Intelligence failures and the war in Gaza

Blaming this on Netanyahu’s divisive politics doesn’t tell the whole story, but there are still more questions than answers.

At the time of writing the full scale and impact of Hamas’s attack on Israel is still only partly clear - nearly 1,000 Israelis may have been killed, a large number of them youngsters attending a rave close to the border with the Gaza Strip. There may be hundreds of Israeli hostages now dispersed through Gaza, the world’s most densely populated area, …