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Egypt intelligence official says Israel ignored warnings of ‘something big’
NY Post ^ | Oct 9, 2023 | Yaron Steinbuch

Posted on 10/09/2023 10:19:18 AM PDT by McGruff

Amid mounting questions about Israel’s failure to anticipate the unprecedented attack by Hamas, an Egyptian intelligence official said his country had warned the Jewish state repeatedly about “something big” happening shortly.

The official said Israeli officials had been focused on their struggles in the West Bank and played down the threat from the militant group in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is made up of supporters of West Bank settlers who have demanded a crackdown in the face of a rising tide of violence in the area over the last 18 months.

“We have warned them an explosion of the situation is coming, and very soon, and it would be big. But they underestimated such warnings,” the Egyptian official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press.

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TOPICS: Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: egypt; hamas; israel; waronterror
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To: McGruff

That was then, this is now. Now it’s time to just wipe Hamas off the face of the earth. When that’s done, bulldoze the Gaza strip. The latter probably won’t happen but that would be idea.


41 posted on 10/09/2023 10:59:34 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: livius

I think the Sunni Arabs and Israel are in collusion to 1) clean out Gaza and the West Bank and 2) clean out the Shia (Iran). They knew the attack was coming and they let it come.


42 posted on 10/09/2023 10:59:44 AM PDT by struggle
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To: Nextrush

WWII was inevitable.

We simply could not allow Britain and The Royal Navy to fall into Nazi hands, because we relied on them to guard the Atlantic, while we were ramping up in the Pacific to defend against Japan.


43 posted on 10/09/2023 11:00:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Reno89519

Layer left/right hostility on top of that you have a very dynamic and confusing situation on your hands.


44 posted on 10/09/2023 11:03:14 AM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: struggle

Not saying you’re wrong, but Hamas is Sunni as well.


45 posted on 10/09/2023 11:04:38 AM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: Reno89519

The Mossad is to Bibi as the CIA/NSA/FBI was to Trump. Preoccupied with being the resistence.


46 posted on 10/09/2023 11:05:16 AM PDT by The Free Engineer
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To: Angelino97

That’s not at all my sense of who Netanyahu is. But, like most of us, I observe from afar.


47 posted on 10/09/2023 11:06:40 AM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: dfwgator

Fifth Column....


48 posted on 10/09/2023 11:16:26 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: marron

Pointless to feed that troll.


49 posted on 10/09/2023 11:17:09 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Reno89519

The Mossad is to Bibi as the CIA/NSA/FBI was to Trump. Preoccupied with being the resistence.


50 posted on 10/09/2023 11:20:46 AM PDT by The Free Engineer
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To: McGruff

The Palestinians have excellent operational security. So, probably the Egyptians and the Americans noticed things in, say, traffic analysis, but nothing specific. Unless you have something specific the Israelis can look at and verify, then you can warn until you’re blue in the face. The Israelis might have perked up and tried to find something but it’s still possible nobody had any clue what was about to actually happen. We got nine-elevened. In retrospect all the clues where there but nobody put them into a coherent picture. You simply can’t be ready for EVERYTHING.

Stalin had multiple warnings about the impending German invasion, including a German communist who swam across a river to warn the Russians. Stalin simply didn’t believe such a thing could happen. I don’t think that’s an Israeli problem, but what did happen was so far out of proportion to previous attacks I can see where even if they were warned ahead of time, they wouldn’t believe it. Also, think normalcy bias.


51 posted on 10/09/2023 11:21:44 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: marron

RE: He is Israel’s version of Trump. They’ve done everything possible to keep him out of office and hamstrung barring that.

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True. They even had the wimpy Israeli media push his marital troubles and private life and said “Like Trump in the USA with his scandals about infidelity.” Remember, a lot of them are Socialists or Communists-—but not the patriotic Jews who came from the founders of 1948 Israel (like Netanyahu’s brother who was killed in Entebbe in Idi Amin’s Africa leading the hostage rescue raid July 4, 1976.)

The Israelis who do not want “harsh” “mean” stances against the Arabs hate Netanyahu.

American Jews (Reform decidedly and some Conservative but practically no Orthodox Jews) are divided on caring at all about Israel. Like Evangelicals the pro-Israel Jews support Netanyahu strongly.


52 posted on 10/09/2023 11:22:45 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: McGruff

Hindsight is 20/20, but wouldn’t you think that the 50 year ANNIVERSARY, to the DAY, of the Yom Kippur War, would expected to be a red flag warning? Methinks Bibi’s advisors are trying to “Trump” him. Like Trump haters, they couldn’t care less who gets hurt; they only care to destroy him.


53 posted on 10/09/2023 11:30:35 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: Gen.Blather

O.T., but 911 was also “allowed” to happen. Never underestimate the military industrial complex, and the NWO. Plus our OWN intelligence agencies. Pretty much all snakes of the same ilk, doing Satan’s bidding.


54 posted on 10/09/2023 11:36:45 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: dfwgator

In 1941 the FDR administration knew the Japanese where going to attack Pearl Harbor and wanted the attack to be carried out. This event in Israel was different.


55 posted on 10/09/2023 11:37:23 AM PDT by devere
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To: devere

It’s interesting that by some “miracle” the big prize, the carriers just so happened to be away from Pearl Harbor that day.

If the Japs had gotten those carriers, not saying we wouldn’t have eventually won, but it probably would have added at least 2-3 years and many more casualties.


56 posted on 10/09/2023 11:39:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: McGruff

NOT sure I am buying this story.....


57 posted on 10/09/2023 11:39:19 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Reno89519

......while EVERYBODY is blaming EVERYBODY let’s put the REAL blame where it belongs.

Namely, the free worlds LEADER who’s brain, quite literally, doesn’t work and everybody just plays along with it.


58 posted on 10/09/2023 11:47:31 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: Levy78

Hamas’ biggest sponsor is the Shia Iranians. If it was ISIS or Al-Nusra, I’d agree, but Hamas takes millions from the taqfiri UN as well.


59 posted on 10/09/2023 12:11:00 PM PDT by struggle
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To: struggle

The enemy of my enemy is my friend is more true in the ME than anywhere else in the world.


60 posted on 10/09/2023 12:12:21 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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