Shalom Shitrit - an IDF soldier who was on duty on 7 October 2023 - has made a damning testimony to the Knesset
  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    2 days ago

    If you’re referring to the Egyptian intel warning and the internal warning that hamas was training. There was a meeting to address those concerns booked for literally that day.

    You also need to understand the context because in the west we think “oh a security threat we must address it immediately no matter how small”. but isreal has so many threats and its a balancing act to allocate resources. From their report they were prioritizing responding to the Hezbollah forces on their northern border and they were fresh off a war with hamas where they thought they had destroyed a lot of hamas’s capabilities. The idf admit they underestimated hamas’s goals and didnt think they were interested in starting a war because of how obviously stupid it would be.

    The IDF definitely fucked up thats not debated but there is no real credible case for it being intentionally orchestrated by isreal. The evidence is a bunch of explainable events that stringed together can look like a grand plan to those that want it to be true. If you want to hate isreal there is plenty of well supported cases to hate them for.

      • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
        11·
        1 hour ago

        Your article doesnt support the claim that isreal intentionally let it happen. It supports my claim that it was an explainable military failure. You are the one revising history to fit this conspiracy.

        It seems like a big deal and conspiracy’s worthy if you dont understand the context at the time. There are constantly attacks being planned against isreal by their many enemies. Isreal uncovering this specific plan and reviewing it before deeming it to be unfeasible is a miscalculation but its not a surprising miscalculation. Its already been said that the IDF did not think that hamas would escalate to trigger a war and that was a miscalculation. But honestly its an understandable miscalculation when we see what’s happened since. Why the fuck would hamas do Oct 7 its so unbelievably stupid.

        Also these “warnings” happened years to months before the actual attack. Is Isreal just suppose to forever prepare for the attack that they believe is unlikely even when there is a more credible threat on their northern border. Its not like they had no staff. It was a tough situation because hamas could always wait, there was no timer on when the attack needed to be launched.

        All of this doesnt excuse isreals action in response and I think even hamas didnt expect them to go this far in retaliation.