One could say they almost wanted to the security to fail - so they could respond with disproportionate and indiscriminate force to achieve their actual goals.
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
According to Politico, they did indeed ignore the intelligence.
It has also been reported[1] that they ignored intelligence handed to them on a plate by the Egyptians three days before the raid occurred.
I suspect this galvanization is a fear response to a contracted race for immunity.
Considering that violence is his response to every effort towards his accountability, lawful exchange of power, and deposition, it follows that he would justify disproportionate violence under even more tenuous pretense.
Altogether, it's very worrying, because both sides of the establishment seem willing to threats of violence should they lose as motivation to vote for them. We're aching for a third party.
Either way, this seems stupid for Israel. They're a group of Jews in the middle of a sea of muslims, their military edge is weakening and they will be relying on goodwill in the future. Their long term interests are not served by solving problems with large scale military operations, or by doing anything that fuels the perception that they might be genocidal.
Is very clearly not saying "the victim deserved it".
It is saying "the 'victim' was looking for an excuse".
Either way, both statements are harmfully reductive.
Any sufficiently sign of incompetence and negligence is usually just that - incompetence and negligence, you know, occam's razor and all.