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Israel ambassador to UN: General Assembly chief is an Israel hater
By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Ahmadinejad, Israel news 

Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Gabriela Shalev on Thursday called the President of the UN General Assembly Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann an "Israel hater" for having hugged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a vocal enemy of Israel.

Brockmann has incurred the wrath of the Israeli delegation before, when in his first speech as the president of the international body he said that "the greatest case failure of the United Nations is the lack of a Palestinian state."

Shalev voiced her outrage in an interview on Thursday, condemning Brockmann's gesture at the end of Ahmadinejad's address at the opening of the 63rd General Assembly on Tuesday, which was aggressive and anti-Israel.
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Brockmann, a 75-year-old Catholic priest, was scheduled to dine alongside Ahmadinejad in a meal marking the end the Ramadan fast, organized by five American religious groups.

The director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Abraham H. Foxman, called the event "a perversion of the search for peace and an appalling betrayal of religious values." Foxman has also asked UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to publicly condemn the anti-Semitic content of the Iranian leader's address.


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      2.   We expect no less from the vatican 19:51  |  Arie 25/09/08
      3.   Brockmann is a Nicaraguan adherent of the liberation theology.... 20:14  |  Swiss (Dino) 25/09/08
      4.   Dino 20:24  |  Timothy 25/09/08
      5.   Lack of Pal State Biggest Failure of Palestinians 20:26  |  B`Galil 25/09/08
      6.   PALESTINIAN ARAB STATE WAS ALL SET UP IN 1948,BUT..... 20:59  |  Ian 25/09/08
      7.   Get Real!! 21:03  |  Cool B 25/09/08
      8.   Now I get it Dino clarifies the boundaries of acceptable... 21:21  |  Jacob Blues 25/09/08
      9.   #7 Wow! What a hypocrite! 21:25  |  Jake 25/09/08
      10.   # 4 "Timothy" (2nd try), I hope you don`t take it amiss..... 21:26  |  Swiss (Dino) 25/09/08
      11.   Cool B, get real 21:33  |  Yaakov 25/04/09
      12.   D`escroto 21:40  |  ricardo levy 25/09/08
      13.   Brockmann 21:48  |  Chris 25/09/08
      14.   Cool B 21:48  |  x-ray 25/09/08
      15.   Breakmann the Sandinistas 21:50  |  Sarah 25/09/08
      16.   Welcome back to 1938. 22:01  |  Stephen. 25/09/08
      17.   General Assembly Chief 22:05  |  Dudka 25/09/08
      18.   Cool B and Pimpin ... Your Names Say It All 22:08  |  GZLives 25/09/08
      19.   Anti-Semite label has been exhausted 22:10  |  Sam 25/09/08
      20.   Come on Timothy,Dino is not antisemite.He`s your friend. 22:27  |  Follow me 25/09/08
      21.   cool b - really get real !! 22:43  |  ANDY 25/09/08
      22.   What`s New 23:04  |  The Observer 25/09/08
      23.   Get over it 23:07  |  W 25/09/08
      24.   Bernard Henry Levy 23:09  |  The Observer 25/09/08
      25.   anti-semitic maps 23:10  |  azinvaredonya 25/09/08
      26.   MRS. SHALEV WHY DO YOU KEEP YOU MOUTH SHUT? 23:17  |  FO 25/09/08
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      28.   When Papists and Jihadists Collude 23:38  |  Brod 25/09/08
      29.   Re. 7 Chief B 23:48  |  Dudka 25/09/08
      30.   The truth hurts ! 00:03  |  Sean 26/09/08
      31.   Swiss President Shook hand of Holocaust Denier 00:08  |  Elly 26/09/08
      32.   B`galil 5 00:11  |  B`Falastin 26/09/08
      33.   The observer 00:16  |  Anthony 26/09/08
      34.   I guess Shiites and Roman Catholics share 00:17  |  t.n.t. scriptures 26/09/08
      35.   UN 01:06  |  kobi former swede 26/09/08
      36.   Jake #9 01:07  |  Persian Kitty 26/09/08
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      38.   Mini 01:11  |  jjvanka 26/09/08
      39.   Mini 01:12  |  jjvanka 26/09/08
      40.   Cool B, what truth are you talking about? 01:15  |  DavidAK 26/09/08
      41.   Hypocritic Israelis 01:23  |  Alex 26/09/08
      42.   Run that by me again? 01:35  |  Johnboy 26/09/08
      43.   say what you want 01:36  |  natan 26/09/08
      44.   no surperise, most of the world hates the Israeli terror state 02:04  |  anti-racist 26/09/08
      45.   ironic comming from a nation claiming to be "democratic" 02:14  |  difronamia 26/09/08
      46.   Tehran`s putrid little creature 02:18  |  allang 26/09/08
      47.   diplomacy is NOT antisemitic 02:36  |  Rebecca 26/09/08
      48.   Israel ambassador to U.N.: Genaral Assembly chief is an Israel ha 02:41  |  martin list, m.d. 26/09/08
      49.   Useless Non-entities 02:48  |  Voice of Reason 26/09/08
      50.   Dudka 02:55  |  Anthony 26/09/08
      51.   He isn`t Jewish then! 03:07  |  Paul 26/09/08
      52.   All those posts! 03:10  |  Paul 26/09/08
      53.   #30 Is that right, Voice of Reason? 03:40  |  Johnboy 26/09/08
      54.   Tehran`s rotten little creature 03:51  |  allang 26/09/08
      55.   Tired of anti-semitic Labels 03:56  |  Tim Osman 26/09/08
      56.   #31 Dudka 04:56  |  Moshe 26/09/08
      57.   #1 wrong. furthest from the truth its ramblings of diseased mind 06:00  |  ralph 26/09/08
      58.   martin list 48 09:14  |  potobac 26/09/08
      59.   JohnBOY`s Hatred "you guys" 09:23  |  Robin 26/09/08
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