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2023-12-04 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

SecDef Austin Warns: If Israel Isn't Careful, Palestinians Might Support Hamas

[Breitbart] 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 .

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." Hamas received the support of 76% of respondents. The poll is marred somewhat by the fact that there is no free speech in Hamas-run Gaza or the Palestinian Authority-run areas of the West Bank. Still, the results are notable.

The majority of Palestinians also voted for Hamas in the last Palestinian election of any kind, the parliamentary elections of 2006.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-04 06:46|| || Front Page|| [21 views ] Top
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#1 I had the Bee.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-04 06:52|| 2023-12-04 06:52|| Front Page Top

#2 I simply must ask, is Lloyd really the very best we can do ?

Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-04 06:54|| 2023-12-04 06:54|| Front Page Top

#3 ...among the field of affirmative action candidates, probably. Merit? What's merit?

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-12-04 07:35|| 2023-12-04 07:35|| Front Page Top

#4 thank you LBJ for affirmative action.

Posted by irish rage boy 2023-12-04 09:05|| 2023-12-04 09:05|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 No, just what is required to formally bring down this nation.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-12-04 10:54|| 2023-12-04 10:54|| Front Page Top

#6 That level of ignorance should be enough to force the guy to resign in shame. So he'll probably be made a VP candidate.

Posted by Ruprecht 2023-12-04 17:35|| 2023-12-04 17:35|| Front Page Top

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