Israeli officials: We were left in the dark on nixed Iran attack; we don’t know what Trump’s endgame is

Israel was left in the dark for hours about an expected joint attack with the US against Iran yesterday, senior defense and diplomatic officials tell Channel 12.

“For hours, we were in real uncertainty,” a senior official says. “President Trump left us in the fog. Senior officers were updated about what was happening from Trump’s social media.”

“The feeling was, they left us behind,” says the official, after Trump posted that he was cancelling the attack.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz, and other senior officials also discovered Trump was calling off the strike from his Truth Social post.

Israel thought it was an attempt to lull the Iranians into a false sense of security, but eventually military and diplomatic officials were able to reach their American counterparts to verify that Trump had indeed changed his mind about the strike.

“The moment we lower our alert level, it takes a lot of time to reorganize,” says a senior Israeli official. “It is frustrating to commit all our resources to one theater, and then to discover that we had been on high alert for nothing. We don’t understand what the president’s endgame is.”

Israel believes Trump could change his mind in an instant, and Israeli forces remain on high alert, reports Channel 12.