I do not know enough about Netanyahu to say if he is good or bad. Given he is a politician, he might just be lik ean actor occupying the office as forces more powerful than him control events. But I have seen surveillance up close in the US, from technology so advanced you could mistake it for supernatural forces, to the extensive civilian informant networks which permeate everywhere.
I would say it is a 100% probability top level Israeli intel knew what was coming and let it happen, and based on seeing how politics works at the higher levels, it is probably 97% those elite Israeli intel who knew actually organized it with the billionaire leaders of Hamas in their Dubai penthouses. All those girls at the music festival would be like ants to them, and totally disposable.
I am even suspicious there is a level above both of them, which both of them answer to.
https://carolineglick.com/aharon-haliva-has-got-to-go-now/
...At 4 a.m. on Oct. 7, due to warnings of increased Hamas movement near the border fence, the senior security leadership, including IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevy, Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar, Southern Command Commander Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman and Haliva’s assistant (Haliva was apparently asleep), discussed the movements and decided to go back to bed.
Bar sent a small team of fighters to the border area, but that was all.
The group didn’t inform the Gaza division commander, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
Instead, they agreed to speak again at 8 a.m. Hamas invaded at 6:30...