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angrychair

(10,556 posts)
Sun Jan 5, 2025, 06:30 AM Jan 2025

Israeli government altered Phone Records

How did I miss this story from November: Israeli police have interrogated Netanyahu's Chief of Staff for altering the phone record on the time stamp of when the Oct 7th attack started and their office was notified. A Instagram video says he has been arrested but I don't see a story reporting that yet. At least not on a US-based Google search ( https://www.timesofisrael.com/pms-chief-of-staff-questioned-on-suspicion-of-forgery-illegal-altering-of-records/)
Netanyahu testified in his trial for corruption among other charges in December (https://apnews.com/article/israel-netanyahu-corruption-trial-gaza-478c957c7749986d5b8b2d039f670d54)

Apparently that's not everything either. If even half this stuff is true we shouldn't be sending weapons to them. Especially if they knew the attack was happening and allowed it to go on in order to engender sympathy and support for an attack on Gaza then they are guilty of crimes against humanity as they were so blinded by hate and ambition that they allowed their own people to be killed to justify their actions.
In my opinion you can't know this information and pretend it doesn't matter.
We cannot, in good conscience, keep sending them weapons.

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Israeli government altered Phone Records (Original Post) angrychair Jan 2025 OP
No surprise malaise Jan 2025 #1
The Netster has G.O.P.-style 'honesty genes' BoRaGard Jan 2025 #2
But of course ThePartyThatListens Jan 2025 #3
I doubt 11 minutes made a huge difference in the response time EX500rider Jan 2025 #4
Tell that to the families angrychair Jan 2025 #8
Where would they get such an idea? Kid Berwyn Jan 2025 #5
I seem Rebl2 Jan 2025 #6
Yes, that appears in reporting as well angrychair Jan 2025 #7

BoRaGard

(5,113 posts)
2. The Netster has G.O.P.-style 'honesty genes'
Sun Jan 5, 2025, 08:45 AM
Jan 2025

Totally twisted into deplorable self-serving FAKE TRUTH (R)

EX500rider

(11,775 posts)
4. I doubt 11 minutes made a huge difference in the response time
Sun Jan 5, 2025, 11:43 AM
Jan 2025

And the military didn't need input to know how to respond, they already would have had reaction plans in place. I think the scope of the attack caught them off guard for sure.

angrychair

(10,556 posts)
8. Tell that to the families
Sun Jan 5, 2025, 12:53 PM
Jan 2025

That list loved ones. They had also obtained the Hamas battle plan for the attack over a year before it happened and completely ignored it as a possibility: https://apnews.com/article/new-york-times-hamas-attack-israel-gaza-6088cad78f5e4153d671fe9b5b819308

Kid Berwyn

(20,085 posts)
5. Where would they get such an idea?
Sun Jan 5, 2025, 12:27 PM
Jan 2025
Secret 9/11 memo reveals Bush rewriting the history of the 9/11 attacks & the warnings he'd tuned out

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217421269

Rebl2

(16,183 posts)
6. I seem
Sun Jan 5, 2025, 12:36 PM
Jan 2025

to remember reading, maybe a week or so after the attack, that Netanyahu had intelligence that this attack was going to happen, yet he did not prepare for it. I remember thinking that the same thing happened with 9/11. The Bush administration had warnings that terrorists might attack the US.

angrychair

(10,556 posts)
7. Yes, that appears in reporting as well
Sun Jan 5, 2025, 12:50 PM
Jan 2025

They had obtained a battle plan over a year before the attack called "Jericho Wall" that detailed the attack almost exactly as it was eventually executed. Despite having the exact plan they completely ignored it as a possibility. They apparently were also warned by Egypt and likely others, over a week before the attack.
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-times-hamas-attack-israel-gaza-6088cad78f5e4153d671fe9b5b819308

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