The real intelligence failure was not realizing that a brutal occupation, keeping people in prison-like conditions, occupying and taking their land, treating them as second class citizens would create a group of people who hate you and that this hate would lead to Hamas and Hezbollah like groups to try to free their people.
The next failure will be when they find that in trying to destroy Hamas they have created a new group of "terrorists" who will be trying to achieve the same ends.
Found here: The Intelligence Failures but quote from the NYT.
Overall, arrogance among Israeli political and security officials convinced them that the country’s military and technological superiority to Hamas would keep the terrorist group in check.
“They were able to trick our collection, our analysis, our conclusions and our strategic understanding,” Eyal Hulata, Israel’s national security adviser from 2021 until early this year, said during a discussion last week in Washington sponsored by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a think tank.
“I don’t think there was anyone who was involved with affairs with Gaza that shouldn’t ask themselves how and where they were also part of this massive failure,” he added.
Many senior officials have accepted responsibility, but Mr. Netanyahu has not. At 1 a.m. Sunday in Israel, after his office was asked for comment on this article, he posted a message on X, formerly Twitter, that repeated remarks he made to The New York Times and blamed the military and intelligence services for failing to provide him with any warning on Hamas.
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