The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Michael McCaul, has publicly asserted that from several different sources it is now clear that Egypt warned Israel in advance that “something big” was about to happen in Gaza, and that that warning was ignored by Israel.
More on this can be found here: “Egypt warned Israel three days before Hamas massacre – US congressman,” Jerusalem Post, October 11, 2023:
US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul told reporters on Wednesday that Egypt had warned Israel three days before Hamas’s assault on southern Israel that “an event like this could happen,” according to US media.
“There seems to have been a failure of intelligence. We’re not quite sure how we missed it. We’re not quite sure how Israel missed it,” said McCaul after a classified briefing about the war.
“We know that Egypt had warned the Israelis three days prior that an event like this could happen. We know this event was planned perhaps as long as a year ago,” added the House Foreign Affair chair….
The Prime Minister’s Office has denied the reports, calling them “absolutely false” and stressing that “No message in advance has arrived from Egypt and the prime minister has neither spoken, nor met, with the head of Egyptian intelligence since the formation of the government, neither directly nor indirectly.”
It is entirely possible that such a warning never made it to the Prime Minister. Once the current war against Hamas is over, the government should investigate how high that warning did manage to go, and why it did not proceed all the way up the chain of command in time.
Egypt will certainly have to deny that it gave such a warning, lest the Palestinians use the fact of Egypt’s attempt to share intelligence with Israel as a weapon against El-Sisi’s government, with which Hamas has long been at odds, by portraying Cairo as a “traitor” to the Palestinian cause.
But Michael McCaul knows there are too many different sources for this story about an Egyptian warning for it not to be true. El-Sisi’s government, after all, has a vested information in helping Israel to foil any Hamas attack. Hamas is the local, Gazan branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. And the Muslim Brotherhood is the sworn enemy of the El-Sisi regime. which came to power after toppling, in a coup, the former President and MB stalwart, Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
In defense of the Israeli government, it could be argued that the warning was too vague to be of much value. But is that true? If you — Prime Minister Netanyahu, or IDF Chief Herzi Halevi, or Mossad director David Barnea, or those just below them — are told with a sense of great urgency, by the Egyptians, with whom you have been sharing (giving and receiving) intelligence for years, that “something big” is just about to happen in Gaza, wouldn’t that at least cause a movement of troops and armored vehicles, and even tanks, from the center of the country to the border of Gaza?
Of course, for the Israeli government to admit that it had received such warnings, but that they had never reached the highest echelon, will simply not do as an excuse. Twelve hundred dead Israelis are on everyone’s mind. The popular fury over the government’s failure to understand the significance of the Egyptian warning and to heed it, at the very least by moving a few thousand IDF troops to the border, might in the future be so great as to bring down the Netanyahu government. But that won’t be until after the current campaign in Gaza is over, and when, with the country needing to figure out what went wrong, an independent inquiry is launched into the causes of this most colossal failure to detect, and derail early on, the murderous onslaught by Hamas.
cornelius says
The aftermath of the intelligence failure will be the political death of Bibi. The buck has to stop somewhere. Perhaps the man hung around a little too long. Whatever posterity had in mind for him before Oct, 2023, it’s clear his legacy is irretrievably tarnished.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I saw Vivek Ramaswamy argue to Tucker that the time to look into this intel failure of Mossad is now. For the first time, I have a negative impression of him: when even Israel’s opposition – Benny Gantz of the Blue & White Party – has agreed to join Netanyahu in a national unity government, it’s the most inappropriate time to start investigating this intel failure. Let the war be over, and then let a commission similar to the 9/11 commission here go into it
FYI says
3 things you could do with such info
#1]Take it seriously and act{Wise};increase patrols,electronic monitoring etc
#2}Don’t take it seriously and don’t act{Foolish/inexcusable}
#3}Other..allow event to take place for a political reason/ulterior motive{Not impossible!}
For example…info comes in about plans to assassinate a political leader
You could increase security or…you could allow it to happen by claiming ignorance of any info received and the political leader whose removal is desired by some group occurs.The public are informed of the need for increased police control for their own good as they are quietly disarmed.Or war is prepared.
You cannot ignore the possibility of 3
You can’t assume political leaders are always on the side of the people.
How would Globalist Elites start WW3..
David M says
Who’s to say Option 3 didn’t happen, as unthinkable as that might be to the average person on the street like us? If you are the leader of a country you need to be fairly cold hearted, you have to be prepared to send thousands of your soldiers to their death in a war for example. I’m a firm believer the US knew about Pearl Harbor & the President let it happen for political reasons (to get into the war) for example. It’s hard to believe MOSSAD knew nothing about this attack that must have been planned for at least a year.
I’m not saying I believe Option 3, but I don’t rule it out either. Israel has things to gain over this. I’d like to see Netanyahu do a polygraph test on whether he knew about it, not that he ever would of course.
somehistory says
there are mozlums in Israel’s government.
In what manner was the information conveyed?
If Egypt did send information, something or someone failed. Perhaps on purpose.
mgoldberg says
So what does that kind of warning mean? something could be coming? Uh huh, and that’s supposed to mean what exactly? Mobilize all the resources of the country? What… what would they have done different except maybe found themselves more alert on a day when it is amongst the holy days for Jews.
Simchas Torah, and on a Shabbas. That’s when muslims like to attack… on Shabbas and other holy days for Jews. why is there no discussion about that. I mean, the whole bit about Ramadan and how thats a holy day for muslim yada, and how in reality that’s the month when attacks on non muslims go up. Anf for Jewish holy days- that’s when muslims like to cut off some babies heads….
WM says
Infidel’s comment about Vivek is exactly correct. He is not pro Israel. He has made it clear multiple times that he supports ending the traditional Financial Support for Israel. An opportunist in the extreme.
This is in line with Harvard University Vermin Mearsheimer and Walt ‘s “philosophy” (read their book) calling for the end to US support for Israel. These wicked “professors” are often cited by Steven K. Bannon, Charlie and Mr. Posobiec all of them die hard Trumpsters. Would Trump sell out Israel in a second term? His statements condemning Netanyahu this week and seeming to revel in blaming Israel, showing no real compassion for Israel only his ego were, very troubling. We will see what happens.
I prefer Mike Pompeo or Nikki Haley.
Gourdhead says
I think Israel knew something was brewing as well. The ‘surprise’ attack garnered much more world sympathy and support.