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To: Les H who wrote (38742)	10/15/2023 11:26:50 AM
From: Les H	Respond to of 50937

Hospitals are dropping Medicare Advantage left and right Jakob Emerson - Updated Monday, October 9th, 2023 beckershospitalreview.com

To: Les H who wrote (38742)	10/15/2023 6:38:25 PM
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Not in sync: Who was alerted to worrying indications ahead of Hamas attack, who did not Analysis: Conflicting accounts about which sectors of the IDF knew some opaque details about an imminent Saturday attack, and why those who knew did not alert the military in its entirety ynetnews.com The night before the war, not a creature was stirring Following the initial report on Thursday about the "weak signals" received by the military, and the urgent conference call among the Chief of Staff, the Head of Military Intelligence, the Shin Bet Chief, and the Commander of the Southern Command, Yedioth Ahronoth and Ynet revealed on Sunday that military sources insist the Gaza Division received the same information as the Southern Command. This claim stands in contrast to claims by Brigadier General Avi Rosenfeld, division commander: "We were not aware of the attack, it took us by surprise." In addition, the Shin Bet's Head of the Southern District, identified as A', was in the field by Saturday morning, underscoring the gravity attached to these "signals". The "Tequila" team, a unit dedicated to handling extreme situations, was also promptly dispatched to the location. Notably, the Air Force commander was absent from the security establishment officials' conference call. This is crucial information: earlier preparation of the force, including having two Apache helicopters at the ready, would have significantly improved the outcome, coupled with a fundamental level of preparedness at the division level. For instance, the duty officer in the division was only a second lieutenant and not on combat duty (though it's worth mentioning he displayed bravery and successfully neutralized terrorists). This demonstrates the level of significance the division attributed to the incoming information, supposedly because neither the Southern Command nor the General Staff conveyed a sense of urgency. The prevailing notion was that the event was a training exercise by Hamas, rather than an aggressive action like an attempted abduction, and definitely nowhere near the magnitude of a simultaneous attack involving 15 sites using over 1,000 terrorists. This is just one of many chilling details yet to be revealed in the forthcoming, undoubtedly harrowing investigation.

To: Les H who wrote (38742)	11/3/2023 10:30:46 PM
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Seymour Hersh: The Labyrinth War I was told by a military expert, who has served in combat with the IDF, that the tank movements were the beginning of a second phase of its combat operations against Hamas. The goal, he said, is to break Hamas’s defensive perimeter around its main bunkers and tunnels in the center of Gaza City. The tank columns “are not rushing into the center. Rather, they stay put on the perimeters, firing in from a distance.” Given all the obstacles to their rescue, the fate of the hostages is uncertain. The Hamas leaders have refused to allow the International Red Cross to visit the hostages. And I was told by a well informed Israeli that two weeks ago Netanyahu instructed Israel’s foreign and domestic intelligence agencies “to hunt down and kill every single Hamas political and military leader” in the Middle East. “Israel, ruthlessly,” I was told, “is going after the families, wives, kids, brothers, sisters, parents of Hamas political and military leaders.” He said fourteen members of the family of Ismail Haniya, the political leader of Hamas based in Qatar, had already been killed. Within two days of the October 7 raid, he said, the widow of Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, a Hamas co-founder who was assassinated in 2004, was killed. Similarly, he said, eight members of the family of Muhammed Deif, the Hamas military leader, were killed in safe homes. “From Israel’s perspective,” the Israeli told me, “It is now a no-holds-barred war.” seymourhersh.substack.com