Giora Eiland

Retired Israeli General Eiland identifies pre-October 7 intelligence failures and calls for U.S. guarantees before any Syria withdrawal.

Former Major General and former head of Israel's National Security Council, Giora Eiland, spoke Tuesday at the People of the State conference, organized under the banner of a prominent news outlet.

Eiland said a foundational policy error dating to 2007, which he linked to the October 7th attack, was based on an inaccurate understanding of Gaza that persisted to the present.

He argued that by 2007, Gaza had defined borders and authority collecting taxes and coordinated public health, education, and sanitation systems.

He says Gaza is a concentration camp on the sand, if you will.

2004, Giora Eiland, the head of Israel's National Security Council.

Now he's Jewish.

He's Israeli.

Um, but then there was the failure on the day of to respond in time.

Giora Eiland, former Israeli major general, um, has said that by 10:00 AM there were more IDF forces in the south than there were Hamas forces.

But an organized response only really begins to coalesce, uh, around one o'clock.

So my question to you is, why? Why was there so much chaos? What could have been done differently? Was Netanyahu in charge on that day? Um, this one question that has made up maybe a third of all campaign videos on both sides, what is your take on it?

This assessment, highlighted in recent reports, points to significant internal vulnerabilities.

Meanwhile, former National Security Advisor Giora Eiland has identified key failures that led to the October seventh attacks, emphasizing that neither intelligence nor military assessments fully prevented the catastrophe.

Domestically, reports also mention an incident in Modi'in where the arrest of a deserter led to a violent siege on military police soldiers.

In regional developments, reports indicate a significant shift regarding the Houthis.