By Seth Frantzman | March 11, 2025

Members of the SDF Internal Security Forces during a campaign in the countryside of Deir Ezzor in February. (SDF)

On March 10, Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), signed an agreement with Syria’s interim President Ahmad al Sharaa. The deal outlines a plan to integrate the SDF and other civil and military institutions in northeastern Syria into the new Damascus administration over the next nine months. The effort will include responsibility for border crossings, an airport, and oil and gas fields, the agreement states.

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Despite funding outrageously cartoonish progressive projects, lighting money on fire isn’t even close to being USAID’s most destructive activity.<

2nd Smartest Guy in the World | Mar 11, 2025

by Matthew D. Palumbo

DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 27JAN11 – George Soros, Chairman, Soros Fund Management, USA, is captured during the session ‘Redesigning the International Monetary System: A Davos Debate’ at the Annual Meeting 2011 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 27, 2011.  Copyright by World Economic Forum  swiss-image.ch/Photo by Michael Wuertenberg

The recent attention on USAID and explosive revelations on where its spending is really going surely comes as an early Christmas gift for Rand Paul when it comes time for him to prepare his annual Festivus report.

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Peloni:  A one month ceasefire?  Just as Kursk is collapsing?  There would seem to be little to entice Russia to accept this offer, particularly following the Ukrainian attack on Moscow.  We will see how Putin will respond, but it does not seem likely that he would accept this ceasefire offer without some significant advantage offered to them to entice them to accept the one month pause.

Prospects for a successful outcome are minimal

Peloni:  Dershowitz is right in announcing that American Jewry is on a dangerous trajectory, and there needs to be a change in Jewish leadership, a change in Jewish attitudes and a change in priorities, and that Jewish weakness must be replaced with Jewish strength.  But as Fleisher suggests, one of the most pivotal changes in attitudes is the support and advocacy for a second Palestinian Arab state, and one of the most pivotal changes in leadership should be to have Dershowitz and other Jewish leadersacknowledge thatthe support for yet another terror state in the Middle East, particularly one which would be carved from the Jewish Lands entitled to the Jewish People in the state of Israel, is beyond the pale of reason, obligation or sanity.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | Mar 11, 2025

I was amazed when I listened at NPR on March 10, because on every newscast all day long up until 4 p.m. — I tuned into NPR on every hour, just to check — the first or second story was not about the more than 1,000 Alawite civilians murdered in Latakia, or the massacres in Sudan, or the Russian missiles just shot into Ukraine, or the budget battle in Congress, or the election of Mark Carney as prime minister of Canada, or tariffs on Mexico, China and Canada. No, that first (or second) story was about Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student at Columbia who had just had his green card revoked, and had been taken into custody by ICE, which plans to deport him. Why this hypertrophied interest in the status of this one rather unappealing fellow, I wondered.

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Peloni:  Ukraine needs to demonstrate their conviction for peace.  To be honest, Zelensky’s demonstrations have thus far been demonstrative of just the opposite, making any pretense to the contrary seem to be a hard sell to all but the naive and those predisposed to ignore his obstructionist actions thus far.

Sundance | March 11, 2025

The information from Secretary of State Marco Rubio looks good.  During his flight to Saudi Arabia, Secretary Rubio answered a few questions about the U.S. delegation expectations of the meeting with Ukraine officials.

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by Robert Williams  •  Gatestone Institute  •  March 11, 2025

At the latest UN Climate Conference, COP29, in November 2024, developing countries apparently demanded payments of $1.3 trillion annually from developed countries. Notably, China retained its status as a “developing country” at the COP29, thereby exposing the enormous extent of the climate hoax. According to the International Energy Agency, “China’s total CO₂ emissions exceeded those of the advanced economies combined in 2020, and in 2023 were 15% higher.” In addition, while China continues to build more coal-fired power plants than the rest of the entire world combined, the West continues on the path of deindustrialization in the name of the climate. Pictured: A steel mill with a coal-fired generator in Hebei, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

• Perhaps the climate hoax is actually not about saving the environment? What is it, then?

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Initial Report

Peloni:  The barbarity and vicious display of subjugating, dehumanizing, and slaughtering their Alawhites subjects has removed the thin veneer which should have always been quite transparent to the true nature of the Al-Sharaa and his ilk.  Syria remains a failed state, complete with the emerging terror lord, even as he promises peace and inclusion to the regret of anyone foolish enough to believe the facts which are obvious and apparent.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | Mar 10, 2025

In Latakia, the stronghold of the Alawites, jihadists belonging to Ahmed Al-Sharaa’s government and unaffiliated Sunni gunmen as well have been fighting with the locals, and so far have murdered 340 Alawite civilians. These civilians are being held collectively responsible for the atrocities carried out by Bashar Assad, who is himself an Alawite and relied on his Alawite-officered army to suppress the Sunnis during Syria’s long civil war, that lasted from 2011 to the end of 2024. More on the fighting in Latakia can be found here: “Over 340 civilians killed by Syrian government-linked gunmen – report,” Reuters, March 8, 2025:

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | March 9, 2025

More on Purim in my eBook: Smashwords, Amazon

By Arthur Szyk – Painting of Purim Published in Arthur Szyk : Six paintings of Jewish holidays, published New York : Arthur Rothmann Fine Arts., Public Domain

1. Purim is a Jewish national liberation holiday – just like Passover and Chanukah – which highlights the transition of the Jewish people from subjugation to liberty. It is celebrated seven days following the birth and death date of Moses – a role model of liberty, leadership and humility.

Purim is celebrated from the evening of March 14 through the day of March 15, 2025.

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Sundance | Mar 10, 2025

Ukranian President and EU spokesperson Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces on his X-account that U.K officials traveled to Kiev for a proactive strategy session in advance of Tuesday’s talks in Saudi Arabia.

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By Seth Frantzman | March 9, 2025

IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir visits the Israeli border with Syria on March 9. (IDF)

The new chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, visited northern Israel on March 9 and met with IDF commanders along the border with Syria. According to the IDF, Zamir visited the “area of separation” in Syria, which is along the buffer zone Israeli forces took over after December 8, 2024, when the Bashar al Assad regime fell from power.

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Peloni:  Syria is a failed state, and it has been for over a decade.  The Turkish aligned Sunni radical axis recently replaced the Iranian aligned Shia axis in Syria.  Both regimes weaponized their jihadi mentality against the Christian and minority populations, and they both should be kept at arms length without Western support.  Jihad knows no tolerance for the infidels, and as such, they should be shown no comfort or support from the West.  Europe should be paying close attention to this fact.

By Monica Showalter | Am Thinker | March 10, 2024

Ahmed al-Sharaa in 2024 By Mfa.gov.ua, CC BY 4.0

When Syria’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, was thrown from power last December and fled to Russia, Europe’s elites, and its Washington swamp allies, rejoiced.

Sure, the new guys in charge, an armed rebel group called HTS, had been members of al-Qaida in Iraq. But Assad was the bad guy — evil, wicked, worst person in the world.

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Breaking: The Director of Shifa Hospital, Released by Ronen Bar, Was Responsible for Hamas’ Emergency Logistics in Preparation for the Massacre—With the Assistance of the Shin Bet

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Peloni:  This is a very important article detailing the various resettlement initiatives which have been developed and considered over the years, including Mudar Zahran’s Jordan Option initiative which is still ongoing.  It also provides a compelling explanation for why this maintained tragedy could and should finally be resolved.

by Raphael G. Bouchnik-Chen | Algemeiner | Feb 17, 2025

US President Donald Trump meets with Jordan’s King Abdullah at the White House in Washington, DC, Feb. 11, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

President Donald Trump has overturned the Middle East chessboard by proposing that the population of Gaza be resettled elsewhere to allow for the total razing and reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and the full eradication of its terrorist infrastructure.

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Peloni: In respective conversations with Sen. Ted Cruz (14min mark) and Israeli historian and commentator Gadi Taub (26min mark), Mark Levin examines the actions of two parallel wayward activist Leftist judiciaries which are acting with impunity as they obstruct the two respective govts of the US and Israel, both of which were elected with overwhelming public support. The parallels drawn between the reckless actions of these two court systems betraying the national interests of these two democracies is truly remarkable. While the situation in Israel is far more severe, its success at blocking the will of the people in preference of the will of an unelected, and unelectable, minority, has clearly had the effect of guiding a similarly unelected and unelectable minority in the US towards the same outcome. The precedent set in Israel has been greatly damaging to the nation over the years, and yet has not deterred the parallel efforts to do the same in the US.