ISRAELI AMBASSADOR'S SPEECH

The Israeli Ambassador at the U.N. began, "Ladies and gentlemen before
I commence with my speech, I want to relay an old Passover story to
all of you ..

"When Moses was leading the Jews out of Egypt toward the Promised Land,
he had to go through the nearly endless Sinai desert.

When they reached the Promised Land, the people had became very th
irsty and needed water.

So Moses struck the side of a mountain with his staff and a pond
appeared with crystal clean, cool water. The people rejoiced and drank
to
their hearts' content.

"Moses wished to cleanse his whole body, so he went over to the other
side of the pond, took all of his clothes off and dove into the
cool waters. Only when Moses came out of the water, he discovered
that all his clothes had been stolen. 'And,' he said, 'I have
reasons to believe that the Palestinians stole my clothes.'"

The Palestinian delegate to the UN, hearing this accusation, jumps from
his seat and screams out, "This is a travesty. It is widely known
that there were no Palestinians there at that time!"

"And with that in mind," said the Israeli Ambassador, "let me now
begin my speech."