In 1973 prior to the Arab attack, King Hussein passed the information he had via his doctor in London, who was with Israeli intelligence. Golda and her nitwits did nothing. I don’t think this happened here, I think you’re right, there’s an anti-Bibi problem that he needs to get sorted out during the crisis, by ID’ing the culprits and sending them into combat against Hamas.
If even the US - no friend of Israel anymore - had sent them a warning and they ignored it, it’s got to be an anside job.
Like all fools who invite the tiger to dine with them, they probably thought it was just going to be a show, in this case, a “bad publicity” event.
Surprise! It’s real and many Israelis and even innocent Palestinians will die as a result. But when your entire life is obsessed with domestic political rivalries, you don’t care.
In Israel, it appears that they want to get rid of Netanyahu, who was in any case about to retire or run for reelection and lose simply because of age and loss of popularity, and boast that they were the ones who had finally “gotten” him.
They were too busy with that to care what was going on. Also, with the left (who have always been anti-Israel at heart, even in Israel), a leftist enemy is only a friend you haven’t met yet. Won’t they be surprised.
Terrible that so many of their people are going to have to pay the price for this.
Maybe they let it happen so Bibi would look bad. But it's possible that they've underestimated the scale of the recent terrorist attacks by Hamas.