The Hamas operation in Gaza proved US National Security Advisor’s assessment of the situation in the Middle East were wrong
A week that turned the scene upside down, and proved the miscalculations of the US administration regarding the situation in the Middle East.
In just eight days, the scene was turned upside down, and the dramatic developments in Gaza proved the gravity of the mistake made by US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
Last week, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan confirmed to The Atlantic magazine that the many positive developments that took place in the Middle East region allowed the administration of US President Joe Biden to focus on other regions and different problems.
He also stressed that the Middle East is calmer today than it was two decades ago.
However, the surprise attack carried out by the Palestinian factions at dawn yesterday, Saturday, undoubtedly surprised Sullivan, just as it surprised the Israeli forces.
This prompted many critics on social media to re-share the video of the National Security Advisor, considering that he made a grave mistake in reading the scene and assessing developments in the Middle East.
While a number of analysts believed that the recent developments that took place during the past hours would later put the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has always prided himself on the strong control of security in the country, in a very embarrassing position.
They also considered that these dramatic events also proved that some officials in the US administration are unaware most of the time, or do not anticipate or read properly the signals in some sensitive Middle Eastern issues.
Former Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy described the attack that took place on Saturday morning as sudden.
He said in TV statements that the Israeli forces hadn’t received any warning of any kind, describing the infiltration of members of the Palestinian factions into Israeli cities as a complete surprise.
He also added that Israel didn’t know that Hamas had this amount of missiles.
