Olmert: Flaunting power or exposing traitors and cowards?
Or "Condi, Olmert's lap dog!"
(Ehud Olmert) I simply wanted to show the American public how easy it is to get them to do what we want them to do. We’re partners, right? No big deal. I just call them. We’ve been doing this for years. What’s the problem? You make it sound like this is the first time this has been done. In Israel we are a very transparent and open society. Keeping things nice and simple. It’s better that way, you see. Hillary is going to be just as co-operative. Nice lady.
Defending Condi: Olmert Shames Himself in Kick-in-the-Teeth Attack on Rice
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-clemons/defending-condi-ohlmert-s_b_157223.html
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was left shame-faced after President George W. Bush ordered her to abstain in a key UN vote on the Gaza war, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday.
"She was left shamed. A resolution that she prepared and arranged, and in the end she did not vote in favour," Olmert said in a speech in the southern town of Ashkelon.
The UN Security Council passed a resolution last Thursday calling for an immediate ceasefire in the three-week-old conflict in the Gaza Strip and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza where hundreds have been killed.
Fourteen of the council's 15 members voted in favour of the resolution, which was later rejected by both Israel and Hamas.
The United States, Israel's main ally, had initially been expected to vote in line with the other 14 but Rice later became the sole abstention.
"In the night between Thursday and Friday, when the secretary of state wanted to lead the vote on a ceasefire at the Security Council, we did not want her to vote in favour," Olmert said.
As always,
BB
(Ehud Olmert) I simply wanted to show the American public how easy it is to get them to do what we want them to do. We’re partners, right? No big deal. I just call them. We’ve been doing this for years. What’s the problem? You make it sound like this is the first time this has been done. In Israel we are a very transparent and open society. Keeping things nice and simple. It’s better that way, you see. Hillary is going to be just as co-operative. Nice lady.
Defending Condi: Olmert Shames Himself in Kick-in-the-Teeth Attack on Rice
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-clemons/defending-condi-ohlmert-s_b_157223.html
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was left shame-faced after President George W. Bush ordered her to abstain in a key UN vote on the Gaza war, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday.
"She was left shamed. A resolution that she prepared and arranged, and in the end she did not vote in favour," Olmert said in a speech in the southern town of Ashkelon.
The UN Security Council passed a resolution last Thursday calling for an immediate ceasefire in the three-week-old conflict in the Gaza Strip and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza where hundreds have been killed.
Fourteen of the council's 15 members voted in favour of the resolution, which was later rejected by both Israel and Hamas.
The United States, Israel's main ally, had initially been expected to vote in line with the other 14 but Rice later became the sole abstention.
"In the night between Thursday and Friday, when the secretary of state wanted to lead the vote on a ceasefire at the Security Council, we did not want her to vote in favour," Olmert said.
As always,
BB
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