{"id":20086,"date":"2026-02-26T18:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/20086\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T18:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:16:12","slug":"no-treason-shin-bet-chief-rejects-conspiracy-theories-on-hamas-oct-7-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/20086\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;No Treason&#8217;: Shin Bet Chief Rejects Conspiracy Theories on Hamas&#8217; Oct. 7 Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Shin Bet security service Chief David Zini denied accusations of a conspiracy within the agency that led to the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023, according to a statement the agency published on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">&#8220;It is clear and known that there was no treason or collaboration on the part of the Shin Bet or any member of the security establishment,&#8221; Zini said at a Shin Bet executive conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Earlier this month, five former Shin Bet chiefs and 31 former department heads in the agency slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for discrediting it, demanding that the current agency chief deny the allegations.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">In a joint statement, the former agency staff cited &#8220;unprecedented attacks on former service chief Ronen Bar and on directors, combatants and employees who served in the organization on October 7.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shin Bet security service Chief David Zini denied accusations of a conspiracy within the agency that led to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[18,7863,65,13195,3289],"class_list":{"0":"post-20086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-gaza","10":"tag-geneva","11":"tag-iran-u-s","12":"tag-iran-nuclear"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}