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Don't worry everyone: he has since had a hair cut.

I find watching the emerging news coverage of Cablegate fascinating because it offers a wonderful opportunity to watch how the powerful slowly start mutating a news story to suit their own ends.

For example Sky News just had a report where they called the latest leak a “gift to terrorists” because it gave a list of vulnerable areas around the globe which, if attacked, could have devastating consequences for America. They even called on a respected terrorism expert, John Gearson, to explain how dangerous the new leak is.

Heck, is it any wonder that Wikileaks is becoming utterly despised around the globe?

Except…it isn’t.

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Summary: on Monday a flotilla of boats carrying humanitarian aid, politicians, journalists and activists from 40 different countries was attacked by Israeli commandos. Between 9 and 20 of the activists were killed. None of the Israelis were killed.

Israel claims that the boats were smuggling weapons and that they entered the boats armed with paintball guns. But when they were attacked they were forced to switch to live ammunition.

This is their official story, but there are several problems with it.

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Because one political party, that doesn't even have a majority, somehow magically speaks for all the world's jews.

Hello friends. Today I must sadly, once again, crap on Israel and Hamas. This sad state of affairs has been necessitated by an American lawyer, Trevor Norwitz, launching a silly attack against the Goldstone report.

See what I did there? By starting off with a simple claim that the attack is “silly” I have already biased you against it. It seemed only fair to do this because it’s what Trevor does throughout his entire fucking letter.

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