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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey 11:25, Why didn’t Netanyahu allow any immediate response/aid/police on 10/7?
He sat back and watched the slaughter of his own people for hours and hours.

I’m not picking sides, I just want to know why.
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He is incompetent and was caught flatfooted. I have seen zero credible evidence that he intentionally allowed the slaughter of his own people. What ostensible political goal would that even serve? His popularity within Israel absolutely tanked after October 7 and the war in Gaza hasn’t done much to rehabilitate his image.

And let’s say your bonkers conspiracy theory is true and he did intentionally allow October 7 to happen - is he ultimately responsible for October 7? Did he make Hamas spend billions of dollars digging terror tunnels and acquiring arms? Did he tell them to shoot thousands of rockets at Israel? Did he make Hamas murder 1,200 Jewish people including literal babies in the most horrific, sadistic ways possible? Did he make 70% of Gazans support October 7?

What are you trying to achieve with the argument? That’s a rhetorical question, I know you’re trying to blame Jews for their own victimhood while denying Palestinians any agency whatsoever. [/quote]

Netanyahu is neither incompetent nor flat-footed. The Gaza border is the most well secured and protected area in the world and somehow people think it's believable that a rag tag army with paragliders made it over to conduct an operation. And then it took 6 to 8 hours for some type of military response in a country the size of New Jersey. Only a moron would not see through this. [/quote]

Did you read literally any accounts from the (in many cases retired) soldiers who rushed down there to try to respond themselves because the army was completely disorganized? The closest military base to where the attack started was overrun, and people there were dead. The leadership didn't think something like this could happen, because they also thought the Gaza border was the most well secured and protected area in the world. Turns out that's only true if you haven't decided you don't need to worry about Gaza and can instead send your troops to harass the West Bank in protection of illegal settlements there.

Israel remained disorganized for months after the attack, with more than 100,000 people displaced internally because the government couldn't figure out how to secure or rebuild housing near Gaza or near Lebanon.

Popular opinion in Israel turned heavily against Netanyahu right after that, specifically because of how incompetently the government managed Oct. 7 and because he so clearly didn't care about the hostages. It didn't start to turn favorable again until they attacked Hezbollah. [/quote]

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