After receiving a personal warning from the United Arab Emirates about a potential major offensive being planned by Hamas in the days leading up to the terror group’s October 7 onslaught, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told his security chiefs that he didn’t want to authorize strikes in Gaza because they could have risked harming an ongoing effort for Saudi Arabia to normalize relations with Israel.
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— @TimesofIsrael Sep 26, 2026
⚡️Russia plans to spend $12 billion on jet-powered drones, loitering munitions next year, Zelensky says.
— @KyivIndependent Sep 26, 2026
Less than two weeks before October 7, 2023, Egypt’s top spy flew to Israel to deliver a dire warning: Hamas appeared to be mobilizing for a major attack. Netanyahu appears to have ignored it. trib.al/kMD3iSP
— @KenRoth Sep 26, 2026
Netanyahu again denies Egyptian spymaster warned him before Oct. 7 of potential Hamas attack
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38 Days…
— @mjfree Sep 26, 2026
“Change bloc” leaders Yair Lapid, Naftali Bennett, Avigdor Liberman, Yair Golan and Gadi Eisenkot signed a joint pledge at Lapid’s Tel Aviv home to work together to replace the government despite their ideological differences
— @i24NEWS_EN Sep 26, 2026
Eisenkot calls Netanyahu a ‘pathalogical liar’ engaged in a ‘forever war as a tool for political survival’
timesofisrael.com/liveblog_e…— @TimesofIsrael Sep 26, 2026
The counterterrorism agents had questioned a request to conduct a threat assessment on someone accused of harassing Katie Miller, according to sources.
The previous virtue of Germany’s postwar party system—in which the alternation between left-of-center and right-of-center coalitions provided a high degree of stability—is gone, writes Jeff Rathke. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/24…
— @ForeignPolicy Sep 26, 2026