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Israel failed to read Palestinian intentions before October 7
Image credit: Shehab Wire (EN)
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October 7 represented not merely a sudden security and intelligence collapse, but a deeper breakdown in how Israeli institutions had assessed Palestinians for years, Shehab Wire reported. Israeli political and security establishments had built their assessments on assumptions that proved fundamentally flawed.
The attack exposed a systemic failure in Israeli threat perception. The institutional frameworks that shaped Israeli decision-making operated on premises about Palestinian behavior that did not account for the actual trajectory of events.
