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US’ Iran Policy – Iranian Reality vs. Alternate Reality  

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | April 29, 2025

It has been maintained that Iran’s Ayatollah regime is Israel’s problem, does not pose a serious threat to the US and global stability, and is manageable via negotiation. However, this assumption is repudiated by the march of facts.

1. Irrespective of Israel, Iran’s Ayatollah regime is driven by a 1,400-year-old fanatical vision, that is underscored by Iran’s school curriculum, mosque sermons, official media and sustained policy. This fanatical vision mandates the toppling of all pro-US Sunni Arab regimes and bringing the “infidel” West to submission, primarily “The Great American Satan.” Since the February 1979 toppling of Iran’s Shah, the Ayatollah regime has emerged as the leading global epicenter of anti-US wars, terrorism, drug trafficking and the proliferation of advanced military systems. It considers Israel as “The Little Satan” – the vanguard of the US in the Middle East and its first line of defense.  Moreover, the Ayatollah regime has expanded its anti-US rogue operations beyond the Persian Gulf and the Middle East, into Africa and Latin America, which is the soft underbelly of the US. For example, since the early 1980s, Iran has established terrorist training camps and ballistic missiles testing grounds in Latin America, solidifying strategic cooperation with drug cartels in Mexico, Columbia, Bolivia, Ecuador and Brazil, as well as with all anti-US Latin American governments, while proliferating terrorist sleeper cells on US soil (according to the FBI).

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April 30, 2025 | 6:02 am | Comments »

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A Great Warrior for Freedom Has Passed Away  

Peloni: David Horowitz was one of the greatest advocates of the Jewish people and the Jewish homeland. A legend in his own age, Horowitz’ passion, logic and interactive dialogue inspired many to grasp the challenge of facing down our enemies while armed only with dignity, resolve and the truth. May his memory be a blessing.

The world will not soon see a man like David Horowitz again.

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One of the great Americans of our age, David Horowitz, died on Tuesday at the age of 86.

David Horowitz was one of the towering intellects and most perceptive thinkers of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first; he was also a man of unusual courage and remarkable vision. Though few people today realize it, David Horowitz was also one of the most influential people of our time, as he was one of the first leftists of any prominence to leave the leftist ranks and become a stalwart warrior for freedom.

Multitudes followed in his wake, often without realizing who it was who had blazed the trail for them. We are all in his debt not only for blazing that trial, but for the fact that after he established himself as a voice for freedom, sound values, and patriotism, David Horowitz spearheaded efforts to seize the intellectual and moral initiative from the left, and to articulate a vision for an America that really is the land of the free and the home of the brave.

After decades of the left’s cultural hegemony, David Horowitz played a massive role in establishing a large-scale movement of American patriots who refused to accept the claims of self-anointed “progressives” that their victory was inevitable, that they were on the right side of history, and that surrender was wiser than resistance. Today, that movement is broad-based, and one of its foremost exponents is in the Oval Office. Trump himself called Horowitz his “great friend.”

Stephen Miller, one of Donald Trump’s key advisers, was in his college days the president of the Duke chapter of David Horowitz’s Students for Academic Freedom; Miller’s uncompromising, unapologetic and deeply informed response to the left’s propaganda machine (that is, the establishment media) is redolent of Horowitz’s influence.

Even just a few years ago, Miller’s robustly pugnacious approach to the media propagandists would have been unthinkable. It was taken for granted that American conservatives let the left define the parameters of the public discourse and control the debate over any controverted issue. If the left denounced any voice for freedom on the right, which it did on a regular basis, establishment conservatives fell dutifully into line and denounced the target themselves.

These establishment conservatives were ignorant of or indifferent to the fact that Saul Alinsky, a man who had been a socialist activist like David Horowitz but who had never heeded the better angels of his nature and broken with the left, taught that radicals could defeat their foes by isolating a target, demonizing and destroying that target, and then proceeding onto the next target by first denouncing him for associating with the first target.

David Horowitz not only refused to play along with this game; he broke its power. At the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s flagship publication, Front Page Magazine, he did not let the left set the agenda; instead, he set his own. He didn’t shun figures who enunciated unpopular truths that the left wanted desperately to conceal; instead, he gave them a platform. He articulated an American conservatism that was not defensive, not reactive, not imitative of the left, but providing a vision for our nation’s future that is a genuine alternative to what the left has forced upon Americans for so long, and which preserves and strengthens what has made our nation great.

Nowadays, when patriots seek out pundits and political analysts who articulate what they themselves want for our country, and they encounter a strong and self-assured patriotic movement, this is to a great degree the fruit of the tireless labors of David Horowitz. When he and his longtime friend and colleague Peter Collier left Ramparts magazine, which was at the vanguard of the leftist movement in the late 1960s, and embraced the patriotism and love for freedom they had previously fought so energetically against, the American left lost two of its foremost thinkers; it has never recovered.

If free people prevail in this great struggle in which we are now engaged, and if an honest history of our turbulent age is someday written, David Horowitz will stand as one of those who shone forth most brightly when the darkness seemed all-pervasive and invincible.

It has been an immense honor for me personally to have known David for twenty years, and to have fought for freedom alongside him as part of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. At the Center, we are now determined to continue David’s fight for freedom and to keep on carrying the torch for freedom that he lit, until we prevail. May his memory be eternal.

April 30, 2025 | 3:51 am | Comments »

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5 Wasteful and Harmful UN Organizations That Delegitimize Israel  

Peloni:  These organizations reflect the biased, factually inaccurate perspectives held by the UN itself.  Both the UN and its subsidiary organizations should be abandoned by any right thinking people.

David May & Jake Schlanger | April 29, 2025

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As the Trump administration undertakes a review of U.S. support for the United Nations, it should defund and seek the elimination of five UN organizations that exist primarily to delegitimize Israel. Toward that end, former President Joe Biden banned U.S. funding of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in 2024 for one year, with President Donald Trump permanently extending the ban in February 2025. However, four other UN anti-Israel organizations still benefit from the UN regular budget, of which the United States is the largest contributor, accounting for 22 percent of the $3.7 billion total, or roughly $800 million per year.

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April 30, 2025 | 12:10 am | 1 Comment »

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The Untold Story of How Israel Failed on October 7  

by Jonathan Foreman | Commentary | May 2025

(Photo by IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0)

The Hebrew word mechdal has no precise equivalent in English. It signifies a great catastrophe for which human beings are responsible by inaction, error, or irresponsibility. The Yom Kippur War of 1973, which began when an unprepared IDF was taken by surprise by simultaneous Syrian and Egyptian attacks, has often been referred to as a mechdal. The October 7, 2023, attack was an even greater mechdal.

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April 29, 2025 | 6:45 pm | 7 Comments »

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We Get What We Deserve!  

Peloni:  It is simply beyond belief and reason that Carney won this election.  A truly devastating blow for Jews, Canadians, and the free world, all in one defeat.  I look forward to this govt lacking support to remain in power for very long, and little else from this antisemitic, Chinese pawn ruling over the Great White North.

Leon Kushner | Leon’s: The World is Upside Down | April 29, 2025

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Here in Canada we just elected Mark Carney as our PM. He belongs to the same Liberal party that our former PM, Justin Trudeau was a member of. This will mark 10 years of a disastrous Leftist, woke, antisemitic government who’s leaders continue to be pawns of the WEF, that have run our beautiful country into the ground. Culturally, politically, economically and in every way (especially our education system) we are in deep trouble.

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April 29, 2025 | 5:51 pm | 3 Comments »

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China Isn’t Taking Over Manufacturing, It’s Taking Over Retail  

We still don’t understand China’s plans for our economy.

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American officials usually accuse China of trying to take over our manufacturing, but that’s old news. China took over our manufacturing long ago. And the parts it still hasn’t taken over are usually the parts that it doesn’t want or that are too uneconomical to be worth taking over.

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April 29, 2025 | 5:01 pm | 1 Comment »

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Avi Weiss’s huge exposé – everything Ronen Bar has been hiding from us for a year and a half  

Peloni:  Avi Weiss is an investigative journalist and editor of Telecom News, having written about 1,800 articles over the past 15years.  He is no stranger to making explosive revelations, which has only increased since October 7.

Yossi Baum | X | April 28, 2025

Avi Weiss’s huge exposé – everything Ronen Bar has been hiding from us for a year and a half:

  • Hamas activity inside Israel on the morning of the massacre did not begin at 6:29 as they wanted us to think, but during the small hours of the night. I received testimonies from people who were there in real-time around 3:30 AM. Also, 2 of the SIM cards that were used – were activated during those same hours inside Israel.

  • There were terrorist infiltrations from a tunnel into Israel during the night. The existence of the tunnel was revealed on N12 a year ago, but without the current context.

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April 29, 2025 | 4:53 pm | 1 Comment »

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Travelers and Fellow Travelers, Then and Now  

by Rafael Medoff

Charles Lindbergh being shown Herman Goering’s sword collection (Photo by The Herman Goering Collection donated this photo to the Library of Congress. Wikipedia Commons)

Five members of Congress last week traveled to a prison in Louisiana to show their solidarity with two Hamas supporters who are awaiting deportation. The Congressional visitors were continuing an unfortunate century-long tradition of politicians and political activists embracing tyrants, terrorists and terror supporters.

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April 29, 2025 | 3:39 pm | Comments »

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Meeting the Moment: Focusing On The Danger of A Palestinian State  

By Moshe Phillips

French President Emmanuel Macron(Photo by U.S. Army USArmyEURAF by Sgt. Henry Villarama – This image was released by the United States Army with the ID 190606-A-AR102-0722 Public Domain)

French President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement in April that France will recognize a Palestinian state by June is deeply disappointing. This decision reflects a troubling inconsistency in Europe’s approach to Israel — one that is both morally and strategically flawed.

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April 29, 2025 | 3:25 pm | 1 Comment »

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Looks Like JD Vance Was Right — New German Gov’t Plans Repressive Censorship Regime  

Nick Pope  | Daily Caller |

J. D. Vance (Photo by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0)

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April 29, 2025 | 9:45 am | 3 Comments »

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A Newly Discovered Algorithm in Wisconsin Voter File is Indisputable Evidence of Criminal Election Fraud  

By Jerome R. Corsi | Am Thinker | April 28, 2025

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Andrew Paquette, Ph.D., has discovered a never-before-seen algorithm in the Wisconsin Election Commission’s (WEC) voter registration database, leaving no doubt someone has penetrated the WEC’s computer system to impose a criminal reordering on the voter files. This finding alone should draw the attention of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and FBI Director Kash Patel. Yet, to date, we see no action whatsoever from the DOJ or the FBI investigating criminal election fraud.

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April 29, 2025 | 8:11 am | 3 Comments »

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Israel Not Linked to Iran’s Bandar Abbas Explosion, Officials Say  

Political sources emphasize ongoing US-Israel cooperation and commitment to prevent Iranian nuclear breakout.

Israfan | April 28, 2025

Israeli political officials clarified Monday that there is no known connection between Israel and the explosion at Iran’s Bandar Abbas port over the weekend, which killed 40 people and injured more than 400.

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April 29, 2025 | 12:40 am | 2 Comments »

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PM Netanyahu submits affidavit: ‘Bar’s claims are false, he did not warn about a war in Gaza’  

PM Netanyahu (Photo by Hudson Institute – Flickr, CC BY 2.0)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu submitted his affidavit on Sunday to the Israeli High Court of Justice in response to the affidavit of the Shin Bet chief, Ronen Bar, and was absent for most of a Cabinet meeting because of it.

The prime minister wrote that Bar lied when he claimed he had warned of a war.

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April 28, 2025 | 5:44 pm | 2 Comments »

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Mudar Zahran: Republic of Jordan…  

Peloni:  Mudar Zahran tweeted the following:

Mudar Zahran | X

118 thousand US dollars for every Jordanian… It is the share of 11 million Jordanians in the $1,300 billion (1.3 trillion) of our people’s money that Ali Baba and Rania Antoinette plundered and smuggled abroad…

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April 28, 2025 | 5:35 pm | 1 Comment »

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Israel’s Good News Newsletter to 27th Apr 2025  

Michael Ordman | VGNI | April 27, 2025

In the 27th Apr 25 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

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April 28, 2025 | 2:58 pm | Comments »

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Tehran breathes sigh of relief as deal talks resume  

The US erred when it did not establish clear red lines for negotiations with Iran regarding the timeframe – after all, Iranians are known as “champions” in procrastination and stalling.

by  Prof. Eyal ZisserPublished on  04-27-2025

The attack has been postponed but it will surely come – this is what Iranian Chief of Staff Mohammad Bagheri promised last week, even threatening that this attack would be more painful than its predecessors and cause heavy damage and casualties.

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April 28, 2025 | 10:46 am | 5 Comments »

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Mark Levin: Due Process & Stopping Iran’s Nuclear Program  

Peloni:  In his opening segment on the April 26 show, Mark discusses the concept of due process, and how it has been misapplied over the years.  He shares the reality that the Founding Fathers intended for the three branches of govt should each regulate their individual branches, but that the Judiciary exceeded their authority by seizing the power to set policy for the other branches.  He also explores the inconsistent rulings which have been made by SCOTUS, and that the real purpose of the current call for due process is to inject anarchy into the system to obstruct Trump’s immigration policy and to achieve “revolution by immigration” and thereby completely alter the fabric of the nation’s values and destroy the US.  In his second segment, Mark talks with Gen. Jack Keane about the impossibility of allowing Iran to have even a civilian nuclear program.  Keane explains that Iran is currently more vulnerable than ever, and that they would be even more vulnerable after an attack by Israel, with or without US.  In the final segment, Mark talks with Former DOJ Prosecutor, Jim Trusty, about the historical deference of due process to different branches.  He also explains that due process should in many instances be limited to the use of administrative hearings, and that many of the judges involved in the call for due process are clearly activist judges, intent on fighting the administration, not on due process and that their attempt to change the status quo is intended to overwhelm and defeat the system rather than to pursue justice.

April 26:

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April 28, 2025 | 9:54 am | Comments »

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