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Re: Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran … War
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Originally Posted by Pierre
Top level victim blaming.
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What, blaming themselves?
From the link in the quoted article
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/28/nx-s1-5312841/israel-military-oct-7-investigation-hamas-gaza
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Israeli military cites 'fundamental misunderstanding' of Hamas ahead of Oct. 7 attack
Israel's military said "glaring" intelligence failures left it unable to protect Israeli citizens on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants attacked the country, killing nearly 1,200 people and taking 251 hostage, according to an official report on Israel's response to the attack.
The investigation — which has not fully been made public — details a decades-long "fundamental misunderstanding" of Hamas, according to an English summary of the findings provided to NPR by the military. It said that this allowed senior Israeli officers to underestimate the militant group's capabilities and intentions leading up to the attack.
The military operated on an approach "based on the (incorrect) assumption that Hamas was neither interested nor preparing for a large-scale war," according to the summary. It stated that Israeli intelligence officials thought the group was more interested in governing Gaza, which it seized control of from the Palestinian Authority in 2007, than fighting Israel.
"In hindsight, Hamas systematically employed deception tactics that reinforced this perception. In retrospect, this was a grave mistake," it said...
...The army's chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, said he took responsibility for the army's failures.
"I was the commander of the military on October 7th, and I have my own responsibility. I also carry the weight of all your responsibility — that, too, I see as mine," he said. Halevi is set to step down next week, after announcing his resignation in January.
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