Who? Egypt? They’ve actually been one of the more rational players in this game recently.
Two days ago I read a tweet quoting somebody in the Defense Department, who said either in an interview or at a press conference, that the US had noticed unusual movements too and had reported it to Israeli intelligence. And nothing happened.
Personally, I think the Israelis have a problem on the inside. There’s no way they could have “missed” this. Egypt warned them and so did we.
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.
The Israeli Knesset is loaded with anti-Zionist fellow travelers. Like the Knesset’s left-wing Hadash-Ta’al coalition. They are like New York City and Florida Jews. They hate the military but love their enemies the Palestinians.
The Israeli intel didn’t “miss” it but underestimated the scale and the risk of the attacks. Imo, intel factions inside the gov’t. allowed it to sow terror incidents to facilitate removing Netanyahu and protect the judiciary.
Maybe the people who should have been listening weren't the best qualified but were politically connected or nepotism hires.
There are some who think Netanyahu’s government might have let it happen to deal a blow to his own left wing appeasers. Now they have no way to argue that Netanyahu can’t take a hard line in dealing with the problem.
I think the Sunni Arabs and Israel are in collusion to 1) clean out Gaza and the West Bank and 2) clean out the Shia (Iran). They knew the attack was coming and they let it come.