Comment by invalidname
2 years ago
While I wouldn't put it past Netanyahu to run a false flag operation... I think if he was hoping for it his purpose would have been a takeover of the government, not the destruction of Gaza.
He's one of the main proponents of the Hamas for the past 30 years. With this he looks like an incompetent idiot (which he is).
I think there's a chain of stupidity, bureaucracy and incompetents at fault. Reading reports in the papers over the past week it's astounding how many things went wrong. The head of the Shabak (internal security division) was on base checking notifications the day before. They had a conference call to alert the army so they would be prepared for "something", but they didn't loop in the airforce. If they had then some early air support might have changed the picture completely.
head of shabak was called in closer to midnight and they were at meetings through entire night when entire mess started. shabak forces (whatever it is) were one of the first to respond
Yes. There were many individual notices from multiple sources and yet no one put it all together to form a picture. Different branches didn't communicate and didn't elevate preparedness.
The REALLY frustrating thing is that a few months back there was an attack from the Egyptian side of the border in which calls for help went unanswered for hours. Air support was delayed, etc. It seems that no one took that seriously and backups weren't installed. The level of incompetence is astounding.
there is somebody who served in IDF and writes articles about it, been invited to radio as military analyst, etc.
a few days ago he wrote that IDF doesn't like to learn from somebodies else mistakes. It prefers to have a bloodboth (implied it's own blood) in order to reach some conclusions.
but in general it looks like it was mix of assumption that hamas won't try to do anything and that they are a bunch of fellah that cosplay army for purpose of raising money. not sure if it's incompetence or arrogance.