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How Israeli Intel Failed, Joe Should Back Ousting Hamas and Other Commentary
New York Post ^ | Oct. 9, 2023

Posted on 10/09/2023 5:30:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway

War watch: How Israeli Intel Failed

“There is only one way Hamas could have pulled off Saturday’s massive surprise,” argues Edward N. Luttwak at Tablet: “by feeding valuable, indeed ‘actionable’ information to individuals who were Israeli intelligence sources” and allowing “the Israelis to destroy rockets before they could be launched” — paying “no price to thus fill the ‘espionage horizon’ below which yesterday’s attacks were planned,” since the rocket attacks came from Hamas’ “chief competitor,” Islamic Jihad. “Israel’s political misjudgments about Hamas’ intentions” likely have “played a background role in lowering the country’s vigilance. But it is no excuse” for this “massive intelligence failure.” “It is now Israel’s turn to act — and not just by bombing Hamas headquarters. A new approach altogether is needed, with nothing off the table.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; hamas; hamaswar; israel; mossad

1 posted on 10/09/2023 5:30:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe President Retard should stop funding terrorism

That might help

A lot


2 posted on 10/09/2023 5:33:06 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: nickcarraway

I fear that the failure of the government surveillance systems globally will necessitate more global government surveillance.


3 posted on 10/09/2023 5:33:38 PM PDT by vg0va3
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To: NWFree

He’ll slide on that one. MSM will never mention it. The whole Afghanistan disaster has been shoveled into the memory hole. They had to enlarge it.


4 posted on 10/09/2023 5:34:24 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: nickcarraway

It is rather incredible that Mossad failed to see this coming. It is also incredible that the Israeli military response seemed rather slow.


5 posted on 10/09/2023 5:55:45 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: nickcarraway

Mossad leadership will have a lot of ‘splaining to do. I wonder if they purposely let this happen to make Netanyahu look bad. Sort of like how the CIA was working against President Trump.


6 posted on 10/09/2023 6:04:26 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: NWFree
Maybe President Retard should stop funding terrorism

He'll have to ask his boss first. Biden has no idea what he's doing.

7 posted on 10/09/2023 6:06:09 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: vg0va3

Our ‘intelligence’ thugs - and probably the world’s - are busy going after American citizens who voted for Trump and after NASCAR drivers in the event they own garage pulls that look like nooses if they were larger than four inches..


8 posted on 10/09/2023 6:22:39 PM PDT by GOPJ ( FBI goons told Hillary naming reprogramming camps Auschwit Birkenau would shut cult members up.)
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To: nickcarraway
There had to have been 'inside' help. Hamas breached 29 points along the border and none were detected? How is that possible? There had to have been help somehow.

Or is it just that the 'new' younger Israeli soldier is just foolish, pie in the sky, everything is roses idiots? Like a lot of the youth in our own country who are fools.

The failure is stunning. Mossad, considered the absolute best in the world, saw nothing coming? The same group who managed to infiltrate Iran's nuclear facilities and obtain documents just a few years ago, saw or heard nothing? I don't buy it. bibi better look inside at his own people to find the answer of why.

9 posted on 10/09/2023 6:28:14 PM PDT by LibertyWoman (America, the Handwriting is on the Wall. )
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To: LibertyWoman

Maybe the mandatory COVID vaccines turned all the Mossad agents retarded.


10 posted on 10/09/2023 6:52:02 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: nickcarraway

They didn’t fail to see the attack coming. They failed to respond.....like our FBI often does.


11 posted on 10/09/2023 6:53:42 PM PDT by davidb56
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To: nickcarraway

Israel’s intelligence failed because the US deep state gave them bad intel as punishment for judicial reform.


12 posted on 10/09/2023 7:13:59 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: nickcarraway

Netanyahu’s reforms targeted the Mossad and the Israeli deep state. They hate him. I wouldn’t be surprised if they let this happen.


13 posted on 10/09/2023 8:08:31 PM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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