SecDef Austin Warns of ‘Strategic Defeat’:
If Israel Isn’t Careful, Palestinians
Might Support Hamas
Breitbart Middle East,
by
Joel B. Pollak
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/3/2023 9:02:31 PM
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin warned at the Reagan National Defense Forum on Saturday that Israel could face “strategic defeat” if it was not more careful about how it fought Hamas, because more Palestinians might be driven to support the terrorist group . (X Video) Austin seemed not to know that the vast majority of Palestinians already support Hamas, at least in one recent opinion poll.
A wartime poll of Gaza and West Bank residents last month by Birzeit University’s Arab World for Research & Development (AWRAD) found that “the majority of (59%) strongly supported or (16%) supported to some extent the October 7 attacks carried by the Hamas-led factions.”
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Italiano 12/3/2023 9:15:04 PM (No. 1609964)
I guess it was a mistake to go to war against Germany in 1941, for fear that Germans would gravitate to the Nazis.
Fat Albert is an embarrassment; unfortunately, he's too stupid to be capable of it.
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What a pantload official and official pantload of non-information. These cretins are one-in-the-same. The sellout is gearing higher.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
slipstik 12/3/2023 9:25:46 PM (No. 1609968)
This guy's salary should be further cut to .24¢.
Doesn't he read? About 80% of the Palestinians ALREADY support Hamas. People who don't read think the Palestinians feel subjugated by Hamas and nothing could be further from the truth.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
BarryNo 12/3/2023 9:25:56 PM (No. 1609969)
What a bone head.
The only reason Hamas has support is over the barrel of a gun. They kill Muslims who don't worship them. They are possibly worse abusers of human right than North Korea or Red China.
We won't know what the so-called Palestinians think until Hamas and Hezbilla are in history's dustbin, because if they criticize these terrorists, they WILL die. Their cousins, the Arabs who didn't run away in 1946 or the later conflicts have jobs, have rights, have representation in the Israeli government. Aside from terrorists, they are safe, free, and have more opportunity than ANY Muslim country in the world.
Shut up and sit down, before you make a fool of yourself-! Oh, wait... Too late...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Californian 12/3/2023 9:27:08 PM (No. 1609970)
No reason to expect a senior Biden appointee to understand anything about area of expertise.
He got the job for his woke credential, not his intelligence, knowledge, ability, experience, or merit.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
chumley 12/3/2023 9:34:28 PM (No. 1609975)
You see this a lot in the military. People promoted far above their level of competence because of some protected status. Given enough time they crash and burn on their own, but not before a lot of damage is done.
The best most of us could do was salute sharply, go to a hidden location known only to enlisted swine, and drink heavily while shaking our heads.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Northcross 12/3/2023 9:44:47 PM (No. 1609982)
Where has this clown been? Palestinians are firmly behind Hamas already. They voted them in and then cheered their barbaric actions.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 12/3/2023 10:02:18 PM (No. 1609987)
I doubt this.
Austin is an affirmative action bozo, wouldn't know sh** from Shinola.
My bet is that 80% or more of Palestinians are supporting Hamas already.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Trigger2 12/3/2023 10:05:28 PM (No. 1609989)
Austin is an idiot. Palistians ALREADY support Hamas.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 12/3/2023 10:18:50 PM (No. 1609995)
Lloyd Affirmative Action proves again why it's insane to elevate people based solely on their pigmentation.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Ruthless 12/3/2023 10:54:15 PM (No. 1610004)
Lloyd Austin, as most everyone in this administration, is an AA hire. Can't make a battle plan; hasn't a clue about offensive maneuvers; is totally befuddled when our military is attacked; discharged OUR FINEST who refused Joe's clot shot; is making an INTERNATIONAL JOKE of our military and of our country. Oh, but HIS SKIN IS THE PROPER HUE!! Don't worry, be happy. You white, racist PIGS.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
NotaBene 12/3/2023 11:05:51 PM (No. 1610008)
Lord Austin is an affirmative action General. I doubt anyone would like to follow his words of wisdom. One could end up like NYC, LA, SF, Chicago and DC.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
skacmar 12/3/2023 11:12:41 PM (No. 1610010)
Palestinians might support Hamas? Biden administration officials have said stupid things, but this takes the cake. By hook or by crook, the Palestinians already support Hamas. If not Hamas, they support Hezboula or some other terrorist related group. No wonder no Arab nation wants the Palestinians.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 12/3/2023 11:17:36 PM (No. 1610013)
Diversity hire goes wrong again!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Axeman 12/3/2023 11:40:40 PM (No. 1610021)
Only the dead ones supported Hamas.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Nimby 12/3/2023 11:57:38 PM (No. 1610027)
Which DEI world is this clown living in? Palestinians “might” support Hamas? What in the holy he** have these terrorists been doing other than supporting Hamas?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
rochow 12/4/2023 12:23:33 AM (No. 1610033)
Palestinians do support Hamas now so what about the empty blabbing? Oh, I forgot, his boss, the occasional resident in the WH told him so.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
formerNYer 12/4/2023 12:55:45 AM (No. 1610040)
The crap for brains administration trying to play but side of the fence, again.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 12/4/2023 2:12:21 AM (No. 1610057)
Just for the sake of argument, suppose there is such an entity as a "Palestinian." Now, also for the sake of argument, suppose Lloyd Austin had at least two active brain cells. What if all those Nazis who fled to Argentina, were to reconstitute themselves as Palestinians? Or, as third century Romans?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 12/4/2023 2:57:03 AM (No. 1610065)
Austin is a buffoon. Israel will eliminate Hamas where ever they are, with/without approval from the DOD buffoon nor the buffoon in the White House.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
mifla 12/4/2023 4:36:12 AM (No. 1610073)
No one in this administration knows what they are doing.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
5 handicap 12/4/2023 6:16:35 AM (No. 1610108)
"Affirmative Action " Austin continues every to elucidate and highlight his stupidity! 74% of the evil Palestinians voted to install HAMAS, for Christ's sake!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/4/2023 6:40:53 AM (No. 1610119)
Please tell me this guy is not an escapee from an asylum pretending to be a US Government official. "More careful" about how you fight savages?! Hey Lloyd, who are all those people cheering for Hamas when their prisoners are released by Israel so they can go pick up another weapon and continue to fight the IDF. Look at the head scarfs, that might give you a clue, you clueless affirmative action hire.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
broken01 12/4/2023 8:10:42 AM (No. 1610187)
Just like the morons running the WH, State Department, DHS, FBI and the DOJ Austin is a colossal buffoon. I've watched this dolt in action when he gives testimony at Congress. He always has that befuddled look on his face as drones on and on about nothing. I can't think of any past Sec Def that was this stupid. Surely some flunky flag officer on his staff could tell him that the Palestinians support Hamas. There is no might, maybe or they will. They DO. Maybe if that moron would stop focusing on CRT, White rage, flight suits for 8 months pregnancy fighter pilots and woke DEI policies he'd get a clue.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
tearza 12/4/2023 10:56:53 AM (No. 1610331)
80 % already do you brain-dead General..
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