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Source: http://www.nysun.com/article/6940
Top Kofi Annan Aide Insults Israeli Leader
(New York Sun) - Benny Avni Israel's UN ambassador Dan Gillerman Wednesday urged that Secretary-General Annan fire his top adviser, Lakhdar Brahimi, for his anti-Israel tirades. "We've had enough," Gillerman said. Speaking on Belgian radio and to the Belgian senate last week, Brahimi, an Algerian national, compared Sharon to an assassin, urged Europeans to increase their pressure on Israel, and said that the world is too accepting of "cynical and ridiculous" Israeli positions on peace with the Palestinian Arabs, according to a report by Agence France-Presse. America has urged the UN to be more even-handed in its approach to the Middle East; it is seen by Washington as heavily pro-Arab.