State Comptroller’s Hindsight Calls for More Foresight
CANDID COMMENTARY State Comptroller Joseph Shapira has a lot to say about what went wrong in Gaza (Photo: Flash90)
I sraelis just wouldn’t be satisfied unless they could roll out of bed in the morning take their daily shot of espresso and turn on the news to hear the day’s political drama. This week was no exception.
State Comptroller Joseph Shapira released his oft-delayed heavily redacted report criticizing both the decision-making process and performance of Israel’s political and military echelons during Operation Protective Edge the 50-day military campaign in Gaza in 2014.
The report was one of Israel’s worst-kept secrets. Once Shapira handed Netanyahu and members of his security cabinet a preliminary draft last March the report sprang leaks pouring forth allegations that Netanyahu and his former defense minister Moshe Yaalon hid the full severity of the threat posed by cross-border tunnels dug by Hamas. The comptroller also leveled charges of serious failures in intelligence operations and procedures that combined to produce a stalemate with the terror group despite Israel’s superior military forces.
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