Despite the sympathies which would naturally arise for Ehud Olmert; having grown up 300 miles north of Vladivostok and North Korea in the Chinese city of Harbin ( His family Leaving Czarist Ukraine because they were Jews) Leaving Manchuria for Palestine just in time to miss the Japanese occupation and the subsequent occupation of Harbin by the USSR (where thousands of Russian exiles there were sent back at gunpoint) and despite the sympathies I have as a leftist for the only socialist Democracy in a sea of Capitalistpig Monarchies hiding their crass opulence behind the skirt of severe fundamentalist religion, I must protest.
Olmert has boasted that he called president Bush off the stage in the middle of a speech to tell him to vote no on the UN resolution for cease fire in Gaza.
It could be said that this was a lame duck prime minister blowing some bluster to secure his place in Israeli history, the Busheviks may be telling the truth when they say Secretary Rice busted her butt negotiating this agreement, planning all along to abstain on final passage but it must be likewise considered that we have, again been given the "dog shit on the shoe" treatment.
Juan Cole has this angle
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