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Imagine someone murdering, god forbid, the prime minister.
What will the left camp say?
Are most of his ranks not violent people?
That the demonstrations in Kaplan were often characterized by exemplary behavior on the part of more than 90% of their participants, who stand from the east and west, all the way to Ibn Gvirol with Israeli flags in their hands?
After all, it would be as if the Beitar Jerusalem fans said from the western stands about the violent and sickening racism of La Familia, as they testified in religious Zionism (the camp, not the party) about themselves: why tarnish an entire camp because of a weed, or a few such weeds that grew on its outskirts, Right?
If you were to summarize the defensive position that Hapoel Tel Aviv fans have entered into since another attempted murder on the parquet in the field known as "Hail Shlomo", then it would be something like: "Yes, the violence is terrible, but..." And that's the problem, there is no grief. The Hapoel Tel Aviv fans all bear collective responsibility for the violence of that ugly handful from their ranks, the one who turned the visit of away fans to the Reds' home field into a terrible experience involving physical risk.
Hapoel Tel Aviv fans attack a Hapoel Haifa fan/screenshot, from the TV broadcasts
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Uplifting memories
We will soon return to this enigma in which the group that pretends to be intellectual and peace-loving turns into a bunch of bloodthirsty barbarians in its games (mainly those that end in loss), but first a few words on a personal note.
As strange as it may sound, I was a fan of the two teams that met last night on the floor at the Drive In: I was born and raised in Haifa.
In my late father's blacksmith shop, the lighting bridge was built that was used by the old sports hall of Rome, when it was built in the mid-seventies.
Hapoel Haifa of Shaul Lufo, Shari Ben Zvi, Shai Sharaf and Haim Zlotikman was my team.
I held a subscription to what was then called "Block 6", the burnt-out fans' stand in the old Rumma, which I borrowed money from my mother to travel on buses (and when I failed, hitchhiking as well) to the away games - from Kfar Giladi in the north to the tin hall in Holon (the southernmost point on the basketball map of those days ).
Here and there there was also violence: once after a derby in which we won, Maccabi Haifa fans chased us (fortunately, as in the well-known joke about the tiger and even though I was never a great sprinter, I managed to run faster than the one who fell into their hands and came out with a flashlight in his eye).
To the credit of the Greens, I will also mention that the Maccabi Haifa fans, father and son, were the ones who evacuated the injured friend to the hospital.
On the transistor connected to the MK 77, I was broadcast live to Lebanon that playoff game, in 1989, in which Hapoel Haifa almost knocked out Maccabi Tel Aviv. It was only after the army that I parted ways with Hapoel Haifa, when I chose a temporary "career" as an illegal construction worker in Sydney, Australia. When I returned to Israel I discovered that one named Kobi Schlesinger had outworked everyone, leaving behind heavy debts - and me, without a team.
A few months later I moved to Tel Aviv and embraced the following red thing in my lap: I purchased overpriced tickets to that excellent final series of 1992, when Zvika Sharaf's Hapoel Tel Aviv dragged Maccabi to a final series of 5 games - and a few seasons later, I myself was dragged by a friend, a generally smart guy, but not in the case where he believed Shaul Eisenberg who promised: "There is a team for the championship", to purchase of a subscription to the Osishkin stands. Alas: the Hapoel Tel Aviv that I adopted followed the footsteps of Hapoel Haifa, that is, it disbanded - thus ending the Israeli basketball chapter of my life, the one in which I was able to eliminate two basketball clubs within a few years.
there were days.
Haim Zlotikman/Maariv, Adi Avishi
where is the boy?
Despite the bittersweet memories, I bequeathed my love for Hapoel Haifa to my son, who, despite being a Tel Avivian by birth, periodically frequents the stands of Sami Ofer or Romema.
On Saturday morning, while we were visiting his soldier sister at the border of the Gaza Strip, he called to ask if I wanted him to order us tickets to a game at the Drive-In.
I hesitated a bit and then I refused for reasons unrelated to fear of violence: the game would start at nine, end at eleven - and then I would have to go all the way from the Drive Inn to the center of Tel Aviv, on the motorcycle, with drivers who drank until they didn't know how to drive?
So it turned out that he bought himself one ticket for the guest stand and went to the game alone.
If we sum up almost 50 years in the sports fields in Israel and the world, then I can only say this: no moment of exaltation - from Hapoel Haifa's first (and only) championship in the stands of Kiryat Eliezer to fainting in tears in the stands in Moscow, after Manchester United won the Champions League, It wasn't worth the two hours of anxiety that went through me from the moment I heard that two Hapoel Haifa fans had been beaten to the point of needing to be taken to the hospital - until the moment I heard from the boy, who missed my worried WhatsApp messages, that he arrived home safely.
In my life, I didn't worry about him like that even when he recently served in the reserves.
I would not have been required for my personal resume, with an emphasis on the last day, if it had not been closely related to a more general lesson: where parents have to take care of 25-year-old "children", there will not be 5-year-old children or 15-year-old boys. And where there are no children, there will not be sport.
It started with chants of 'Holocaust' and moved to severe violence.
Hapoel Tel Aviv fans/official website, Natalia Nunez, courtesy of Hapoel Tel Aviv
Where is the Minister of Sports?
The world already understood this a long time ago, we are tired of reminding how in places like England and Germany they solved the problem of violence in the fields, with the upgrading of the infrastructure, increased security, extraordinary enforcement measures - bordering on infringement of individual freedom, police as an effective intervention force, only in the event that arrests are necessary - And above all these: stricter minimum punishment by the courts.
I will not exaggerate words here and add to all these, which are detailed to exhaustion every time the violence in Israeli sports rears its ugly head.
I will only point out this: none of these, although all of them can be implemented, is carried out in Israel.
Because why do that if you can convene another committee, get more coverage of its deliberations and finally slide the recommendations into a drawer?
So here it is, agree with the committee: I, who hate the party of the Minister of Culture and Sports and its ruling culture with every fiber of my being, announce that I will unreservedly support any unusual step of his that would take Israeli sports into the realms of effective enforcement, including minimum prison sentences for anyone convicted of rioting - and regardless of which Group.
The management has a share in violence, hooliganism and barbarism.
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When Einstein cried
And it is impossible without one word about this sweet flower bed, on the edge of which the same "weeds" grow again and again: Hapoel Tel Aviv.
This is Hapoel Tel Aviv of Eric Einstein and Eli Mohr, may God have mercy on their well-remembered talent.
This is Hapoel Tel Aviv, which has been part of the community for more than a century.
This is Hapoel Tel Aviv, which rose, thanks to wonderful fans, from dirt - and was a symbol for every fan group in Israel - all the way from the bottom of the third league to its respected place today, at the top of Israeli basketball.
It's just that this attribution, plus the proximity to the Israeli media (and especially to the sports media), caused some of the next generations of devoted fans to become a group that is sure that it is above the law, that everything is allowed to it.
If the "Holocaust" chants of various kinds could still be considered something that moves on the axis between disgusting but non-violent stupidity and between the language of the stands and the response of youth, then the second part of them is beginning to bleed - and this injury may turn out to be difficult for all Israeli sports.
Hapoel Tel Aviv is a "team with connections" Remember the god-awful riot that arose after the team's fans were asked to show ID at the entrance to the hall? The team's management even stopped a derby game in protest! Unfortunately,
this is exactly the same management that has a part in the severe violence, hooliganism and barbarism of " Benny Tovim" (the most jarring couplet in the Hebrew language) - if not with direct encouragement, then at least implicitly: with turning a blind eye and inaction that is like a wink.
What will the Hapoel Tel Aviv fans say when a kick to the head of an opponent's fan ends not "just" with an injury (as if that's okay ), but in the loss of life? Will they claim "our hands did not shed the blood"? Like the right-wing of November 1995, like the Beitar fans in front of the signs "Pure forever" and singing "Here comes the racist group of the state"?
Look at them and you will see yourselves, a bunch of hooligans disguised as intellectuals.
If you have an instinct for survival mixed with a degree of integrity and decency, you will inform your chairman, the one who suddenly does not hear, does not see and does not speak - that you are returning the subscriptions until he is not removed from the stand by a violent "handful". Otherwise, the blood will be on your hands as well. Otherwise Really you are all guilty.
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