Ynetnews:
"The US 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 UN resolution on Gaza and embarrassed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Spokesman Sean McCormack said the comments attributed to Olmert 'are wholly inaccurate as to describing the situation, just 100%, totally, completely not true' and suggested that the Israeli government might want to clarify or correct the record.
The White House on Tuesday also denied the reports that a telephone call by Olmert to President George W. Bush forced Rice to abstain in the vote on the Gaza war.
'I've seen these press reports, they are inaccurate,' White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said.
Olmert said Monday that Rice had been embarrassed by orders from President Bush to abstain from voting on the ceasefire resolution that she was negotiating. The PM said he had called Bush - and interrupted him at an event in Philadelphia - to ensure the United States did not vote for it.
'I said: "Get me President Bush on the phone,"' Olmert said in a speech in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. '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."
Olmert said he argued that the United States should not vote in favor, and the president then called Rice and told her not to do so. "She was left pretty embarrassed," Olmert said."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3655599,00.htmlSo who is the sponsor and who is the protégé? Seems to me Israel is calling the shots here.
And, BTW, didn't McCormick just call the PM of Israel a liar?
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