This headline says it all!
Hamas attack: This was a terrible intelligence failure by Israel
Greg Sheridan
9:11PM October 7, 2023
The Hamas attack is an Israeli nightmare. Not so much the perhaps 5000 rockets – though the numbers are disputed - the terrorist group launched against Israel, but the terrorists roaming through southern Israeli towns, where women and children take shelter in “safe rooms” while the towns’ men try to fight the terrorists off. And civilians are gunned down.
The implications of this will reverberate for years, decades, in the Middle East, as did the Yom Kippur war on this date 50 years ago when Syria and Egypt launched a surprise attack on Israel.
“Citizens of Israel,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “we are at war, and we will win.”
The Israeli response will be fearsome. But the immediate course of this conflict is deeply unclear.
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Somehow we have all been persuaded that the “5 Eyes” intelligence network (with Israel) would notice if a significant war fighting capability had developed in Gaza and would have taken steps to neutralise it. But no! Out of the blue thousands of rockets are launched, fighters cross borders and chaos emerges – at least for a while… from this very morning! I wonder where the OZ intelligence services were?
You have to wonder who else is brewing up a little surprise for us maybe closer to home!
For now we have a new Middle-East war – and this is really sad and fatal for both sides – looks very grim to me – and we still have Ukraine festering along and causing death and destruction…..
A very sad
and sorry mess…back to digital health now!
David.
1 comment:
It’s a pattern repeated over and over in history David. Troubling events and as always the general populace face the brunt of it.
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