The new sport of the footballers of our country, who regularly fail in their mission to qualify for one of the most important international football competitions in the world, is to seek condemnation, and especially to measure the intensity of condemnation.
In countries that fail in football but are good at wars, these are the alternative industries.
Eran Zehavi, who was the team captain until he demonstratively threw away his captain's film in one of the games, insisted last week on hearing the official condemnation of the Arab team players, following the chain of terrorist incidents.
Zehavi, from his vacation in Dubai, created a commotion in a team that is weak in football but good at producing sensations, after the Arab players on the squad made it clear that they may not be in a hurry to condemn (who really cares? And rightly so, they do not have to prove to Mr. Zehavi;
Especially while they, at least, appeared for this week's friendly, and one of them, Moanes Dabour, even scored two goals, despite jarring boos from many fans towards him.
This is a new era in Israeli football, in which the number of Arab footballers who are citizens of Israel is constantly growing.
They are increasingly taking their equal place in different teams, and it is likely that within a decade half of the team will be made up of Muslim and Christian Arabs, and the other half will be Jews.
Anyone with eyes in his head can see this.
If in the past Arab players were a rare commodity in the national teams, and usually played in the first team one or two Arabs, now it is clear that Israeli football can not do without them, just as other parts of Israeli society can not do without the Arab sector.
But for Zahavi, condemnation was important.
Cynics will say that Zahavi once again sought public relations at the expense of the team, while feeling that the spotlight was on Davor, who is signaling towards the national goal queen, a title that Zahavi devoted time and effort to.
If Zehavi had thought for a moment before he responded, he would have understood that it was precisely the request for condemnation that aroused demons that do not exist in Israeli football.
Although racism seems to characterize some of the audiences in the Premier League - football itself, as an industry, has always been groundbreaking, in a way that has allowed minorities to flourish within it in a way that did not characterize other sectors of society.
Racism rarely trickled down to the pitches themselves, and football continued to transmit coexistence even in the most difficult times.
Zehavi's attempt to insist on the political demon is an out-of-control Instagram curiosity.
Zehavi is not Kofi Anan, and the Arab footballers on the team did not come to the morning field from Dubai or Morocco.
These are citizens whose whole purpose in life is to play football.
The condemnation of which of them is not really important, and contributes nothing to the discourse.
Zahavi is not in a place that gives him the right to demand condemnation, and the Arab players are allowed to condemn or not.
This is not their job, and no one expects it to be their job.
We ask them for much more realistic things than peace or a cessation of terrorism - that in our lifetime we will get to see them in the World Cup final tournament, or at least in the European Championships.
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