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Brilliant 4D chess move by Yossi Sariel: he's cleverly feigning a mistake, aiming to exit his role without formally resigning. This "mistake" provide his superi
by draugadrotten 3y ago
Brilliant 4D chess move by Yossi Sariel: he's cleverly feigning a mistake, aiming to exit his role without formally resigning. This "mistake" provide his superiors with a pretext for his departure, all while sidestepping the events of October 7.
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- Sebb767 3y agoGiven his position, is revealing his identity really that great of a move for an uneventful retirement? The reduction in personal security (given that many people might want revenge on him or extract information) seems like a bad trade.
- coldtea 3y agoHe already explicitly wanted to publish the book with his actual initials. It would have been quite easy for adversaries with just general public information to get from the initials to the person, right? So perhaps revealing the full name doesn't make much of a difference, which is why it could just as well have been "accidental" (quotes intented).
- lm2s 3y agoBut the book was released 3 years ago? He made this mistake on purpose 3 years ago to have some way of exiting his role without having to resign?
- timdiggerm 3y agoBut not until very recently did a publication suddenly "discover" this
- hgomersall 3y agoAh, but how do you know it was published 3 years ago? Did you buy a copy then, or are you just relying on Amazon telling you so?
- Qiu_Zhanxuan 3y agoi think he was being sarcastic
- llm_trw 3y agoThis is why it's 4d chess. Your linear perception of time is why you're not the Israeli intelligence chief.
- coldtea 3y agoEspecially since the book was publicly meant to be released using his initials YS in the first place. It's not like he really wanted to keep this a secret.
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- coldtea 3y agoHuh? It just reads as very basic conjecture about the motives of a public move. If Israel is like any other country when such things happen, there should be lots of articles in their press wondering the same thing.
- gnulinux996 3y agoIt seems to me that any blunder can be described as "brilliant 4D chess move" by those insisting that they did not mess up and it is us who do not see the game. Based on the events that have been taking place from October 7, neither party is capable for any form of strategizing. Let alone "brilliant 4D chess moves".
- TheFreim 3y ago> This "mistake" provide his superiors with a pretext for his departure, all while sidestepping the events of October 7. I am not convinced that the Mossad, a competent intelligence agency from what I have read, did not actually know what was going to happen. The October 7th attack gave a perfect political justification for wiping out as much of Gaza as possible.
- myth_drannon 3y agoRead the article from Maariv that is linked in the parent article. Quite eye-opening. The plans were known for two years, but the hubris blinded them. Another recent, very painful article is this one - https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/2024-04-04/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/0000018e-a379-d315-ab9f-aff98d4b0000 https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/2024-04-04/ty-article-mag...
- aardvarkr 3y agoPolitely letting you know that it’s spelled quite, not quiet , so that you can learn from this. The English language can be really dumb
- PhasmaFelis 3y agoYeah. Many people in the Israeli government have been quite explicit about wanting to wipe out all Palestinians. They're not trying to hide it.
- dragonwriter 3y agoMany people in the Israeli government have been quite explicit about Hamas’s actions being useful to them as a pretext for doing so, too. So, while I am not arguing that is is the case, it is not at all implausible (especially if the underjudged the scale or likely impact of the attack) that they might allow an unusual attack that was likely to be pretextually useful to occur to provide an excuse to bring the hammer down, even before considering the specific, personal pressures on Netanyahu and how he might view an excuse for a justified war as a means to deflect them.
- smt88 3y agoWhy would he want to look like an idiot when he could just resign and become a civilian? He could even go full Snowden if he wanted to.
- rchaud 3y agoThe real 4D chess, is in writing a thought leadership manual for computerized mass murder occurring right now, and being able to extricate yourself from any responsibility by just resigning.
- mikrotikker 3y agoIf you looks at the deaths per bomb dropped it shows you the amount of restraint that Israel is exhibiting and that it is not at all a mass murder. It's just war.
- rchaud 3y agoHow many countries have been at war with their neighbour for 75 years post-WW2? How many wars have a body count that's tilted 20:1 in favour of the stronger side? "It's just war" might win you glibness points online. Just be careful not to use it when referencing say, attacks on Warsaw ghettoes in the 1940s. After all, anybody there could have been part of the resistance, could they not? "Deaths per bomb dropped" was probably somewhere in the Nuremberg defense lawyer's arsenal, but left out because the Allies could just point to the mass starvation that was directly related to bombing. Plus ca change....
- mikrotikker 3y agoBe careful not to pull a muscle with all that reaching.