It is, perhaps, too early to have a full picture of what led to the recent Hamas attack on Israeli villages close to Gaza.
One thing, however, is certain: the attack came when and where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet least expected.
But why? One answer adopted by Netanyahu’s team is “a failure of intelligence services”.
However, that answer, even if it contains a grain of truth, could not divert attention from a bigger failure: the Israeli leaders’ inability to correctly analyze the intelligence at their disposal and, and having bought into what looks like a ruse by Hamas, to imagine a worst-case scenario.
