Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan: Ambassador Among Wolves

Erdan finds himself representing Israel at its toughest moment in 75 years, after the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Facing an organization whose secretary-general casts Hamas, today’s Nazis, into the role of victims, and portrays the real victims as the aggressors, Israel’s UN ambassador has an almost impossible task.

Gilad Erdan sat down with Mishpacha for a discussion of his unenviable job. The conversation began on a pessimistic note, but there was a ray of light at the end of the tunnel.

Just before this interview, UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated that “nothing justifies the Hamas attack, and nothing justifies the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.” The UN is also issuing reports about an impending famine in Gaza. The tables have been turned, and evil has become good.

That’s just one more example of the secretary-general trying to create a perverse, insane, and immoral equivalence between a terrorist organization and a democratic member state of the UN, exercising its right of self-defense to prevent a repetition of the massacre.

By arguing for this unholy “balance,” every day he himself provides the justification for my call for his resignation. This is why I must continue to expose his hypocrisy and double standards and limit his influence as much as possible.