Charles,

Thanks for the reply.

Studied and read Sun Tzu's The Art of War three times.

Apologies for the paraphrase:

Encourage your enemy to attack you where (and when) you appear most weak.

Who was asleep at the wheel of Israel's massive intelligence failure is not the only mystery.

Rather, even if someone hasn't read Tzu or Machiavelli, or Von Clausewitz, or of Hitler's use of German soldiers in Polish uniforms to bring about an invasion in 1939, and is stunned by Israeli failures, there must be some kind of gut response to the hours and hours it took to respond, let alone ignore the vast amount of intelligence.

And that's to say nothing of the Hannibal Directive, and the damage Apache helicopters, and tanks, meted out to hostages and their prey on that horrible day.

So, since Sun Tzu wrote that 'All war is deception', then the attack on Oct. 7th falls under that definition.

And as disconcerting as it must be, Israelis must look to their current leaders for the world-wide condemnation of the resulting Israeli war crimes.

TI must add these war crimes are not Jewish war crimes.

By most appearances, Oct. 7th looks like a stand down, and therefore an excuse to ethnically cleanse Gaza, steal more land from the West Bank, and keep a Prime Minister from jail while ensuring that there is never a two state solution.