Europe’s Illegal Land-Grab: Part III  

Peloni:  Also See Part I and Part II in this important series.

by Karys Rhea  •  Gatestone Institute  •  May 9, 2025

Those who understand the scope of this have witnessed how the plan of former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is part of a much bigger strategy of illegal land use that extends to the Negev Desert in the south and to the Galilee in the north, all driven by a European-supported narrative that replaces Jewish history with the 20th-century fiction of Palestinian-Arab nationalism.  Pictured: Salam Fayyad, Fmr. Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2013 (Photo by World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland – Transformations in the Arab World: Salam FayyadUploaded by January, CC BY-SA 2.0)

  • The international community continues to conspire against the reality of Israel’s existence by testing the limits of its sovereignty and threatening the Jewish right to self-determination and self-defense.

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May 9, 2025 | 3:56 pm | Comments »

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From Israel: We Could Have Seen It Coming!!  

Peloni:  Unilaterally announcing a ceasefire on the heals of a successful Israeli air attack without informing Israel, followed shortly afterwards with the news of an US-Saudi deal now being made without Israel would suggest the making of a crisis between the US and Israel, but does is this crisis real or manufactured?

From Raylan Givens: “From C14 @Tamir114 Israeli officials have been trying to clarify the details of the crisis between Trump and Netanyahu in recent hours – they simply have not been “informed” about it by the Israeli media…

There are disputes and tension on several issues, but I repeat: reports of a crisis, “the collapse of relations,” etc., have no basis in reality, as far as I was able to find out during the night and today.

I also refer you to the report that my colleague Barak Ravid revealed this morning about Dermer’s meeting with Trump in the Oval Office last night. How exactly does this fit in with a deep crisis in relations? It is unclear.”

Things do appear somewhat uncertain at this moment, but time will tell.

Arlene Kushner |May 9, 2025

The Australian

Before Donald Trump was inaugurated on January 20, Steve Witkoff, whom Trump had designated as his Middle East Envoy, came to visit Prime Minister Netanyahu.

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May 9, 2025 | 12:35 pm | 8 Comments »

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Trump Makes Separate Deal, IDF Now Pounds Houthis Alone  

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President Trump has now made his separate peace with the Houthis, without alerting the Israelis of his plans, and as a result, he has caused some consternation in Jerusalem, but Israeli policymakers have wisely kept mum. Trump wanted a done deal before the Israelis could rouse their supporters in the US to try to talk him out of it. Here’s the deal: the Houthis will no longer strike international shipping, and in return, Trump promises to cease bombing Houthis in Yemen. Israeli shipping, and Israel itself, are not part of the deal; they will remain targets of the Houthis, who just the other day sent a missile that managed to hit Ben-Gurion Airport.

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May 9, 2025 | 12:30 pm | 1 Comment »

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Syria’s Druze Are The Latest To Learn The Danger Of Illiberal Islamism  

Shoshana Bryen JPC

Christian and Druze celebrations in As-Suwayda.  (Photo by Drozi Yarka – Flikr, CC BY 2.0)

It is now the turn of Syria’s Druze population to face the danger of standing up to tyranny. But to understand what is happening in Syria, beyond more hideous death and destruction by terrorists of all stripes – and aid and protection provided only by Israel and the IDF – it helps to take a circuitous route.

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May 9, 2025 | 11:46 am | 1 Comment »

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What does Trump mean by ‘total dismantling’ of Iran’s nuclear program?  

Peloni:  The devil is in the details and it is the details which must be made clear to Iran.

Trump has returned to office with a clear message: Iran will never possess nuclear weapons. But clarity on what that entails—and how to achieve it—is still lacking.

Jacob Nagel | May 8, 2025

Iran nuclear talks in Vienna, 2 July 2015. (Photo by Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0)

As the fourth round of negotiations between the US and Iran approaches, a barrage of conflicting statements, reports, and analyses continues to emerge—many riddled with inaccuracies. These stem either from a lack of understanding of technical details or from a deliberate desire to maintain ambiguity and prolong the talks.

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May 9, 2025 | 10:54 am | Comments »

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Is Gaza in Need of Food?  

Peloni:  Never before in history has such a standard been required of any nation as has been required of Israel to care for the safety, security and feeding of those who have made war upon them.

What is more, there is no famine in Gaza.  For greater clarity on the libel of famine in Gaza, see the recent Free Press article by Michael Ames, The Gaza Famine Myth as well as the thread following Pres. Trump’s statement below.

This came a few weeks after Leslie Stahl suggested in her interview with ransomed hostages that Gazans did not have enough food  This wasn’t true when Stahl made this claim:

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May 9, 2025 | 9:35 am | 2 Comments »

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Is Iran Preparing to Break Deal With US Before It Starts…Again  

Israel-Alma | May 7, 2025

As the White House seeks a nuclear deal, the Iranian regime may already be making preparations to break any such agreement before it even starts. This was exactly the case with the 2015 nuclear deal and the Arak Nuclear Complex known as IR-40, when Iran kept a spare calandria to keep their weapons-grade plutonium production.

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May 8, 2025 | 5:27 pm | 2 Comments »

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Netanyahu blindsided by Trump’s Houthi ceasefire? ‘Israel will defend itself by itself,’ PM says  

DM Katz warns Iran: ‘Era of proxies is over, and the axis of evil has collapsed’

(Phot by The White House from Washington, DC – President Trump Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Public Domain)

Israel will continue to defend itself by itself, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared, one day after U.S. President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement of a ceasefire with the Houthi terror group.

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May 8, 2025 | 5:08 pm | 4 Comments »

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Yom Yerushalayim: From Ethiopia To Jerusalem  

By Moshe Phillips

A montage of 9 prominent Ethiopian Jews in Israel. (Photo by A derivative work by WikiJunkie, from a variety of images credited above., Public Domain)

“We’ve been dreaming of Jerusalem for many years. We’re the generation that fulfilled that dream. It shows the sacrifice that was there—the risks that were taken—the desire to get to Jerusalem at all costs.”

— Shay Yasso, an Israeli born in Ethiopia, rescued by the Mossad as a child

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May 8, 2025 | 4:33 pm | 1 Comment »

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Elon Musk now admits: AI will replace bloated, inefficient federal government  

Peloni:  Rule by AI is the ultimate consequence of the tyranny of experts, but democracy should restored such that rule of the corrupt will be replaced with the rule of the governed, not to the rule of AI.

Large swaths of federal workers being terminated does not mean the end of government involvement in our lives. It just means you’ll no longer have humans making decisions that affect your life.

Leo Hohmann |May 06, 2025

(Photo by Office of Speaker Mike Johnson – X.com, Public Domain) [Cropped]

Many of us voiced concerns when Elon Musk said he was going to eliminate large numbers of federal workers.

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May 8, 2025 | 12:58 pm | 38 Comments »

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Trump Taps MAHA-Favorite Doctor Casey Means To Replace Surgeon General Nominee  

Peloni:  It is interesting that Trump pulled Dr. Janette Nesheiwat’s nomination one day before her confirmation hearings were to begin.  So now that we have seen the confirmation of the former advocate of mRNA shots halted, might we soon see the Covid shots themselves halted, as they currently remain on the mandatory child vaccination schedule?

Also, something shared in other reports regarding Dr. Means is that she was significantly involved in the negotiated alliance between Trump and RFK during the last election season.

Robert McGreevy | Daily Caller |

Casey Means (Photo by The Plant Yourself Podcast – YouTube, CC BY 3.0)

President Donald Trump is nominating Dr. Casey Means for the position of surgeon general after pulling Dr. Janette Nesheiwat’s nomination, Trump announced on his Truth Social account Wednesday.

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May 8, 2025 | 11:50 am | 6 Comments »

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IDF Operations in Judea and Samaria  

Peloni:  The victories in Judea & Samaria have been largely overshadowed by the successes in other fronts of this war, but they have been significant.

May 8, 2025 | 11:24 am | Comments »

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Houthi rebels clarify that ceasefire with US does not include Israel, will continue to act in support of Gaza  

Peloni:  Freedom of the seas for all but Israel?  Trump said the Houthis had “capitulated”, but this doesn’t this sound like capitulation.  The Houthis are in fact taking a victory dance as they explain that it has been the US rather than they who have conceded.

Houthis demonstration in Yemen, Sana’a. (Photo by Unknown author – VOA News, Public Domain)

The Houthi rebel group was quick to note that the ceasefire deal between it and the United States does not include Israel.

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May 8, 2025 | 11:17 am | 1 Comment »

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Israel Plans Shift from US Aid to Strategic Investment Partnership  

Peloni:  Such a change in policy is long overdue.  Sovereignty, respect, and innovation have each been sacrificed on the alter of US investment in Israel, mislabeled as ‘aid’.  While this investment has had a force multiplying benefit for the US, the investment has been weaponized against Israel on many levels and at many key moments over the years.

New initiative aims to replace traditional military aid with joint innovation, equal footing, and long-term independence.

Israfan | May 7, 2025

In a bold move to redefine its relationship with the United States, Israel is preparing to phase out traditional foreign aid and instead embrace a new strategic model centered around joint investments and innovation. The effort, spearheaded by Likud MK Amit Halevi, seeks to move Israel from dependency to partnership replacing aid with mutual benefit and sovereign control.

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May 8, 2025 | 10:54 am | 1 Comment »

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Bring them home, but not at any cost  

Peloni:  Honickman addresses the matter of the crisis surrounding the hostage crisis in the most accurate fashion possible.  The simple reality is that while the tragedy surrounding the hostages can never be ignored, it can not be allowed to dictate national strategy.  The attempt to manipulate Israeli strategy based around the fate of these victims was in fact the very reason why they were taken in the first place, and thus far, this fact has hobbled Israel’s response to the October 7 slaughter and the months long missile attacks from Gaza.  While including the return of the hostages as one of the war aims was inevitable, it nevertheless should never have been made the primary war aim.  It is time to end the war, not thru negotiations, and not in surrender, but in an overwhelming effort to effect a final victory over Hamas.

The hostage dilemma we can’t keep avoiding. We are doing everything we can to bring  them home — and we must continue to do so. But we cannot destroy Israel in the name of saving it. Opinion.

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May 8, 2025 | 10:11 am | 2 Comments »

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So Let Me Get This Straight…  

by Gerald A. Honigman 

A friend and fellow author sent me, unfortunately, some current disturbing news that I had a bad feeling earlier was going to happen.

So let me get this straight as I’m seeing this unfold:

Houthis give Western and other shipping nations guarantees of no attack, but it continues to remain ok to blast Israel.

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May 7, 2025 | 6:17 pm | 9 Comments »

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