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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Opinion: "For the past few weeks, as anyone following the news from Israel knows, Hamas was conducting what appeared to be practice maneuvers for just this kind of attack all along the Gaza border — right before the eyes of the Israeli military.

But it appears that Israeli intelligence interpreted the moves as Hamas just trying to mess with the heads of the Israeli military and make commanders a little nervous, not as a prelude for an attack."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/opinion/israel-hamas-attack-friedman.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

JFC, a failure of intel *analysis*, not just “insufficient data”. that is a worse Israeli screwup than I had originally understood.