The war in Gaza is raging and taking many lives on both sides….and the world keeps asking how come Israel and all its resources did not see this coming….

How did the pull this off?

Ever hear of “Operation Mincemeat”?  (Look it up!  Google awaits!)

There is one story that could explain it….well partially…..

Two days after the stunning Hamas attack on Israel, the question remains: How did Israeli’s vaunted intelligence agency fail to see this coming? A story at Reuters provides one of the best explanations so far, with details from Hamas insiders familiar with the planning. For two years, Hamas leaders duped Israel into thinking it was weary of war and not looking for a fight, according to the story. Privately, however, the militant group trained its fighters all the while for the coordinated assault that took place over the weekend. Perhaps the most remarkable detail: “Hamas constructed a mock Israeli settlement in Gaza where they practiced a military landing and trained to storm it,” the report says. They even made videos of these training raids.

“Israel surely saw them, but they were convinced that Hamas wasn’t keen on getting into a confrontation,” says one of the outlet’s sources. In short, Hamas left the impression it was content living with the conditions imposed by Israel on Gaza, which included permits to let residents work in Israel or the West Bank. “This is a major failure,” says Yaakov Amidror, a former national security adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, per the AP. “This operation actually proves that the [intelligence] abilities in Gaza were no good.” One relatively simple way Hamas leaders kept their plans secret was by eschewing modern tech, says retired US Air Force Colonel Cedric Leighton, per Insider.

“What Hamas did, what their leadership did, was apparently they moved off of the normal modern communications links that we take for granted every day and went back to what you did in the 19th century: face-to-face meetings, they went and used couriers instead of going in and using the telephone or the cellphone,” he told CNN. As for the military plan itself, it involved an initial rocket barrage, accompanied by fighters on hang gliders who helped clear the way for commando units to breach the fortified wall that separates Gaza from Israeli settlements, per Reuters. Bulldozers then widened the breaches, allowing more fighters to enter in trucks. The last part of the plan involved moving hostages from Israel back into Gaza.

One question answered.

While I do not support HAMAS at all….I can say clever rouse.

Since this began there has been much said about Iran being behind this attack….and now the IDF has weighed in on this situation and Iran.

Israeli officials said they had no evidence that Iran was involved in the Hamas attack on southern Israel after a report from The Wall Street Journal claimed Iranian officials helped plot the operation.

“We have no evidence or proof” that Iran was involved, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Maj. Nir Dinar told POLITICO. Dinar left open the possibility that Tehran was linked to the attack, saying, “Just because you don’t have that evidence doesn’t necessarily mean Iran isn’t behind it.”

Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, another IDF spokesman, made similar comments. “Iran is a major player, but we can’t yet say if it was involved in the planning or training,” Hagari said.

You can bet this piece info will not make it into the reporting.

I am sure there will be more info coming out and I will be watching.

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