Navigating Hamas barbarism needs knowledge of what the law allows. And Israel’s war is unequivocally within its rights.

Prof. Louis René Beres |   Feb 25, 2025

Immediately following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, a reconfiguration of jihadi groups began to take shape. In ways not yet fully understood, this complex reconfiguration is being accelerated by Israel-Hamas hostage release agreements. But whatever the precise forms of this worrisome reconfiguration, an authoritative distinction will continue to distinguish between terror criminality and law-based counter-terrorism. In essence, this unhanging distinction will concern the universal jihadi embrace of “criminal intent” or mens rea.

Regarding Israel’s inherent right to survival and self-defense, pertinent law is fully clarifying and exculpatory. While the harms inflicted by Israeli counter-terrorism operations are collateral to international law-enforcement, the harms perpetrated on Israeli civilian hostages by Hamas and kindred jihadists are invariably the product of intentional law violation. Inter alia, it was improper for the International Criminal Court to issue coinciding arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and leaders of Hamas. On its face, this ICC-declared symmetry was political and contrived. It was not in any way jurisprudential.

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Peloni:  Much of what Pollard asserts should be done is accurate, but his analysis of Bibi’s career being built on failure after failure is not just harsh, but unbalanced, unfair, and I would suggest inaccurate.  Nonetheless, the time for inspired action is at hand and Bibi should seize the advantage which is now before him.

I offer no apology. These were not just murders; they were debasements, degradations, humiliations. This is how Muslims understand victory. Nothing I write here can remotely approach the deeds that my words describe. I hope you find what you read shocking, revolting, sickening. Good.

ANJULI PANDAVAR | 24 Feb 2025

War is deceit.

For decades you worried about the Palestinian Arabs, spoke up for the Palestinian Arabs, marched for the Palestinian Arabs, you donated to the Palestinian Arabs, you even picked olives for the Palestinian Arabs. My goodness, you wore their t-shirts, waved their flags, even donned their keffiyahs, until one day, without letting you know so you could at least take an aspirin and lie down or something, they went on a butchering spree. Not just any old butchering spree, but the mother of all butchering sprees: they slashed, they burnt, they dismembered, er, people, you remember? They raped, they shot at point blank, they hacked living peoples’ heads off with shovels, they tossed babies into ovens while raping their mothers, yes, its all coming back now…

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Mudar Zahran | X 

Buckle up, and be ready for dramatic changes in the Arab world. The next phase is set to shatter the deep-rooted alliance of China, Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood- with regimes in Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq going down first…

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Peloni:  Israel draws a Red Line in Syria, with the Syrian Druze on the Israeli side.

UN envoy demands Israeli withdrawal: ‘No argument’ for IDF remaining in Syria

All Israel News Staff | Published: February 23, 2025

Israeli soldiers in Syria (Photo: IDF)

With the IDF still occupying a buffer zone in southern Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went a step further on Sunday and demanded that the new Syrian government commit to keeping its forces out of southern Syria.

“We demand full demilitarization of southern Syria from the forces of the new regime. Also, we will not tolerate any threat to the Druze community in southern Syria,” Netanyahu said during a speech at the graduation ceremony for new IDF combat officers.

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Peloni:  A very good and, regretfully, a very necessary article

‘A strong, engaged America is essential for global stability’ says Milstein, ‘Israel’s security is not just a Jewish issue; it is a core American strategic interest’.

By ADAM MILSTEIN | FEBRUARY 23, 2025

“Heil Hitler” salute given chairman of House Committee investigating un-American activities by first witness.  Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Throughout history, political movements, even those not initially antisemitic, have often seen their most radical factions steer them toward antisemitism. In recent years, segments of the American left have embraced militant Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, Critical Race Theory (CRT), Marxist ideologies, and policies that exacerbate societal divisions. This shift has, at times, fostered antisemitic sentiments, as observed in rhetoric from certain college campuses, organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Jewish Voice for Peace, national unions, civil rights groups, and members of the “Squad.” For instance, a recent report from StopAntisemitism revealed that 72% of Jewish college students in the US feel unwelcome, with over half having faced antisemitism.

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Peloni:  This is weak tea telling of what is known about the shots, and has been known for years.  It does nonetheless represent quite an important tide change to see the eminent Daily Mail now reporting these facts.

Where has this kind of reporting been for the last four years as people have been dying and getting sick after submitting to the injections?

Peloni:  Reality is being discussed more and more openly as the cult of God-like perception of Zelensky continues to crumble under closer examination following Trump having described the Ukrainian leader as the less than savory despotic chieftain which has long been clear for anyone willing to weigh the facts fairly.

By Amil Imani| Am Thinker | Feb 24, 2025

When Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky quickly became a global symbol of resistance.

Celebrated as a heroic leader standing up against a powerful foe, he appeared on television screens worldwide, calling for support and unity in the face of the Russian threat.

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Peloni:  Indeed, What would King Solomon Do…See Here for my thoughts on the matter.

Diane Bederman | Feb 23, 2025

What would King Solomon do?

King Solomon is well known from the Bible. The most famous Solomon story of all: two women come before him both claiming to be the mother of a baby. Solomon calls for a sword and says the solution is to cut the baby in two and give one half to each woman. One of the women is amenable to this solution, but the other protests, saying she would rather give the child up than see it killed. Solomon thus determines that the latter woman is the child’s mother. As the final verse of the chapter relates, the story burnished Solomon’s credentials as the possessor of transcendent wisdom: “When all Israel heard the decision that the king had rendered, they stood in awe of the king; for they saw that he possessed divine wisdom to execute justice.” (I Kings 3:28) Read more…

by Gerald A. Honigman

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I just finished watching the spectacular movie, Gladiator II, and was again reminded of the pain and anguish Rome brought to millions of different peoples in its quest for glory and power.

This, of course, hit home regarding the plight of my own beleaguered people due to the insatiable hunger of the Roman Eagle.

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Peloni:  Col. Reisner of the Austrian Military Academy provides a balanced and short, but thorough, review of the Ukrainian War (think of it as Drip,… Drip,… Flood), as well as the impending peace which Trump is advocating, while also indicating the implications for Europe should Trump be successful.

The simple reality is that while it is true that this war should never have been begun, it is also true that Europe, not the US, is ultimately faced with dealing with the errors of their ways, even though these errors were in no small part initiated by the American Russiophobic Neocons.

Peloni:  Levin discusses the establishment of American institutions and the attempt which has been made to defeat the purpose of those institutions, which is to fulfill the will of the American people.

Peloni:  The US sponsorship of terror continues…This must end!

The USAID money train to Gaza is still running.

By Daniel Greenfield | Feb 23, 2025

The disastrous Hamas deal negotiated by Biden and Steven Witkoff is continuing to exact an ugly price.

And the United States is paying for it. Literally.

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By Walter E. Block & Peloni

Al Jazeera asks: “Why are thousands of Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons without charge?” Its answer is not too complimentary to this nation: “Every year, April 17 marks Palestinian Prisoner’s Day, a day dedicated to the thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israel. Campaigners use the day to call for the human rights of such prisoners to be upheld and for those who have been detained without charge to be released. On Monday, Israel released 150 Palestinian prisoners detained during the war in the Gaza Strip. These prisoners, including two Palestine Red Crescent Society workers, said they suffered abuse during their 50 days in Israeli prison, according to a report by the Reuters news agency.”

The National Public Radio is not a happy camper with regard to this phenomenon. According to NPR’s Asma Khalid: “Hundreds of Palestinians suspected of being involved in the October 7 Hamas attacks on southern Israel are being held in Israeli prisons. That’s according to Israeli NGO HaMoked. These prisoners join thousands of other Palestinians arrested in Gaza and the West Bank – accused, but often not even convicted of crimes. In total, an estimated 7,000 Palestinians are in prison, including many minors and activists. Nearly 2,900 of those detainees are held without trial.”

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Peloni: This spectacle of support for the not so unpopular Hezbollah in Lebanon demonstrates the lack of will or interest or ability in Lebanon to rid themselves of their Iranian overlordship, which is why they should simply be deprived of this foreign controller by nixing it at the root, ie regime changing Iran for the betterment of the Iranians, the Lebanese, the Israelis, the Sunni states, and the broader Western world. It is a Win-Win-Win-Win-Win scenario.

The moment when the coffin attendants at Nasrallah’s funeral look up in panic at the Israeli Air Force planes in the skies over Beirut.

They don’t look so confident in their “victory” to me…. pic.twitter.com/Gd98xBkHNa

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) February 23, 2025

Peloni:  These are Jewish lands, settled by the Jews in antiquity, and the Jewish presence has been maintained here til the British led Arab land grab took place in 1948.  Our indigenous right to these lands is documented in ancient texts, archaeological evidence and has been acknowledged by the international community during the San Remo Conference.  Furthermore, the depiction of our history sewn across these lands is described in the Bible, the most published text in the world.  We Jews, alone, have any right to these lands, and we will not be parted from them for reasons of security, ancestry, and legality, take your pick.  It is well past time for Israel to address the error made in 1967 as described by Fitzgerald below, by extending sovereignty over these lands, to develop them, and rule them under the rule of Israeli law, thus eliminating the last vestige of the notion that the term ‘West Bank’ was anything more than a fable sold as Arab propaganda in a continued effort to erase the Jewish entity, even as this nullifying term has been nearly universal in its adoption throughout the West.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | Feb 22, 2025

In 1919, the mandates system was established by Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations. This was a way to put European powers in temporary control of various territories that had once been part of the now-defunct Ottoman Empire, that had been on the losing side in World War I. Those holders of the Mandates, Great Britain and France, were entrusted with bringing the people in the various mandates to self-rule. The Arabs in the mandates of Iraq and Lebanon-Syria would in time become three independent Arab states. The League also created a single mandate for the Jewish people, the Palestine Mandate, that under British control would be made ready to become the first independent Jewish state, in the historic homeland of the Jews, in more than two millennia.

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