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by JumpCrisscross on Thursday October 02, 2025 @05:44PM
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We still don't have a comprehensive map of Hamas' tunnel systems. I think you're overestimating the degree to which 2 million people can be surveilled.
Perhaps not, but it doesn't help when Israel demonstrates with pretty high frequency the ability to precisely target things, but then goes and drops a couple of 2000 pound bombs on a refugee camp. Or claim they know precisely how many hamas fighters have been killed but have no idea how many civilians have been killed.
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by JumpCrisscross on Thursday October 02, 2025 @06:17PM
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Oh sure. I'm just saying that yes, it's overwhelmingly plausible that Israel missed October 7th because Netanyahu was distracted with his court-overhaul gambit.
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by unethical_ban on Friday October 03, 2025 @05:44AM
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But they didn't come through via tunnels? They used bulldozers and hang-gliders to go above ground.
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by JumpCrisscross on Friday October 03, 2025 @03:12PM
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> they didn't come through via tunnels? They used bulldozers and hang-gliders to go above ground
And the 9/11 terrorists used planes.
Unless there were literally zero unusual bulldozer and hang-glider citings ever made in Gaza, it shouldn't take that much imagination to see how the three thousandth one gets put to the side.
You had a heavily fortified military DMZ between the massive surveillance and military state of Israel and Hamas flying in with kites, bulldozers, and motorcycles. I hope it was merely a massive failure due to arrogance and misallocation of resources, because a plausible alternative is sadly realistic and believable.