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To: goldsnow who wrote (10749)	1/9/2002 4:56:48 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 23908

Quiz: Where do you hear the snappiest anti-Semitic slurs? A. Silicon Investor's free-for-all threads; B. Neo-Nazi websites; C. The Knesset; D. Al-Jazeera. Say uncle?? Okay... here's a clue: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 Tevet 25, 5762 09/01/2002 MK won't apologise to U.S. envoy for calling him "jewboy" By Gideon Alon Far-right MK Zvi Hendel said Wednesday he doesn't intend to apologize to U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer for having called him "a little jewboy" in a Tuesday Knesset comment which prompted a wave of condemnations across the Israeli political spectrum. The Knesset ethics committee is to open hearings Wednesday over Hendel's remarks. The National Union MK was protesting against the Jewish ambassador's reported comment that Israel prefers investing in the settlements rather than in the handicapped. Speaking from the Knesset floor Tueaday, Hendel said that "irrespective of the fact that this is a representative of a foreign country, who can be Jewish or a jewboy, religious or not religious, the state of Israel should not ignore the intervention of a little jewboy who represents the U.S." Kurtzer is a modern Orthodox Jew, the first religious Jew to serve as a U.S. ambassador to Israel, and only the second Jew to serve in the position, after Martin Indyk. The late minister Rehavam Ze'evi, also of the National Union Party, referred in the past to Indyk as a "jewboy." Asked about his comments and the strong criticism it garnered, Hendel told Army Radio Wednesday "I think the person is a little Jew, so what's the big deal? I need to apologize to my friends in Israel, because the expression was perhaps too sharp and inappropriate. But to him, I see no need to apologize." [snip] haaretzdaily.com LOL... As the saying goes, it takes a thief to catch a thief.... Gus