London – A rabbi spoke this week of his deep regret that his secret negotiations with the Iranian regime had been published by WikiLeaks.
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For the past 16 years, Rabbi Herschel Gluck of Stoke Newington has been involved in back-channel shuttle diplomacy. They were held with Ayatollah Syed Salman Safavi, brother of the military adviser to Ayatollah Khamenei, Rehman Safavi, and related specifically to the fate of Israeli hostages thought to be held by Hizbollah or Hamas.
The talks are understood to have taken place with the blessing of the Israeli government, and were designed to try to establish what may have happened to the airman, Ron Arad, and to the kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit.
But Rabbi Gluck described WikiLeaks’ decision to publish unredacted details of his discussions with Iranian leaders, said to have been held with the knowledge of both Israel and the United States, as “deeply irresponsible”.
“There is no way that this type of material should be allowed into the public domain,” he said. “I understand the argument about transparency but when people’s lives are at stake, that is a totally different ballgame.”
Rabbi Gluck fears, WikiLeaks have gone too far
While I am an outspoken fan of complete governmental transparency, and a supporter of Wikileaks, I must say that this is incredibly irresponsible.
He thinks NOW they have gone too far? I can only hope that everyone involved in Wikileaks is hunted down like dogs and shot in the streets. These people are terrorists aimed at harming our nation and destroying our security.
These traitors and terrorists MUST be stopped.
I can only hope that these anarchists are rounded up quickly and “disposed of”.
He fears they went too far????? The DID go to far AGAIN!!
So who is to be blamed? This blog or wiki? Please explain who is the idiot’s loud speaker?
So what’s the difference between him and NK? NK also says they took with Iran to save jewish lives
To #5 for starters the difference is he doesn’t advocate the destruction of Israel , nor does he call Israel ilegitament or ocupiers or compare them to nazies Nor does he demonstrate against Israel with her enimes . I can’t believe that you really can compare him to N K
The difference is he is meeting with Iranian leaders PRIVATELY and not posing with them or going to their churban denial conferences. His work is ENDORSED by the US and EY. The Karta klowns are endorsed only by themselves and Mad Mahmoud.
Talking with a traitor is wrong. Period. No questions asked.
If you speal with a terrorist you should be ratted out.
Oh… Wiki leaks doesn’t leak anything. Someone has to give it to them. Dont blame the messenger.
He never spoke with terrorists. He spoke with Iranians who – contrary to popular belief – are not all terrorists. He spoke about delicate matters with ONLY the welfare of us Jews at heart. My question to number 9 is who do you think the “someone” is?
I can’t believe how much nonsense people are saying!!!! just look at # 12, “treasonous” is a word in what language?
Or # 9, “don’t blame the messenger”, the “someone” is as messenger as Wikileaks, duh!
Or # 8, the Karta are endorsed by themselves, Mad Mahmoud and…….the MEDIA, you softbrains! Macher my foot!!
Now # 6 is a real champion….”ilegitament”, “ocupiers, “nazies”and “enimes” – did he mean “enemas?”
And # 5 doesn’t talk, he “took”…..to grammar school?
At least # 1 recognizes that he was mistaken by being an outspoken supporter of the wrong party, and still, nobody invokes Pikuach Nefesh? Rabbi Gluck is a highly respected and very experienced person who for sure was guided by this most crucial mitzveh and this is supposed to be a frumm blog with frumm readers…..oh well, again, my mistake. Crazy world are we living today!