Julian Assange, who is the founder of Wikileaks stated in an interview with AlJazeera that his website will publish thousands of documents that are related to Israel, Second Lebanon War and Al-Mabhouh assassination in Dubai. Assange denied any kind of secret agreement with Israel that prevents the releasing of documents related to the latter.
Assange’s statement that puts Israel in a sensitive situation especially if Wikileaks releases secret documents that proves Israel’s role in Dubai’s assassination and other operations such as the assassination of the Syrian President consultant is not the only reason that is worrying Israel. President Mahmoud Abbas threatened today that if Israel decides to attack Gaza, the peace process would officially end. President Abbas made his statement while the tension is rising in Gaza strip. Israeli Army Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi threatened to launch several attacks against Gaza while claiming that the Palestinian abilities and weapons are increasing lately.
According to Ashkenazi, the Palestinian armed men used an antitank missile for the first time and that proves that the situation may explode in Gaza. The Israeli army website published that the Israeli army succeeded in killing sixty armed Palestinians while the Palestinians launched one hundred twelve attacks that resulted in no causalities.
The peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians is stopped since the last American failure in convincing Prime Minister Netanyahu to freeze the settlements building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The member of the central committee of Fatah party and the chief of negotiations staff, Saa’eb Erekat stated in a dinner meeting with politicians and journalists in Bethlehem that Netanyahu’s government succeeded in foiling the negotiations and in undermining the principle of exchanging peace with land. Erekat said that he has been negotiating the Israelis since twenty years and that the Israeli refusal to accept anything that was suggested turned the negotiations into a waste of time.
The possibility of an International pressure on Israel if Wikileaks releases any secret documents that proves its intervention in the Dubai and Syria assassinations and many other illegal actions in the Lebanon second war would push Israel to make an action that would turn the eyes to something else. Not only Wikileaks release but the rising tension in Gaza and the Palestinian authority movement to get an International recognition of a Palestinian state on the 1967 occupied lands would result in creating real high tension in the area.
BY Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad
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