Protest in Iran (cropped). YouTube screen grab.
As of April 10, 2025, the United States Congress is experiencing a significant bipartisan effort to support the Iranian people in pursuing democracy, human rights, and a free society. The vehicle for this is the Maximum Support Act, spearheaded by Representatives Joe Wilson (R-SC) and Jimmy Panetta (D-CA). Read more…
Natalie Ecanow & Mariam Wahba | April 11, 2025
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For Israel, Qatar’s silence on a fatwa calling for “armed jihad” against the Jewish state is deafening. On April 9, Israel’s Foreign Ministry implored Doha to publicly reject the religious edict, which the Qatar-based International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) issued on March 31. The fatwa instructs Muslim governments to support Hamas “militarily, economically, and politically” and to besiege Israel by “land, air, and sea.” American Muslims, the IUMS said, should “use all available means to pressure” the Trump administration to end the war in Gaza.
Peloni: In his opening remarks, Mark explains that Trump’s tariff policy is explicitly pro-growth as he is creating a global free market system which will re-industrialize America. He also goes into the cause for the Great Depression as being the result of the Fed’s tight money policy which, while pursuing sound money, in turn led to a run on the banks due to a lack of available money. Due to FDR’s anti-growth policies of creating cartels, historic redistribution of wealth, historic rise in peace-time taxes, centralized govt/industrial policies, the depression was extended and additional 7yrs. Contrasting with these unsound policies, Mark explains that Trump’s policies are historic pro growth policies by cutting waste, pursuing deregulation, cutting taxes, and forcing foreign competitors to compete on a level playing field.
By | April 13, 2025
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After enduring ten years of the far-left misrule of the vapid and eternally callow Justin Trudeau, Canada has a new prime minister, but not any new ideas or any change of direction at the top: the new boss, Mark Carney, is the same as the old boss, a shallow leftist ideologue without an original thought in his entire sorry cerebellum, which is filled instead with the usual talking points of the leftist establishment that still wields power in much of the Western world.
President Trump just released this Passover message, wishing the Jewish people a happy Passover.
Thank you, President Trump!pic.twitter.com/v381q5kywG
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) April 12, 2025
I’m not sidestepping anything @ComicDaveSmith I’m taking your “I’m just saying” comment and applying logic, facts, law, and centuries of established frameworks that govern how war is conducted. The laws of armed conflict—international humanitarian law—are not theories. They are… https://t.co/i5KLWYRpzU
— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) April 13, 2025
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Peloni: So the can kicking begins…tick, tock, tick…
Peloni: In this 30 min video, Wurmser explores the useful aspect of the tariff being leveraged on Israel, warning signs which the US should have (and didn’t) address in its meeting with Iran, and the strengthening threat from Turkey. This interview preceded Saturday’s meeting between the US and Iran, just FYI.
01 min – Israeli tariffs
10 min – Iran
24 min – Turkey
Peloni: Highly Recommended film. Pierre Rehov’s production on the creation of the Palestinian narrative is being throttled on the web. Please share it widely with family and friends.
FDD | April 12, 2025
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by Guy Millière • Gatestone Institute • April 13, 2025
The vast majority of Israelis seem finally to have understood that the goal of Palestinian organizations is not to create a state living in peace alongside Israel, but to destroy Israel. The West, wrote the columnist Melanie Phillips, needs “to take off its blinders, join up the dots and fight like Israel to survive.” Pictured: Hamas terrorists on their way into Israel from Gaza Strip, on their mission to murder Jews, on the morning of October 7, 2023. (Photo by CCTV footage: No human authorship – Financial Times, Public Domain)
Peloni: These negotiations are a grave mistake, and any ‘deal’ arising from them will be fraught with betrayal and delay which will only advantage the Iranians in outlasting Trump’s remaining less than 4yr term. Consenting to using Witkoff rather than Rubio to conduct these proceedings was a second obviously owned error. The outcome of these discussions will define US policy in the region, but they must not limit Israel from pursuing her own Red Lines as stated by Bibi after meeting with Trump.
The lessons from 2015 must be clear to avoid another disastrous deal. No negotiations should begin until Iran fully dismantles its nuclear program.
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s recent visit to Washington dealt with two main issues that could become points of contention in the otherwise warm relations between PM Netanyahu and President Trump—tariffs and the Iran nuclear program, the latter of which we will focus on.
Peloni: Political violence is the antithesis of freedom of speech and it is the key by which free nations fall. It will be interesting to see what basis of threat underlines this latest threat, but as the well know two previous attempts on then candidate Former President Trump demonstrates, there should be strong penalties applied for any and all crimes which have actually been committed.
By | April 12, 2025
Today, #FBI Atlanta arrested 25 year old, Aliakbar Mohammed Amin of Lilburn, GA for threatening communications against @DNIGabbard, @Potus, & @WhiteHouse. Bottom line, the FBI does not tolerate threats and will hold offenders fully accountable. pic.twitter.com/la5doFNMbU
— FBI Atlanta (@FBIAtlanta) April 12, 2025
The details that have been revealed thus far are extremely sparse. Fox 5 Atlanta reported Friday that the FBI had revealed that “a Georgia man” had been arrested for making threats against Donald Trump and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. That’s almost all we know at this point, but there is one other salient detail that raises a number of other questions about this case.
“Mahmoud Khalil hates the United States and what we stand for”
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Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia U student, was a leading figure in the campus riot movement that celebrated the Hamas attacks of Oct 7, endorsed terrorism, called for ‘Death to America’ and was “fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.”
Peloni: In a year and a half, not a single Gazan has come to report details surrounding the whereabouts of a single hostage. NOT ONE. So while Katz’ commentary to the Gazans about the distinctions which separate them from the Hamas leadership is useful to inform the entire world of these facts, it must be understood by all reasonable men that Gazans are Hamas. They have been well trained for the effect of rejoicing in the savagery of October 7 and resistant to the most generous of offers to produce just one equivalent of the Righteous Gentiles of WWII…and yet we here only crickets in response.
Israeli forces in the Rafah area (Photo: IDF)
The Israeli military has encircled the strategically important southern Gazan border town Rafah, the IDF confirmed in an official statement.
By Walter E. Block
First a look at the past:
It was good that the IDF held off as long as it did on house to house fighting in Gaza. The Israeli army is only more efficient than its despicable Hamas counterpart by a relatively small multiple in this milieu. Every Jewish soldiers’ life is precious, and some have already died fighting for justice. Instead, stick to your comparative advantage: high tech, where there is a large multiple differential in effectiveness. Borrow a leaf from the Americans vis a vis the Japanese; they did not invade that country until it became a mopping up operation only.
Peloni: In a WSJ Op Ed, Trump’s Mideast Envoy, Steve Witkoff has already signaled a position of retreat in place of what should have been clear US resolve to have Iran, itself, retreat. Stating that “Where our red line will be, there can’t be weaponization of your nuclear capability” Witkoff has indicated a significant weaking of Trump’s own message to Iran. Indeed, after assembling the greatest military presence in history in the region, alongside the equivocating threat from Trump himself, Witkoff’s prevarication will unfortunately betray US resolve while strengthening Iranian resistance. This portends a very unfortunate outcome should Witkoff’s statements indicate Trump’s true position in this negotiation. If Trump’s position has not changed, the FDD assessment below should have been used in place of the Witkoff strategy of weakness.
Orde Kittrie, Andrea Stricker & Behnam Ben Taleblu | FDD | April 11, 2025
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The United States and Iran are set to hold landmark talks on April 12, President Donald Trump announced earlier in the week, just weeks after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei refused the idea. The watershed event follows the president’s letter to Khamenei in early March in which he posed a stark ultimatum to Tehran: negotiate a deal within two months that removes the nuclear threat, or face punishing U.S. sanctions and possibly strikes on the regime’s nuclear facilities.
Peloni: Is this the real reason that the Russiagate files, which had full authorization to be released, were leaked, ie to taint the release with an implied political bias?
Sundance | April 12, 2025
Regarding the recently released Russiagate files. Again, emphasizing that process matters, let me explain how and why we are being purposefully misled, even with Trump ‘allies’ in control of various govt agencies (silos).
By Daniel Greenfield| April 9, 2025
New York Times Building. By Jleon (talk) – I (Jleon (talk)) created this work entirely by myself., CC BY-SA 3.0
At least when it’s leftist antisemitism.
In surprising news, the newspaper that published a list of Jewish members of Congress with yellow marks over their names during the Iran Deal vote (not in 1939 but in 2015) thinks fighting antisemitism is a bad idea.
