Dr. Michael Milstein from Tel Aviv University’s Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and former Head of the Palestinian Department for IDF intelligence discusses the misunderstandings Israeli military leaders and policymakers have about Hamas, emphasizing that Hamas is a persistent force.

The recent Hamas assault on Israel, reminiscent of the 1973 Yom Kippur war, caught Israeli intelligence off guard and exposed flaws in the Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) doctrine.