Reply #16: Your faith

[Gimel]

"no way in hell do I believe they knew anything concrete at all."

The you discount intelligence that has been effective in reducing the number of attacks over the past twenty years. You are judging from US media reports. What about the other recent attacks and kidnapppings? Are you saying that they have no effect in the cease-fire?

Several Israelis have been killed since a temporary ceasefire was declared by militant groups on June 29, but Tuesday's attacks were
considered the first major puncturing of the truce, which has led to a dramatic decline in violence.

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However, security sources said the bombing would require more planning that the four days since the raid, was not related to any IDF operation. The IDF claimed Tuesday that it found a photograph of the Ariel junction where the suicide bomber struck in the home of a Hamas activist killed in a raid on Friday. Military sources said that the discovery proves that the junction was a Hamas target even before the raid.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/328668.html

I would need something more than your "belief" to show that the IDF lacked intelligence as to activities of the target of the raids.