Oom Shmoom

Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, is known to have dismissed the United Nations with a pejorative Oom Shmoom. Oom is the Hebrew abbreviation for United Nations (they love making abbreviations into words here, which drives those of us who are not native Hebrew speakers crazy), and shmoom is a slang way of saying it's worthless or nothing.UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon was in