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Laffy

Via Lisa Goldman

The Israeli media now confirming that the gov't did receive clear warnings from Egyptian intelligence about the imminent attack that occurred on October 7. The PM's office initially issued a flat denial after the first report, but then did an about face and admitted it.

Update: MSNBC confirmed AP also reported this.

@GottaLaff And it's fifty to one that he'll get away with it.

@GottaLaff I was thinking yesterday that their intelligence is so robust that this feels more like they knew and let it happen to give an excuse to retaliate. Bibi needs a distraction, politically, but... uhhh.... this is horrific. Nobody should ever play with lives like this.

@GottaLaff Do you have any links to sources? Otherwise, I guess they will show up soon enough …

(Israeli media sources are fine, we can translate.)

@amayer No, I got that from Twitter, with no link, but reliable people seem to find her equally reliable. So I gave it a shot.

I've seen the reporting a lot, but finally shared it.

@amayer Finally heard on MSNBC. Source was AP.

@GottaLaff @amayer I can only find MSNBC video where it says Israel gvt strongly denies it, do you have a link to a source that AP source you mention? Sounds a lot like typical disinformation campaign ^^

@GottaLaff
🥥 So Israel's #Netanyahu has a #PearlHarbor AND #Sept11-sized event at the same time, and manages to perform with all the foresight and skill of #Trump AND #DubyaBush combined.
It's time for people of the world to dump their political bosses and not hire any replacements.
Peace and Justice for all! 🥥

@GottaLaff Buried in an AP story:

"An Egyptian intelligence official said Egypt, which often serves as a mediator between Israel and Hamas, had spoken repeatedly with the Israelis about “something big,” without elaborating.

He said Israeli officials were focused on the West Bank and played down the threat from Gaza. . . . (1/2)

@GottaLaff . . . Netanyahu’s gov't is made up of supporters of Jewish West Bank settlers who have demanded a security crackdown in the face of a rising tide of violence there over the last 18 mos.

“We have warned them an explosion of the situation is coming, and very soon, and it would be big. But they underestimated such warnings,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the content of sensitive intelligence discussions with the media."

@GottaLaff
So there was an intelligence report basically saying "Hamas determined to strike in Israel" that the Head of State ignored?
It really _was_ Israel's 9/11.

What's the Hebrew for "All right, you've covered your ass"?