I have reached the sad conclusion that this failure to defend was done on purpose.
Israel intelligence is historically famous for its ability to infiltrate Arab government…. Right now, they have eyes and ears all over the Gaza strip, sufficient to know where Hamas leaders meet and spend their nights.
The high tech fence surrounding the entire Gaza Strip is bristling with cameras and sensors, including sensitive seismic detectors that will trigger an alarm even if a dog approaches the fence. …
Egypt intelligence officials even told the media that Israel ignored repeated warnings from them that ‘something big’ was coming. …
The IDF had no rapid reaction forces at all in the area, giving Hamas a full 6 hours … plenty of time to take over entire villages… and capture over a hundred hostages and haul them back into Gaza.
Israel allowed this attack to happen by purposefully removing troops and leaving the Southern sector of Israel devoid of strong military units to justify a stronger war footing. …
Terror is also a convenient excuse to justify keeping PM Netanyahu in power. He’s been beset by a decade of investigations for corruption, taking huge sums of campaign money from various entities illegally, and evaded all attempts to impeach him. He even pushed through a recent limitation on the Supreme Court that eliminated the court’s ability to overturn bad law, which was very unpopular in Israel.
Israel is a deeply divided society, like the US. Israel’s own Deep State government pushed mandatory vaccination for Covid on nearly everyone, propagandizes about climate change, digital currency and has heavy handed regulation in an inflationary economy.
Of course, Netanyahu is now safe from prosecution because he’s leading the charge in an “all-out war” against Hamas.
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