Someone posted this on Moon of Alabama site. It makes sense. Posting it here for your consideration.
"Isn't it funny how just as Israeli society is tearing itself apart and appeared close to civil war, this attack comes along and within hours Netanyahu's political opponents are forced into a coalition government to support him?
I take nothing away from the bravery of the Hamas soldiers who are fighting in this battle, but it is simply not credible that Hamas could have done this... The Gaza fence is in open country with little to conceal advancing Hamas units, and we are talking about hundreds of Hamas soldiers moving across the border. Where were all the IDF units who normally man and monitor this border fence? What happened to the surveillance of the border fence? What about the sensors? What happened to the vaunted IDF air defenses that were overwhelmed by Homemade hang gliders powered by lawn mower engines and box fans?
We are hearing rumors that Iran conducted a cyber attack that took down the electronic surveillance of the border fence, but did the Iranians also order the removal of IDF units that apparently left the Israeli border towns utterly defenseless? It seems much more likely that Netanyahu orchestrated this as an easy way to solve his political problems while also providing a pretext for the IDF to finish the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and perhaps the West Bank as well."
People seem to forget that the day of the attack was a holiday - what is known as a chag - a required day of gathering as well as it being the Sabbath. The same thing happened on Yom Kippur in 1973 almost to the day - the forces were sparse and they had been fasting. Therefore, this is not the sole reason, but it is a factor that forces were probably at a minimum due to a false sense of security and the holiday. A perfect time for an attack. Many people were with their families or in synagogue. It certainly makes it easier to wipe out entire groups of people. They, like most of the Palestinians, were innocent casualties of much larger and nefarious players that orchestrate these events. All wars are bankers wars.
This rings true. The Israeli forces are good but we shouldn't assume that they instigated this just because we want to believe they couldn't have been caught off guard during a holiday.