SecDef Austin Warns of ‘Strategic Defeat’: If Israel Isn’t Careful, Palestinians Might Support Hamas

Breitbart ^ | 12/03/2023 | Joel B Pollack

[Jim Noble]

Well, following the “blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while” rule, Austin being in this case the blind squirrel, I do believe that despite outstanding tactics, Israel’s strategic situation is bad and getting worse.

[frank ballenger]

Does he really believe kind actions will cause enemies to stop being bloodthirsty maniacs?

The 1970 Avivim school bus massacre killed nine children, three adults and crippled 19.

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Another:
The Ma’alot massacre was a Palestinian terrorist attack that occurred on 14-15 May 1974 and involved the hostage-taking of 115 Israelis, chiefly school children, which ended in the murder of 25 hostages and six other civilians. It began when three armed members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) infiltrated Israel from Lebanon. Soon afterwards they attacked a van, killing two Israeli Arab women while injuring a third, and entered an apartment building in the town of Ma’alot, where they killed a couple and their four-year-old son. From there, they headed for the Netiv Meir Elementary School in Ma’alot, where in the early hours of 15 May 1974 they took hostage more than 115 people including 105 children. Most of the hostages were 14- to 16-years-old students from a high school in Safad on a pre-military Gadna field trip spending the night in Ma’alot. The hostage-takers soon issued demands for the release of 23 Palestinian militants and 3 others from Israeli prisons, or else they would kill the students. The Israeli side agreed, but the hostage-takers failed to get an expected coded message from Damascus. On 15 May, minutes before the 18:00 deadline set by the DFLP for killing the hostages, the Sayeret Matkal commandoes stormed the building. During the takeover, the hostage-takers killed children with grenades and automatic weapons. Ultimately, 25 hostages, including 22 children, were killed and 68 more were injured.

[zeestephen]

I think they actually held an election, after Hamas defeated the PLO, in a mini Civil War.

Of course, the only candidates were probably 100% Hamas.

[Long Jon No Silver]

Knocking the stuffing out of the Germans and Japanese looks like a strategic win to me. What’s with all these U.S regime turkeys telling Israel how to fight islamonazis the way they aee fit. Mind your own friggin’ business

[Fai Mao]

When Zhou Sh*tbag Xiden was first installed I thought Lloyd Austin might be one decent cabinet pick. So much for that idea.

[Reverend Wright]

This diversity clown reads a lame script written by Biden retards which tries to rationalize that Jews and israel have been expelled from the Left Coalition.

[daniel1212]

Support might go from 95% to 96% Close:

November 22, 2023: The results of new market research conducted by the Arab World for Research and Development (AWRAD)1 among Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria (West Bank):

85.8% supported Hamas continuing to play a role in the Palestinian government – 13.6% supported a Hamas-only government, an overwhelming percentage of Palestinians support the October 7 massacre (75%), reject coexistence with Israel (85.9%) are committed to the restoration of “historical Palestine” as a final resolution (71.1%), and support the creation of a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea” (74.7%) as the end of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Interestingly, there is more support for the 10/7 massacre from the Palestinians resident in Judea and Samaria (83.1%) than those residing in the Gaza Strip (63.6%).

84% believe that Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) plays a somewhat to very positive role; 79.8% believe that Fatah’s terror wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, plays a somewhat to very positive role; and 88.6% believe that Hamas’ armed wing, the Al-Kassam Brigades, plays a somewhat to very positive function. 98.2% of Palestinians see the U.S. role as unfavorable, 96.7% consider the UK role as negative, and 92.6% ascertain the EU role as unfavorable.

According to the Palestinians, the United Arab Emirates plays the most negative role (96%), followed by Saudi Arabia (95.5%), Egypt (84.6%) and Jordan (75.6%). All these countries have made peace with Israel or consider the possibility. While support for terror organizations is high, 87.3% of the Palestinians believe that the Palestinian Authority plays a negative role. - https://jcpa.org/a-new-poll-of-palestinians-supporting-terror-and-rejecting-peace/

[Uncle Lonny]

“Might support? Is he that retarded??”

Yep. He is an affirmative action, Woketard.

[chief lee runamok]

SecDef Austin Warns of ‘Strategic Defeat’: If Israel Isn’t Careful, Palestinians Might Support Hamas

One hundred-year-old yew wood fence post, meet comrade secdef austin.

Of the two, the yew post, at least, is functional.

[wildbill]

perhaps Austin is as dumb as he looks.

[Dutch Boy]

I had to check. This wasn’t from the Bee.

[Spok]

I would like to ask him what percentage of Palestinians don’t support Hamas and what is the source of his information? Their degree of support is high and I doubt anything Israel could do would have noticeable impact. Those who don’t support Hamas have to keep their feelings to themselves.

[Rummyfan]

Austin seemed not to know that the vast majority of Palestinians already support Hamas, at least in one recent opinion poll.

Typical of this out-to-lunch administration.

[Paladin2]

Austin is an assistant Jihadi.

[ought-six]

He’s an Affirmative Action appointee. The fact that he — the Secretary of Defense! — doesn’t know that the vast majority of Palestinians support Hamas is just another example of how that ill-conceived program (Affirmative Action) has been so damaging.

[ought-six]

“He shouldn’t be an assistant fry cook.”

And he’s probably not even qualified for that.

[kjam22]

He is that retarded…..

[Allegra]

Palestinians might support Hamas?? Ya think??

What is Austin smoking?

[dfwgator]

[ought-six]

No kidding; let Israel fight the way it needs to, to defeat an existential threat.