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Eko

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5. Of course it is not the Jewish peoples fault for Hamas attacking them
Thu May 15, 2025, 06:51 PM
12 hrs ago

and committing horrible atrocities. That is on Hamas 100%
But your title was "For those who wondered about why intelligence didn't warn of Oct 7 attack by Gaza"
That title tries to rewrite what actually happened. Intelligence did warn about it as has been documented by Israel itself.
Just like 9-11 the leaders did not listen to it and take it seriously.

Meanwhile, in July 2023, a non-commissioned officer in AMAN’s 8200 SIGINT unit warned that a recent exercise by the group “closely followed the Jericho Wall plan, and that Hamas was building the capacity to carry it out.”80 The soldier issued additional warnings about Hamas’ plans over the coming weeks.81 According to Israeli media, these warnings reportedly led to a meeting between the soldier, an intelligence officer in the IDF’s Gaza Division, and others.82 While there was no specific information regarding time, date, and exact location, the Gaza Division subsequently prepared a document warning that Hamas was planning a large-scale invasion and intended to take up to 250 hostages.83 The same noncommissioned officer from Unit 8200 sent another warning to a number of IDF officers a few days before October 7, urging them to make preparations to minimize the impact of the expected attack.84 According to The New York Times, the soldier’s superiors dismissed her analysis, calling the plan “aspirational,” “totally imaginative,” and therefore beyond Hamas’ capabilities.85 n One of the former heads of Israeli military intelligence, Amos Malka, has argued that these warnings were never passed on “to the top echelons of Military Intelligence or the top political decision-makers.”86 There have been some allegations that male chauvinism may have played part in dismissing her as well as the reports of the above-mentioned surveillance soldiers.87 However, it is possible that there was a reluctance to pass on these warnings due to an earlier warning in early 2024 of an attack that did not materialize.

https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-october-7-attack-an-assessment-of-the-intelligence-failings/
As a matter of record intelligence did warn of the attack multiple times in multiple ways. That doesn't make it the Jewish peoples fault, it just means there was an intelligence failure. That happens. It happened to us in the US with 9-11. For me to state what is a matter of record and then for that disagreement to be inferred to be anti-Semitic because I disagree to me seems to be kind of wrong.

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