I simply do not believe this. It's just better for Israel to pretend they were playing 9D chess than to admit they got buttfucked because their security is crap.
"Stand down" doesn't mean "let your base get raided".
@deprecated_ii it doesn't make sense from a morale perspective. If you do this enough then nobody will want to fight for you. I don't think they have that kind of foresight though either.