The news-media has been calling it “Israel’s 9-11” pretty much from Day 1. Kind of thought it was understood Bibi let this happen for genocide justification purposes.

He's lucky Israelis are so fucking dumb

Negasonic Jewish Warmonger

What about Nethanlycos?

Mostly because Netanyahoo is still better at porn than Netangoogle. I don't remember how it compares to Netanbing.

I personally prefer Netanduckduckgo.

Or failed by diverting almost all the border guards over to the West Bank to oppress the Palestinians there.

But we need to how they feel about that second part...

The official policy on Hamas was to just sort of ignore them in favor of stealing land in the West Bank.

I don't think people in Israel view it as a good or bad way, just by the results.

If someone tries to sell you on less freedom, less privacy, more surveillance, and you still get attacked, then people start to wonder what was the point. Regardless of the measures taken.

Nobody wants to pay for news; which means nobody gets paid well to report it. So here we are in this dumpster fire of modern journalism.

IDF have way too much god damned influence is the problem with modern journalism

It took Joe Biden to travel to Israel to Scooby Doo the Middle East and tell us who the real perpetrator of the conflict is.

FWIW the times of israel also reported on this.

Modern journalism is about being first and the CTA is user interaction. So basically the popular method is to create as extreme headline as possible as early as possible without any need for proof.

It's a pile of horse garbage

Reigon? World man, these wars have ripple effects that totally skew some people into full blown racists. Hell, that poor kid got shot by his landlord recently.

The lack of diplomacy is sickening. Both peoples should be able to live in harmony but both sides want to hurt the other. It has to stop and that starts with the government talking to one another.

It's wild how many people buy into that conspiracy theory -- or that someone could call something so bonkers the "only reasonable conclusion." Security is Netanyahu's central promise to Israelis. There is nothing that could be more damaging to him than appearing weak or incompetent on security. It's the most tortured logic that would have you conclude that having the worst attack in the history of the country occur on his watch could somehow be good for him. His political career is over, his legacy is in tatters, and he'll no longer be able to out-manoeuver his legal problems.

Not to mention that he'd be executed for treason if he was complicit in the worst massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust.

Being disgraced, discredited, or dead doesn't help Netanyahu meet his goals.

Coalition governments are totally different than a two party system in the USA. There are over a dozen parties with in Israel, Netenyahu needed to form a coalition with ultra-nationalist to win. Each of these parties have to be kept happy else the coalition falls apart.

The Knesset has 120 seats. Likud has 32. Most Israelis did not vote for Netanyahu.

Well, it might. The Hamas surprise attack is the exact same thing as the surprise attack that started the Yom Kippur War. The prime minister at the time, Golda Meir, was also blamed for intelligence failure and her government resigned. This might happen again under Netanyahu, but he seems to be a smart enough fella for self-preservation so he might have learned from history. But who knows.

(as an aside, very ironic to say "intelligence failure" if anyone catches my drift)