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Ex-Chief of Staff admits: 'We did not see Hamas as an existential threat'
Arutz Sheva ^ | 8/5/24

Posted on 05/08/2024 3:36:15 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

Aviv Kochavi admits IDF knew of Hamas's tunnels and number of rockets prior to October 7, but was more focused on confronting Iran and Hezbollah.

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Gaza; Hamas; Israel; War
KEYWORDS: 107; clueless; hizbollah; iran
Military intelligence./s
1 posted on 05/08/2024 3:36:15 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

Kill
Them All
Every One
Every Single One


2 posted on 05/08/2024 3:42:34 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Your people didn’t see Hitler as an existential threat either.


3 posted on 05/08/2024 3:44:48 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Eleutheria5

So the ex chief of staff ignored hundreds or more years of history, and assumed jew hating hamas would play nice?


4 posted on 05/08/2024 3:46:45 PM PDT by b4me
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To: mass55th

Had it not been for Mordechai’s intelligence gathering, we wouldn’t have known about Haman. As far as the Children of Israel knew, Pharaoh was our pal. At first, making bricks was considered a patriotic duty of all good immigrants.

Naive. Aren’t we. Why else would Jews be sending their kids to Ivy League schools, letting them get indoctrinated with left wing crap.


5 posted on 05/08/2024 3:51:09 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: mass55th

The leftists loved themselves some Hitler until he abandoned global communism as an epic failure.

Remember - Fascism is successful communism.


6 posted on 05/08/2024 3:54:27 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: Eleutheria5

Shocker. /s


7 posted on 05/08/2024 4:00:25 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Eleutheria5

You don’t plan based on what you think they might do. You plan on the basis of what they can do. This lesson has to be learned over and over.


8 posted on 05/08/2024 4:03:04 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa

Israel wasn’t prepared. Now they’re fixing the problem.


9 posted on 05/08/2024 4:08:46 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Eleutheria5
"Naive. Aren’t we."

This guy reminds me of Obama saying that Isis was the JV team. There's been plenty of naive people other than Jews through the ages. Sadly, some of those naive people deliberately choose the state of naivety, and a large part of the Jewish community has blinders on, and hasn't learned a thing from past history. I am currently reading a book titled: "The Avengers: A Jewish War Story" by Rich Cohen.

One of the incidents covered in the book concerns Jacob Gens, who was the Head of the Jewish police of the Vilnius Ghetto in what is now Lithuania. He was married to a non-Jew. He was of the naive belief that he could save lives if he worked with the Germans. Jacob thought that by keeping the Germans happy, no harm would come to the people in the ghetto. He forced the turning over of Isaac Wittenberg, who was a member of the Jewish Resistance in the Vilnius Ghetto, to the Germans. Wittenberg was also a communist. Jacob saw Wittenberg as a communist first, and not a Jew. Thus it was worth getting rid of him. Jacob betrayed Wittenberg to the police, but while Isaac was being transported, fellow members of the Resistance attacked the police and freed him. He escaped temporarily, but because he feared a massacre would take place because of his escape, he turned himself in. He ended up dying not long after, either by committing suicide, or having been executed. The real story of his demise is not known.

For his working with the Germans to keep them happy, Jacob was executed in September 1943 by the Gestapo, when the ghetto was liquidated, and most of the residents sent to work camps or extermination camps. His wife and daughter escaped the Germans and survived the war.

10 posted on 05/08/2024 4:23:27 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Seruzawa

Takes a war to make the military think militarily. This guy is peacetime career brass. Well, now we’re in it.


11 posted on 05/08/2024 5:01:09 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

‘Aviv Kochavi admits IDF knew of Hamas’s tunnels and number of rockets prior to October 7, but was more focused on confronting Iran and Hezbollah.”

And I’m sure you knew it, as I sure knew it, and I’m on the other side of the planet. The NGOs and the UN also, CLEARLY, knew it, as they enabled it, ALL OF IT. But as long as Hamas laid low, as they did, people would get complacent, and they sure did!


12 posted on 05/08/2024 9:39:07 PM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL

That Rave was to celebrate the cease fire holding. Like celebrating Japanese Day just around midnight on December 7, 1941, party ending right before the attack. But now let’s make another cease fire with the very people who broke the last one.


13 posted on 05/08/2024 11:16:54 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Not to OUR existence. But absolutely to Israel’s existence.


14 posted on 05/09/2024 10:46:15 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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To: JimRed

Avi Kochavi is the former Israeli chief of staff. How can so much stupid be in just one man. There are evil geniuses. There are evil retards. He’s not evil, though. Just retarded.


15 posted on 05/09/2024 12:15:44 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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