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Shlomo Fiber, the co-owner of Direct Polls and former Director-General of the Ministry of Communications, gave the following response when challenged by @LittleMoiz with the question of how it might be possible for the Israeli Right to continue to strengthen in the year following October 7:

Here is my response to him and to others who are interested in what has been happening to the right and to opposition voters over the past year:

1. October 7 was a national trauma for the entire nation—both coalition and opposition alike.
2. Opposition voters, most of whom had already been engaged in an aggressive year-long protest and struggle against the government, saw this event as the final nail in the coffin of the Netanyahu government. Read more…

Peloni:  There are many complicating features associated with the plan to settle sectarian tribal violence with the creation of statelets based along ethnic lines of division.  This is but one of those complicating features.

Residents of the Druze village of Hatcher in Syria demand annexation to Israel

The Druze residents declared during the well-attended gathering that they prefer to be part of the State of Israel out of fear of what could happen to the village following the rise of Sunni rebels to… pic.twitter.com/lQIJhemHRt

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) December 13, 2024

Peloni:  Trump’s Time Magazine interview provides an important context for Trump’s vision for peace in the Middle East.  It should be seen as both significant and relevant that as Trump addresses questions put to him about revisiting the TSS, that he raises the topic of October 7, unsolicited, more than once for context, while also chastising those who try to ignore the relevance of that horror.  Also while being pressed on the topic of the TSS, Trump clearly states that there are alternatives to consider, while also noting that the though he wants everyone to be happy, we need to see who can be happy.

Time

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Well, another war with a high death toll is happening in the Middle East. You reportedly told Prime Minister Netanyahu that you wanted him to end the war in Gaza before you took office. What did he say?

I think that, before I talk about that, I think that the Middle East is an easier problem to handle than what’s happening with Russia and Ukraine. Okay, I just want to say that up front. The Middle East is going to get solved. The Middle East has been—it’s a horrible thing. October 7 was a horrible thing. Everyone is forgetting conveniently about October 7, but that was a horrible day for the world, not for Israel, for the world. And I think the Middle East is going to get—as we speak, things are happening very productively on the Middle East. I think the Middle East is going to get solved. I think it’s more complicated than the Russia-Ukraine, but I think it’s, it’s, it’s easier to solve.

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Janet Levy: Trump must pull out of the WEF!

Peloni:  Among other things, Danny Seaman relates a report from a source of his that Bibi was given to understand that if he agreed to the ceasefire in Lebanon that there would be dramatic things to take place in Syria.  His source also relates that the Americans were very much involved in what took place in Syria.

?BREAKING? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an address (in English) to the citizens of Iran: “Your tyrants invested more than 30 billion dollars in supporting Assad in Syria. After only 11 days of fighting, his regime collapsed into dust.” Listen ? pic.twitter.com/ZVVtxjcLOT

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) December 12, 2024

Sundance | Dec 13, 2024

The Office of the Inspector General for the DOJ (DOJ-OIG) has outlined an 88-page report on events around the January 6th, 2021, DC protest. The report is AVAILABLE HERE.

FBI Director Chris Wray announced his decision to resign from office one day before the Inspector General report was released. The report shows that 26 FBI Confidential Human Sources (CHSs) were used officially and unofficially during the J6 events. Four entered the Capitol building, another 13 entered the restricted area around the building.

[OIG REPORT HERE]

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Any Israeli alliances should include the restoration of a profoundly just, moral, and enduring pact with the Kurdish people, as in the days of Mustafa Barazani. Opinion.

Victor Sharpe | Dec 11, 2024

Kurd MilitantIsrale news   photo Creative Commons

Iran, Turkey, and Qatar have swiftly mobilized to falsely condemn Israel’s defensive operations in Syria following the overthrow of the Assad dictatorship. These three nations, notorious for their own troubling actions in Syria, are now hiding their own nefarious involvement in the region by predictably and falsely singling out Israel.

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The election of Donald Trump and the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria will compel a recalibration of recalibration of France’s past policies. Opinion.

Martin Sherman | Dec 13, 2024

Emmanuel Macron   Reuters

Often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself –Jean de La Fontaine

French President, Emmanuel Macron is facing trying times, and recent pronouncements by French officials appear only to exacerbate his unenviable situation.

As will be recalled, last week, the French government fell with a resounding thud that could well reverberate across Europe.

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Peloni:  One point which I would add to Glick’s important essay is that Israel’s ruling class is not merely acting out its own fantasy of never relinquishing its own source of power over the Israeli people, but that they are additionally acting upon the demands and designs being pushed upon them by the Obiden acolytes in Washington as the twilight of  power and influence emanating from these anti-Israel villains grow nigh.

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Today, perhaps, the main question is: what next? Opinion.

Alexander Maistrovoy | Dec 9, 2024

Alexander Maistrovoy   A. Maistrovoy

After the blitzkrieg in Syria, the Sunni “jihadists” may not stop, and quite possibly will not stop. Appetite comes with eating, and rapid victorious campaigns very often become in history a prelude to new successful conquests.

This is exactly what happened with the Arabs themselves when, with extraordinary speed they captured Baghdad and Damascus in 750 C.E. and rushed in all directions: from Byzantium in the west to Iran, the Caucasus and Central Asia in the east and Egypt and North Africa in the south.

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Peloni: Haaretz is even more damaging to Israel than is the Qatari Al Jazera rag.  When foreign papers, politicians or activists attack Israel, they routinely cite the propaganda promoted and distributed from the Haaretz as a source of some weight given its prestigious history and relevance of it being an Israeli source.  The fact that it took October 7 to pass the legislation eliminating govt funding for this propaganda is both telling and regretful.

Ori Wertman | University of South Wales | December 11, 2024

Peloni:  The LAF and UNIFIL are each complicit in effecting Hezbollah’s control over Lebanon, and yet these two organizations are to be left to enforce this latest ceasefire?  Someone help make sense out of this nonsense.

CENTCOM Gen. Kurilla inspects withdrawal, meets with Lebanese army commanders

All Israel News Staff | December 12, 2024  

Israeli soldiers from the Golani Brigade and Armored Corps operating in Ayta ash Shab, in southern Lebanon, during Israeli military operations in southern Lebanon, October 21, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90

For the first time since the ceasefire in Lebanon took effect, Israeli troops on Wednesday began withdrawing from their positions in southern Lebanon, which were taken over by U.N. peacekeepers and troops of the Lebanese army.

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By Seth Frantzman | December 11, 2024

IDF soldiers from the Gaza Division uncover a tunnel in Gaza in early December. (IDF)

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) intercepted two projectiles fired from central Gaza on December 11. The IDF did not specify if the threats were rockets or mortars, but Israeli defense systems are capable of intercepting various types of projectiles. No sirens sounded in Israel as the attack appeared to target an open area, and Israel’s alarm system is fine-tuned to avoid unnecessary public alerts.

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Peloni:  Kedar provides an important detailed examination of the context, background and implications of the fall of Assad in Syria.  Highly recommended.