Your entire line of logic hinges on the question of why and how the IDF was caught napping, which has yet to be determined. Meanwhile, what are you saying? That Israel should be recumbent before unparalleled terrorist attacks? It is precisely like saying, upon the Pearl Harbor attack, that we should just suck it up. The culpability of that one was suspected long ago. My father, who fought in World War II (antisubmarine warfare in the Atlantic Ocean before the war was even declared) told me that it was generally suspected that FDR had provoked the Japanese to an incident---but that they figured it would be only the Philippines, not including Hawaii. So, yes, I know all about sinister turns of policy, but in this case it changes very little. Hamas are murdering mad dogs and Israel needs to wipe them out. If somebody is culpable in releasing mad dogs, they need to be tried for treason.

As to my bona fides, part of my career was designing laser weapons, as I have stated repeatedly. The "technology" has been around for half a century. But there are no satellites with ground-facing laser weapons. They turned out to be too big and essentially impossible to deploy. Using them on ground targets was a non-starter, as they were entirely unreliable for that purpose. (The beam would be blocked by clouds or smoke.) That was back in the 1980s. I wrote the proposal for YAL-1A, the only laser weapon mounted on an airplane and demonstrated successfully (now scrapped). Compared to me, you know zero.

"Rods of God" are only science fiction devices. They would be ineffective and they were not developed any further than Jerry Pournelle's idea. (No process for turning kinetic energy into an explosion. They would simply penetrate into the ground, like penetrating tank shells.) Very nasty hazard once their orbit decayed and they came down unguided. I looked for what you referenced but only had hits that were totally off target, or went to speculatory articles. Easy to tell when someone has no clue, as they often show the weapon being boosted in the direction of orbit. If that were the case, they would go into higher orbit and never hit the ground. In order to hit the ground, they would need to be decelerated backward, opposite to the direction the "rod" is pointing. Orbital mechanics. Not for wannabees.

To say that technology was used that would never have been required and not available, costing major expense if it had been, and referring to imaginary weapons exposes your ignorance and your motivation: myth making.