Yet another conspiracy theory
Many Islamist websites have concluded that Jews and/or Israel must be behind the Wikileaks document leak because Israel has emerged almost unscathed from the documents released so far.Why did the documents exposed by WikiLeaks contain so much material about Arab regimes asking the United States to contain Iran’s nuclear program? Why was there little material that was embarrassing to Israel? JTA reports that Hizbullah and other jihadi groups see an Israeli conspiracy at work.I would not be so complacent about this. It's the kind of libel that tends to snowball.
The Jewish news agency said that Hizbullah's Al Manar news outlet, and Al Haqiqa, which is affiliated with a Syrian opposition group, have been writing that WikiLeaks director Julian Assange "struck a deal with Israel and the 'Israel lobby' to withhold documents that might embarrass the Jewish state." From the jihadis, the theory is "percolating" to far-left and far-right websites as well.
A December 8 story on leftist Indymedia UK asked: “Why [did] the hundreds of thousands of American classified documents leaked … not contain anything that may embarrass the Israeli government? The answer appears to be a secret deal struck between Wikileaks … [and] Israeli officials, which ensured that all such documents were ‘removed’ before the rest were made public.”
While Israeli officials shrugged off the claims as unworthy of comment, the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement last week comparing them to the rumors that Israel was behind the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. ADL National Director Abraham Foxman called the theories “yet another manifestation of the Big Lie against Jews and Israel.”
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The story has surfaced in the United States, at the Arab Times and the Arab Voice, Arab-American community papers in Texas and New Jersey, JTA found.
Sharif Nashashibi, chairman of Arab Media Watch, a London-based nonprofit that monitors the British media's coverage of the Arab world, said the claim "certainly isn't prevalent in the Arab and Muslim worlds, and that's most likely because it has no solid basis.”
Labels: conspiracy theories, Islamist, Wikileaks
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:24 PM
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If people can believe in Zionist sharks and Mossad vultures, they can believe the truth is hidden from them about the Jews.
In the Middle East, the Big Lie has a way of being accepted as the conventional wisdom fast.
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