Officials also misjudged the threat from Hamas, focusing instead on Iran and Hezbollah, the outlet has reported.
Israeli security services warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for months that his domestic policies were fueling dangerous political turmoil, the New York Times (NYT) reported on Sunday. Officials reportedly stressed that internal discord was weakening the country’s security and strengthening Israel’s enemies.
The report was part of an examination of what led up to the latest hostilities between Israel and Gaza. At one point in July, the prime minister even allegedly refused to meet with a senior general who was trying to deliver a threat warning based on classified intelligence.
At the same time, the NYT assessed that Israeli security representatives themselves continuously misjudged the threat posed by Hamas, including in the weeks leading up to the October 7 attack on Israeli territory which resulted in the deaths of up to 1,400 people.
The newspaper reported that Israeli military intelligence had believed since May 2021 that the militant group was not interested in any large-scale attacks from Gaza, but was instead plotting an attack in the West Bank, controlled by the Palestinian Authority, a rival to Hamas.
The report also claimed that both Netanyahu and top Israeli security staff had underestimated the threat from Hamas and did not devote enough resources to countering it, because they believed that Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah posed more of a danger to the Jewish state.
In September, top Israeli officials came to the conclusion that Israel could be attacked on several fronts in the coming weeks or months by Iran-backed militia groups. However, there was no mention of a possible attack from Gaza at that time.
Another reason for the success of the surprise assault earlier this month, according to the outlet, was the fact that US intelligence agencies had largely stopped tracking the group, believing that Israel was managing the threat it posed.
Meanwhile, while many senior Israeli officials have accepted responsibility for their lapse in judgment, Prime Minister Netanyahu has been reluctant to do so, instead repeatedly pointing the finger at his military and intelligence chiefs for failing to predict and warn him about Hamas’ plans.
On Sunday, he published yet another post on X (formerly Twitter) blaming his cabinet for failing to prevent the October 7 attack. However, after receiving backlash, Netanyahu deleted it and posted another message stating “I was wrong” and vowing to fully back the heads of Israel’s security agencies.
https://open.substack.com/pub/peggyhall/p/gaza-gas-deal-with-israel-and-hamas?r=1u575z&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
security ignored on purpose ??
Of course the ‘security’ was ignored.
1. Confiscate all firearms from the illegal Zionist Israeli settlers;
2. Leak this info so that Hamas knows this for a fact;
3. Hamas breaches the boundary and borders of their open-air prison and attacks those who stole their lands;
4. Delay IDF response time, insuring that the maximum amount of casualties and deaths occur that can be blamed on Hamas;
5. Send in the IDF and kill the remaining UNARMED kibbutz settlers, so that maximum blame can be levied on Hamas and the Palestinians;
How do we know that the IDF shot Israeli settlers? Try the bullets removed / extracted from the bodies of the settlers themselves.
ALL bullets retrieved from the settlers were NATO 5.56, which is what the IDF uses from the U.S..
Hamas uses 7.63, used in the AK-series of Russian and Chinese made firearms, along with the 110 year old Russian Mosin Nagant and the Dragunov Sniper Rifle (if chambered for the same..various sniper calibers are available from Kalasnikov).
The ballistics alone blow the cover story provided by the Zionist Media out of the water…! This confirms that the IDF under orders from the Zionist hierarchy sacrificed their own to further the cause of the illegal war that has violated all parameters of International Law, the Geneva Convention, and continues with Holocaust, Genocide, and Holodomor!
Of course the ‘security’ was ignored.
1. Confiscate all firearms from the illegal Zionist Israeli settlers;
2. Leak this info so that Hamas knows this for a fact;
3. Hamas breaches the boundary and borders of their open-air prison and attacks those who stole their lands;
4. Delay IDF response time, insuring that the maximum amount of casualties and deaths occur that can be blamed on Hamas;
5. Send in the IDF and kill the remaining UNARMED kibbutz settlers, so that maximum blame can be levied on Hamas and the Palestinians;
How do we know that the IDF shot Israeli settlers? Try the bullets removed / extracted from the bodies of the settlers themselves.
ALL bullets retrieved from the settlers were NATO 5.56, which is what the IDF uses from the U.S..
Hamas uses 7.63, used in the AK-series of Russian and Chinese made firearms, along with the 110 year old Russian Mosin Nagant and the Dragunov Sniper Rifle (if chambered for the same..various sniper calibers are available from Kalasnikov).
The ballistics alone blow the cover story provided by the Zionist Media out of the water…! This confirms that the IDF under orders from the Zionist hierarchy sacrificed their own to further the cause of the illegal war that has violated all parameters of International Law, the Geneva Convention, and continues with Holocaust, Genocide, and Holodomor. How shameful on the West and Zionist Biden to continue to slaughter in Gaza, and- (wait for it…!) …the West Bank and the Ukraine!
US Army Intelligence now warns that Biden will be assassinated, the 2024 elections cancelled, and all-out war will be waged both on and off U.S. soil!
No one gets out of this game and ‘playbook’ alive!
The IDF let it happen, and caused probably a fair amount of the civilian casualties. Tanks and helicopters used against Hamas without a care for the civilians, then blamed hamas for most of the atrocities.
Kicked off whale oil beef hookeds website for asking questions of these same things. It is an echo chamber there now. With hate for innocent palestinians
But, not to worry Netanyahu will have a investigation after the war. Sort of similar to what happened in Poland at the start of WWII. Germany attacked itself and went to war with Poland
https://off-guardian.org/2023/10/31/netanyahus-two-genocides/
ZIONISM = The Plague Of The Planet
ISRAEL = A ****hole Country
MOSSAD = World Terrorist
J*** = The Chosen People To Bring Hatred Upon Themselves
NETANYAHU = War Criminal