[CNN] A ‘Pearl Harbor’ moment: Why didn’t Israel’s sophisticated border security stop Saturday’s attack?

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The missile attack was pure saturation. So many objects in the air at once is just too much for the few launchers available. There's only like 7 of them actually online at any given time. They cost a billion dollars each.

They waited for a day everyone wants to be home, did a massive attack to send everyone into hiding, and then breached the gates. It's such a massive power move that no one thought they'd be stupid enough to do. Yes, it succeeded, but they can't win, and the response now will be tenfold more powerful. And justified.

And somehow nobody thought it would happen on the 50th anniversary of the yom kippur war, to the day