The Sesame Street Seduction  

by Linda Goudsmit | June 9, 2025

Photo by Josh Hallett from Winter Haven, FL, USA – BlogHer 08 – Sesame Street Suite, CC BY-SA 2.0

No stranger has ever seduced a child with spinach. Predators understand that seducing a child requires offering something the child wants or providing something that engages the child. So it is with educational seduction.

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June 11, 2025 | 3:10 pm | 1 Comment »

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India Boosts Air Force With Israeli-Backed Jet Following Pakistan Standoff  

Israeli defense technology plays a central role in India’s latest combat aircraft, strengthening strategic ties amid growing regional tensions.

Israfan | June 11, 2025

In a major leap for regional defense dynamics, the Indian Air Force is set to receive its upgraded HAL Tejas fighter jets this month bolstered significantly by Israeli technology. This delivery follows a year-long delay and arrives at a critical time, just after recent escalations with Pakistan highlighted the urgent need to modernize India’s air fleet.

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June 11, 2025 | 2:39 pm | 1 Comment »

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Ukraine in a bind as Russia moves into Dnipropetrovsk  

Peloni:  As per usual, this will not end well for Ukrainians in the front lines.

It’s very difficult to imagine how Ukraine can prevent any further Russian advances after this.

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The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Sunday that their forces had entered Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Region, which Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed is part of Putin’s buffer zone plan. This was foreseen as early as late August once the Battle of Pokrovsk began but has been achieved even without capturing that strategic fortress town. Russian forces simply went around it after breaking through the southern Donbass front. This development puts Ukraine in a dilemma.

It’ll now have to simultaneously fortify the Dnipropetrovsk front together with the southern Kharkov and northern Zaporozhye ones in case Russia uses its new position to launch offensives into any of those three. This could put serious strain on the Ukrainian Armed Forces as they’re already struggling to prevent a major breakthrough in Sumy Region from Kursk. Coupled with depleting manpower and questions about continued US military-intelligence aid, this might be enough to collapse the frontlines.

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June 11, 2025 | 2:35 pm | Comments »

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Israeli ministers Ben Gvir & Smotrich; US Sec. Rubio: move doesn’t advance end to war or brings hostages home  

Finance Minister Smotrich cuts relationship between Israeli-Palestinian banks in retaliation

By Ishde – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0

The United Kingdom on Tuesday announced personal sanctions against right-wing Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich, of the Religious Zionism party, and Itamar Ben Gvir, of the Jewish Power party, citing their statements on Gaza and their “repeated incitements of violence against Palestinian communities.”

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June 11, 2025 | 2:28 pm | Comments »

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Getting Gazans wrong: Understanding support for Hamas and the Oct. 7 attacks  

Peloni:  The Gazans are as responsible for Hamas as were the Germans of 1930’s Germany responisble for the Nazis.  What is more, even among those Gazans who object to Hamas rule, you will never hear any criticism of the slaughter of Jews in their criticisms.  Indeed, the Gazan hordes have been well weaponized against the Jewish people thru the best efforts of the terror complicit UNRWA, which has been funded without hesitation by the international community.  The weaponized result of this social experiment to kill Jews is to be found in Jenin and Ramallah, just as well as in Gaza.

Policies concerning refugees, foreign aid and ceasefires must be informed by the reality that a large segment of Gaza’s population supports a terror group.

Moshe Phillips

Leila Fadel on NPR’s Morning Edition on June 5 interviewed Graeme Groom, a British surgeon who worked recently at Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip. Groom’s comments were entirely one-sided and naive. “The current campaign is directed almost exclusively at the blameless and defenseless,” he said.

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June 11, 2025 | 11:08 am | 1 Comment »

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Netanyahu Wisely Arms Gaza Clans to Fight Hamas  

Peloni:  The question remains how this strategy might advantage Israel’s ability to achieve a decisive victory and to facilitate Gazan emmigration.  While the use of these clans might possibly advantage the former, it would seem to be counterintuitive to support the latter.

Critics assail Israel for employing a strategy the U.S. used in World War II, Afghanistan and Iraq.

By John Spencer, WSJ, June 8, 2025

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed last week that Israel is arming local clans inside Gaza to fight Hamas. Critics immediately called the move dangerous and reckless. Former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman even claimed one of the groups receiving weapons has ties to ISIS.

I fought in Iraq and commanded U.S. soldiers on the streets of Baghdad, and I can tell you: This isn’t a desperate gamble. It’s a hard-learned, historically grounded strategy, and one of the most effective tools in asymmetric warfare.

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June 10, 2025 | 7:13 pm | 6 Comments »

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Who’s Really Running Israel? The Faces Behind the Deep State  

Peloni:  This is an important 13min video.  In an interview by Elazar Shturm, Prof. Yaron Zelekha suggests that the Israeli Deep State is limited to the judiciary.

Zelekha also provides an important context for the insidious aspects of the power held by current select non-state power moguls who have the ability to limit and control the liberties of ordinary people, unlike any non-state actor in history.  While it falls to govts, particularly the US govt, to regulate, control and limit this power, there can be no such governmental safeguard provided when these power barons join the govt.  Indeed, as the term “public-private” has become an altogether routine description of joint enterprises between the govt and these power moguls in the private sector, individual liberties and personal enfranchisement are a necessary loser, as the interests of the govt are altered from being directed towards individual rights and liberties towards being towards the enterprises surrounding the public private enterprises.  A notable example of this was to be seen in Operation Warp Speed, where the US govt adopted and protected the interests of Big Pharma over that of American citizens.

June 10, 2025 | 6:46 pm | 1 Comment »

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IRAN – THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET HOT…  

Avi Abelow

For over two decades, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stood virtually alone on the world stage, sounding the alarm about the threat of a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic of Iran.

He warned in countless speeches, briefings, and especially at the yearly United Nations forums, that a regime which openly calls for Israel’s annihilation, as Israel is the little satan with the USA the big satan, must never be allowed to possess the most dangerous weapons humanity has ever created.

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June 10, 2025 | 4:33 pm | 2 Comments »

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Brit Hume Calls Democrats ‘Politically Insane’ For Opposing Trump’s Response To Los Angeles Riots  

Peloni:  When political control is divorced from public consent, such politically insane tactics appear far less insane as it represents a turf war between factions.

Mariane Angela | Daily Caller |

Brit Hume appeared on Fox News Monday to criticize Democrats who oppose President Donald Trump and his decision to deploy U.S. forces to assist local law enforcement in the wake of the Los Angeles riots.

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June 10, 2025 | 4:25 pm | 2 Comments »

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Deferring to Islam is submission  

Peloni:  The target in this war is grander than Israel, and more broad than the US, but these two nations, the so called little Satan and big Satan, respectively, are all that threatens the success of the barbarians.  As corporations, individuals and nation states act to pretend that the outcome of this war will not affect them as they submit to the demands of the Islamists, they forget that submission is both the literal translation of Islam as well as the intent of the Jihadist war before them.  Indeed, by deferring to the Islamists, these Westerners are in fact acting to solidify their own capitulation, and as they are acting to capitulate to barbarism, the consequences of doing so will be the abrogation of not only their own fate and liberty, but that of their successive generations as well.  It is a time to fight or submit, and the consequences will be the inheritance of civliziation or its demise to the future, so choose carefully when attemting to not offend the Islamists as Howard discusses in this insightfully poignant essay.

Each time liberal Jews, police, media, universities, Jewish organizations, or Christians adjust their plans or their speech so as not to “offend” Islamists, we are one step closer to submission. The War has started and we are in danger of losing it.

What is the effect of the American and European, police, media, universities, et al deferring to masked, violent hateful young Islamists and Leftists by foolishly tolerating their breaking of laws (except for Trump’s refreshing calling a spade a spade)? What might be the effect on Israel’s long term security?

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June 10, 2025 | 4:02 pm | 4 Comments »

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Israeli politicians gear up for looming new elections: Gantz to hold primaries, ex-Mossad chief weighs new party  

Peloni:  See also American last-ditch effort to stop Knesset dissolution & new elections

Recent poll sees former PM Naftali Bennett as leading candidate to replace Netanyahu

Israeli Knesset in 2021. Photo by Kobi Gideon / Government Press Office of Israel, CC BY-SA 3.0

With the government seemingly about to fall apart after an unusually long run, particularly amid the ongoing war, Israel’s political class is gearing up for new elections, which could be declared in the coming days and be set for the end of this year.

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June 10, 2025 | 3:48 pm | 1 Comment »

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THE ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL HAS WORMS IN IT  

Peloni:  Kelleigh provides an important review of significant issues contained within the Big Beautiful Bill.  Using this as a guide might help Washington policy makers make wise decisions about revisions to the bill before passage.

By Kelleigh Nelson

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. Thomas Sowell

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I’ve never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I’ve never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.  Arthur Laffer

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.  James Madison

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June 10, 2025 | 3:32 am | 3 Comments »

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Mark Levin’s June 7 & 8 Shows  

Peloni:  In his first segment Mark raises the issue of amending the US Constitution.  Mark explains that there is a top down process, where the proposed amendments are made by Congress to be ratified by the state, but there is also a process where the states make the proposed amendments, this latter process not having been previously invoked.  Mark explains that the Congress has proven to be hopelessly useless in reigning in the debt, and that it falls to the American people to make the case before their state legislatures to gain support for a Constitutional Convention.  What he doesn’t address, however, is that the Congress is empowered to choose the delegates to any Constitutional Convention formed, which would provide significant leverage for the Congress while using either process.

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June 9, 2025 | 5:40 pm | 2 Comments »

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My Thoughts on the Little Swedish Hypocrite.  

BARRY SHAW| Jun 09, 2025

(By VoA – Voice of America, Public Domain)

Early this morning the Israeli navy took control of the British-flagged yacht Madleen, emphasis on Mad, operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which was attempting to enter a war zone to give comfort adsupport to the genocidal death cult that invaded my country killing, torturing, raping, and kidnapping hundreds in including our elderly, girls, and babies.

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June 9, 2025 | 3:51 pm | 21 Comments »

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