Israel knew the attack was coming and did nothing

Part 2: several days before the attack, the GIS (Egyptian secret service) warned the Israelis. Still, they did nothing. Why not? See above.

Everything about this war is a tragedy. I HATE suffering.

[quote] I HATE suffering.

Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suf-fer-ing.

Bibi was distracted

This wasn’t part of a secret plan, at least not by the Israelis. It was hubris. When you have bad leadership, your whole organization starts making bad decisions.

If the Israelis had taken action without something like the October 7 attack having taken place, the world would be even more pro-Palestinian than it is today.

R6, Israel needed to defend its border with Gaza. It did not need to invade Gaza. It clearly had ways of anticipating Hamas attacks, but it failed to use them.

Neither did Gaza need to invade Israel, r7.

Yeah, bet it was hubris. People have praised the Israeli intelligence service and military as the best in the world for so long they started to believe the hype and got careless.

Sounds familiar. Remember people testifying in the 9/11 investigation how NOBODY could have predicted terrorists would fly a plane into a skyscraper? Of course it was predicted and warnings were ignored. We thought we were invulnerable and got careless.

At least they could have issued a security alert and cancelled the music festival. Brought some troops in close to the border fence.

Nonetheless, Bibi is going to take the fall for this, once the war is over. He was already hugely unpopular before and this happened on his watch.