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Indonesia Pulls Out of Fed Cup
06:58 AM EST July 04, 2006
The Associated Press
JAKARTA, Indonesia
Indonesia pulled out of a planned Fed Cup tennis match in Israel to
protest that country's actions in the Gaza Strip, a foreign ministry spokesman
said Tuesday.
"We are witnessing a military invasion by Israel and the arrest of scores
of Palestinian officials," Desra Percaya said. "It is now impossible to play
there."
Moshe Haviv, the director of the Israeli Tennis Federation, said
Indonesia would be fined if it doesn't attend its scheduled match.
"We haven't heard anything about this," he said. "Usually in tennis, we
don't mix sports and politics."
Israel's Foreign Ministry had no comment.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, had earlier asked
that the venue be changed to a neutral country because it has no diplomatic
relations with Israel.
But in May, the government said it would allow the team to travel to
Israel for the matches which were scheduled for July 15-16 in Tel Aviv.
The two countries have met twice in the Fed Cup - in Italy (1974) and
Japan (1981) - and Israel won both times. Indonesia must win July's playoff to
stay in World Group II.
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