From Haaretz:
The United Nations has reprimanded a security guard for drawing swastikas on a log sheet later seen by a guard from Israel, a UN spokesman said.
The guard who drew the swastikas was issued a letter of reprimand and was asked to attend sensitivity training for the September incident, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Tuesday.
Dujarric would not identify the guard who was reprimanded.
A UN official speaking on condition of anonymity said the guard had also made Nazi-like salutes to his Israeli colleague. The official, who was not authorized to disclose the information publicly, said the guard was from Jamaica.
The Israeli guard also was not identified.
“The UN wants to see a work environment in which people of every race and religion can feel welcome, and these types of behaviors will be thoroughly investigated and dealt with,” Dujarric said.
Though not by dismissal. That’s too draconian. No, instead, such blatant slippages of the mask of “tolerance” will be dealt with by a letter or reprimand and a request that the “peacekeeper” attend “sensitivity training”.
Follow that up by making him eat a hot cornbeef sandwich on rye with mustard, and his reconditioning should be just about complete—another UN success, and nary a spot of violence involved.
Unless you happen to be a log sheet, or the Israeli guard met by the Nazi salute, that is. But that’s just nitpicking, now, isn’t it?
(h/t Allah)
Kofi: C’mon. It was a little swastika. It’s not like it was a cartoon or anything.
No fruit cocktail for a week. Happy now?
One word: bris.
No anesthetic, followed by a nice dip in the Dead Sea.
“He doesn’t happen to work on the tenth floor, hmmm?”
– John Bolton
I’m still flabbergasted that Jamaica had anyone that was allowed to log security on anything.
WTF is a “Nazi-like” salute? Is there any salute that’s excluded by that adjective? The Dictionary of Nazi Salutes and The Dictionary of Salutes are the same book.
I hate reporters.
Which Jamican embassy should be torched and would it be legal to stand downwind and breathe deeply?
Uhm, BoZ, are you seriously saying you can’t tell the difference between a Nazi salute and a more conventional military salute?
You’d have to consider the distinction between a Nazi-ish salute and a Rommulan salute and a high-five.
Maybe the Jamacian guard was trying to high-five the Israeli guard, whom he thought was a ST-TOS fan?
And that ‘Sieg Heil’ – homophones. Maybe the Jamacian guard was offering the Israeli a cigarette – a ‘cig’ – and the Jamacian slang name for an Israeli is ‘Kyle’. “Cig? Kyle”.
So, there you have it –
Arm to chest – “Rommulan”
High five – “the street”
“Cig” – do you smoke?
“Kyle” – my Israeli friend.
Overall I’m ashamed at the lack of cultural sensitivity displayed by the Israelis.
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You know that whole Peacekeeping gig can get pretty boring when there aren’t any starving children around to rape.
He drew them backwards, the insensitive bastard.
Never contemplate the dharma and doodle.
It’s never come to any good!
If you’re an Israeli working at the UN, I can’t imagine you’ld be too bothered by this. But it’s one of the few things at the UN that you can fix….
The Nazis actually had two salutes. The more familiar was the Roman-style salute with arm fully extended (Incidentally, the angle of the arm was suppose to equal to the azimuth of the Sun on June 21 at noon in Berlin.)The second had a bent elbow, forearm pointed straight up or slightly back, and the hand bent back at the wrist in a motion similar to brushing back long locks of flowing blonde Aryan hair. The latter, of course, was invented by Roehm, who was flaming, but later adopted by Hitler himself as he quickly tired of figuring out the azimuth of the sun several hundred times a day.
ich bin der Fuhrer! Der Sun rises where I SAY it does!
So does the Isreally guard have to issue an apology and go through sensitivity training if he comes to work in shit-strewn dreadlocks and smokin’ a pregnant Winston?
Free speech is a bitch, innit?
“The UN wants to see a work environment in which people of every race and religion can feel welcome…”
Seems they’ve done too good a job at that.
Maybe we don’t want “everyone” to feel welcome–maybe some should be discouraged?
t/w: death. You’ve GOT to be kidding!
That’s some sensitivity training.