Israel’s big strategic mistake | General McMaster

The former national security advisor to Trump believes operation in Rafah is “wholly necessary to destroy Hamas”.
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[@iamzebra7025]

Why would Egypt open the border? How do you ever know who is who?

[@TWFydGlu]

Why would they trust Israel to let them back in? This isn't the first time.

[@stephenkiss5790]

Israel could have kept the Sinai peninsula instead of giving it back to Egypt after Israel was attacked. Egypt owes Israel.

[@Stardust475]

​@TWFydGlu Gaza was governed by Egypt from 48- 67. Israel offered it back with Sinai at Camp David they refused to take it back. If your referring to 48 refugees. They dont have right of return for '48 round 2

[@boogboog8097]

Why is the borders of Europe open we don't know who is who

[@TWFydGlu]

@@boogboog8097 Why is the moon made of cheese. It doesn't make sense. That's a loot of cows. Is that where it got its name from? Moooon.

[@Maat213]

I think part of the problem with recruitment is the fact that the government doesn’t take care of its veterans. I’ve seen family that has to constantly fight for medical benefits regarding hearing loss and back injuries that occurred during their service time. We need to take care of our warriors, that take care of us.

[@MrDubyadee1]

True and we don’t treat our active duty members well enough either. There have been cutbacks in medical care for military families. Housing is a disgrace. We diverted money from fixing their schools to support an unnecessary deployment to the Mexican border. The deployments overseas are too long in peacetime. Navy personnel are at sea for 6 months or more at a time in the best of times. In wartime it’s understandable, not in peacetime. We need more ships. We need to stay out of civil wars. We need to insure our units and systems have higher states of readiness.

[@seanohare5488]

Agree it shouldn't always be a big debate in Congress to support veterans especially war veterans but this woke nonsense in the military has to go like now that bonehead general milley talking about wanting to know about white rage was disgraceful phoney and detrimental to recruitment

[@thebigr201]

Amen!!!

[@thebigr201]

My kid is active. On food stamps and wic to be able to feed their babies.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

@@thebigr201 The main problem with food stamps and wic for service members is the social stigmata. If the money was channeled through the military as allowances for military families, it wouldn’t have that stigmata. Or even better, just give our soldiers a pay raise and let them decide how to spend it. But I think it’s awesome that your trans kid is serving. I’ll give the Army credit for being open minded towards trans people.

[@aftabnaveed]

The General wants Palestinians to leave the land so Israel can easily occupy it. Why?

[@gg_rider]

Civilian populations historically always flee from war zones if they can. Forcing people to stay stuck in a war zone should be considered a war crime.

[@user-ud9ep6ym7r]

Palestinians are from Greece, and GOD himself gave the Jews Jerusalem with the promised land

[@user-is1yo3nj8p]

Because it's not their land maybe? Because they can't be trusted with sovereignty after they proven this and promised to again maybe?

[@MarcosElMalo2]

He wants civilians to evacuate Rafah so they won’t get killed in the coming battle between IDF and Hamas. Are you dense? By your logic, evacuating people from a burning building is ethnic cleansing.

[@Leokat334]

⁠@@user-ud9ep6ym7r they’re not from GREECE! lol they’re ARABS! Don’t confuse the Philistines of the Bible to the fake name Palestine that Rome made to insult Jews. Smh! You can’t just believe everything you hear. Do some research. And go past 5 pages of google.

[@adaptiveagile]

Love this guy. Great interview.

[@RoyalBlue292]

Warmongers!

[@irishgooooner5928]

An american callong someone else an aggressor , oh the hypocrisy

[@blakebrown534]

So nobody else in the world can act as an aggressor? Don't be ridiculous.

[@user-pf5wc7oc4g]

Agree with the General!

[@MoralScienceEducation]

Thank you. Beyond the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and Israel, it is possible that citizens desire unity, harmony and peace, and no longer accept the current reality and entitlement of certain peoples, despite the horrible atrocities since centuries. Which actually shows us the flagrant weakness in education, upbringing and general knowledge - including around ethics. Perhaps these factors caused the demonstrations in the US? Who are the men and women who fight the wars and die on our behalf for our ideal of democracy (including the new dynamics on line, non consensual and even lethal AI and cyberspace) and how can we leverage these threats to negotiate global peace ensuring the safety of all? Grateful to all the new thinking from the USA🇺🇸

[@lafabricadebodas]

When books eat you. Go live in Nicaragua. In fact go live in Cuba and go tell them to "no longer accept the current reality" But first live like an average poor Cuban. See if you have the nerve to say that. And then maybe you'll get out of wonderland where there's a lot of boxed macaroni and cheese and twinkies. And how is it I decided to say maraconi and cheese and not ummm Rice and beans or Curry................

[@MoralScienceEducation]

@@lafabricadebodas 🙏thanks for confirming what has been done. May we all live in peace🧘‍♀️🕊️🇱🇰

[@mjeffn2]

The 1989 peace dividend is over. Not by the West’s choice, but nevertheless over. I wish McMaster would drop the social issues garbage and ask for and accept any and all young people who feel compelled to serve and quit saying things that drive them away because reinstitution a draft would be counter productive to creating what he calls a “cohesive force.” I wasn’t asked because, in my day we were given neither a reason nor a choice.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

You didn’t specify in which war you served after being drafted. Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the last time we fought with conscription the Vietnam war? That ended up leading to a lot of social unrest-and it also led to the all volunteer Army after the conflict was over. Perhaps that is the point of conscription: administrations will be a lot more hesitant to send in the troops to fight foreign wars, or risk losing the next election. Or (and, really), our elected representatives and officials will be less willing to engage our military in long “democracy building” occupations. That’s the thing about Iraq and Afghanistan: we won those wars but lost the peace. I cannot tell you if that was due to bad planning for the post-war period. And to be fair, our occupation of Iraq was not a total loss. It’s a mixed bag. “We fight them over there instead of fighting them over here” wasn’t a hollow platitude. Our military destroyed Isis. Anyway, I’m getting off point. I’m not necessarily against conscription for the right reasons. What is your argument for conscription? “Whipping American youth into shape” isn’t a good reason for conscription. It’s a laudable idea, but that should not be the basis of conscription.

[@mjeffn2]

@@MarcosElMalo2 You are correct. Vietnam. Although, I turned 18 a few month’s after the selective service stopped inducting draftees, the draft continued on for a while. 9th grade was a bad year for my school. Two of my friends and my girlfriend all lost older brothers to the war that year, 1969. I really looked up to my girlfriend’s older brother. Vietnam was a topic that my school councilor spoke to me about. College deferments had been revoked by that time and conversation was along the line of, when I turn 18 I will have choices to make, take your chances with the draft, enlist in a branch that would be least likely to lead to infantry (or not if that is you wanted), or accept the draft and be put where the system needed you most. Our all volunteer military today has led to far better opportunities and better results all the way around for the country and for young adults. To have people that want to use social issues to bar any who want to serve through military service is counterproductive. It’s awful and prejudicial that some use military service as a vector to prosecute many varieties of political agendas. Administration hesitation if conscription army less willing - this argument has been around since the beginning and was made. I recall that the counter to this idea was that administrations would be less willing with a volunteer service because unjust deployment would result in failing recruitment into the service which has been the case since Iraq. Winning wars to day means breaking an enemy or country. Allies in WWI didn’t account for this given a world that was more interconnected than they appreciated. The allies n WWII mostly understood that if you break it you own it which resulted in the Marshall plan for Europe and a similar effort for Japan. W broke Iraq then basically forgot about it. I don’t have an argument “for,” conscription. It’s the easy way with far higher odds of creating a paper tiger rather than an efficient and effective military. Russia and Ukraine are having a difficult time in dealing with the idea of conscription. Conscription is the last possible choice for a leader to make when left with no other path for survival of their country. “Whipping into shape,” is up there when it comes to the most cynical arguments that can bee made. It’s telling that the number of combat veterans would make this an argument for conscription. Most of my friend’s fathers when I was growing up were veterans of the European and/or Pacific theaters, plus Korea, and while some didn’t like the anti-war and anti-draft protests, I never heard any of them use “whip’em into shape argument, and additionally, they were some of the first of the “Greatest Generation,” that I was around that turned against the draft. Thinking about now, I think they turned against the draft before some of them turned against the war.

[@kurtsmith7781]

Okay McMaster you finally said it, "at first you said we should encourage our youth to enter the military"...Whaaahh?. My question is why would I want to let my kid join the US forces where the powers that be in the US are going to refuse to let them win?. Thank you for touching on the fact that we need to have the will to win.

[@aussie807]

McMaster for President👍👍

[@Hesham_MK]

I would like Israel to show us the camp they prepared for the people of Gaza.

[@Rtg5637]

@@nom_chompsky There is plenty of that available if making the slightest effort to search

[@Bowditch200]

Do you mean mass grave

[@user-zc4yd9ss7h]

Doesn't exist.

[@Rtg5637]

@@Bowditch200 UN reduced yesterday the head count by 50% from what Hamas reported and it is likey even lower

[@amio_roseto1]

We can always send them to UK, seems a lot of them rule London .

[@lalegocmez5113]

Aggression by any other country but USA!! That is so rich coming from a US General I have to laugh. Invest in hard power, a mouthpiece of the military industry.

[@blakebrown534]

Yes, other countries can also act as aggressors. This isn't a difficult thing to understand.

[@deanjericevic8912]

An interesting & insightful presentation by McMaster! I liked his quote by G.K.Chesterton: "War is not the best way to settle differences but it may be the only way that they are not settled for you".

[@JMK948]

I was afraid that the comment section would tear this man apart. You can only imagine my delight and surprise.

[@zeppelin0110]

Well, he overall had very good takes, but he's obviously biased towards Israel. When he was asked if Israel is too reckless with its ethnic cleansing, he answered "no", but immediately went on to answer in more detail, effectively saying "yes". But in all other parts of the interview, I'd say he was on point.

[@aigaoliveira3278]

​@@zeppelin0110 And here we go...

[@utah20gflyer76]

This guy is deranged and evil.

[@brianbozo2447]

Imagine he was in the white house advising Trump

[@MarcosElMalo2]

We don’t have to imagine. Or was that your point. Unfortunately, ex-president Trump had made it clear he won’t be installing people like McMasters if he is elected a second time. Trump has made it clear that he will be installing loyalists in these positions to co-sign his BS and do his bidding, not give advice that might be contrary to his whims.

[@stampmate]

Why Egypt should open border, move them inside their land

[@josefontanez3871]

You believe it was not excessive! Give me a break!

[@xtrajently]

What exactly could’ve Israel done, to shelter the enemy population, while trying to achieve a modicum of its operational objectives? “Use firepower with greater discretion”? Israel is fighting in the most difficult circumstances for distinguishing between civilians and combatants, which by the way, most of the time looks absolutely alike, yet civilian to combatant casualty ratio, isn’t any worse than any western military had in its history. Id say it’s quite a good sign of discretion while applying firepower.

[@k.o.hakala2112]

Times headline attention grabbing department winning clicks

[@olorin4317]

They could have tunneled under theprisoncityofGaza themselves and taken the fight directly to the bad guys.

[@es4583]

You are apparently not paying attention if you think that the combatant casualty to civilian ratio isn't any worse than any western military. Israel is saying that every adult male killed is a member of Hamas, despite the fact that there were only 30000 militants in a pre-invasion population of 2.2 million people. Israel is intentionally killing unarmed civilian males and calling them Hamas.

[@ikke12345]

You are not allowed to target civilians indiscriminately. If you do you have arrived at the same level as those who organised the showah. Any way some high ranking Israeli ministers are openly talking about an end losung for the Palestinian problem. It tells a lot about those goons

[@user-fz6fc7nj7x]

@@ikke12345: “ target civilians “? You mean like baking babies in ovens a la Hamas?

[@Forkroute]

Time for Rafah

[@AbbyNon]

Why Egypt doesn't allow civilians to hide in Egypt while Israel fights Hamas in Gaza?

[@renatshafigulin5467]

Hard to manage hundred thousand desperate people

[@user-yb6eo1xp2f]

Because they dont like palestinians

[@user-yb6eo1xp2f]

​@@renatshafigulin5467Turkey managed to accomodate 3 millions Syrians.

[@Wackalacka]

Why would they?

[@user-yb6eo1xp2f]

@@Wackalacka fellow arabs maybe?! No?

[@whazzat8015]

Did he say Donkey challenges ahead?

[@sonyashas9347]

Egyptian are making money from Palestinians.

[@direwolf6234]

and get billions from US too ...

[@gg_rider]

And how are Palestinians earning money to pay to Egypt? From other export industries? No, from foreign aid.

[@rsfaeges5298]

Social cohesion is a sociological variable (factor, .....)

[@imerupp]

I have ALOT of respect for General McMaster, everyone should listen to everything he has to say. He has NO political motive, and tells it like it is. Not a Trump fan, but I am a fan of General McMaster! God bless you sir! #GeneralMcMaster

[@Amused-px6cr]

Defense Industry $$$$ that is the motive

[@victoriahigman6802]

This all makes sense

[@catmonarchist8920]

Classic American perspective

[@mats66]

Correct about Ukraine but completely wrong about the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

[@mayabergsdottir9622]

Pure evil.

[@melrose2853]

He was a history major

[@richardloach610]

Hard power is one thing, but with declining, aging populations and spoilt young generations, who is going to want to pick up a weapon?

[@MarcosElMalo2]

I responded to one of your other comments about recruitment and conscription. And to clarify my reply there, you are making good points and there should be a lot more discussion on these issues. But that said, I think I have the answer. It started coming to me as a funny answer that would solve the problem you just stated with clarity. Now hear me out. 😂 lol WHAT IF the military classified first person shooters as sensitive military technology, and co-opted the FPS game companies into the DIB. They would still be private companies, but they would become military contractors. Gamers would flock to recruiting offices if the latest and greatest releases were only available to the military as training simulators. Games companies would still be allowed to sell older games and gimped versions of our military’s exclusive games. I’m proposing this as a ridiculous joke. But is it really ridiculous? 😂 I see some obvious objections, like aren’t all gamers irretrievable softbody slobs? The truth is that some are. But not all. And some are borderline. The military could sponsor e-games to find the best gamers. I guess the question remains. Would these gamer recruits be willing to pick up a rifle in real life? I think the answer is yes, some would. What do you think? Is my idea dumb enough to work?😅

[@tinytim71301]

Yes it does. 💪🤘🏼🫡

[@Novella47]

How my Jews are in these surrounding Islamic countries like Iran and Lebanon?

[@direwolf6234]

zero ... all kicked out from 15 arabs countries in 1948 - over 800,000 .....

[@Novella47]

@@direwolf6234 Then nobody can complain then.

[@direwolf6234]

@@Novella47 so why did you ask ??

[@gg_rider]

​​@@Novella47 also, some Jews were kicked out of Islamic countries long before 1948, like Yemen in 1840.

[@danrobinson5444]

It is axiomatic, that during times of war you discover who your friends are. The Gazans have not been accepted into the land of Egypt, nor into Jordan. No other Muslim nation, has offered to relocate the Gazans to safety.

[@LevanGureshidze-ph8vh]

It is a matter of national security for the Muslim countries as well.

[@beachboy0505]

Never give in to the Zionists. it's most shameful.

[@brianm7278]

Why should Egypt or Jordan do what Israel wants them to do?

[@black10872]

​@@beachboy0505Say what you want about zionist. At least they don't commit suicide and take other people with them. And they don't force you to convert to Judaism.

[@direwolf6234]

@@brianm7278 israel did what the muslims wanted when they expelled all the jews in 1948

[@casteretpollux]

Lock him up!

[@Perri_Redder]

A simple but profound statement. Indeed. Hamas shot their way into Israel, performed horrible atrocity, took hostages, then hid behind civilians. Then they fought off the IDF defenders trying to retrieve the last of their people who were still alive. Reality is very plain in hindsight for many poor students. I feel deeply for the people of Gaza, they did not wish for this. Ordinary people want to live in peace and build prosperity. Hamas is a scourge. I have no idea what possessed them to do what they did, but this must never happen on our earth.

[@Rtg5637]

Ordinary people of Gaza celebrated Oct 7

[@gg_rider]

​@@Rtg5637 Estimates are 70% of people of Gaza support Hamas and 30% don't, or at least 30% don't defend the suicidal homicidal Hamas invasion. It's like a guy who gets in a suicidal shootout with cops from his home, but his wife and kids are hostages.

[@Rtg5637]

@@gg_rider irrelevant distinction in a war zone

[@Tbone1492]

McMaster is one of America's best. Hodges just like to talk. He speaks truth🙏

[@MrBendylaw]

How many rubles do you get per comment, to stir things up?

[@impossibleisjustanopinion9898]

Hodges just does 50 interviews daily. He likes to say what people want to hear

[@MrBendylaw]

@@impossibleisjustanopinion9898 Nope. He just calls it like he sees it in clear, plain language. It's the opposite of lying, and that's why accounts like you have been given orders to attack him. I like your username, though! Did you ever read the Peter Pomerantsev book you got it from?

[@tomburroughes9834]

What a great speaker he is. Concise, detailed and on-point.

[@user-zc4yd9ss7h]

And lying.

[@tomburroughes9834]

@@user-zc4yd9ss7h In your opinion.

[@impossibleisjustanopinion9898]

Love Mcmaster💛

[@timtrewyn453]

Ending Hamas' jurisdiction over Gaza can be accomplished, but what are the requirements for that? I think Israel assumes, based on the history of the region, that the next jurisdiction of Gaza will be subject to a similar stream of terrorist acts. So they would very much like to hand off the jurisdiction of Gaza to others as they did before. A crucial issue is finding a way to reduce and/or counter the financial influences that support Hamas. I cannot say I have heard of leading entrepreneurs coming out of Gaza, though I suppose some exist. It would seem more that the path to fortune in Gaza has been to enlist in Hamas, because that's where there's money. So the most ambitious young men become Hamas fighters, while others settle for trades and the mercantile, no doubt taxed by Hamas, but as lightly as possible to maintain loyalty. The sympathy campaign has been successful in bringing in more money. A remnant of Hamas has already gotten away. Hamas will not be destroyed. They are preparing to make things difficult for the next Gazan jurisdiction. Yes, winning the war includes a vision of an aftermath that really can lead to something better.

[@SlavaSlavenima]

8:20 this is the worst psyop ever

[@TEKANNON-bz9fm]

What makes no sense to me---and I have no military or geo-political experience---is why on earth is everyone talking about Russian-Chinese-North Korean-Iranian collaboration with question marks? We have our allies; they have theirs. What I think is wrong in the way military heavy-weights like General McMaster is doing along with other politicians is to throw the Chinese into the same bag as their allies in saying they are stirring up trouble because of this or that. What am I saying here? Isn't it time to change the narrative and when we talk of China, not to use saber-rattling, but praise the Chinese for their culinary expertise, space programs, etc., and in between the lines leave our embedded desires that we know the Chinese know that for things to remain as they are in the straights of Taiwan for example, is the only way peace will prevail? Let us talk about the wonderful people of Iran, and how we all know that their safety is our primary concern and that the preservation of peace in the middle east is something we know the leader of Iran certainly agrees to. We can let the wrongdoers know we cannot accept lines being crossed, but why call them out on the red carpet? It only elevates them into positions of power they never dreamed they would be capable of reaching. A world at peace is the only acceptable existence for the human community...

[@Djamonja]

It sounds like you want to lie and spin-doctor everything like the Russians and Chinese do. It's better to be frank and honest when countries are doing things that are counter to western values.

[@davidschierholz4178]

As far as China- because their current leader has said he intends to acquire Taiwan, our de-facto ally, with or without the use of force?

[@TEKANNON-bz9fm]

@@davidschierholz4178 GGGGGGGreat to hear from you. It is not clear what you are asking or saying, but I believe that we have to change our way of talking about our adversaries on the international stage and let it be known between the lines what we will or will not accept, rather than beat it down their throats with a gold plated golf club driver and make them look like bogey men and trash. It's time to be discreet. Biden's first meeting with Putin is a good example of what I mean. He was going to meet Putin in Geneva, and a reporter asked him if Putin was a killer and Biden said; "Yes, he's a killer." It may be true or not but it cast a spell of doom over their getting together and ruined the summit meeting from the get go. But hey, what do I know?

[@casteretpollux]

McMaster should be jailed.

[@joseleon8235]

There is not one word about peace collaboration, at least as a parallel (to military strength) means to achieve common goals to stop wars that are unwinable. Talking about one way only is like listening to someone sell something on the basis of none-seconds effects, no risk, and a secure return. The general mind setting is wrong in a new multipolar world with nuclear capabilities. Their ideas are far riskier and will condemn us to an eternal war.

[@MrDubyadee1]

Peace collaboration? What is that? It sounds like what democracies strive for everyday. It’s the imperialist authoritarians who can’t stay within their own borders.

[@alexschonski3637]

Just another talking head for the U.S Military Industrial Complex

[@gg_rider]

Better than the China military industrial complex. Did you see Chinese beatings, slavery, and apartheid in Nigeria?

[@charliebrownlives1348]

Afghanistan. Where empires go to die. Ancient Curse

[@kafanfxme]

Hi Adam! Great job

[@glennsag5397]

The video just started and I can't listen to it anymore this is all ridiculous I'm embarrassed for our country

[@sarawinter8478]

He's speaking Truthfully. Thank-you for your service

[@marchess286]

I would have asked LTG McMaster whether he thinks the drop in recruiting is connected to the reassessment and reversal of the American tradition of honoring denigration of the tradition in of honoring Confederate military heroes, such as Robert E. Lee. This tradition was important in the rural South. That population always made up a disproportionate share of the infantry and had family traditions of military service.

[@TINAMIAOULI]

McMaster, in a world where information is at your finger tips, why not try googling "IDF uses palestinians as human shields" just to aee what you can come up with. Your smoke screen narrative around the IDF building shelters, to offer safety to Gazans while being bombed out of existence, is squarely at odds with israel spurring on the defunding of UNRWA. At this point, i am wondering whether like US polititian, you too have a price tag as a mouthpiece for Israel.

[@georgeromweber2693]

So cowardly in the end, not defending the Constitution from clear enemies from within.

[@mjeffn2]

“Daunting challenges,” are opportunities for Trump to sow more chaos than he already had, and challenges for Biden that must be solved. We damn sure don’t need more chaos. That’s for sure.

[@s.d.h.3t981]

Warmongers

[@naldanomavo405]

If you're talking Russia and China, you're right.

[@neondaniels6672]

Full support for Israel from India

[@ak203]

I am always mystified by McMaster. He has a solid record but he always sounds tentative and frankly, not very sophisticated, when he speaks.

[@samuelgoldring9691]

Maybe not being a stuffed shirt out of central casting allows him to be a nimble supple thinker

[@richardloach610]

Give them all we can? Oh brother, what is the point in sending so many weapons to Ukraine when there is increasingly no one left there to use them?

[@MarcosElMalo2]

That’s not true. The problem is that the Ukrainian defense forces don’t have enough equipment and ammunition to supply the men and women currently fighting. The Ukrainian training pipeline seems to be functioning as it should. You’re repeating disinformation.

[@opensky6580]

You are lying

[@sirusvirus9650]

That is a Description of Ethnic Cleansing 😮

[@compartsrecoveries2048]

In other words, he won't criticise Trump in order not to burn his bridges as service to the USA and helping the next President, whoever he turns out to be, is more important than his opinions about the man. You always have to listen out for the subscript, and this one came in the closing sentence.

[@christopherlees1134]

ORANGE MAN BAD!!!

[@terjeoseberg990]

@@christopherlees1134, Who’s “Orange Man”?

[@TedATL1]

Under Trump --- no Putin invasions, no war with Iran. Obama and Biden are appeasers.

[@bradhombre6912]

He's a critic of Trump. He has criticized him before. He's actually criticizing Trump here, but it's pretty mild.

[@Cvb318]

This man is is in left field

[@josehawkins4276]

🇺🇦🇵🇸

[@donatocote2578]

Yet he is bald..

[@sawtooth808]

And ?…

[@Omba770]

a coward general

[@peterlangan1181]

The Egyptians know that if they once allow the Palestinians in, Israel will never allow them back. Mc Master knows that too, he is deliberately being naive! I have yet to see one of the crop of recently retired U.S. generals give a talk that impressed me.

[@naldanomavo405]

Egypt was offered Gaza. Lock, stock and barrel. And the refused. No one wants Gaza or the people. And no one wants the people because everywhere they go they destabilize the country they're in. Look what happened to Lebanon.

[@gg_rider]

The people of Gaza are ethnic Egyptians. Yasser Arafat was raised in Cairo, by Egyptian parents, though he was born in a hospital in Gaza. Palestinian leaders have said that they are all Egyptians, or else Syrians, with some people from Arabia and some from Iraq. The West Bank (of the Jordan River) is more Syrian people, though that area was annexed by Jordan after 1948. Jordan was established by Britain on British Mandate Palestine in 1921 (aka Ottoman Empire Palestine aka Roman Empire Palestine aka Judea and Samaria), taking over THREE FOURTHS of Palestine territory. They wanted one smart king to rule over all the little tribes and clans, so chose one king from Mecca, a descendant of Muhammad's family. That King was Abdullah, son of Faisal. Britain helped them get that organized and functioning.

[@davidhunt3808]

Israel has overplayed its hand !! They had everyone's sympathy after October 7th then five months later this war continues . The stated aim is the eradication of Hamas but to me that is an impossible task . The Israelis are bogged down not achieving their aims and losing support and sympathy . Meanwhile those hostages remain in captivity !!

[@denisdrubetskiy2265]

Overplayed? Do the European and American friends allow the eradication of Hamas?

[@Stardust475]

The Muslim world was celebrating even in London within 24 hrs. They were crying genicide before Israel even started military campaign.

[@juanperezvela37]

General McMaster: The Egyptians know all too well that the Israelis won’t allow Palestinians back into Gaza once their operation is over. The immense naïveté displayed by you in this subject is mind-boggling. I’ve often wondered whether you have been brain-washed, or simply don’t understand history.

[@Amused-px6cr]

Mcmaster You cant uncouple yourself from carrying the water for Trump. You also cant pretend that the Defense Industry $$$ sponsors your evry utterance

[@bdadolph]

Gen. McMaster that axis of aggression includes Donald Trump, your old boss

[@Rtg5637]

4 years of peace in the world is indeed very aggressive

[@ahmadalam5624]

this guys is a dog

[@ScottMcMaster-er4xj]

For a second I was wonder how and why I had become Israels biggest mistake.

[@janwhite6038]

Is the Ben Gurion canal still planned in Gaza and the oilfields?

[@terjeoseberg990]

So you believe that Gaza attacked Israel to give Israel an excuse to take Gaza? Why would Gaza do that?

[@Rtg5637]

No oil fields in Gaza and no canal plan

[@_elix22]

Gaza has many stones , rocks and sand, Israel wants the sand , rocks and stones of Gaza 😂

[@boogboog8097]

Pretending hamas is not the approved "military" of palestine is completely disingenuous

[@seanohare5488]

In regards to recruitment get rid of this woke nonsense in the military like now that bonehead general milley talking about wanting to understand what white rage is was disgraceful phoney and detrimental to recruitment

[@Lucas-hb1uq]

What is “woke” about the military recruitment? Be specific please.

[@tinytim71301]

“Proportionate”!!! That is how you end up with perpetual war.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

It’s a spectrum. On one end you have insufficient/ineffective. On the other you have dropping nukes on civilian targets that have little or no strategic value. It’s actually very difficult to pinpoint “proportionate” on that line. It’s better to err in the side of too much than too little. Doing too little also leads to perpetual war. Israel’s biggest mistake has been ignoring or even hampering humanitarian aid for civilians. If Israel can evacuate Rafah and provide the refugees with the necessary medical and food aid, they can be as disproportionate as they want going after Hamas.

[@squireson]

" ... *Sadly* the Egyptians didn't open that border..." ? They didn't because they knew that Palestinians that left wouldn't be allowed back. Israels opposition to the 'right of return' isn't new and it's purpose isn't subtle. They are still treating Gaza and the West bank like conquered territory that hasn't been fully integrated yet. Continuing to pretend that there aren't land grab aspirations here helps no one, including Israel.

[@naldanomavo405]

Right. That's why Israel occupied it from 1967 to 1993 and willingly left it completely in 2005. Its a hot potato.No one wants Gaza. Get a clue.Egypt didn't open the border because they hate Palestinians and don't want them in their country.

[@Stardust475]

There is no fictitious right of return. Israel tried to return Gaza to Egypt, they refused. Jordan also refused to take back WB. Under international law, in a defensive war the land gained can be kept by the defending nation. Israel didn't annexe those lands because they're a hostile population. Arabs in those regions Gaza and WB didnt want normalisation even when there werent checkpoints and restrictions. And they didnt want Israeli citizenship. The 20% Arabs in Israel proper do have citizenship. Most of West Bank has previous Jordanian citizenship ( Jordan slowly withdrawing these)

[@dlitepix3752]

Propaganda

[@niklasnorberg5071]

Would be equally horrifying if the Israeli gouverment is still in power after this.

[@jawedz]

I disagree with him vehemently on Israel, on his apparent deference to Trump, his critique of the "left" influenced by "post modern interpretation" etc, but otherwise a person with interesting thoughts on military and politics. On the good students of the U.S. opposing what the IDF is doing, his arguments sounds like Mr. Putin. The fact that others have agencies allows you to colonise and take their land? It is dangerous and absurd.

[@Stardust475]

No colonisation but decolonisation yes.

[@gg_rider]

Jews purchased every square meter of land in western Palestine for decades, prior to when Egypt and other nations launched the war on May 15th 1948, on behalf of their Arab brethren. Prior to that, Jews did not have weapons or military power to conquer any land. A Palestinian historian stated that the first time in Arab riot against Jews was successfully countered was 1938, though I thought (from reading some histories of events) that some previous Arab militia attacks were successfully countered by Jewish militia groups. During the war, the Arab enemy fled willingly, or some fled on orders from Arab League commanders in Amman (according to leaders of Jordan). Some were pushed out by the IDF during the war that lasted a year. Historians have estimated what percent of each case.

[@gg_rider]

​​​​​​@@Stardust475 Israel _is Decolonization_ . The area was previously an occupied colony of Rome, Mamluks, Ottoman Turks, the British Mandate of the League of Nations, and other occupation forces. THE WHOLE PURPOSE of British occupation was to decolonize by creating independent sovereign Nation States. Britain chopped off THREE FOURTHS of the region of Palestine to create the Emirate of Transjordan (later, the kingdom of Jordan) way back in 1921. Britain helped the Arabs of Palestine get Jordan running smoothly under a Hashemite king from Mecca, from Muhammad's family. Britain was trying to work out how to manage the remaining ONE FOURTH of British Mandate Palestine as defined by the League of Nations for the next several decades until they packed up and left in 1948. Britain had begun evacuating in 1947 and completely left the day before Israel officially declared its existence as a functioning country with an independent sovereign government, on May 14th. Britain had basically washed their hands of the whole matter. On May 15th 1948, Egypt launched the military invasion along with other Arab states, on behalf of the Arab militants of the region. Other friendly Arab non-militants became Israeli citizens. That's why there's 2 million Arab Muslim citizens of Israel today. Hamas hates Arab-israelis who are integrated into society, and wants them all dead. If Hamas won, that would mean 2 million Arab-Muslims facing Death and requiring evacuation as refugees, because Hamas considers them de facto Zionists and apostates or ex-Muslims.

[@jawedz]

@@gg_rider In your imagination perhaps?

[@americasfavoritebrazilian2399]

Mcmaster's a real leader. He would've never let this happen. He would've had common sense leaving the middleeast

[@GregoryCunningham]

General McMaster doing his rounds as a PR rep for the Military Industrial Complex I see. What a great way of disrespecting everyone who’s served.

[@samuelgoldring9691]

Have you served? Speak for yourself

[@olorin4317]

This buffoon was instrumental in all of America’s recent wartime debacles. Great person to listen to.

[@olorin4317]

He’s not entirely wrong on the blatantly obvious parts, but he is just another hammer that sees only nails.

[@olorin4317]

They could have tunneled under theprisoncityofGaza themselves and taken the fight directly to the bad guys.

[@olorin4317]

It is so much fun to find the approved words that won’t make the comment go bye bye in this digital dystopia.

[@AdamBechtol]

@@olorin4317 Mmmm

[@salahobeidallah6887]

To advance in our military, you must not have a heart.

[@AdamBechtol]

Didn't think anyone was still listening to H R Mcaster. I wouldn't.

[@user-fz6fc7nj7x]

An American general talking about ‘ greater discrimination’? 😅

[@MichaelPetersFenwicks]

Too late...........how in the world can anyone make a case for Israel considering the catastrophic failure of this military operation....?? Furthermore what do endless military wars achieve - Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan being cautionary tales. Questions also have to be raised about US protectionist policies about China and Russia?

[@naldanomavo405]

Failed? How? It isn't even' over yet. And Israel has it's goals. And If Syria is a cautionary tale, it's about not doing ENOUGH.

[@MichaelPetersFenwicks]

@@naldanomavo405 Israel Isolation internationally can only get worse. Furthermore ICC actions have left Israel with so much explaining to do answering your question has the military campaign failed? YES factors mentioned above.

[@direwolf6234]

@@MichaelPetersFenwicks did the ICC charge hamas with crimes ??

[@apkosmic]

McMaster doesn't sound like a sociopath at all...and he was Trump's 'voice if reason's.😱

[@naldanomavo405]

You're right. He doesn't sound like a sociopath at all. And I love how you're trialing off with insinuations without actually making any statements at all.

[@Everyonehasanopinion]

Yeah; it must be hard to distinguish between a militant combatant and a 7 year old child or an elderly woman. Accidents happen… 19,000 times? Stop gaslighting already.

[@Rtg5637]

Almost no 7 yr olds or elderly women because of Israel

[@andreas0101]

they are calling 15-17 years olds with a rocked launcher children. Imagine believing hamas propaganda.

[@AdamBechtol]

mmmm

[@naldanomavo405]

Hamas numbers.And in Gaza, yeah it IS pretty hard to tell, when the militant is hiding behind the civilians. if anyone here doesn't care about 'civilians' it's Hamas.

[@elisabethbordin982]

What a clown

[@MB561]

McMaster fails to understand that nobody wants to serve in a military that is woke. And he's too politically correct to say this so he shouldn't even talk on the subject. If he's not willing to be honest then just be quiet.

[@mickdolan9592]

This guy is Rumsfeld

[@kafanfxme]

This guys is just like Bibi - only really really not smart

[@josehawking5293]

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