Netanyahu threatens suit over the Oct. 7 warning claim his wife is already being sued for making.

…(cont) Here's the letter. Haaretz runs a story Tuesday saying the Prime Minister of Israel was warned before October 7th — not vaguely, specifically: Yahya Sinwar telling an intermediary trusted by both Hamas and Israeli intelligence, in September of 2023, that an "earthquake" was coming. Three senior foreign sources, the paper says. Wednesday, the Prime Minister sends Haaretz a warning letter of his own — he intends to sue them for printing it. Haaretz says, in so many words, we stand by it.

A government not wanting to be told it had the warning and didn't stop the earthquake — I could have gone back inside on that alone.

What kept me in the driveway is the other lawsuit. There's a second person in that house being sued right now, this month, over the identical accusation — that leadership knew, in advance, and let it happen anyway. Except this time it isn't a newspaper saying it. It's Sara Netanyahu, the Prime Minister's wife, telling Channel 14 that the opposition leader — Yair Golan — had foreknowledge of October 7th and sat on it. And she's the one now facing a libel suit for saying it.

Same house. Same accusation, near enough — somebody up top knew something and didn't stop it. When a paper says it about the husband, the husband threatens to sue the paper. When the wife says it about the opponent, somebody sues the wife. I kept thinking about the toll plaza out on the turnpike, the one with two lanes for the same stretch of road — cash lane, fast lane, same road, same exit at the other end, different price depending which lane you were standing in when you went through. Same fact, sitting in that house like a car that can only find one of the two lanes.

I'm not going to sit here at two in the morning and tell you what any of that adds up to. I don't know what it adds up to. I know two lawsuits came out of one household over one kind of claim, and I know I keep circling back to when the first one happened.

Before you go — one thing, and I'm sorry, I already made you sit through this once tonight, but it's the last time I'll say it. Both lawsuits — the one against the paper, and the one against his wife — are about somebody being warned before October 7th and not acting on it. Haaretz's warning is dated to that same month back in 2023. Hers turned into a lawsuit dated to the start of this month, three years later. Was there a warning worth suing over in that house, or wasn't there — because right now they're suing in both directions over the same month I already used once tonight: September.