Commentary: Why did Israel miss so many warnings of the Hamas attack? Here’s one answer
More than a year before Hamas killed some 1,200 residents of Israel and kidnapped more than 200, Israeli intelligence officers reportedly learned about plans for the attack in extraordinary detail but couldn’t convince their leaders to take preventative action. How could a world-class security apparatus so badly underestimate one of its most dedicated adversaries?
As leaders become more insular and closed-minded, the quality of their information and decisions deteriorates. When security is on the line, the results can be tragic.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s secretive, ideologically rigid leadership style in that way helped undermine Israel’s security and
