Israel’s military intelligence anticipated Hamas would win the last Palestinian elections, a senior officer revealed. During a speech at a Tel Aviv University conference Monday, Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser, head of military intelligence analysis, displayed a memorandum that he said had been prepared by his department before the Jan. 25 vote in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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