Netanyahu Caught Off Guard (Mark Levin Show) Fox News

[bruce bowser]

"The militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel at daybreak Saturday, firing thousands of rockets as dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations by air, land, and sea and catching the country off-guard on a major holiday. "

Israeli Media Reports More Than 100 Dead, Over 800 Wounded In Hamas Terror Attacks
Fox News - October 7, 2023
-- https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/hamas-attack-israel-war

[bruce bowser]

"Unfortunately, Netanyahu is still prioritizing his coalition of zealots, whom he needs to protect him from his corruption trial and to complete his judicial coup that would neuter the Supreme Court of Israel. That’s really messed up.

And it is a very important reason Israel was caught off guard in the first place. Netanyahu was so wedded to this personal agenda that he was ready to divide Israeli society like never before — and splinter his own army and air force in the process — to get control of the courts.

I promise you that if and when there’s an inquiry into how the Israeli Army could have so missed this Hamas buildup, investigators will discover that the Israeli Army leadership had to spend so much time just keeping its air force pilots and reserve officers from boycotting their service to protest Netanyahu’s judicial coup — not to mention the time, attention and resources they had to devote to preventing extremist settlers and religious zealots from doing crazy things in Jerusalem and the West Bank — that they took their eyes off the ball."

Israel Has Never Needed to Be Smarter Than in This Moment
New York Times - Oct. 10, 2023 Op/Ed Thomas L. Friedman
-- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/opinion/israel-hamas-.html?searchResultPosition=2