Ugh! If I have to hear “intelligence failure” one more f***ing time, then I’m going to lose my f***ing G.D. mind! We don’t know — no one does at this point — if it was an intelligence failure, no matter what the idiot armchair generals and political pundits who have suddenly become national security experts say on the MSM. Did it ever occur to these moron talking heads that there may have been no intelligence to gather? These terrorist groups have come to learn that technology is a liability. It is quite possible they went old-school in planning this attack. They used good old-fashioned face-to-face planning and not their cell phones. It is also likely they purged suspected informants as part of the plan, thereby depriving Israel of human intelligence, not to mention the IDF withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005, removing their ears from the ground, so to speak.
If anything, Netanyahu and his right-wing government took their eye off the ball. They were more concerned about hobbling the Israeli judiciary to take away freedoms from minority groups, create a theocratic fascist government, and end Netanyahu’s criminal proceedings. (Israelis voted for that guy, and he won.) Again, as I have said before, Netanyahu’s government — ironically — has more in common with Nazi fascism than liberal democracy. I’m not sure what people expected when they elected a corrupt Netanyahu, who then filled the government with like-minded corrupt ministers who are openly hostile to Palestinians and think Israel is too free and too secular.
As a final point, it is obvious that this latest terrorist attack by Hamas was also intended to derail normalization talks with Saudi Arabia. Indeed, all of the normalization talk (i.e., the Abraham Accords) between Israel and other Arab countries in the region over the last few years has always baffled me. It seemed that Arab countries had abandoned the Palestine question, as it had always been a sticking point in formalizing relations between Israel and its neighbors. Clearly, Palestinians (i.e., Hamas) said enough is enough. They will no longer be ignored. Hamas breaking out reminds me of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising — another eerie similarity between Netanyahu’s fascist government and the Nazis. I’m just saying.