Another example of Muslim fear. Their theocrats are so consumed with hate sprouting from their fear of anything non-Muslim that they simply make fools of themselves - time and time again. Too bad innocent sportspeople pay the price of such ignorance.

They'll be known only as anti semites not for any goal of either good sportsmanship or even winning. Typical Muslims stupid and bigoted all from ignorance.

As a professional athlete, surely he can tell his local sporting bureaucrats to get lost. I hope this moral crusader isn't scheduled to play any Syrians in the near future.

Tunisia knew they would lose the match.

Tunisia that gets billions in loans from the IMF so that it can sustain among other things her different Sports Federations must be made clear that it too can be boycotted and not just in sports.....It is imperative for the demotratic societies and nations to let Tunisia know that her discriminatory policies will backfire and hit her back in the face like a boomerang effect and that it better joins civilized nations unless........

It is of capital importance that the Tunisian player should be banned from any further participation in any tennis game outside of Tunisia. Failing to do so is an affront to fairness and sportmanship ! Tunisia must reverse her position or be boycotted completely until she will !!!!!!!!!!!

What a joke! Never mind the USA, he has made a total fool of himself and I am being polite!

not an Israel "Palestinian". The conflict, going back to the beginning of the 20th century, is one between the Muslim-Arab world, local and regional alike, and the Jewish people, local and worldwide, and its liberal democratic and sovereign nation-state, Israel. The reason: The Muslim-Arabs - no, not the Christian-Arabs or the Druze-Arabs, mind you!! - object, categorically, to the very being, existence of a sovereign nation-state of the Jewish people on ANY parcel of land that is the Jewish people's ancestral homeland. Hence, the full scale wars initiated by the entire Muslim-Arab world behind which stood the Arab League and the organization set up by the Arab League of States, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964.

We've determined that fire was invented by the Jews so you have to boycott it. You retards.

You cannot force people to do things they do not want to do. Oh regardless of what the settlers want to tell you it is not unprecedented in fact it is not so long ago that the Israeli Tennis Federation instructed their players to refuse to play on Yom Kipper Which is probably why a fuss over this is being made

matches within the regional tennis federation & the International Tennis Federation . . . in this way, future antisemitic national tennis federations like toonisia will have to react to the players' disagreement to disqualify themselves from this type of nasty antisemitic choice.

...so why should they be free to play tennis. Makes perfect sense to me.

Are you suffering from brain seizure? What the hell does President Obama have to do with the Tunisian Tennis Federation preventing a player from competing against an Israeli athlete? You're listening to these idiots from the Tea Party and their instruments in Congress, the Republican Party.

withdraw to lose the match on the hands of an israeli. However, those kind of misconduct deserves sanctions like expell of turkish player from the TPA forever.

Israel is definitely a democratic state where free speech gushes from the teez of every sharmouta! lol Again, what I said was: It's a right decision, considering that your fucked up nation is a ruthless occupation force.

Its the wrong way to go by punishing the player. He knows who he will be welcomed home if he plays. If he defects, he knows what will happen to his family. The poor player should not feel guilty, but rather a victim.

How old are you, Malik? 2 years old – that you cannot THINK for yourself, that you give up your brain, your thoughts, your life to THE STATE; that you cannot TAKE A STAND and retort to the mind-controllers: "This is a worldwide sporting event. And I choose to play my worthy opponent." Sorry to see you relinquish your manhood.

It is interesting how anti-semites will change a very basic news report into an issue opposing Israel. Any teacher would flunk them on not answering the question.

Sorry Dov but I disagree. The free world is hostage and victim to the will of those uncivilized societies. The sooner we tell them that they are prohibited to play anywhere outside Tunisia, the better. If both teams would reach the Soccer finals in Qatar in 2018 only to see the Tunisians then boycotting the final game would you still consider the players victims or the soccer fans worldwide? We must stop this nonsense now !!!!!

and therefore acting out towards Israeli's.

with #16.

Good for Israel. If the religious fanatics do not want to participate in the game, let them keep out.

But I can understand. The un - ending competition for jobs turns us all into a jug heads of some sort. Fact is, mere 80 years ago a white American would do same. So, things are getting better. I can't stop from being surprised who would be baking up this crap. Obama and his "brotherhood" keeps impressing upon our world with all the wrong stafff.