The warm farewell from D. Gillerman, Israeli's envoy to the UN, will not change the course of events in the Middle East.

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The fond farewell to D. Gillerman, Israely envoy to the UN, will not change the course of events in the Middle East.

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I am not sure If the following statements from the Iranian VP Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei, at a tourist convention in Tehran., where said in connections with Dan Gillerman's departure from the U.N, 

..."Iran has no enemies and Iran is a friend  of the UN and Israel and that is an honor."..."Mashaei’s friendly comments come in sharp contrast to recent statements made by Ahmadinejad, in which he prophesized that Israel is headed towards destruction "without any need for Iranian action.' He added that Iran 'wants no war with any country,'  and insisted that Iran's actions during its war with Iraq were purely defensive." see here.

On the occasion of this same farewell, when Ambassador Gillerman was asked by NYT magazine interviewer Deborah Solomon,..."How seriously do you take their [Iran] threats?" he said,

..."Listen to Ahmadinejad, who denies the Holocaust while planning the next one, who talks about wiping Israel off the face of the map — listen to him, and take him at face value."...
 
And more..."I think the key is in the Arab world. The Palestinians’ real tragedy is that they have not been able to produce a Nelson Mandela. Every single day, Muslims are killed by Muslims. You do not see a single Muslim leader get up and say, “Enough is enough.” It’s nearly as if we live in a world where if Christians kill Muslims, it’s a crusade. If Jews kill Muslims, it’s a massacre. And when Muslims kill Muslims, it’s the Weather Channel. Nobody cares."...
 
 And finally ..."The real fear is not that the Iranians will be crazy enough or stupid enough to launch a missile at Israel, but that they will have no compunction about providing rogue regimes and terror organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah with weapons of mass destruction."...  see here.

A veteran UN reporter for an American television network that said,

".... he could not recall such an impressive Arab turnout for a diplomatic event for a senior Israeli official"... ..."The envoys from Egypt, Jordan, Qatar and Oman were seen at the reception, which took place in the official apartment of the Israeli ambassador in Manhattan. A particular surprise was the attendance at the party of the Palestinian observer at the UN, Riyad Mansour, the senior Palestinian envoy, who usually eschews Israeli diplomatic events and who embraced Gillerman. At a recent Security Council meeting Gillerman and Mansour exchanged heated remarks. In his words of thanks at the reception, Gillerman noted his particular appreciation for the Palestinian representative for coming, despite criticism of his doing so"...see here.

But in the final resort what he means, "the fond farewell from me, D. Gillerman, will not change the course of events in the Middle East". A valuable point is, that despite all those "heavy fights" in the security council and because and despite the Arab envoys  knows their own backyards facts, their personal relations with Dan Gillerman where relations of mutual appreciation, with expectations for better times.