In a recent interview, former defense minister Yoav Gallant offered a glimpse into the actions of the political and security leadership in the days and hours that preceded the October 7th massacre.
ed note–there are entire libraries of commentary that could accompany this, but in the interests of not over-burdening the already over-burdened Gentile attention span, we’ll keep it ‘short & sweet’ as the saying goes.
There is a slight, repeat, SLIGHT, possibility that there is some truth (possibly as much as a whopping 1%) in the assertion by the lizard-faced Gallant that he was kept ‘out of the loop’ in terms of ‘pre-intelligence’ involving the upcoming Oct. 7th attacks…
…But since he is a Jew and it is a fact as established as gravity itself that Jews are liars, as far as this discussion is concerned, we’ll never really know.
What we do know however is that the notion that the events of Oct. 7th ‘took them by surprise’ would be laughable were it not so apocalyptically dangerous.
Oct. 7th was THE event for which they, the ‘Children of Israel’ as they love to refer to themselves, have been waiting now for the last 3,000 years. It was the ‘big bang’ and the ‘divine spark’ that is predicted to usher in their ‘Moshiach’ (Messiah) and thus the ‘golden age’ of Jewish World Domination, and along with it, the complete conquest and subjugation of the Gentiles, to wit–
‘For the nation or people which will not bow down and serve you shall perish, they shall be utterly destroyed…’ Book of Isaiah
And yet, despite all of this, there are various ‘experts’ operating out there within the blabbosphere with rather LARGE audiences STILL claiming that Hamas ‘defeated’ Israel on that day, and that even now, in the aftermath of Israel’s complete destruction of Gaza and the mass murder of hundreds of thousands, that ‘Hamas won’.
Israel National News
Former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said in a recent interview that he was not informed in real time about the warning signs ahead of the October 7th massacre, offering a rare look into the decision-making failures at the highest levels.
In an interview with Channel 12, Gallant described what he called a ‘critical breakdown’ on the night of the invasion. ‘They did not alert the defense minister,’ he said. ‘They did not think the intelligence was important, and because of that, they did not alert me.’
According to Gallant, the lack of communication had operational consequences. ‘If I had been updated,’ he said, ‘I would have asked ‘Let’s assume the assessment is not correct, what are the active measures on the ground?”
He stressed that without early deployment based on intelligence warnings, even senior commanders have limited ability to respond once events are underway. ‘When forces are not pre-positioned, the Chief of Staff and the division commander have very limited ability to influence events in real time.’
At the same time, Gallant pushed back against claims that political leaders were simply passive recipients of partial information. He described a personal effort to independently assess the situation just days before the attack. ‘Ten days before October 7, during Sukkot, I decided to travel to the Gaza Strip region,’ he said. ‘They told me that the chief of staff and the division commander could not accompany me. I said, whoever is there should come. I stood and looked beyond the fence and asked, what’s happening?’
He said he urged troops on the ground not to rely exclusively on intelligence assessments. ‘I told them: look through binoculars, see what’s happening in the west, be vigilant,’ Gallant recalled.
Despite his criticism of the system, Gallant acknowledged his own responsibility and called for a state commission of inquiry. ‘There are ten ranks below the defense minister. To say ‘they didn’t tell me’ – that’s shifting the responsibility downward. Hamas began to grow stronger a decade ago. Everyone who held a senior position in those years must come and explain.’