Dana AlKurd (Dana Al-Kurd) — episode contributor on Palestine

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Behind the Bastards · It Could Happen Here Weekly 240 · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

And fans in Doha who had traveled from across North Africa and the Middle East were wearing Palestinian keffiyahs, chanting for Palestine.

Now, the Moroccan government's deal with Israel did not transfer to the Moroccan people.

And this is the key insight from the World Cup, the one that I keep coming back to, that governments can sign papers, but they can't really sign on behalf of public sentiment.

And these countries are not democratic.

So any kind of push to do something like this seems like a betrayal to their own citizens.

And they can't normalize what has not been normalized in the hearts and minds of their own citizens.

There is a kind of arrogance in the Abraham Accords framework.

The assumption is that if you get the right signatures, if you get the right photo op on the White House lawn, that the conflict can be ignored and that the Palestinian cause can recede.

But the World Cup was a direct refutation of that assumption.

Now, I've been thinking about all of this in the context of everything that has happened since.

The genocide in Gaza, the daily images, the death tolls, the wholesale destruction of Gazan society, and the ongoing question of what normalization means now, and whether any of those Abraham Accords frameworks can survive what the world has watched happen.

Now, I do think it will survive.

These governments do not care about what happened in Gaza.

But what it shows is that the fears around the Abraham Accords were completely founded.

Ignoring the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would lead to an escalation in the violence.

I think the World Cup moment was a preview back in 2022.

It told us something about where popular Arab opinion actually was, not where governments claimed it was, and not where Western media assumed it was, but where it actually was.

And it showed us that organized strategic activism can channel that sentiment as something visible and politically costly for the forces of normalization.

Now, Qatar Youth opposed to normalization was a small group, and they were operating under real restrictions in a country that doesn't allow independent civil society.

And they still managed to turn a global sporting event into one of the most visible expressions of Palestinian solidarity in years.

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