Chance (3 Dec 2023)
"The Intelligence Failure of October 7"


 
Hello John and Doves,
 
Many of us have wondered about the massive intelligence failure of October 7.  How could this Hamas attack - planned for a year or more go 'unnoticed' by Israeli Intelligence?  Did Netanyahu know anything before hand?  It appears there are traitors high up in the IDF and Israeli Intelligence Directorate - I write 'traitors' because I don't believe this is incompetence or arrogance or stupidity.  I think 'these people' have a bone to pick with Netanyahu and his government.  (And...are they puppets of Biden/Blinken?)
 
Caroline Glick believes there needs to be a major investigation - how it happened, how Israel was so unprepared.  She gave a very good update in below video.  And there's an article later in this letter by Caroline Glick published at jns.org that covers in more detail some things that she talked about in the video.  
 
 
run time 38:24
 
My notes:
 
Caroline Glick reported on an order given by Major General Finkelman - he's in charge of the Southern Command that includes Gaza.  Finkelman, in order "not to hurt the Palestinians' feelings", he ordered IDF forces in Gaza to walk around and paint over the graffiti IDF soldiers had put on Gaza building walls - things like "We're coming home", the star of David, and other Zionist writings.
 
Caroline believes both of these generals 'have to go" - General Yaron Finkelman and Aharon Haliva - the head of Intelligence Director.  These are the two most responsible for Israel not preventing the October 7 invasion.  The government consensus is that no one will be held responsible for this massive failure.  The security fence was breached in 6 places and over 20 communities and bases simultaneously were attacked by Hamas terrorists and Gazan Palestinians.
 
One major concern is the amount of time it took for IDF forces to respond to this infiltration by Hamas and get to the communities - in some cases, this took over 20 hours.  The 'rumors' are the IDF was there at the gates but were not being allowed in by the higher ups.
According to what has now come out:  Most of the actual fighting was done by the volunteers - civil guard in the kibbutz, reservists and off duty soldiers.  This was not an organized military operation.  When the IDF actually arrived it was too late for over a thousand people.  Hours and hours too late.  Who was responsible for this operational failure?  Finkelman.  He received warnings via phone calls at 0400 that morning.  He did not alert the Gaza IDF - as a result these soldiers were killed in their bases in their beds.  The soldiers who were suppose to be defending these communities were dead.
 
The biggest thing Finkelman has done since October 7 is order the IDF to remove the graffiti they put up in Gaza. "We don't want to hurt the feelings of the people in Gaza."  Finkelman cares more for progressive feelings than the people that were butchered, raped, etc.  Finkelman 'needs to be shown the door."
 
Major General Aharon Haliva is the second general that needs to go. He is the Israeli intelligence chief.
 
Since October 7, Israel has learned how massive this intelligence failure was.  This failure wasn't due to the gathering of intelligence - it was due to the failing to follow up on this intelligence!. 
 
A group of female IDF soldiers saw Hamas activity around the fence and had warned that Hamas was preparing for an attack on Israel - but this was dismissed - these soldiers were told to "shut up". 
 
A ham radio operator, Rafael Hayun (who worked with the IDF) reported on Hamas' communications - he had saved many IDF soldier lives with his intelligence gathering on his equipment - in late 2019 he discovered that Hamas was beginning to plan and practice for this invasion that took place in October - he was providing detailed briefings to his colleagues in the IDF about what he was hearing.  In May, 2023  someone high up in the Israeli intelligence ordered his IDF colleagues to take away all of his equipment and stop working with him. 
 
An NCO in tactical intelligence, in the Signals Intelligence Unit 8200, with 20 years of experience, discovered Hamas' entire plan with the motorcycles, the paragliders, the jeeps, the hostage taking, the murders - she had this info and even the Hamas manual - she gave multiple warnings -  all of her warnings went unheeded by upper management.  Another NCO with 30 years believed all of this and met with Major General Haliva and all of this information was dismissed. 
 
The intelligence officer of the Gaza division had this information in May 2023 - he put out a slide presentation called the "Walls of Jericho" - he showed in detail precisely what Hamas was going to do (like the attacks on the security fence).  All of this came out in May 2023. 
 
Haliva dismissed all of these people and their intelligence.  Piles of information, Hamas internal documents, pictures, etc was reported on several news stations in Israel.  Shocking that all of this was 'dismissed'.  
 
Haliva needs to leave.  How did he justify this?
 
These general need to be replaced by 'war' generals - this is a fight for Israel's survival.
 
To the anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protesters: We don't care about your feelings.  Caroline reported seeing pro-Palestinian protesters in the U.S. blocking the lighting of Christmas tree ceremonies - like Rockefeller Center and one in Seattle.  They don't want Christians celebrating Christmas.  The same type of thing happened in London on Remembrance Day of fallen British soldiers in two world wars.  This isn't pro-Palestine.  This is anti-West.
 
'This side that is attacking Israel also wants to come after you.'  All part of larger quest of Islamic world domination under the flag of Jihad.  From 'the river to the sea' for Israel is from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.  In London, it's the Thames and Atlantic Ocean.  They seek the annihilation of free independent nations and societies that organized around a principle that is not jihad.  Israel has to win - just like everyone else needs to do - this is the message of October 7 - the Islamics are all saying the same thing "we are coming for you", "we are coming for your children", "we're coming for your freedoms", "we're coming for your women", "we're coming for your future".  We have to stop painting over our graffiti - we are all one front in this war.  If Israel doesn't live.  They are already among the peoples of the West.
 
(end notes)
 
 
This article adds to what Caroline talked about in her video.
By Caroline Glick
 
Some are questioning the governments stand on "this is not the time for action, not recrimination and trials for failed generals, security chiefs and politicians.  Good of bad, you go to war with the army and leaders you have.  People have jobs to do, and our job is to let them do theirs.  While reasonable on its face, there is a problem with delaying a reckoning.  At least in some cases, it seems clear that the people whose failures enabled the Hamas attack are not capable of bringing us victory."
 
"Case in point:  Israel Defense Forces Intelligence Directorate Chief Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva.  In the weeks since Oct 7, more and more information has come out about why Hamas was able to pull it off.  All of the information points to Haliva and his close subordinates."
 
There is more in this article about the IDF women who were Field Observers along the Gaza border - their unit "suffered the greatest losses" during the Hamas assault.  "..two surviving members of the unit and a number of former members starting coming forward to tell their story.  In interview with Channel 11, two women related that in the months before the invasion, they were warning it was in the works.  The women saw Hamas terrorists training to take over kibbutzim and IDF bases.  They watched terrorists practicing taking hostages and blowing up tanks.  They saw terror commanders watching the drills.  They saw spies probing the fence for weaknesses.  They saw it all and reported it all."
 
"Rather than giving them medals, unnamed top-level officers in the intelligence corps ordered them to stop.  When they continued reporting, the observers were warned that they would be disciplined and removed from the unit if they kept raising their concerns."
 
This article also includes the story of Rafael Hayun who was monitoring open intelligence networks - he worked with the IDF - he alerted the IDF units he was working with about Hamas training exercises - "penetrating the security fence at multiple points, taking over communities, committing mass murders and kidnapping."   Five months before Oct 7 the IDF was ordered to seize his equipment and stop working with him.  He believes that if he had his equipment in the weeks before Oct 7, he could have prevented this attack.
 
More detail is given than what Caroline told us - for example, the intelligence officer that made the "Walls of Jericho" presentation in May, followed up with a report in August  - "the intelligence officer even explained that Hamas intended to carry out its plan either on Shabbat or on a holiday when only a small cadre of soldiers would be on duty.  His work was dismissed as unrealistic and out of line with Hamas's true intentions by senior intelligence officers at Tel Aviv headquarters."
 
Turns out that senior security leadership - IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen Herzi Halevy, Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar, Southern Command Commander Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman and Haliva's assistant, discussed "warnings of increased Hamas movement near the border fence" at 4 AM on Oct 7.  They didn't inform the Gaza division commander nor did they inform Prime Minister Nentanyahu or the Defense Minister Gallant.  "Instead, they agreed to speak again at 8 a.m.  Hamas invaded at 6:30."
 
Haliva has a history of "ignoring everything the professionals told him and not sharing that information with his superiors."
 
The plot thickens - there is more to this Haliva story.  Remember the Left's attack on Netanyahu and his government?  "That insurgency was led by Haliva's family.  His ex-wife is married to Ilan Shiloah, a senior advertising executive."  This ex-wife and her husband "stood behind much of the political unrest that Israel has experienced since last year.  Haliva's daughter spoke at anti-government protests.  His son's twitter feed is filled with anti-Natanyahu invective."  And "Haliva reportedly did not share the mountain of information his professional intelligence corps gathered on Hamas's plans.  But he reportedly repeatedly warned Natanyahu that his government's legal reforms were emboldening Israel's enemies and increasing the likelihood of war."
 
When Netanyahu addressed the nation after the Hamas attack - explaining that this was Israel's "second war of independence".  "In other words, Israel has no choice but to win.  Netanyahu defined victory as rescuing the hostages, destroying Hamas as a military and political entity and preventing it or any other terror group from rising in Gaza ever again."
 
"Three days later, in his first public remarks since Oct 7, Haliva rejected Natanyahu's description of the war as an existential conflict.  Speaking to graduates of the Intelligence Corps officer training course, Haliva insisted, "It's a war we have no choice but to fight.  It isn't an existential war."  An existential war is a war fighting for your country's very existence."
 
The article states, "An intelligence chief who publicly rejects the government's characterization of a war, whose poor professional judgment let to catastrophe and who has a history of contemptuous insubordination simply cannot be trusted to act in accordance with the government's directives."
 
"Oct 7 was not prevented because many people in positions of responsibility failed the people of Israel."  "In most cases, it is probably reasonable to wait until after the war to part ways with them."
 
"Haliva however, needs to go. Now."
 
My thought on this is - how many others new what Haliva was doing?  I really doubt all of this comes down to mainly one man.  There are many enemies of the Jewish state, of Bibi's government, and there may even be some who want a two-state solution high up in the IDF, the Israeli Intelligence, the Israeli government.  I do not see Haliva acting alone on 'dismissing' this intelligence.  I see this as purposeful - not incompetence.
 
I don't know who is responsible for putting him in this position as Director - but they'll need to be ferreted out also.  Netanyahu can read these articles and watch the Israeli News too.  This hasn't escaped him.
 
The Jerusalem Post is reporting that the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate Chief Aharon Haliva is out.  At some point, he is to resign.  Haliva said, "Already that morning (Oct 7) I understood that it was over...After the war is over I will have to go."  
 
"Now, all that remains for Haliva is to figure out when he intends to retire, whether it be after Israel officially announces the end of the war, or before there is any sort of permanent ceasefire and the army switches to a method of raid operations only."
Military Intelligence Directorate head to resign due to Oct. 7 massacre, takes responsibility
 
One down (hopefully soon) and how many more to go?  And Finkelman sounds like some of the highers ups in our military - more concerned about correct pronouns than fighting and winning a war.
 
And I see that according to Haliva, it's his directorate that will investigate this - "we will investigate, in the deepest and most comprehensive way, and draw the conclusions." 
 
Uh, oh.  He'll cover up any 'outside' influence for sure.  Will the truth come out  - or will this be like Bush's "9/11 Commission" for the American people? - so much was redacted/blacked out there was really nothing to read - all we knew was what the MSM and White House told us.
 
How deep are Biden/Blinken involved with Haliva? - they want Bibi gone - they want his government gone.  They want to destroy Israel.  US Intelligence had to see something was up...but they work for Biden et al.
 
Israel has their traitors too.
 
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
 
Maranatha!
 
Chance