OCT 7 WAS A “HUGE ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE FAILURE” Anderson Cooper and Ronen Bergman
December 9, 2023
This is an interview you should definitely watch.
CNN presenter Anderson Cooper interviews two Israeli investigative journalists who releaed a report in the Israeli media last week uncovering the failure of their intelligence bodies in preventing the Oct 7 attack by Hamas.
The journalists reveal how the IDF and Israeli officials had received plans from an informant detailing the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation, as Hamas, referred to it, including explicit details of how they would launch the attack, what weapons, how many men, the incursion points along the Jericho Wall and so many more details.
The conclusion as to why the Mossad, Shin Bet and military intelligence did not act on the information was that they didn’t believe Hamas was “there yet”. It was an “imaginary dream” that might happen in the future.
Only one intelligence officer, A WOMAN, warned that she believed Hamas was going to attack imminently. However, it appears the arrogance of the male psyche overruled her as hysterical and dismissed her as alarmist.
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English Script:
Anderson Cooper: Talk about what your team learned about this blueprint and the length of time that Israel had to review these plans and why it wasn’t listened to.
Ronen Bergman: So somewhere around along 2022, Israeli intelligence was able to get the plan for the Hamas attack. It was codenamed by Israeli intelligence, The Wall of Jericho, the Jericho Wall. And it details in many, many, many different details of how the attack is going to take place exactly as it took place more than a year after. This could be an intelligence victory for Israel. But Israeli analysts, they saw this as something that Hamas is far from being capable of doing. They believed that Hamas doesn’t have the ability to conduct such a massive operation. We are talking about, according to that plan, to break the fence between Gaza and Israel in 60 different places. Israel believe they could do that maybe in two places. They’d call for the bombing and destruction of the cameras instantly simultaneously the beginning of the attack of the cameras, the automatic guns, the communication centers, and then the ramping of the division headquarters, the Gaza division headquarters that is in charge of protecting the front.
In July of this year, so a year after an analyst that was reviewing intercepts about Hamas military exercises wrote a letter, an email, an exchange of email, encrypted email, she comes from 8200, the Israeli NSA, the equivalent to the American embassy. And she described the drill and she said that she believes that Hamas is narrowing the gap between the Wall of Jericho plan and its real capabilities. And there was a pushback from senior, most senior intelligence officer said, told her this is an imaginary plan. They cannot do that. And so here is the tragedy for Israeli intelligence, for Israeli public, instead of positioning. But if the Israeli defense establishment had the knowledge that Hamas is capable of launching such an attack, that would put a totally different size of forces on the border. The outcome would be very different.
Anderson Cooper: Also, according to your reporting, this analyst, this woman analyst, saw an exercise that Hamas undertook, a trial run and raised red flags, again, saying this looks very much like the Wall of Jericho plan that we had discussed before and again would seem to have been dismissed. As you know, the Israeli government posted online on X last month, quote, contrary to the false claims, under no circumstances and at no stage was Prime Minister Netanyahu warned of Hamas’s war intentions. They went on to say at no point was a warning given to Prime Minister Netanyahu on Hamas’s intention to start a war. On the contrary, all the defense officials, including the heads of the intelligence directorate and the Shin Bet, assess that Hamas was deterred. Do you know if the prime minister was in fact informed? Because it sounds like from your reporting that this document was was widely disseminated in intelligence and military circles?
Ronen Bergman:Yes. So we don’t know if Prime Minister Netanyahu was presented with this document. We do know and this comes from previous reporting that he was warned against, again and again and again and in details, at least in four different letters throughout the last year that the members of the so-called axis of resistance, Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, see Israeli weakness and they might decide to use what they believe a window of opportunity to attack.
Anderson Cooper: I mean, Brooke, as you know, intelligence officials, military officials have accepted responsibility.
Brooke: There was a huge intelligence failure. It’s not that it’s not true. There was a huge intelligence failure.
