A little over one month before a deadline to reach a nuclear deal with Iran, three weeks before Israelis head to the polls, and 8 days before Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu is set to address both houses of Congress, Aljazeera’s investigative unit has begun publishing a cache of leaked intelligence files exposing the Mossad, MI6, and the CIA. Dubbed “The Spy Cables”, the initial reporting leads to one conclusion: Benjamin Netanyahu is a liar. The timing couldn’t be better.
Reportedly the largest release of secret intelligence documents since Edward Snowden leaked thousands from the NSA, the information comes from all over the world and documents “meetings the agency’s operatives held with the American CIA, British MI6, Russian FSB and other nations’ intelligence agencies, between 2006 and 2014”.
A few weeks after Netanyau’s infamous speech at the UN in 2012 warning world powers Iran was months from producing a nuclear weapon, The Spy Cables reveal Israeli intelligence reports contradicted the information in Netanyahu’s alarming speech. “Mossad’s formal assessment of Iran’s nuclear capacity and intentions differs from the scenario outlined by the prime minister at the UN”, reports Aljazeera.
According to a Mossad report shared with South Africa, Iran was “not performing the activity necessary to produce weapons”. The Guardian adds: “The report highlights the gulf between the public claims and rhetoric of top Israeli politicians and the assessments of Israel’s military and intelligence establishment.”
That’s a polite way of putting it.
Here’s an extract from the document shared with South Africa’s national intelligence agency published by the Guardian:
There’s a lot more where that came from, and information is still unfolding, so far we’ve seen the tip of an iceberg. But it does beg the question how Congress, the Knesset, or Israelis for that matter, can have faith anything Netanyahu says relating to Iran’s nuclear program is truthful? He has been sounding the alarm over Iran for over 20 years now, it’s time he give it a rest.
A brief video overview of The Spy Cables from Aljazeera :
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For those of us who have been paying attention, this is hardly news. It’s the same as Condoleeza Rice’s “drones of death” and Tony Blair’s “WMDs ready in 45 minutes” nonsense. But the timing is perfect – and probably the more important aspect of the story. Netanyahu has put himself up for re-election and, after years of abuse from him, everyone has got the knives out for him. It’s blatant interfering with the election process in Israel, or, more succinctly, karma.
Obama must be getting a kick out if this.
But knowing the zionist addiction to self delusion , nietanyahu will take some of the statements and run with the headline, “see I told you so”and some of his followers , (we have some prime examples here) will willingly lap it up and bow to their valiant leader and sing “onward zionist soldiers , marching as to war”.Onward to the greater Israel for which God is on our side.
I spy Talknic’s eye!
Great article, Annie!
Thanks to Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, and AJ.
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“U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, in light of the Israeli premier’s opposition to the unfolding deal with Iran over its nuclear program.
Speaking at a congressional hearing on the U.S. State Department budget, Kerry said that “anybody running around right now jumping in to say, ‘Well we don’t like the deal,’ or this or that, doesn’t know what the deal is.” Kerry added, “there is no deal yet, and I caution people to wait and see what these negotiations produce.””
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.644043
(To paraphrase the words of the great anniefofani~ please, please, oh please make the deal happen!)
the spy cables exposing the warmongering lying Netanyahu is nothing new what i find disheartening is the exposure of Abbas collaboration with Israel to suppress the Goldstone Report.
http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/middleeast/2015/02/spy-cables-abbas-israel-ally-2009-probe-goldstone-palestine-report-gaza-guardian-150222142146258.html