Here is something you likely won’t read about in the mainstream media, and certainly won’t hear about from the “Apartheid Israel” screaming lunatics of the Israel-haters brigade:
משחק האימון בין הפועל אום אל פאחם ל-מ.כ. כפר קאסם שנערך ברגעים אלה באצטדיון השלום בעיר נפתח בדקת דומייה של שתי הקבוצות לזכר הנרצחים הישראלים במתקפת הטרור של ה-7 באוקטובר.
— NWS news (@nws_report) November 9, 2023
חבר הנהלת ההתאחדות, יו"ר הוועדה לקידום החברה הערבית והפריפריה ויו"ר אום אל פאחם, מוחמד אבו אלעם: "בהחלטה… pic.twitter.com/rwf6yehVJi
The training match between Hapoel Umm Al Fahem and M.C. Kfar Qasim, which was held at the Peace Stadium in the city, opened with a minute’s silence for the two teams in memory of the Israelis killed in the terrorist attack of October 7. A member of the board of the association, the chairman of the Committee for the Promotion of the Arab Society and the Periphery and the chairman of Umm al-Fahm, Muhammad Abu Alam: “In a joint decision between myself and the owner of Kfar Qasim, Mr. Bilal Badir, and out of great pain that does not let up, we expressed the deep partnership and unity of all of us in a symbolic act of a minute’s silence in memory of the fallen. I wish we would know good and beautiful days, Arabs and Jews alike.”
In other words, not only does Israel have Arab football teams competing in its professional league (not to mention Arab players in our national team), but these teams decided on their own to honor the (predominantly Jewish) victims of Hamas’ October 7 massacre.
Israel 1 (nation) Haters 0 (credibility).
