Netanyahu ignored repeated warnings before October 7
Multiple major outlets now say Israel's government was warned about the October 7 attack and did nothing, which is damaging for Netanyahu personally.
- The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Atlantic and Haaretz all report Netanyahu was warned ahead of the attack.
- The UAE's president called him directly, and Netanyahu never passed the warning to Israel's military or spy agencies.
- Egypt's intelligence chief warned Israel three times, the last one just days before the attack.
- Israel's military had obtained a blueprint of the Hamas plan a year earlier and dismissed it as beyond Hamas's ability.
- Netanyahu reportedly made a secret trip to the UAE to ask its president to deny the warnings ever happened.
Outlook: Pressure is building for a full accounting of what Netanyahu knew, and the question of why the warnings were buried is now the live political fight in Israel.