Show Notes
In this latest Conflicted Conversation, Thomas talks with Yaakov Katz, the former editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post and co-author of While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East.
Yaakov explains:
October 7 intelligence failure and Israel’s missed warnings
Hamas’s ‘Jericho Walls’ plan and ignored Unit 8200 alerts
The Israeli conceptzia: why leaders believed Hamas was deterred
Netanyahu’s Gaza containment strategy and Qatari money policy
Hamas as a political asset against Palestinian statehood
Israel’s overreliance on technology, SIGINT and border barriers
Unit 504, HUMINT failure and the absence of agents in Gaza
Gaza’s tunnel network and Hamas’s hidden underground military city
Operation Guardian of the Walls and Israel’s exaggerated ‘Metro’ success
Netanyahu’s responsibility, Israeli division and the post–October 7 media war
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