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REVIEW: ‘While Israel Slept’

JL;DR SUMMARY In their book "While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East," authors Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot explore the strategic and intelligence failings of Israel that led to Hamas's unexpected attack on October 7, 2023. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HamasNetanyahuOctober 7 AttackTunnel NetworksSecurity StrategyPolitical PrioritiesIntelligence FailingsMilitary OversightCommission Of Inquiry

Places mentioned

Israel
"In the past two years, Israel demonstrated its formidable military and intelligence prowess by dismantling Hezbollahs threat from Lebanese territory and conducting what appears to be a successful strike against Irans nuclear program."
Lebanon
"In the past two years, Israel demonstrated its formidable military and intelligence prowess by dismantling Hezbollahs threat from Lebanese territory and conducting what appears to be a successful strike against Irans nuclear program."
Iran
"In the past two years, Israel demonstrated its formidable military and intelligence prowess by dismantling Hezbollahs threat from Lebanese territory and conducting what appears to be a successful strike against Irans nuclear program."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"when Hamas managed to infiltrate Israel, massacre some 1,200 people and take hundreds of hostages back into Gaza?"
Jerusalem, Israel
"Journalists Yaakov Katz, former editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post, and Amir Bohbot, military and defense correspondent for Walla, a leading Israeli news website, are well positioned with their expertise and relationships with key insiders to provide us with an authoritative narrative of what went wrong."
Palestinian Territories
"The authors also point out that from the very beginning, Netanyahu saw Hamass existence as a useful counterweight to Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority."
Nahal Oz, Southern District, Israel
"Israeli officials waved off warnings of unusual and menacing activity in Gaza that came from various sources, including from Nahal Ozs tatzpitaniyot (Hebrew for observers)female IDF soldiers assigned to maintain surveillance at the border."

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