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Luke Thomas: Israel IGNORED Direct Oct 7 Warning From UAE Leader
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Luke Thomas: A Haaretz report says the UAE's leader warned Netanyahu directly before October 7, and that Hamas offered a hostage deal on October 7 and again on October 8 that Israel turned down. Luke Thomas breaks down what this means for everything we were told about the Gaza war.
The reporting, drawn from a book by a veteran Israeli journalist, describes a warning that went leader to leader, not just intel agency to intel agency. Netanyahu's response was to threaten a lawsuit against Israel's largest newspaper. Then the UAE put out its own statement that appeared to confirm the story. Luke walks through the other pieces of the puzzle too: earlier signs that Mossad knew an "earthquake" was coming, the music festival that was reportedly supposed to be held somewhere else, and Yahya Sinwar's calculation that Hamas had no path out of the blockade without forcing a deal.
The part that hits hardest is the hostages. For two years, the argument was simple: release the hostages and the bombing stops. According to this report, Hamas was trying to make that deal before, during, and the day after the attack, and Israel rejected it in favor of maximum damage. Luke asks where the apologies are from everyone who repeated that line, and what it says about a conflict where a child death toll on the scale of Uvalde could have happened every single day since October 7 and still not match the real number.
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Chapters
00:00 The Haaretz Report On UAE Warnings
00:55 Leader To Leader: MBZ To Netanyahu
01:40 Netanyahu Lawsuit Threat, UAE Confirms
02:15 Mossad, Sinwar, And The Blockade
03:10 Hamas Offered Hostage Deal Oct 7 And 8
04:20 Where Are The Apologies from Israel?
05:00 What The Choice Reveals