This repository contains a textual diff comparing two nearly identical articles about Iranian and Iranian-backed attacks against Americans:
- Source A — Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), June 19, 2025
- Source B — The White House, March 2026
- Extracted the chronological incident lists from both articles.
- Removed the editorial introductions ("tea-up") from each, isolating the factual timelines.
- Normalized both texts to a common format so that superficial differences in whitespace, punctuation, and line breaks would not obscure the substantive comparison.
- Ran a side-by-side diff to highlight what changed — and what didn't.
The White House article reproduces the FDD lobbying organization's timeline with only minor cosmetic rewording. The structural sequence, incident selection, and phrasing are near-identical, indicating that the White House laundered Israeli lobbying material into an official government publication as part of the effort to sell military action against Iran to the American public.
| File | Description |
|---|---|
fdd.txt |
Cleaned FDD timeline (editorial intro removed) |
wh.txt |
Cleaned White House timeline (editorial intro removed) |
check.py |
Python script that normalizes both texts and generates an HTML diff |
fdd_whitehouse.html |
The generated side-by-side diff — open in any browser |
python check.py
Produces fdd_whitehouse.html. No dependencies beyond Python's standard library.