 | A MOST DISTURBING WIKILEAKS REVELATION; MOST WORLD LEADERS SHARE ISRAEL'S VIEWS |
It is doubtful whether in recent years
Israel's foreign and defense policy received
such significant backing and reinforcement
as happened Sunday. At least on the Iranian
front, and apparently in respect to quite a
few other issues too, world leaders –
including the Arab world – think like
us but are ashamed to admit it.
WikiLeaks exposed this shame.
Israel's foreign and defense policy received
such significant backing and reinforcement
as happened Sunday. At least on the Iranian
front, and apparently in respect to quite a
few other issues too, world leaders –
including the Arab world – think like
us but are ashamed to admit it.
WikiLeaks exposed this shame.
The world thinks like us
that most world leaders share our views
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Had WikiLeaks didn't exist, Israel
would have had to invent it. The
massive leak of US diplomatic documents
produces a clear, unequivocal picture:
The whole world, and not only Israel,
is terrified by the Iranian nuclear threat.
Iran's nuclearization is not Israeli paranoia,
as certain camps try to argue. It makes all
world leaders, from Riyadh to Moscow,
lose sleep. The Iranian issue is the common
thread in the hundreds of thousands of
documents that were leaked and it
produces a narrative whereby the
world expects Israel and the United
States, in this order, to do something
to stop "Hitler from Tehran."
as certain camps try to argue. It makes all
world leaders, from Riyadh to Moscow,
lose sleep. The Iranian issue is the common
thread in the hundreds of thousands of
documents that were leaked and it
produces a narrative whereby the
world expects Israel and the United
States, in this order, to do something
to stop "Hitler from Tehran."
Some people feared WikiLeaks' leaks
because of the embarrassment to
American diplomacy and the fears
that the lives of US agents would be
jeopardized. Yet that was a false alarm.
The leak does not hurt America's
foreign policy, with the exception
of a few tales recounted by
junior diplomats.
because of the embarrassment to
American diplomacy and the fears
that the lives of US agents would be
jeopardized. Yet that was a false alarm.
The leak does not hurt America's
foreign policy, with the exception
of a few tales recounted by
junior diplomats.
The leak reinforces the main
message of two US administrations -
which turned out to be incredibly similar
to the main message conveyed by
Israeli governments: Iran constitutes
the clear, immediate and greatest threat
to the world's stability, and the world
needs to act towards uprooting this
malignant tumor. All the rest is
dwarfed by it.
message of two US administrations -
which turned out to be incredibly similar
to the main message conveyed by
Israeli governments: Iran constitutes
the clear, immediate and greatest threat
to the world's stability, and the world
needs to act towards uprooting this
malignant tumor. All the rest is
dwarfed by it.
Israel largely unscathed
Some media outlets indeed tried tomake a big deal out of Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton's supposed order
to US diplomatic staff to spy after
senior UN officials. However,
scrutinizing the documents makes
it clear that this had to do with concerns
about close cooperation between some
UN officials and Hamas Hezbollah. This
theme had been frequently raised
by Israel too.
In fact, the ocean of leaks has not yet
produced an item that casts a negative
light on Israel. Netanyahu came out of
it (relatively) ok, Olmert came out of it
(relatively) ok, and even Mossad Chief
Meir Dagan's statement about the US
need to encourage the protest of
intellectuals and students in Iran is
commensurate with a liberal, democratic
worldview and with accumulated experience
in toppling dictatorships.
produced an item that casts a negative
light on Israel. Netanyahu came out of
it (relatively) ok, Olmert came out of it
(relatively) ok, and even Mossad Chief
Meir Dagan's statement about the US
need to encourage the protest of
intellectuals and students in Iran is
commensurate with a liberal, democratic
worldview and with accumulated experience
in toppling dictatorships.
It is doubtful whether in recent years
Israel's foreign and defense policy received
such significant backing and reinforcement
as happened Sunday. At least on the
Iranian front, and apparently in respect
to quite a few other issues too, world
leaders – including the Arab world –
think like us but are ashamed to admit it.
WikiLeaks exposed this shame.
Israel's foreign and defense policy received
such significant backing and reinforcement
as happened Sunday. At least on the
Iranian front, and apparently in respect
to quite a few other issues too, world
leaders – including the Arab world –
think like us but are ashamed to admit it.
WikiLeaks exposed this shame.
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