New reports say Netanyahu was warned directly about the coming Hamas attack and did nothing — damaging for him, and politically explosive in Israel ahead of elections.

• The UAE's president personally phoned Netanyahu with a warning, and Netanyahu never passed it on to Israel's own security services.
• Egypt's intelligence chief flew to Israel to deliver an urgent warning days before the attack, and kept warning up to 48 hours beforehand.
• Israel's military had a blueprint of the attack plan a year early and dismissed it as beyond Hamas's ability.
• Netanyahu reportedly made a quiet trip to the UAE to ask its leader to deny the warnings ever happened.
• The war conveniently buried his corruption trial and the mass street protests against him, raising the question of whether ignoring the warnings was a mistake at all.

Outlook: Netanyahu will keep blocking an independent inquiry into October 7 while the story reshapes the coming Israeli election.