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Practically the complete IDF was in the West Bank at that time, when you have minimal staffing at a military base you really don’t want to leave it but hunker down as it getting captured would be even worse.
I’d say that’s a reasonable assessment. That Netanyahu and his goons are as competent, however, is a much more tenuous claim, or they wouldn’t have sent the IDF o the West Bank (to back up settlers harassing (and worse) Palestinians).
anyone have sources or more info on this? to what extent is this true?
The NY Times has a good overview. It’s only one of the things that went wrong but if the other stuff hadn’t gone wrong (such as an intelligence failure) the forces would’ve been there and ready, and even with that intelligence failure, if they had not been needed elsewhere, they would not have been that thinned out.