Shibley Telhami:

Well, you know, I think this is something that everybody's going to be asking. And frankly, I think part of the finger pointing, you know, Iran or something like that, in this particular case, is intended to, you know, divert attention from the failure.

I mean, there's been an incredible failure that have taken place. And it's hard to do understand. I mean, I've been watching Israeli television very closely the last two days. And I think this is not a question they want to get into now, because they have business to do. It's fully understandable.

There's a lot of innocent civilians that have been hurt that have a major, you know, challenge that the likes of which you haven't seen in years. So they need to deal with this now. And they're putting off the question of trying to investigate what went wrong, but I think there is, you know, I've investigated the '73 war, just as you know, this happened the day after the 50th anniversary of the 73 Arab-Israeli war, where in fact, Israel was shocked by the Egyptian and the Syrian attacks, to try to liberate their territories.

And that attack was happened, in part because Israel felt secure. These countries had been thoroughly defeated by Israel just six years before, and Israel was seemed to be strong and in command, and yet, obviously, it happened and this particular case is a conference that Israelis have, perhaps not taken seriously, the capabilities of their opponents may have played a role in this.

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