9 October, 2023 by Eric Dunkelberger

For the last two and a half days, the terrorist organization Hamas has been attacking Israel by air, land and sea. Israel has been subject to rocket attacks for years, but the current assault is much more coordinated. Behind the scenes, Iran has been preparing Hamas for this for a month or so. Apparently, they gave the terrorists the green light a week ago. Saturday morning, on the Sabbath and on the last day of Sukkot (Festival of Booths) celebrations, Hamas left Gaza for Israeli settlements and kibbutzim. They attacked civilians, men, women and children. They kidnapped, raped, tortured and humiliated them. Many were brutally murdered. Estimates are over 700 Israeli victims murdered with more than 1,100 wounded. It is thought that between 150-200 have been kidnapped, taken back to Gaza as hostages.

Horrific as the above is, there are questions that must be answered. Where were the vaunted intelligence agencies? Gathering intelligence is, or should be, the lifeblood of Israel. Historically,, prior to the six Days War in 1967, Israel had the information of exactly what time on what day the surrounding Arab forces would launch their attack against her. They knew the Arab air fields had positioned decoy aircraft and exactly where they were located on the fields! They had detailed plans of Golan Heights fortifications. They had human assets in place in higher government positions in several enemy countries.

When the Yom Kippur War began in 1973 ( 6 October, 1973, 50 years and a day before Hamas’ recent attack), Israel was caught unawares. She was warned of the imminent attack by several foreign agencies, including the CIA, but they disregarded the information until the Egyptian army and air force actually attacked! They lost ground for a couple of days until their forces could be mustered to repel the invaders. Ultimately, the Egyptians, Syrians, Jordanians and the other Arab nations paid a heavy toll, as did the Israelis. After the war ended, heads rolled in the Israeli intelligence community.

Why was the intelligence community caught so off guard? It was only a month or so after the Biden Administration released $6 Billion to Iran, despite warnings that the money would be used to fund terror! Hamas leaders give credit to the Iranian leadership for their recent attack. On Saturday alone, over 5,000 rockets were launched from Gaza into Israeli civilian areas, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Who dropped the ball on gathering information? Come on, man. Follow the money!

As Americans, we must ask the same questions. Was our CIA too busy gathering information on our own citizens to have noticed what was going on? Our State Department seemed unaware. What about those millions of people flooding across our Southern border? Our DHS has told us that they know of some foreign terrorists that have crossed. How many of them have ties to Hamas or Iran or any of the numerous others who hate America? How long before we suffer a similar assault here. Let’s face it; Iran hates America as much as they hate Israel! They aren’t finished. They’ve only just begun!