Forget about diplomatic immunity. Tsuriel Raphael, Israel’s openly gay ambassador to El Salvador, has been recalled after police found him in his yard nearly naked, drunk, tied up and sporting sex toys. Huffington Post reports:
Tsuriel Raphael has been removed from his post and the Foreign Ministry has begun searching for a replacement, said spokeswoman Zehavit Ben-Hillel.
Two weeks ago, El Salvador police found Raphael naked outside his residence, tied up, gagged and drunk, Israeli media reported. He was wearing several sex toys at the time, the media said. After he was untied, Raphael told police he was the ambassador of Israel, the reports said.
Considering his government post, officials debated how to address what has been described as a “very embarrassing” incident. They’ve now deemed the affair “inappropriate” and “unacceptable”, thus disqualifying Raphael from his current job.
Raphael’s worked in El Salvador for six months. Prior to that, he acted as the director of the Israel Information Center. Good thing, too, because we imagine his bosses are going to have a lot of questions for him.
petulant
“wearing sex toys…” I imagine butt plugs as earrings.
Matthew
What the hell is wrong with people? All these salacious sex scandals from people in positions of power. Did they just never have any fun throughout their lives, that now they are making up for lost time in the most disturbing ways possible?
It is sex, get off, and get over it. I think I really would prefer people in power (clergy, principals, government officials, and the rest) that could like you know…totally fuck like normal people, and quit thinking with their dicks and cunts (mostly it is the dick though, which is an embarrassment to my gender). I would rather have a cutter in a leadership role than all these sexually amped and frustrated people.
nystudman
Pictures! We want pictures! Yanking some hottie off the Net in a harness doesn’t make it. Is he one of those super-hunky hirsuite Israelis? Or a pot-bellied guy?
cjc
I think there’s probably a better picture of him somewhere, but I found this one of his side profile from Agence France-Presse:
cjc
Screw it, here the link:
http://estaticos03.cache.el-mundo.net/elmundo/imagenes/2007/03/12/1173701048_extras_ladillos_1_0.jpg
Paul Raposo
But if they had found a dead female hooker in his bed, they would have covered it up.
Scott Mezler
It’s not “just sex,” and there’s nothing “normal” about risking your self, your job, your reputation and potentially your government. The public drunkenness alone would be a serious violation. Tsuriel Raphael’s behavior is an outrage.
This disgraceful episode is nothing but self-centered, childish nonsense. It’s indefensible and not to be minimized or laughed off — anymore than the tortured, reckless hypocrisy of so-called “Christian” preachers caught in motels with male escorts.
The shame isn’t on Tsuriel Raphael — it’s on all of us.
I’d suggest this moron be punished — but obviously that’ll do no good since he’d enjoy that. The only thing to be done is to thank Raphael for giving bigots more ammunition. Thanks.
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wow