Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out.
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There’s got to be a corollary to Hanlon’s Razor that applies to politics:
Always attribute to malice that which cannot be more easily explained by incompetence.
That’s a much, much better aphorism than Hanlon’s razor.