Victor Sharpe

Zionism, simply put, is the Jewish people’s national liberation movement. Put in Biblical terms, it is the return from exile of the Jews to Zion – to that very special land promised by God to the first Jew, Abraham, and through Isaac, Jacob and the Jewish prophets to the Jewish people forever.

The Hebrew Scriptures equate Zion with the holiest city in Judaism, Israel’s 3,000-year-old capital city of Jerusalem. You can read numerous references in the Bible and the Psalms to the word Zion, such as in Psalm 135:21, II Samuel 5:7 and Isaiah 24:23.

The Biblical yearning of the Jews, ancient and modern, to return to their ancestral homeland is mirrored in the modern political usage of the term Zionism, first employed in 1890 by the Jewish author and poet, Nathan Birnbaum.

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Peloni:  Even amid war, the celebrations which define and characterize the Jewish state are not set aside.  Among these one of the most relative celebrations is the, unification of, and Jewish connection to, Jerusalem.

Despite ongoing challenges, Jerusalem Day unites Israelis in joy and remembrance of a pivotal moment in Jewish history.

Israfan | April 26, 2025

Jerusalem Day 2007.  (Photo by Hoheit, to commons uploaded Daniel.baranek 11:10, 6 May 2007 (UTC) – de-wiki, CC BY-SA 2.0 de)

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Peloni:  This comes in the wake of an announcement of France and Saudi Arabia to co-chair UN conference on resuscitating the defunct two state paradigm in coordination with China and Canada.

Roi Kais / KAN 11 | All Israel News | Published: May 26, 2025

In recent days, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas made a rare visit to Lebanon, during which he declared the need for Palestinian weapons – specifically those held in refugee camps and by Palestinian factions in the Land of the Cedars – to be handed over to the state. According to a report that aired on Kan Reshet Bet on Monday morning, the driving force behind this move is Saudi Arabia.

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By Janet Levy | Am Thinker | May 27, 2025

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China’s global ambitions are rooted in the allure of an ancient concept for the Chinese people—the Middle Kingdom, envisioning China as a divinely appointed ruling nation that is central and superior to others. In the Art of War, Sun Tzu crystallized this idea into the ideal of a benevolent Chinese emperor conquering the entire world—Tianxia, or All-Under-Heaven—without violence or destruction.

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Peloni:  The quote included in this essay by Gen. Lee has always been one of my favorites, since I was a young.  In fact, war is the undoing of society such that society might be preserved, and the more terrible the war, the more lasting will be the resulting peace.

By J.B. Shurk | Am Thinker | May 26, 2025

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I noticed something years ago about class descriptions on college campuses. If a course’s subject matter included the word “war,” it was much more popular with students. A seminar on “organizational theory” might find a few takers; a seminar on “military organization and war planning” would attract too many students for most classrooms to hold. I asked a professor about this once, and he grinned slyly, reminding me that young professors who teach popular classes have greater career prospects. The observation struck me as a bit perverse.

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Peloni:  From the Nova concert on October 7 to the Amsterdam Jew Hunts of November 6-7, 2024 to the Washington Jewish Museum murders on May 22 and now back to Europe once more.  The hatred and hunting of Jews must be faced and defeated.  Jews who have the ability to arm themselves must take full advantage of training and protecting themselves, and the authorities must step up to provide their Jewish citizens with support and protection.  But most of all, the citizens of the world must come to grips with knowing that they face a choice between living like civilized people or revisiting some of the darkest moments of world history as have be heralded by the rekindling of antisemitic fervor, which has made itself known in every age, but never before with such a resoundingly internationally global effect, as if from every corner of the world.  In fact, it is the neighbors of the hunted and attacked Jews who will determine how successful and how well tolerated the current wave of global terrorism being raised against the Jewish people will come to be.

Switzerland, long seen as a bastion of peace and neutrality, now finds itself in turmoil. In a frightening escalation, a coalition of radical pro-Hamas agitators  and their far-left useful idiot activists reportedly attempted to storm the main synagogue in Bern, to kill Jewish worshippers.

by BareNakedIslam | May 25, 2025

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SWITZERLAND looks like a war zone as Islamic jihadists are trying to kill Jews there

Tamar Almog / KAN 11 | All Israel News | Published: May 26, 2025

Baharav-Miara in swearing-in ceremony of Judge Yitzchak Amit as President of the Supreme Court of Israel (Py Maayan Toaf – Spokesperson unit of the President of Israel, CC BY-SA 3.0)

The annual conference of the Israel Bar Association continues today (Monday), with the participation of senior figures from the judicial and law enforcement systems. Supreme Court President Yitzhak Amit said the judiciary is currently under political and public attack.

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | May 13, 2025

*47 years of US negotiation with the Ayatollah regime suggest that US policy makers have been impressed with the, supposedly, pragmatism of Iranian negotiators. However, while the US considers agreements with the Ayatollah regime and its proxies (e.g., the Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah) a step toward reconciliation and peaceful coexistence, the Ayatollah regime considers negotiation as a step toward the realization of its ideology – a global domination of all walks of life by Shia Islam, headed by Shia clerics.

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By Robert Spencer | May 26, 2025

Bombshell Report Says British Government Knowingly Funding Hamas With Millions,” by Hank Berrien, Daily Wire, May 25, 2025:

A bombshell new report states that the British government is knowingly sending millions of pounds to the terrorist group Hamas.

NGO Monitor obtained a British Consulate-General in Jerusalem (BCGJ) document dated November 2022 with a plan for “UK Humanitarian Support in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.”

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Peloni:  On Saturday’s show, Mark has a special episode in which he shares interviews various members of Trump’s cabinet over the past month or so.  The first of these is Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Sec. of Defense.  They discuss the irrevocable determination of Trump to stop Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.  He also explains the budgetary investments needed by the US military to present a deterrence via peace thru strength.  In the second segment, Mark interviews Kristi Noem, Sec. of DHS, and they discussed the need to seal the northern and southern borders, to close sanctuary cities, and to fight the state and local opposition to Trump’s agenda.

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By Andrea Widburg | Am Thinker | May 26, 2025

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We all heard about the Muslim Australian nurses who boasted about hoping to kill and refusing to treat Jewish patients unlucky enough to come under their care. We in America, though, shouldn’t feel smug because we have the same antisemitism problem brewing here. Because we’ve imported doctors from foreign countries, we’ve also imported their loathsome pathologies. And what’s even worse is that we’re producing American-educated doctors who are just as bad.

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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.

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Arlene Kushner | May 25, 2025

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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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Peloni:  Highly recommended article

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:

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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.

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Peloni:  Amb. Ettinger suggests we focus on Trump’s moves to strengthen US-Israeli ties.  He also cautions that the US should recognize that the US can not approach the Middle East thru a Western transactional basis, commenting on the lifting of sanctions on Syria specifically.