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Israel's reckoning with itself

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James Robins
Oct 07, 2024
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Lebanon, 1982

IF THERE IS ONE institution which failed most catastrophically one gruesome year ago, it is Unit 2800: the IDF’s secretive intelligence corps. Months before October 7, detailed assessments of Hamas planning were circulating the arteries of the spy system; no one paid any notice.

But back in the 1950s, one of the unit’s early officers was Sa…

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