From YNet:  Goldwasser recounts confrontation with Ahmadinejad

Goldwasser managed to enter Ahmadinejad’s press conference at the United Nations building in New York on Tuesday, and told Ynet that the she was surprised by the treatment the Iranian leader received upon his arrival.”He came in and started to smile at everyone. The reporters gave him great respect… As he walked by me he said hi to me, because he still didn’t know who I was. He thought I was one of the supporting journalists, and that he was walking into a place where everyone loved him. He seemed very pleased,” Goldwasser recounted.

Goldwasser said she was not afraid to present the president with her question, and asked him, “Hello, my name is Karnit, the wife of Ehud Goldwasser, the soldier who has been held captive for over a year. Since you are the man that is behind the kidnapping due to the aid you grant Hizbullah, why don’t you allow the Red Cross to visit the two soldiers?” she asked.

The president ignored the question.

Goldwasser being escorted out of press conference (photo: Shachar Ezran)

“Now he knows that the kidnapped soldier’s wife can reach him too,” Goldwasser told Ynet, “he knows that he does not scare us.”

Good for her.  The way Karnit Goldwasser has led the fight to keep her husband and his fellow soldiers (who were kidnapped by Hizbollah and Hamas) in the attention of the media and international leaders is the definition of true loyalty and love.

I’m also a big fan of how she used this opportunity to stick it to both the media and Ahmadinejad.

As a side note, this is what my American Foreign Policy professor had to say about Bollinger’s introduction to Ahmadinejad’s speech on Tuesday:

“It was not very academic of him.  I would have started out by saying, ‘We have someone like you in our country too.  I think he’s wrong, and I think you’re wrong.’  That way we’re on the middle ground.”

The someone Prof. Katzenstein was referring to, of course, is President Bush.  Smooth?  I thought so.