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Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out.
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The question: is the incompetence willful?
Its hubris. Not the first army to do so in the last 24 month. Despite advance in technology and sources, intelligence security seems to not be easy.
There’s got to be a corollary to Hanlon’s Razor that applies to politics:
Always attribute to malice that which cannot be more easily explained by incompetence.
That’s a much, much better aphorism than Hanlon’s razor.
If not, the willfullness is incompetent.
Unless they can demonstrate that they took measures to react to this intelligence, it has to be willful doesn’t it?
Not necessarily. it’s possible it was straight up incompetence.
That said, I’m extremely skeptical of that, because frankly, the powers that be really, really, wanted this war.
They (Israel) can’t claim they didn’t know where Hamas cells were hiding before the attack, and somehow know where they are after the attack. That is why the response is total bullshit. If they knew where to strike beforehand, they would have done it. It’s all a power play at the cost of many lives on both sides.
Incompetently taking measures is still taking measures, but I see what you mean.
Incompetently attempting measures and then covering up their failure would be tantamount to having willfully ignored it.