Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was personally and explicitly warned that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was planning a major attack roughly 10 days before the October 7 massacre, but dismissed the threat and did not alert his security chiefs, according to a shocking new Haaretz report.

The revelations come from research for an upcoming book Hostages: 843 Days of Abandonment, written by journalists Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval, who writes for Haaretz.

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      He wanted any excuse to forestall the corruption trials for him and his wife. A forever war / genocide worked out perfectly for him.

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          I think American military knew the Japanese were planning on attacking, but underestimated the severity of what the attack would be.

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            The Americans knew what was going on before the Japanese ambassador did, because they had wiretapped the embassy, and their codebreakers decoded the message before the Japanese diplomatic workers did.

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        If 9/11 was about a music fest or other youth gather, I’d believe Bush or Cheney could have had full knowledge. This is just different enough.

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      He did nothing because he wanted to startcontinue genocide.

      It’ been going on since the 1970s, it’s only intensified as of late.

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    It was my conspiracy theory from the beginning

    The Mossad knows what I ate for breakfast and didn’t know this?

    They were able to infiltrate into Hezbollah so deeply that they could control their supply chain, fake a whole pager company from scratch and hide a remotely controlled bomb in every communication device, yet could not have any evidence of the terrorist attack planned by hundreds of people?

    And by coincidence they had the excuse to start the purge and genocide?

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      I’m not much of a conspiracy believer but Netanyahu said multiple times on camera that Hamas is good for Israel and given how surveiled Gaza was the theory that Israel allowed the attack is very convincing.

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        On that note, as someone who laughed off all the “9/11 was an inside job” conspiracy theorists at the time, who benefitted the most from 9/11?

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        it’s kept bibi and the right wing in power. but who’s to say, maybe he’s a rational and honest actor <ghack>

        one day israelis will wake and depose him, and russians will overthrow putin, and we’ll impeach and imprison trump…

        I can dream yo…

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    Didn’t they specifically reduce defenses in order to make sure it would be a big enough deal that they could play it for support of going on the offensive?

    Or has that been debunked now?

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      The soldiers they removed from the border were sent to Cisjordania to help colonize it, so it’s entirely possible they just underestimated the threat and thought they could focus on expanding their colonial system elsewhere.

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    Old news, but hopefully it catches this time.

    They basically let Hamas attack and take hostages in order to have an excuse for the the current an ongoing genocide.

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      NYT did an analysis that came to the same conclusion like a month after the attacks, and posting it on Reddit got me banned from a lot of news subs.

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      I remember hearing about it, but not the source. It’s in character for Israel though. Israel doesn’t like Jews if they’re the “wrong” kind of Jew. If Hamas had targeted a military base or political gathering, it probably would have been stopped before hand.

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    The Bush Administration were well aware that something was up just before 9/11, too, and deliberately ignored it, hoping to use it as a pretense for a war in Iraq, so Dick Cheney’s Halliburton could take over the Iraqi oilfields. There are multiple documented instances where warnings were given directly to the highest levels, and literally NOTHING was done to investigate or prepare for it.

    They probably thought there would be a car bomb or shooting or something, and we got 9/11.

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      They probably thought there would be a car bomb or shooting or something, and we got 9/11.

      It’s sickening to consider how many holders of defense stocks and positions of power were likely “pleasantly surprised” by this development.

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      In the case of 9/11, it might have been better if the first responders had held back. Much of the first wave got squashed.

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    Don’t quote me on it but iirc there were even several barracks worth of soldiers told not to post to even basic security positions for the music festival that was happening that day.

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    He was able to make like thousands of beepers suddenly explode in people’s faces or whatever it was, but there was no way they could have seen this massive attack coming.

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        There is an interview with an IDF soldier who was on duty at the wall on the morning of October 7, who testified to the Knesset about how they got the order an hour before the attack to NOT go out for any reason until 9:00 am. So when the sirens went off around six they couldn’t go check it out like they normally do.

        See the embedded X video; the whole thing is fire, and includes a recording of the order his unit was given to stay where they were, but at the 5:30 mark, right at the end when he’s saying why he wants answers about the order he was given, he says,

        I’m telling you, for every little thing, we would jump to the fence, for every little thing.

        He was doing that, gladly. They all were. And that’s exactly how you deal with false alarms: you treat every single one as the real thing. Until Bibi sends down orders that you don’t, anyway.

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        Okay, so possibly 500 full mobilizations per day seems like a great idea to you?