Bibi and the IDF screwed the pooch massively on this and heads need to roll, if only for “healing” when all is said and done (and Gaza is a smoldering crater and an example of ethnic cleansing that The West sort of cared about).

But what I will say is this: You get reports like this CONSTANTLY. For any terrorist or military attack, there will be at least ten instances of “This analyst said this was coming and nobody listened”. In part because you fundamentally cannot respond to every possible threat… without preemptively attacking and wiping out an entire city/country/continent. But also? Plans change. Deliveries come late, equipment has malfunctions, etc. Sometimes that means you delay and sometimes that means you lead an airborne assault that involves waving down trucks to escape in because your helicopters all shit the bed.

We saw similar with COVID. Everyone loses their minds when they see that an author or a TV show “predicted COVID”. Sometimes they even get the year right (ignoring that 2020 is a popular year for other reasons). A lot of that has to do with an understanding of how fragile the world’s medical systems actually are. And it is that we have had pandemics before. And what is conveniently ignored are all the cases where it was supposed to happen in 2010 or 2030 or whatever. The answer isn’t “Wow, so and so must be clairvoyant!”. It is “Hey, this is a known danger that we might be running into again just a few years later. Maybe we should try preventative actions to reduce the overall impact?”