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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.
malaise
(279,235 posts)Rec
BoRaGard
(3,369 posts)Totally twisted into deplorable self-serving FAKE TRUTH (R)
ThePartyThatListens
(305 posts)Of course they did
EX500rider
(11,616 posts)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
(9,938 posts)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
(18,502 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217421269
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
(9,938 posts)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