Quote (Black XistenZ @ Sep 17 2024 01:05pm)
Maybe they knew of the imminent missile barrage and they decided to let it proceed and have their iron dome take care of it, not realizing that this was just the cover for fighters on fucking paragliders infiltrating southern Israel. Even the majority of the Hamas foot soldiers didn't need to know the details of the mission beforehand, just a few dozen commanders. It's not implausible that they could keep this part of their plan secret.
Idk, I'm naturally skeptical and we see the Israeli level of sophistication and ability to know intricate details about their enemy, in Lebanon, in Iran, in Gaza, etc. but they were completely caught by surprise in October? Was Mossed on vacation? Did they not have human intel embedded within Hamas leading to that? Did the Hamas commanders paraglide in? Idk it's just hard to buy that the scale to coordinate that Hamas attack was not small.
Obviously we will never know, but without October attack, Israel would not have the optics on their side to do what they did in Gaza. Something bad
needed to happen for Gaza to be flattened on that scale.