In the context of the attacks launched by Hamas on 7 October this year, it appears that, after 50 years, Israel has ignored lessons from the past. While the attack itself is tragic and totally condemnable, the fact is that history repeats itself, more so if the lessons learnt are forgotten. To prevent a recurrence of such an intelligence failure, an organisation called the Ipcha Mistabra was created. Roughly translated, it means ‘on the contrary, the reality appears otherwise’, referring to the fact that there can be multiple versions of the truth—the truth of how things seem and how they...