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.”
Centrist: Book ‘Ban’ Falsehoods
“The major flaw in the argument warning about book bans is that the people who are questioning the content of a school curriculum or the children’s section of a public library aren’t really seeking to ‘ban’ books. The issue is simply what is suitable for the intended audience of kids,” writes Jeffrey M. McCall at The Hill. “Groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union” are spreading “fearful messaging about book banning,” yet “parents groups questioning content only swung into action after recognizing an activism to change reading lists and push ideological hobby horses.” Indeed, most “so-called banned books” are “still widely available for purchase and in countless libraries around the country.” “Discretion in the selection process of kids’ books is not the same as banning.”
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Maybe President Retard should stop funding terrorism
That might help
A lot
I fear that the failure of the government surveillance systems globally will necessitate more global government surveillance.
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.
It is rather incredible that Mossad failed to see this coming. It is also incredible that the Israeli military response seemed rather slow.
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.
He'll have to ask his boss first. Biden has no idea what he's doing.
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..
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.
Maybe the mandatory COVID vaccines turned all the Mossad agents retarded.
They didn’t fail to see the attack coming. They failed to respond.....like our FBI often does.
Israel’s intelligence failed because the US deep state gave them bad intel as punishment for judicial reform.
Netanyahu’s reforms targeted the Mossad and the Israeli deep state. They hate him. I wouldn’t be surprised if they let this happen.
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