Shaiel Ben-Ephraim
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Apr
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But at the time there's so many threats, that doesn't necessarily stand out to you as the biggest threat.
It's only in retrospect.
And Israel, traditionally,
looked at Hamas as sort of a Mickey Mouse adversary.
Hezbollah, they saw as much more dangerous.
Iran is the number one threat.
And the border in the West Bank is much more porous, and you have all the settlements there, so it's much harder to defend.
Gaza, meanwhile, seems contained.
So at the time, it looked like the easiest border to defend and the scenario that seemed the least threatening.
And therefore, in retrospect, the amount of troops you had there and the seriousness with which some of these alarms were taken were pathetic.
But it's easy to say that in retrospect.
So there's two elements here.
There's the fact that there were other threats, but there's also the fact that Netanyahu had used Hamas
to achieve a lot of his political goals they were they're a useful tool for him his goal is to avoid having a two-state solution to avoid having negotiations for peace and his best partner in that is hamas or was hamas right so having them remain strong and a threat but not too strong
was his professed strategy up to that point.
And I think what happened is he ended up getting burned by a threat that he tried to keep on a relatively low flame.
They turned out to be much stronger.
Control the height of the flame, right?
Exactly.
Yeah.
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