Chuck Schumer calls for new elections in Israel, criticizing Netanyahu's leadership

[Bucky]

42. I've read about that. That's why Israelis are furious with Netanyahu. But imagine the LIHOP alleged sequence of events.

Israeli intelligence gets credible evidence of "something big about to happen." They probably get signs and warnings about that sort of thing all the time. Normally, I'd expect given Mossad's record, they prep for it. They'd go on their version of yellow alert. Sometimes they stop that "something" and other times the attack never comes. I'm sure they're riddled with false alarms.

But through all the rungs of the Israeli security commands, this time for some reason, when the warnings are particularly substantive, as there were several warning signs, the word comes down from the PM, or the DefMin, or the IDF high command that this we don't do anything. We don't double up the outlooks, we don't alert local security & police services, we don't divert more troops to the area, we just let the musical festival go on. And somehow nobody in that chain of command says, "Hey, there's something funny going on here." And after the attack no one says, "Conspirator X told me to drop the ball cause we need a distraction"?

There'd be literally hundreds of people on the periphery of whatever cabal decides to let the massacre go on, loyal patriotic Israelis, each with their own separate responsibilities, perspectives, and motivations, but the supposition is that not a single one of them comes forward to say "I was told to not get react to this threat." I'm sorry, but that just breaks credulity. That's not how bureaucracy works.