The Day In Israel: Mon Nov 15th, 2010
Despite the hot weather for this time of the year, it looks like there will be a freeze.
Ynetnews has a fascinating interview with everybody’s favorite outgoing ambassador to the UN, Dan Gillerman. There are many interesting anecdotes, including his friendship with Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Munir Akram, and encounters with the Syrian and Iranian ambassadors. But my favorite is his recollection of an interview on CNN during the Second Lebanon War. “I was [...]
Regular readers will know the high esteem in which I hold Israel’s outgoing UN Ambassador Dan Gillerman. According to this Ha’aretz report, Gillerman has some other, rather unexpected, admirers. Ambassadors from Arab countries and the Gulf states were among the guests at a reception yesterday for outgoing United Nations Ambassador Dan Gillerman, who is completing [...]
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 [...]