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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      “Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US” is a President’s Daily Brief prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency that was given to U.S. president George W. Bush on Monday, August 6, 2001. The brief warned, 36 days before the September 11 attacks, of terrorism threats from Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, including “patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for a hijacking” of U.S. aircraft.

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        Why would the master share info with its dog? I doubt Netanyahu shared that with us beyond, “We expect a thing to happen.”

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          That’s essentially what this report is saying the Egyptian intelligence chief told Netanyahu, isn’t it? Hamas is planning “something unusual, a terrifying operation.”

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        I suspect that Hamas and Hezbollah are currently planning to do something horrible some day in the future.

        Next time they do something horrible, you can say there was some guy on the internet that knew about it ahead of time.

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          I suspect that Hamas and Hezbollah are currently planning to do something horrible some day in the future.

          I mean… the IDF does something horrible multiple times a week.

          the blowback from this war is going to echo tragically for ages.

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          Next time they do something horrible, you can say there was some guy on the internet a SpaceCowboy that knew about it ahead of time.

          Sorry username is too relevant there to pass up including it. It must be called out as a space cowboy’s prediction. Haha.