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Speaker 1: As the war between Israel and Hamas enters its second month,

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Speaker 1: nothing is certain, but even as we look forward to

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Speaker 1: the end of this conflict, its origins have a lot

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Speaker 1: to tell the world. The latest revelation comes from New

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Speaker 1: York Times reporters Ronan Bergmann and Adam Goldman, reporting from

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Speaker 1: failure that, if acted upon, may have stopped this war

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Speaker 1: before it even began. Bergmann and Goldman have discovered that

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Speaker 1: Israeli intelligence had Hamas's battle plan for October seventh in

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Speaker 1: hand nearly a year before the attack. In this episode,

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Speaker 1: they outlined the intelligence Israel had and when they had it.

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Speaker 1: They also provide insightful analysis of how a threat like

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Speaker 1: this could be dismissed as imaginary and what this grave

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Speaker 1: misstep means for not only this conflict, but Israel's idea

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Speaker 1: of itself in the larger world. Ronan, I know when

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Speaker 1: you first started asking your sources within Israel's intelligence community

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Speaker 1: they were telling the truth.

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Speaker 2: Some of the WS some of them, I'm not sure.

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Speaker 2: And this is also this almost spontaneous, immediate sort of

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Speaker 2: So I started to think maybe the middle is too

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Speaker 2: that there was no deliberate hiding of information that could

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Speaker 2: At the end, this will take the lives of many,

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Speaker 2: responsibility and said that when this is over, I mean

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Speaker 2: the war is over, they will conclude, they will come

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Speaker 2: to the conclusions, which in Israel in Hebrew means they

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Speaker 2: time that things that happened, that signs were not interpreted

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Speaker 2: not accessing the right places in Hamas, But to admit

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Speaker 1: Ronin not long after those initial conversations began, you started

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Speaker 1: hearing stories about the existence of something called the email

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Speaker 2: So this story is taking place mainly in something called

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Speaker 2: Unit eight two hundred. That's the biggest, one single unit

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Speaker 2: If there is an expectation that Israeli intelligence would bring

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Speaker 2: that the creative strike from the enemy's coming, it's mainly

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Speaker 1: So this very elite group of Israeli intelligence officials, military

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Speaker 3: Well, I believe in July of this summer, this veteran

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Speaker 1: And this was in July, Adam. And in this thread, Ronan,

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Speaker 2: She just said, it's incomplete overlap with Jericho Wolves. Was

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Speaker 1: We have to take a quick break, and then Ronan

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Speaker 1: and Adam will share more context and details about Jericho

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Speaker 1: Adam Goldman of The New York Times. So Jericho Wall

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Speaker 3: Well, it's by understanding that dating back years, Israel had

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Speaker 3: An invasion blueprint. Like I said, I imagine it is

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Speaker 3: The Jericho Wall is the Jerusalem Wall. It's literally a

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Speaker 3: Israel had a massed around the.

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Speaker 4: Gossars trip Ronan.

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Speaker 1: The report was meticulously detailed in terms of its knowledge

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Speaker 4: How did they know all this?

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Speaker 2: Some of that clearly does not come from open media,

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Speaker 2: just the intelligence, but how the intelligence is translated into

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Speaker 2: Would the first location be the division headquarters in the Inn.

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Speaker 2: All of that done at the same time when power

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Speaker 2: All of that create intelligence and operational folk to the

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Speaker 2: sad Koman in Central Kouman realized what was happening, Adam.

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Speaker 1: How many people knew about this forty page document? For example,

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Speaker 1: So you're saying it was a very small circle of

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Speaker 3: Part of the plan was using deception and surprise. They

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two. This was not hidden from anyone,

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Speaker 2: though very hard to measure, has also these same scenes,

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Speaker 2: blunder fifty years and a day before October seventh, vanity hubris,

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Speaker 2: stupid to perform strategic deception. And it's unbelievable how much

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Speaker 2: many similarities there are between those two fists.

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Speaker 1: Not only that, but I know, Adam, you've compared it

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Speaker 1: to the intelligence failure that preceded nine to eleven. Do

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Speaker 1: lack of communication? I mean, how do you see these

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Speaker 3: They have a few things in common. One is that

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Speaker 3: nine to eleven wasn't a failure of intelligence collection, right,

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Speaker 3: nine to eleven was a failure of imagination, like the Americans,

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Speaker 3: like the Israelis, had developed information that al Qaida was

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Speaker 3: But there was a lack of urgency and a.

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Speaker 2: There are three main reasons for the failures. The first

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Speaker 2: Israel thought all of that as a very good sign.

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Speaker 2: Even that analyst she said, what I'm saying is not imminent.

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Speaker 1: You say the senior intelligence officer, the woman didn't think

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Speaker 2: And she expressed with a very clear and shock wards

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Speaker 1: When we come back more with Ronan and Adam about

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Speaker 1: Bergman and Adam Goldman of the New York Times, Do

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Speaker 1: either of you think sexism might have played a role

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Speaker 3: Well, there had been stories in the Israeli media about

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Speaker 3: parallel with the CIA and al Qaeda was zero dark thirty. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was zero dark thirty. And you know this intelligence

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Speaker 3: And let's remember that was essentially a hunch, right, there

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Speaker 3: I think the difference here with Israel is that she

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Speaker 3: And you know, Ronan has made a great point. It's

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Speaker 4: Gronan, Have you met with her at all?

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Speaker 2: No? No, No, she's an active duty non officer commander.

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Speaker 2: She cannot meet with journalists. But I think the tragedy

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Speaker 2: The tragedy is that it was left in the capsule

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Speaker 1: Well, it sounds to me that Israel was lulled into

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Speaker 2: They thought Hamas Sinua included, is more interested in being

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Speaker 1: You know, Hamas was obviously much more sophisticated militarily but

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Speaker 3: It was a grand deception plan and as I said,

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Speaker 1: Ronan, You've said that Israel got completely enchanted by the

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Speaker 1: Did that add to this false sense of security with

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Speaker 2: Together with two other colleagues, Markmzeediet the Patrick Kings League,

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Speaker 2: this is like, this is inconceivable, it's inbearable. They did

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Speaker 1: Don't need When all is said and done, how do

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Speaker 2: Look, everybody understand that in the second time, or fifty

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Speaker 2: It's going to take the resignation of the leaders of

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Speaker 2: other words, we will resign. This will go for a

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Speaker 2: very thorough investigation and re establishment of some of the

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Speaker 4: Adam, do you think net Yahoo is toast?

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Speaker 3: You know, many of Israelies have asked me what I think,

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Speaker 1: Well, gentlemen, Ronan Bergman and Adam Goldman, you all are

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Speaker 1: really kind to spend this time with me. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much, and keep us posted. I'm sure we're going

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Speaker 1: to be reading developments as this story evolves, and it

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Speaker 1: would be great if one day you could talk to

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Speaker 1: this woman v And actually, do you think that just

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Speaker 2: Ronan, No, I'm finding what positivits will.

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Speaker 3: I've tried to speak with Maya, She's not interested.

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Speaker 1: But you're right, there are some uncanny similarities between their stories,

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Speaker 1: except for, as you said, no one advocating for her

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Speaker 4: Well, gentlemen, thank you both so much. I really appreciate it.

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