Netanyahu calls stabbing too early to explain, then vows to find out if Iran did it

…(cont) Then he did say the word: too early. And then the New York Post ran the other word, in the same interview cycle: that he would find out whether Iran was behind an attack he was, in the same breath, crediting the plumber with turning back from "another 9/11." Naming the suspect before any investigator has spoken is itself the accusation, dressed in the schedule of an investigation that has not started. Four versions of one cockpit, and the Prime Minister narrated three of them personally.

This is not his first disputed account of a warning. The record says otherwise.

Fourteen days before Wednesday's interview, on September 17, Netanyahu called for a law stripping citizenship from Israelis who criticize the military, after backlash over a documentary on the war in Gaza. A government building the power to revoke citizenship for criticism is a government that would prefer its own cockpit accounts go unchecked by the citizens best positioned to check them.

The accusation against Iran arrived before the evidence did. Four tellings of ten minutes, and the one constant across all of them is who is doing the telling.