Netanyahu accused of failing to pass on UAE warning before October 7

Haaretz: UAE warned Netanyahu ten days before October 7

What good is a warning if nobody passes it on? That is the blind spot exposed by the latest report from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz: Mohammed bin Zayed, president of the United Arab Emirates, warned Benjamin Netanyahu that Hamas was preparing a large-scale offensive. The warning arrived ten days before October 7, 2023. According to the newspaper, the prime minister did not pass it on to military intelligence or to the senior ranks of the Defense establishment.

If that chain of silence is confirmed, the official account of the worst security failure in Israel's history collapses. This is not a court ruling: it is a journalistic accusation, and that is where caution is needed.

The Bin Zayed warning that never reached Israeli intelligence

Two versions coexist. The one published by Haaretz depicts a deliberate omission by the best-informed man in the country. The other holds that the warning was generic, the kind intelligence services exchange every week, with no specific date or target. Between the two lies an uncomfortable fact: the warning came from outside, from an Arab government, and the person who should have turned it into an operational alert did not.

The suspicion that has circulated since October 2023

None of this is new to anyone who has trinc the story from the start. Some have argued since the first week that Israel knew about the risk and did not stop it, in order to have a pretext for flattening Gaza. Opposing them are those who justify Israel's military response as legitimate self-defense after the attack and consider the complicity thesis to be propaganda. Neither position has been tested in court at this point.

The best-funded intelligence apparatus in the region, in the dark. And the man who was supposed to pass the message on, still in the same chair.