Why Has Wikileaks Left Abbas Unscathed?

Daled Amos
02 December '10

Abbas says the Wikileaks documents are scandalous for everyone except him. He may be onto something:

Abbas said the WikiLeaks documents “are scandalous.”

However, he added, “not a single thing in the notes incriminates us. Let the entire world know that what we tell the Americans or Israel we say at the [Fatah] Central Council and we say it everywhere. We had nothing to fear.”

Apparently, Abbas misses the point: the diplomatic cables being leaked by Wikileaks concern the actions that various countries are contemplating--'action' being the operative word.

That would leave Abbas out.

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