Source (Croatian): https://tribun.hr/americki-admiral-zivoti-20-izraelaca-vrijede-kao-zivoti-tisucu-amerikanaca/ **Translated**: MSNBC announced that the lives of twenty Israelis were worth the lives of a thousand Americans and that the Hamas attack on Israel was a "9/11 level event". "When twenty Israelis are killed or twenty hostages are taken, it's like a thousand Americans," said MSNBC pundit and retired Admiral James Stavridis, a former NATO commander, who went on to compare the potential deaths of sixty Israelis to the 9/11 attacks on America. September. "So, if we go into the issue of sixty Israelis killed, we are really looking at an event on the level of 9/11. And I think the level will be well above sixty.” "This is a huge political, military and diplomatic moment that will come out of this in the next few days." Hamas's unprecedented attack on Israel comes at a time when the country is facing historic internal political division, rising violence in the West Bank and high-stakes negotiations between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United States. After its members killed 200 Israelis and kidnapped dozens of others, Hamas claimed it was taking revenge for a series of recent Israeli actions at Jerusalem's Al Asqa mosque and in the West Bank. For more than a year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government has been conducting an escalating crackdown against what it says are increasingly frequent Palestinian terrorist attacks. Former US intelligence and military officials said they believed the timing of the Hamas attack was primarily aimed at disrupting talks between Israel and Saudi Arabia as Riyadh appeared to be on the brink of a historic step to normalize relations with Israel. Iran is seeking to "put pressure on its implacable enemy Israel" with this attack, Stavridis said.