{"id":5443,"date":"2023-10-12T10:19:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T17:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=5443"},"modified":"2023-10-12T10:19:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T17:19:55","slug":"rep-mccaul-confirms-that-egypt-warned-israel-before-hamas-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/12\/rep-mccaul-confirms-that-egypt-warned-israel-before-hamas-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. McCaul Confirms That Egypt Warned Israel Before Hamas Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Is this the smoking gun that Israel allowed this attack to happen with prior knowledge much like Pearl Harbor was used to get isolationalist Americans to support the war?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2023\/10\/11\/rep-mccaul-confirms-that-egypt-warned-israel-before-hamas-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2023\/10\/11\/rep-mccaul-confirms-that-egypt-warned-israel-before-hamas-attack\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-divider ub_divider ub-divider-orientation-horizontal\" id=\"ub_divider_fe5b56c5-086a-4fc2-a50b-9631f5142fc2\"><div class=\"ub_divider_wrapper\" style=\"position: relative; margin-bottom: 2px; width: 100%; height: 2px; \" data-divider-alignment=\"center\"><div class=\"ub_divider_line\" style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 2px; \"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The warning came three days before Hamas launched the operation<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>by Dave DeCamp <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/2XxVG\">said Wednesday<\/a> that Egypt warned Israel of a potential attack three days before Hamas launched its incursion into southern Israel, confirming earlier reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe know that Egypt has warned the Israelis three days prior that an event like this could happen,\u201d McCaul said after a closed-door intelligence briefin<em>g<\/em>. \u201cI don\u2019t want to get too much into classified, but a warning was given. I think the question was at what level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly after the Hamas attack was launched, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2023\/10\/09\/egypt-says-israel-ignored-warning-that-something-big-was-coming\/\">an Egyptian intelligence official told the <em>AP<\/em> <\/a>that Cairo had given a warning that something was coming. \u201cWe have warned them an explosion of the situation is coming, and very soon, and it would be big. But they underestimated such warnings,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another report from <em>Ynet<\/em> said Egypt\u2019s Intelligence Minister General Abbas Kamel&nbsp;called Netanyahu just 10 days before the Hamas attack, warning that militants in Gaza were planning \u201csomething unusual, a terrible operation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly denied the reports, calling them fake news. \u201cNo early message came from Egypt and the prime minister did not speak or meet with the intelligence chief since the establishment of the government \u2014 not indirectly or directly. This is completely fake news,\u201d the office said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hamas operation has raised questions about how Israel could have been taken so off guard and not known about such a large attack. Hamas launched the attack from Gaza, which has been under Israeli blockade since 2007 and is constantly under surveillance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.antiwar.com%2F2023%2F10%2F11%2Frep-mccaul-confirms-that-egypt-warned-israel-before-hamas-attack%2F&amp;linkname=Rep.%20McCaul%20Confirms%20That%20Egypt%20Warned%20Israel%20Before%20Hamas%20Attack\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this the smoking gun that Israel allowed this attack to happen with prior knowledge much like Pearl Harbor was used to get isolationalist Americans to support the war? https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2023\/10\/11\/rep-mccaul-confirms-that-egypt-warned-israel-before-hamas-attack\/ The warning came three days before Hamas launched the operation by Dave DeCamp Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5444,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443\/revisions\/5444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}