Peloni:  WSJ reports the departure of non-essential staff at US embassies is in anticipation f an impending Israeli attack.  Meanwhile testimony by the head of Centcom, Gen. Kurilla, was also delayed.  So are the reports of an Israeli attack in earnest, or is this more posturing by Washington towards its hopes of negotiating with Iran?  Maybe its both.  Notably, amid reports that this weekend’s talks with Iran have been cancelled, Steve Witkoff is still expected to be traveling to Oman for the talks.   See here for more: Negotiating tactic or sign of action against Iran? U.S. evacuates some personnel from Middle East

Avi Abelow

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just told Congress that there are “plenty of indications” that Iran is actively moving toward a nuclear weapon. Not theoretical. Not down the road. Right now.

That is why Defense Secretary Hegseth has just now authorized the departure of non-essential staff at US embassies and military bases across the Middle East.

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Qatar supports Hamas, houses Taliban leaders, and funds antisemitism on American campuses, so why is it still America’s ‘indispensable’ Middle East partner?

President Donald J. Trump and Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at the United Nations General Assembly.  (Photo by The White House from Washington, DC – 21687022_1434965293257866_1733024928180559512_o, Public Domain)

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Peloni:  This is an important article, PLEASE READ.  Paragon Solutions, the technology which was used to insert spyware into cellphones and provided Israel with an outsized advantage in cybersecurity, has been sold to a US equity firm.   PM Netanyahu posted a link to the Channel 11 report of this outrage on his Twitter account stating, “To see and not to believe. Watch.”  The loss of control over this technology to a foreign firm has an obvious potential of having a game changing effect upon Israel.  Not only are nations such as the US no longer dependent upon Israel to access this technology, but this technology, which gave Israel an unmatched advantage over its enemies, has been offloaded to a third party with the clear and obvious potential of that technology now being used against Israeli citizens, generals and politicians.

When acts of treason and insurrection are deemed less criminal than lowest grade misdemeanor, as has been increasingly evident over the past more than two years, even assets which are among the most sensitive to national security might be sold to foreign interests for the right price without consequence, and indeed, this appears to be what has taken place here.

David Isaac | June 11, 2025

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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

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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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