PM Netanyahu’s office admits failure to pass on pre-Oct 7 attack alert, citing ‘non-urgent’ label  

The Foreign Secretary, David Cameron meets with the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu whilst visiting Jerusalem, Israel. Picture: Rory Arnold/No10 Downing Street

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office in Jerusalem admitted for the first time on Saturday that it had received but did not pass on an alert from the security establishment, just hours before the tragic Hamas Oct. 7 invasion and attack on Israel’s southern Gaza border communities.

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March 3, 2025 | 5:12 pm | 2 Comments »

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Turning ‘Humanitarian Aid Into a Budget For Terrorism’: Israel Suspends Aid Flow to Gaza After Hamas Rejects Ceasefire Extension  

FDD| Mar 2, 2025

Latest Developments

  • Israel Suspends Aid Into Gaza Strip: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on March 2 that Israel has halted “the entry of goods and supplies into Gaza” following Hamas’s rejection of a ceasefire extension. Netanyahu emphasized that “Hamas currently controls all of the supplies and goods that are being sent to the Gaza Strip,” adding the Iran-backed terrorist organization has turned “humanitarian aid into a budget for terrorism.” Netanyahu added that “There will be no free lunches… If Hamas thinks that it will be possible to continue the ceasefire or benefit from the terms of the first stage, without us receiving hostages, it is sorely mistaken.” Since the implementation of the 42 day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on January 19, Israel has facilitated the entry of at least 600 aid trucks per-day into the Gaza strip.

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One Health: The New Godless Quasi-Religion that Ranks Humans Below Nature  

Peloni:  Must Read Article

By Janet Levy | Am Thinker | Mar 3, 2025

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A new, Godless, quasi-religion—One Health—is being thrust upon the world. Its apostles say it will save humanity, or rather, life itself. Allied with Marxism in its denigration of the “exploitive nature of capitalism” as is demonstrated in the green movement, it debases humankind by equating us with, even putting us below, all other life forms. Its principal church is the World Health Organization (WHO), so President Donald Trump’s threat to withdraw from the WHO—or gain American control over it—must be seen in the light of this globalist agenda.

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March 3, 2025 | 3:57 pm | 1 Comment »

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Israel-Egypt Tension RISING as Egypt REJECTS Plan for GAZA | TBN Israel  

Peloni:  Egypt would rather go to war with Israel, a war which they will lose, than to allow the Gazans to leave Gaza.  Mind you that Egypt has over a hundred million people, all of whom are so well instructed in antisemitism that Yair Pinto admits not being able to divulge that he is an Israeli when going to Egypt, yet Sisi claims his nation would be under threat from taking even a fraction of the 1.5 million Gazans.  The disengenous nature of this claim is made clear when considering that Sisi also objects to the Gazans being allowed to seek refuge elsewhere in the world, even with the support of the Gazans themselves in doing so.

March 3, 2025 | 3:55 pm | 1 Comment »

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Olmert vs. Jabotinsky  

Is Olmert’s story as straightforward as the media portrays it or is there something that the news outlets missed?

By Michael Gross – Cropped from State Dept photo Secretary Rice With Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel, Public Domain

Ehud Olmert is (incredibly) generating headlines once again.

The BBC breathlessly reported on February 23 that “the map Olmert had drawn up now has an almost mythical status. Various interpretations have appeared over the years, but he has never revealed it to the media. Until now.”

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March 3, 2025 | 12:28 pm | 3 Comments »

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Turning ‘Humanitarian Aid Into a Budget For Terrorism’: Israel Suspends Aid Flow to Gaza After Hamas Rejects Ceasefire Extension  

Peloni:  The funding of terror against Israel has been a world wide spectacle, which Israel was forced to perform the vital role in assisting under pressure from her presumed allies.

FDD | Feb 28, 2025

Latest Developments

  • Israel Suspends Aid Into Gaza Strip: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on March 2 that Israel has halted “the entry of goods and supplies into Gaza” following Hamas’s rejection of a ceasefire extension. Netanyahu emphasized that “Hamas currently controls all of the supplies and goods that are being sent to the Gaza Strip,” adding the Iran-backed terrorist organization has turned “humanitarian aid into a budget for terrorism.” Netanyahu added that “There will be no free lunches… If Hamas thinks that it will be possible to continue the ceasefire or benefit from the terms of the first stage, without us receiving hostages, it is sorely mistaken.” Since the implementation of the 42 day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on January 19, Israel has facilitated the entry of at least 600 aid trucks per-day into the Gaza strip.

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March 3, 2025 | 3:29 am | Comments »

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Hamas No Longer Interested In Ceasefire  

OSINTdefender | X | March 2, 2025

The spokesperson for the White House National Security Council Brian Hughes has told Barak Ravid of Axios that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to halt aid shipments into the Gaza Strip was backed by the Trump administration and that Hamas is “no longer interested in a negotiated ceasefire.”

Full statement from the spokesperson:
“Israel has negotiated in good faith since the beginning of this administration to ensure the release of hostages held captive by Hamas terrorists. We will support their decision on next steps given Hamas has indicated it’s no longer interested in a negotiated ceasefire”

March 3, 2025 | 12:00 am | Comments »

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Why Arab Countries Do Not Want Gazans  

Peloni:  Trump’s proposal of Palestinian emigration is the only plan which will deals with the conflict in a manner which is intent upon pursuing stability in the region and which might benefit the Palestinians and Israelis alike.  It is a reflection of the history of the region, and the internationally supported Jordanian war crime which came to strip its former citizens of their rights and subject them to standards of living to which the US has objected for some time.  This and many other key aspects of the conflict are discussed by Mudar Zahran in the following article.  Please read.

By Mudar Zahran | Am Thinker | Mar 1, 2025

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Jordan is historically part of Palestine, with the majority of its population being Palestinian.  Given these facts, Jordan should logically serve as the natural homeland for displaced Palestinians rather than advocating for a separate Palestinian state in the West Bank or Gaza.  However, the Hashemite monarchy, which has ruled Jordan since its creation as a British protectorate, actively disenfranchises Palestinian Jordanians, maintaining them in a second-class status while simultaneously portraying itself as a champion of Palestinian rights.Western policymakers often justify Jordan’s treatment of Palestinians by referencing the events of 1970, when King Hussein used the Pakistani army to crush an attempted PLO takeover.  However, declassified White House documents suggest a different perspective.  Then–U.S. secretary of State Henry Kissinger viewed the idea of Palestinian self-rule in Jordan as the chance for a solution to the Palestinian question.  In a White House memo to President Nixon, Kissinger argued that a Palestinian-led government in Jordan could provide “a Palestinian settlement.”

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March 2, 2025 | 7:02 pm | 4 Comments »

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Israel SitRep  

FDD | Feb 28, 2025

IDF Investigation of October 7 Finds Hamas Was Developing Attack Plan in 2016: On Thursday Doron Kadosh, military correspondent for Israel Army Radio, wrote about the IDF’s investigation into the failures of October 7, noting that according to the findings, Hamas decided to launch a large surprise attack following Operation Guardian of the Walls in 2021. A Hamas document found in Gaza in 2021 stated, “The defeat of Israel is not impossible. Imagine that if there were a conflict on all fronts, the enemy would not be able to hold out. We must prepare for the liberation, this has now become feasible.” However, as early as 2016, Hamas was preparing a plan for Nukhba forces to attack Israel and take hostages. After Yahya Sinwar came to power in Gaza in 2017, Hamas decided to add deception to the plan. It considered launching the attack twice in 2022, once in April and once in September, when it discussed carrying it out during the Jewish holidays in October. The IDF does not know why Hamas chose not to attack that year. A Hamas document states: “We must continue to work to convince the enemy that Hamas in Gaza is interested in calm and is working for economic prosperity …”

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October 7th was an Iranian Attack on America  

Peloni:  Mike Doran, in a conversation with Dan Diker, discusses how the Biden administration structured their response to October 7 to revitalize the Two State Solution(TSS) to block the Right wing govt while also maintaining the administration’s momentum towards their Iranian Pivot away and from Israel.  Doran goes on to explain that the TSS is simply not going to happen due to Israeli and American interests and Israeli public shift against the TSS.  Doran asserts that the Turks and the Israelis will come to a “quiet accommodation”  based on the major security interests of the two nations, while still having significant disagreements on issues such as Gaza and the Palestinians.  It is his suggestion that the US should facilitate the cooperation of Turkey and Israel, despite these differences.  Despite Erdogan’s very recent call for retaking Jerusalem, Doran explains that Turkey is not looking for a fight with Israel, that it balances threats from the Balkans, Iran, Russia, the Caucuses and the Middle East, all at once resulting in the Turkish military maintaining a very cautious perspective.  Despite this view, it should be recalled that among all of these threats being balanced by the Turks, Iran was among the most overt and tangible, and with the Mullah’s hopefully soon to be extinction, this would result in a power vacuum in the Middle East which the Turks will certainly try to fill, just as they did in Syria after the Israelis decimated Hezbollah.  Such a possible eventuality would be a grave threat to Israel, as Turkey heads the radical Sunni Axis, which is far less objectionable to the Sunni nations of the region than the radical Shia Axis which Iran heads.

March 2, 2025 | 5:31 pm | 2 Comments »

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RFK Jr. was RIGHT about Ukraine and Russia  

Peloni: It is time to fix this problem, and this requires open dialogue between the US and Russia, which was previously scorched by the US, to be re-established. This is what Zelensky opposes, it is why he demanded to be present when the US and Russia re-established their diplomatic connections, and it is why the US-Ukraine mineral deal has not yet been signed, even though it presents Ukraine with a substantial security commitment from the US. It may appear that Zelensky is the problem, but the truth is that the problem is embedded in the entire Ukrainian power structure, which is centered around war with Russia at any cost. They feel the US is obligated to Ukraine to continue its war with Russia because the US helped ignite that war, helped fuel that war, and helped keep that war going for the past three years. There is, however, no such obligation for the US, and in fact, it is specifically an American interest that this war be ended as soon as possible, under the best terms possible, so that the US can focus its entire effort on China.

March 2, 2025 | 3:45 pm | 1 Comment »

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Changing perceptions of Islam, Part 1: “Why I hate Islam”  

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Israel halts humanitarian aid into Gaza following Hamas decision to reject Witkoff ceasefire extension proposal  

Peloni:  Ben Gvir was correct, both before and after he came to agree with the govt’s actions.  It was a great mistake for him to have left the govt.

Witkoff proposal calls for ceasefire extension during Ramadan-Passover, release of additional hostages

By PH3 James R. Klein – http://www.defenseimagery.mil; VIRIN: DN-ST-92-04697, Public Domain

Following a security cabinet meeting Saturday night, which also marked the end of the first phase of the hostage-ceasefire deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel would adopt a framework for a temporary ceasefire extension during the Ramadan and Passover period put forward by U.S. Presidential envoy Steve Witkoff.

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Israel’s Good News Newsletter to 2nd Mar 2025  

Michael Ordman | March 2, 2025

In the 2nd Mar 25 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

 

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The Way Ahead for Israel  

By Walter E. Block

According to the peace treaty now being implemented between Israel and Hamas, several hundred thousands of Palestinian terrorists will be released from their well-deserved captivity. They will be set free in Gaza and elsewhere in the Arab world. The overwhelming majority of them, if not all of them, are followers of the Sinwar brothers, one who was the mastermind of the October 7, 2033 atrocity, the other who is now in charge of this enclave. It is only a matter of time before a repetition of this barbarous date will take place.  This is inevitable given the “principles” of these degenerates.

What then for Israel? That country should then march forward under the banner of “Never Again.” It will be time, it will be past time, to take the gloves off, way off. It will be time, it will be past time, to stop fighting enemies with one hand tied behind the back. No. Check that: with one and three-quarters of a hand tied behind the back.

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March 2, 2025 | 10:29 am | 1 Comment »

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Israel, Iran, and the ‘Military Option’  

By | Mar 1, 2025

While Israel has had its hands full, and its attention focused, on fighting Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and on “demilitarizing” Syria by destroying all the weaponry that Bashar Assad’s army had accumulated, it has at the same time been monitoring Tehran’s race to acquire nuclear weapons. The news is alarming. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said that since December, there has been a “dramatic increase” in the amount of uranium enriched to 60%, or just below weapons-grade, in Iran. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar now says that despite the new and crippling sanctions on Iran just imposed by the Trump administration, economic collapse may not be enough to halt Iran’s nuclear program, and a “military option” must remain on the table. More on Sa’ar’s warning can be found here: “‘Military option’ on table to halt Tehran’s nuclear threat, Sa’ar warns,” Jerusalem Post, February 26, 2025:

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March 2, 2025 | 10:22 am | 1 Comment »

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Just who was Zelensky talking to on the phone from his limo after he was thrown out of the White House?  

Peloni:  The regime which Zelensky leads in Ukraine is the product of the US Deep State coup which overthrew the last Ukrainian president which was elected by the entire Ukrainian nation.  The factions and ideologies which have been established in Ukraine as dominant since that time will remain an obstacle to peace, no matter who leads the nation, and is likely why Zelensky has repeatedly acted to try to scuttle Trump’s attempts to make peace thus far, something which should be expected to likely continue.

By Monica Showalter | Am Thinker | Mar, 1, 2025

Is Volodymyr Zelensky somebody’s little puppet?

It was a strange specter to watch the Russian state media’s observation of that in response to the meeting between Zelensky and President Trump, which ended in a shouting match, and Zelensky sent home without his presidential lunch.

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March 2, 2025 | 9:10 am | 5 Comments »

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Iran And Qatar Began The War Which They Expect to Survive Unscathed  

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Iran and Qatar must ultimately be held accountable for the war which they began, they must be held accountable for the butchery of October 7, and the savagery wrought upon the innocent people held in captivity for more than 500 days.  The problem with Stage I of the deal forced on Israel by Middle East Envoy Steve Witkof while in consultation with Qatar is that none of this was addressed or even considered, but was in fact entirely ignored while pretending that Hamas alone was the sole aggressor in this war.  The problem with Stage II is that this initial problem developed in Stage I is maintained indefinitely, and even if the unlikely possible result of Stage II would include that Hamas does not survive, it provides that Qatar retains its Major Non-Nato Ally status while both they and the Mullah’s in Tehran face no repercussion for the worldwide campaign celebrating the barbarity which they brought against Israel, thus leaving the organizing factions of the murder of citizens of nearly three dozen countries to go unaddressed.   This must be seen as unacceptable by all rational or any civilized people, much less by those who were the specific target of this well orchestrated crime against humanity.

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March 1, 2025 | 4:40 pm | 3 Comments »

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