israel speaks with forked tongue;

Israeli internal intelligence arrested four Israelis, one of whom works in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, on charges of leaking and falsifying classified documents concerning the ongoing war on Gaza, an Israeli court revealed over the weekend.

The fabricated documents allegedly leaked by one of Netanyahu’s aides were falsely attributed to the late Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar. The revelations of the recent fabrications repudiate Israeli propaganda claims of Hamas’s alleged intransigence in ceasefire negotiations throughout the war, especially during the last round of negotiations over the summer. During those negotiations, Netanyahu had insisted that Israel must maintain a permanent military presence along the Philadelphi corridor, a strip of land bordering Gaza and Egypt, because he claimed that Hamas was using it to smuggle weapons and supplies. At around the same time, the leaked documents falsely claimed that the Philadelphi corridor was to be used by Hamas to smuggle Israeli captives out of Gaza alongside Sinwar.

According to Israeli media reports, the main suspect in the leak affair, Eli Feldstein, works as a spokesperson at Netanyahu’s office. The Israeli Prime Minister’s office initially denied that any of its members had been arrested in the case, and later clarified that Feldstein is not an official employee but a private contractor who has been working with Netanyahu for the past year and a half. The clarification came after Israeli media outlets pointed out images and footage of Feldstein accompanying Netanyahu in government meetings and in field visits to sensitive military sites........more.........