Glick: Time for a Noisy UN Ambassador Kislev 15, 5770, 02 December 09 05:33 by Gil Ronen Caroline Glick Israel news(Israelnationalnews.com) Israel's UN Ambassador, Prof. Gavriela Shalev, is “very quiet,” and her replacement needs to have a more powerful personality, journalist Caroline Glick told Arutz Sheva Wednesday. Recent reports in the media indicate that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman intends to replace Shalev, who was appointed by Tzipi Livni when she was Foreign Minister, with a person of his choosing. Glick, a senior contributor to the Jerusalem Post and the founder of satire website Latma, said that Shalev once even gave a “shocking” interview to the IDF's Army Radio in which she called on Israelis to be “less suspicious” toward the United Nations and proclaimed that she would not just be Israel's ambassador to the UN but also “the UN's ambassador to Israel.” The interview exposed “the most severe type of confusion,” Glick added. She praised the previous ambassador, Danny Gillerman, for responding correctly to the attacks on Israel. Glick said that the hatred of Israel has been characteristic of the UN for over 30 years, and explained that November 29th – the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration which partitioned British-controlled Palestine – has become an annual day for attacking Israel in the UN. Israel needs to make a dramatic change in the way it deals with the UN's hostility, she said, adding that “We cannot ignore it. Israel needs to use the UN's hostility in order to attack the hypocrisy of the international community regarding Israel. This is the anti-Semitism of the new era – the negation of our right to self determination is a kind of anti-Semitism.” “I do not see any difference between the old anti-Semitism and and today's anti-Semitism,” she explained. “They ignore the abuses of human rights in China, Rwanda and Sudan. Everything is focused on us. Israel is the only country which has been saddled with a representative whose job it is to look into complaints against it.” Glick said that the next ambassador “needs to take the initiative, organize conferences, actions, cooperating with the Jewish community in protests against the UN and more. The State of Israel thinks that if it collaborates, this will somehow help us. There is a belief here that quiet diplomacy gets the job done and this is not true. We need to begin taking the initiative.” |
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