Fifty years after the Yom Kippur War

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‘A colossal failure’ as Gaza’s Hamas terrorists infiltrate, catch Israel unprepared

https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-colossal...nprepared/

Assumption was that Hamas was deterred; it wasn’t. Says former Navy chief: ‘All of Israel is asking itself: Where is the IDF, where is the police, where is the security?’

Precisely 50 years after the Yom Kippur War, Israel was under surprise attack — not by Arab armies, but by the Hamas terrorist group. And with Israeli civilians widely and directly targeted.

As sirens wailed throughout southern and central Israel, and the thuds of rocket impacts and interceptions reverberated, television and social media platforms began broadcasting clips showing what ought to have been unimaginable — including armed terrorists in what appeared to be a convoy of seven or eight white pick-up trucks, four or five gunmen dismounting from one of them on the street of a southern Israeli city, and a handful of others seen running along the sidewalks, weapons drawn.

As rocket and mortar attacks continued, the IDF confirmed what was unfolding: dozens of terrorists had infiltrated into Israel — some by land, some by air on hang-gliders, and, reportedly, some by sea....

(Well, the important thing is Bibi rammed through his emasculation of the judiciary, so now he doesn't have to worry about going to jail in whatever is left of Israel after this war)

Even if he hadn’t gutted the judiciary, Netanyahu wasn’t going to jail.

After this war (more properly, after the current phase of this war), it’s a dead cert that there will be more left of Israel than of Gaza.

Boru