Wikileaks--Brought To You By The Zionist Conspiracy!

Thus far, the documents released thus far have instead supported Israel's contention that Iran is a greater concern to the Arab world than a Palestinian state, that there are those in the Lebanese government that want to help Israel against Hezbollah, that Abbas wanted Israel's help against Hamas and that Israel is not nearly as isolated in the Arab world as many think.

So it's only natural that some bloggers are frustrated that with all the revelations from Wikileaks, Israel has remained unscathed--obviously, Israel is behind the scenes manipulating Wikileaks:

It was only a matter of time before conspiracy theorists came out of the woodwork to suggest that Israel is behind the publication of the WikiLeaks trove - and is manipulating the information coming out to help Israeli interests.

"Where is the real dirt on Israel?" these conspiracy theorists - messaging back and forth in the blogosphere - are asking one another.

PARIS - It was only a matter of time before conspiracy theorists came out of the woodwork to suggest that Israel is behind the publication of the WikiLeaks trove - and is manipulating the information coming out to help Israeli interests.

"Where is the real dirt on Israel?" these conspiracy theorists - messaging back and forth in the blogosphere - are asking one another.

"The answer appears to be a secret deal struck between WikiLeaks' ... Assange ... with Israeli officials, which ensured that all such documents were 'removed' before the rest were made public," wrote Gordon Duff, an editor of the anti-war website Veterans Today, who frequently opines about what he believes is Israeli's secret influence over world events.

Speaking to Haaretz, Duff added that "it sticks out like a sore thumb that WikiLeaks is obviously concocted by an intelligence agency. It's a ham-handed action by Israel to do its public relations."

Lucky thing for Haaretz that Duff realizes that Haaretz is not in on the conspiracy.

The article quotes Remy Ourdon, who is in charge of the WikiLeaks project for Le Monde, assures that not everything has come out yet and that there are still "surprises" in store--besides, he notes, it is not Assange who has the final say on what is revealed: "that is determined solely by what the person who obtained the cables was able to access and pass along."

Another possibility is given by Ed Abington, a former U.S. consul general in Jerusalem who suggests:

The U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv has been so out of the loop for the last six years that their reporting is about what you read in the Israeli press (probably where they get most of their information ).

There's a channel U.S. embassies use for very sensitive information and I don't think WikiLeaks has those cables. As for Tel Aviv, the last two ambassadors have not been risk-takers and have had a very low profile. I doubt they have been willing to rock the boat, and may not have had much, if any, inside information.

Abington does however suggest that the reports from the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem might offer more--but that hasn't come out yet.

So we will all have to wait and see.
Who knows, maybe there are cables out there about the Bush administration's promises to Israel--the ones that Obama has denied...

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