Boz
To try and find a justification for the October massacre is appalling. Innocent people were kidnapped or hacked to death by drug-crazed terrorists. A medieval massacre that earned a full military response from a modern nation.
No-one, but no-one, is trying to find justification, at all.
What some of us are saying, as many Jews in Israel and around the world, is that Netanyahu had all the intelligence, sophisticated equipment, military and otherwise, to stop it happening.
He didn't. Top people in the IDF resigned because of this, and made the accusations themselves, that he didn't take intelligence and warnings seriously. And others are going beyond this and saying it was deliberate to allow him to finally do what he had planned for so long, but needed 'an excuse'. We won't know if this was true. But we do know, without any doubt, is that it was his plan for a very long time- and that he didn't take warnings and intelligence from the very top, seriously and didn't plan to respond and stop this attack, as he could have done.