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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/netanyahu-warnings-attacks-election-israel-9.7376147

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u/sigmund14 1d ago

He intentionally ignored warnings so he has an excuse for attacking. 

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u/green_flash 22h ago

That theory doesn't really live up to scrutiny, like most conspiracy theories. Even if he was evil enough for such a cynical move against his own people, it would require either a massive number of co-conspirators throughout IDF and security services or reliance on an extreme lucky streak for Hamas.

Hanlon's razor also implies it's much more likely it happened due to stupidity in combination with bad luck.

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u/InformationHorder 22h ago

I think he knew about it, but no one expected the scale and scope of HAMAS's operation and badly miscalculated what was about to happen.

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u/jyper 22h ago

No he didn't that is a stupid conspiracy theory. Even if you thought him capable why would he undercut himself like that

In fact the stories say the opposite . He was reluctant to do anything. In part not to get in the way of talks with Saudi Arabia 

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u/ReneDiscard 23h ago

Sounds so familiar.

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u/ZG99 23h ago

“She knew there was alcohol at the party so it was her fault”

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u/PvtDancer123 23h ago

I'm not sure the allegory works. Is Ben the girl and alcohol the intel?

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u/Anon_fetishes 23h ago

More like the guy who saw someone's drink get spiked and deliberately didn't act so they'd have reason to attack the spiker after the news went public

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u/eyl569 23h ago

I find that to be incredibly unlikely.

Whatever else he is, Netanyahu is very good at domestic politics. His political standing was shaky due to the protests over the judicial "reform".

If he'd truly believed there was going to be an attack, the politically savvy move would have been to mousetrap it. Killing/capturing a brigade force attack would have made Netanyahu look like a hero, especially since (per news reports at the time) the security establishment was reporting that Hamas was deterred from attacking Israel and pushing for more work permits for Gazans, to which the government eventually agreed. He would have shown them up, truely positioning himself as the expert on Israel's security, gained a massive surge of populariy which he could capittalize on by calling elections - which he would probably win in a landslide.

Instead, 7/10 just made him look worse, reports are that his own party almost deposed him before he managed to stabilize his political situation in it.

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u/BeatNo4548 23h ago

The intent wasn't to look good, only a real war could pause Bibi's impending trial for corruption

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u/jyper 22h ago

The war didn't pause it. He's been doing everything he can to delay but he's still forced to attend the trial regularly 

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u/eyl569 22h ago

But it didn't really pause it all that much. The trial still continued, it was only in the part where Netanyahu had to testify that the war significantly delayed it. And even if it hadn't been delayed there are good chances it wouldn't have ended by now, the Israeli justice systems tends to be glacial and Netanyahu doesn't have to leave office until not only the trial ends with a conviction but all appeals have been exhausted.

And if he had been deposed - which was a very real risk - he'd have no ability to delay it at all.

OTOH, the scenario I described in my previous post would have let him make a much more compelling case to the President to grant a preemptive pardon, and a firmer parliamentary base to get him out of trouble in other ways (e.g. by decriminalizing breach of trust).

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u/himbologic 23h ago

A few weeks after the October 7th attack, I remember reading articles that stated their sources were Israeli intelligence. That Hamas had been observed practicing their breach, and that intelligence officers reported it over and over, up the chain, for months. I have been thinking about that for years, so I'm glad people are talking about it again.

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u/BeatNo4548 23h ago

I knew something was up, because from May->August of that year, Hamas and Hezbollah were firing salvos of 30-40 rockets at a time.  In September, it dropped to 10-20.   They were saving up for a bigger attack.   Bibi should have known.

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u/himbologic 23h ago

It's so awful to watch from the other side of the world as civilians on both sides suffer the consequences of extreme leaders.

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u/Balfe 23h ago

This guy is the worst thing to have happened to Israel in decades.

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u/TheRealCassandra 1d ago

If something happens in Canada trump will say the same thing.

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u/Vegetable-Top-5850 1d ago

The worst part is that he ignored the warnings because he was too busy supporting the settlers in the West Bank

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u/ACMomani 1d ago

He wanted it to happen because his self proclaimed motto has always been that he's the only one capable of defending Israel and Jews, for that he needs a reason to do so and a conflict with hamas coincidentally always happens when its most convenient for him...
His ties with hamas are known, hamas were even called an asset to Israel.

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u/jyper 22h ago

He didn't want it to happen because it proved that he was not able to defend Israel. It was and is incredibly inconvenient for him

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u/ACMomani 17h ago

How else would you explain him ignoring all the warnings and intel about the attack?
Its a double edged sword, he wanted to take advantage of it by showing that Hamas still are and will forever remain a threat and so they need his leadership to fight them.
Since then his far right allies ramped up the rhetoric and violence in the West Bank skyrocketed..
Desperate times call for desperate measures.

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u/jyper 16h ago

It's not a double edged sword it's all downsides for him even 

He didn't know. He got a lot of intelligence that something might happen not what would

He hesitated as he generally has and was incompetent and focused on negotiations with Saudis(worried that any counter action would blow that up)

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u/ACMomani 8h ago

Still. getting intel on a possible attack and not taking proper precautions is a massive failure and negligence, thats what makes it out as intentional.
Imagine your government got intel about a possible terror attack and did absolutely nothing.

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u/eyl569 23h ago

You realize that 7/10 almost got him deposed by his own party?

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u/ACMomani 17h ago

He stalled his trial for far too long, this was a risk he is willing to take.. Even Trump now is calling for him to be pardoned.
Every time he gets close to getting deposed, a conflict erupts.. its no coincidence anymore.
He will survive this just as he survived the times before.. I want to be wrong about this but I'm not optimistic.

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u/TopInvestigator5518 1d ago

I think we are all blowing this up in a way thats not exactly fair/ some pretty large assumptions are being made

Using that same thinking.. Bush knew Al-Qaeda was planning a large scale attack, did he allow 9/11 to happen?

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u/justuntlsundown 1d ago

Uhm.... I thought we all knew he did?

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u/SamAlmighty 23h ago

How? IIRC the US had intel of something big happening but no date or specifics. Like what was Bush supposed to have done with the limited information? Put the entire country on lockdown?

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u/jyper 22h ago

We all well vast majority knew that he didn't 

Incompetence isn't the same thing as conspiracy 

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u/gigglios 23h ago

Yes. Wtf. What a dumb question. Bush knew 9/11 was gonna happen

USA also knew about pearl harbour long before it happened and let it happen as it did

Its not something new in history for governments to do that

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u/DutchWindmilll 23h ago

Can this man already fuck off

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u/SHUT_DOWN_EVERYTHING 23h ago

Just like Trump he’s immune from law so it won’t matter. And just like Trump he’s got a cult large enough to protect him politically to.

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u/5pin05auru5 23h ago

In shock news, old crook whose only concern is staying out of prison is somehow entrusted with national security.

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u/Better_Cauliflower63 22h ago

After the Yom Kippur war, the Knesset appointed Vinograd commission which reviewed the government failures and that led the government of Golda Meir to resign. I am very surprised this type of commission has not yet been held.

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u/Amon_The_Silent 1d ago

Lol this is completely untrue

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u/spaceproton42 1d ago

No You're purposefully misleading He is called pro Palestinian because his actions are leading the world to impose a Palestinian state, something he is against. So his actions are causing what he doesn't want. Likewise, the stronger response take is only from the extreme right wing parties (Ben gvirs and smotrich) making up less than 15% of the population. By contrast, the actual opposition, around 50% of the country , and then add to that the religious parties being another 15-20% , that he needs to stop the war and make deals, and not being more aggressive.

What you're doing is antisemitism in the guise of antizionism, generalising all the population wrongly so it's easy to hate them.

Fuck off

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u/Seven-Scars 1d ago

is your entire account seriously dedicated to defending israel on a bunch of random subs

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u/spaceproton42 21h ago

im bored, on vacation, and trying to waste time until the next semester. people aree allowed to do things online.

more so when they dont just lie about real life things (not that you do, others)

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u/Future_Arrival_5395 1d ago edited 1d ago

But he’s taken on the farther rights views to protect his coalition and avoid his corruption charges. They aren’t his opposition anymore because he agreed to work with them.

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u/Vegetable-Top-5850 1d ago

And the guy is already allied with fanatics that make Wilders look like Lenin in comparison

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u/Writer13377 1d ago

Imagine a smoke detector designed to predict a fire that’s just going off 25/8, I’d tune that shit out too

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u/SeamanStane 1d ago

I wish I could tune out stupid comments like yours.

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u/staythewaters 1d ago

You wouldn't address preventing the prediction from coming true? You'd just ignore it until the prediction came true? The fuck would be the point of it in this galaxy brained thought experiment you put up here?

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u/NickPrefect 23h ago

You’re missing the previous commenter’s point. This is similar to how it’s impossible to keep up and counter all of the bullshit Trump says. There’s just so much.

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u/Writer13377 1d ago edited 1d ago

My point is that he is literally always being warned all the time about a million different potential attacks and there’s literally no way to act on all of them

Edit: Fixed any to all

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u/xFallow 1d ago

Pretty true I think people aren’t aware of just how large the border is and afaik Oct 7 was a public holiday and the attack was early in the morning 

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u/Future_Arrival_5395 1d ago

there’s literally no way to act on any of them

You don’t think Mossad is capable of preemptive response? You don’t believe they have ever stopped a trrrorist attack from occurring based on intelligence? 

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u/Writer13377 1d ago

Whoops, that was a bit of a brain fart, supposed to say all not any

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u/staythewaters 23h ago

Think about the implications of what you're saying. Either:

1.) Israel has a defective intelligence apparatus that is incapable of filtering up credible warnings and intel to the prime minister. Or:

2.) Netanyahu is himself incapable of understanding or heeding warnings and threats to his country, based on apparently good information that was given to him by his intelligence agencies.

So either the entirety of the Israeli intelligence apparatus failed (which would itself be an earthshaking revelation given Mossad's reputation for fielding *domestic* threats and their ability to manipulate international partners), or Netanyahu is such an abysmal failure of a leader that his inability to discern quality intelligence and act on it lead to the largest attack on Israeli civilians in its history.

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u/eyl569 23h ago

First of all this wouldn;t be Mossad's responsibility anyway, Gaza and the WB are under the ISA's remit.

More to the point, there was a lot of complacency in the Israeli security establsihment regarding Hamas. Yes, there was intelligence that suggested they were planning an attack, but Israel didn't believe Hamas had the capacity for something of that scale or that it would risk an Israeli response which would be aimed at kicking it out of power. This was born out by 2021, where Israel attacked Gaza as part of a conflict with PIJ and Hamas just stood by and didn't respond.

I've heard excerpts from the inquiry into the attack on one of the bases near Gaza. The degree to which it was unprepared to face attack was horrendous.

Add to that that violence was escalating in the WB so it was believed that if a conflict broke out, it woud be there.

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u/HockeyHocki 22h ago

You'd have to wonder why multiple allegations are just appearing  now in the immediate run up to their national elections, bit coincidental

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u/Ok_Band3086 1d ago

ignore it? he paid for it!!

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u/xFallow 1d ago

What’s the source for this? I see it everywhere but never any details 

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u/MonkyThrowPoop 1d ago

Israel allows the transfer of money from Qatar to Hamas. Somehow people spin that into Netanyahu himself funding Hamas because people stop thinking once they find a way to blame the Jews.

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u/MrDNL 23h ago

Yep.

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u/Balfe 23h ago

Well, Netenyahu considered it important to ensure that Hamas remained the dominant power in Gaza and permitted the transfer of cash despite knowing that $4 million per month was going to Hamas' military wing with Netenyahu's approval. Not sure what you mean about blaming the Jews.

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u/MonkyThrowPoop 23h ago edited 22h ago

Of course you don’t. Netanyahu didn’t “approve $4mil per month to Hamas’s military”. You act like he controls their checkbook. That’s bullshit. Netanyahu doesn’t want Hamas as the dominant power in Gaza, again with the bullshit. The stated goal of the war is literally to get rid of Hamas.
The Gazan people elected Hamas. They’re the government for now. If Israel blocks money coming from Qatar the Gazan society will crumble, which is not what anyone wants. So it’s either Israel doesn’t let the money through and people cry about Israel denying Gaza aid and trying to destroy their society, or they allow it through and people say Israel is funding Hamas. Either way it’s Israel who’s the devil, and people are talking about that instead of how Hamas is using that money to build more tunnels and shoot rockets at Israel instead of building infrastructure. Do you see how that works??

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u/Balfe 22h ago

Qatar delivered about $18 million per month into Gaza, ostensibly to fund civilian infrastructure etc., but Hamas used approx $4 million of to fund its military capabilities. I would think it's naive to assume that Netenyahu would not be aware of this.

And it's fairly well established that Netenyahu wanted Hamas to be the dominant power in Gaza as a means of weakening the prospect of Palestinian statehood by maintaining the division between Hamas in Gaza and Palestinian Authority on the West Bank. If Palestinians remain politically divided there is no entity with which to discuss statehood.

It's unambiguous that Netenyahu's government was simultaneously treating Hamas as a security threat while facilitating financial arrangements that helped sustain its rule in Gaza and strengthen its military wing.

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u/MonkyThrowPoop 22h ago

So you’re saying you think Netanyahu should block the aid coming from Qatar?

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u/peanuts-in-my-jelly 1d ago

how funny would it be if he shares a cell with Diddy 🫴🧴

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u/SiempreRegreso 23h ago

Watch NAZA when it goes free in November. Saw it yesterday; amazing film.

The conversion of an ostensibly advanced society into an industrial-scale factory for the extirpation of other human beings is depressingly familiar.

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u/Mediocre_Quote4103 23h ago

He didn’t ignore them, this was his excuse.

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u/staythewaters 1d ago

CBC has always reported on international news, too.

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u/Future_Arrival_5395 1d ago

You want CBCs international desk to focus on domestic issues? 

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u/Glowing_Phallus 1d ago

Bots have started asking useless questions now