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Yahya Sinwar

Yahya Sinwar

Former Hamas leader in the Gaza StripWikipedia

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Sep 13, 2026

Dan RavivHOST
1:41
That story comes from Israeli journalists Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval in their new book in Hebrew and in the newspaper Haaretz.
Dan RavivHOST
1:51
During the summer of 2023, according to their reporting, there were indirect contacts involving the Shin Bet security agency and representatives of Yahya Sinwar, the military chief of Hamas in Gaza.
Dan RavivHOST
2:05
Supposedly, there was a go-between, a Palestinian, we believe in the West Bank, a man with a nickname in that book, Coal Eyes.
Dan RavivHOST
2:14
He was trying to broker a deal between Hamas and Israel to ease the Israeli blockade on Gaza and also to release Palestinian prisoners.
Sara McMillanHOST
1:34
Her return tonight to the concert stage marks a major comeback after being diagnosed with stiff person syndrome.
Sara McMillanHOST
1:44
[news music] Donald Trump is visiting Ireland with a unified message on trade as he meets with its leaders to talk business, but he's also calling for a unified Ireland, a hot button issue most foreign dignitaries avoid.
Sara McMillanHOST
2:00
As Mark Carcassonne reports, it wasn't just Irish domestic affairs the US president weighed in on.
Sara McMillanHOST
2:06
He also brought up the American trade relationship with Canada.
Mark CarcassonneCORRESPONDENT
2:26
[drumming] Protesters clattering drums and holding anti-Trump placards say the president is not welcome.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
2:32
I don't think we should be s- welcoming a warmonger.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
2:35
I don't think our leaders should be shaking hands with him.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
2:38
I think it's an abomination that he's here at all.
Christiane AmanpourHOST
15:37
I want to ask you about a very explosive report, uh, in Haaretz, uh, which comes from a book written by the journalist Shlomi Eldar and also Ruti Yuval.
Christiane AmanpourHOST
15:48
You've obviously read it, but I'm going to read it again for our, for our audience, saying that the UAE president called Netanyahu 10 days before October 7th, warning that Yahya Sinwar, the head of, uh, Hamas, was planning a major move against Israel that could cause bloodshed and destabilize the region.
Christiane AmanpourHOST
16:07
It goes on to say that Netanyahu reacted calmly, assuring that Israel was ready for any scenario.
Christiane AmanpourHOST
16:14
Now, uh, Netanyahu's office is saying this, y- you know, is a complete lie.
Chris MartensonHOST
3:49
In other news, Haaretz reported three claims regarding Gaza.
Chris MartensonHOST
3:53
Three foreign senior sources said UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed warned Netanyahu a week and a half before October 7, 2023, that Yahya Sinwar was planning a major operation, which Netanyahu allegedly did not share with security officials.
Chris MartensonHOST
4:09
Palestinian mediator Samir Masharawi stated that Hamas offered on October 7th to release all civilian hostages in exchange for opening a communication channel, an offer Israel rejected.
Chris MartensonHOST
4:21
A senior Israeli defense official confirmed that hostage release was not among the government's initial war objectives.
Ryan KohlsCORRESPONDENT
11:59
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing intense media scrutiny for his responsibility for the October 7th attacks following those Haaretz revelations.
Ryan KohlsCORRESPONDENT
12:08
The paper reported that the Prime Minister received a warning from Emirati President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed 10 days before October 7th, cautioning him that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was preparing a major event.
speaker_11SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
12:22
With national elections coming up next month, Netanyahu's opponents have seized on the media uproar.
Benjamin NetanyahuSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
12:48
Netanyahu
Sam MithaHOST
5:38
The Likud party is more far right.
Sam MithaHOST
5:40
So Haaretz reports that Mohammed bin Syed called Netanyahu personally on September 23rd, 2023, a 45-minute call warning that Sinwar, yeah, yeah, Sinwar, he passed away.
Sam MithaHOST
5:51
There was that video footage of him running into the rubble of a home.
Sam MithaHOST
5:55
There was a drone.
Francesca FiorentiniHOST
44:47
October 7th and effectively what happened in the lead up to it and in the immediate aftermath.
Francesca FiorentiniHOST
44:53
And two of the things that the article alleges is that the prince of the UAE, MBZ, I believe, he warned Netanyahu day or a week before, weeks before, that Yahya Sinwar of Hamas was planning something big.
Francesca FiorentiniHOST
45:14
And the reason why is because as, let's be real, as Netanyahu does, There were discussions and talks to lift the blockade on Gaza.
Francesca FiorentiniHOST
45:24
Netanyahu stopped talking to Hamas.
Derek DavisonHOST
14:25
The background to this is that the Israelis and Hamas were engaged in, you know, back-channel kind of indirect negotiations over potentially lifting the Gaza blockade.
Derek DavisonHOST
14:35
Those negotiations had stalled, and Yahya Sinwar, who was the leader of Hamas at the time, passed messages to an unnamed official in the Fatah party of the Palestinian Authority saying, asking him to convey a warning to the Israeli government that if things didn't start moving soon, he was gonna move ahead with a plan for a significant attack.
Derek DavisonHOST
15:00
That official did warn people in the Israeli government, also passed a message on to another sort of Fatah affiliated or orbiting figure, who is an advisor to MBZ in Abu Dhabi, who then passed it on to MBZ, who called Netanyahu to try and reinforce the seriousness of the threat.
Derek DavisonHOST
15:25
The Haaretz piece contends that Netanyahu basically blew him off.
David SmithPANELIST
3:21
Yeah, I mean, I think, um, it was notable, uh, particularly yesterday, some of the speeches from, uh, certainly J.D. Vance, uh, but also Robert Kennedy Jr. and, uh, Donald Trump, uh, Jr., the president's son, and, uh, Ted Cruz, um, all of them potentially auditioning for twenty twenty-eight.
David SmithPANELIST
3:43
Um, I think, uh, I was also struck on the first night, uh, Mike Johnson, the House speaker, got a warm reception from the crowd, but when Donald Trump mentioned, uh, John Thune, the Senate majority leader, uh, some people there booed, um, and, uh, you know, his name did not go down so well.
David SmithPANELIST
4:04
Um, I mean, some of the striking absences were Republicans in some tough, uh, swing districts who stayed away, and some of them were quoted saying things like, uh, "I'm too busy, I'm attending my son's, you know, football game," stuff like that.
David SmithPANELIST
4:18
Um, so it was a, it was a mixed bag.

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David SmithPANELIST
23:59
Um, and we'll, we'll have to see what impact there is on, uh, on consumers and, you know, aluminum, energy, lumber, and food products and, and so on.
David SmithPANELIST
24:08
It, that seems relatively uneven, uh, right now, um, but co- could certainly have, uh, an effect in the medium to long term.
Steve ClemonsPANELIST
24:15
On September 24th in Washington, DC, you have two alpha leaders, Xi Jinping of China and Donald Trump, meeting when they come, and I just sort of find it fascinating that the White House thinks that it enhances their position to have a Canada trade war.
Steve ClemonsPANELIST
24:30
Like, when you're kind of looking at the global geopolitical, geostrategic competition between Ch- uh, China and the United States- How in the mind of strategists does this trade war help in that overall positioning of the United States vis-a-vis China? It, in a way, gives China a win before Xi Jinping has arrived.
Mark HallHOST
14:28
And at this point, among other sources, I-24 News in Israel is quoted saying that there was an investigation conducted for a new book called Hostages, 843 Days of Abandonment, that revealed that the president of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, called the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on a secure line about 10 days before the Sukkot attack and warned him for 45 minutes.
Mark HallHOST
14:52
the SINWAR was planning a major operation against Israel and according to that report Ben Zayed feared the event would destabilize the region and threaten the Abraham Accords so initially it says Netanyahu responded calmly saying Israel was prepared for it sounds like the answer was yes they were just not in the way that the world thought and supposedly none of Israel's security chiefs including the heads of Shin Bet and Mossad and the IDF chief of staff were briefed on that particular warning although some of them seemed to know that it was coming through other sources.
Mark HallHOST
15:25
Says Leo Holman, this latest bombshell report, confirming what others have said for literally years before, and certainly lots of people's worst suspicions, also opens up yet another question.
Mark HallHOST
15:36
What did the Biden-fuhrer regime know? Well, let's just say, what did those who were pulling the strings of the puppet know? The guy that was sitting in the chair probably didn't know whether his pants were dirty or not.

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