Netanyahu Faces Israel Election Defeat Amid Claims He Ignored Oct. 7 Warning
By Newsweek. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected claims he ignored warnings that could have prevented the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, as polls and prediction markets forecast he faces a bruising election next month.
Excerpts from a book, which were published by the newspaper Haaretz, described how Netanyahu had been told by Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), that Palestinian militants were planning a major operation.
“One should not engage in electoral prediction, but the heat is definitely up for Netanyahu,” Vuk Vuksanović, associate at the London School of Economics think tank, LSE IDEAS, told Newsweek. . .
After the release of the book’s revelations on Tuesday, Netanyahu’s chances of remaining prime minister after the election on October 27 slipped from 30 percent to 28 percent, according to the platform Polymarket. (Read more from “Netanyahu Faces Israel Election Defeat Amid Claims He Ignored Oct. 7 Warning” HERE)
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Netanyahu faces storm over report he ignored warning ahead of Oct. 7 attacks
By NBC News. TEL AVIV — It dropped like a political bombshell into next month’s parliamentary election: a news report that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had warning about the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks and chose not to alert senior security officials.
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Norway’s Foreign Minister warns Netanyahu’s government driving Israel into a ‘very dangerous place’
By Yahoo News. Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide has told Europe Today that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has driven Israel into a “very dangerous place”.
Describing it as “the most far-right government in Israel’s history”, Eide said he hoped that, regardless of the outcome of Israel’s October elections, the country would eventually recognise it had been on a “very dangerous track”.
Eide spoke to Euronews’ EU Editor Maria Tadeo in Riga, Latvia, days after Norway joined 11 other countries in sanctioning trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
He said that the West had “undermined its credibility” with its “wobbly, unclear and unprincipled” position on conflicts in the Middle East.
“The problem has been that too many countries have been careful in criticising Israel because you were so easily attacked for being anti-Semitic,” Eide said, arguing this had led the international community to take “less daring positions”. (Read more from “Norway’s Foreign Minister warns Netanyahu’s government driving Israel into a ‘very dangerous place’” HERE)
