Who’s got Wikileaks? We’ve got Wikileaks: Here’s one on Netanyahu. Here’s John Kerry telling Qatar that the Golan has to go back to Syria. (Qatar? WTF?) Here’s one on Egypt being “stubborn and recalcitrant” (and yet, no 42-minute dressing-down by Hillary over that, go figure). Here’s one that calls Kenya “a swamp of graft,” for which Kenya demands an apology and one million dollars. And oh yeah—Shimon Peres told that Oslo was based on a mistaken process—one that created the begocracy that is the PA today.
Denial is a river in Egypt: One Wikileak cable says that the PA and Egypt were asked to assume control of Gaza if Israel cleared out Hamas. Both refused. Now, of course, both are denying that any such talks occurred. But I’m thinking if they’re denying, they’re surely lying.
Goldberg v. Sullivan, again: Jeffrey Goldberg points out that the Wikileaks cable prove that it isn’t just Israel that wants to bomb bomb bomb Iran. Typically, Andrew Sullivan then slams Goldberg, who hits back (and scores!). Advantage: Goldblog.
And the Keen Grasp of the Obvious Award goes to: Mad Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for finally admitting that saboteurs are affecting the Iranian drive to nukes.
“They had been successful in making problems for a limited number of our centrifuges, with software they had installed in electronic devices,” Ahmadinejad told a news conference, referring to Iran’s enemies. He said the sabotage has been solved.
Shyeah. Solved. That’s why one of the top Iranian Stuxnet experts got blowed up real good just the other day. Because Iran didn’t need him anymore.
His acknowledgment came after a report Tuesday by the International Atomic Energy Agency said that as of Nov. 16, Iran had stopped feeding hot uranium gas into its thousands of centrifuges and that the shutdown could have lasted as long as seven days.
When asked specifically, Ahmadinejad refused to comment on whether a computer worm known as Stuxnet had been responsible.
“Write this down,” Ahmadinejad said. “The Iranian president’s answer to this question is: silence. That’s it.”
Meryl,
I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that the “narrative” on the Jewish people was that they were weaklings and could not fight and would simply cower in fear when threatened. That was believed even though contemporary historians such as Josephus paint a different picture about how Jewish people could fight some 2000 years ago.
Now, of course, the extremist “narrative” on the Jewish people is that they are all a bunch of violent militarists who murder women and children and commit genocide against a “peaceful” populace just to hold on to a few square kilometers of land. This is believed even though contempary historians and sources such as wikileaks paint a different picture about how Jewish people think now.
The unfortunate common thread in all this for the Jewish people specifically and the world in general is pure hatred and disgust for a whole people, just because they are Jews.
While I do feel sorry for mentally deranged people like Sullivan and Walt and Sobran and Arafat and Buchanon etc. etc. etc., it is more important that they be stopped – by any means possible – verbal or physical – before they care harm any more innocents. (This, by the way, has moved me politically from being a staunch Democrat to becoming an Independent.)
As is now evident from the wikileaks that actual facts of the matter have no relevance what so ever to the knee-jerk haters of Israel and Liberty. For some odd reason those that hate Israel also hate the United States of America. Go figure :-}
Goldberg wrote, “Andrew knows that I support democratization in the Middle East (I attach myself, for instance, to the sentiments described in this Washington Post editorial). Andrew also knows that I support the dismantling of settlements on the West Bank (just as I supported the dismantling of settlements in Gaza) and the creation of an independent, contiguous state of Palestine.”
I asked him what he meant? Contiguous Palestinian state? Including Gaza and the West Bank? How would that work (I asked him).
Goldberg answered me and he meant just the WB connected together.
B”H
And don’t forget Shimon Peres!