WikiLeaks Backfires on Anti-Israel Crowd

Only the western left is obsessed with the “palestinians” and Jewish “settlements” while Arab regimes actually couldn’t care less. Contrary to leftist and Obama administration claims, the Israeli-”palestinian” conflict, which in any case is code for blaming everything on Israel, has not been an obstacle in garnering the support of Arab regimes for stopping Iranian nukes. Quite the contrary. Arab countries have been frantically pleading with America to bomb Iran more so than Israel has. The WikiLeaks revelations have backfired on the anti-Israel crowd, big time.

Melanie Phillips, Spectator:

A lethal leak — or a boomerang?



Remember all those stories which were so prominent in the media coverage of wars between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah/ Hamas, that Israel committed war crimes by targeting for missile strikes ambulances carrying the wounded? Remember Israel’s answer, that the Red Crescent ambulances were transporting arms and missiles under the camouflage of being ambulances? Remember the reaction of the western media, to assume that Hezbollah/Hamas were telling the truth while Israel was lying? Well, through Wikileaks we now learn that, er, Iran used the Red Crescent in war zones:

Iran abused the strict neutrality of the Iranian Red Crescent (IRC) society to smuggle intelligence agents and weapons into other countries, including Lebanon during the 2006 war with Israel, according to claims in a leaked US embassy cable.

The society, which is supposed to be independent of government, is alleged to have provided cover for members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRG), the most powerful military force in Iran, to infiltrate a number of countries, including Iraq and Lebanon, according to a well-placed Iranian source who spoke to US diplomats.

The Iranian Red Crescent has strongly denied the allegations… The Iranian source, who had knowledge of the Red Crescent’s overseas operations, said the Iranian intelligence service breached the society’s rules of neutrality to send members into Lebanon to support the Shia militia force, Hezbollah militia during the Israel-Lebanon war. Among those allegedly sent in were members of the IRG’s elite al-Quds force, a covert group of intelligence officers and special forces chosen to export the Iranian revolution.

The source said: ‘The only true Iranian Red Crescent officers dispatched to Lebanon were the doctors and drivers. Shipments of medical supplies served also to facilitate weapons shipments.’

The source said IRC staff in Iran had seen missiles on a plane destined for Lebanon while delivering medical supplies to the airport. The plane was already half full of weapons before the medical supplies arrived. American diplomats regard the source as credible.

More has yet to seep out from this cache of hitherto concealed diplomatic traffic. But so far, the excited expectation on the left that the Wikileaks treasure trove would hammer the final nails in the coffin of the right-wing/neocon/Zionist conspiracy has gone belly-up in rather spectacular fashion. An American emperor has indeed been shown to have no clothes – but his name is Barack Obama. As Spengler observes:

The initial reports suggest that the US State Department has massive evidence that Obama’s approach – ‘engaging’ Iran and coddling Pakistan – has failed catastrophically. The crisis in diplomatic relations heralded by the press headlines is not so much a diplomatic problem – America’s friends and allies in Western and Central Asia have been shouting themselves hoarse for two years – but a crisis of American credibility.

Not one Muslim government official so much as mentioned the issues that have occupied the bulk of Washington’s attention during the past year, for example, Israeli settlements. The Saudis, to be sure, would prefer the elimination of all Israeli settlements; for that matter, they would prefer the eventual elimination of the state of Israel. In one conversation with a senior White House official, Saudi King Abdullah stated categorically that Iran, not Palestine, was his main concern; while a solution to the Arab/Israeli conflict would be a great achievement, Iran would find other ways to cause trouble.

…The cables, in sum, reveal an American administration that refuses to look at the facts on the ground, even when friendly governments rub the noses of American diplomats into them.

Yet true to form – since they know that everything they believe is the Received Truth and so reality has to be wrenched to fit – the latter-day Gnostics of the left are frantically trying to spin the Wikileaks revelations to prove that the right was wrong all along. Thus in the Guardian Britain’s grandest Gnostic, Sir Simon Jenkins, concluded from the leaked cables:

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See also: Editor’s Notes: Exposed by WikiLeaks by David Horvitz