Former US UN Ambassador, John Bolton, according to City Journal writer and former Time editor Stef Kanfer, is one of the last honest men around when he greeted him on the street in Manhattan last fall. Bolton replied that ‘there are others’. Bolton spoke at the annual Herzliyah Conference and may have been a precursor to the long-awaited Winograd Commission report due out the end of this month. Having been involved with the negotiations at the UN as US Ambassador during the Second Lebanon War, he knew the particulars of what was going on. As a result he virtually accused PM Olmert of ‘dissembling’ and Secretary of State Rice of ‘panicking’ after she watched the CNN news reports of alleged 28 deaths at Kana in Lebanon. Deaths of women and children that may have been ‘’staged” by Hezbolleh to capture the empathy of the world media. That caused her to accelerate the negotiations with the French UN Ambassador that resulted in UNSC Res. 1701. Here are Bolton’s main points:
“The Israeli military operation did not play a role in the talks on drafting UN Security Council Resolution 1701.”
“After the war, Olmert claimed that he launched the 11th-hour ground operation, in which 33 soldiers were killed, because the draft UN resolution that Israel received on August 11 was detrimental to its interests. The operation, he added, improved the resolution.
Bolton, however, rejected both assertions.”
“Rice exerted enormous pressure on me to reach an agreement already,” he said. “Until Kana, the U.S. wasn’t interested in another typical Middle Eastern cease-fire. We thought we would exploit the fighting to fundamentally change the situation, especially in Lebanon and Syria. But under the influence of her shock over Kana, the secretary of state changed her mind and only wanted an immediate end to the fire. That was the policy Rice dictated.”
So this was the ‘best deal’ that Livini and Olmert could get under the circumstances? Looks like Bolton may have inadvertently started the unraveling of the Olmert Kadima government by his storied honesty and truth telling.
Det otroliga och ensidiga gnället i svenska media DN DN SvD om situationen i och omkring Gaza: men det enda som är roligt att skriva är det man kan anklaga Israel för, och tanken på att Gaza på kartan har en hyfsat lång gräns mot Egypten kommenteras inte: förstanyheten i Jerusalem Post just nu är: "60 sårade när Egypten öppnar eld mot protesterande Gazabor" finns det väl inte plats för, som de brukar säja.... Hm, en dag senare ser jag att DN SvD Man försöker skylla på Israel att mat och förnödenheter inte kan komma in via Egypten.... Israel har ingalunda sagt något sådant, däremot kräver de KONTROLL av vad som kommer in, som vid alla andra gänser, så inte vapen och terrorister kommer in! EU har också lovat göra detta, men de sprang som skållade råttor så fort Hamas sa BU. Man säger också att "ja, men det är inte så lätt att ställa om så allt sänds via Egypten så snabbt - när de har haft mer än två år på sej.....
Omega informerar:
Europeiskt land tjallade för Hamas om att Israel hade planer på att göra slut på Hamasledare. Enligt en arabisk tidning i London.
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