Phony WikiLeaks Documents

Is it possible for us to believe that the United States of America is not, in fact, behind the WikiLeaks release?

There are many reasons to answer this question with a resounding “no.” The logic of doing so has absolutely nothing to do with a “conspiracy” theory. Rather, it is based on the theory of the political “game” by which America rules the entire world today.

One might simply ask: who benefits from the release of these documents? What is behind the timing of the decision to leak these documents? It is really possible that the United States, the world’s premier country for espionage, is unable to ascertain the source of the leak? Why has the U.S. been unable to at least arrest the person responsible for the WikiLeaks website? Moreover, what is the value of the documents that were leaked? Why are there hardly any leaks about Israel among the documents? Does the content of these documents truly harm American interests? Or is it that these documents present exactly the kind of information that serves the needs of the United States? Also, why do most of these documents deal with our Arab-Muslim region? Why do they not deal with other countries except in the context of certain personal anecdotes about various world leaders? Is the focus on Iran and Turkey, for example, just a coincidence? Is the accusation of the leak attributed to an American soldier working in Iraq, as though he owns secrets from the Departments of Defense and State comprising hundreds of thousands of documents, believable? Yet we are asked to believe this beyond any shadow of a doubt.

The answer to questions of this sort, and others, ought already to be understood and well known. The deputy prime minister of Turkey, for example, has stressed that the leak is a conspiracy and that the exclusion of Israel from any mention in these documents affects a measure of doubt as to the integrity of all of the documents. Pakistan’s delegate to the United Nations made the same accusation. The Iranian president described the leaks as baseless and claimed that they will not lead to any enmity between Iran and the Arabs.

It may be said that the countries [mentioned in the WikiLeaks material] are defending their interests and their prerogatives by trying to deflect the blow to the U.S. [from the sensational nature of much of the information in the leaked documents]. Yet the release of these documents appears to serve future American agendas in the region, especially when it comes to striking Iran, coercing Arab countries and driving wedges between the peoples of the region. The idea that nations act to defend their interests is certainly true, but it is connected anew in these leaks. The importance of the leaks is the role that they play in influencing global perspectives on issues such as attacking Iran. This means that we are on the verge of an incident that does not differ a lot from the incident of Sept. 11, which changed the face of the world and set up the U.S. as the single referee of international security and ended in the destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Here it is possible to put our finger on the goal of these leaks, especially from the material that relates to striking Iran and coercing the Arab countries into this mission. The U.S. Secretary of State herself pointed to this, even publicly; she has spoken more than once about “Iran as an enemy of the region and the world, not only of the U.S.,” and about “the will of the entire world in punishing Iran.”* Now, it is as though the leak of these documents has given international legitimacy to Washington to bring about the punishment of Iran, deputized by others who are not able to do it themselves.

In short — regardless of the “value” of the information that has been leaked, leaving aside the amount of bitterness that these documents have engendered from their revelations as to the nature of diplomatic relations and the logic of American thinking, and forgetting the great lessons that we might take from this phenomenon — we are truly at the hands of a ploy directed against us. This ploy has passed into our minds and calls for increased attention and caution because we, first and last, are the targets and the parties liable to suffer in a game in which Washington and Tel Aviv are the beneficiaries. This alone is enough for us to put a thousand question marks around the WikiLeaks phenomenon, which may be nothing more than a bunch of faked documents.

*Editor’s Note: These quotes, while accurately translated, could not be verified.