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All in favor / It's all about Gaydamak

By Lily Galili

tags: Gaydamak, Rabin, Beitar

Arcadi Gaydamak was in a particularly belligerent mood yesterday. This time his target was not the legal system of a government of dwarves, as he likes to call them. His target was the entire public and its leaders who did not understand his reaction to the behavior of his Beitar Jerusalem fans.

In short, this means all of us, except of course those who called him and thanked him for supporting Beitar's fans, or even came out to support him and announced that from now on he is their leader. Of the right wing, their right wing, of course.

There were those who told him in no uncertain terms that in one moment he won over the supporters of Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman. Mostly in Jerusalem, where his political hopes lie, but also among the general public. A truly worthy profit for one horrible utterance.

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Nevertheless, it seems to be a bit of a stretch to give Gaydamak too much credit for what he said. It reflects more than just a political manipulation, it shows that Gaydamak is still a stranger to Israeli society.

His adviser, Yossi Milstein, is correct when he reminds us that it was not Gaydamak but "Bibi and Olmert who incited against Rabin from the balcony in Zion Square in Jerusalem."

True, Gaydamak was not there, but he was not here in Israel either.

His outsider status expresses itself not only in the awful statements he made, but also in his lack of understanding of the disgusted public reaction to his words.

He was not here when Yitzhak Rabin was murdered, not in the difficult days that preceded the prime minister's assassination and not in the years when the memorialization became a symbol that divided the country.

As far as he is concerned, he didn't do anything wrong. In the morning he condemned, and later he said there was no need to hold a memorial ceremony at a soccer game. He later promised once again to find an Arab player for Beitar. It's a shame that integrating an Arab player into the team has turned into a sort of collective punishment, but at least there is a bit of poetic justice in his plans.

Gaydamak deserves some credit, whether because as an outsider he is connecting to another outsider, or whether just for electoral reasons. Gaydamak has often related positively to the Arab public. It is just that he has a hard time understanding the connection between adding an Arab player and what he said two days ago.

The Israeli ideological package is foreign to him, and to a certain extent he is foreign to it.

Yesterday he turned down appeals from politicians near him to make a pilgrimage, surrounded by the press, to Rabin's grave. He said it seemed hypocritical to him, almost like the hypocrisy of our leaders who are Beitar fans and incited against Rabin.

Now he claims that the mention of Rabin at the start of a soccer match was an intentional provocation. Now he really does not understand why everyone is ganging up on him.

So just as this year's memorial ceremony for Rabin turned into a ceremony for his assassin, Yigal Amir, the horrible occurence at Kiryat Eliezer Stadium has turned into a story about Gaydamak. Both are minor diversions from the real thing, because Beitar really is part of us, and Gaydamak is not.

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1.	Beitar really is part of us, and Gaydamak is not.	13:44	\|	Nahum	07/11/07

2.	Nahum, Avraam Burg likely is right...	14:52	\|	old jew	07/11/07

3.	This Writer is the Real "Outsider"	15:53	\|	Ben Israel	07/11/07

4.	The Entire Court Case and Videos are Online	18:25	\|	David Rutstein	07/11/07

5.	Gaydamak Understands what the Brainwashed Israel Left Doesn`t	18:50	\|	Yaakov Ish Tam	07/11/07

6.	Time for a change	19:07	\|	RightClick	07/11/07

7.	liligalililili	19:07	\|	dr danielito	07/11/07

8.	ICH BIN EIN OUTSIDER	19:54	\|	Zvi	07/11/07

9.	al titnu lahem l`natzeah!!!	23:05	\|	Avi	07/11/07

10.	Maybe it really IS all about Gaydamak!	21:15	\|	Yaakov K.	08/11/07

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