“Hamas has previously claimed that 70% of casualties have been women and children”
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Politicians and the media routinely quote Hamas casualty figures, usually attributing them to the Gaza ‘Ministry of Health’ or some other nonsensical facade for the terrorist group. And so when Hamas claimed that there were now 50,000 dead in Gaza, the media eagerly repeatedly those numbers.
By ANJULI PANDAVAR •
In the dying days of the Islamic State, Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, a cross between Goebbels and Soleimani, and the ISIS No.2, famously boasted, “We would be defeated and you victorious only if you were able to remove the Qur’an from Muslims’ hearts.” This week we saw Hamas playing the Qur’an-in-the-heart-of-Muslims card. A Muslim jihad organisation only does this when not just itself, but the entire ummah, is facing a shattering humiliation.
Peloni: Qatar is an enemy state. It must be recognized as such, but that will remain to be a near impossible feat so long as the US employs such Qatari sycophants as Steve Witkoff as its Mideast Envoy. Calls such as this need to be made more commonly, more vocally, and by more representatives of both Israel and the US.
At national security conference, Israeli minister urges action against Doha’s global influence.
Israfan | Apr 4, 2025
By Nizzan Cohen – Own work, CC BY 4.0 [Cropped]
Israeli Economy Minister Nir Barkat has called on the government to officially designate Qatar as a terror-supporting state, accusing the Gulf nation of being the world’s leading financier of terrorism. Barkat’s comments came during a keynote appearance at the Israel Defense and Security Forum’s “Year of Opportunity” National Security Conference, co-hosted by Channel 14.
The broader picture.
BARRY SHAW | Apr 04, 2025
Zvika Klein. By Israel Bardugo, CC BY-SA 4.0
As part of the Bar-Turgeman Shin Bet Qatargate intrigue intended to bring down Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Jerusalem Post editor, Zvika Klein was brought in for questioning and arrested by the police.
This is his harrowing public statement after his release;
Peloni: Karys Rhea, a producer and researcher at the Epoch Times, discusses with Tirza Shorr, a researcher at JCSF, common traits between the antisemites on the Right and the Left.
Peloni: As the world has sat back demanding to know what the day after in Gaza would bring, they should have instead been contemplating what the day after in Iran would bring. The day in which the question regarding Iran’s future needs an answer may be fast approaching, and that answer will have reverberations most acutely affecting the regional Iranian proxies which might or might not still exist in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen, while also affecting the entire region and much of the world.
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | April 3, 2025
*Does US policy toward Iran refrain from – or repeat – past mistakes?
*The diplomatic option (negotiation and containment) is effective when conducted between parties, which consider negotiation as a step toward peaceful coexistence. However, as evidenced by its 46-year-old rogue track record (since toppling the pro-US Shah), the Ayatollah regime – just like ISIS, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, the PLO/PA and Hezbollah – has employed negotiation as a tactic to advance its aim to topple the “apostate” Sunni regimes and bring the “infidel” West to submission.
Peloni: The economic upheaval surrounding the tariffs will have a depleting effect on businesses around the world, leaving govts and businesses alike looking for opportunities to avoid or at least reduce the hardship which came with Trump’s “liberation day” announcement of reciprocal tariffs against friend and foe, alike. Such instability which is associated with such an economic policy of shock and awe as this is the worst thing for businesses, particularly for those which are struggling to remain out of the red. Trump would be well aware of this fact, and it is no doubt part of the calculus to bring whole industries to the shores of the US, while also bringing foreign govts to influence those companies which will remain abroad to direct their trade efforts towards reducing any disparities in trade balances, as exists between Israel and the US.
Finance Minister Smotrich says he’ll ‘study Trump’s order in depth’
By The White House from Washington, DC – President Trump Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Public Domain
The U.S. will impose a 17% tariff on Israeli imports, President Trump announced on Wednesday, as part of sweeping “reciprocal tariffs” reforms the administration declared on what it dubbed “Liberation Day.”
By Janatan Sayeh | April 3, 2025
231019-N-GF955-1113 RED SEA (Oct. 19, 2023) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) defeats a combination of Houthi missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles in the Red Sea, Oct. 19. Carney is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations to help ensure maritime security and stability in the Middle East region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron Lau)
Iran has ordered its military personnel to leave Yemen amidst the ongoing US bombing campaign in the country, The Telegraph reported on April 3. The newspaper’s source added that regime officials’ concerns over the Trump administration have eclipsed discussions on Tehran’s regional proxies, dominating every meeting and sidelining previous strategic priorities.
Peloni: The old conception made allowances for many bad actors, and among these was Qatar, which had bought a seat a the table thru its influence peddling among US polticos and agencies going back decades. The connection between Qatar and its associates in the West, not just Israel, need to be fully exposed, without regard for political interest. Unfortunately, as Avi explains, the toxic association with Qatar is being manipulated to once again try to destabilize Netanyahu’s govt.
How Peter Marks’ role in the COVID vaccine debacle exposed the flaws in America’s toxic health bureaucracy
A Midwestern Doctor | Apr 03, 2025
A frequent criticism of corporations (which I believe also applies to governmental bureaucracies) is that their organizational structure encourages sociopathic behavior. This is because members of these entities are shielded from legal or personal accountability for their actions, with any wrongdoings being attributed to the corporation as a whole. In contrast, the main form of accountability most members face is the pressure to advance the institution’s mission (e.g., make more money), leading to the proliferation of increasingly unethical methods to achieve that goal.
Janet Levy: Norm Eisen said his good friend Supreme Court Justice John Roberts was not corrupt and that John went to the Czech Republic for a week so that they could spend time working on American rule of law issues together.
John should resign or recuse himself from all of the lawsuit cases that Norm and his partners have filed that are working their way to the SC.
Chief Justice John Roberts spent a week living at Norm Eisen’s 150-room palace in the Czech Republic where they “worked on American and European Rule of Law issues together.” Eisen was Ambassador 2011-2014. Roberts became Chief Justice in 2005. This was while Roberts ran SCOTUS. pic.twitter.com/u7YZazt7Re
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) April 3, 2025
Today, Jewish people and the Jewish story are under an unprecedented global assault, and @Wikipedia is being used as a weapon in this war.
How is this happening? @IzaTabaro lays it out. pic.twitter.com/kMIpE4orN2
— Tablet Magazine (@tabletmag) March 26, 2025
By Walter E. Block
I have long been a supporter of Israel. A fervent one, if I say so myself. It is time, it is past time, that I turn things around and become a critic. If friends cannot tell friends when they are going wrong, when they are making mis-steps, there is no point in having friends in the first place. So, here are some very serious criticisms of Israel.
Mr. Netanyahu, stay put. Do not visit Hungary or any place else for that matter. Yes, yes, I understand, it is only human for a brave man such as yourself to cock a snook at that foolish, depraved and immoral ICC arrest warrant. But you have more important things to do, see below.
Peloni: In the latter 2/3 of this video,
The plot behind Marine Le Pen’s arrest in France, and the “Rule Of Law” programs that connect judge networks. My full hit today on War Room w/ @nataliegwinters pic.twitter.com/EMCLUzLWp6
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) April 3, 2025
From Beirut to Buenos Aires: How Hezbollah Built a Network on America’s Southern Doorstep?
By Voice of America – YouTube – View/save archived versions on archive.org and archive.today, Public Domain
Peloni: Lebanon’s failure to disarm Hezbollah was not only predictable, it was inevitable. The Lebanese lack the independence and agency with which to unseat Iran’s dominance over them. The way to even approach this goal is thru the destruction of the Mullahs’ powerbase in Tehran, and only then might something substantially different take form in Lebanon. Until then, the kabuki theatrical shell game in Lebanon will continue unabated, no matter what is agreed to by anyone.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain | April 1, 2025
By Yeghishedaviti – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
Lebanon is pretending to disarm Hezbollah and thinks that the world believes it. Then, when the world calls Beirut out, Lebanese officials engage in collective delusion and blame “Israeli aggression” for military escalation. Lebanon is now reneging on the ceasefire and the 1701 enforcement mechanism that it signed, in November, in which it pledged to disarm Hezbollah and, in return, get territory back from Israel.
?The Morag axis is marked in red. The Philadelphi axis is marked in blue. The Morag axis is the dividing line between Rafah and Khan Yunis. Control of the Morag axis means that the IDF controls the entire Rafah district as a buffer zone.? https://t.co/oiklBZNOSP pic.twitter.com/gTvCtQLfhe
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) April 2, 2025
