He Knew...

All right, let's throw in Netanyahu. So, you know, I I've suspected this and there were rumors about this, but now we have two separate reports coming out now, just a month before the elections in Israel, that reports that Netanyahu received high-level warnings before the October 7th massacre and did nothing. They're related, the two reports, but they're not the same reports. They come from different sources and they describe different events. Um none of this is to say that Netanyahu knew the date or the targets or the operational plan. No, none of that. So, let's be careful on what we assert here. It is interesting that it's coming out 1 month before the election. Um the first allegation comes from Haaretz. Now, Haaretz is the left of the New York Times uh publication in Israel. It's about as left as it gets in Israel for a major publication. Uh it is uh in in many of its stories, it's anti-Israel. It's certainly very, very, very anti-Netanyahu. So, anything against Netanyahu that comes out here has to be taken with a bit of a grain of salt, but supposedly, this is reporting coming out of a forthcoming book and Haaretz really makes up stuff. It's It's usually just interpretation or they're so unbelievably biased. Anyway, uh according to the account in this forthcoming book, the president of the UAE, Mohammed bin Zayed, spoke with Netanyahu about 10 days before October 7th. He alleged that Yahya Sinwar was preparing a major operation that could cause bloodshed, destabilize the region, and damage the Abraham Accords. The reported warning was was kind of broad. It was strategic. It wasn't specific. No dates, no location, no specificity. Uh and you know, it didn't say thousands of terrorists are going to cross the border, at which locations they were going to attack, none of that, right? According to the report, Netanyahu reported responded calmly to it. Said Israel was prepared for any scenario. And suggested that the real problems were in the West Bank. Indeed, at the time, Netanyahu was very much focused on the West Bank and unrest in the West Bank and believed that whatever whatever would happen would happen in the West Bank. But he did not alert any other security officials to this conversation. Uh he did not alert the generals. He did not, you know, engage with military intelligence that had intelligence that suggested that something was happening in Gaza. He did not, you know, share this information with people in the security forces. Of course, Netanyahu's office categorically denies that the conversation ever happened. It calls the report an absolute lie. So, hard to tell, right? The UAE has not confirmed it publicly. Uh Haaretz has not received a call log or contemporaneous memo or testimony under oath. So, we don't know. Uh former Shin Bet director Ronen Bar and a former IDF chief Herzi Halevi have both told uh both told Haaretz that they that they know nothing about the alleged Shin Bet warning. So, again, uh still speculative. But I think it makes sense and I'll tell you why in a few minutes. The second allegation is a separate one. And this comes from the Jerusalem Report at Sagi, the Jerusalem Post, not particularly left-wing. And it reports that Ronen Bar, the former Shin Bet, Shin Bet is the internal security operation of Israel, that Ronen Bar met Netanyahu on October 1st, 6 days before the attack. An unnamed security source says that Bar warned warned that Hamas was preparing something extreme, using the word earthquake, and recommending killing Sinwar and other senior Hamas leaders. According to report, Netanyahu did not approve the proposed action. Now, that account matters, you know, that account places a warning inside Israel's own security system and directly in front of the Prime Minister. And of course, we know that there were there was a lot of information within the security system suggesting a Hamas attack. Netanyahu has claimed over and over again that that information never reached him. But here again, public evidence is limited. Sources are named. We have no document showing exactly what Bar said and what intelligence supported it, or how urgent it was, or what alternatives were actually discussed. A recommendation to assassinate Hamas's leaders, I mean, we don't even know that that recommendation actually existed, right? So, what can we conclude? There's some evidence, and it's mounting, of serious strategic warnings. You know, obviously, Netanyahu didn't know what was going to happen. He didn't. But, he was warned that something big might be happening. At least, that is what is being suggested. Now, everybody's, you know, Netanyahu's people are going to dismiss this and and poopoo it and and claim that none of it happened. And of course, we haven't heard directly from the Shin Bet, from Bar at the Shin Bet, who is now the former Shin Bet head, about this conversation. He, of course, knows what happens. It'll be interesting if he ever says anything, or if he says something before the election. It would be good for these really people to know before they go out and vote. But, look, Netanyahu, for 15 years, for more than 15 years, before October 7th, had dismissed the threat of Hamas, had not dealt with it, with the constant, ongoing threat of missile launches, and always the existence of a threat of an October 7th-like event. Never dealt with it appropriately. Believed, and I think seriously believed, that Hamas was more interested in governing. Hamas was more interested in money. This is why he let, approved, Qatari money flowing into Gaza, in spite of the fact that he knew that much of this money was being used to build the tunnel system, and to buy the weapons, and to build the missiles. He let it happen. It was under his watch. I I I want to I I can't emphasize this enough, and I I been emphasizing this since October 7th. It was under his watch that Hamas built the infrastructure that allowed it to execute October 7th. It was under his watch that they built the infrastructure that made it relatively difficult for Israel to take Gaza. It was under his watch that they [clears throat] built an oppressive regime that not only oppressed their own people that's somewhat their problem but that regularly attacked Israelis. Regularly launched missiles into Israel. And yes, Israel had developed this amazing technology to knock these missiles out of the air, Iron Dome. That that can't be an excuse for taking no action to deprive Hamas of the ability to launch these missiles to begin with. I mean any government's primary function it it really only function is the protection of its own citizens. This should have been at the top of mind. But at the time Netanyahu was busy trying to do judicial reform there were demonstrations in the street there were some problems in the West Bank which I wouldn't be surprised if Hamas created in order to distract Israel from what they were planning for October 7th. And the reality is that the Netanyahu government the Netanyahu government failed Israel failed the Israeli people on October 7th and failed them in the 20 years leading up to October 7th. Well, 15. So uh it's bad even if these reports are not true. Netanyahu should have known better. He should have killed Sinwar years ago. He should have uh taken out Hamas' capabilities years ago. He should have stopped them building up missiles and building the tunnels and and buying the weapons and years ago he should have stopped money flowing into Gaza years ago. But he had convinced himself that he knew his arrogance was such that he knew that Hamas was no longer interested really in war with Israel, that Hamas was interested in money and in ruling over Gaza. And for and as really Prime Minister to lose sight of the fact that Hamas was an ideological is an ideological organization dedicated to an Islamic agenda and to the complete and utter destruction of the state of Israel and that no money would ever change their mind. For Prime Minister to forget that to lose sight of that is so irresponsible. I mean, he should have been kicked out of office on October 8th. And Israelis finally have a chance to kick him out of office in a month and I really really really really hope, no matter who the alternative is that at least Netanyahu is off the table. He has to be held responsible. Somebody needs to be held responsible for what happened on October 7th. Israel failed catastrophically. Now, if it turned out that he did indeed receive an M already warning and didn't let the security forces know. That would be an unbelievable extraordinary failure of judgment. Add it to the list of Netanyahu's failures of judgment. That should exclude him from being Prime Minister forever. Even if it was just a broad warning from friendly Arab leader but Sinwar preparing something big. You know, at least test it against your intelligence, military intelligence, your your your your Mossad, Shin Bet, whatever. And then if one in doubt actually wanted to know on October 1, a few days after the UAW the the Amwari that Hamas was preparing something big something extraordinary, extreme. Why did he ignore it? And he didn't have to accept the idea of killing the leadership, but why ignore it? Why not put the military on alert? Why not you know, again, talk about it, debate it, discuss it, and do something about it? So, again, doesn't look good for Netanyahu. And I don't think it looks good for Netanyahu whether these events actually happen or not. Netanyahu needs to take responsibility. And then the Israeli people, since he won't, need to make him take responsibility. Need to defeat him in this coming election. Now, Israel really needs an independent commission to investigate what actually happened. To look at the call logs, to actually examine the evidence, and to find out what was said, when, by whom, and to whom. You need an election. Netanyahu needs to be out, and you need an objective evaluation of what happened. Netanyahu is a failed prime minister. He has to be considered a failed prime minister because October 7th is a failure, and it has to be a failure. It wasn't an intelligence failure because the question of Hamas's willingness to do on October 7th was never should have been never in question. It was a political failure. A failure to confront the enemy and defeat him. A failure to do what was necessary to protect Israeli citizens. To elect a prime minister after a failure of that magnitude again is incomprehensible to me. It just doesn't make any sense. Any sense. And the fact that he has resisted any kind of independent commission, any kind of real investigation into what happened is just is just is just compounds his responsibility and and and makes it Yeah. Makes an election the necessary Kicking him out with an election makes it makes it necessary. Now, when Netanyahu argued the security officials kept crucial information from him because they feared it would put the military on alert, that doesn't make any sense to me. I mean, if anything, they probably feared that he would poo-poo the intelligence and tell them to stop it. Stop fear-mongering. Stop crying wolf because he had this grander vision of what was going on in Gaza. Military officials suggest that important warnings did reach him. But again, somebody needs to dig out that evidence. Somebody needs to prove this. Somebody needs to make this objective. And for that, you need some kind of commission, some kind of process to discover what really happened. Netanyahu doesn't have immunity. And I know many of you like him. I never have. I've always thought he was a fraud. I've always considered him a great speaker and an awful awful prime minister. And people say, "But who's the alternative?" I don't know. For the last 15 years, we haven't known because no alternative was possible cuz Netanyahu has dominated the political landscape in Israel. His followers, to large extent, are like Trump's followers. They will vote for him no matter what. Even after October 7th, they still vote for him. So, um you know, we need to know the truth about what happened. If Netanyahu is right and all this is fabricated, then a commission would exonerate him. So, why resist the commission? All right. And it's it's it's it's not impractical to do a commission. It's Israel's a small enough country. And um you know, you could you could put together a group of people that the Israeli public trusts. And they would actually be willing to get to the bottom of bottom of this, to the real truth. Somebody says Iran has been abducted by aliens. What does that mean? I've I've always been anti-Bibi. I've always said this about Bibi. So, nothing nothing has changed. Bibi is is awful. I mean, it was Bibi that released Sinwar, right? The only reason Sinwar was Gaza was was Bibi decided that one soldier's life it it it was worth 2,000 terrorists released. I mean, that was an impeachable offense. He should have lost the election just for that. But, of course, sadly, the Israeli people agreed with him.