Haaretz Report: Netanyahu's October 7 Warning and Hostage Offer
We gotta talk about this bombshell piece in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz.
Now, a lot of people have been focusing on the
headline, "Revealed: Netanyahu
received an explicit warning days before October 7th.
He didn't brief Israel's security chiefs."
It's a huge deal.
Apparently, the president of the UAE, Mohammed bin Zayed,
called the Prime Minister
of Israel and told him to be ready for a, quote, "major event" from
Hamas. And Netanyahu did nothing, which has
led to even people like former
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
suggesting
maybe Netanyahu let the October 7th attacks happen.
Netanyahu had been literally called by, you know,
Sheikh Mohammed, MBZ, from UAE, and warned
that Hamas was planning something,
and either he didn't believe it,
or he-
It's horrible to say
... yeah, yeah, yeah
... he wanted to see what they could plan so
that then he could come down hard.
But for me, the really devastating and revealing and important part of the
story is not the bit everyone is
focused on about the MBZ call and the
Bibi inaction. It's further down in the story.
It's where Haaretz also confirms that Hamas was ready to release all the
civilian hostages not weeks or months later, but on
October the 7th itself.
At 7:00 PM on October the 7th, the
Prime Minister of Qatar called the head of the Mossad and told him, "I
explicitly threatened Hamas that if all civilian
hostages are not released
immediately, I will personally order their expulsion
from Qatar.
I would like to inform you that Hamas is ready to release all
civilians now, and we are prepared to mediate." But the Israelis
weren't interested. The piece also adds that there
was a message sent from Hamas
leader Yahya Sinwar, who had no
problem releasing all civilians
without
anything in return. Those were his exact words, "All civilians
without anything in return," except the start of negotiations.
But the Israelis weren't interested.
"Netanyahu doesn't want to talk about anything.
He only wants war and the elimination of Hamas,"
was the message from
Israeli security officials to
Palestinian and Qatari intermediaries.
Think about
that. For the past three years of this genocide,
we have been told by the people in power that all of the violence and killing
and war was all about getting back the hostages. Remember?
Hamas has a choice to make.
Their only way out is to release the hostages.
This war can end tomorrow.
It can end if Hamas
lays down its arms and returns our hostages.
And as I said in my opening statement,
it could end today if Hamas would release
all the hostages, lay down their arms, uh, and, and surrender up those
responsible for the October 7th attacks.
This could end today if they would let the women, the
wounded, the elderly go. It could end.
This could end.
It was all a lie, a brazen, shameless, demonstrable
lie, but they never stopped telling it.
For three years, every time the
Israelis bombed a hospital
or school in Gaza,
dropped a 2,000-pound bomb on a refugee camp, blocked food and medicines
from going into the strip, you
had people on the hell site that
is Twitter
immediately posting,
often at people like me,
"Release the hostages, and
this could end tomorrow. Tell Hamas to release the hostages
and nobody has to die."
It was all a lie, a brazen, shameless, demonstrable
lie, and it was a lie that some of us were pointing out years
ago. In fact, two and a half years ago in a video for Zeteo,
I pointed to the evidence back then that
showed a deal to release the civilian
hostages had been on the table from day one of this
genocide. But the Israeli government had rejected
it.
How do they explain the fact that Netanyahu had a chance to bring all
of the
civilian hostages home right at the very beginning?
Those aren't my words. That's not my opinion.
It's the view of Chaim Rubinstein, who until very recently was a
spokesman for the families of the Israeli
hostages, and who said last week, quote,
"We learned that Hamas offered on
October 9th or 10th to release all the
captive civilians in its hands
if the IDF did not enter the Gaza Strip,
but the government rejected the offer." They never cared about the hostages,
which is what people like me have said for three years.
So now this Haaretz piece is out vindicating people like me.
Where do we go to get our apology? From these gaslighting,
sociopathic, genocidal ghouls who should never be
trusted on
anything ever again. These ghouls who abandoned the
hostages, who didn't give a shit about the hostages,
who used the
hostages to justify their destruction of Gaza.
Just sick, sick people.
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