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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

A Non-Kosher Way to Think...



This past week, Israeli (Russian) billionaire businessman, Arkadi Gaydamak, bought the Tiv Ta'am supermarket chain, which, until now, was one of the largest suppliers of pork products in Israel.

Gadamak has declared his intent to make the Tiv Ta'am supermarket chain kosher, dramatically reducing the number of places selling pork product in Israel.

So far so good.

Things get a bit complicated, however, when Gaydamak explains his reasoning for turning Tiv Ta'am kosher.
"I believe that in a Jewish state, in which there is a large Muslim minority, selling pork is a provocation."
If Israel is a Jewish State, then why does it matter how large or small the Muslim population is?

Simply put, what Gaydamak should have said was:

"I believe that in a Jewish State, selling pork is a provocation."


A provocation towards Jews!

If any animal serves as the symbol of all that is non-kosher and anti-Judaism, it is the pig.

However, there is an additional reason why we should be troubled by Gaydamak's remarks. Namely, his remarks serve as an indictment against the Jewish People.

Gaydamak knows that Muslims won't accept pork being sold in their community - and he is not interested in offending their sensibilities, as is made clear by his statement.

Gaydamak doesn't seem to be overly concerned of offending the majority of Jews living in the Jewish State of Israel, and that reflects shamefully both upon Gaydamak and all Jews who call the Jewish State home.

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11 Comments:

  • At 2:37 PM , Blogger Ezra said...

    I don't think he meant it like that - first of all. That was just what Ynet or whoever chose to clip from his statement. I think he meant the Muslim thing as a response to the left, who are much more sensitive to the sensibilities of the other children of Abraham.

    From all his actions to date, I don't see our camp's rush to claim this man is anything but the GaydaMACK Daddy. When he does something bad, we should call him on it - until then - why?

     
  • At 2:46 PM , Blogger Pinchas said...

    Oh no! Not another picture of a pig... Remember what happened the last time someone posted one? Ze'ev, if the server goes down again...

     
  • At 4:05 PM , Blogger גיל רונן said...

    pro-Ze'ev: Gaydamak also said he would bring Arab players into Beitar Yerushalayim and he also bought and aided Bani Sakhnin (which didn't prevent the Sakhninites from rioting when Beitar came to play there). He seems to have this notion that he can make peace between the natives.

    anti-Ze'ev: I'm not sure there's anything wrong with mentioning the Muslims, he's a businessman, I imagine he's thinking of opening some shops in Arab towns as well. Unless we are into boycotting the Arab populace and denying them Israeli goods, in which case a case for a boycott needs to be made.

     
  • At 4:07 PM , Blogger גיל רונן said...

    Pinchas - true, but this is a dead and skewered pig.

    On the other hand - dead and skewered is how people who eat pigs like them, isn't it. Oh well.

     
  • At 5:35 PM , Blogger גיל רונן said...

    The question is, Pinchas, why it should offend Jews that he is also thinking about the Arabs. Or maybe I don't understand what you are saying. Because after all the same thing which offends the Jews in this case also offends the Muslims.

     
  • At 5:35 PM , Blogger גיל רונן said...

    I meant Ze'ev!

     
  • At 5:46 PM , Blogger Yishai said...

    Ze'ev, I honestly think there is a simple grammatical error here. I think what Arkady meant was "I believe that in a Jewish state, (in which, additionally, there is a large Muslim minority) selling pork is a provocation." I think he meant to say that all constituencies in Israel find pork to be objectionable, and therefore it should be stopped.

     
  • At 8:21 PM , Blogger Shulamit said...

    maybe we should paint the pig green?

     
  • At 10:01 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

    Yishai is right.
    There was a translation mistake. Here is an original text in Hebrew from Ynet
    http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3411718,00.html

     
  • At 12:26 AM , Blogger Ze'ev said...

    Whatever. You guys may be right - but, as far as I see things, how many posts here have generated double digit comments like this one did?!?

     
  • At 5:32 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

    So he removes a type of food from the supermarket which you don't want there. You should be happy. But instead you're angry because he's considering the sensibilities of muslims?

    Ok. I guess anyone who thinks about the sensibilities of muslims in Israel is a scumbag now. I see where you're headed with this. Sounds like you've been living in Israel a few days too long.

    My grandpa in the south would get upset every time a soul food section opened up in the grocery store, too. Like you, he was always angry at people for "appeasing the niggers".

    You need to get off the plantation, and get to a real civilization my friend.

     

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