UPDATE 10:42 a.m: The world’s really turned upside down. Israeli ambassador Ron Prosor got a standing ovation– at Oxford Union?
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In an interview with Time, Julian Assange uses Benjamin Netanyahu to defend Wikileaks:
And we can see the Israeli Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu coming out with a very interesting statement that leaders should speak in public like they do in private whenever they can. He believes that the result of this publication, which makes the sentiments of many privately held beliefs public, are promising a pretty good [indecipherable] will lead to some kind of increase in the peace process in the Middle East and particularly in relation to Iran.
Assange later called Bibi a “sophisticated politician.”
Lest we get carried away, Assange’s colleague, James Ball told the Daily Telegraph that there are a lot more cables yet to be released about Israel, the Vatican, North Korea and other regions. No telling what kind of revelations they hold.
But if you listen carefully, you can almost hear Robert Fisk sobbing in his beer.
