by Nils A. Haug  •  Gatestone Institute  •  April 6, 2025

An undercurrent of extremist Islam exists within Australia’s Middle Eastern community. Anti-Semitic acts have become common in Australia, with more than 2,000 incidents in 2024 alone. They included 65 physical assaults and 600 cases of verbal abuse. Pictured: The damaged front entrance of the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne, on December 6, 2024, after a firebomb attack forced congregants to flee as flames engulfed the building. (Photo by Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images)

• The apparent normalization of jihadist-Islamist radicals, such as Hamas and Hezbollah, became frighteningly real when a video revealed that two Muslim immigrant nurses working in a Sydney hospital boasted that one of them had “killed Israeli patients” and the other had sworn to “let them die.”

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By Daniel Greenfield | April 5, 2025

By Maryland GovPics – ADL Nation Leadership Summit, CC BY 2.0

Liberal groups can’t be counted on to defend Jews.

After Oct 7, the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt course corrected away from his previous appeasement of the anti-Israel Left. And while there were still plenty of things wrong with the liberal group, Greenblatt told the DEI people brought into the ADL that if they were anti-Israel, they could leave.

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Peloni:  The international use of terrorist propaganda to leverage against the attacked nation of Israel was never performed in good faith, not by any person, organization or state which employed such obviously manipulated rhetoric to advantage the butchers of October 7 and to discredit the more than balanced response to that slaughter.

By John Spencer | April 5, 2025

Drawing of the symbol for the Gaza Health Ministry by AI 

According to the independent analysis group Honest Reporting, the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry recently updated its casualty list, quietly removing thousands of names without explanation. Notably, the revised list also dropped over a thousand children listed, sharply altering the previously reported demographic ratios that had been quickly seized upon by critics of Israeli military operations.

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Peloni: Brilliant essay!  Highly recommended

By Joan Swirsky, ©2025 | The Post & Email | April 5, 2025

King Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9).

The sun rises, and the sun goes down… all streams run to the sea… what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

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Peloni:  As is true with most of what Trump has done since winning the election last November, China seems to be the underlying focus of much of Trumps policy efforts.  While this video predates Trump’s Independence Day tariffs leveraged against most of the world, it speaks to Trumps motivation to reshuffle the world along a US vs China geopolitical reality, creating a members only arrangement with allies who are willing to comply with Trump’s demands.  I am, however, not convinced that Canada will be among these as explained in the video below.  Better informed opinions on the Canadian perspective would be most welcome.

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Negotiations are a means but not always to the same end.

The White House is seriously considering indirect talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran, Axios reported on April 2. This follows President Trump’s March 5 letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in which the president warned of military action against Iran’s atomic infrastructure if the Islamic Republic failed to reach a nuclear deal within two months. Tehran initially said it rejected direct talks so long as it remains under maximum pressure sanctions but has since counteroffered with indirect talks via Oman.

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Peloni:  Begin watching at about 13min. for French journalist, Adrien Bocquet’s 36min eye-witness testimony regarding the staging of the Bucha massacre scene.  It would be interesting to read comments and critiques on Bocquet’s testimony.

“Hamas has previously claimed that 70% of casualties have been women and children”

by Daniel Greenfield | April 3, 2025

Politicians and the media routinely quote Hamas casualty figures, usually attributing them to the Gaza ‘Ministry of Health’ or some other nonsensical facade for the terrorist group. And so when Hamas claimed that there were now 50,000 dead in Gaza, the media eagerly repeatedly those numbers.

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By ANJULI PANDAVAR • 4 Apr 2025

In the dying days of the Islamic State, Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, a cross between Goebbels and Soleimani, and the ISIS No.2, famously boasted, “We would be defeated and you victorious only if you were able to remove the Qur’an from Muslims’ hearts.” This week we saw Hamas playing the Qur’an-in-the-heart-of-Muslims card. A Muslim jihad organisation only does this when not just itself, but the entire ummah, is facing a shattering humiliation.

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Peloni:  Karys Rhea, a producer and researcher at the Epoch Times, discusses with Tirza Shorr, a researcher at JCSF, common traits between the antisemites on the Right and the Left.

Peloni:  As the world has sat back demanding to know what the day after in Gaza would bring, they should have instead been contemplating what the day after in Iran would bring.   The day in which the question regarding Iran’s future needs an answer may be fast approaching, and that answer will have reverberations most acutely affecting the regional Iranian proxies which might or might not still exist in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen, while also affecting the entire region and much of the world.

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | April 3, 2025

*Does US policy toward Iran refrain from – or repeat – past mistakes?

*The diplomatic option (negotiation and containment) is effective when conducted between parties, which consider negotiation as a step toward peaceful coexistence. However, as evidenced by its 46-year-old rogue track record (since toppling the pro-US Shah), the Ayatollah regime – just like ISIS, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, the PLO/PA and Hezbollah – has employed negotiation as a tactic to advance its aim to topple the “apostate” Sunni regimes and bring the “infidel” West to submission.

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