What a shame. Under the Bush administration, it appears that our country's national interests and sovereignty have been transferred to the hands of Israeli officials.
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International Herald Tribune
By Mark Landler, January 13, 2009
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 Olmert placed a phone call to President George W. Bush."I said, 'Get me President Bush on the phone,' " 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,' " 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.
Olmert claimed that once he made his case to Bush, the president called Rice and told her to abstain. "She was left pretty embarrassed," Olmert said, according to The AP...
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