Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago A blueprint reviewed by The Times laid out the plan for the Oct. 7 attack. Israeli officials dismissed it as aspirational and ignored specific warnings.
Extracts: When it came to mistakes, Netanyahu said he had failed to question the emphasis security officials placed on the success of their policy of deterrence, in which they theorized that Hamas feared Israel’s destructive military abilities and therefore would not launch a full-scale attack -- News Flash! Hamas did
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“October 7 showed that those who said that Hamas was deterred were wrong” Netanyahu said
“If anything, I didn’t challenge enough the assumption [of deterrence] that was common to all the security agencies”
Delusional and in Denial
I wouldn't have thought it was ?common? for security agencies to assume? anything, making an ass of.... but in fact, they did News Flash! Israeli officials dismissed it [the blueprint for the 07 October 2023 attack] as aspirational and ignored specific warnings
and now escalating conflict on even more terrorist fronts: including
in Gaza with Hamas
in the north with Hezbollah in Lebanon
in the Gulf with the Houthis in Yemen
and with Israel’s nemesis Iran “a full-fledged Iranian axis”
network of non-state actors throughout the Middle East with a collective arsenal of rockets trained on Israel
collective terrorism, antisemitism
destabilisation of Israel's economy, political turmoil, civil unrest
Israel forced to negotiate with terrorists Hamas
Originally Posted by Kangaroo Don
Israel's worst security failure
Extract: Israel among others -- 1. was asleep at the wheel 07 October 2023 2. fatal complacency 3. Mossad and Shin Bet, Israel's domestic security service intelligence failure
Israel overestimating themselves and underestimating the terrorists, was under the impression they were invulnerable being guarded by, among others 1. Iron Dome 2. vaunted security barrier which terrorists Hamas just breezed through.... 3. and lulled into a false sense of security [of deterrence]
Didn't Israel learn?! anything from The Godfather
Netanyahu clarified that he planned to ?continue? to safeguard the country....
