How Netanyahu Failed to Prevent October 7
Show notes
In this latest Conflicted Conversation, Thomas talks with Yaakov Katz, the former editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post and co-author of While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East.
Yaakov explains:
- October 7 intelligence failure and Israel’s missed warnings
- Hamas’s ‘Jericho Walls’ plan and ignored Unit 8200 alerts
- The Israeli conceptzia: why leaders believed Hamas was deterred
- Netanyahu’s Gaza containment strategy and Qatari money policy
- Hamas as a political asset against Palestinian statehood
- Israel’s overreliance on technology, SIGINT and border barriers
- Unit 504, HUMINT failure and the absence of agents in Gaza
- Gaza’s tunnel network and Hamas’s hidden underground military city
- Operation Guardian of the Walls and Israel’s exaggerated ‘Metro’ success
- Netanyahu’s responsibility, Israeli division and the post–October 7 media war
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