“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,” Mr 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.”
That is Olmert talking tough to impress an Israeli audience. He even saw fit to mentioned how Condoleezza Rice was humiliated in the same article. I suppose that reveals him to be a true gentleman of the finest qualities.
It may have gone down well in Israel, but I can’t think that it made him very many friends in America. I can’t think of how he could have possibly done more to make it seem like the US was Israel’s lap dog.