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zombietime.com - 1/12/2009

Gaza War Protest

— zombietime.com — Gaza War Protest and Anti-Israel Rally San Francisco, January 10, 2009 On Saturday, January 10, 2009, a large rally and march took place in San Francisco to protest Israel's invasion of Gaza. The event was one of a series of similar events held in ... (more) Gaza War Protest

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news.yahoo.com - 1/12/2009

Rice shame-faced by Bush over UN Gaza vote: Olmert - Yahoo! News

— news.yahoo.com — AFP/Getty Images/File U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, (more) Rice shame-faced by Bush over UN Gaza vote: Olmert - ...

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nytimes.com - 1/14/2009

Op-Ed Columnist: Israel’s Goals in Gaza?

— nytimes.com — The focus for Israel and Barack Obama’s team should be on creating a clear choice for Hamas for the world to see: Are you about destroying Israel or building Gaza? > (more) Op-Ed Columnist: Israel’s Goals in Gaza?

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When Olmert Calls ...
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... the president of the US jumps. I can't be the only one to have been struck by this: 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 Mr. Olmert placed a phone call to President Bush. “I said, ‘Get me President Bush on the phone,’ ” Mr. 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,’ ” Mr. Olmert continued. “He got off the podium and spoke to me.” ...

Israel's Power
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — ... I really don't want to ignite a firestorm in the comments by posting this, but the degree to which Israel's leaders see America as in their back pocket is pretty remarkable. When people across the Arab world feel like they will never get a fair shake from America, it is in part because of episodes like this. ...

Turns Out, These Colors *Do* Run, to the Phone, When Foreigners Make Them
Whiskey Fire — ... U-S-A! U-S-A! 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 ...

Oh No He Di’in’t!
The Poor Man Institute — ... shamed. A resolution that she prepared and arranged, and in the end she did not vote in favour,” Olmert said in a speech in the southern town of Ashkelon. The UN Security Council passed a resolution last Thursday calling for an immediate ceasefire in the three-week-old conflict in the Gaza Strip and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza where hundreds have been killed. As for her boss, I believe the technical term for the following would be a “bitch slap”: In an ...

White House Criticizes ‘Some Of The Reporting’ On Olmert’s Call To Bush On U.N. Gaza Resolution
Think Progress — ... An unnamed State Department official was quoted yesterday saying that it was Rice’s “recommendation all along” to abstain from the vote. Yet, ministers from Arab states said Rice had promised the U.S. would support the resolution “but then made an apparent ...