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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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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

hes doing this to stay out of jail himself they were very close to prosecuting him.

[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you saying he orchestrated the genocide to draw attention away from other stuff he was being prosecuted for? (Sorry, I'm dumb and can often infer the wrong thing from ambiguous text.)

Here is what I was able to find about criminal charges against him

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

There's a bit more nuance, but yes, that's exactly it.

The nuance being: The Palestinian Authority (West Bank leadership) was this close to reaching a well designed agreement with Israel, which would bring peace to that part of the region.

Hamas in Gaza saw that as a threat to their authoritarian rule because if West Bank can have peace, why does Gaza have to still fully oppose Israel?

Iran saw that as a threat because Israel that's not hitting and getting hit on all sides is an Israel that can become even stronger and fully dominate the region.

Netanyahu and his clique saw that as a threat because peace with Palestine would mean that Israeli people start looking into his corruption and mismanagement.

So, Iran threw a bunch of money and intel at Hamas, Hamas planned the October 7th attack, Netanyahu ordered the military to allow the attack to happen. Everybody's happy. Except the civilians, of course, but let's not get civilian lives getting in the way of politics, right?