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Israel Cannot Prevent Another October 7 if Netanyahu Keeps Rewriting the First One

From Jerusalem Post · () English

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Opinion Named sources Context piece
  • The opinion article argues that political leaders are distorting the record of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack to avoid responsibility for the security failures that preceded it.
  • It recalls Yair Lapid’s warning shortly before the attack that Israel faced an increasingly dangerous, multifront threat after receiving a security briefing.
  • The article criticizes Sara Netanyahu’s Channel 14 comments about Yair Golan, who went south on October 7 and helped rescue Israelis near the Supernova festival.

Three years before Hamas invaded Israel, Yair Lapid warned that the country was moving dangerously close to a violent, multifront confrontation. He said the warnings from the security establishment about Judea and Samaria were unprecedented, and that Israeli children and parents would pay the price. The warning came on September 20, 2023, just weeks before October 7.

Lapid later said he had received the warning signs during a regular security briefing for the opposition leader. The prime minister and his military secretary showed him some of the most sensitive intelligence held by Israel’s security establishment. As Lapid understood it, Israel’s enemies were watching the divisions over the government’s judicial overhaul. They saw a society weakened by internal conflict and believed an opportunity might be opening.

Two and a half weeks later, Hamas invaded. Israeli soldiers went into Gaza, Jenin and eventually Lebanon, while civilians ran to shelters and safe rooms. The author argues that this history should be examined honestly, especially as October 7 becomes a central issue in the campaign for the next election.

We are getting dangerously close to a violent, multifront confrontation. According to reports from the security establishment, the number of warnings in Judea and Samaria is unprecedented.

· Yair LapidLapid issued the warning to the public on September 20, 2023, after a security briefing.

Instead, the article says, members of the governing coalition are trying to manipulate or rewrite the disaster in order to deflect criticism and escape responsibility. It points to Sara Netanyahu’s recent interview with Channel 14, in which she sought to damage the reputation of Yair Golan, leader of the Democrats Party. Golan, a former deputy IDF chief of staff, put on his uniform on the morning of the attack, drove south and helped rescue Israelis near the Supernova music festival.

The article presents Golan as a flawed politician who has made outrageous statements and appears disconnected from his party’s domestic agenda. But it rejects the suggestion that he is a villain or traitor. Its central warning is that Israel cannot learn from October 7, or prevent another such catastrophe, while its leaders continue to rewrite the failures that made the massacre possible.

The ones who will pay the price are our children, who will once again have to enter the Jenin refugee camp, once again go into Gaza, and perhaps once again into Lebanon.

· Yair LapidLapid warned that Israeli families would bear the consequences of a widening security confrontation.
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Originally published by Jerusalem Post in English. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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