WikiLeaks Cables Vindicate Israel
The U.S. and its allies are struggling to contain the damage caused by WikiLeaks, but there’s one country that needn’t worry much and can actually look at the disclosures as positive publicity: Israel. The documents show that the threat from Iran is not an illusion conjured up by the Zionist lobby and that Israel is not the imperialistic aggressor seeking to dominate and brutalize Palestinians as the country is so often characterized.
Out of all the cables released, none reflect negatively upon Israel, perhaps with the single exception of one where a diplomat says Prime Minister Netanyahu is “charming” but doesn’t keep promises. The documents actually show an Israel that is determined to safely give the Palestinians statehood and that has absolutely no desire to rule over the Gaza Strip and West Bank. One file from June 2009 shows that Israel asked Egypt and the Palestinian Authority to take control of Gaza after Operation Cast Lead would break Hamas’ grip on the territory. As Israel expected, neither one wanted to take on the task. Instead, the Arab world and even the Palestinians’ own representatives chose to sit on the sidelines and condemn Israel in the harshest of terms.
Another cable from February 26, 2009, shows Israel’s commitment to building the infrastructure for a viable Palestinian state in the West Bank. Netanyahu is recorded as talking about “economic peace” through a “bottom up” approach. He explained how he’d bypass the bureaucracy to allow for direct investment to stimulate economic progress so the people of the West Bank could “be offered real alternatives.” He remarked that there was larger anti-Israel protests during Operation Cast Lead in Western Europe than in the West Bank because of the latter’s exposure to the “violent, crazy” Hamas. These aren’t just words. Israelis are working in the West Bank to create a Palestinian state today. An example is how Palestinian farmers are being trained by Israeli agricultural experts. Israelis are also involved in various other Palestinian civic projects.
The WikiLeaks documents also debunk the notion that the dreaded “Israel lobby” is dragging us into war with Iran. The documents show that the Arab world, just as much if not more so than Israel, is shaking in their boots at the prospect of a nuclear Iran and is as equally convinced that their nuclear program is for making bombs, not energy.
Of course it will not make a damn bit of difference to those who want to hate Israel and are looking for reasons to do so.
Bob, of course, is absolutely correct, for this is the first time I’ve come across this particular aspect of the Wikileaks. I would be very surprised were it to get any mainstream media exposure.
Yes, absolutely.
Anything that is an inconvenience to the accepted narrative is ignored.
So it doesn’t help much that this truth is exposed by Wikileaks.
As you aptly realize, facts are pesky little matters when rabid anti-semitism/anti-zionism gets in the way.
The fact of the matter is that Sunni Arabs want the Iranian Hitler regime gone,one way or another. However, the meme is better suited when it appears that only Israel wants to strike Iran.As if…
Moreover, Washington ‘realists’ really do know which way the Islamic (beastly) wind is blowing, however, their meme is also disturbed. By pretending that Iran’s genocidal project is linked with Israel giving away its land, for another !PA Arab state, truth once again gets in the way. Even Arab Sunni leaders aren’t buying this Persian flying carpet.
Therefore, as dastardly as Assange is-he is an anarchist,a rabid one worlder and he should be held to account-the cables do speak for themselves.
Their language is clear as a bell when it comes to how Israel really conducts its business, as opposed to how it supposedly drags the world down. To wit, Israel comes out smelling like a rose,(in spite of many of our leftist leaders who leave ALOT to be desired) and our haters just have to deal with it!
Guess what? It just got ALOT harder to get the truth out regarding Israel, thanks to the Orwellian ‘truth police’ from Youtube, recently bought up by Google.
Palestinian Media Watch,PMW, a herculean effort brought to the public by Itamar Marcus and staff, an expert on all things Middle East, is now BANNED from Youtube.Why? Because its clips repeat in detail ALL the blood curdling cries for jihad against Jews and Christians!!
So, instead of going after the terrorist messengers, they are silencing the non PC messenger alerting the public to impending jihad!!
Therefore, all people who understand that Youtube, via Google, is now in the hands of those who wish to destroy Israel, and by extension the west, would do well to threaten the mother of all boycotts if both entities do NOT cease and desist.
We must all wonder/probe-how many millions/billions are underwritten by Arab petrol dollars to Google that they have taken this decidedly anti-western act?
PJM staffers-follow the money……
Re the above on Palestinian Media Watch, I refer the readers and the staff of PJM to – http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141217
While it’s modestly cheering that not every consequence of the WikiLeaks cable disclosure is harmful, nevertheless this will change little. The anti-Israel voices of the world already know what those cables tell us. It’s irrelevant to them. Israel has become a weapon: a stick with which Europe, which resents America’s prestige and dominance in world affairs, can flog us. The Arab/Muslim states, which hate Israel for showing so starkly the inferiority of Muslim theocracies and Arab culture, are of course happy to assist them in this endeavor.
Americans, with (except for our political class) our charming attachment to truth and reality, tend to be blind toward the sort of reality-is-irrelevant rhetoric the enemies of Israel and America rely on. Because we imagine them to be as honorable as we are, we take their statements at face value far more often than we should. I’ve come to the conclusion that “as often as we should” equates to “approximately never.”
Yes, the leak will ‘recognized’ by the gnostic elites as itself part of the Zionist conspiracy. The only cure for ideological blindness is to pock out there eyes!!
I would guess that literacy and logic are not your long suits, huh dude?
Actually, the failing is yours. He was using big words to say that the haters will never change their minds. Might as well be blind.
No one will care about the contents of these cables if it disagrees with the popular narrative. Facts have no place in the Progressive storyline. Notice all the coverage is mainly about the damage done by the leaks rather than the substance of them.
Right your are. “Progressives” never let facts get in the way of what they want to destroy…..& Israel & the US fall in their “destroy” category.
The intra-Arab/Persian wars over the past several decades were all far more nasty than anything Israel was involved in. Israel has always served as a convenient scapegoat for that region’s version of our right wing fundamentalists in terms of blaming the Jews for their chronic, mostly self-inflicted, sorry-ass problems.
I had to put in “mostly” because the West has to take responsibility for a good chunk of the problems over there thanks to years and years of ultimately destructive, cynical, and bullying misbehavior due to politics over the oil fields and the Suez Canal, with the Iraq invasion being simply latest chapter in a long, sordid history.
I agree with your first paragraph, however:
The ‘West’ did not build schools of indoctrination for the purpose of hating Jews. I am pretty sure that, at least in the U.S., liberals were too busy building educational anti capitalist indoctrination systems in our country to be bothered with middle east Jew hating.
Also, who now owns/controls the oil fields and all the technology that went with it for free? It seems that if poor countries play their cards right when tangling with the West they somehow end up rich. I don’t now how that fits in the sordid history? Middle East leadership has shaped their future by diverting the populations attention with hate filled propaganda while pocketing their countries wealth.
BC, just because Islamists are fundamentalists, does not make them right-wing. They are left-wing, being Statists. Theocrats are Statists.
Christian Fundamentalists are not. There are some who use the guise of Christianity to push for Statism, but it flies in the face of Christian doctrine. Free will is central to Christianity. Islam allows no such thing. The two could not be more different.
Let me say also, that you should remain on topic, please. This is not about US history in the region. It is about Israel being vindicated. Nice try at deflect and distract.
Hmmm. I glossed right past the ‘right wing” comment from BC. It doesn’t even make sense to me as part of the sentence. If you leave those three words out it makes sense to me. My mind must be equipped with ‘auto BS removal’ software. Sweet!
I am glad to see some good come out of WikiLeaks. However it won’t make much of a difference because the problem with Israel’s enemies in the international arena is not that they hate Israel but that they hate Jews.
I think it is just hate, period rather that hatred of Jews or Israel. It is hatred of the truth. We have a mix of covetousness, jealousy and envy at work here.
I was just reading a bit ago that if you put one crab in a bucket it will manage to get out but if you put in several the rest will pull the one escaping back down in the bucket.
A few weeks ago we had a report from one of our African missions where this is done to those who begin to prosper by charms and other means that prevent progress. We should note that there is no progress among those who practice this tactic.
These people do not rejoice in the success of others, not knowing that their success is your opportunity to the same success.
We shouldn’t hold our breath that these particular cables will be featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered”.
Wikileaks, regardless of its original intent, whatever that was, has shown to be a huge boost to the publics freedom of information. Information that just happens to involve both us and our Countries. No longer can two faced, corrupt and incompetent politicians and states lie with impunity and formulate policy according to the political winds of the day and get away with it.
Wikileaks is democracy. It has given us peons a first hand look at the people, their values, ethics and morals that are acting on our behalf.
Of course our LIBERAL mainstream media will keep the lid on this,so that they continue to portray Israel as the Bully of the Block…. I am ecstatic that we finally have documented evidence that shows our Brothers are indeed the loving and caring people we always say they are.
the more we hear about what is contained in the leaks, the more i see a truth that i always suspected. the government of the u.s. is run by a bunch of morons. think about it. local gov’s are chock full of corrupt lawyers feeding greedily at the taxpayer trough. the worst of the bunch we sent to Washington.
makes perfect sense. what we need to start doing is putting other professionals, doctors, engineers, accountants, etc. in office, and just quit voting for crooks/lawyers.
when the Gulf fiasco hit us, what did brainac do first? well after playing several intensive rounds of golf for several weeks, he sent in a cloud of lawyers. what, to see who needeed to be sued? a good leader would have first sent in engineers and environmental specialists, then technical managers, and so forth, to assess the situaion. his job is to protect America.
when the dem’s wanted to get a health care bill to help the citizens (tic), who did they call on to help write the details? doctors? nurses? H.C. administrators, etc? no way. i heard one repub. congresscritter comment that not one doctor was behind those closed doors. just the usual crook lawyers. we will always have more than aplenty of that trade’s involvement by default$$$$.
November was a good start; but, it was just a start. we need to be a LOT more picky about everybody’s credientials from now on, all the way from the lowliest intern (ahem), to the highest decepticon. and we need to be serious about it.
Don’t raise your hopes about convincing anybody on the Left. These are, after all, AMERICAN diplomatic documents. To convinced Israel-haters, that means they’re nothing but propaganda.
Here are some verses that throw light on this question. For you that reject our Bibles you can skip this since I doubt there would be any comprehension. For the rest of you, consider what these verses actually say and be instructed.
> Mt 10:24 The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
27 What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.<
I do not say that Israel is this master but the servant, neither does Israel walk perfectly before the Lord but He is merciful and longsuffering to bring us to an expected end.
Since the Master is called Beelzebub it is a small thing to make Israel in that image. Yet there can be no truth in that charge. Israel is not belligerent. Therefore it makes no difference how heavily armed they are if they choose not to attack. Now how many wars and skirmishes has Israel indulged in that was not preceded by much provocation or direct attack?
If all Palestinians and the rest of the Middle East laid down their arms would Israel be a threat to them? If so, where and how? Would they not rather give assistance to their prosperity?
Now if Israel would disarm would their adversaries be at peace with them? No where do I hear complaints against any of these adversaries arming themselves while depending on our charity for their daily food. Should they not rather work to have their own supplies? But they are to in thrall to their mandate of hatred.
Is Wikileaks doing the will of the Master as they reveal these facts that we have closed our eyes to? If this is from the Lord then it will continue and spread regardless of how much it is suppressed by those with the power to suppress.
Personally, I don't believe there is anything in the Wikileaks that is not known to the governments interested in that knowledge. It is only the citizen that is being kept in the dark and the light is pushing back that curtain of darkness.
Thank you, Ryan.
Finally, someone else saw what I have been screaming about lately re; Wikileaks.
Obama promised us transparency if he were elected, and he was right! The incompetence allows such transparency!
So far, I have seen no bad come from this. Whatever damages this administration seems to help this country.
What a surprise hey Muslim on Muslim (Sunni/Shia/Ahmadi/ B’Hai) hate and violence is just as rampant and widespread as Black on Black violence is in the USA and the moronic PC, Multi Culti, Islamophile, Lame Stream Media pay just as much attention to it.
Wikileaks is a fraud.
Assange is an intelligence asset, side-show freak to keep
Americans distracted from the economic rape they are enduring, and
the surveillance police-state, open air prison being built up right around them…something the founders of this republic would never have allowed to start.
For the fools touting democracy
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner.
Democracy is majority mob-rule.
Democracy is insane.
Why does anyone with half a brain want democracy
The US returning to a constitutionally controlled republic is much more sane.
And until we collectively look in the mirror and admit Abraham Lincoln destroyed said constitution and the republic we will continue walking blind and talking garbage.
And supporting Israel is just fine if it comes from your OWN pockets, not mine. I agree with the founders…no entangling alliances.
This article has it right: “Our region has been hostage to a narrative that is the result of 60 years of propaganda, which paints Israel as the greatest threat. In reality, leaders understand that that view is bankrupt.” — I have a simple question: Why does the BBC, which has no excuse of not being informed well enough, or of not having political experts at their disposal, continue, for many years now, implicitly when not explicitly, do adhere to this demonstably false narrative? Why ?”
This will change nothing in hte eyes of anyone – I never thought I would use such a term: “haters will hate.”
The typical anti-semite/anti-Israel/anti-zionist will simply dismiss it as a “forgery” or “all part of the zionist conspiracy”
oh, those craaazzzyyyy Joooos
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keep up the good work, Israel – you are our ONLY hope for the region.
The U.S. KOOK media is drooling all over their keyboards, wishing it had the ‘credibility’ that ‘Wikileaks’ has.
Just give them a little time; They’ll get it.
Thanks for this interesting and informative message.
Either Israel is exhibiting exemplary conduct in its dealings with other nations or else the Mossad is effectively screening the classified information it feeds to Julian Assange.