A Coloring Book for Future Terrorists  

by Rafael Medoff

When is a coloring book not just a coloring book? When its purpose is to incite children to hate Jews and glorify violence.

The Israeli police this week arrested the proprietors of an Arab bookstore in Jerusalem that was selling books promoting hatred of Jews and glamorizing terrorists. One was a coloring book, a fact that prompted much mockery on social media. Big, strong Israel is afraid of a little children’s book!

The book is called From the River to the Sea, an old Palestinian Arab slogan calling for replacement of Israel with an Arab state of Palestine. Intended for six to ten year-olds, the book features color-by-number pages that demonize Israel and honor terrorists and terror-supporters.

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February 16, 2025 | 4:29 pm | 1 Comment »

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The problem with Jordan  

Jonathan Feldstein 

Addustour, Jordan Press & Publication Co./KHALIL MAZRAAWI, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

All eyes are on the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan this week following the Hashemite/Jordanian King’s Washington visit.

Despite the public smiles, and because of some significant public differences, there are many problems with Jordan that must be looked at under a microscope.

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February 16, 2025 | 4:08 pm | 6 Comments »

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Open Letter to the Goyim  

By Walter E. Block

Who are the Goyim? That is Yiddish for non-Jews. They are all the people on the planet who are not Jewish. Who, then, are the Jews? They are all of those born of a Jewish mother.

Of late it seems as if the Goyim, not all of them thank G-d, but many of them, have declared open season on Jews. A recent high profile episode of this phenomenon was the attack in Russia where a Dagestani mob spontaneously attacked a plane that had flown in to that airport from Tel Aviv. But that was just the tip of the iceberg. It is actually, unfortunately, a world-wide occurrence. There has been a surge in such events in the US, France, Germany, all throughout Europe and in some 94 countries. No continent has been exempt from this scourge. And the rate has intensified in the aftermath of the Israeli reprisals against Hamas for their unimaginable attack against women and children of October 7, 2023, may that date be ever earmarked for infamy. These increased attempts at Judenrein (ridding Goyish society of all Jews) began on that date and catapulted when the Israeli Defense Force struck back against these vicious depraved intruders.

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February 16, 2025 | 1:28 pm | 17 Comments »

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Egypt Just Pissed Off Trump and Israel Might Be the Big Winner  

The White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Yes, the war is still going on and we have yet to destroy Hamas and liberate the Gaza strip, but…wouldn’t it be absolutely crazy if, in addition to liberating Gaza, Israel ends up liberating the Sinai Desert as well?

I know, it sounds wild. But given what we’re seeing right now, the pieces are falling into place for exactly that scenario.

Follow this logic…

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February 16, 2025 | 1:12 pm | 3 Comments »

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Hamas Supporter Appears in NYT Ad by ‘Jews’ Opposing Trump Gaza Plan  

Peloni:  These radical shills are disgusting and dangerous, and their legitimizing of violence against Jews should be treated as a crime

“The uprising of October 7th was an act of armed resistance. It is not a terrorist attack and it’s not an antisemitic attack.”

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Judith Butler, a radical leftist academic who described Hamas as “progressive” and part of the Left, and who defended the atrocities of Oct 7 by the Islamic terrorist group, was one of the top signatories to a petition by a group of anti-Israel activists, calling themselves the ‘ In Our Name Campaign’ claiming that they are “Jews” opposed to “ethnic cleansing”.

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February 15, 2025 | 4:37 pm | 7 Comments »

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The Trump administration needs a Turkish-Syria policy right now  

Peloni:  It will be interesting to see what policy Trump prefers with regards to Erdogan, and if it will differ much from his first term’s policy.  Erdogan’s expansionist motives must be kept in check, and the best way for the US to do this is to eliminate the ever pervasive and dominating threat from Iran, so as to have a free hand to deal with Turkey.  If Trump is going to prefer the policy of negotiating with Iran, it will ultimately result in his inability to adequately deal with the threats from either Turkey or Iran.  And that would be very unfortunate for the region, but for the US as well.

Voice of America, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

While the Trump administration is focused on releasing all the hostages, making the Gaza and Lebanon ceasefires permanent, bringing the Israelis and Saudis toward normalization, and strategizing on what to do if Iran makes a mad dash to the bomb, a less imminent but equally important event is reshaping the Middle East for decades to come.

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February 15, 2025 | 4:27 pm | Comments »

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Hoodwinked: How Hamas influenced int’l media to not cover emaciated hostages – opinion  

Gaunt Jews do not play into the narrative of the world media, which has bought into Hamas’s deliberate strategy of painting Gazans as victims and Israelis as aggressors.

By GIL HOFFMAN | FEBRUARY 15, 2025

A photo of my frail grandmother helping her even more gaunt sister choose a dress after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen death camp graces the wall at the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center.

My grandmother recovered physically but was scarred emotionally. Nevertheless, she still managed to move to Israel, run a business, raise a family, and live long enough to see her grandchildren thrive in the Jewish state.

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February 15, 2025 | 4:16 pm | Comments »

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JD Vance Stuns the EU with Confrontation of Their Hypocrisy  

Peloni:  This was a very important speech.  As Vance reproaches Europe’s move toward totalitarian election practices, it must be recalled that the most important qualifying aspect of any election result is transparency of an accurate election outcome.  Accordingly, I look forward to seeing the US institute policies which might be exported around the world which ensure the accuracy and transparency of election results.   The return of power of the people must not be limited to elections with supermajority outcomes as made the recent US election too big to rig, and even in that election, while Trump was able to cobble together an election coalition to overcome the election rigging, many of his party members were no so fortunately able.   Indeed, as was made clear long before Trump’s election victory, the single issue which mattered more than any other was that the power be returned to the people, that the collective choices of the voting public would decide their future, and that consent of the governed would once again deliver the fate of America back to the hands of the American people.  Consequently, it will be important for Vance’s well deserved chastising of Europe’s turn toward autocracy centered around the Leftist ideology to be followed by reforms in the US which demonstrate to the world how the power might best be returned to the people in such a way as it is clear that the power actually is in the hands of the people.  It will take more than speeches, even one as impressive as this, to ply the power from the powerful and return it to the masses where it belongs.

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February 15, 2025 | 4:07 pm | 3 Comments »

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Are Egypt and Israel Stumbling Toward War?  

Most in the West believe an Egyptian-Israeli war is unthinkable. That assumption should be reexamined.

David Wurmser | The Editors | Feb 12, 2025

The Gaza drama is putting Egypt’s peace with Israel under new strain. This is not the result of only events in the past weeks but is rather the culmination of much longer-term dynamics that cannot easily be mastered and reversed at this stage. The conflagration that Hamas began on October 7, 2023, may have triggered a chain of events that exposes these long-term trends and failures and brings them to a head — perhaps even including a broader war.

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February 15, 2025 | 3:18 pm | 1 Comment »

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Pentagon threatens to cut aid if Egypt refuses to take in Gazans, as Arab states race to find alternative to Trump plan  

Rubio says US will give Arab states time to ‘hopefully’ have ‘really good plan to present’ to Trump

President Donald Trump welcomes Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Monday, April 3, 2017, at the West Wing entrance of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

The Trump administration is upping the pressure on Cairo to accept the U.S. president’s plan to resettle large parts of the population of Gaza on Egyptian territory.

On Thursday, the Qatari outlet Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported that the Pentagon had reached out to warn Egyptian officials that part of the over $1.4 billion in annual military aid might be cut if Cairo won’t accept President Donald Trump’s plan.

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February 15, 2025 | 12:13 pm | 1 Comment »

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The ‘First Amendment’ Dodge at UC Berkeley  

Peloni:  In an enlightened society, it is unbearable to tolerate such yokes of depravity which seek to draw the modern world back towards an age in which such barbarity and oppressive subjugation of Jews was both publicly commonplace and institutionally popularized, and yet, this is exactly what has been accelerating across American campuses.  Not one more day should pass before the investigations, indictments and prosecutions should begin.  If civilization is to be preserved, it must immediately move to purge its most basic institutions of any support or even tolerance for the call to savagery against Jews, which has been masked as some perverse re-write of the Freedom of Speech.

The issues on campus and elsewhere extend beyond free-speech protections.

Jonathan Schanzer | FDD | Feb 13, 2025

BlalckPestKommander, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

In “Mr. Trump, Investigate My Campus” (op-ed, Feb. 3) Prof. Steven Davidoff Solomon calls for an investigation of incidents of antisemitism at the University of California, Berkeley. Chancellor Rich Lyons suggests that such an investigation isn’t needed, citing the First Amendment (“No Need to Investigate My Campus, Mr. Trump,” Letters, Feb. 6).

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February 15, 2025 | 11:40 am | 1 Comment »

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The Solution-Seeking Business  

Peloni:  Facilitated emigration has always been the only real solution to resolve the Pal cleft which has been weaponized against Israel.  Of course this weaponization was the very basis for the Arabs and collective West to refuse to consider any Pal emigration as viable.  For Israel, it was the dependency on the Hashemites as some form of necessary ally to their survival which held them addicted to maintaining the Cleft in place, even though the Hashemites were neither necessary nor even a reliable ally to Israel.  For these reasons, the Cleft has been maintained in place over the decades where the Pals have themselves become the victims of this cruel game, and whereby their well trained savagery brought about attack after attack on innocent Jews, and the response was consistently and inexplicably leveraged by Israel’s allies and enemies alike towards demands of greater and greater concessions from Israel without any beneficial effect.  It is time to exercise the legitimate option of facilitated emigration to resolve this conflict, and a rational and efficient plan has in fact already been formulated and proposed towards this goal.  It is the Jordan Option as described by Ted in his The Ultimate Alternate Israel-Palestine Solution (Jordan Option)Memo To Kushner, and other essays listed at the top of the main page of this site.  We will hopefully see this plan come to fruition in the not too distant future.  In fact, the description of the creation of a city for the Pals in Jordan, as mentioned by Trump, was one of the many elements which was described by Ted and Mudar in the Jordan Option.

Meanwhile, Egypt proposes to continue keeping the weaponized Cleft in place, as if doubling down on maintaining the existential threat against Israel were the ultimate goal, which of course, for Egypt and many others, it is.

Shoshana Bryen • JPC

An Israeli APC entering the Philadelphi corridor near Rafah during the Israel-Palestine warGalei Tsahal, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

In the wake of the horrific condition of the last three Israelis released by Hamas from captivity in Gaza, U.S. President Donald Trump has stirred the pot again. He and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have ratcheted up the pressure on the terrorists with Israel taking clear steps toward the resumption of military operations in the Gaza Strip should the president’s conditions not be met.

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February 15, 2025 | 9:18 am | 2 Comments »

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Joe Rogan Experience #2272 – Mike Benz  

Peloni:  Benz returns to the Joe Rogan show to update and expand on his previous reporting there.  It is three hours long, so I would focus on the first hour, but it is all very enlightening.

February 14, 2025 | 4:34 pm | Comments »

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UAE envoy says no alternative to Trump’s Gaza plan for now  

Peloni:  The reality is that either the Pals will remain as a existential threat to Israel or they will find accommodations in some third party nation or nations.  The connections between the Pals of Gaza and Jordan and Egypt are relevant and significant, and their continuing role in amplifying the violence against Israel from Hamastan is quite evident.  When this plan is finally implemented, it will completely alter the dynamics in the Middle East, in a way which is both stabilize the region, and strengthen the US position against its peer rivals.

Israfan | Feb 14, 2025

Emirati ambassador acknowledges challenges but sees no viable replacement.

The United Arab Emirates considers U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan for the Gaza Strip “difficult,” but currently sees no alternative, according to UAE Ambassador to the United States Yousef al-Otaiba. Speaking at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, al-Otaiba emphasized that Abu Dhabi is open to discussions but has yet to see a viable replacement for Trump’s proposal.

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February 14, 2025 | 4:20 pm | 1 Comment »

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Citing Trump’s support, Smotrich calls for ‘fire & brimstone,’ annexing parts of Gaza if Israeli hostages are harmed  

Peloni:  Smotrich was correct.  Either all the hostages should be released on Saturday or the war should resume.

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After U.S. President Donald Trump’s ultimatum to Hamas on Tuesday, many Israeli leaders responded favorably and urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to follow through on the president’s threats.

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February 14, 2025 | 4:07 pm | 1 Comment »

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