Tzipora Menache is not an Israeli spokewoman, there is no such person employed by the government of Israel at all. That qoute came from a Pakistani website with no attribution or explanation, no reporters name attached, nothing...almost like they just...uhh...made it up maybe?
Ariel Sharon ehh?...
Take for example, the following quote (found on anti-Israel Web sites) alleged to have been said by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to the Israeli parliament in October 2001 and reported on Kol Yisrael radio:
Don't worry about American pressure on Israel, we, the Jewish people control America, and the Americans know it.
The statement also appears as "I control America."
As it turns out, it is a hoax. Sharon never made either statement. Nor did Kol Yisrael ever report that he did.
(source: http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=21&x_article=766)
Ehud Olmert too?...
"Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said a telephone call he made to U.S. President George W. Bush last week forced Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to abstain in a U.N. vote on the Gaza war, leaving her "shamed."
Pouring on political bravado in a speech late Monday, Olmert said he demanded to talk to Bush with only 10 minutes to spare before a U.N. Security Council vote Thursday on a resolution opposed by Israel calling for an immediate cease-fire.
"When we saw that the secretary of state, for reasons we did not really understand, wanted to vote in favour of the U.N. resolution ... I looked for President Bush and they told me he was in Philadelphia making a speech," Olmert said.
"I said, 'I don't care. I have to talk to him now,'" Olmert said, describing Bush, who leaves office on January 20, as "an unparalleled friend" of Israel.
"They got him off the podium, brought him to another room and I spoke to him. I told him, 'You can't vote in favour of this resolution.' He said, 'Listen, I don't know about it, I didn't see it, I'm not familiar with the phrasing.'"
Olmert said he then told Bush: "'I'm familiar with it. You can't vote in favour.'
"He gave an order to the secretary of state and she did not vote in favour of it -- a resolution she cooked up, phrased, organised and manoeuvred for. She was left pretty shamed and abstained on a resolution she arranged," Olmert said.
So this one is true to some degree, Olmert is guilty of bragging, arrogance, and...uhh...acting like a politician? Bush was not pulled away from a podium that part he completely made up. In fact seeing the whole quote instead of just the peice you snipped makes me think the whole thing reeks of political braggado.
Besides that, with as right wing as Bush has been towards support for Israel I kinda have a hard time believeing this phone call was ever needed for the U.S. to abstain from voting on the ceasefire resolution.
Believe what you want to, I know I can't change your mind, but please check your facts a little better before posting them here.
Thanks
ausador