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Report: UAE Warned Netanyahu Before Oct. 7 Attack

Did Netanyahu ignore a UAE warning about Sinwar's coming attack or is this an election-timed political ambush built on anonymous sources?

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Report: UAE Warned Netanyahu Before Oct. 7 Attack

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Above: Palestinians groups broke over a fence in Gaza City, Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. Image credit: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

The Spin

Government-critical narrative

An explicit warning from the UAE president that Hamas was preparing a massive attack landed directly with Netanyahu, and the response was a shrug and a claim that the West Bank was the real problem. Worse, the Shin Bet, Mossad and IDF chiefs were never told, preventing them from implementing security protocols. That's negligence that demands accountability.

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Pro-government narrative

The entire story rests on three anonymous foreign sources in a book dropped weeks before an Israeli election and amplified by a paper that has wanted Netanyahu gone for years. The prime minister's office calls it an absolute lie, a former insider calls it fake news, the ambassador in Abu Dhabi knew of no such call and the UAE declined to confirm anything. That is a political ambush, not evidence.

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