"What are these crazy games?": Erez Wiener tells what happened in Southern Command before the massacre
Erez Wiener, former head of the planning division in the Southern Command, denies in an interview with 103FM the claims of intelligence warnings before October 7. He describes how extreme scenarios in a war game were dismissed by the command intelligence officer as "crazy" and "irrelevant," while the reality on the ground surpassed them. Wiener attacks Avi Gil, the former military secretary, for revealing a one-sided version two weeks before the elections.
Erez Wiener, former head of the planning division in the Southern Command, gives an interview to 103FM in which he completely denies the claims of intelligence warnings that were passed to the Prime Minister before the massacre on October 7. Wiener, who was part of the situation assessments, recounts that with the arrival of the new Major General Finkelman, a war game was held in which he proposed extreme scenarios. The command intelligence officer saw the scenarios and asked: "What are these crazy games? This is not relevant." Wiener emphasizes that what they put in the game is a quarter of what actually happened, and therefore the claim that there were warnings is "an insult to intelligence." He attacks Avi Gil, the former military secretary, for giving an interview to the media and revealing a one-sided version two weeks before the elections, after two years of silence. Wiener notes that the 'Walls of Jericho' plan was not known to him or to the command leadership, and that on the morning of October 7, he was updated by the operations officer from the Shin Bet and not by the command intelligence officer.