However, I believe it is time for Bibi to fall on his sword, resign, and call elections. He is ultimately responsible for failing to heed the many warnings of the coming attack. Whether he personally knew of the warnings has not been established to my knowledge, but that is also irrelevant. It is his responsibility to run a whole government that protects its citizens. He failed. Time for new leadership. In my opinion.
(Standing back for the incoming rounds ...)
Those who knew the warnings and didn’t act on them need to be tried and executed.
There can be nothing more treasonous to a country than leaders who allow the people they are supposed to protect suffer this kind of atrocity.
That goes for ANY country.
Can someone say *9/11*?
It sure sounds like this thing wasn’t an intelligence failure, which is a good thing.
BiBi is hated by the left in Israel just like Trump is hated here by the deep state..they have the deep state in Israel as well. I believe this entire thing was known about in advance but BiBi was never warned so he could be blamed for it. You had a festival overlooking the Gaza border, these were leftists who were partying, that is why it was held there, for them to show their peace with Gaza, people who lived nearby reported weeks in advance how they would see people training for something late in the night and it was ignored, they would say “Oh come on, Hamas doesn’t have the ability to do anything significant” Hamas showed them and made the Mossad look like fools
I've asserted that elements within the IDF could not have been ignorant of this plot. I've also stated since 10/8 that this smacked of an attempt to undermine the Israeli government and weaken it from within.
Now you're suggesting the answer is to undermine the government and severely weaken Israel, 'Mr. generally'.
Very interesting...
This is well-known and was known soon after Oct. 7.
I fear An election now would almost certainly mean non hardliner Liberal favored by globalists would “win”. Bibi may have dropped the ball here but if it’s used take him down we won’t like what comes next.
It appears that the Intelligence agencies were too busy with political maneuvering to bother paying attention to HAMAS attack rehearsals, let alone making a case to Netanyahu that there was at attack pending.
The people who should be thrown on a sword are in those agencies.
The title is awful. Misleading.
They were not warned about them taking 250 hostages.
There might have been some warning, not specific. But a broad warning. But I am unsure if I really believe this.
Just take the article with a grain of salt.
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If it can be shown that Bibi himself was warned and ignored it I’ll agree with you. If his intel services were warned and didn’t tell him, they need to be prosecuted.
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There were also surprise inspections three days before the attack. ALL IDF outposts failed their inspections. Again, nothing was done. So, after eight months, the buck finally stops on Bibi’s desk? Netanyahu has been responsible for everything that has occurred from 10/SIX forward.
I agree with your assessment. The problem with that is there's a real possibility that an Israeli version of Jimmy Carter will become the next PM.
Disagree. Generalized warnings that an attack may occur at some unspecified time at some unidentified location do not permit the IDF to respond to the specific attack at the specific time that actually occurred.
Hindsight is ALWAYS 20/20.
I think this article is disingenuous. There are always warning, dozens of them. Most do not come to fruition. It is impossible to track all of them down.
People always want to point fingers for their own reasons. After Hamas is defanged there will be a time to look into what warnings were received with what level of proof or evidence. How many other such were received as well. That is important to improve future defense.
It would be disastrous for Bibi to fall on his sword before the war is concluded or is at the level of solidifying the removal of Hamas weapons & tunnels. Bibi would be presenting Israel as a target for Hamas to take advantage of Israel’s internal turmoil.
In the USA there are always terrorism threats, the vast majority are not shared with the public. One would have to be omniscient to know which are real and which just spin. I don’t envy the role of those who carry the weight of triaging them. I would never suggest that the people responsible could make the right call 100% of the time.
Complacency will get you every time.
Two weeks BEFORE October 7 the ENTIRE country of Israel was on HIGH ALERT for the Yom Kippur holiday!
This is pure anti-Netanyahu propaganda.
Please stop posting crap like this at Free Republic.
Thank you.
Almost 50% of the Israeli dead, and almost 50% of the Israeli hostages, were attending an outdoor music festival.
The event was guarded by private security that ran out of ammunition within the first 15 minutes, because private citizens and private security are restricted - by law - from possessing more than a certain amount of ammunition.
The music festival was 2.9 miles from the Gaza border, which was the deepest Hamas penetration into Israel during the entire invasion.
Once again - please stop posting anti-Netanyahu propaganda at Free Republic.
Please watch Caroline Glick’s Bad Strategy
If you suffer from low blood pressure it will work miracles for you!
The year before the attack, the judicial reform protesters included elements of Israeli intelligence and dons Air Force squadrons who were basically in mutiny. The protesters and the military who stood with them caused this neglect. Note they are using it as a weapon.
It’s filthy
The time for that is after Hamas is destroyed and peace - or whatever it is in the Middle East - is restored. I don’t see any way that Netanyahu survives politically after this.
What to understand: History repeats itself.
Remember the Maine? The Lusitania? Pearl Harbor? 9/11?
And war is the health of the State.