by Gerald A. Honigman

I was recently alerted to an important essay dealing with America’s 40 million truly stateless allies in the Middle East, who have far less negative moral “baggage” than most of the Arab states and Turkey, which we have long standing relations with, but who’ve been brutally massacred and have had their own native language and culture outlawed by some of those nations mentioned above—including gassing to death and otherwise slaughter of over 200,000 in the Anfal Campaign and on other occasions in Arab Iraq alone—the Kurds. Professor Ismet Cherif Vanly’d book, “The Syrian (Arab) Mein Kampf Against the Kurds,” needs no additional explanation.

Channel hopping, on. June 9, 2025 I lucked into catching former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, author of the above mentioned essay, being interviewed on Fox News.

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Peloni:  A poignant reminder of a tragedy which was so terrible that even the best efforts of the combined regimes of both the Nazis and the Communist failed to erase its memory from the public consciousness.  In the shadow of a global reemerging of the Oldest Hatred, we must recall that we face our enemies attempts to erase us from existence in every age, yet, as in the attempts to expunge the record of Babi Yar, it is we who will endure the challenges facing us, as we have done in every successive generation before us over the past millennia.

Janet Levy | Am Thinker | June 11, 2025

Image: Public domain.

No monument stands over Babi Yar.

A drop sheer as a crude gravestone.

I am afraid.

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by Linda Goudsmit | June 9, 2025

Photo by Josh Hallett from Winter Haven, FL, USA – BlogHer 08 – Sesame Street Suite, CC BY-SA 2.0

No stranger has ever seduced a child with spinach. Predators understand that seducing a child requires offering something the child wants or providing something that engages the child. So it is with educational seduction.

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Peloni:  See also Group Stoking Anti-ICE LA Riots Tied To Pro-Chinese Communist Millionaire

Hudson Crozier | Daily Caller | June 10, 2025

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Well-funded activists and a coordinated social media campaign helped spark the pro-illegal migrant protests on Friday that descended into days of rioting in Los Angeles.

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Israeli defense technology plays a central role in India’s latest combat aircraft, strengthening strategic ties amid growing regional tensions.

Israfan | June 11, 2025

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Peloni:  As per usual, this will not end well for Ukrainians in the front lines.

It’s very difficult to imagine how Ukraine can prevent any further Russian advances after this.

by Andrew Korybko | June 10, 2025

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Sunday that their forces had entered Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Region, which Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed is part of Putin’s buffer zone plan. This was foreseen as early as late August once the Battle of Pokrovsk began but has been achieved even without capturing that strategic fortress town. Russian forces simply went around it after breaking through the southern Donbass front. This development puts Ukraine in a dilemma.

It’ll now have to simultaneously fortify the Dnipropetrovsk front together with the southern Kharkov and northern Zaporozhye ones in case Russia uses its new position to launch offensives into any of those three. This could put serious strain on the Ukrainian Armed Forces as they’re already struggling to prevent a major breakthrough in Sumy Region from Kursk. Coupled with depleting manpower and questions about continued US military-intelligence aid, this might be enough to collapse the frontlines.

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Finance Minister Smotrich cuts relationship between Israeli-Palestinian banks in retaliation

All Israel News Staff | Published: June 11, 2025

By Ishde – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0

The United Kingdom on Tuesday announced personal sanctions against right-wing Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich, of the Religious Zionism party, and Itamar Ben Gvir, of the Jewish Power party, citing their statements on Gaza and their “repeated incitements of violence against Palestinian communities.”

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Peloni:  The Gazans are as responsible for Hamas as were the Germans of 1930’s Germany responisble for the Nazis.  What is more, even among those Gazans who object to Hamas rule, you will never hear any criticism of the slaughter of Jews in their criticisms.  Indeed, the Gazan hordes have been well weaponized against the Jewish people thru the best efforts of the terror complicit UNRWA, which has been funded without hesitation by the international community.  The weaponized result of this social experiment to kill Jews is to be found in Jenin and Ramallah, just as well as in Gaza.

Policies concerning refugees, foreign aid and ceasefires must be informed by the reality that a large segment of Gaza’s population supports a terror group.

Moshe Phillips

These innocent civilians must be protected. https://t.co/WdSZ0NhNmu

— AP (@AP_from_NY) June 11, 2025

Leila Fadel on NPR’s Morning Edition on June 5 interviewed Graeme Groom, a British surgeon who worked recently at Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip. Groom’s comments were entirely one-sided and naive. “The current campaign is directed almost exclusively at the blameless and defenseless,” he said.

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by Grégoire Canlorbe  •  Gatestone Institute  •  June 10, 2025

“The networks organizing the EU’s migration policy wrap themselves in a humanitarian ambiguity that conceals their financial sources.”(Photo by DTRocks – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0)

• The networks organizing the EU’s migration policy wrap themselves in a humanitarian ambiguity that conceals their financial sources.

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Peloni:  This is an important 13min video.  In an interview by Elazar Shturm, Prof. Yaron Zelekha suggests that the Israeli Deep State is limited to the judiciary.

Zelekha also provides an important context for the insidious aspects of the power held by current select non-state power moguls who have the ability to limit and control the liberties of ordinary people, unlike any non-state actor in history.  While it falls to govts, particularly the US govt, to regulate, control and limit this power, there can be no such governmental safeguard provided when these power barons join the govt.  Indeed, as the term “public-private” has become an altogether routine description of joint enterprises between the govt and these power moguls in the private sector, individual liberties and personal enfranchisement are a necessary loser, as the interests of the govt are altered from being directed towards individual rights and liberties towards being towards the enterprises surrounding the public private enterprises.  A notable example of this was to be seen in Operation Warp Speed, where the US govt adopted and protected the interests of Big Pharma over that of American citizens.

Avi Abelow

For over two decades, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stood virtually alone on the world stage, sounding the alarm about the threat of a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic of Iran.

He warned in countless speeches, briefings, and especially at the yearly United Nations forums, that a regime which openly calls for Israel’s annihilation, as Israel is the little satan with the USA the big satan, must never be allowed to possess the most dangerous weapons humanity has ever created.

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Peloni:  When political control is divorced from public consent, such politically insane tactics appear far less insane as it represents a turf war between factions.

Mariane Angela | Daily Caller | June 09, 2025

Brit Hume appeared on Fox News Monday to criticize Democrats who oppose President Donald Trump and his decision to deploy U.S. forces to assist local law enforcement in the wake of the Los Angeles riots.

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Peloni:  The target in this war is grander than Israel, and more broad than the US, but these two nations, the so called little Satan and big Satan, respectively, are all that threatens the success of the barbarians.  As corporations, individuals and nation states act to pretend that the outcome of this war will not affect them as they submit to the demands of the Islamists, they forget that submission is both the literal translation of Islam as well as the intent of the Jihadist war before them.  Indeed, by deferring to the Islamists, these Westerners are in fact acting to solidify their own capitulation, and as they are acting to capitulate to barbarism, the consequences of doing so will be the abrogation of not only their own fate and liberty, but that of their successive generations as well.  It is a time to fight or submit, and the consequences will be the inheritance of civliziation or its demise to the future, so choose carefully when attemting to not offend the Islamists as Howard discusses in this insightfully poignant essay.

Each time liberal Jews, police, media, universities, Jewish organizations, or Christians adjust their plans or their speech so as not to “offend” Islamists, we are one step closer to submission. The War has started and we are in danger of losing it.

Howard Rotberg | Jun 10, 2025

What is the effect of the American and European, police, media, universities, et al deferring to masked, violent hateful young Islamists and Leftists by foolishly tolerating their breaking of laws (except for Trump’s refreshing calling a spade a spade)? What might be the effect on Israel’s long term security?

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Peloni:  See also American last-ditch effort to stop Knesset dissolution & new elections

Recent poll sees former PM Naftali Bennett as leading candidate to replace Netanyahu

All Israel News Staff | Published: June 9, 2025

Israeli Knesset in 2021. Photo by Kobi Gideon / Government Press Office of Israel, CC BY-SA 3.0

With the government seemingly about to fall apart after an unusually long run, particularly amid the ongoing war, Israel’s political class is gearing up for new elections, which could be declared in the coming days and be set for the end of this year.

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Peloni:  Kelleigh provides an important review of significant issues contained within the Big Beautiful Bill.  Using this as a guide might help Washington policy makers make wise decisions about revisions to the bill before passage.

By Kelleigh Nelson

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. Thomas Sowell

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I’ve never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I’ve never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.  Arthur Laffer

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.  James Madison

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