Israeli officials expect Hezbollah to fire about 500 missiles a day at Israel, including 100 that will reach Tel Aviv, in the next war.
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Director Steven Spielberg has purchased the screen rights to the WikiLeaks story. Spielberg bought the rights to \”WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange\’s War on Secrecy,\” written by Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding, the Guardian reported Wednesday.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused British journalists of a \”Jewish conspiracy\” against him. The accusation came in remarks published in the British magazine Private Eye, which was reporting on a phone call Assange made on Feb. 16 to the magazine\’s editor complaining about British coverage of WikiLeaks, The New York Times reported.
Alan Dershowitz has joined an effort to keep U.S. authorities from reviewing Twitter accounts related to the WikiLeaks case. The U.S. Justice Department in December subpoenaed the social network site to obtain communications between the documents leaks site and its followers.
Israel has long preferred current Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman as successor to President Hosni Mubarak, according to leaked U.S. diplomatic cables.
The United States was advised by a German think tank to use \”covert sabotage\” to disrupt Iran\’s march toward nuclear weapons, a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable reveals.
Israeli officials at a crossing into Gaza took bribes in order to let goods into the coastal strip, a cable made public by WikiLeaks said. The diplomatic cable from June 2006 said that \”US businesses allege that corruption by Israeli officials at Karni crossing is impeding their access to the Gaza market.\” It was published Thursday in the Norwegian daily newspaper Aftenposten, which says it has all 250,000 U.S. cables leaked to WikiLeaks.
Israel told the United States in 2008 that it planned to keep Gaza\’s economy \”on the brink of collapse,\” according to a diplomatic cable obtained by WikiLeaks.
Unless you’re a reader of Islamist websites, you’d probably be surprised to learn that the WikiLeaks trove of U.S. diplomatic cables is an Israeli conspiracy. Wonder why there was so much material about Arab regimes petitioning the United States to contain Iran’s nuclear program? How about why there was conspicuously little in the trove of data that was embarrassing to Israel? It’s because WikiLeaks founder and director Julian Assange struck a deal with Israel and the “Israel lobby” to withhold documents that might embarrass the Jewish state — at least that’s what Al Manar, the Hezbollah-run media outlet, and Al Haqiqa, which is affiliated with a Syrian opposition group, are writing. The conspiracy theories are percolating as well on far-left and far-right websites.
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