
Episode notes
Over Yossi Alpher's desk hangs a parchment the Mossad gave him, quoting Ezekiel: if the watchman sees the sword coming and doesn't blow the trumpet, he answers for the blood. Why do surprise attacks succeed when the warnings are already there? Daniella and Yossi Alpher trace the pattern from Pearl Harbor and the Yom Kippur War of 1973, to October 7 and the flydubai co-pilot who attacked his captain on the way to Tel Aviv. Yossi, who worked on early warning in the Mossad, explains why 99 percent of what reaches an analyst is noise, how the belief that Qatari money had bought off Hamas drowned out the signal, and why Golda Meir acknowledged King Hussein's warning in 1973 while Netanyahu says he was never warned about October 7.
Keywords
Gaza
Hamas
Oman
Egypt
UAE
Mossad
Netanyahu
October 7
Golda
