Analysis: This string of back-and-forth attacks from both sides can only last for so long before it provokes the kind of escalation that there's no going back from, and this could derail any hostage deal currently being mediated by the US, Egypt and UAE

Opinion: Yes, there were intelligence failures on the night between October 6 and 7 - but the obsessive focus on it helps to divert attention from Netanyahu's failures throughout the period preceding it, during which Hamas transformed from a marginal terror organization to a terrorist empire