Israel's sleight of hand
Bibi's optimal timing for the final stage of the regional plan - escalation
Summary
This article examines:
The trigger for Israel’s attacks on Iran June 2025 (not the attacks themselves)
World events driving the timing
A stunning PR outcome
Other “optimally timed” attacks by Israel
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First published: 13 Jun 2025
Updated: 13 Jun 2025 (see version history)
Contents
Appendix A: Sleight of hand: other conveniently timed Israeli actions
Appendix B: The Grid - by Alastair Campbell (Work In Progress)
End Papers
1. The trigger
Israel’s attacks on Iran are a sleight of hand and the timing of this stinks never mind the calculated motivation.
There’s been a huge shift in world opinion against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the appetite to now actually act on this by authorities.
Opinion:
Western countries directly sanctioning members of the Israeli government
Mainstream media finally openly reporting Israel’s actions
Questioning the blanket “antisemitism” - influencers such as Piers Morgan finally realising Israel’s false attacks on criticising the regime
People more broadly begin questioning the difference between Zionism and Judaism
First Antizionist Conference in Vienna - opening on the same day as the attacks1
Upcoming events:
🇫🇷 🕊️ Peace Conference in Paris further discussing all the above
🇸🇦🇫🇷 Palestinian Statehood conference organised by Saudi Arabia and France in NYC
🇺🇸 🇮🇷 US in direct nuclear proliferation negotiations with Iran
🇮🇱🗳️ Israel election by Oct 27 2026 .. but could happen sooner as Netanyahu faces dissolution votes
⚖️ Netanyahu’s personal motivations - avoiding various corruption court cases ongoing
And at this point Israel chooses to execute a massive pre-planned attack on Iran.
To prep, we are seeded with news of imminent Iranian enrichment for a week before these attacks. This “imminent enrichment” has been the case for years now - meant to be “weeks away” at one point last year. Shades of Iraq WMD here.
Optimal timing, distracts world opinion from the genocide and the mounting criticism of Israel to this bigger conflict, and risks finally sparking a regional conflict as a result of this massive attack.
Appendix A illustrates some further sleights of hand Israel has staged in response to a turn in global opinion.
2. Bibi Hussein
On 1st April 2024 Israel launched the first attack on Iranian territory - by attacking the Iranian Consulate in Syria, provoking a stage-managed response from Iran rather than the broader war he was seeking as now.
The last time a country attacked sites in a country in the regional to try to start a broader war was over 30 years ago.
Iraq 1991 - The first Gulf War: Sadaam’s desperate launching Scud missiles into Israel.
Different scale but same underlying incendiary motive, though Sadaam didn’t have a PR problem to conveniently address at the same time.
A fine sleight of hand. It remains to be seen who pays the price.
Appendix A: Sleight of hand: other conveniently timed Israeli actions
There is a long pattern of actions by Israel as a sleight of hand to change the conversation - just as broad accusations of “antisemitism” achieve the same changing the conversation to shut down criticism of Israel.
Below are some of the events just since October 7th using standard format:
⚖️ Incident resulting in negative public opinion for Israel
🇮🇱➡️ Israel “coincidental” response
✅ What the outcome was for Israel
🚨 What actually happened
A.1 ICJ ruling on plausible case for genocide (January 26th 2024)
⚖️ 19 January 2024: The ICJ determine that there is a plausible case for genocidal actions in Gaza by Israel and that the case can go ahead2.
🇮🇱➡️ Israel immediately releases news that a large amount of UNRWA employees were involved in the October 7th attack.
Without proof western countries around the world immediately freeze aid to UNRWA.
✅ Palestinians suffer. Attention diverted from ICJ case.
🚨 Takes months but in the face of ZERO evidence from investigation - western countries (ex-US) all restore aid.
A.2 World Central Kitchen staff murdered by the IDF (April 1st 2024)
⚖️ 1 April - World Central Kitchen staff murdered by the IDF3.
🇮🇱➡️ Israel attacks Iranian territory - its embassy in Syria, killing senior Iranian IRGC commanders.
Provokes a tit for tat retaliation with a “staged” and well communicated response from Iran to save face.
✅ Story of the world central kitchen and global sentiment silenced.
🚨 Israel at first denied responsibility for the WCC attacks then admitted it as “operational errors”. Regardless - with the Iranian escalation - the world had moved on.
A.3 Australia breaks with Israel in the UN (December 4th 2024)
⚖️ Dec 4th 2024 - Australia breaks a 20 year position and votes with the rest of the civilized world in a motion demanding an end to Israel’s occupation4.
🇮🇱➡️ Netanyahu makes a speech calling Australia antisemitic and says they are inciting terror with their actions5.
By chance there are a spate of antisemitic property attacks in Australia against Jewish property. There is a firebombing at Adass Synagogue in Melbourne and multiple attacks at sites in Sydney including finding a caravan filled with explosives.
✅ Hysteria on antisemitism in Australia in the run up to an election in particular leveraging the caravan incident. The Liberal party push for and get drastic changes in laws to restrict further free speech and secure huge electoral promises from both parties post election for Jewish communities and organisations.
Australian Liberal leader goes as far as promising to introduce a condition of Australian citizenship being to pass antisemitism screening6.
It does not matter at this point who wins the election. Law changes and large financial promises have been secured.
🚨 All Sydney attacks on Jewish property are revealed by police to be hoaxes by criminals “paid by overseas actors”. The caravan was owned by one of the criminals, contained 40 year old mining charges with no detonators and police confirmed was not a threat - never mind being part of the hoax7.
Melbourne synagogue attack: appears to be criminals rather than ideology - police say there is no evidence of extremist group involvement. Furthermore the car that was used by the fire bombers was used the same night in another arson and a shooting. It was stolen the previous year and used for another arson in November8. 🤔
The Melbourne synagogue attack has no arrests six months on despite its own dedicated federal police task force being formed with huge amount of resources9.
The “overseas actors” paying the criminals have not been identified.
Appendix B: The Grid - by Alastair Campbell
📚 Further Reading
Sleekit Scotsman ☮️🏴 Substack Related Articles with article summaries.
ICJ Case 192: A plausible case to assess the applicability of genocide in Gaza (first published Jan 28 2024):
Options the ICJ could have taken
ICJ ruling assessment
Analysis of judge statements
Next steps to ceasefire
Approach after the ceasefire - new actors Palestine, Israel, peacekeeping force
A realisation on the fall of Syria and Israel moving quickly further into the Golan Heights (first published Dec 9 2024):
Israel’s grand plan
It was never about Gaza
The pattern: summary of the enabling support by global actors to get to this point
Post written at a low point of realisation…
The Australian 2025 antisemitism criminal hoaxes, the history of bias in NSW and how the pro-Israel lobby milked it (first published 12th March 2025):
NSW Premier Chris Minns’s pro-Israel bias and history of suppressing pro-Palestine protest
Events after the police revelation of hoaxes
NSW Parliament pro-Israel bodies
Australia’s UN voting record and the timing of the attacks
Government community funding and support summary
🗄️ Version History - Article Updates
First published: 13 Jun 2025
Last Update: 13 Jun 2025
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Updates
13th June 2025: Update internal URLs
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