Ilan Pappe, The Electronic Intifada, 22 July 2011
The real reason for Israeli diplomats’ headaches. Photo: Claudia Gabriela Marques Vieira / Flickr
The Israeli ambassador to Spain, Raphael Schutz, has just finished his term in Madrid. In an op-ed in
Haaretz’s Hebrew edition he summarized what he termed as a very dismal stay and seemed genuinely relieved to leave. This kind of complaint now seems to be the standard farewell letter of all Israeli ambassadors in Western Europe. Schutz was preceded by the Israeli ambassador to London, Ron Prosor, on his way to his new posting at the United Nations in New York, complaining very much in the same tone about his inability to speak in campuses in the United Kingdom and whining about the overall hostile atmosphere. Before him the ambassador in Dublin expressed similar relief when he ended his term in office in Ireland.
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