Why should the Americans contribute so massively to an Egyptian military buildup, when the weapons being delivered, if they are ever to be used, will almost certainly be used against Israel?
Danny Danon is Israel’s ambassador to the UN. He’s not as suave as such eloquent predecessors as Abba Eban and Chaim Herzog. He’s pugnacious.
But at times like this, Israel needs someone pugnacious to punch back at the kangaroo court of the UN General Assembly, with Israel permanently in the dock.
Danon has just given an interview to a journalist on radio station Kol Barama’s program News of the Week. Danon may be a diplomat, but he has given voice most undiplomatically, and indispensably, to Israeli alarm about Egypt’s military buildup.