Dark.

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Dark as in: silent, quiet, secretive, uncommunicative, closemouthed. Dark.

"Israel prided itself over surveillance. Then, Hamas outmaneuvered by… going dark"

From Bloomberg |Oct 10, 2023 | via https://www.hindustantimes.com

"Israel’s intelligence services have a reputation as some of the world’s most sophisticated."

"Facing one of the most sophisticated surveillance states on the planet, Hamas simply went dark."

It seems that all the Israeli intelligence agencies just downright missed any indicators of the most recent Hamas attack, Israel proper. Mossad, Aman, Shin Bet, Unit 8200. All of them.

Hamas went dark? Eschewed the traditionally used and conventional means of communication such landline telephone, smart phone, ordinary walkie-talkie type radio, Internet messenger? Dark as Hamas no longer can be heard. Impenetrable and opaque.

MERELY GOING "DARK" BY ITSELF SHOULD HAVE BEEN A TIP-OFF TO THE ISRAELI THAT SOMETHING MAJOR WAS AFOOT? A HIGHER STATE OF ALERT WAS WARRANTED!!

Intelligence failure to some extent perhaps too a result of an elaborate deception plan as foisted on the ordinarily wary and watchful Israeli by Hamas? See the appreciations of Edward Luttwak in this regard.

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