  In this paper we investigate the recently found $\gamma$-deformed
Maldacena-Nunez background by studying the behavior of different semiclassical
string configurations. This background is conjectured to be dual to dipole
deformations of $\N=1$ SYM. We compare our results to those in the pure
Maldacena-Nunez background and show that the energies of our string
configurations are higher than in the undeformed background. Thinking in the
lines of (hep-th/0505100) we argue that this is an evidence for better
decoupling of the Kaluza-Klein modes from the pure SYM theory excitations.
Moreover we are able to find a limit of the background in which the string
energy is independent of $\gamma$, these strings are interpreted as
corresponding to pure gauge theory effects.
