Editor's Notes: Exposed by WikiLeaks (Obama's duplicity and lies towards Israel)

Jeruselem Post ^ | Decembr 1, 2010 | David Horovitz

[GlockThe Vote]

Editor's Notes: Exposed by WikiLeaks By DAVID HOROVITZ 
12/01/2010 06:34

Obama, we now know, had the diplomatic cables to prove that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was no obstacle to wide Arab backing for the toughest possible measures against Iran.

After the first meeting between newish President Barack Obama and new Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in May of 2009, I wrote in these pages about the “acutely uncomfortable clash of divergent outlooks” so readily evident at their media conference.

I noted that while the Netanyahu camp had “rushed to talk up a purported meeting of minds over Iran,” it was plain that there was a gulf between the two men on the issue. Specially, I wrote, it had been Netanyahu’s hope that he would persuade Obama of the imperative to halt the Iranian nuclear drive “as a precondition for encouraging Arab moderation and thus enabling progress with the Palestinians, and on this he failed.”

Instead, I pointed out, “Obama insistently placed tackling the Palestinian issue – which has defeated even the most generous and flexible Israeli governments – on the road to fixing Iran.”

While Israel had argued internationally that stopping Iran would enable headway with the Palestinians, and other foreign heads of state, senior ministers and diplomats had politely suggested it was best to try to chivvy both processes along simultaneously, Obama, I observed, “has gone all the way over to the other side, and done so in public.”

I was referring to the president’s assertion, publicly contradicting Netanyahu, that, “If there is a linkage between Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, I personally believe it actually runs the other way. To the extent that we can make peace with the Palestinians – between the Palestinians and the Israelis – then I actually think it strengthens our hand in the international community in dealing with a potential Iranian threat.”

In that column and many others since, I have often come back to Obama’s unconvincing assertion that Netanyahu, and much of Israel besides, has the Iran- Palestinian equation wrong. I often noted how illogical it seemed for Obama to argue that there was a good prospect of dramatic progress on the Palestinian front even while Iran, and by extension, Palestinian extremists, were in the ascendant, and how much more room for optimism there would be on the Palestinian front if Iran had been faced down, its nuclear march halted, and relative moderates throughout the region emboldened and empowered.

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=197477

[MWS]

Thanks, much appreciated!

Again, as you pointed out, it has to be made clear that there are secrets out there legitimately classified as such. Troop movements. Defense plans. Estimations of enemy forces. Diplomacy in progress. Certain matters pertaining to espionage (although checks are needed on that — there is legal espionage and there is illegal espionage!). On the whole, secrets are kept regarding matters which, if the enemy were to discover what was known, their position would be significantly stronger.

It is absolutely unacceptable within a system of truly limited government, however, to keep secrets because it makes your job easier and ensures you will not be held accountable for what you say and do. That is what our officials have been doing and that is what these leaks reveal. Our “leaders’” heads should roll and they know it.

They also know that their only defense is to convince us that our interests are the same as theirs and that our lives and livelihoods are at stake as well. Those in the media that collude with them due to having a vested interest in the government will fight tooth and nail to convince you of this.

Really, as distasteful as this might all be we should really be looking into what these leaks say and not focus so much on defending people who, in the course of an ordinary day, we know to be the real problem with this country.

[GlockThe Vote]

Bingo. We need a reset in this country and now is as good a time as any.

And if it turns out that people we previously liked or thought were honorable tur out to be lying thves, so be it.

I don’t go along with the “Let’s kill assange” nonsense.

He provided a very very valuable service as far as I can tell.

Guess what, the same people trashing him are the same ones who would bepraising him if he leaked emails proving BO was born in Kenya.

The main culprit here is manning in my mind, not assange.

[fight_truth_decay]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/wikileaks-salaries/

Follow the money..

[CincyRichieRich]

Well duh, Soros, who runs Wikileaks, is a Jew who hates Jews and has all the leftist Jews following him...

[happygrl]

The analysis says they fear the 15000 rockets aimed at them by Syria.

I think we both know why Damscus will become a smoking ruin.....

BTW, do you think 0bama is being medicated? The clip on Fox last night, BOR's segment on body language, showed 0bama being interviewed by Barbara Walters. His eyes sure have that half-lidded look that drug users have.....

[happygrl]

Samantha Powers = Brzezinski accolyte.

[xzins]

His eyes have that distant look. I agree. But that’s also how evasive looks. You just know he’s lying.

[MichiganConservative]

What I like is that the wiki leaks are saying all the things that we here on this site were suspecting were being said between countries.

But still, I think I speak for all FReepers when I say that all the leakers should be publicly executed for exposing the corruption in government.

The little people don't have a need to know what their government is doing! Information is dangerous! I'm so afraid! Did someone say terrorists were under my bed?

This is sarcasm. You can't trust the government. Wikileaks is just emphasizing that fact.