by

Cables expose US-Israeli war talks by Bill Van Auken

https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/

by Bill Van Auken
http://www.wsws.org
5 January 2011

US diplomatic cables quoted by the Norwegian daily newspaper Aftenposten expose discussions between US legislators and Israeli officials on preparations for the next Middle East war.

These documents make clear both Israel’s preparations for another major war in the region and the full support of visiting members of the US Congress, Democratic and Republican, who apparently subordinated themselves to the secrecy demands of the Israeli state.

Aftenposten, Norway’s largest newspaper, reported last month that it has all 250,000 secret US diplomatic cables that were obtained by WikiLeaks and has begun publishing articles based on these documents, while not reproducing the cables themselves.

One of the cables from the US Embassy in Tel Aviv to the State Department in Washington recounts a meeting between the visiting American congressional delegation headed by former Democratic Representative Ike Skelton (the head of the House Armed Services Committee, who was defeated for re-election last November) and Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, the Israeli chief of staff, which took place on November 15, 2009. Another details a briefing given by Israeli generals to another delegation led by US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (Democrat, New York) on September 2 and 3 of the same year.

[…]

via Cables expose US-Israeli war talks

see

Breaking the Israel-Palestine Deadlock by Noam Chomsky

Wikileaks: The Book of Revelations? Not if you read the MSM By William Bowles

John Pilger: The War You Don’t See (must-see)

Israel-Palestine-Gaza-Occupation

videos

http://vodpod.com/dandelionsalad/tag/israel-palestine-gaza-occupation

WikiLeaks – Israel Kept Gaza On Brink Of Economic Collapse

Related Articles