Brilliant 4D chess move by Yossi Sariel: he's cleverly feigning a mistake, aiming to exit his role without formally resigning. This "mistake" provide his superiors with a pretext for his departure, all while sidestepping the events of October 7.
Based on the events that have been taking place from October 7, neither party is capable for any form of strategizing. Let alone "brilliant 4D chess moves".
It's just war.
"It's just war" might win you glibness points online. Just be careful not to use it when referencing say, attacks on Warsaw ghettoes in the 1940s. After all, anybody there could have been part of the resistance, could they not?
"Deaths per bomb dropped" was probably somewhere in the Nuremberg defense lawyer's arsenal, but left out because the Allies could just point to the mass starvation that was directly related to bombing. Plus ca change....
He could even go full Snowden if he wanted to.
I am not convinced that the Mossad, a competent intelligence agency from what I have read, did not actually know what was going to happen. The October 7th attack gave a perfect political justification for wiping out as much of Gaza as possible.
So, while I am not arguing that is is the case, it is not at all implausible (especially if the underjudged the scale or likely impact of the attack) that they might allow an unusual attack that was likely to be pretextually useful to occur to provide an excuse to bring the hammer down, even before considering the specific, personal pressures on Netanyahu and how he might view an excuse for a justified war as a means to deflect them.
A country's leader is always blamed for a lapse in decent, and Netanyahu knows that.
Pointing out that he doesn't look as powerful now after dominating Israeli politics for decades is supporting my point.
Exhibit A: Yom Kippur war. They had convinced themselves that Egypt would wait on armament deliveries, so their obvious preparations for war, troop movements, and massive exercises next to the border were not a problem. Syria's obvious troop movements and cancelling of leaves weren't a problem either because obviously Syria wouldn't attack without Egypt, and Egypt would obviously wait for more Soviet shipments of armaments. Spoiler: they both attacked, and although defeated later on, demonstrated that Israel wasn't as invincible as everyone had thought, and it resulted in Sinai being returned to Egypt and normalisation of relations between Egypt and Israel (thus long-term a victory for Egypt, even if they had their asses handed to them, militarily).
Exhibit B: Lillehammer affair, where Mossad mistook a random Moroccan waiter for a high level Palestinian leader, and killed him.
Exhibit C: Assassination attempt against high level Hamas leader, Khaled Mashal which was a failure and seriously jeopardised the relations with Jordan.
For the October 7 attacks, we simply don't know if it was a political decision to let the attacks happen, or if hubris convinced Israel/IDF/Mossad that the intelligence can't be true.
So perhaps revealing the full name doesn't make much of a difference, which is why it could just as well have been "accidental" (quotes intented).