November 13, 2014
THEY HAVE THE FAILURE PART RIGHT...:
In squabble over Gaza war intel, echoes of 1973's failure (MITCH GINSBURG, November 13, 2014, Times of Israel)
Hatra'a lemilhama - advance warning of a war - are words that reek of the intelligence failure of the Yom Kippur War; words that end careers, and sometimes lives, in Israel. Hence the extraordinary letter from IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, published in Thursday's Yedioth Ahronoth."I hereby firmly declare that the Shin Bet did not pass on an advance warning, and did not warn, about Hamas intentions for war in July," Gantz wrote. The Shin Bet security service, he added, violated "every moral and ethical norm" by indicating otherwise in a TV documentary aired Monday.
...but the signal they missed was Israel starting a war in July.
Posted by Orrin Judd at November 13, 2014 5:17 PM
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