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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This has been my main question these few days, the ever hyped and 'perfect' Iron Dome. And Mossad, an Intelligence agency considered one of the best in the world. Where did the failure happen?

Don't get me wrong. This attack was a tragedy. But what happened to the security infrastructure that Israel is so proud of

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

But what happened to the security infrastructure that Israel is so proud of

Sometimes things need to magically "fail" so leaders can get the war that they want, but can't openly start.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Especially when they're in trouble for corruption charges and making sweeping changes to their country's justice system to help themselves at the detriment of their democracy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

detriment of their democracy

detriment of their liberal democracy

important destinction

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Israeli far right and Hamas are symbiotic, they justify each other's rule and keep the other in power

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

That is just the thing. It was the same with GB and the IRA. Terrorist organization and the hard-line governments they oppose have a simbiotic relationship to their mutual benefit and the detriment of anybody else.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

#MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

The Iron Dome is there to stop rockets, not cars and paragliders. (The latter could potentially change.)

Any air defense system is vulnerable to saturation.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

The best educated, non conspiratorial guess I can offer is that the sheer number of projectiles overwhelmed the system.

That's accepting that the reports of thousands of rockets launched is accurate, mind you.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The dome is pretty great but hamas claims 5k missiles launched and other sources say at least 2k. There's no way they're going to intercept them all. As for the intelligence failure, who knows.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is my thinking too. Enough were launched to overwhelm the system.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t think it’s a conspiracy. It’s the first question my wife asked when I told her about it. Neither of us believe that this could have happened without Mossad knowing about it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You think it is a conspiracy then.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be fair, it's possible for an intelligence agency to know of a possible attack, and not have anything done about it, without a conspiracy to let it happen, if issues with communication between parts of said agency or between it and the government as a whole lead to warnings not being properly shared with the right people or not being properly acted upon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"Bin Laden determined to strike in US."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think the world is full of secret agencies, that are less competent than they claim.

Mossads public image was to neither deny or acknowkledge. It is not hard to imagine, that the world and the mossad itself were misjudging. Hybris is a hell of a problem.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm just gonna put a tinfoil hat on and guess some of the top secret documents Trump let Saudis / Iranians peruse had relevant Intel to these events

But I'm just guessing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I don't think you need a tin foil hat, to believe that Trump compromised intelligence on many levels to many people he shouldn't have....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I would say the agency dealing with homeland terrorism (I guess this is the way Israel looks at this) would rather be Shin Bet than Mossad.