A blueprint reviewed by The Times laid out the attack in detail. Israeli officials dismissed it as aspirational and ignored specific warnings.

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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  • Ab_intra
    84•10 months ago

    I’ve always had the feeling like this is something Netanyahu and his cabinet wanted. It seems to me that they thought in their screwed up minds it would benefit them somehow.

    To read this article use archive.ph. I can’t post direct link as it’s against this instances rules.

    • @[email protected]English
      53•10 months ago

      It’s well established that Netanyahu undermines moderate Palestinian leadership through legitimizing radical Palestinian leadership, aka Hamas. Netanyahu engaging in diplomatic relations with Hamas in Gaza while ignoring good faith overtures from the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is par for the course. As long as he can keep Hamas in power, he thinks he can more effectively justify Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people

      • Ab_intra
        10•10 months ago

        There is one thing doing that… And another thing of letting Hamas kill 1000 Israelis.

        • @[email protected]English
          19•10 months ago

          It’s all the same thing to Netanyahu, just further justification for violence. Netanyahu very blatantly does not actually care about Israeli lives, only how events impact his ability to retain power

        • @[email protected]
          3•10 months ago

          Hamas killing 1000 Israelis unifies the country in a way that a weak Palestinian Authority doesn’t.

    • @Cockmaster6000
      32•10 months ago

      Netanyahu’s policy has been to bolster Hamas. It’s not even a secret, he said as much himself.