Wikileaks: More Stuff On Israel Is On The Way

I wrote earlier today about the accusation that Israel had some kind of special arrangement with Wikileaks to withhold classified information about Israel.

Now I see that material from Wikileaks on Israel is on the way:

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Wednesday that his website is due to release thousands of documents related to Israel, particularly dealing with the Mabhouh assassination in Dubai and the Second Lebanon War, Channel 10 reported Thursday.

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Assange said that only very few files related to Israel were published so far and that WikiLeaks intends on releasing many more documents over the next six months.

Assange, who was recently released from a British prison, said that he holds 3,700 more files related to Israel, and the main source of them is the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv.

Assange said in the interview that WikiLeaks plans on releasing cables that were classified as top secret regarding Israel's month-long war with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon in the summer of 2006.

As a side note, JTA carries the same story, but in the paragraph about Assange giving an interview to Al Jazeera, JTA implies that newspapers are protecting Israel from Wikileaks revelations:

He reportedly told Al-Jazeera that few documents involving Israel have been published because the newspapers to which he gave exclusive rights were unwilling to print sensitive information about Israel.

Considering the way the media reports on Israel, that seems hard to believe.

In any case, I don't think the coming material is going to satisfy those who are expecting real dirt on Israel--something really incriminating or embarrassing. I suppose we will have to wait and see if over the next 6 months those people will get their wish.

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