(Jpost).Three days before Binyamin Netanyahu delivers his anxiously awaited diplomatic speech, officials close to the prime minister said most of what has been written in the Israeli press in recent days about the speech was "baseless."
The sources added on Thursday that only a very small group of Netanyahu's closest advisers knew what he would actually say.
The sources of the leaks, the officials said, were various people, including Likud politicians, whom Netanyahu had consulted about the speech in recent days, and who had then walked away feeling that they knew what he would say.
Not only has the Prime Minister's Office been unwilling to discuss the contents of the speech, it is not even saying who is writing it, although Netanyahu himself is believed to be having a large role in actually penning the address.
Sources said that the speech, which will be delivered in Hebrew, will be shorter than US President Barack Obama's 50-minute address at Cairo University last Thursday.
The sources said the speech was "still a work in progress" and that no draft had been shown to the US
