A blueprint reviewed by The Times laid out the attack in detail. Israeli officials dismissed it as aspirational and ignored specific warnings.

Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out.

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  • fosforus@sopuli.xyz
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    11 months ago

    I listen to many defenders of Israel, podcasts and such. Each and every one of them mentions at some point how bad Netanjahu’s government is and how Israel’s intelligence community failed on and before Oct. 7.

    That said, I think it would be useful context to know how many similar warnings go through the system typically? The terrorists have the privilege of failing many times if they succeed just once. The defenders against terrorism have to get it right every single time.