Posted on 06/22/2004 9:26:43 AM PDT by USMCVIETVET
Edited on 06/22/2004 10:10:43 AM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]
I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you at this first U.N. conference on anti-Semitism, which is being convened six decades after the organization's creation.
My thanks to the U.N. organizers and in particular Shashi Tharoor [the undersecretary-general for communications and public information] for their initiative and to the secretary-general for his willingness to engage. This meeting occurs at a point when the relationship between Jews and the United Nations is at an all-time low. The U.N. took root in the ashes of the Jewish people, and according to its charter was to flower on the strength of a commitment to tolerance and equality for all men and women and of nations large and small.
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I know many Poles, Irish, Jews, and Blacks that tell jokes on themselves too. They tell the joke BEFORE you tell the joke. It's a defense mechanism.
The rabbi was playing schlemeil.
I fit three of those categories. I don't tell those sorts of jokes as a defense mechanism, but because they are funny!
I would be saddened to know that the rabbi in fact was playing schlemeil. I was very respectful in my discussion of our religious faiths and explained that my church arguably is the most Judaistic and pro-Jewish denomination in Christendom....
Inside the belly of the beastie it is.
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