To: Les H who wrote (45324 ) 3/21/2025 8:57:34 AM From: Les H Respond to ‘Official,’ said to be PM, pushes conspiracy theory Bar knew about Hamas attack but didn’t actNetanyahu has hitherto refrained from directly peddling unfounded claim about Oct. 7; PM’s son on Shin Bet chief: ‘Did he and his friends in the deep state forget who is in power in America!?!’Lazar Berman and ToI Staff Today, 6:42 amconception ” that Hamas was more interested in governing Gaza than attacking Israel. Netanyahu had for years placated the terror group with policies sending Qatari funds into Gaza, issuing work permits for Gazans and ordering limited responses to attacks.identified several signs of unusual Hamas activity the night before the terror group’s October 7 onslaught, but believed they did not indicate an imminent attack.published , acknowledged gaps in the “handling of information and integration of intelligence” as one of several factors contributing to the agency’s failure to issue an alert in the hours before the invasion. If the Shin Bet had acted differently, in the years leading up to the attack and during the night of the attack — both at the professional level and the managerial level — the massacre would have been avoided. This is not the standard we expected of ourselves, or that the public expected of us,” Bar wrote when the summation was released.Times of Israel
