Monday evening, the military censor cleared additional details for publication confirming that Israel had been aware of a regional deception plan for many months, according to the cleared report.
At 21:25 Jerusalem time, the military censor cleared an additional report confirming that Israel had been aware of a regional deception plan for many months, according to the cleared report. This follows an earlier clearance at 20:09 that initially revealed the existence of the plan and drew political reactions from Israeli leaders, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who said the revelation reinforced his opposition to deals based on an 'illusion of quiet,' and former senior Mossad official Eyal Tzir Cohen, who cautioned that agreements must account for fragile internal political realities.
The thread of disclosures began earlier on Monday, when at 07:32 Jerusalem journalist Amit Segal (N12) first reported that regional officials had discussed tactical flexibility to reach an agreement with Israel and later violate it. By midday, Kan News reported that officials had proposed false normalization to prepare for a future war. As the day progressed, the story evolved: security sources confirmed that the political echelon had been aware of the plan for months, and the censor cleared successive versions of the report, with the identities of the states involved remaining under censorship restrictions.
As The Zioneer reported earlier at 20:09 Jerusalem, Israel had been aware of the duplicity throughout the period. The publication follows months of inquiries by journalists and security clearance processes. The broader context, as noted in The Zioneer's Eye on Zion daily briefing, underscores the necessity of a 'security-first' doctrine, as diplomatic frameworks are being explicitly designed by adversaries as camouflage for eventual aggression.
The identities of the specific Arab states discussed in the report remain under censorship restrictions, and the full scope of Israel's months-long awareness—including the exact timeline and intelligence assessments—has not yet been cleared for publication.
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