Netanyahu Ignored Explicit Warning Hamas Was Planning ‘Terrifying Operation’ 10 Days Before Oct. 7 Attack: Report
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The Emirati president reportedly warned Netanyahu that Hamas' leader told an intermediary in September 2023 that he was preparing "a terrifying operation."

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.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I still believe we let Pearl Harbor happen to drum up support for entering the war.

    It’s certainly possible FDR was warned of the Japanese attack in advance. But we didn’t have a Pacific Fleet capable of repelling them. Moving what we had to Pearl Harbor was an effort to improve our (generally weak) Pacific naval capacity and establish a forward operating base in anticipation of an attack in the Philippines. Not coincidentally, Japan took the Philippines the day after Pearl Harbor.

    Also, this was already two years into WW2 and four years into the Sino-Japanese War (where we’d been backing the KMT against Japanese encroachment since the 1920s). Nothing like 9/11, unless you want to claim we’d been at war with a continent-spanning Islamic industrialized military since the late 90s.

    Also, plus, further, too, the 9/11 attacks were calculated by Bin Laden as an explicit provocation intended to draw the US into a quagmire war in Afghanistan. Which… it did! Maybe didn’t go down exactly the way he planned, as the US dicked around in Afghanistan far longer than the Russians managed before their government collapsed. But if 9/11 is the Pearl Harbor to this analogy, it’s akin to saying Tojo wanted the US Navy to exhaust itself in the Pacific over the next twenty years. Let’s not forget that Bush didn’t want a war with Afghanistan. He was focused on Iraq and Iran. Afghanistan was a massive distraction.

    And all of this hinges in a world in which FDR knew about the highly secretive Japanese navy movements in advance decades before we had the B-2 spy plane much less satellite surveillance. All to score a… media victory? In a country where FDR’s post-Depression government already had a heavy collar on the national press to the point that he was doing highly rated nightly podcasts to a national audience?

    It’s a pure apples/oranges comparison.