A blueprint reviewed by The Times laid out the attack in detail. Israeli officials dismissed it as aspirational and ignored specific warnings.

Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out.

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  • @MonumentEnglish
    4•7 months ago

    There’s got to be a corollary to Hanlon’s Razor that applies to politics:

    Always attribute to malice that which cannot be more easily explained by incompetence.