Israel intelligence’s failure to detect the Hamas operation undercuts the sales pitches of the many Israeli companies involved in high tech spying and surveillance. From Kit Klarenberg at thecradle.co:
When the Palestinian resistance breached all of Israel’s security boundaries last week, Tel Aviv was caught with its pants down. How can such a stunning intel failure not impact the country’s cyber intelligence sector and sales?
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The sheer scale and intensity of the Palestinian resistance’s Operation Al-Aqsa Flood took Israel and the world by surprise last week. Even seasoned western intelligence agency veterans, who possess intimate knowledge of Israel’s surveillance capabilities, struggled to provide any plausible explanation for the glaring security gaps.
Academics with decades of research on the conflict, also admitted they are none the wiser: “Honestly I have no f’ing clue what’s going on. What this means. Or where this heads. Literally anything is possible,” tweeted an Associate Fellow at “the world’s oldest and the UK’s leading defense and security think tank,” the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).
US officials were notably evasive when asked if this amounted to an epic “intelligence failure.” Mainstream news outlets openly pondered how Tel Aviv could have missed the Palestinians’ elaborate plans while conspiracy theories quickly spread online to suggest that Israel may have intentionally allowed the incursion to occur – as if the Occupation state ever required an excuse to pulverize Gaza.
