An aerial picture shows the abandoned site of the attack on the Supernova desert music festival by Hamas terrorists near Kibbutz Reim, in the Negev desert in southern Israel, on Oct. 10, 2023. Hamas gunmen killed around 270 revellers who were attending an outdoor rave music festival in an Israeli community near Gaza at the weekend, a volunteer who helped collect the bodies said on Oct. 9. Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images
Hamas’s surprise war against Israel is horrific and a stark warning for Taiwan. The nature of the intelligence failure of Israel and the United States—how they failed to receive or, if received, to identify and heed the warning of the attack—will be debated for decades to come.
Bradley A. Thayer
Author
Bradley A. Thayer is a founding member of the Committee on Present Danger China and the coauthor with Lianchao Han of “Understanding the China Threat” and the coauthor with James Fanell of “Embracing Communist China: America’s Greatest Strategic Failure.”
