This is something that has been making me feel crazy since the beginning. The attack had so many participants in so many roles it would have taken years to plan and amass the arms, vehicles etc plus training. All of it happening in one of the most surveilled locations on earth, constantly overseen by the us and Israel, two of the supposedly most advanced military intelligence apparatuses in history, and they didn’t catch on that something big was being planned? Id love to believe that the two satans are truly paper tigers but I don’t buy it
What’s not to buy? It’s just typical colonizer arrogance, the same exact arrogance that led the French to getting massively owned at Dien Bien Phu. Plenty of people knew that Hamas was planning something, but Netanyahu wanted to focus on the West Bank because his voting base are settlers trying to push Palestinians out of the West Bank. There were militant operations at the West Bank throughout 2022 conducted by PIJ and the Lion’s Den, so it’s not completely fair to say Netanyahu was just sitting on his ass between 2021 and 2023.
There’s a genuine issue where big data is good for prosecuting people once you have a name, but doing it in reverse can be very difficult because there’s just so many that you get too many false positives to properly follow up on. Surveillance isn’t a panacea, for better and for worse, depending on the circumstance.
This is something that has been making me feel crazy since the beginning. The attack had so many participants in so many roles it would have taken years to plan and amass the arms, vehicles etc plus training. All of it happening in one of the most surveilled locations on earth, constantly overseen by the us and Israel, two of the supposedly most advanced military intelligence apparatuses in history, and they didn’t catch on that something big was being planned? Id love to believe that the two satans are truly paper tigers but I don’t buy it
What’s not to buy? It’s just typical colonizer arrogance, the same exact arrogance that led the French to getting massively owned at Dien Bien Phu. Plenty of people knew that Hamas was planning something, but Netanyahu wanted to focus on the West Bank because his voting base are settlers trying to push Palestinians out of the West Bank. There were militant operations at the West Bank throughout 2022 conducted by PIJ and the Lion’s Den, so it’s not completely fair to say Netanyahu was just sitting on his ass between 2021 and 2023.
There’s a genuine issue where big data is good for prosecuting people once you have a name, but doing it in reverse can be very difficult because there’s just so many that you get too many false positives to properly follow up on. Surveillance isn’t a panacea, for better and for worse, depending on the circumstance.