As dumb as it sounds, the FBI actually found and red flagged a few of the 9/11 terrorists months before the attack.

Of which the CIA, DoD, and White House convincently ignored.

I don't really think Israel set this up, but sometimes I wonder if there's intentional negligence because how else do you miss such a significant planned attack.

Although both could also be explained by bluffs. Maybe they really didn't think Hamas was actually going to go through with anything, especially since there was no building escalation.

Which would make sense because Mossad's intelligence is supposed to be world-renowned.

And if you’re believing they were active participants in orchestrating an attack on their own people?

Well, they did fund hamas...

It's hard to argue that the escalations of harassment, settler expansion, and killings of Palestinians in 2023 wouldn't lead to some sort of retribution attack by Palestinians. I think the Israelis were shocked by the success of the attack and the failure of their security system to minimize the damage. I don't think they were oblivious when many analysts and even the Egyptian government suggested a few days earlier that things were getting hot (they didn't warn of an imminent attack like was reported in some media, but that there was an increasing threat of some sort of violent resistance to Israel's violation of international law).

Israel knows they're violating the 1967 borders, they also know how bullying works. Every few months, bulldoze some houses and claim that area as your own. Keep squeezing and poking until your victim lashes out violently and then use that violence as justification to be more violent. It's a classic bully tactic.