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Subject: [Peace-discuss] USA takes orders from Israel


>
> Olmert says called Bush to force change in U.N. vote
>
> Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:52pm GMT
>
> JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said a telephone 
> call
> he made to U.S. President George W. Bush last week forced Secretary of 
> State
> Condoleezza Rice to abstain in a U.N. vote on the Gaza war, leaving her
> "shamed."
>
> Pouring on political bravado in a speech late Monday, Olmert said he
> demanded to talk to Bush with only 10 minutes to spare before a U.N. 
> Security
> Council vote Thursday on a resolution opposed by Israel calling for an
> immediate cease-fire.
>
> "When we saw that the secretary of state, for reasons we did not really
> understand, wanted to vote in favour of the U.N. resolution ... I looked 
> for
> President Bush and they told me he was in Philadelphia making a speech,"
> Olmert said.
>
> "I said, 'I don't care. I have to talk to him now,'" Olmert said, 
> describing Bush,
> who leaves office on January 20, as "an unparalleled friend" of Israel.
>
> "They got him off the podium, brought him to another room and I spoke to
> him. I told him, 'You can't vote in favour of this resolution.' He said, 
> 'Listen, I
> don't know about it, I didn't see it, I'm not familiar with the 
> phrasing.'"
>
> Olmert said he then told Bush: "'I'm familiar with it. You can't vote in 
> favour.'
>
> "He gave an order to the secretary of state and she did not vote in favour 
> of it -
> - a resolution she cooked up, phrased, organised and manoeuvred for. She 
> was
> left pretty shamed and abstained on a resolution she arranged," Olmert 
> said.
>
> Fourteen of the Security Council's 15 members supported the resolution, 
> which
> has failed to halt Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip and Hamas's 
> cross-border
> rocket fire.
>
> Olmert, under police investigation over alleged corruption, resigned as 
> prime
> minister in September but is serving in a caretaker capacity until a new
> government is formed after Israel's February 10 parliamentary election.
>
> (Writing by Jeffrey Heller, Editing by Alistair Lyon)
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