Peloni: Ukraine should have agreed to peace terms instead of invading Kursk last summer. The extended lines only complicated Ukraine’s already low manpower, low munitions, and low morale. Such disasters as this is not how you Russia might be coerced into accepting a frozen conflict – something which I have noted is not in their interest.
Col. (res.), Shay Shabtai | BESA | January 26, 2025
ESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,326, January 26, 2025
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel, the US, and other international and regional actors are faced with a dilemma. They are unwilling to invest too many resources in countries/regions with poor governance, but need to prevent negative developments like famine and terrorism from arising. One possible approach to this problem is “Semi-Self Governance” (SSG), which allows local forces to take accountability and improve the lives of their civilian populations while allowing for external intervention when problems develop. This principle could align with President Trump’s strategic vision.
Israel, together with key countries around the world and in the Middle East and led by the United States, is debating the policy it should adopt toward countries or regions in its vicinity where there is no proper governance. The current challenges are the post-war Gaza Strip and the denial of the possibility of Hamas’s continued control; the “new” Syria, whose sovereignty over its territory and new regime’s characteristics are in question; and Lebanon, the central government of which is still weak in the face of the military and political dominance of the Hezbollah terrorist organization despite that group’s pummeling by Israel. Other countries or regions where proper governance does not exist are Yemen, Sudan, and Libya, as well as parts of Iraq and the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria.
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | January 28, 2025
*Ending wars and terrorism is a noble aspiration, which confronts the reality of NO intra-Muslim peaceful coexistence during the last 14 centuries. In fact, since 1948, intra-Muslim wars have featured a toll of mega-million fatalities (e.g., 3 million killed during two civil wars in the Sudan, 3 million during the Pakistan-Bangladesh war, over 1 million during the Afghan civil war, close to 1 million Syrians killed by Hafiz and Bashar Assad, 1 million killed during Iran-Iraq war, 350,000 in Yemen’s civil wars, etc.) compared with some 130,000 Arabs killed in Arab wars against Israel.
*Ending wars and terrorism must contend with the 14-century-old reality of intra-Muslim unpredictability, violent intolerance, ethnic and religious fragmentation, despotism, tenuous regimes-policies-accords, intrinsic terror and subversion. Not an “Arab Spring,’ but an “Arab Tsunami!”
Peloni: There is no positive consequence of the Biden turned Trump deal. Trump and Bibi should both void this deal, evict the so-called ‘non-combatants’ and in a serious manner return tothe process of de-Hamasing Hamastan.
And billions in reconstruction costs for “Palestinian” nation-building.
by | Jan 29, 2025
American soldiers are headed to Gaza.
They’re not there to fight Islamic terrorists, but to secure the disastrous Biden deal that saved Hamas by monitoring and inspecting the Gazans traveling across the ‘Netzarim corridor’.
Peloni: Nelson provides a deep dive into the background and glaring challenges which Gabbard’s nomination faces. This will be quite revealing to those who are not familiar with Gabbard’s background and positions.
By Kelleigh Nelson
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide. “Foreign Policy Drains U.S. of Main Weapon,” The Los Angeles times, Sept. 9, 1962, G2
In communist terminology “world peace” simply means an absence of resistance to world Marxist-Leninist domination. What would the CPUSA do if the United States got into a full-scale military confrontation with China? Trevor Loudon
To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propagandist
By Walter E. Block
In the event, the IDF killed Yahya Sinwar with lead bullets. But suppose, just suppose, that they had done so with napalm, instead. Would the Israeli soldiers have been justified in so doing?
The Zionist entity has been accused of using this weapon, utilized by the US in its war with Viet Nam. I take no position on whether this actual incident occurred or not. But if it were indeed the case, would it have been justified?
It is beyond clear that if anyone ever deserved to die a premature death (none of us gets out of this vale of tears alive), it would be Yahya Sinwar. While he was a guest of the Israeli prison system, Jewish doctors and dentists saved his life from certain death due to a health malady he had contracted. How did he repay this generosity accorded to him? He was the mastermind behind the pogrom of October 7, 2023, which directly killed 1200 innocent people and included the kidnapping of an additional 250 musical concert goers and kibbutznicks. Many of the latter have already perished or soon will meet that fate, if we can rely upon the usual scruples of Hamas.
Peloni: I agree with Rosenberg regarding the sincere and ardent opposition of the Egyptians and Jordanians against accepting Pal refugees under any condition. Yet, any resolution towards peace will ultimately require this outcome. Notably, the govts of these two nations, each of whom have been advocating on behalf of the terrorist Hamas during this war and each of whom acted in support of terror against Israel before this war, are continuing to present themselves as obstacles to the resolution of this war on terror. Pal emigration is the solution, and the Jordan Option is the way. It would appear that Trump is aware of this fact. Hence, when Egypt and Jordan do come around as Trump suggests they will, it will be under new management.
AIN Editor-in-Chief Rosenberg: Trump is ‘asking the right questions’
Displaced Palestinians return to their homes in the northern Gaza as part of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza City, January 27, 2025. Photo by Khalil Kahlout/Flash90
After officials from Egypt and Jordan rejected the idea they would accept Gazan refugees while the enclave is being “cleared out,” U.S. President Donald Trump asserted their leaders would come around to his plan.
Peloni: This is a particularly important discussion about the coming Stargate project, the $500 billion project aimed to promoting AI research under the veil of vaccines. As explained here, the relevance of promoting AI as vaccine research, which is false from the outset, is to gain the indemnification protections extended to vaccines and whatever are qualified as such.
Begin at 5min and watch at least the next 15-20 min.
Excerpt:
“So if you look at the business model, it’s fantastic because you give people poison, they get symptoms of toxicity, then you declare those disease and then you make another poison to give them. Do you know what I mean? And around and around you go. It’s an incredibly profitable financial treadmill. And we have seen investors all around the world being proposed to build these huge mega-factories of just-in-time vaccines. So this is happening not just in the U. S, but if my feedback from the investment community is correct, these mega-factories are being built all around the world.”
By Madeline Brooks | Am Thinker | Jan 20, 2025
Image: Exultant Gaza residents call for the slaughter of the Jews. X screen grab
There can be a moral perspective on how one deals with terrorists. Rabbi Manis Friedman says that negotiating with terrorists rewards and encourages them. According to him, it is wrong—indeed, it is definitely immoral—to reward terrorists with commuted prison sentences. Boldness, not bribes, is how one must deal with them, as the Bible instructed millennia ago.
On particular matters concerning Palestinian statehood, it’s high time to understand that everyone’s true enemy in the region is not Israel, but a persistently sordid mix of jihadist criminal forces.
By LOUIS RENÉ BERES | JANUARY 26, 2025
‘A boy had been given money to buy things at the grocery store. On the way, he lost the money. Someone saw him looking for the money: “Did you lose it here?” the man asked. “No,” said the boy. “Then why are you looking here?” “Ah,” said the boy. “Where I lost the money it is dark, but here it is light.” The Wise Men of Chelm (Jewish folk tale)
Israelis have good reason to be worried about the current Hamas ceasefire. On the terrorist side, there is every intention to continue the jihad. Reciprocally, Israel will soon feel renewed pressures to accept a Palestinian state. Still, like the boy from “Chelm” who looks for lost grocery money only where it would be most visible, the Jewish state would be looking for peace in the wrong place.
Peloni: Sadly and shockingly, the answer to this question appears to be more and more certain to be no, even as there are but only a few outrages visited upon the public by these and other public officials. If the public will accept this govt deployed devastation, they will not have to wait long before an even more devastating version of this devastation is visited upon them. Warp Speed 2.0 is coming, and probably more quickly than any of us might expect.
By January 24, 2025
The biggest scientific con of the century is finally being exposed. But will any politicians or government officials ever be held responsible for the carnage they unleashed on Americans?
Peloni: Terror is not a crime, it is a war crime. It is an assault on society as a whole and it warrants the most extreme penalty which society might possibly envision on the terrorists, and such a penalty should not be limited to them being held in a cell until such time that another war crime is committed to earn their early release to continue this pantomime of justice.
Barbara Diamond | Jan 26, 2025
Immediately after the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas on Israeli innocents on October 7th, 2023 the world was stunned. We in Israel were in shock. Speaking for myself, I must share that I had never imagined such barbaric behavior as that which was perpetrated by Hamas on our Innocents on that day. Surely, I wrote and suggested… the abduction of our people to become the hostages of Hamas could have been avoided?
My blog published in the Times of Israel on January 25, 2024 which I titled : “ Hostages…The Ultimate Ethical Conundrum” seemed to me, at the time, the only solution possible for civilized nations facing hostage crises. I posited that if world powers had an agreement between them that under no circumstances would hostages abducted by terrorists ever be used as bargaining chips to benefit the enemy, then most certainly terrorists would realize that there would be no purpose in further abductions.
Peloni: The continued silence around the harms which came following the deployment of War Speed seems particularly alarming in light of the announcement of the soon to come deployment of Warp Speed 2.0. The lives lost and those which are still undergoing a steady paced destruction must be addressed, remedies for these injuries must be forthcoming, and preventative measures must be developed so that such a campaign of destruction in the guise of a medical preventative is never again envisioned, much less deployed.
A Modern Catastrophe: America’s COVID-19 “Vaccination” Death Toll Rivals the Civil War@P_McCulloughMD @CalvaryChapel #MFEducation pic.twitter.com/rbUYr1ZOJP
— McCullough Foundation (@McCulloughFund) January 26, 2025
Bat BEEP Crazy…
Part 4: Welcome home, Murderer pic.twitter.com/Ob4Virgw3k
— Erin Molan (@Erin_Molan) January 28, 2025
Peloni: This crime should warrant the death penalty!
Soldiers aware they were working with hostile agents based on previous reporting
Illustration depicting replicas of missile launcher systems placed in front of the Iranian and Israeli flags, displayed on a computer screen, on April 15, 2024, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto)
The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and the Israel Police announced on Monday the arrest of two reserve soldiers accused of passing classified materials to Iranian agents in exchange for money.
Peloni: This complete rewrite of history to suit the antisemites in Hollywood is simply horrifying to read. Hopefully, the public outrage over this historical revision will defeat the purpose of having done so.
by Rafael Medoff
America’s response to the Holocaust, a subject of much historical scholarship and public discussion in recent decades, increasingly is coming to the stage and screen—with mixed results.
Last year’s George Clooney film, The Boys in the Boat, is an example of how Hollywood sometimes sacrifices history on the altar of entertainment. It tells the story of a gritty American rowing team that made it to the Olympics despite various obstacles. There’s nothing Hollywood likes better than a triumphant underdog. But what happens when half the story is omitted in order to prioritize the thrilling narrative?
Peloni: It is good to have walls to hide behind for momentary protection, but such conveniences should be understood to be only temporary in their nature. Like the Seigfried line and the Atlantic Wall before that, and the Maginot line before that, such impenetrable defenses will ultimately be penetrated, no matter how sophisticated or impenetrable they are envisioned to be…and, of course, the catastrophic devastation of failing to appreciate this fact was most recently suffered on October 7. Like a gladiator in ancient Rome, shields have their uses, but an over dependency on such uses will ultimately lead to disaster. Notably, the Iron Dome, David Sling, and Arrow 1&2 provided Israel with the the ability to protect its civilian population while they brought devastation upon its enemies, but this only came after many years of this shield being used as a crutch to avoid bringing the fight to your enemies door.
New Types of Threats Means the End of the MAD Doctrine
Stephen Bryen | Weapons & Strategy | Jan 27, 2025
The Israel Missile Defense Organization conducts an air drill with the cooperation of the IDF, US forces and CENTCOM (Israel MOD)
Note: The US does not have a fully integrated air defense system for the continental United States. And it does not yet have a system that can intercept the emerging threat of hypersonic ballistic missiles and delivery systems including hypersonic glide vehicles. The current hodge-podge of US ballistic missile defenses is, therefore, not necessarily a good model to meet President Trump’s goal of an Iron Dome for America.
Peloni: Or Yissachar discusses the means by which Iran’s nuclear deal might be challenge – negotiations or a direct military attack
By Sha’i ben-Tekoa | Am Thinker | Jan 27, 2025
On January 21, the Israeli media reported that the country’s Defense Minister Israel Katz paid a visit to the military command post in Samaria overseeing an IDF operation called “Iron Wall” in progress inside the Jenin “refugee camp” (and never mind there is no camp and the people there are not refugees).
