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A lack of surveillance wasn’t the problem. It was not believing the intelligence.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/28/israeli-milita...

Such a Monday quarterback's perspective. There is always plenty of intelligence to suggest there will be an attack

The amount of intelligence to suggest there will be an attack on specific places at specific times is contextual and not comparably equal.

Every time I hear or read that expression, I stop taking the comment seriously because it attempts to shut down dialogue with a cute, esoteric phrase instead of fostering a discussion about a serious retrospective.

Not moving troops and police away from the border might have prevented Oct 7th. I think they were more focused on the West Bank at the time.

Or following up the reports of suspicious behavior in Gaza by your own IDF border troops days before the terror attack.

Ah, yes, the classic argument: we must ramp up surveillance because it is the only way to stop pedophiles, terrorists, and pirates.

Egyptian intelligence informed Israel before October 7. Israel chose to let it happen anyway: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67082047

Israeli government wanted October 7 to happen, because they knew it would provide a good pretext for the genocide they wanted to commit.