“We have no idea how this could have happened.”
That is the reaction Israeli officials have been giving today when I ask them how, with all its vast resources, Israeli intelligence did not see this attack coming.
Dozens of armed Palestinian gunmen were able to cross the heavily fortified border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, while thousands of rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel.
With the combined efforts of Shin Bet, Israeli domestic intelligence, Mossad, its external spy agency and all the assets of the Israel Defense Forces, it is frankly astounding that nobody saw this coming.
Or if they did, they failed to act on it.
how does the story go with the gunshot and the dead lion and the guy with the umbrella? if it is basically impossible for Israel’s notorious “intelligence” to miss this, and it directly benefits israel’s push for more territory and new weapons, then maaaaaybe just maybe israeli defense DIDN’T miss the attack…