Arlene Kushner | March 20, 2025
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In my last posting on March 17, I asked how much longer the impasse with Hamas could last and concluded by writing we would act in Gaza shortly: “I have a strong level of confidence that this is what will transpire.”
Kelleigh Nelson
Dr. Dave Weldon. By Unknown photographer, U.S. House of Representatives Creative Services; modifications likely made by United States Government Printing Office – (August 2005) One Hundred Ninth Congress: Congressional Pictorial Directory, Congressional Pictorial Directory, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, p. 34 Retrieved on March 13, 2025., Public Domain
Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease, pharmaceutical companies would lose 100% of their profits on the products they sell for that ailment. What all this means is because modern medicine is so heavily intertwined with the financial profits culture, it’s a sickness industry more than it is a health industry. James Morcan
Peloni: This truth revealed in Mudar Zahran‘s speech before the EU has never been stated to the EU before nor since Mudar did so. This is because only Mudar can speak as the leader of the Jordanians Opposition, as a leader of the Palestinians, to the EU to clarify that when the Europeans abuse Israel to support the PA, they are in fact acting to harm the Palestinians. This message, no matter if it is spoken by an Arab or a Jew, an American or a European, it can have no particular gravity when compared to it being spoken by the Palestinians themselves, and no other Pal has ever actually done so, not at the EU. Also, as we listen to this speech and simply say that Mudar was right, or that he was speaking the truth, we miss the greater victory which Mudar won for us that day, because he spoke as one of the oppressed who was himself a victim of the very oppression which has been subsidized and monetized by the EU against the Pal population simply to restrain and attack Israel. Notably, no one else could actually make that statement with any where near the same gravitas and meaning as Mudar did that day. Relevantly, this was not the first time he made such unabashedly honest statements about Israel, and it was also far from the last time he has made them as well.
Mudar has been a very great and consistent friend to the Israeli people, and his defense of Israel has been a uniquely powerful one over the years, based on rational, relatable, and honest criticisms of Israel’s enemies. His success will be our success, and his failure will be ours to regret, and this would be true for the Palestinians as well.
THE SIMPLE TRUTH: OUR ENEMY IS NOT ISRAEL… BUT THE HASHEMITE REGIME THAT PRESENTS THE GREATEST EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO THE JORDANIAN-PALESTINIAN PEOPLE…
Peloni: This is a very important article with implications which far exceed the boundaries of Toronto.
Leon Kushner | Leon’s: The World is Upside Down | Mar 18, 2025
When does a community realize that its days are numbered?
When hate crimes are committed against it more than any other group? Nope.
When the mainstream media either ignores the hate crimes, does not report them or plainly denies them? Nope.
When some politicians are against them? Nope.
Linda Goudsmit: Journalist J.B. Shurk provides an excellent explanation for why patriots in the United States and around the world LOVE President Trump. It is his business-military mindset applied to common sense America-1st governance. The Democrat party and colluding foreign governments are apoplectic because President Trump has exposed and rejected their America-last strategies. The only thing missing from the article is that the Deomocrat controlled administrative state attempting to bankrupt the United States, is doing so in service to the globalist elite and its campaign for one-world government managed by the lethally corrupt United Nations.
By J.B. Shurk | Am Thinker | Mar 17, 2025
Click on link to read article
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/a_businessman_and_a_brilliant_strategist.html
Peloni: Any deal with Hezbollah should be understood to be a deal in which they will make no concessions while Israel makes significant ones. This has been the banditry by which Israel’s norther border has been manipulated to be left in the control of Hezbollah for decades now, and even as this policy of duplicity and one sided concessions is once again being unveiled, Lebanon, meaning Hezbollah, will be once again incentivized for their lack of reciprocity to the deal by once again becoming the recipient of billions of dollars in foreign aid subsidies. Israel should have only one policy in the north, and that is to pursue its military objectives as needed to secure its border with the foreknowledge that neither treaties or allies will force Hezbollah to be other than what it is, a terror organization which manipulates Lebanon at will with the support and consignment of the international community towards the ultimate goal of eliminating the Jewish entity in the region which i Israel. This cycle of stupidity expecting different outcomes from the same inputs must end.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain | Mar 18, 2025
Nabih Berri. By European Union, Attribution
Hezbollah and its allies – Speaker Nabih Berri, former Minister Najib Mikati, and Hezbollah ministers in the previous cabinet – all signed the ceasefire agreement with Israel that ended the war and that stipulated that arms in Lebanon must be exclusively in the hands of six government military and security agencies. When this happens, according to the deal, Israel withdraws from Lebanese territories. Now Hezbollah is reneging on its ceasefire promise, moving the goalposts, and reversing the order by saying that Israeli withdrawal comes first, then it might consider disarming.
It has a long history of “revolving-door justice” in which extremists are arrested in front of television cameras … and then quietly released.
Moshe Phillips
Eight weeks after the Palestinian Authority supposedly undertook a major anti-terrorist operation in Jenin and other cities, Israeli forces continue to capture terrorists, weapons and bomb-making equipment there. It seems as if the P.A.’s efforts weren’t quite as extensive as the international news media portrayed them to be.
Over the past two months, The New York Times has repeatedly claimed that the P.A. was in the midst of “cracking down” on the terrorists when Israel suddenly—and for no apparent reason—sent its forces into the same area. Other major media outlets have circulated similar reports.
Peloni: Pollard is completely correct. US “aid” limits Israel as a client status rather than as a full ally. For a robust and complete analysis on this topic, please read “End US Aid To Israel”
Janet Levy: We need to tell the truth about “aid” to Israel.
When U.S. officials talk about so-called “aid” to Israel, Americans need to understand that it is an investment with an unmatched ROI. Israelis build, test, modify and improve American weapons systems and supply some of the best intel in the world. Israel is NOT a drain on the U.S. budget as the value-added is nonpareil. There is NO comparison between the situation vis a vis Israel and the corruption and drain on American resources in Ukraine. THAT situation is NOT a win-win.
Peloni: Putin’s role in the Middle East was always intended to maintain stability, so Russia’s opposition to the destruction of Israel is not surprising, even as this remains an important statement by Putin. The corollary to his position on stability in the Middle East, however, would also maintain a resistance to the overthrow of the Mullahs, particularly as the resulting chaos could potentially result in another wave of immigrants toward Europe and Russia.
Leaders emphasize nuclear non-proliferation and Israel’s security in major diplomatic call.
Israfan | Mar 19, 2025
By Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed that Iran should never be in a position to threaten or destroy Israel. The statement came during a two-and-a-half-hour call between the two leaders, during which they discussed a range of issues focused on global security and stability in the Middle East.
Peloni: This return to war in Gaza must be the last such occasion. The Gazans must be allowed to leave, and what remains of that terror enclave and its remaining adherents must finally be destroyed, utterly and completely. If war is to be engaged, it should be pursued with the demonstration of complete resolve, without any pause or distractions to the goal of ultimate victory.
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Peloni: The timing of this epic failure on Ukraine’s part was significant, and with the war still not ended, the question remains whether Russia will next push on into Sumy or the other surrounding territories currently held by Ukraine… all while the Ukrainian rump continues on the road of being reduced with few exceptions.
Protests against the detention of Palestinian activist and Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil By SWinxy – Own work, CC BY 4.0
If I heard and read right, the alleged leader of the antisemitic mobs at Columbia Mahmoud Khalil was born in Syria, holds an Algerian passport, and calls himself a “Palestinian.” Which is it?
Peloni: The encouraged influx of unvetted Arabs coinciding with rising waves of antisemitic demonstrations and terror throughout the Western world over the past decade has placed a growing onus on Western nations to provide for the security needs of there relative Jewish communities. Hence, it is very encouraging to read of such efforts as in Italy to secure and support their Jewish citizens at least with such security parameters as described by Rabbi Aiello which surround Italy’s synagogues. In an age where pogroms have been incited over a recent football match in Amsterdam, the threat of violence against Jews has become all too palpable and all too acceptable amid the rising Arab demographic, making the effort of Italy to deal with their rising antisemitic attacks all the more vital.
Rabbi Barbara Aiello | TOI Blogs
It was nearly a year and a half ago following the October 7 massacre, that Italy stepped up to the challenge and offered direct physical protection to its synagogues.
In fact The European Conservative (10/9/23) reported that following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, several European countries have augmented police protection to Jewish communities and that Spain and Italy have now implemented a 24 hour armed police presence near their countries’ synagogues. Our synagogue, Ner Tamid del Sud, located in Calabria in Italy’s deep south is part of this program.
In other words, we Jews are fighting back.
Peloni: “Wishful thinking, they say, is not a policy.” If nothing else was has changed, this relatively obvious statement sounds as a thunderclap between what was believed before and what is understood today…and there can be no retrograde on having learned this lesson as the costs have been, and continue to be, to great to overlook or ignore.
Despite tremendous costs on the individual level, Israelis know they are here to stay in the Middle East.
Sarah N. Stern | Mar 17, 2025
Sitting here in Israel, I ask myself if this is the same Middle East it was before Oct. 7, 2023. Yes, the war that was waged on Israel on seven fronts continues into its 17th month, and at least 59 hostages are still not home with many no longer alive.
However, something else has changed.
Peloni: Cohen provides an detailed explaination of the tiered travel ban which Trump has proposed. It will of course be subjected to the wayward threat emanating from US courts which are preferring political bias rather than security and legal groundwork as the basis of their rulings, leaving an ever increasing reliance, dare I say dependence, upon the authority of the 9 members who make up SCOTUS, in preference to the chosen officials of the American people at large.
