Wikileaks: Anti-Israeli “Experts” Got Everything Wrong

Flopping Aces ^ | 11-29-10 | Curt

[Starman417]

Couple points from the WikiLeak release that's not related to the treasonous release itself.

Many of the released cables confirm that which was already suspected. For example, the fact that Iran smuggled arms to Hizballah using ambulances and their Red Crescent during the 2006 war. A fact Israel brought up when they were condemned for attacking ambulances....these documents prove Israel knew what it was talking about and that the UN was its usual ineffective self. Again, no shocker there.

Bigger news, not shocking, but big, is the fact that Arab states, not Israel, were the ones vehemently opposed to Iran becoming a nuclear nation and DID NOT condition acceptance of a attack on Iran with a solution to Israel:

The Guardian also quotes documents that show officials in Jordan and Bahrain “openly calling for Iran's nuclear program to be stopped by any means, including military.” The British daily also says leaders in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt called Iran "evil," and an "existential threat" which "is going to take us to war."

Another cable published by The Guardian, from later in 2009, cites a meeting of the U.S.-Israel Joint Political Military Group, in which members of Israel's Mossad spy agency said Iran was using repeated attempts to resolve the nuclear issue through diplomacy to "play for time" and evade sanctions, "while pursuing its strategic objective to obtain a military nuclear capability."

The cable also quotes Mossad representatives as believing that Iran wanted "to become a regional hegemon, and is dictating its agenda by using Hamas and Hezbollah as force multipliers."

Details details. Here are a few snippets from the meeting Obama had with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah last year:

10. (S) The King, Foreign Minister, Prince Muqrin, and Prince Nayif all agreed that the Kingdom needs to cooperate with the US on resisting and rolling back Iranian influence and subversion in Iraq. The King was particularly adamant on this point, and it was echoed by the senior princes as well. Al-Jubeir recalled the King’s frequent exhortations to the US to attack Iran and so put an end to its nuclear weapons program. “He told you to cut off the head of the snake,” he recalled to the Charge’, adding that working with the US to roll back Iranian influence in Iraq is a strategic priority for the King and his government.

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4.(C) IRAN: King Hamad pointed to Iran as the source of much of the trouble in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He argued forcefully for taking action to terminate their nuclear program, by whatever means necessary. “That program must be stopped,” he said. “The danger of letting it go on is greater than the danger of stopping it.” King Hamad added that in light of these regional developments, Bahrain was working to strengthen GCC coordination and its relations with allies and international organizations.

Omri Ceren decimates the anti-Israeli meme brought forward by academics and the MSM over the Obama/Abdullah meeting and its outcome:

It didn’t get nearly as much play as it should have, but Obama’s June 2009 meeting with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah ended with the monarch flying into a tirade and more or less telling the President to get a grip. This was the Riyadh meeting that Obama took on his way to his insulting and failed Cairo Speech, the better to prepare himself by visiting “the place where Islam began.” The sit-down was such a disaster that Dennis Ross was hurriedly brought into the White House and given a broader role, yielding the impression that the President wanted a Middle East adviser who kind of understood something about the Middle East – and didn’t think he had one.

There were two theories on why the meeting went so badly.

[exPBRrat]

No big secret even uncivilized Arabs can’t live with Arabs...remind you of another preferred citizen/voter group?

[UCANSEE2]

Thanks for posting the article.

This is just another in what will be a long line of “things EVERYBODY ELSE KNEW, but were kept from the US PUBLIC”.

If anything, this will keep our nation and troops more out of harm’s way, because we are FINALLY GETTING THE TRUTH.

But... not all of it. Only what someone wanted released to embarrass certain figures in the government.

[samtheman]

Obama’s first talk with Abdullah focused on Gaza and the President later emphasized his abiding support for Saudi Arabia’s “Israel Has To Commit Suicide” plan – but the King kind of thought he was dealing with a serious person who could separate spectacle from policy. Instead he got the equivalent of an International Relations graduate student enamored with pseudo-sophisticated “insights” he’d gleaned from Arab media outlets. Ergo, meltdown.

President Obama.

Dickhead be thy name.

[Diogenesis]

"King Abdullah expected to talk about militarily confronting Iran,
and he couldn’t believe it when Obama kept reciting bromides
about the earth-shattering importance of the Israeli/Arab conflict
and his enthusiasm for solving it. ... the President later emphasized
his abiding support for Saudi Arabia’s “Israel Has To Commit Suicide” plan
but the King kind of thought he was dealing with a serious person
who could separate spectacle from policy.
Instead he got the equivalent of an International Relations graduate student
enamored with pseudo-sophisticated “insights”
he’d gleaned from Arab media outlets."

[allmendream]

Well in this case it is Arab Saudi Arabia and others against PERSIAN Iran.

Iranians are not (usually) Arab.

[Uncle Miltie]

I love this stuff. Make the Arabs stand and be counted.

[MrEdd]

The bulk of the leaks seem to provide information of this sort.

This seems set to topple the Democrats and the Tokyo Rove wing of the Repiblican party.

[headstamp 2]

“The British daily also says leaders in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt called Iran “evil,” and an “existential threat” which “is going to take us to war.”

You know, it’s about time these nations came out into the open anyway instead of letting everyone else take the heat on this including Israel.