Gotta Love the Gillerman
He speaketh the truth (hat tip: Shy Guy)
Danny Gillerman, outgoing Ambassador to the United Nations, told the Israel-American Chamber of Commerce, that the U.N. can be “a crazy world.” He joked, “You know you’re in a crazy world when world’s greatest rapper is white, the world’s greatest golfer is black, the world’s greatest soldiers are Jewish, Germany doesn’t want to go to war, and the French accuse the Americans of being arrogant.”
Gillerman said he was proud as an Israeli when he appeared in the U.N. because he represented “a country that is far better than most member states of the U.N. with the possible exception of the United States.” He also noted that Muslims lead the world in violence and terror.
“Muslims are killing Muslims. When Christians kill Muslims, it’s the Crusades. When Jews kill Muslims it’s murder, and when Muslims kill Muslims, it’s like talking about the weather. Nobody really cares about it,” he said.
An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Where do we get more like this guy? We need more straight shooters like Gillerman.
Too bad he can’t run for US President…
July 5th, 2008 at 5:25 am
Agreed. Occasionally I see the Israelis ignoring the political correctness bullshit and coming up with some very truthful comment about the world. I still remember that one Israeli at some UN human right meeting pointing out that the body is utterly useless and then being told to basically shut up by some pencil pushing eurocrat.
July 13th, 2008 at 3:45 am
reminds me of that remark of Oscar Wilde “He who calls a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.”
In this case, we can make an exception.
July 18th, 2008 at 4:12 am
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