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The measures outlined by Efrat, (she who knows the usual drills) removal of critical forces that patrol the border, sudden absence of normal breach detection, very slow slow response, and ?15 breaches of a fence that normally would detect the proximity of a cat, does corroborate the 'it was allowed to happen' narrative ( in spite of a years preparation and direct warning by the Egyptians). If so, then so too has the horrendous behavior. To spark what? THAT is the question. The deeper agenda?

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It’s amazing. One israeli who served in intelligence 25 years ago said something and immediately certain groups latch on to what is pure speculation because it suits their world view. Her answer is wrong. Not only is it wrong, it’s unnecessary. Why- because the Hamas attack was predicted by another high ranking former intelligence official in public in a think tank white paper, including the type of attack and the timing. In other words everybody was already warned in public a few months ago. So they can’t say they did not know it was a possibility. They disagreed with the assessment. The experts were wrong. It’s not a conspiracy. On top of that Hamas has publicly stated what they were going to do. Again not a secret. Experts make mistakes. Not every mistake is malicious. Netanyahu couldn’t afford to make this type of error, because he may very well lose his tenuous grasp on power as a result of the failure to stop the attack,

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/how-hamas-fooled-the-experts

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