What Wikileaks exposed
Ari Shavit argues that Wikileaks has exposed the falsity of the accepted dogma in the Middle East (Hat Tip: Daily Alert). Then along came Assange and shattered the dogma. The secret documents that WikiLeaks published proved that the settlements, the occupation and even the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were not the main problem in the Middle East. The confidential e-mails proved that the world they were talking about in Washington, Paris and London was an imaginary world. Assange proved that there was no connection between the real Middle East and the Middle East they talk about in The Washington Post, Le Monde and The Guardian. He revealed that the entire Arab world is currently busy with one problem only - Iran, Iran, Iran.Indeed. I should hasten to add that I do not agree with much of the rest of what Shavit rights in this article.
There is no doubt about it - Assange is a dangerous criminal. But he is dangerous not because he penetrated the Pentagon's information systems but because he revealed the Western intelligentsia's lack of intellectual integrity. Assange is dangerous not because he leaked state secrets on an unprecedented scale but because he revealed to us all that the West's hegemonic discourse is superficial and mendacious. Assange is dangerous not because he embarrassed the West's allies but because he proved that the West is contaminated by political correctness that cuts it off from the diplomatic reality. Assange placed a giant mirror in front of us all and proved the extent to which we had been duped in recent decades. A false dogma has prevented us from looking logically at the historic challenge facing us.
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The lesson is a bitter one. If Iran develops nuclear weapons, peace will disappear. A nuclear Iran will deal a final blow to the chance of achieving a compromise between Israelis and Arabs. Therefore the dove of peace has to be extremely hawkish toward Iran. The peace-seeker must deal with Iran.
Labels: Julian Assange, Middle East policy, Wikileaks
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:28 AM
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Ari Shavit has nervous breakdowns on some days. But unlike Israel's Left, he is appreciating that Israel on its own, can't solve the "fierce moral urgency" of the Palestinian problem. And that's how its likely to remain for a long time to come.
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