Hillary Clinton: Netanyahu "had been told’ October 7 was going to happen. ’ I don’t know what his thinking was, but it was a major failure of leadership’!!! Hillary Clinton: Netanyahu "had been told’ October 7 was going to happen ‘He’d been told what was going to happen.’ Benjamin Netanyahu had been warned that Hamas was planning an attack before October 7, Hillary Clinton said, describing it as a failure of leadership and a failure to protect the people of Israel. Clinton referred to the warning from UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed and said Netanyahu ‘had been told what was going to happen.’ ‘I don’t know what his thinking was,’ Clinton said. ‘But the bottom line, talk about a failure of imagination. This was a failure of leadership. This was a failure of protecting the people of Israel.’ Her remarks put Netanyahu’s handling of the intelligence under scrutiny, raising questions over what he knew before October 7 and why Israel chose to let the attack happen.