Israelis are posting a claim that the document I published is identical to a post published by Fresh, an Israeli gossip/news portal, a few days ago. It is not. My original IDF source leaked the post to a Fresh member and me at the same time. That person published a small portion of the original memo at Fresh, embellishing it with much material that was meant to disguise what it was and where it came from. I can't ascribe motives to whoever published it at Fresh, but much of it fantasy and isn't in the original document. This story is now a screaming headline in the Israeli media and at no point has anyone in the Israeli government maintained that this document is anything other than what I claim it to be. They know it is authentic. Anyone else who claims otherwise does so at the risk of their own credibility (if they have any).
In the past few days, I received an Israeli briefing document outlining Israel's war plans against Iran. The document was passed to me by a high-level Israeli source who received it from an IDF officer. My source, in fact, wrote to me that normally he would not leak this sort of document, but
"These are not normal times. I'm afraid Bibi and Barak are dead serious."
Comment: The Israeli government seems to be trying really hard lately to convince the world that this time they mean it. They may be doing this to put pressure on the US to do it for them. Or, as members of the global elite, they may want the public to be distracted from something else, such as an imminent economic collapse, food shortages, or climate change - both of the earth and cosmic varieties. Unfortunately, the intent to distract does not guarantee that there will be no war, as war is after all the ultimate distractor.