[MinorityRepublican]

I think Israel became overconfident and Hamas took advantage of that.

[ealgeone]

Same thing happened to them in the 73 War. Israel had cleaned the clocks of the Arabs in 67. Made the error thinking the Arabs couldn't fight them.

One thing about losing...it'll make you rethink what you're doing.

[jjotto]

Note that “more than a year ago” would have been when Benny Gantz was Defense Minister, infamous Aharon Haliva was Military Intelligence Director, and PM would have been Naftali Bennett and/or Yair Lapid.

There is a huge upheaval coming to all kinds of senior officials in Israel.