Are reports that the Israelis are planning to launch an attack on Iran in early 2010 credible?

Today’s (15 Oct 2009) Jerusalem Post has an article suggesting as much:

According to a report in Le Canard Enchainé quoted by Israel Radio, Jerusalem has already ordered high-quality combat rations from a French food manufacturer for soldiers serving in elite units and has also asked reservists of these units staying abroad to return to Israel.

The magazine further reported that in a recent visit to France, IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi told his French counterpart Jean-Louis Georgelin that Israel is not planning to bomb Iran, but may send elite troops to conduct activities on the ground there.

These, according to the magazine, could involve sabotage of nuclear facilities as well as assassinations of top Iranian nuclear scientists.

The veracity of the quoted article is highly suspect – after all, there’s something truly laughable about soldiers dining on high quality French cuisine in a battlefield, and the paper is reported in some circles to be a satirical journal and not a source of news

Still, is such an attack a credible plan? And is there any truth to the story, is it disinformation, or is it just something fanciful conceived after a final glass of Bordeaux?
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