Agree.
Blame can be cast in lots of directions without any direct connection. I recall, during Katrina, hearing that BUSH WAS INFORMED THE LEVEES WERE GOING TO BE OVERTOPPED1111.
Point being, of course, to get the irrational haters to think….what? Bush should have grabbed a shovel and a couple of sand bags? Didn’t matter. I knew people who recited it as if it proved Bush’s failures.

Everything except what is objectively impossible is possible, even if not very probable.

However, IF (big if) the “high-ranking military and intelligence officials ” keeping silent about the warnings, even the imminent-action ones, wanted Netanyahu to appear indifferent to attacks by Hama and give them some ammunition against him; and IF they assessed the likelihood of the alleged plans and practices to be unlikely to generate any more danger than the usual attacks; and IF they thought they could contain any damage to an acceptable level (how many dead and wounded are acceptable to make a Leftist omelet?); THEN they might have done what we now know (and were pretty sure about in 2023) that they did for that reason.

That they are not taking responsibility for any of their own dereliction on 10/7 is still despicable, no matter what their motives were at the time; more so if the hypothetical above is generally true.

A few years ago I would have dismissed immediately such callous disregard for the people they had the duty to protect; lately, not so much.

Malley founded the international crisis center that directed the khashoggi ap they were brethren even though one is jewish the other arab

It’s not a strawman. Since I don’t read minds, I presented it as a possibility of what some might mean by “we”, and you might notice I offered more than one. Even if you don’t, every word written is up there for everyone to read. It’s not an oral conversation where you can lie about people say and get away with it.

Did you get that from your unimpeachable reddit talk forums?

Strawman much? If you’ve wasted your time and effort tracking things I’ve said in comments from weeks ago, then the lie is pretty obviously intentional. But you’re not the only stalker I have who does this, and you’re doing me no harm. The mean girl thing is just not a good look for grown ups, in my opinion, and the slang really is a bit dated.

At any rate I’m not an Israeli, or a leftist, and I’m hence not part of Israel’s leftist problem. If there’s anything you can think of I can do about Israel’s leftists, I’ll be delighted to hear about it.