Hasn’t that area been at war for hundreds of years?

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    1 year ago

    – attacks might not be new, but the scope is

    – Israel Intelligence is usually pretty good, but preparations must have been going on for months, involving thousands of people. How did they not figure something out.

    – there is a wall, military forces. This is heavily guarded, but that was completely ineffective

    – Israel has very good missile defense. Never before have they had the volume to overwhelm that defense

    – things had seemed peaceful lately, and Israel was trying to gain closer ties with some countries in the region