Arlene Kushner | April 30, 2025
Israeli box
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.
The Mandate for Palestine conferred the right of the Jews to settle anywhere between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. This entitlement has not been changed in international law
As we celebrate this year’s Yom Ha’atzmaut, there are people in the West who still do not understand that the Jews have a legal, moral, and historical right to live in all parts of the land of Israel, including Judea and Samaria, and that Israel is engaged in a religious war—not a war over territory, but over the right of Jews to exist in peace in any part of their ancestral homeland.
When former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman expressed support for Israel retaining part of Judea and Samaria in any future peace agreement, his remarks were greeted with scorn from Haaretz and others. Anyone unfamiliar with the history of the Israeli/Arab conflict might conclude that the Arabs won all of the wars in which they fought and therefore can dictate the terms of the peace.
Peloni: Jay Solomon discusses the recent revelation about a 2013 Memorandum of Understanding(MOU) which was adopted in the US which oversaw Chinese companies having been given an exemption from Sarbanes-Oxley regulations, while still having access to US markets and NYSE. These regulations were adopted in the wake of the Enron collapse of the 1990’s and were intended to protect US investors from investing in companies pursuing fraudulent or dangerous business practices without public disclosure, and the costs incurred and disclosures required while complying with these regulations are quite extensive. This 2013 MOU, which gave Chinese companies a distinctly significant advantage over their US domestic competitors, was overseen by then VP Joe Biden, and it was signed just before Biden’s infamous trip with Hunter Biden to China where Hunter Biden was awarded with $1.5 billion investment fund from the Chinese govt.
By Walter E. Block
IDF forces operate in the Gaza Strip, Swords of Iron, 20 October 2024 (Photo by IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0)
Yet another unwarranted charge against Israel comes with the unlikely moniker “Lavender.” But it is a very serious calumny. According to this particular slanderous misrepresentation, the IDF purposefully targets not so much Hamas terrorists, but rather in enthusiastic addition delights in the demise of their innocent families. Killing these murderers guilty of the atrocity of October 7, 2023 is just a sick excuse for this hunting down of innocent civilians, according to these new charges..
By Ahmad Sharawi | April 30, 2025
By Roded Shlomo Pikiwiki Israel, CC BY 2.5
Sectarian tensions are flaring again in Syria after a series of clashes erupted in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana, a diverse area home to Druze, Christian, and Muslim communities. Reports indicate that 14 people were killed in fights between armed groups in the town.
Peloni: Arson is once again being used by the terrorists in the Iranian multi-front war against Israel in one of the largest, if not the largest fires in Israel’s history. Notably, there are no fires in territories controlled by the PA, as Pal arsonists have been arrested, and Pal calls to set fire by the Pals continue to be promoted.
“Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the seed of Israel.” Numbers 23:10.
Daniel Greenfield |
Garden of the Missing for the Fallen of Israel (Photo by Baruch Niv Pikiwiki Israel, CC BY 2.5)
The sun sets above the hills. The siren cries out and on the busy highways that wend among the hills, the traffic stops, the people stop, and a moment of silence comes to a noisy country.
By LTG Tom McInerney USAF (Ret) & MG Paul E Vallely US Army (Ret) | Stand Up America US Foundation | April 29, 2025
Governors, Mayors, Judges and District Attorneys are not above the law regarding criminal negligence, fostering illegal activity, and violating their oath of office. They must continue to be indicted and arrested removed from the office? We will and cannot wait for new elections to solve the increased criminal activities in our cities and states. Once citizens and the Federal government witness negligence by elected officials and promote more criminal activity, they must be confronted and warned. Forced resignations are in order!
Israel does not only have the ‘right’ to defend itself… it has a DUTY to!
Terrorists trying to destroy a nation should not automatically put an onus on that nation to constantly have to publicly prove its worth or justify its existence.
The premise itself is deeply flawed…… pic.twitter.com/PV3d5OBpb6
— Erin Molan (@Erin_Molan) April 30, 2025
Terrorism is not merely tolerated but honored.
Moshe Phillips
April 22, 2025, may be remembered as a turning point in the history of Israeli public diplomacy—and rightly so. On that day, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs harnessed the power of social media to expose the Palestinian Authority as the enemy it is.
From the official @Israel account on X, a powerful statement was posted: “The Palestinian Authority isn’t educating children, it’s indoctrinating them. Maps without Israel. Teachers praising martyrdom. Textbooks that glorify terror. As long as they teach hate, there’s no hope for peace. Stop ignoring it. Stop funding education that leads to terror.”
Peloni: The sense of resolve which drew heroes such as Kalmanson and those like him to come to the defense and rescue of the besieged innocents on October 7 is impossible to describe. It stands as a testimony of the Zionist credo that we Jews are responsible for the path of our own destiny, for the success or failure of our own state in our own homeland, and that we each carry the right and onus to fulfill that obligation to the best of our ability, albeit with what aid and assistance our allies might afford us, but that the responsibility remains all our own, as do the consequences of any success or failure. There are of course many implications which come forth from this responsibility, from the political to the geopolitical, but on Yom Hazikaron, the greatest implication is the solemn reflection upon the debt we owe to so many heroes over the years who, like Kalmanson, made the ultimate sacrifice while defending the Jewish state from its enemies which rise against us in every age. May Their Memory Be a Blessing.
When remembering the harder aspects of Jewish history, Israeli memorials often give emphasis to honoring those who defied the odds and courageously fought on behalf of others. In other words, heroes.
One such hero is Elchanan Kalmanson, a father of five who gave his life saving many others on Oct. 7, 2023.
Peloni: There have now been several explosions at sensitive sites across Iran over the past few days. While none of the effects of these other attacks are as relevant as shutting down Iran’s only deep water port at Bandar Abbas port, the timing is impossible to consider to be due to chance. It would seem that the significance of the attack on Badar Abbas was meant to weaken the Iranian regime, just as the US persists with its negotiations with the Iranians. So who might be most likely to weaken the regime at such a significant moment as this? Is it reasonable that this would be the time at which either Israel or the Iranian insurgents would coordinate such a debilitating blow against the Mullahs as this? Or would it be more reasonable that the US would do so, in order to leverage the Iranians towards adopting a more conciliatory position in its negotiations with the US?
Peloni: The contrast between the Trump administration fighting to end antisemitism and the Democratic opposition’s fight to save it is beyond despicable, and it is also impossible to hide…and yet, the liberal Jewish establishment refuse to not play their part in carrying water for the campaign to save antisemitism in America.
The liberal Jewish establishment comes out against fighting antisemitism.
Daniel Greenfield | April 30, 2025
(Photo by Jewish Democratic Council of America – JDCA 2024 Leadership Summit – Chuck Schumer, CC BY 2.0)
“I’m appreciative of President Biden’s historic initiative on antisemitism and thankful to President Trump’s strong condemnation of Anti-Semitism and his promise to bring back consequences to antisemitic behavior,” Abe Foxman, the former longtime head of the ADL told a crowd at at an event commemorating the Holocaust. “But as a survivor, my antenna quivered when I see books being banned, when I see people being abducted in the streets, when I see the government trying to dictate what universities should teach and whom they should teach.”
Peloni: Trump should cancel his visit to Qatar, as he should also cancel Qatar’s Major Non-NATO Ally status. Afterall, in what way are they actually an ally? They support terror, instill anti-American propaganda in and outside of the US, indoctrinate American students with antisemitic values, and finance public chaos on student campuses, all while corrupting American politicians. In Trump’s pledge to drain the swamp, he should recognize that Qatar is one of a main element of the Washington swamp. Promoting such a country as Qatar with a Presidential and with visit and with its MNNA status does not in any way advantage US interests, rather, it only diminishes those interest.
Natalie Ecanow & Adi Stern | April 29, 2025
President Donald Trump meets with the Emir of Qatar during their bilateral meeting, Sunday, May 21, 2017, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead, Public Domain)
“You saved my life,” former Israeli-American hostage Keith Siegel told President Trump at a recent dinner. “You got 33 of us home alive,” Siegel noted, adding, “we will get, with your help, all of the remaining 59 hostages still in Gaza back home.” Trump’s upcoming visit to Qatar, part of a three-day tour of the Arab Gulf from May 13 to May 16, is an opportunity to turn Siegel’s words into action.
Avi Abelow
Memorial Day Candles (Photo by IHershkovitz Pikiwiki Israel, CC BY 2.5)
Every year, I share the same message during this sacred week between Yom HaShoah and Yom HaZikaron: Holocaust Memorial Day is the mourning for the price we paid for not having a state. Israel Memorial Day is the mourning for the price we pay because we do.
