Saturday, August 8, 2009
He's got some 'splainin to do: FM fumes over Boston consul's remarks
Israel's consul-general in New England has been summoned home to "clarify" a letter he wrote to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman blasting Israeli policy toward the Obama administration.
According to a senior Foreign Ministry official, Nadav Tamir, consul in Boston, "is one of our best and smartest, so this is embarrassing to the whole ministry."...
..."We expect from our diplomats abroad to point out weaknesses in our policy, lacunae, but they do so in a constructive way in confidential memos to the deputy director-general, not in public," said a senior ministry official.
In the wake of the publication of the letter on Channel 10, Lieberman ordered Tamir to return to Jerusalem to "clarify" his actions to ministry director-general Yossi Gal...
Look Nadav, just explain you're entertaining other offers. I'm sure they'll understand.
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So says that story in the North Shore Jewish Journal: Consul General Reaches Out to Constituents After Memo Flap The uproar over Israeli Consul General Nadav Tamir's leaked three-page memo in which he criticizes the Netanyahu government blew over more... Read More
Huey Long?
I don't get it.
LOL. It's Wendell Willkie. I didn't realize what you were talking about until someone just emailed me to ask.
It's probably two layers of obscure, but I like the picture.