Never in history has Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad been able to kill and kidnap hundreds of Israelis in a single day. Saturday’s assault was clearly well-planned, highly coordinated, and well-armed, and very likely was in preparation for months or even years. The Times of Israel is reporting an Israeli death toll of over 600, with the military confirming over 100 now in Palestinian captivity.
Israeli officials and media pundits now want answers: how could Israel’s most celebrated and storied intelligence organization Mossad have missed it? How did the military not have any foreknowledge that it was coming? How did the Gaza jihadists overrun several IDF outposts so swiftly and easily?
Current and former Israeli officials are now decrying the “catastrophic” intelligence failure, and warn it may have serious lasting political ramifications. This whole war could even serve to destabilize the Netanyahu coalition government.
Chuck Freilich, Israel’s former deputy national security adviser, has told Politico: “This is a catastrophic failure in regards to Gaza.”
“It’s a failure in terms of intelligence, operationally,” Freilich said. “It’s clear we were caught totally unprepared by this. The divisional headquarters responsible for Gaza was occupied, they’re in disarray, and so the whole response has been delayed.”
He predicts far-reaching “political ramifications”…
“There’s always a short-term rallying around the flag. But once the dust settles we’ll have major political ramifications,” Freilich said. “After the Yom Kippur war, it took three and a half years for [then Israeli Prime Minister] Golda Meir’s government to be toppled — I don’t think it will take that long this time.”
Former IDF intelligence chief Amos Yadlin compared Saturday’s raids to the “intelligence failure” of the Yom Kippur War – which famously saw the Egyptian and Syrian armies mount a surprise attack on Tel Aviv forces.
The common Israeli public has been voicing outrage as well…
ex-IDF soldier explains that the events that took place today are impossible.
She was a boarder observer with the highest tech available.
“If a bird came close we knew”
“Even even a cockroach came to our fenced border we knew”
“How did 400 hamas pass through today”? https://t.co/K5pfaU1e4C
— 𝐆𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐯 🎧 (@Dr_logicaI) October 7, 2023
Military men are asking similar questions, with Eli Marom – the former head of the Israeli navy, stating in a national broadcast, “All of Israel is asking itself: Where is the IDF, where is the police, where is the security?… It’s a colossal failure; the hierarchies have simply failed, with vast consequences.”
And among Western pundits, an op-ed in The Guardian says it was “unthinkable” and an “intelligence failure for the ages.” Peter Beaumont writes:
Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel, on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war, will be remembered as an intelligence failure for the ages.
In the space of several hours, dozens of Gaza militants broke through the border fence into southern Israel, surprising local military positions.
Gunmen kidnapped and murdered Israelis in the southern border communities, filming their assault as they advanced in numerous locations. In one instance, a Gaza television journalist delivered a standup report about one attack from inside Israel, an almost unthinkable moment.
— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) October 8, 2023
Some have gone so far as to speculate that the Netanyahu government may have had awareness that something was coming, but planned to exploit any assault as a justification to wipe out Gaza and to launch a major ground war against Hamas. As of Sunday, PM Netanyahu formally declared war.
“The war declaration was taken in accordance with Article 40 of Israel’s Basic Law, the Israeli government press office said,” according to CNN.
Will a fight at Israeli’s northern border be next?
🚨THREAD: DAY 2 of Gaza Uprising Against Israel❗️❗️
Yesterday’s surprise attack by Palestinian resistance fighters was a catastrophic intelligence and military failure on Israel’s part
This morning Hezbollah supported Hamas and PIJ by firing mortars from South Lebanon pic.twitter.com/jXMrl10tqs
— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) October 8, 2023
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How does this happen.. Good Question.
https://t.me/the_Right_People/24916
https://t.me/the_Right_People/24903
A Jew being a bit too honest.
https://t.me/the_Right_People/24899
I found the video of the start of the Hamas attack on that rave..
https://t.me/the_Right_People/24870
Just like Pearl Harbor? Yeah, and just like Roosevelt it was planned and the Arabs were goaded to attack out of necessity.
Not buying this BS.
And yet we get paid back like this
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Every now and then, Israel will attack itself with their proxy armies for sympathy, and support, and piles of cash.
I think more and more people are getting wise to this bullshit.
Just so we are all clear on what you are saying…….The Jew small hats actually attacked themselves and killed their own men women and children, raped their own women and then took 100 of their own citizens to a hellhole in Gaza? Is that what you are saying? So Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his own military to kill Israeli citizens for sympathy and a few shekels….and of course they have done it before also?
It is part of the Zionist breed character.
Glowie most likely…if not that, then one ignorant sap.
Oh that’s funny,now do 9/11
911 calling. I wanted to report some Israelis dancing on the corner of the WTC
Apparently you don’t know just how devilish are The Chosen. TBP oracles get it. ;0
What’s the read in Tel Aviv, ff?
ClusterFck Central. I keep reading/hearing that the Israelis turned off the power to Gaza, but from here it all looks ‘ablaze’ (Ha!) with lectricty (sic). WTF over?
With snipers that clip kids, women and pets would you put it past these devils?
Exactly, just like the US small hats personally flew jets into WTC towers!
YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES,
Scott Ritter has an interesting analysis of how they got themselves into this mess. In brief-too much data (txt msgs, phone calls, video streams) coming in from Gaza for humans to deal with, so they used AI to analyze it. Hamas knew what they were up to and outsmarted the program.
Since the November 2022 general election, Israel has been experiencing a ‘color revolution’ of their own. The joo Ashkenasi leftists are routing the majority and conservative Sephardim; in the streets, the military, media, and most of all their Judiciary/AG shop. It is amazing to observe.
1) The IDF is as fake and gay as the rest of globohomoschlomo and it’s military capabilities are mostly myth.
2) It was a globohomo false flag destined to ethnically cease Gaza , the West Bank , the Golan Heights and maybe Lebanon, of all Arabs, once and forever..
4) Some people may need reducing and WWIII ain’t gonna’ start itself.
3) It’s all a simulation , bruh…go back to sleep.
The proper term as I heard it and saw it in neon lighting in Dallas wuz : It ain’t gonna lick itself.
Real life “Wag the Dog”. Of course Israel was not caught unprepared. Now comes the hammer.
some recollections of brave IDF soldiers..
https://t.me/the_Right_People/24927
Here come all the theories. The PTB have decided now is the time to wag the dog, nothing more.
Perhaps we will have learned enough by now to be on guard for what liberties they will try to take away as a result, or what new international commitments it will lead to, etc. Who will be the leader that rises up, claiming ‘peace, peace’ when there is no peace?
Earlier reports claimed attackers used motorized paragliders. Anyone see any motors here?
So, who air dropped these guys?
Too many freeloading mouths are showing up to eat at the middle east gravy train.
They schedule such assaults against their own people to:
A. Motivate fewer to come and for some to leave.
B. Fundraise.
For the Golden Calf tribe?
Citizens getting wise?
Open up the gates and let the hordes in.
I was thinking that there was no way that their intelligence agency wouldn’t have dozens of agents in Gaza. People were saying that it was six hours before the army came. This is a tiny country. It seems like they are sacrificial lambs just like we did on 911. If you have all of these towns, you would have to have ample protection nearby, which would include police and military. Why would it take hours? So now, after posting dozens of pictures of beautiful young women that were abducted by the animals. Seems like they were all glamour type shots. They already had them.
closer to home,things got testy in ft lauderdale when hamas sympathizers counter protested a pro israel rally —
Ukraine is soooo yesterday.
This is “The Current Thing”.
and everyone has completely forgotten about CoVid. Fucking amazing if one thinks about it.
Not a failure but a great success. Even at best this is proof that when seconds count the police are only minutes away. Thatis not necessarily a n attack on police. It is just the way it is. You are your first responder.