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The Rest of the World Report | September 8, 2026 — Evening Edition

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THE UNHEEDED WARNING

Roughly ten days before October 7, 2023, the president of the United Arab Emirates called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and warned him that Hamas was preparing a major attack. That warning, according to an extensive Haaretz investigation published Tuesday, never reached the people who might have acted on it. Israel’s Shin…

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