If Olmert's right, what kind of special friend are they? If he's blowing smoke and lying to everyone's face, what kind of friend are they??If we'd cut our ties with Israel, I'd be willing to bet our risk for a terrorist attack would be down at least- what's the lowest level? - purple? It'd be a lot lower than now, when we are best friends with a loose cannon, literally.Rice shame-faced by Bush over UN Gaza vote: Olmerthttp://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gD-QcI_C-CrcqfSZBh6A5_e514Zw
Admin Won’t Contradict Olmert Claim on Ceasefirehttp://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/14/headlines#8"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.
"I said 'get me President Bush on the phone'. 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'. He got off the podium and spoke to me.
"I told him the United States could not vote in favour. It cannot vote in favour of such a resolution. He immediately called the secretary of state and told her not to vote in favour."
Maybe we don’t want to admit it, but this seems more in line with history than our backpedaling response- "oh, that was the plan all along."
Here’s Israel’s excuse for firing on a school, a designated shelter for which it had the coordinates:IDF shell kills 30 in Gaza UN school; Israel mulls appeal over Hamas fire from UN facilitieshttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1053233.html"Initial checks ... show that from inside the school mortars were fired at Israeli forces," an IDF spokesman said. "In response, the forces fired a number of mortar rounds into the area."
The UN follow up:http://www.un.org/unrwa/news/statements/gaza_crisis/chris_gaza_crisis.html8th Jan 2009"I have been authorised to say that in private briefings with diplomats, the Israeli army has admitted that the rockets from Jabalya (two days ago) came from outside the UNRWA school compound, not from inside it. Therefore the allegations against a neutral UN human development organization were entirely baseless. This increases pressure for an independent investigation. "An article about the IDF “mistake” :UN: IDF officers admitted there was no gunfire from Gaza school which was shelledhttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054009.htmlA wonderful Forbes article no doubt with the sole sources being the IDF statement and an active imagination:Gaza Bedfellows UNRWA And Hamashttp://www.forbes.com/opinions/2009/01/07/gaza-hamas-unrwa-oped-cx_cr_0108rosett.htmlI don’t know the percentages, but this article is partly oversimplification and part outright fabrication. I never really read Forbes, but I thought it was a financial publication devoid of political motivations, but I guess I’m totally wrong. I might as well have been reading a Zionist Israeli publication. I wondered when someone posted some links to my Facebook profile- ynetnews, haaretz, jpost, forbes, why Forbes would be included in the pro-Israel roundup. Now I know. I am curious as to why there is a political agenda or bias, but I’ll leave that to others to ponder. Maybe it’s already been done.Pro-Israel bias is fine, it's opinion, but at the expense of facts? When we find out it's a pack of lies, it kinda hurts your case...
Some of the stuff coming out of Israel is just as stupidly wrong as these two items from last week that I didn’t get to post:1. man suing for kidneyhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/08/kidney-divorce-man-wants-_n_156301.html
2. Porn bailouthttp://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/07/porn-industry-seeks-federal-bailout/3. There is no humanitarian situation in Gaza says Livni.3. IDF fire on UNRWA school was retaliation for militants firing from inside.
