Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and Egyptian sources deny media reports about such a warning, but the US Affairs Committee Chairman, Michael McCaul, says they were warned three days ago.
According to AP, an Egyptian intelligence official, who spoke with the agency on condition of anonymity, said that Egypt has repeatedly told Israel that “something big” is about to happen.
“We have warned them an explosion of the situation is coming, and very soon, and it would be big. But they underestimated such warnings,” the official is quoted as saying.
He’s anonymous.
Egypt Today writes:
Egyptian high-profile sources debunked in statements to al-Qahera News Wednesday reports by Israeli media claiming that Egyptian agencies had informed the Israeli side of Hamas’ intentions to launch the October 7 offensive.
They added that the Egyptian agencies had been communicating with both sides since the very first moment of the crisis to attain pacification and prohibit escalation in the framework of the Egyptian fixed stance on the Palestinian Cause.
US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul said they were warned three days before.
“We know that Egypt has warned the Israelis three days prior that an event like this could happen,” McCaul (R-Texas) said in a press briefing on Wednesday. “I don’t want to get too much into classified, but a warning was given.”
McCaul also said that “there seems to be a failure of intelligence as well. We’re not quite sure how we missed it. We’re not quite sure how Israel missed it.”
The media is endlessly repeating the story of the warning given three days before on the word of Michael McCaul and an anonymous AP source. They chose sides against Netanyahu, his administration, and anonymous Egyptian sources who spoke to Egypt Today.
We learned nothing, and what we didn’t hear from Rep. McCaul is what happened to US intelligence.
Israel has sophisticated intelligence. If McCaul, an establishment insider, says they were warned, I believe it, because establishment people usually cover for Israel. It was also in the Israeli Times from an Egyptian official. It was too obvious to cover up, so McCaul said it.
Israel knows when anything crosses that border, in the air or on land.
Only a friggin idiot would trust anything McCaul says. All of a sudden you believe the “establishment”. Israel made the same mistake others have by relying way too much on technology. It takes very little to disable technology. Hamas had over 2000 that participated in the attack, trained for over a year. For years they have been testing the defenses and knew full well how the monitoring worked.
Was that the crux of the ‘intelligence’; “something big”. Surely that was enough to mobilize the entire IDF. Is this how modern intelligence works.
It seems to be the new narrative that since Israel was ‘warned’ something big was to happen, that they are responsible for the horrendous acts of terrorism.
Though small y USA standards, there is still a lot of territory in Israel and so many possible targets.
Typical Democrat blaming of innocent victims such as innocent police doing their jobs when suddenly dealing with an over-drugged criminal and being blamed for the criminal’s death. “Well, the cop should have known…!”