According to the Wall Street Journal, Israel, along with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, is gung-ho for the Egyptian army’s bloody campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood. This, the Journal reports, “has pulled Israel into ever-closer alignment with those Gulf states.” Yes, concurs, the New York Times, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE support “the Egyptian military and sought to push back against Western entreaties that it temper its actions against the Brotherhood and the ousted government of President Mohamed Morsi and his supporters.”

We know the Arab Gulf states support Gen Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s putsch because, as the Times and Journal report, they’ve given or pledged a total of $12 billion to Egypt. There’s no similar evidence that Israel backs the junta—unlike the Gulf states, Jerusalem has given no money. There is no official statement from the government of Israel that it supports the army, nor are there even any sourced quotes to substantiate the rather extraordinary claim that both articles make: Israel and the White House are at odds because while Obama is quietly considering the moral and strategic consequences of being seen to support Sisi’s crackdown, the Jewish state is cheering on a pogrom.