Mike Brest is a defense reporter at the Washington Examiner. Prior to joining the defense beat, he spent two years covering breaking news for the Examiner, and he worked at the Daily Caller in a similar capacity before that. Mike graduated from American University and is originally from the suburbs of Philadelphia.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denied allegations that it had been warned about a possible operation prior to the unprecedented terrorist attack carried out this weekend.
“We have warned them an explosion of the situation is coming, and very soon, and it would be big. But they underestimated such warnings,” the official from Egypt, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press. Israel has been preoccupied with controversial judicial overhauls proposed by Netanyahu's ultra-conservative coalition during much of this calendar year. The proposed legislation prompted hundreds of thousands of Israelis to protest in the streets weekly. This occurred as Israel's military had its attention from a security perspective on the West Bank, where they conducted multiple raids.
"I can't speak to what Egyptians are saying there, but I don't want to characterize the intelligence, and I don't want to get ahead of also what the Israelis will be looking at. But if the allegation is that we had some specific warning or indicator from another country, it's certainly not something that we've seen," the official said on Saturday.
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