• BigFig@lemmy.worldOP
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    This has been my main question these few days, the ever hyped and ‘perfect’ Iron Dome. And Mossad, an Intelligence agency considered one of the best in the world. Where did the failure happen?

    Don’t get me wrong. This attack was a tragedy. But what happened to the security infrastructure that Israel is so proud of

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      But what happened to the security infrastructure that Israel is so proud of

      Sometimes things need to magically “fail” so leaders can get the war that they want, but can’t openly start.

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        The Israeli far right and Hamas are symbiotic, they justify each other’s rule and keep the other in power

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          That is just the thing. It was the same with GB and the IRA. Terrorist organization and the hard-line governments they oppose have a simbiotic relationship to their mutual benefit and the detriment of anybody else.

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          the victims are israelis; the government of israel is a separate entity… heck, the people in charge in israel are separate entities again

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          The only victims here are both the Israeli and Palestinian citizens, who have more accurately been gangbanged from both sides by the IDF and Hamas.

          Nice false equivalency and misinterpretation of my point.

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      The best educated, non conspiratorial guess I can offer is that the sheer number of projectiles overwhelmed the system.

      That’s accepting that the reports of thousands of rockets launched is accurate, mind you.

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      The dome is pretty great but hamas claims 5k missiles launched and other sources say at least 2k. There’s no way they’re going to intercept them all. As for the intelligence failure, who knows.

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      I don’t think it’s a conspiracy. It’s the first question my wife asked when I told her about it. Neither of us believe that this could have happened without Mossad knowing about it.

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      I’m just gonna put a tinfoil hat on and guess some of the top secret documents Trump let Saudis / Iranians peruse had relevant Intel to these events

      But I’m just guessing

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        I don’t think you need a tin foil hat, to believe that Trump compromised intelligence on many levels to many people he shouldn’t have…

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      I would say the agency dealing with homeland terrorism (I guess this is the way Israel looks at this) would rather be Shin Bet than Mossad.