Avi Abelow
As I write this, one of my sons is deep inside the Gaza Strip, fighting shoulder to shoulder with his fellow Jewish warriors. A soldier in a historic, fateful campaign to eradicate an evil that has plagued our people and threatened our borders for far too long.
And this week, something shifted.
For the first time since October 7th, we are seeing the full force of the IDF surge forward.
Arlene Kushner | May 25, 2025
Courtesy Milgrim Family
There is so very much we should not have to endure. But I begin by marking the horrendous terrorist murder of two young staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC on Wednesday night: Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, who were about to become engaged. They were shot at close range outside the Capital Jewish Museum, where an event was being held.
Abedalelah Almaala | X
The Hashemite rule in Jordan and King Abdullah II are trying to fool the global decision-making capital, Washington, and the regional decision-making capital, Riyadh, and all the countries of the world by banning the Muslim Brotherhood and preventing their activities. But the… pic.twitter.com/Vkm6uSr4a3
— Abedalelah Almaala (@AbedAlmaala) May 23, 2025
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Yossi Baum | X
Once and for all: What is Netanyahu’s strategy for fighting the Deep State?
I apologize in advance to those who will dislike the conclusion of the post. The goal is only to present an informed analysis of the situation. Aamlq:
1. Netanyahu, until the current term, never had 61 *real* right-wing fingers who are willing to go against the High Court without fear of being stitched up by the case-stealing and co.
2. The election of Trump and the removal of the sword of impunity and the fear of civil war.
Long but worth it – let’s get started:
T. Belman [Nov 22, 2022]. I am reposting my article now because Qatar is in the news now due to it cancellation of warm Kosher food being sold to Jews who are visiting the FIFA games and prohibition of Jewish worship in Qatar.
By Ted Belman (first published Nov 2012)
Qatar is a small country with few people (1.87 million of which only 300,000 are citizens), yet it casts a giant shadow over N. Africa, the Middle East and Europe. It has the highest GDP per capita in the world and the highest energy reserves per capita in the world. While it treats its women more liberally than S. Arabia does, it has been indicted for immigrant labour violations and human trafficking. It is notorious for how badly it treats its foreign workers.
The U.S. Department of State’s 2012 Trafficking in Persons Report reports:
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By Walter E. Block
President Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza is simple: Banish all the Palestinians from that enclave. Rebuild what remains of it into an American Riviera on the Mediterranean. (Simple is not bad, at least not according to Occam’s mighty razor; if there are two explanations out there and one is more complex, the other is to be preferred).
As can be expected, this elegant and eminently morally justified proposal has come under a barrage of criticism.
Peloni: Iran continues preparations for regional conflict
This is important for Iran because if there are any rising tensions, it will want the support of countries such as Turkey, Iraq, and Pakistan.
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | MAY 25, 2025
Iran is shoring up ties with its neighbors as it continues talks with the US over its nuclear program. This is important for the Islamic Republic because, if there are any rising tensions, it will want the support of countries such as Turkey, Iraq, and Pakistan.
It is these countries that Iran has been doing outreach to in recent days.
Michael Ordman | VGNI | May 25, 2025
In the 25th May 25 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
Peloni: Qatar is a slave state which funds terrorism around the world, including with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran. It also funds the antisemitic Hamas aligned protests on US college campuses which the US govt is specifically challenging. Qatar has been caught in illicit bribery schemes in both the EU and US, most notoriously in connection to the recent Senator Menendez bribery case. Qatar is a Wahabist Islamic state. Their values and interests are both antithetical to and contradictory with the Western values of the US, not aligned with it.
Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Jassim Al Thani Rejects Accusations of Bribing FIFA, EU Parliament, and Netanyahu: For the Last 10 Years There Has Been No Proof That Qatar Has Done Anything Wrong; Plane Gift to Trump Is Normal, the Statue of Liberty Was Also a Gift pic.twitter.com/Kj1TMdI6LV
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 25, 2025
By Ted Belman, August 2012
For the last 60 years, the US has been steadfast in its efforts to prevent Israel from exercising sovereignty over Jerusalem and declaring it to be its capital. The only possible reason for such a policy is to show deference to the oil lobby in the US. It mattered little to it, that for three thousand years, Jerusalem has only been the capital of Judea, now Israel, and is inseparable from it. Jerusalem (Zion) is mentioned over 700 times in the Torah and not once in the Koran.
Last week, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was pressed on the issue of Jerusalem. Not only was he unwilling to say the Jerusalem is the capital of Israel but he was not prepared to acknowledge that the western section of Jerusalem, which Israel conquered in the ’48 War and which lies to the west of the armistice lines, was even in Israel.
By acknowledging he was in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, Romney embraced the reality and flew in the face of a 60 year old American policy.
The response from Camp Obama was immediate.
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Peloni: This is a very important article explaining the likelihood of an imminent Israeli attack on Iran. It is long, but well worth the read.
Click on link for article.
Gregg Roman | MEF | May 24, 2024
https://www.meforum.org/mef-observer/days-not-weeks-israels-imminent-attack-on-iranian-nuclear-sites
Peloni: An accurate depiction of history and a tolerant acceptance of the rights and dignity of Jews must be the basis of any and all peace initiatives. Without addressing this key aspect between Israel and its neighbors, any attempt at peace will be seen to be no peace at all. Which is why Abdullah continues to support claims of blood libels against Israel and routinely calls for violence against Israel due to false claims of attacks on religious sites.
| All Israel News | Published: May 25, 2025is
Jordanian school books have fallen short of the standards of the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) for some time. This year, the institute found the situation had deteriorated even further.
by Gerald A. Honigman
Two beautiful young Israelis, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, were about to be engaged, but were wantonly slaughtered instead by a know-nothing, dhimmi useful idiot of Arabs in their non-stop quest to deny Jews in their sole, minuscule, resurrected nation what Arabs have gained for themselves on some six million square miles of territory via 14 centuries of non-stop jihadi imperialist, colonizing, settling conquests of mostly native NON-Arab peoples’s lands: Kurds, Copts, black Africans, native, pre-Arab Lebanese, Assyrians, Amazigh/Kabyle/ “Berbers,” native ‘kilab yahud’ (Jew dogs), and so forth .
Court papers say suspect in embassy killings declared, ‘I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza’
Mudar Zahran, X
After President Trump’s Visit— A completely new Middle East is being born…
The heart countries of the region—marginalized for 70 years—will be strengthened and restored to their rightful place.
T. Belman. I decided to repost this important article because the title was right then and is right now. The UNGA recently recognized the State of Palestine contrary to the Montevideo Convention which sets out the legal requirements for statehood:
The state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states.
At a minimum, “Palestine” does not have a “defined territory.”
Another example of the UN ignoring the law. The UN backed Oslo Accords clearly gives Israel full control of Area C. Nevertheless the UN and its member states are financing Arab construction in Area C in total disregard of the Oslo Accords.
My 2009 article Can the UN impose a solution on Israel? shed’s further light on the purpose of the UN
By Ted Belman (Published April 21, 2012)
The United Nations’ Human Rights Council has resorted to official enquiries as a precursor to damning Israel — the most recent of which was the Goldstone Enquiry on Cast Lead, Israel’s attack on Hamas in Gaza. And we know how that turned out. Israel was accused of all manner of war crimes, though none were proven to have been committed.
Last week, the UNHRC passed a resolution to “dispatch an independent international fact-finding mission, to be appointed by the president of the Human Rights Council, to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.” The resolution was based, inter alia, on a written statement produced by Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, a Palestinian NGO financed by a number of European countries.
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Peloni: The role of Harvard as a foreign policy tool used in color revolutions around the world places it at the nexxus of both Trump’s anti-Blob campaign and its anti-antisemitism campaign. This is a fight which he can not afford to lose.
“Harvard is essentially a foreign policy tool that merges financial markets with intelligence and statecraft to impact global policy, foreign policy and the domestic drivers of foreign policy, which includes running out a president who might oppose a foreign policy that interferes with Harvard’s bottom line.”
Harvard is not what it seems. Watch all 11 minutes here to begin to understand the scale of what you are up against. pic.twitter.com/WaEHCfW1au
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) May 23, 2025
Peloni: Ignorant, dishonest and shameful, Golan’s efforts to deligitimize Netanyahu deligitimizes Israel altogether. This is a pattern altogether common from the Left, and altogether embraced by our enemies.
It is only natural that those who hate Israel—from the halls of power to mobs in the street—will find validation, justification and even encouragement to intensify their efforts.
Douglas Altabef | May 23, 2025
Yair Golan. (Photo by Oren Rozen – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0)
In the war that Israel has been beset with since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, there are very few coincidences.
By Janatan Sayeh | May 23, 2025
Israeli Air Force members wait for F-35I Adirs to launch for a Red Flag-Nellis 23-2 mission at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, March 16, 2023. (Photo by Airman 1st Class Trevor Bell – Dvidshuv, Public Domain)
As the fifth round of negotiations between Tehran and Washington concluded in Rome, signs of progress remained elusive. Iranian state media reported on May 23 that US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steven Witkoff had left the talks prematurely. Citing two anonymous Iranian officials, CNN noted the same day that Tehran doubted the meetings would yield any agreement. An Iranian official speaking to The National on May 19 also voiced skepticism over the prospects of a breakthrough.
