How Hamas reached Israel’s Kfar Aza kibbutz

How Hamas reached Israel’s Kfar Aza kibbutz - Anshel Pfeffer

• Hamas owed its operational success to having studied for years every possible chink in Israel’s armor

"...The event that was mentioned most often was Israel’s previous intelligence failure at the start of the Yom Kippur War, exactly fifty years ago. 

Other military debacles that came up were Pearl Harbor, 9/11 and the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam.
...All had many points in common that are worth considering, but there is one major difference between those historic episodes and what happened on the Israel/Gaza border...

• The military wing of the radical Islamist movement is based on local battalions, each drawing its members from the same neighborhood or town. 
• And their targets were the Israelis living in kibbutzim (traditional agriculture-based Israeli communes) and small towns just across the border...