The World Cup was held in Italy in 1934, with 32 countries participating in the qualifiers to select 16 teams, and the name of Palestine appears, because it played in Cairo against the Egyptian team. This participation is usually celebrated, despite a 7-1 loss. But it is clear from the research that the players of the Palestinian national team, then they were Jews and English (elements of the British Mandate), and this is not because of the weakness of the Arab players but they were excluded for political and racial reasons. Although its main theme is the status quo, and sports as a kind of "soft power" in international relations, she documented the story of the 1930s games, benefiting, among other sources, from references and information dated and documented by the Palestinian researcher, based in the United States, Essam. In the 1920s, Zionist clubs restricted Palestine's external sports representation to Jews. In 1929, they became a member of FIFA, under the name of the Palestinian Football Federation, and it not only banned the Arab presence in it, but also insisted on activating a law prohibiting other countries (such as Syria, Egypt and Lebanon) from playing with Arab-Palestinian teams, under the pretext that they did not belong to the Federation. On the other hand, an Arab-Palestinian football team was established in 1931, playing its first match in Beirut, and in the same year the Palestinian Sports Federation was established to be an Arab framework for sport in Palestine. 27 with teams from Cairo and Alexandria, and with the Egyptian high school team in 1931. The Palestinians tried to counter this policy and communicate with Arab teams, and with FIFA, and when the Egyptian University of Palestine team came in 1931, it played with Jewish teams. He also played for the Orthodox Youth Club, the Arab in Jaffa, which won the match. The International Olympic Committee of the Palestinian Olympic Committee with its current composition, (...) You have to expand it, to include Jews, Muslims and Christians." The Jewish Committee called on Muslims and Christians to be a member, and then deported after gaining membership in 1934. (...) We hope that you will recognize the Arab sports club as an independent being and a special case, because the majority of the country's population is Arab, and it is not reasonable for the representative of the country to be the Jews." FIFA replied that "the case will be examined", but a telegram was immediately sent
to the Palestinian Football Federation to inform them of the matter and to take their consent. The secretary of the Palestinian Sports Federation, Abdel Rahman al-Habab, was scheduled to travel to Luxembourg to discuss the matter at the 1946 FIFA meeting, but FIFA refused to attend for reasons likely to affect the Palestinian Football Association. Reflecting important and promising sports capabilities, it was extinguished by British Zionist influence, documenting the details of political arbitrariness, arrests and restrictions on Palestinian clubs before the Nakba, as well as FIFA's rejection of the Palestinian Sports Federation's request for membership in 1951. 1948, he is Palestinian, but it is also true that the chapters of a sports battle with many details are absent, which sometimes happens to the public, as in the 1930s.
