He is a very talented singer, as well as a symbol of freedom and peace, which are two things the world cup stands for. What´s the alternative ?.. Ariel Zilber who will sing about Jewish superiority ?.. If Aipac pushes hard enough it might just happen.

It's a football tournament! Why anyone but the media circus would even contemplate attending a sporting event in the summer in Qatar is a mystery to me. Brazil maybe, but Qatar. What about GLBT people?

Another Palestinian Arab who can't make the connection between phantasy & reality. Shakira refusing to sing because he doesn't sing? Hilarious!

Gaza won the organisation of the 2014 football world cup but un unknown state or organisation removed the enveloppe containing the paper with "Gaza" on it and replaced it with a paper stating "Rio".

He claims there's a conspiracy to stop his career, but I doubt it. Why shouldn't he sing at the World Cup? He would be a popular icon for Palestinian youth, a great improvement on making icons of suicide bombers!

My, my, quite the poison dwarf, aren't you? It's not exactly as if Israel is keeping him from screeching out a song at the World Cup opening ceremony, now, is it? Of course, it's not really a forum for someone who can only sing whiny Arab "love" songs.

And he's getting into a hissy fit, and pointing the finger of blame in the expected direction just in case he dosesn't get chosen. Ariel Zilber, on the other hand, was already chosen, in Israel. It's your leftist, antizionist brethren that intervened and cheated him out of what was already due to him.