iZrael was in possession of Hamas' Oct 7th jail break plan a full year before.
The entire political/intelligence/military leadership read Hamas' plan.
iZreal recognized that Hamas' written plan for Oct 7th could not succeed without iZrael's help.
They decided to stop monitoring Hamas' hand-held radio network, so iZreal claims.
They had to ignore the alerts being sounded by border watchers.
They had to give a thumbs-down to written reports by intelligence officers
warning of an imminent Oct 7th (this happened!).
They had to ignore that Hamas had been trying to lull them into complacency (this was in writing in the Hamas Oct 7th plans).
*They had to remove the vast majority of the IDF troops surrounding Gaza just in time for Oct 7th.*
Once the jail break was under way support troops had to be delayed for hours. (They refuse to explain
why this happened, stating that they will "investigate" only after Hamas is defeated.)
They had to implement the Hannibal Directive in order to achieve maximum civilian casualties.
The confluence of too many huge failures and too many horrible decisions
to be credible.
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Related anthology:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/palestine-open-thread-2024-058.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02c8d3abbe0d200b#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02c8d3abbe0d200b
So very different from the USA response to vast evidence preceding the 9/11 attack and the resulting massacre of completely innocent Iraqis.
iZrael was in possession of Hamas' Oct 7th jail break plan a full year before.
The entire political/intelligence/military leadership read Hamas' plan.
iZreal recognized that Hamas' written plan for Oct 7th could not succeed without iZrael's help.
They decided to stop monitoring Hamas' hand-held radio network, so iZreal claims.
They had to ignore the alerts being sounded by border watchers.
They had to give a thumbs-down to written reports by intelligence officers
warning of an imminent Oct 7th (this happened!).
They had to ignore that Hamas had been trying to lull them into complacency (this was in writing in the Hamas Oct 7th plans).
*They had to remove the vast majority of the IDF troops surrounding Gaza just in time for Oct 7th.*
Once the jail break was under way support troops had to be delayed for hours. (They refuse to explain
why this happened, stating that they will "investigate" only after Hamas is defeated.)
They had to implement the Hannibal Directive in order to achieve maximum civilian casualties.
The confluence of too many huge failures and too many horrible decisions
to be credible.
----
Related anthology:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/palestine-open-thread-2024-058.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02c8d3abbe0d200b#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02c8d3abbe0d200b
So very different from the USA response to vast evidence preceding the 9/11 attack and the resulting massacre of completely innocent Iraqis.