No. of Recommendations: 7
The
New York Times is reporting as of 11/30/2023 that Israel had intelligence at least one year prior to the October attacks of the Hammas plan. Not just knowledge, a
forty page briefing outlining the scale of the planned attack.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeas...This had been rumored within days after the attack and squashed.
It was rumored about two weeks after the attack, then squashed.
It came up in mid-November again.
The approximately 40-page document, which the Israeli authorities code-named “Jericho Wall,” outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of devastating invasion that led to the deaths of about 1,200 people.Given Netanyahu's entire political existence has been anchored upon him being the only man who can protect Israel, a failure by his intelligence and military leaders of this magnitude with this level of detail available a YEAR in advance should have dire consequences for both Netanyahu and his ultra-conservative partners.
Even without hindsight, the facts at hand would seem to contradict any claim no one in Israel had knowledge of the plan beforehand. It would have been impossible for an entire intelligence community to miss EVERY sign of such plans unless they were essentially directed to ignore the evidence before them. That's exactly what happened.
WTH
