"..devotion to what Israeli analysts call the intelligence community’s "conceptsia". This is the Hebrew term given to the overarching strategic narrative about the conditions holding between Israel and Hamas. [It] held that Hamas had, for the foreseeable future, been .. deterred.."
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The Hebrew word mechdal
has no precise equivalent in English.
It signifies a great catastrophe
for which human beings are responsible
by inaction, error, or irresponsibility.
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The Yom Kippur War of 1973,
which began when an unprepared IDF
was taken by surprise by simultaneous
Syrian and Egyptian attacks,
has often been referred to as a mechdal.
The October 7, 2023, attack
was an even greater mechdal.
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