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Mara Photo: The bright spot in the recent clashes in Betar Jerusalem

The events surrounding Kamso Mara do not add to the image of Betar Jerusalem, but also reveal hope.

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Ophir Saar

Thursday, 11 November 2021, 12:50 Updated: 13:39

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Betar Jerusalem Fans (Section 27A of the Copyright Law)

In the away game of Betar Jerusalem against Hapoel Nof Hagalil, Perek Kamsu Mara shrugged during the second half and went out for treatment. When the medical team made it clear to him that he should be replaced, he replied: When it was made clear to him that he would be at rest and in the next few days he would be checked, he replied: "Rest tonight is enough, the team needs me, I'm fine, I've been through such discharges in the past, I'm strong. I want to stay here for many years and give everything so that we can succeed together. "

On the face of it, the DNA of a player that every fan wants in his team.

In Betar Jerusalem, too, most fans connect to a specific approach and player, but in almost every rematch the handful who have difficulty digesting a Muslim player make their voice heard (or take care not to make it while they are on the field).

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He constantly says, "I got to play in Betar and in Jerusalem." Mara in the center (Photo: Udi Citiat)

Mara arrived at Betar in relatively poor shape, having not even played a training game from the summer until October. Until the break he covered it with a lot of heart and soul and survived the games. Him from Betar and not sick by any means.

The thing is that this time the silent majority of Betar fans raised their heads and are not afraid, realizing that a war on Mara is a war on the future of the club and enveloping it in every way possible.

This happens not only in his specific case, but in the whole issue of violence and racism.

After many years, the overwhelming majority of Betar fans have ceased to be dormant. People realize that this may be the last war - either cleaning Betar dirty, or it's the dying convulsions of a club with a glorious past and indulgence in memories of the past and the Gold Channel.

The real boost came after the Bloomfield events, but has since continued in every game.

Under the boycott of La Familia's home games, 8,000 people came to the game with Hapoel Haifa Teddy, this week close to 5,000 fans came to the colony.

Apparently even after the break against Hadera Teddy a nice amount will arrive.

People make an effort to bring their child, wife or any colleague who can be drafted into the war, want to show that there is another Betar and feel that this is a chance that will not return.

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Want to show that there is another Betar. The fans this week in Petah Tikva (Photo: Udi Citiat)

And the truth? They are fighting the fiction that the extremists invented in the 2000s. Somewhere in 2004, Ibrahim Nadallah, a Nigerian defender on loan from Maccabi Tel Aviv, arrived at Betar. Although Nadallah was not the first Muslim in the house and garden, but the first whose religion stood out, and the handful who read it began to embitter his life until he was forced to leave the group.

Nadallah was so hurt by what happened to him in Betar that he found it difficult to rebuild his career later. Do it to me, I will not change the religion to a Jew or a Christian just because of them. We are all children of God, no matter what our religion. Eli Ohana took me and said to me 'Do not be afraid, I will continue to let you play even if they kill me, I brought you and I will fight you, no one will move me'. Personality and professionalism and pushed himself away from the squad and staff until he finished his way through the club.

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This week in the colony, after the game Ohana talked to Mara, strengthened him and told him: "I and the whole club behind you, be strong, they do not represent Betar Jerusalem fans, almost everyone supports you and who we should take care of." Mara himself told the players about the reinforcements of The chairman said to everyone: "I do not understand what is wanted from me. Even when I am looking for a mosque to pray I want good for everyone. God loves everyone who is good, no matter what his religion, extremists have invented their own Islam, Islam calls for good and not bad."

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"A kid who just got to kindergarten and gets all these booms up front, inconceivable."

Kadiev (Photo: Berni Ardov)

And there was another affair on the Nadallah-Mara axis, perhaps the most extreme of the three. Those who were not there at their opening practice or in the morning after a fire between a garden do not understand the magnitude of the damage. In the morning workout after that night everyone was walking around in the soot trying to figure out what exactly happened. Assistant coach at the time, Russian-speaking Jean Telsnikov, then had to explain to 19-year-old Jibril Kadiev what exactly happened there and when he finished he said: "I tried to explain to him that it's not only related to them but he's not stupid. "He came to the garden and gets all these booms ahead, inconceivable. What will he tell us about us at home? I'm ashamed."

There are those who have not yet internalized that things that could have been done in the 90s or early 2000s could erase a club these days.

The younger generation may not be so familiar, but in the 1993/94 season, a Cameroonian player named Cyril McNacky came to Maccabi Tel Aviv - not another player, he was already famous in the world after he and his team qualified for the 1990 World Cup until the quarterfinals.

McNacky suffered from Betar fans growling and clusters of bananas were hung "in his honor" at the Ramat Gan stadium, a phenomenon that has spread to every field in the country.

This time the silent majority is not willing to be silent anymore.

Mara (Photo: Udi Citation)

So how is the Mara case different? The silent majority raises its head, is not afraid and fights for Betar Jerusalem. , Because despite the image and the scourge, if Mara's tenure at Betar Jerusalem passes positively and with good energies, even if it takes some time, she will be the best ticket for a new and worthy owner of a club the size of Betar.

MK Nir Barkat, who in his role as mayor of Jerusalem raised funds for the group and connected Itzik Kornfein and the club's management to potential investors, always knew that sports and the city of Jerusalem wink at Jews around the world, but once they investigate and raise the issue of racism they take a step back. , Understand the magnitude of the problem that may arise for them. He once told of a Jew from the United States who had already chosen to purchase the group, but his advisers pressured him not to do so and laid out before him the line of damage that would be done to him.

Betar and its fans are today in the war on Mara - to encourage him, strengthen him and prevent him from being harmed, verbally and possibly physically. After the Bloomfield events, the institutions raised their heads, realized that something had happened here, but very quickly left Betar alone.

If in the colony the two fans had broken in and the foreigners of Betar had entered into a physical confrontation with them, the situation would have taken on a different garnet and world-class media noise. Something much bigger than another summons to court or a funny punishment.

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