Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out.
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I’ve always had the feeling like this is something Netanyahu and his cabinet wanted. It seems to me that they thought in their screwed up minds it would benefit them somehow.
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It’s well established that Netanyahu undermines moderate Palestinian leadership through legitimizing radical Palestinian leadership, aka Hamas. Netanyahu engaging in diplomatic relations with Hamas in Gaza while ignoring good faith overtures from the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is par for the course. As long as he can keep Hamas in power, he thinks he can more effectively justify Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people
There is one thing doing that… And another thing of letting Hamas kill 1000 Israelis.
It’s all the same thing to Netanyahu, just further justification for violence. Netanyahu very blatantly does not actually care about Israeli lives, only how events impact his ability to retain power
Hamas killing 1000 Israelis unifies the country in a way that a weak Palestinian Authority doesn’t.
can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs
I mean think about it for a second.
You’re a bully. You want to kill some kid but you can’t just outright kill him. So you’ve been bullying this kid for years building up his frustrations and you know he’s gonna break soon. He finally snaps and tries to fight back. You use this opportunity to kill him and then publicly declare self defense.
Seems pretty cut and dry for a piece of shit bully.
Netanyahu’s policy has been to bolster Hamas. It’s not even a secret, he said as much himself.
The approximately 40-page document, which the Israeli authorities code-named “Jericho Wall,” outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of devastating invasion that led to the deaths of about 1,200 people.
Hamas followed the blueprint with shocking precision.
Then, in July, just three months before the attacks, a veteran analyst with Unit 8200, Israel’s signals intelligence agency, warned that Hamas had conducted an intense, daylong training exercise that appeared similar to what was outlined in the blueprint. . . . But a colonel in the Gaza division brushed off her concerns, according to encrypted emails viewed by The Times.
This is some crazy shit in here.
The question: is the incompetence willful?
Its hubris. Not the first army to do so in the last 24 month. Despite advance in technology and sources, intelligence security seems to not be easy.
If not, the willfullness is incompetent.
There’s got to be a corollary to Hanlon’s Razor that applies to politics:
Always attribute to malice that which cannot be more easily explained by incompetence.
That’s a much, much better aphorism than Hanlon’s razor.
Unless they can demonstrate that they took measures to react to this intelligence, it has to be willful doesn’t it?
Not necessarily. it’s possible it was straight up incompetence.
That said, I’m extremely skeptical of that, because frankly, the powers that be really, really, wanted this war.
They (Israel) can’t claim they didn’t know where Hamas cells were hiding before the attack, and somehow know where they are after the attack. That is why the response is total bullshit. If they knew where to strike beforehand, they would have done it. It’s all a power play at the cost of many lives on both sides.
Incompetently taking measures is still taking measures, but I see what you mean.
Incompetently attempting measures and then covering up their failure would be tantamount to having willfully ignored it.
Always felt like they wanted an excuse to invade and decimate the Palestinians, maybe they did nothing so they would have the excuse
That’s honestly what I’m thinking and holy shit that’s horrible if true, which it seems like it just might be.
I mean if I wanted to do it, bombing the entire city to rubble would help, so you can just swoop in built your shit and pretend it never happened
I listen to many defenders of Israel, podcasts and such. Each and every one of them mentions at some point how bad Netanjahu’s government is and how Israel’s intelligence community failed on and before Oct. 7.
That said, I think it would be useful context to know how many similar warnings go through the system typically? The terrorists have the privilege of failing many times if they succeed just once. The defenders against terrorism have to get it right every single time.
I suspect this is damage control - that Israel can no longer pretend that they didn’t know in advance, so they have to pretend that the failure to act to prevent the attack was a mistake, rather than a considered decision made specifically so that Hamas would provide them with an excuse to invade and occupy Gaza.
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence. Also, I doubt they’d intentionally kill 1200 of their own to do so.
I wouldn’t underestimate netanyahu’s desire to do genocide.
Besides, it can easily be both. He wanted an excuse AND was an idiot who underestimated the damage Hamas is capable of
Like “Remember the Maine”. For those who forgot “The Maine”, it was a US Navy ship that sunk in Havana’s harbor, contributing to the Spanish American War.
Most investigations (both modern and contemporary) have determined the explosion was an accident, but it was still used to justify going to war with Spain.
I wouldn’t put it past Bibi, but either way I hope it will have severe consequences for him.
That’s good advice when dealing with family and friends, but bad advice in almost any other situation, especially when judging world leaders.
So much for “never again” after the Yom Kippur war.
Bibi asleep at the wheel, or, more likely, turning a blind eye to a deadly disaster to turn it into an “opportunity”.
They said ‘never again’ about genocides as well, and yet they sent weapons to Azerbaijan to move Armenians off their land, and now they’re doing the same to Palestinians.
Lol Bibi is so done.
He’s not. He’ll silence all critics with his constant battle cries and continue to create endless chaos so he is not the focus.
Hamas did him a favour, and he uses it.
What are you basing that on?
In the latest election polls, Netanyahu is being absolutely destroyed by Benny Gantz. Public trust in Netanyahu is currently sitting at 4%. I can’t see battle cries mattering when 96% of the population want him to shut the fuck up.
Gantz is a moderate on Palestine and backs both strengthening the PA and a two state solution. None of this sounds like victory for Netanyahu. His career is over, his legacy is irreparably tarnished, and his political enemies are going to come to power.
I base that on voters choices not in polls but in elections - the clowns, the idiots, even the murderers are being constantly elected and reelected, very often by those who suffer the most from those dumb politics. You see it everywhere. I’m completely baffled by this - human nature really has some shitty effects.
I however hope you are right, and that the Israeli people will do the right thing. I will believe it when I see it. I don’t believe it now.
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This thread about Israel and Hamas is almost 12 hours old and Downpunxx hasn’t shown up yet. That’s odd.
I’ve blocked a lot of people, but few are obnoxious enough that I recognize their names.
Netenyahu, security mastermind.
They’re using Uncle Sam’s playbook which was undoubtedly gifted to them by the US itself. There is so much profit to be made afterall.
Why is it I keep thinking…
Bin Laden Determined To Strike In US
If Bibi wasn’t screwed before, he sure is now and W should have been then.
This is devastating to Bibi. So long, asshole!
Ugh… the “Roosevelt knew about Pearl Harbor” types are going to go crazy about this - I suppose it’s simply too much to understand that the Israelis aren’t the supersoldiers their propaganda makes them out to be.
Sending this to my wife. Called it on Oct 8.
