| Israel is a very small country. It has the population and size of the Bay Area. Everyone is basically a 2nd or 3rd level connection. It has it's pros (eg. VC and Entrepreneurship is much easier because the barrier to entry is lower) but also it's cons (gossip flows very quickly, and it's fairly easy to unmask someone). This is also why the IDF is so ferocious in Gaza - everyone in Israel and the Diaspora either knows someone or is related to someone who died either on 10/7 or during the deployment (eg. I'm from the west coast yet an elementary school classmate of mine died in the Nova massacre, and a couple former coworkers were mobilized to Gaza because they had an infantry MOS back in the day) so there is no appetite for reconciliation. Also, most of 8200 basically leaves and joins the private sector after a couple years, and the younger guys (post-2010) seem to have sloppy opsec compared to the older ones, for example publicly listing that they are ex-8200 on LinkedIn or social media. The IDF, Shabak, Aman, and Mossad have all deteriorated severely since the 2000s, because the best and the brightest in Israel now have private sector options that pay way more and give you way more fame, instead of working as a relatively underpaid bureaucrat in a country just as expensive as the Bay Area. A similar trend is happening in Singapore as well, as almost all my A*STAR friends and classmates broke bond and naturalized in the US instead of returning. Only those whose families owned a house or a car returned (iykyk). |
Absolutely true. Never forget that the vicious attacks by Hamas were never leaked to the Israelis. The supposed spookiest spooks in the whole wide world didn't know about an attack being planned within their own borders.