Joel Rosenberg refutes flydubai ‘false flag’ conspiracy theories: ‘Everybody sees this was an act of terrorism’

ALL ISRAEL NEWS’ Editor-in-Chief Joel C. Rosenberg rebutted claims that the recent flydubai terror attack was an Israeli “false flag” attack on the Mario Nawfal Show Sunday. 

Speaking to host Brando Weichart, Rosenberg called the miraculous rescue of the passengers and pilot “he divine hand of Providence protecting every single person on that flight: Israeli, Emirati, Indian and everyone else.” 

Rosenberg said that as Israelis prepare to remember the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre, “we have had an injection of hope and encouragement and heroism by watching the unthinkable.” 

Weichert referred to “an ongoing debate among the audience” regarding the nature of the attack, with many social media accounts claiming the incident was an Israeli “false flag” attack. 

Rosenberg noted that authorities in several countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, India and Israel had called the incident a terror attack.

“Everybody sees this was an act of terrorism by a radicalized Muslim from Oman,” Rosenberg stated, noting that authorities in each of the countries were conducting their own investigations into the incident. 

🇮🇱🇴🇲 The man who tried to crash a FlyDubai flight into Israel had planned it MONTHS earlier, but held off because a friend was on board... Joel C. Rosenberg, NYT bestselling author and dual U.S.-Israeli citizen living in Jerusalem, joins the show with details that are only now emerging: Hammam al-Hammami identified a previous flight in July as his target, but a friend was in the crew and he could not bring himself to kill them along with everyone else, so he waited for another opportunity. That opportunity was Wednesday's flight. The intended target was not just the passengers: intelligence sources believe he planned to incapacitate the pilot and fly the 737 directly into Ben Gurion Airport. Every intelligence agency investigating this, UAE, Saudi, Israeli, and Indian, has reached the same conclusion: a deeply radicalized Omani Muslim acted alone. On Netanyahu and the Israeli elections: Rosenberg draws the Churchill parallel directly, Churchill saw the Nazi threat first and neutralized it, and Netanyahu can make the same argument about Iran. Churchill was still voted out the moment the war ended. Israel votes on October 27th, and Netanyahu may be heading for the same fate... @JoelCRosenberg @WeTheBrandon

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 4, 2026

Regarding the backup flight crew, Rosenberg noted that such a practice is common in the airline industry, where pilots are legally restricted from flying more than a certain number of hours in a given time window. 

Rather than seeing a conspiracy, the ALL ISRAEL NEWS editor said he sees the hand of Providence. 

“I would say it's certainly providential that they were on this flight, because I don't know how they would have gotten down onto the ground,” Rosenberg told Weichert. 

He also questioned why the UAE would aid Israel in a false flag attack that could reignite the whole region. 

“Why are the Emiratis helping us set up a false flag operation?” Rosenberg asked. “If this plane had gone down, everybody on the plane would have died, 174 souls.” 

“This may very well have been the end of the Abraham Accords,” he added. 

Rosenberg pointed to the controversy the incident has caused within Israel’s own government, with Transportation Minister Miri Regev coming under fire, after an investigation in Israel’s Army Radio revealed that the Transportation Ministry had failed to properly investigate pilots of foreign airlines flying to Israel. 

This investigation came out following the revelation that flydubai had hired the Omani pilot, Hammam al-Hamami, despite a known history of extremist comments and opinions, which got him fired from Oman Air. 

Israel put a lot of trust in its Abraham Accords partners, such as the UAE and Morocco, Rosenberg explained, pointing out that “there hasn't been a single problem.” 

He also pointed out that the Indian pilot, who was almost killed in the attack, has been “able to explain a little bit what's happened,” in addition to video and eyewitness testimony from the plane. 

Weichert asked if the third anniversary has Israelis concerned about “a potential other terrorist attack.” 

“There's a huge concern that Israel's enemies will use this week to launch an attack,” Rosenberg explained, noting that the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack itself was chosen because it coincided with the 50th anniversary of “the Yom Kippur sneak attack by Egypt and Syria against Israel.” 

“We were literally going into a weekend of that memory and the religious holiday of Simchat Torah,” Rosenberg said, noting that the Hamas attacks also occurred on Simchat Torah. “

Radical Islamists very much use anniversary dates that go back in the history of Islam as major attacks, and they want to remember those and honor those,” he explained. 

However, he also said that the attack also proves the resilience of the Israeli people, and the protection of God over the Jewish nation. 

“For 4000 years, people have tried to kill us, and not just kill us, they usually want to annihilate us,” he stated. “And yet here we are.” 

Despite that faith, Rosenberg noted Israelis are facing a choice ahead of the upcoming elections related to Israel’s security, with polls continuing to show a near-even split with no clear majority going into elections. 

“Will Israelis fire Netanyahu for those catastrophic failures [on October 7] or rehire him, even if they're reluctant, because of all the successes he's had since then?” Rosenberg asked. “Destroying all or most of the Iranian threat, the Hezbollah threat, and the Hamas threat.”