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Oct 2, 2026
Akbar Shahid AhmedGUEST
I think back in my reporting to being told in early November by a senior U.S. official, quote, Prime Minister Netanyahu has written off the hostages of October 7th.
Akbar Shahid AhmedGUEST
And heaps of reporting, Israeli officials have now kind of made that claim repeatedly, that if the Israeli hostages were going to be prioritized in their release, it had to be because of pressure from the administration to ultimately stop the war and deal with Hamas in some degree.
Akbar Shahid AhmedGUEST
The Biden administration chose not to do that, even as they were repeatedly saying the hostages were a priority, and even as on their watch, Hostages were being killed by Hamas in Israeli military raids, and including American citizens like Hirsch Goldberg-Paulin, killed in a tunnel at the end of August of 2024.
Akbar Shahid AhmedGUEST
I also chart the callousness towards Palestinians and Lebanese, and there's a consistent threat of disregard of civilian testimony.
Akbar Shahid AhmedGUEST
I highlight that U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Middle East coordinator Brett McGurk both said the Palestinians don't look skinny.
Katie HalperHOST
This is the most complex scoop I've uncovered in my decades as a journalist.
Katie HalperHOST
While writing the book, Hostages, 843 Days of Abandonment, Rudy Yuval and I conducted dozens of interviews with sources in Israel and around the world, and reviewed hundreds of recordings and internal conversations.
Katie HalperHOST
All of this led us to one crucial conversation that took place a week and a half before October 7th.
Katie HalperHOST
For 45 minutes, UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the call.
Mark LevinHOST
He called the claim his office did an outright absolute lie.
Mark LevinHOST
The allegation serviced in a newly released book, Hostages, 843 Days of Abandonment.
Mark LevinHOST
And was regurgitated in the extremely radical Netanyahu-hating Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Mark LevinHOST
According to the book's authors, three anonymous foreign senior sources.
Owen JonesHOST
This is just the latest revelation about what Israel knew in advance about October 7th.
Owen JonesHOST
It comes in the, this is revealed in Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper, and it's based on revelations in a book called Hostages, 843 Days of Abandonment, an investigation by the journalist Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval.
Owen JonesHOST
Ten days or so before the 7th of October, the president of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayed, de facto close ally of Israel, is reported to have warned Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister, wanted war criminal, personally that Hamas was preparing a major operation.
Owen JonesHOST
This was in a 45-minute conversation in which the leader of the UAE warned of resulting bloodshed and regional destabilization.
Michael LoftonHOST
Was he somehow going to exploit this as an opportunity to genocide and ethnically cleanse Palestinians? We need to have that honest question.
Michael LoftonHOST
A guy who just came out with a book called Hostages, who's an Israeli author, has come out dropping this major bombshell saying that the UAE, the leader of the UAE, personally warned Netanyahu in a phone call 10 days before the attack happened.
Michael LoftonHOST
the attack was coming in fact sin war the mastermind behind the attack the palestinian who was behind the attack who came up with the entire plan told the uae to tell israel that this is coming So he was just straight up telling them, hey, I'm not happy with what you're doing with the blockade and the process of the negotiations.
Michael LoftonHOST
It's not working.
Steven MethvenHOST
The head of the Shin Bet, the head of the Mossad, the Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff, none of them knew about bin Zayed's warning.
Steven MethvenHOST
Now, those claims come from a new book called Hostages, 840 Days of Abandonment, written by Haaretz reporters.
Steven MethvenHOST
They say it's based on dozens of sources in Israel and worldwide, including very senior officials.
Steven MethvenHOST
And ahead of Israeli elections in October, it's already making some waves.
Harrison SmithHOST
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was personally and explicitly warned that Hamas leader Sinwar was planning a major attack roughly 10 days before the October 7th massacre, but dismissed the threat and did not alert his security chiefs, according to a shocking new Haaretz report.
Harrison SmithHOST
The revelations come from research for an upcoming book called Hostages, 843 Days of Abandonment, written by journalists from Haaretz.
Harrison SmithHOST
The United States Arab president raised the alarm directly with Netanyahu during a 45-minute conversation.
Harrison SmithHOST
Three senior foreign sources familiar with the exchange told the Israeli newspaper and reportedly warned that Sinwar was preparing a major operation.