The situation in the Middle East does not make sense to me, as a general matter.
From the beginning, I didn’t understand how it could have happened without the Mossad knowing. Israel doesn’t have a good military, but they have very good intelligence (both of which are things I guess you’d assume about a country of Jews). Egypt came out and said that they warned of the attack because they had that intelligence. The Jews initially denied this, then the Americans confirmed it.
Troops had been moved from the Gazan border to the West Bank.