The Houthis are not a nuisance – they are a strategic threat  

Peloni:  The recipe for success described by Prof. Zisser in this article has a major flaw baked into it, and that is that the US, despite being responsible for the Arab Spring from which the Houthis were first empowered, have zero interest in building any coalition against the Houthis.  So, with this in mind, how might the Houthi threat, which is in fact just an extension of the threat from Iran, be expunged?  I argue that all solutions to the threats emanating from the Iranian terror tentacles, such as the Houthis, must begin with the eliminating the central hub of these threats which exists in Iran, following which the surviving tentacles will become far more manageable, even as they will likely persist, though in some less threatening form after being isolated from any resupply of Iranian fresh funding and arms deliveries.

Initially perceived as a minor issue, the threat from Yemen has evolved into a central strategic front for Israel. Despite some PR-oriented strikes against Houthi infrastructure and US promises to “deal” with the issue, these efforts remain limited and lack real impact.

By  Prof. Eyal Zisser | Published on  12-29-2024

The Houthis (Archive). Photo: EPA | Photo

Following the October 7 terrorist attack, Iran’s proxies across the Middle East quickly joined Hamas in its war against Israel. Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iran-loyal Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria, and the Houthis in Yemen all contributed to this coordinated effort. The Houthis attacked Israeli ships in the Red Sea and launched drones and missiles toward Israel.

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January 5, 2025 | 1:42 pm | 3 Comments »

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Break their minds while they’re young: jihad’s generational wedge, Part 1  

Peloni:  Pandavar provides an important explanation of how the simplest of people are actually transformed into carrying out the savagery such as was conducted on October 7, or that perpetrated a century earlier during the Hebron Massacre, where friends and neighbors seamlessly went from being innocuous acquaintances to being, well, members of a butchering horde. Indeed, as we hear daily about the need of denazification of the Jihadi mind which has been baked into and marbleized within the Pal consciousness, we have to appreciate the whole of society approach which has weaponized the individual Pal into a collective conglomerate whose only purpose and whose greatest achievement is to conduct Jihad against the infidels who believe that they can be reformed.  Murdering and subjugating the infidel is not just an objective, but it is their highest passion, which explains the ease by which neighbors and friends of the victims of Jihad, such as those of the Hebron Massacre as well as those of October 7, were so easily transformed from being benign neighbors and friends of these innocent victims to being their executioners.

The Muslim mind has difficulty with hypotheses, role-play and fiction. None of these are the truth, therefore they are lies. An imagination accustomed to the subtleties of fiction has no problem reading facts interspersed with flights of fancy. It does not fear letting go. This Islam fears the most.

ANJULI PANDAVAR

Give me the child and I’ll give you the martyr

In this series on the educational regression just imposed on Syria’s children, we group these retrograde steps into categories and examine each in turn. In Part One, we examine the steps introduced to kill the imagination in all of Syria’s children.

The Messenger of Allah said, “He who does not acquire knowledge with the sole intention of seeking the Pleasure of Allah but for worldly gain, will not smell the fragrance of Jannah on the Day of Resurrection” (Abu Dawud).

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January 5, 2025 | 1:04 pm | 4 Comments »

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FDA’s Own Study Finds DNA Contamination in Pfizer Vaccines  

Peloni:  The captured status of the FDA is so complete that they have refused to acknowledge the dangers which children scientists have literally displayed as being a tangible threat to the untold millions of people who have been injected with these contaminated medical countermeasures.  These shots must finally be recalled from public access, and those who knowingly prevented such a recall from proceeding previously should be brought to trial.

A peer-reviewed study performed at a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) laboratory by high school students has confirmed the presence of a high level of DNA contamination in Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.

The study, published Dec. 29, 2024, in the Journal of High School Science, was authored by three students at Centreville High School in Clifton, Virginia, and performed under the supervision of FDA scientists.

Maryanne Demasi, Ph.D., an investigative medical reporter, was the first to report on the study.

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January 5, 2025 | 3:55 am | 1 Comment »

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Sarah Adams, Former Targeting Officer at The CIA, explains what’s coming during 2025  

Peloni:  Notably, this video was recorded about a month ago.  Many shocking revelations and predictions shared in the full two hour video (LINK)

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Some say the feds were involved in the New Orleans jihad massacre. Would they do that? Sure.  

Peloni:  Faith between national institutions and the public have been badly damaged, and the following report is just one instance of such betrayals by the institutions which have been intended to serve and secure the people.  The consequence is that it would seem that rather than presuming that the FBI was not involve in such a tragedy as unfolded in New Orleans, that we must wait for greater clarity and substantial evidence indicating that this event was not some form of false flag.  The impossible decision to refuse to recognize the reality that this was a terrorist attack from the beginning of the investigation certainly did little to lend credulity to anything which the FBI might subsequently report later.

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Many people are suggesting that the New Orleans jihad massacre was aided and abetted, or even concocted, by the feds in order to stir up unrest as Trump prepares to return to the presidency, or to create a pretext for some other action. Some of those who are making suggestions of this kind, such as Candace Owens, just want to find some plausible way to blame Jews, or to claim that it’s all in the service of trying to get the U.S. involved in a war in the Middle East on behalf of Israel. Those types, including Owens herself, tend to downplay or deny outright the reality of Islamic jihad, preferring to see virtually all the workings of the wide world as the puppet show of the all-powerful and ever-unseen Zionists.

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January 4, 2025 | 11:21 am | 2 Comments »

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Weaponizing university conduct officers against Zionist studentsOrganizations like Students for Justice in Palestine exploit a university’s policies to harass Jewish students.  

Organizations like Students for Justice in Palestine exploit a university’s policies to harass Jewish students.

Ronn Torossian | Jan 3, 2024

A few months ago, I got to know a man who is now a friend and in many ways embodies Jewish pride post-Oct. 7, 2023, by standing up, saying something and doing something. Jakob Schanzer is a Jewish student at Tulane University working on his doctorate in chemical engineering.

A few days after Oct. 7, 2023, there was a protest right outside his office that turned violent. He watched it all unfold, and, as he explained to me the first time we spoke, he thought about his Jewish roots, although he hadn’t prayed or been a part of the organized Jewish community in many years. Since then, Schanzer has been actively cleaning up what feels like endless antisemitic graffiti, stickers and fliers in his New Orleans neighborhood.

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January 4, 2025 | 11:01 am | 1 Comment »

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Waiting for the Middle Eastern storm to settle  

Ideologies do not suddenly disappear, and the region is ripe with volatility

Sarah Stern | Jan 3, 2024

Troops of the Israeli Air Force’s elite Shaldag unit on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, Dec. 8, 2024. Credit: Israel Defense Forces.

Just days into 2025, Israel is still fighting a war on seven fronts, including Iran, the Houthis in Yemen, Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, various Iranian proxies in Iraq, volatility in Judea and Samaria, and an extremely unstable and unpredictable Syria.

Israelis living in central Israel have been awoken by Houthi missiles several times this week. This is not simply Israel’s problem, but the world’s. The war from Yemen began in March 2020, when radical Houthis began attacking the shipping lanes in the Red Sea. U.S. and other vessels have to reroute around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, affecting the entire global economy and putting at particular risk the economy of Egypt.

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January 4, 2025 | 10:50 am | 3 Comments »

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We Can Never Know How Evil These People Were  

Peloni:  Now that Trump is about to retake the White House, will there be any accounting for any of these crimes?  Or will we see that the notion that some crimes are too great to prosecute continues to be true?

By: Alan Joseph Bauer | TownHall.comDecember 28, 2024

As those whom the media have protected may finally be exposed for their actions, we might get a glimpse of how evil certain people have been at home and abroad.

 Joseph Stalin was a mass murderer. He was also, unfortunately for humanity, a fairly smart guy. He made many observations, such as that it does not matter who votes but rather who counts the ballots. Or when pressed to get the Pope to come out against the Nazis, he asked how many divisions the Pope had available to fight. One of Stalin’s famous comments was, “One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.” There is no way to know how many people Joe Stalin,  Adolph Hitler, or Chairman Mao killed. If one searches for the number, he might find quite a broad range, plus or minus a couple million. There is no way to know how evil these people were. We may know a great deal but never have a final accounting.

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January 4, 2025 | 10:14 am | 3 Comments »

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Why Erdogan’s Turkish Empire Is an Emerging Threat  

Shoshana Bryen JPC  

Turkish President Recep Tayvip Erdogan. (Photo: Paul Morigi / Brookings )

The world was once a series of empires. The British Empire, at its peak in 1922, covered about a quarter of the Earth’s land and ruled over 458 million people. The Russian Empire once covered about 8,800,000 sq/mi, roughly one-sixth of the world’s landmass, making it the third-largest empire in history, behind only the British and Mongols. An 1897 census recorded 125.6 million people under Russian control. Genghis Khan’s Mongol Empire, while short, was the largest contiguous empire in history.

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Calls to ‘end the war in Gaza’ before Hamas is defeated risk us repeating our painful past  

Peloni:  Political Islam as practiced by Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood is a threat to survival of Israel, to the lives of Jews throughout the Diaspora, and to the continuation of the Western World.  Israel stands at the forefront of this war, and her every defeat in this war only serves to bring this war closer to the wider Western World and to the Jews living there.  A decisive victory over these Islamist forces by Israel makes the entire Western World safer, and this includes Jews who are calling for Israel to accept defeat instead.   All ships in the West rise with an Israeli victory, and her defeat will only embolden terror for all.

Real people who are being harmed by Hamas kidnappers and Hezbollah’s rockets, writes the head of Americans For A Safe Israel.

Moshe Phillips 

The question of whether American Jews should criticize Israel has nothing to do with free speech, or democracy, or peace in the Middle East. It has everything to do with the real-life consequences that Israelis suffer when they bow to criticism from abroad.

In a recent JTA op-ed, Rabbi Jill Jacobs called on American Jews to pressure Israel to “end the war in Gaza.” That might sound appealing at first glance. After all, war is bad. Everyone wants wars to end. But what would be the real-life consequences for Israelis if Israel ceased firing at Hamas now, before victory has been achieved?

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January 4, 2025 | 7:06 am | 2 Comments »

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Inside the PLO: The hidden history behind the Palestinian leadership  

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, August 18, 2020. Photo by Flash90

In May 1982, a Palestinian doctoral candidate at Moscow’s Patrice Lumumba University completed his dissertation. The work, titled,”The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism,” presented stark claims: that Zionist leaders were “basic partners in crime” with the Nazis, that the movement deliberately incited Nazi hatred against Jews to fuel mass extermination, that the widely accepted figure of six million Holocaust victims was a “fantastic lie,” and that Zionism shared ideological parallels with Nazi racial theories. The student even argued that the 1942 Biltmore Conference had provoked Hitler into accelerating the Final Solution. The candidate’s controversial thesis earned him a Candidate of Sciences degree, equivalent to a PhD in Western universities.

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January 4, 2025 | 2:52 am | 3 Comments »

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Multi-month battle for Jabaliya underscores Israel’s security challenge in northern Gaza  

By Seth Frantzman | December 30, 2024

An Israeli commander speaks on a radio as troops battle terrorists in Jabaliya. (IDF)

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) eliminated “dozens” of terrorists in the northern Gaza area of Jabaliya overnight between December 29 and December 30. The militants were killed in ambushes. The discovery of so many terrorists is a rare occurrence in Jabaliya, where the IDF has been fighting since early October. The nearly three-month battle has primarily been a slow, grinding campaign against the remnants of Hamas and other groups in this portion of northern Gaza.

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January 3, 2025 | 3:00 pm | 1 Comment »

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1,700 West-trained Ukrainian soldiers flee before reaching frontlines  

Peloni:  It is the three deficiencies which spell Ukraine’s ultimate doom: men, morale & munitions.  This article focused on the first two, which all by themselves would likely be enough to seal Ukraine’s fate, but the lack of munitions certainly makes this imminent eventuality quite impossible to dismiss.


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January 3, 2025 | 2:22 pm | 1 Comment »

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The Art of the Bad Deal  

By Walter E. Block

Donald Trump wrote a book called the Art of the Deal. He meant to focus his spotlight on good deals. And he did so. Spectacularly well.

One day someone will write a book entitled The Art of the Bad Deal. If this ever comes to pass, the author ought to include a chapter on the exchange of one Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, in return for the release of 1027 Arabs in Israeli prisons. One of these jailbirds was Yahya Sinwar, the brains behind the Aqsa Flood, the October 7, 2033 murder and kidnapping of almost 1500 Israelis and other nationals.

The past is the past of course and cannot now be changed. I write at present, however, not to do any such thing. Never again! Rather, it is to attempt to dissuade Israel from ever doing anything like that ever again. Unfortunately, there will be a strong temptation to repeat the past in this regard. With the demise of Yahya Sinwar, the enemies of Israel in Europe, in the United Nations, all around the world, are even more intent than in the past that a deal be imposed upon Israel to “take the win” and engage in a pause, a cease-fire, peace, and the release of some 100 remaining abductees held by Hamas.

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January 3, 2025 | 1:51 pm | 3 Comments »

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Critical and opportune: Time to take out the Houthis  

Addressing the threat may provide a critical opportunity to secure strategic alliances that could dramatically alter the future of the region.

Aaron Goren & Enia Krivine | Jan 2, 2025

Sirens blared across central Israeli communities in the early hours of Tuesday morning, wrenching millions of Israeli civilians out of their beds for the seventh time in two weeks as another Houthi missile targeted the Jewish state. Based in Yemen, more than 1,500 miles away from Tel Aviv, the Houthis present a new kind of challenge to the Israel Defense Forces. Addressing the threat may provide a critical opportunity to secure strategic alliances that could dramatically alter the future of the region.

During Israel’s most recent round of airstrikes against the Houthis last week, the IDF hit Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, putting its international airport out of commission. This is the fourth round of airstrikes that the IDF has launched since the Houthis began attacking Israel in October 2023. Israel has sought to target Houthi infrastructure, disrupt Iranian weapons shipments and degrade the terror proxy’s ability to import oil.

Despite these missions, the Houthis remain undeterred. Less than a day after the IDF attacks last week, they continued launching missiles.

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January 3, 2025 | 1:23 pm | Comments »

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1929: A harbinger of October 7th – with Yardena Schwartz  

Peloni:  The comparisons between October 7 and the Hebron Massacre are eerily disquieting, as if the century which divided them, and the historical context which distinguish them, did not exist.  Yet, while listening to Yardena discussing the complacency of the Jewish community within Hebron, their belief in coexistence and their sense of solidarity with their Arab neighbors, resulting in the awakening of Jewish resolve to protect their own, one mark which stands forth as uniquely different was that as 3000 Arabs participated in the Jew Hunt in Hebron back in 1929, more than two dozen Arab families risked their own lives while saving the lives of more than 200 Jews.  Indeed, not only was there no such parallel in the slaughter of October 7, but there has yet to be one Jew saved from the terror dens of Gaza due to the efforts of any Arab.

January 3, 2025 | 12:12 pm | Comments »

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