Peloni: This is a very important innovation. It reminds me of the revolutionary change in inteligence work which came from the changes in how intelligence was handled following the changes put in place by Gen. Flynn.
Arlene Kushner | May 1, 2025
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Marvelous because we are never defeated and emerge from attack even stronger.
The arson set in multiple localities yesterday was an attack; three people have been arrested for arson and the Shin Bet is investigating. And this is the message of resilience we impart today as we emerge from the worst of the flames.
Peloni: The divisions among the Druze and the disparate interest of the various factions regarding Israel’s support of their situation, it begs the question as to what Israel’s next step should be given the all too likely possibility that air strikes will not secure the safety of the Kurds in Syria.
The Druze in Syria are divided between different leaders and voices. It’s likely that many want a middle ground and prefer some kind of autonomy but don’t want a full break with Damascus.
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN |
27th Adir F35 arrival at Nevatim, August 2020 (Photo by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem – DSC_6967SM, CC BY 2.0)
Israel has carried out two sets of airstrikes on Syria over the last two days. In the first hours of Saturday morning the IDF said that “a short while ago, the IDF struck a military site, anti-aircraft cannons, and surface-to-air missile infrastructure in Syria.” On Friday, the IDF said “IDF fighter jets struck adjacent to the area of the Palace of Hussein al-Sharaa in Damascus.”
Peloni: The West continues to manage democracy rather than be ruled by it.
Sundance | May 2, 2025
In the USA we have the example of “Russiagate” where the FBI, CIA and DOJ-NSD intel community weaponized against candidate Donald Trump.
Peloni: Stephen Miller would be an excellent choice to be Trump’s National Security Advisor, but it is now being reported that Rubio will likely hold this post for at least the next six months during which he will oversee the reform of both the NSA as well as the State Dept following his reform of the USAID program, demonstrating the importance of Rubio in Trump’s administration, despite his former Never Trumper affiliation, as well as his strong support from the IRI.
By Monica Showalter | Am Thinker | May 2, 2025
Sure, it’s a weather balloon, but sometimes these weather balloons turn out to be right.
Axios is reporting that Stephen Miller is in line to be President Trump’s National Security Advisor, now that Mike Waltz has been asked to lead the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
President Trump‘s top policy adviser, Stephen Miller, is garnering buzz inside the White House as a top candidate to be the next national security adviser, five sources familiar with the situation tell Axios.
Debris in Gaza. (Photo by Naaman Omar apaimages, by WAFA (Q2915969) in contract with a local company (APAimages)?? – Correspondence with Wiki Palestine (Q117834684)??, Public Domain)
New report just dropped: turns out Hamas’s “deadly death toll” was really just the deadliest disinformation campaign in modern war.
Peloni: The prescience of the details articulated in this article has aged well, as demonstrated by Peter Hitchen‘s recent Op Ed confession.
By Alexander G. Markovsky, AM THINKER March 31, 2024
Image: Vladimir Putin by AI.
It is widely accepted that the Ukrainian crisis erupted into a military conflict on February 24, 2022, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the seeds of the hostilities were planted about thirty years earlier by President Clinton and, later, by George W. Bush, both of whom recklessly pushed for NATO’s eastward expansion.
Over the years, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin repeatedly warned that Moscow would not tolerate continuing NATO’s “Drang nach Osten” (“drive to the East”), particularly Ukraine’s membership and the subsequent establishment of NATO military bases along the Russian border.
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Peloni: Background for Trump’s recent Sanctions Tweet which focused on Iran and China. Importantly, Ghasseminejad’s recommendation of applying sanctions to companies and individuals involved in, and/or responsible for, the shipping Iranian oil is a vital addendum which should be pursued. Doing so will increase US leverage over both Iran and China.
Saeed Ghasseminejad | April 30, 2025
President Donald Trump poses for a photo with Prime Minister Gahr Store of Norway, Thursday, April 24, 2025, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)
Shortly after President Donald Trump started his second term, his new Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, promised, “We are committed to bringing the Iranians to going back to the 100,000 barrels a day of oil exports.” Fulfilling that commitment appears far off.
Daniel Greenfield | May 1, 2025
David Horowitz (Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0)
In the weeks before David Horowitz’s passing, he wrote an article and finished another book. In and out of the hospital, he would call me on the phone to relay another idea for a series or another article about the Left. When we worked together on an article about the leftist fifth column, he was exhausted and I told him we could work on it next week. There would be time. He sighed skeptically, knowing perhaps what we only know now, but also with a note of relief.
by Karys Rhea • Gatestone Institute • May 2, 2025
[Many in Israel] demand a zero-tolerance policy towards illegal construction, regardless of EU funding and lawsuits, and have called on the Israeli government to initiate a long-overdue diplomatic effort that will make it clear to the EU that it has established red lines that will be enforced. Pictured: Detailed map released by @landuse outlining the extent of illegal Palestinian construction in 2005 Wikipedia
Peloni: Must read article. The psychological victories of holding Jihad attacks on Jewish holidays is too enticing for our enemies to ignore. Notably, the new arson war and the assault on Israel’s Red Line protecting the Syrian Druze, among other matters, did not take place on Yom Ha’atzmaut by accident. The outcome of these attacks is perhaps far less relevant than the fact that these attacks took place while Jews were celebrating the very aspect of their state, which should unite us all.
If you still want to keep “innocent civilians” out of all this, then the fires were started by magic that can read maps and identify armistice lines on the ground.
Happy Birthday Israel
Arab Muslims do not squander the most sacred days of their enemy. Yom Kippur, Simchat Torah, Yom Ha’atzmaut… Holidays such as these are not for isolated little knife attacks, a car ramming here, a traffic jam shooting there. Such auspicious days are for starting wars, launching Holocausts and burning Israel to the ground. And they get it right. Yom Kippur in 1973 fell and was observed on Shabbat; they attacked on Shabbat. Simchat Torah 2023 (also the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War) fell and was observed on Shabbat; they attacked on Shabbat. This year, Yom Ha’atzmaut falls on Shabbat, but was celebrated two days earlier; they attacked two days earlier.
by Karys Rhea • Gatestone Institute • April 2, 2025 at 5:00 am
Khan al Ahmar is representative of a pattern of tactics that the Palestinian Authority regularly employs when wresting land rights from the State of Israel. First, it identifies a strategic point located far from an existing population center. Second, it illegally seizes the land, invents a name for this “historic” village that never existed, and insists the squatters have been there since the dawn of time, despite historic aerial photographs showing otherwise. Third, it broadcasts any pushback from Israel as “cruel” and “oppressive,” and “ethnic cleansing” Pictured: An internationally-funded school building in Khan al Ahmar, with Israeli Highway 1 in the background, photographed in 2015. (Image source: TrickyH/Wikimedia Commons)
Independence Day 2025 means we should celebrate Israel’s rebirth while honoring its ongoing struggles.
By GIL TROY | APRIL 30, 2025
By Unknown author – The Israel Internet Association via the PikiWiki – Israel free image collection project, Public Domain
As we approach Independence Day, I repeat my annual call for every Jew and Israel-lover to mark the birth of the state by eating ice cream for breakfast. Despite our current challenges, let’s taste the sweetness of having a reborn Jewish nation, while our kids mark this day as a memorable break from routine.
Peloni: Using the economic dependency of China on Iranian fuel, and Iran’s dependency on Chinese purchases of that fuel provides him with significant leverage over both. A truly masterstroke which will unfortunately only serve to bring even greater pressure on the Mullahs to sign their latest hudna, to the ultimate regret of the West, Israel and the Iranian people.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 1, 2025
Peloni: A shameful display of Nadler supporting antisemites in obeisance of the antisemitic Democratic standard while opposing those who would do what Nadler should himself be doing.
Why is the congressman afraid of Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun?
Daniel Greenfield | April 28, 2025
Jerry Nadler (Photo by David from Washington, DC – _25A7329, CC BY 2.0)
When President Donald Trump put forward his new special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) urged Senate Democrats “not to provide the Trump administration with a single vote to confirm Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun.”
Peloni: Great article by Avi!
Avi Abelow
Photo by Hynek Moravec – Self-photographed, CC BY 2.5
In addition to celebrating the miracles that brought about the return of the Jewish people as sovereign over our ancestral homeland in 1948, at 77 years old, it’s time for a new vision for our reclaimed sovereign state, one rooted in strength, morality, and Jewish destiny!!!
Since October 7th, we have changed.
Not since the Iraq War and those notoriously elusive ‘weapons of mass destruction’ have the people of America and Europe been told bigger lies by their warmongering political leaders.
Peter Hitchens, in an Op-Ed published by the Daily Mail, says he learned long ago that governments specialize in lying and in getting others, especially the mainstream corporate media, to lie for them.
“It is what they do,” he writes. And yet, seldom has he seen such a massive cloud of lies as we face now with regard to the war in Ukraine.
Peloni: Over 100 Druze are now dead, with some reports claiming the dead are much greater than this.
By | May 1, 2025
Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former head of the rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), who joined A-Qaeda in 2003, and fought for the terror group in Iraq for several years — and was imprisoned by the Americans between 2006 and 2011 — has tried to reassure the West that he has changed completely. He has put on a jacket and tie, a sign that he’s a man the West can trust. He’s the de facto ruler of Syria but promises that Syria will be a democracy — that is, in five years.
Arlene Kushner | April 30, 2025
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Last night (Tuesday), with the sounding of a siren we began the observance of Yom Hazikaron – Memorial Day. Always a most somber day for the nation, this year is particularly painful, for we are at war and the losses have been heavy.
Peloni: This is very concerning. Perhaps unrelated, but this comes just a week following the most recent warning to Israelis traveling abroad.
Two Israeli-Americans Murdered Within 24 Hours, One Held Hostage for Hours and Beaten to Death
By Pamela Geller | Geller Report |
In the last 24 hours two Israelis have been murdered in LA.
One Israeli-American was tortured for hours and murdered in his own home.
