New @MEMRIReports on @MOI_QatarEn
Qatar's role in financing and aiding the mastermind of 9/11 terrorism attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. By Yigal Carmon. cc: @marklevinshowhttps://t.co/C5WBVTZgfg…This report is part one of a forthcoming comprehensive study examining Qatar, the…— Benjamin Weinthal (@BenWeinthal) May 10, 2025
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Janet Levy: So-called “civil” nuclear cooperation with Saudi Arabia will NOT be contingent on Saudi recognition of Israel.
The Trump Organization is partnering with Dar Global, a Saudi company, and Qatari Diar, a Qatari government-owned company, to build a $5.5 billion Trump International Golf Club in Qatar that will include an 18-hole golf course, luxury villas, and is part of a larger entertainment district. In addition, they are working on residential developments and another golf course in the Kingdom.
The company already has a Trump International Golf Club in Dubai with other projects in development.
Fern Sidman | TJV | April 9, 2025
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BREAKING NEWS!!
Just spoke to Ambassador Mike Huckabee about all these scary rumors.
I asked him, and I quote, “Hi, These rumors about Trump “breaking up” with Israel are terrifying. Any truth?”
His response:
“Absolutely not! That is a media lie. Bibi has spent more time… pic.twitter.com/OGPXolWbRn
— Hillel Fuld (@HilzFuld) May 9, 2025
by Rafael Medoff
Auschwitz I (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Eighty years after the end of the Holocaust, the mayor of Amsterdam has apologized for the crucial role the city’s administration played in the mass deportation of Dutch Jews to Auschwitz. Do such apologies serve any purpose? And has the current mayor genuinely learned the lessons of the Nazi genocide?
Peloni: Is there a Trump Mideast Shift?
President Donald Trump attends a FIFA Task Force meeting, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in the East Room. (By The White House – Flikr, Public Domain)
Is the Trump administration leaving Israel behind? That’s the impression one gets from recent news stories.
Steve Witkoff, the president’s special envoy to the whole entire world, has been leaking to media and then commenting on his own leaks to the media. It’s a monologue billed as a conversation. And it has some Israelis worried.
Peloni: A democracy holds elections. This single event is in fact the construct thru which the people offer their consent to be governed, it empowers the people over their leaders, and forces accountability upon those same leaders for their actions and their governance. A govt which does not hold elections is an exercise in tyranny, the personification of depotism and an assault on the liberty and dignity of those men, women and children for whom the govt has little interest and no regard.
Sinan Ciddi | May 9, 2025
(Photo by kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0)
On March 19, Turkish authorities arrested Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu—President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s most serious political challenger. Imamoglu has served as mayor since 2019 and has defeated Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) in three consecutive elections. Following his detention on unsubstantiated charges of corruption and aiding terrorism, Imamoglu declared himself a “political prisoner,” noting that more than 100 people, including his senior advisers and municipal colleagues, were arrested alongside him.
Avi Abelow
President Trump at the Israel Museum. Jerusalem May 23, 2017 (Photo by U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv – President Trump at the Israel Museum. Jerusalem May 23, 2017 President Trump at the Israel Museum. Jerusalem May 23, 2017, CC BY 2.0)
Anyone listening to the mainstream media right is in panic mode that Trump is distancing himself from Israel, and thinking we are about to be dumped by him.
Peloni : Jonathan Schanzer and Behnam Ben Taleblu talk about the possible talks this weekend between Iran and US. Talebu makes the case for Iran selling its weakness, and that of its failing proxy armies, as a gesture of good will towards the objective of surviving to fight another day. Notably, as I am posting this video, another alert has gone out in regards to an incoming Houthi missile.
The U.S.-#Iran nuclear talks will be back in full swing on Sunday. Will the White House hold firm on full disarmament? @FDD_Iran Program Sr. Director @therealBehnamBT joins me on the @FDD Morning Brief to make sense of the madness. https://t.co/U2NwD66O7s
— Jonathan Schanzer (@JSchanzer) May 9, 2025
Peloni: Also See Part I and Part II in this important series.
by Karys Rhea • Gatestone Institute • May 9, 2025
Those who understand the scope of this have witnessed how the plan of former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is part of a much bigger strategy of illegal land use that extends to the Negev Desert in the south and to the Galilee in the north, all driven by a European-supported narrative that replaces Jewish history with the 20th-century fiction of Palestinian-Arab nationalism. Pictured: Salam Fayyad, Fmr. Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2013 (Photo by World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland – Transformations in the Arab World: Salam FayyadUploaded by January, CC BY-SA 2.0)
Peloni: Unilaterally announcing a ceasefire on the heals of a successful Israeli air attack without informing Israel, followed shortly afterwards with the news of an US-Saudi deal now being made without Israel would suggest the making of a crisis between the US and Israel, but does is this crisis real or manufactured?
From Raylan Givens: “From C14 @Tamir114 Israeli officials have been trying to clarify the details of the crisis between Trump and Netanyahu in recent hours – they simply have not been “informed” about it by the Israeli media…
There are disputes and tension on several issues, but I repeat: reports of a crisis, “the collapse of relations,” etc., have no basis in reality, as far as I was able to find out during the night and today.
I also refer you to the report that my colleague Barak Ravid revealed this morning about Dermer’s meeting with Trump in the Oval Office last night. How exactly does this fit in with a deep crisis in relations? It is unclear.”
Things do appear somewhat uncertain at this moment, but time will tell.
Arlene Kushner |May 9, 2025
The Australian
Before Donald Trump was inaugurated on January 20, Steve Witkoff, whom Trump had designated as his Middle East Envoy, came to visit Prime Minister Netanyahu.
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President Trump has now made his separate peace with the Houthis, without alerting the Israelis of his plans, and as a result, he has caused some consternation in Jerusalem, but Israeli policymakers have wisely kept mum. Trump wanted a done deal before the Israelis could rouse their supporters in the US to try to talk him out of it. Here’s the deal: the Houthis will no longer strike international shipping, and in return, Trump promises to cease bombing Houthis in Yemen. Israeli shipping, and Israel itself, are not part of the deal; they will remain targets of the Houthis, who just the other day sent a missile that managed to hit Ben-Gurion Airport.
Shoshana Bryen • JPC •
Christian and Druze celebrations in As-Suwayda. (Photo by Drozi Yarka – Flikr, CC BY 2.0)
It is now the turn of Syria’s Druze population to face the danger of standing up to tyranny. But to understand what is happening in Syria, beyond more hideous death and destruction by terrorists of all stripes – and aid and protection provided only by Israel and the IDF – it helps to take a circuitous route.
By | May 8, 2025
When useful idiots of the West kowtow to or appease jihadist leaders, it sends a wider message to all jihadists about how they will react to jihad violence within their own countries, and about how they can be manipulated in order to get money.
Peloni: The devil is in the details and it is the details which must be made clear to Iran.
Trump has returned to office with a clear message: Iran will never possess nuclear weapons. But clarity on what that entails—and how to achieve it—is still lacking.
Jacob Nagel | May 8, 2025
Iran nuclear talks in Vienna, 2 July 2015. (Photo by Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0)
As the fourth round of negotiations between the US and Iran approaches, a barrage of conflicting statements, reports, and analyses continues to emerge—many riddled with inaccuracies. These stem either from a lack of understanding of technical details or from a deliberate desire to maintain ambiguity and prolong the talks.
Peloni: Never before in history has such a standard been required of any nation as has been required of Israel to care for the safety, security and feeding of those who have made war upon them.
What is more, there is no famine in Gaza. For greater clarity on the libel of famine in Gaza, see the recent Free Press article by Michael Ames, The Gaza Famine Myth as well as the thread following Pres. Trump’s statement below.
JUST IN: TRUMP SAYS TO NETANYAHU:
“You got to be good to Gaza. Those people are suffering… There's a very big need for food and medicine, and we're taking care of it” pic.twitter.com/mP6j763ccb
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) April 26, 2025
This came a few weeks after Leslie Stahl suggested in her interview with ransomed hostages that Gazans did not have enough food This wasn’t true when Stahl made this claim:
A Scandal: The Hashemite Regime Is Profiting Off Palestinian Suffering
British media reports have exposed that “Jordan’s Ali Baba” is charging a staggering $400,000 for every humanitarian airdrop over Gaza.
The Jordanian monarch allegedly lobbied Israel to grant him exclusive rights to carry out these airdrops.
Israel-Alma | May 7, 2025
As the White House seeks a nuclear deal, the Iranian regime may already be making preparations to break any such agreement before it even starts. This was exactly the case with the 2015 nuclear deal and the Arak Nuclear Complex known as IR-40, when Iran kept a spare calandria to… pic.twitter.com/DZ8PLUndfa
— Israel-Alma (@Israel_Alma_org) May 7, 2025
As the White House seeks a nuclear deal, the Iranian regime may already be making preparations to break any such agreement before it even starts. This was exactly the case with the 2015 nuclear deal and the Arak Nuclear Complex known as IR-40, when Iran kept a spare calandria to keep their weapons-grade plutonium production.
DM Katz warns Iran: ‘Era of proxies is over, and the axis of evil has collapsed’
(Phot by The White House from Washington, DC – President Trump Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Public Domain)
Israel will continue to defend itself by itself, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared, one day after U.S. President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement of a ceasefire with the Houthi terror group.
