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Conspiracy theorists have gone viral with a claim the Israeli government knew in advance that Hamas was going to launch a coordinated terrorist attack on October 7. And some are even claiming, without evidence, that Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a so-called “stand-down” order for the Israeli military. But there’s nothing to show the Israeli government knew of the surprise attack, which killed over 1,300 people.
The origin of this conspiracy theory appears to be Charlie Kirk, a far-right influencer and strong supporter of former president Donald Trump. The 29-year-old Kirk, who leads a national college-focused Republican group called Turning Point USA, appeared on the“I’m not willing to say, to go so far to say that Netanyahu knew or there was intelligence here, but I think some questions need to be asked.
Kirk suggested that Netanyahu’s supposed “stand down” order was a bid to garner support due to the Israeli leader’s domestic political problems around controversial judicial reforms. Kirk insisted of the attack, “When I first heard this story, I still have the same gut instinct that I did initially: I find this very hard to believe.
Some fellow conservatives denounced Kirk over the weekend, including Ben Domenech, a writer married to Meghan McCain, the daughter of late Republican senator John McCain of Arizona.
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