You think you know who rules the world? Think again

TMoreno

In an unusually public rebuke, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel said Monday that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had been forced to abstain from a United Nations resolution on Gaza that she helped draft, after Mr. Olmert placed a phone call to President Bush.

“I said, ‘Get me President Bush on the phone,’ ” Mr. Olmert said in a speech in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, according to The Associated Press. “They said he was in the middle of giving a speech in Philadelphia. I said I didn’t care: ‘I need to talk to him now,’ ” Mr. Olmert continued. “He got off the podium and spoke to me.”

Israel opposed the resolution, which called for a halt to the fighting in Gaza, because the government said it did not provide for Israel’s security. It passed 14 to 0, with the United States abstaining.

Mr. Olmert claimed that once he made his case to Mr. Bush, the president called Ms. Rice and told her to abstain. “She was left pretty embarrassed,” Mr. Olmert said, according to The A.P.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/washington/13olmert.html?_r=1

Of course the State Department denies this version:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department on Tuesday flatly rejected an assertion by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that he caused the Bush administration to abstain from last week's U.N. resolution on Gaza and that the abstention embarrassed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iY4Nrrc7ArNE_hMPTbKURjxDgjuQD95MC6S80

Ehud Olmert's aides on Wednesday said that the prime minister stood by his claim that his intervention made the US abstain from last Thursday's UN Security Council resolution vote on a Gaza cease-fire.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231866576464&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

The fact the Ehud Olmert can make such claim explain why Israel can murder 1000 people and get away with it. Thank you Ehud.

bmaxi

Israel, as the dominant and only nuclear power in the region, has long been tasked by Uncle Sam with keeping all those troublesome Ay-rabs in check and safeguarding America's interests. I'm pretty sure Obama will speak to Olmert given the same circumstances.

sceptre

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