Bloggers claim WikiLeaks struck deal with Israel over diplomatic cables leaks
The lack of information damaging to Israel in the cables released by WikiLeaks has provided fodder for conspiracy theorists. It was only a matter of time before conspiracy theorists came out of the woodwork to suggest that Israel is behind the publication of the WikiLeaks trove - and is manipulating the information coming out to help Israeli interests.
Where is the real dirt on Israel? these conspiracy theorists - messaging back and forth in the blogosphere - are asking one another.
"The answer appears to be a secret deal struck between WikiLeaks(Assange) with Israeli officials, which ensured that all such documents were removed before the rest were made public, wrote Gordon Duff, an editor of the anti-war website Veterans Today, who frequently opines about what he believes is Israeli's secret influence over world events.
Speaking to Haaretz, Duff added that it sticks out like a sore thumb that WikiLeaks is obviously concocted by an intelligence agency. It's a ham-handed action by Israel to do its public relations.
The Israel government, it seems, had somehow found out or expected that the documents to be leaked contained a large number of documents about the Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza in 2006 and 2008-9 respectively," adds an anonymous blogger on IndyMedia.
These documents, which are said to have originated mainly from the American embassies in Tel Aviv and Beirut, were removed and possibly destroyed by Assange, who is the only person who knows the password that can open these documents, the sources added.
