Peloni:  Victory was always achievable, but the positioning of the Biden administration in tight coordination with its allies among the IDF and Israeli political spectrum made this potential quite impossible.  It is time for Israel to revisit this conflict, and demonstrate in quick order its ability to eliminate Hamas’ control over Gaza, and then advance the Trump proposal of letting the Gazans seek their futures in Egypt and Jordan.  But as Trump recently noted, “somebody’s going to have to get a lot rougher than they’re getting.”  The time to do so is now.

By John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute (MWI) at West Point; served for 25 years as an infantry soldier and two tours in Iraq

March 7, 2025

Recent events have reignited the debate over whether Hamas can be defeated militarily. Following President Donald Trump‘s meeting with freed Israeli hostages in the Oval Office, he warned Hamas to release all captives or face severe consequences.

He also promised to send Israel “everything it needs to finish the job.” This pledge likely includes military supplies that were previously withheld under the Biden administration—such as large-diameter bombs and bulldozer parts—items Trump promptly released after the elections. The implicit message is clear: renewed military operations aimed at dismantling Hamas are on the table.

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Michael Ordman | March 9, 2025

In the 9th Mar 25 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• Philanthropist Rabbi gifts a brand new car to released female Israeli hostage.
• Huge Israeli discovery – our bodies make antibiotics.
• Israel’s Sheba Medical Center climbs to the world’s eighth’s best hospital.
• An Israeli with Cerebral Palsy conquered Mt Kilimanjaro.
• An Israeli startup simplifies the control of diverse green energy sources.
• Israel opens Terminal 1 at Tel Aviv airport to handle tourism surge.
• The Tel Aviv marathon attracted 45,000 runners.
• IDF soldiers on Mount Hermon put a mezuzah on the door of their base.

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Peloni:  How ironic is it that an Arab statesman dismisses emigration as a ‘Red Line’ given that the Arab world began to force the expulsion of their Jews, even as the ink on the slogan ‘Never Again’ at Nuremberg was still wet.  Notably, the post WWII pogroms of Poland and other European nations aligned with the interests of the Arabs in this undertaking as well, even as there was a din of silence rather than any international uproar over the actions taking place in Europe or across Arabia.  Emigration is not only a legitimate solution to the conflict emanating from the Pal Cleft in Israel, it is and always was the only solution to the conflict, and it is this very fact which might explain why the Sunni Arabs still resist the Pals being allowed to relocate anywhere, under any provision, even if it is supported by the Pals themselves.  It is time to ignore these faux displays of concern for the Gazans, and move the Gazans to Jordan and Egypt as recently proposed by Trump and then to pursue a similar undertaking in Judea & Samaria.

All Israel News Staff | Published: March 9, 2025

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, March 7, 2025. (Photo: Iranian Foreign Ministry)

The Iranian regime has rejected the Arab world’s Gaza reconstruction plan that was presented last week at a summit in Cairo. Addressing the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Friday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi articulated Tehran’s opposition to the internationally favored two-state solution.

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Peloni:  Completing the agenda of ending the madness of the Ukraine war is essential for Trump’s China policy to go forward, and it will have many reverberating aspects, not the least of which might be felt in the Middle East.  Indeed, there are many potential windfalls for Israel should Trump be successful in effecting the divorce between Russia and its partnership with China & Iran.  The greatest obstacle challenging Trump’s success in Europe, however, emanates from China’s own great influence which is still wielded with significant effect from within the Western halls of power.   As US allies continue to advocate for the position of keeping the war in Ukraine going, it is straining their relationship with the US, to their own detriment.  This, however, is not a condition from which Israel is suffering.

Analysis: Trump believes that Russia is an asset at the global level whereas Ukraine is now a liability, and Russia wants to dissolve old alliances in favor of a new world order with a clearly defined sphere of influence for each superpower; Israel can renew cooperation with Moscow along with entry into almost harmonious relations with the new US administration

Brigadier General (res.) Amir Avivi | Mar 8, 2025

By The White House – YouTube  – View/save archived versions on archive.org and archive.today, Public Domain

The whupping that Zelensky received at the White House was no surprise to those observing Trump’s plain intention of prioritizing “profit-yielding assets” over bad debts. Under the Biden administration, the U.S. had supported Ukraine massively, but with the switchover at the White House the approach to the war changed completely.

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Peloni:  Mark Levin provides a very important monologue with an extensive analysis of Qatar’s influence peddling in both US halls of power and institutions.  He calls for a “Full List” to be compiled of those American politicians, lobbyists and beurocrats under Qatar’s influence.

At about 30 min, Levin speaks with Leo Terrell who is heading the Justice Department Task Force to Combat Antisemitism about the plans for the Trump Administration in countering the rise of antisemitism in the US.

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | March 2, 2025

By Carin Araujo, Copyrighted free use

Demographic reality contradicts conventional wisdom

*The number of annual Jewish births in Israel surged by 73% from 1995 (80,400) to 2024 (138,698), compared to a 18% increase of annual Arab births in Israel during the same period (from 36,500 to 42,911), as reported by the February 2025 Monthly Bulletin of Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (ICBS).

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Peloni:  The consequences for this move to counter US policy will define the US-European relationship going forward.

Sundance | Mar 9, 2025

Consider this an escalation once President Trump is briefed.  Overnight, someone, claimed by media to be Ukraine, launched a targeted series of drone attacks against the KINEF oil refinery in the Leningrad region of Russia.

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Peloni: These would be important and effective policy changes regarding Turkey .

Testifying before @HouseForeign, @HouseForeignGOP, FDD Executive Director @JSchanzer outlines Turkey’s growing regional aggression.

Watch here ? pic.twitter.com/ZJlBrEslLT

— FDD (@FDD) March 6, 2025

Peloni:  It is said that insanity is the task of doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different outcome, something which might be raised with regards to the American decision to try to negotiate Iran into abandoning their nearly achieved nuclear ambitions a second time around.  While this might be a fair description of insanity, I think that a greater example of insanity is to grasp that an existential nuclear threat is being raised against America and the West, while they choose to negotiate rather than to act to prevent such a cataclysm as a nuclear Iran from materializing, even as the window of opportunity to prevent such a calamity is imminently closing.

Peloni:  It is vital that this become a routine rather than remarkable response to advocates of terror in the US.  There are also laws aplenty which might be applied to those who partake in or support terrorism, so let us not delay in applying these legal standards to those who sponsored these pro-Hamas events.  Indeed, break these terror loving dens using every means possible, with the specific intent of making their support of terror as anathema as it was once ubiquitously accepted to be.  This is a lesson worth learning and no better place to teach it than among the terrorist supporting dens of inquity which now inhabit what was once the pinnacle bastions of America’s educational establishment.

By Robert Spencer | March 8, 2025

Richly deserved and long overdue, and much, much more must be done to restore sanity to American academia.

“Trump administration cancels $400 million worth of grants and contracts to Columbia University,” by Luke Barr, ABC News, March 7, 2025:

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Peloni:  The time to stop Iran is not today, but a decade ago, or a decade before that.  Indeed, the window of opportunity has drawn to all but being closed and yet the West continues to act as if either they have time to accept delay or that they have an honest partner in negotiations in the Mullahs ruling Iran.  The truth is that both of these beliefs are false, and it does appear somewhat transparent that this is actually the case.  The Mullahs mean to subjugate and destroy not only Israel, but the entire Western world, and to prevent this from taking place, action against Iran’s nuclear capabilities needs to be taken NOW, as the author explains.

by Majid Rafizadeh  • Gatestone Institute • March 8, 2025

Iran is moving at an alarming speed to develop nuclear weapons and advancing its uranium enrichment at an unprecedented rate. The latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency provides a chilling confirmation of Iran’s intentions. Pictured: A Fattah hypersonic ballistic missile is displayed during the annual military parade in Tehran, on September 22, 2023. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

• Iran has also been installing more advanced centrifuges, increasing its capacity to enrich uranium faster than ever.

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Yossi Baum | X | Mar 6, 2025

By Jonathan Klinger – Aharon Barak, CC BY-SA 2.0

Mandatory Reading – Exposure:

1. Unbelievable: The first person to claim that the Attorney General’s legal opinion was binding on the government was—yes, yes—Aharon Barak himself. As a result, Rabin’s government fell, the right-wing rose to power, and Barak found himself in personal trouble.

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