Peloni:   This article provides an important accounting of both the history and the law regarding the topic of the Palestinian Arabs, and should be carefully considered while foreign nations seek to import their interests upon Israel.  In fact, it is only thru the test of history and law from which legitimate solutions might be fashioned and on which equitable resolutions should be based.  With this in mind, there can be no contest to the fact that the Palestinian Arabs were made stateless following their abandonment by Jordan, an act which should have earned the unified outcry by the international community at the time, an outcry which could only be deligitimized by denying the truth told by both history and law that the Palestinian Arabs have always been Jordanian citizens.  As Grunstein explains so well, the world should be speaking with one voice in stating, “King Abdullah II, take back your citizens“

Whatever rights Arab residents of Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem may have had to assert any claim to sovereignty over these areas were given over to Jordan.

Leonard Grunstein

Jordanian King Abdullah II speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 19, 2023. Credit: United Nations.

As I viewed the recent press conference with Jordanian King Abdullah II and President Donald Trump, I couldn’t help but reflect on the history of Jordan and the king’s namesake and great-grandfather, Abdullah I.

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Peloni: Arnold Roth lost a daughter in the Sbarro pizzaria bombing some twenty five years ago and is still waiting for justice of that event to be realized. He discusses that terrible event, as well as what has gone on over the past more that two decades, including his recent loss of his-son-in law who fell in battle in Gaza.

They are not resistance.

They are not freedom fighters.

This ain’t no revolution.

If you march with them/stand with them/support them – know who they are:

Hamas stole his teenage daughter 20 years ago – now they’ve stolen the father of his two beautiful little grand… pic.twitter.com/y02aFdd5Dj

— Erin Molan (@Erin_Molan) February 13, 2025

Peloni:  Nicholas Hulscher, MPH discusses many rising threats against Big Pharma, including the rising number of US states attempting to ban MRNA shots, RFK’s recent confirmation, calls for investigations into Bioplabs, and more.  I would focus on the first 20-30 minutes of the interview.

All Israel News Staff | Published: February 15, 2025

The Trump administration has imposed legal sanctions on International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan. This move by Washington comes less than three months after Khan played a key role in the ICC’s decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over alleged war crimes during the conflict with Hamas in Gaza.

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Peloni:  Except they don’t agree about Lebanon, where Bibi is right, and they don’t agree about demanding the release of all the hostages, where Trump is right.

President Trump and I are fully cooperating with a common strategy, though we can’t always share details with the public, including when the ‘gates of hell’ will open if all our hostages aren’t released: Israel’s Netanyahu says at joint presser with US state secretary Marco Rubio pic.twitter.com/FMOQZ4sF3G

— WION (@WIONews) February 16, 2025

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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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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Are they with America or against America?

Clifford D. May | Feb 16, 2025

May Hachem93, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

More than 6 million Syrians fled their homeland during that country’s almost 14-year-long civil war. Other nations took them in. It was the humanitarian thing to do, and it fulfilled their obligation under international law.

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by Avi Abelow | Feb 13, 2025

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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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.”

by Daniel Greenfield | Feb 15, 2025

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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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.

Eric R. Mandel | Feb 12, 2025

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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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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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.

Sundance | Feb 14, 2025

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

All Israel News Staff | Published: February 14, 2025

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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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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