Jonathan Feldstein

UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees is set to go out of business this week, in Israel at least, none too soon. RIP.

From its inception in 1949, UNRWA has been a controversial organization, criticized for policies and actions that have harmed both Israel and Palestinian Arabs. In the wake of Israel’s war of Independence, UNRWA was ostensibly set up to provide humanitarian aid to Palestinian Arab refugees. Yet its unique and disturbing mandate and political entanglements have made it an obstacle to peace rather than a solution; perpetuating refugee status for people who should have been settled in the countries in which they are, making this the only ethnic group in the world among whom refugee status is inherited from generation to generation, fostering and even emboldening radicalization for future generations, and maintaining an unsustainable and dangerous status quo that ultimately harms both sides.

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Peloni:  The Lebanese have no agency. They have no control over their own future. Like other nations, the power is concentrated in the hands of the powerful, and in Lebanon, the powerful are Hezbollah and their Shia backers, even though the Shia represent a minority within the country. This is where the power will forever reside in Lebanon, so long as the Mullahs reside in Iran and the West fails to act to eliminate their stranglehold over the Lebanese people.

By David Daoud | January 29, 202

Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem’s last speech, delivered on Monday, was his most defiant to date. Qassem spoke one day after the expiration of the November 27 Israel-Lebanon ceasefire deal’s 60-day timetable for the withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from south Lebanon.

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Eitan Fischberger tweeted the following:

? Breaking: Senior Al Jazeera Journalist Produced Hamas’ Hostage Release Ceremonies ?

According to @BaruchYedid in an exposé for @i24NEWS_HE, the Qatari network’s Tamer Mishel produced the ceremonies as well as the recent documentary, “What is Hidden is Greater,” in which Al… pic.twitter.com/SAyCG3CAdC

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) January 29, 2025

Senior Al Jazeera Journalist Produced Hamas’ Hostage Release Ceremonies According to @BaruchYedid in an exposé for @i24NEWS_HE, the Qatari network’s Tamer Mishel produced the ceremonies as well as the recent documentary, “What is Hidden is Greater,” in which Al Jazeera aired exclusive footage of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar sneaking around Gaza like a rat.

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Peloni:  This is a disgusting caveat to the Surrender Deal.  The world is going to award the chief coordinator of terror with the Nobel Peace Prize.  Having coerced its influence over Trump’s envoy to manipulate the Israeli govt into concessions which will be devastating over the coming years, they are now to gain world renown for their influence peddling among Trump’s inner circle and call it peace making.

Natalie Ecanow | Jan 29, 2025

A Qatari diplomat recently suggested that the emir of Qatar deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the war in Gaza that Doha effectively abetted. In a statement to The Jerusalem Post, Qatar’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Sheikh Abdullah Al Thani, claimed that Qatar “played a pivotal role in ending the war” and that “in recognition of its sacrifices and leadership,” Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Sheikh Abdullah’s congratulations to his uncle are deceiving. Qatar has pumped upwards of $1 billion into Hamas-run Gaza, provided a haven for Hamas leaders and financiers, and legitimized Hamas propaganda on its state-owned media network Al Jazeera. Doha released a statement on October 7, 2023, holding “Israel alone responsible” for Hamas’s massacre. Yet despite its leverage over the terrorist group, Doha repeatedly failed to exert pressure on Hamas during months of negotiations.

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Tik Tok and REDnote – “Spiritual Fentanyl”

Peloni:  As per usual, Avi is right on the money!  Barbarism does not distinguish between Israel and its Western allies.  They seek to subdue and destroy us all!

Instead of Witkoff pressuring Hamas, Iran, Qatar, and Egypt, who were all complicit in the October 7 atrocities, the pressure was placed on Israel. While Trump expels terror supporters from the US, Israel is forced to release terrorists into our midst.

Avi Abelow | Jan 28, 2025

Trump shakes hands with relatives of hostages   REUTERS/Brian Snyder

The Israeli government recently revealed the disturbing fact that released hostages Romi, Emily, and Doron were held in United Nations shelters in Gaza, structures meant to house the homeless Gaza civilians.

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Peloni:  Ukraine should have agreed to peace terms instead of invading Kursk last summer.  The extended lines only complicated Ukraine’s already low manpower, low munitions, and low morale.  Such disasters as this is not how you Russia might be coerced into accepting a frozen conflict – something which I have noted is not in their interest.

By Col. (res.), Shay Shabtai | BESA | January 26, 2025

ESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,326, January 26, 2025

 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel, the US, and other international and regional actors are faced with a dilemma. They are unwilling to invest too many resources in countries/regions with poor governance, but need to prevent negative developments like famine and terrorism from arising. One possible approach to this problem is “Semi-Self Governance” (SSG), which allows local forces to take accountability and improve the lives of their civilian populations while allowing for external intervention when problems develop. This principle could align with President Trump’s strategic vision.

Israel, together with key countries around the world and in the Middle East and led by the United States, is debating the policy it should adopt toward countries or regions in its vicinity where there is no proper governance. The current challenges are the post-war Gaza Strip and the denial of the possibility of Hamas’s continued control; the “new” Syria, whose sovereignty over its territory and new regime’s characteristics are in question; and Lebanon, the central government of which is still weak in the face of the military and political dominance of the Hezbollah terrorist organization despite that group’s pummeling by Israel. Other countries or regions where proper governance does not exist are Yemen, Sudan, and Libya, as well as parts of Iraq and the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria.

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | January 28, 2025

*Ending wars and terrorism is a noble aspiration, which confronts the reality of NO intra-Muslim peaceful coexistence during the last 14 centuries. In fact, since 1948, intra-Muslim wars have featured a toll of mega-million fatalities (e.g., 3 million killed during two civil wars in the Sudan, 3 million during the Pakistan-Bangladesh war, over 1 million during the Afghan civil war, close to 1 million Syrians killed by Hafiz and Bashar Assad, 1 million killed during Iran-Iraq war, 350,000 in Yemen’s civil wars, etc.) compared with some 130,000 Arabs killed in Arab wars against Israel.

*Ending wars and terrorism must contend with the 14-century-old reality of intra-Muslim unpredictability, violent intolerance, ethnic and religious fragmentation, despotism, tenuous regimes-policies-accords, intrinsic terror and subversion. Not an “Arab Spring,’ but an “Arab Tsunami!”

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Peloni:  There is no positive consequence of the Biden turned Trump deal.  Trump and Bibi should both void this deal, evict the so-called ‘non-combatants’ and in a serious manner return tothe process of de-Hamasing Hamastan.

And billions in reconstruction costs for “Palestinian” nation-building.

by Daniel Greenfield | Jan 29, 2025

American soldiers are headed to Gaza.

They’re not there to fight Islamic terrorists, but to secure the disastrous Biden deal that saved Hamas by monitoring and inspecting the Gazans traveling across the ‘Netzarim corridor’.

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Peloni:  Nelson provides a deep dive into the background and glaring challenges which Gabbard’s nomination faces.  This will be quite revealing to those who are not familiar with Gabbard’s background and positions.

By Kelleigh Nelson

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide. “Foreign Policy Drains U.S. of Main Weapon,” The Los Angeles times, Sept. 9, 1962, G2

In communist terminology “world peace” simply means an absence of resistance to world Marxist-Leninist domination. What would the CPUSA do if the United States got into a full-scale military confrontation with China?  Trevor Loudon

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propagandist

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By Walter E. Block

In the event, the IDF killed Yahya Sinwar with lead bullets. But suppose, just suppose, that they had done so with napalm, instead. Would the Israeli soldiers have been justified in so doing?

The Zionist entity has been accused of using this weapon, utilized by the US in its war with Viet Nam. I take no position on whether this actual incident occurred or not. But if it were indeed the case, would it have been justified?

It is beyond clear that if anyone ever deserved to die a premature death (none of us gets out of this vale of tears alive), it would be Yahya Sinwar. While he was a guest of the Israeli prison system, Jewish doctors and dentists saved his life from certain death due to a health malady he had contracted. How did he repay this generosity accorded to him? He was the mastermind behind the pogrom of October 7, 2023, which directly killed 1200 innocent people and included the kidnapping of an additional 250 musical concert goers and kibbutznicks. Many of the latter have already perished or soon will meet that fate, if we can rely upon the usual scruples of Hamas.

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Peloni:  I agree with Rosenberg regarding the sincere and ardent opposition of the Egyptians and Jordanians against accepting Pal refugees under any condition.  Yet, any resolution towards peace will ultimately require this outcome.  Notably, the govts of these two nations, each of whom have been advocating on behalf of the terrorist Hamas during this war and each of whom acted in support of terror against Israel before this war, are continuing to present themselves as obstacles to the resolution of this war on terror.  Pal emigration is the solution, and the Jordan Option is the way.  It would appear that Trump is aware of this fact.  Hence, when Egypt and Jordan do come around as Trump suggests they will, it will be under new management.

AIN Editor-in-Chief Rosenberg: Trump is ‘asking the right questions’

All Israel News Staff | Published: January 28, 2025

Displaced Palestinians return to their homes in the northern Gaza as part of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza City, January 27, 2025. Photo by Khalil Kahlout/Flash90

After officials from Egypt and Jordan rejected the idea they would accept Gazan refugees while the enclave is being “cleared out,” U.S. President Donald Trump asserted their leaders would come around to his plan.

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Peloni:   This is a particularly important discussion about the coming Stargate project, the $500 billion project aimed to promoting AI research under the veil of vaccines.  As explained here, the relevance of promoting AI as vaccine research, which is false from the outset, is to gain the indemnification protections extended to vaccines and whatever are qualified as such.

Begin at 5min and watch at least the next 15-20 min.  

Excerpt:

“So if you look at the business model, it’s fantastic because you give people poison, they get symptoms of toxicity, then you declare those disease and then you make another poison to give them. Do you know what I mean? And around and around you go. It’s an incredibly profitable financial treadmill. And we have seen investors all around the world being proposed to build these huge mega-factories of just-in-time vaccines. So this is happening not just in the U. S, but if my feedback from the investment community is correct, these mega-factories are being built all around the world.”

By Madeline Brooks | Am Thinker | Jan 20, 2025

Image: Exultant Gaza residents call for the slaughter of the Jews. X screen grab

There can be a moral perspective on how one deals with terrorists. Rabbi Manis Friedman says that negotiating with terrorists rewards and encourages them. According to him, it is wrong—indeed, it is definitely immoral—to reward terrorists with commuted prison sentences. Boldness, not bribes, is how one must deal with them, as the Bible instructed millennia ago.

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On particular matters concerning Palestinian statehood, it’s high time to understand that everyone’s true enemy in the region is not Israel, but a persistently sordid mix of jihadist criminal forces.

By LOUIS RENÉ BERES | JANUARY 26, 2025

‘A boy had been given money to buy things at the grocery store. On the way, he lost the money. Someone saw him looking for the money: “Did you lose it here?” the man asked. “No,” said the boy. “Then why are you looking here?” “Ah,” said the boy. “Where I lost the money it is dark, but here it is light.” The Wise Men of Chelm (Jewish folk tale)

Israelis have good reason to be worried about the current Hamas ceasefire. On the terrorist side, there is every intention to continue the jihad. Reciprocally, Israel will soon feel renewed pressures to accept a Palestinian state. Still, like the boy from “Chelm” who looks for lost grocery money only where it would be most visible, the Jewish state would be looking for peace in the wrong place.

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Peloni:  Sadly and shockingly, the answer to this question appears to be more and more certain to be no, even as there are but only a few outrages visited upon the public by these and other public officials.  If the public will accept this govt deployed devastation, they will not have to wait long before an even more devastating version of this devastation is visited upon them.   Warp Speed 2.0 is coming, and probably more quickly than any of us might expect.

By James Bovard  | Brownstone Istitute |  January 24, 2025

The biggest scientific con of the century is finally being exposed. But will any politicians or government officials ever be held responsible for the carnage they unleashed on Americans?

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Peloni:  Terror is not a crime, it is a war crime.  It is an assault on society as a whole and it warrants the most extreme penalty which society might possibly envision on the terrorists, and such a penalty should not be limited to them being held in a cell until such time that another war crime is committed to earn their early release to continue this pantomime of justice.

Barbara Diamond | Jan 26, 2025

Immediately after the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas on Israeli innocents on October 7th, 2023 the world was stunned. We in Israel were in shock. Speaking for myself, I must share that I had never imagined such barbaric behavior as that which was perpetrated by Hamas on our Innocents on that day. Surely, I wrote and suggested… the abduction of our people to become the hostages of Hamas could have been avoided?

My blog published in the Times of Israel on January 25, 2024 which I titled : “ Hostages…The Ultimate Ethical Conundrum” seemed to me, at the time, the only solution possible for civilized nations facing hostage crises. I posited that if world powers had an agreement between them that under no circumstances would hostages abducted by terrorists ever be used as bargaining chips to benefit the enemy, then most certainly terrorists would realize that there would be no purpose in further abductions.

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