palestinian Power Arab children, AFP reported on Wednesday.
"FC Barcelona, by way of the Israeli government and also the Palestinian National Authority, will organize in August a Barcelona Peace Tour, an initiative which will include two sporting events for peace by which children from Israel and additionally Palestine will participate and in which all FC Barcelona players will be present, " said a statement in the club's website quoted as a result of AFP.
"This project may be made possible thanks on the immeasurable collaboration of a Israeli and Palestinian health systems, " the statement proclaimed.
"FC Barcelona has turn into a point of dialogue concerning Israelis and Palestinians. The Barcelona foundation has organized sporting events with the children and students of both communities in past times and it will continue to take some action in a persistent attempt for peace, freedom together with democracy, " the statement said, according to AFP.
In February, Barcelona president Sandro Rosell implied a soccer match between Israel plus the PA with players from both sides within the conflict as a step towards Middle East calm.
"The idea is to help the two peoples to achieve peace with a meeting when Barcelona stars and players in the two sides would engage, " Rosell explained as he visited Israel and the PA.
The head for the Palestinian Authority's soccer federation, Jibril Rajoub, said however not wearing running shoes was "too soon" in a match against Israel, although he praised taking that approach.
"This idea would cause a quake in the area if it were to occur, but it is too soon and the ball was in the Israeli camp, " said Rajoub.
"The conditions are certainly not ready for this strategy. Israel does not even recognize us to be a sporting entity, " they added.
Several months ago Hamas reacted furiously following on from the Barcelona soccer team invited Gilad Shalit to wait a Barcelona-Real Madrid derby, demanding that FC Barcelona always keep him away, and urging Muslim media not to ever broadcast the game in case the Israeli attended.
"We ask all Muslim, Arab and Palestinian media not to broadcast this game in the event that Shalit attends, " Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri proclaimed.
"FC Barcelona's invitation on the criminal Shalit for them to pay homage to him can be an offence to sentiments in the Palestinian people and to help you Arabs and Muslims, because Shalit is an Israeli soldier who was simply on a tank getting involved in the killing of Palestinian civilians when he was captured (in 2006), inches he said.
PA soccer player Mahmoud Sarsak later said he'd attend the derby, and not in the same stand up as Gilad Shalit. Sarsak have been imprisoned in an Israeli imprisonment on terrorism charges together with was freed and came back to his home around Gaza after observing a good hunger strike of nearly 3 months.
Rajoub, a senior PENNSYLVANIA official, himself in way back when supported an Arab boycott in the Adidas company, because in the sponsorship it gave to your Jerusalem Marathon.
He recently praised use of violence against Israel in addition to said that "if we'd a nuke, we'd have used it this very breakfast. "
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