Peloni:  It is vital that this become a routine rather than remarkable response to advocates of terror in the US.  There are also laws aplenty which might be applied to those who partake in or support terrorism, so let us not delay in applying these legal standards to those who sponsored these pro-Hamas events.  Indeed, break these terror loving dens using every means possible, with the specific intent of making their support of terror as anathema as it was once ubiquitously accepted to be.  This is a lesson worth learning and no better place to teach it than among the terrorist supporting dens of inquity which now inhabit what was once the pinnacle bastions of America’s educational establishment.

By Robert Spencer | March 8, 2025

Richly deserved and long overdue, and much, much more must be done to restore sanity to American academia.

“Trump administration cancels $400 million worth of grants and contracts to Columbia University,” by Luke Barr, ABC News, March 7, 2025:

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Peloni:  The time to stop Iran is not today, but a decade ago, or a decade before that.  Indeed, the window of opportunity has drawn to all but being closed and yet the West continues to act as if either they have time to accept delay or that they have an honest partner in negotiations in the Mullahs ruling Iran.  The truth is that both of these beliefs are false, and it does appear somewhat transparent that this is actually the case.  The Mullahs mean to subjugate and destroy not only Israel, but the entire Western world, and to prevent this from taking place, action against Iran’s nuclear capabilities needs to be taken NOW, as the author explains.

by Majid Rafizadeh  • Gatestone Institute • March 8, 2025

Iran is moving at an alarming speed to develop nuclear weapons and advancing its uranium enrichment at an unprecedented rate. The latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency provides a chilling confirmation of Iran’s intentions. Pictured: A Fattah hypersonic ballistic missile is displayed during the annual military parade in Tehran, on September 22, 2023. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

• Iran has also been installing more advanced centrifuges, increasing its capacity to enrich uranium faster than ever.

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Yossi Baum | X | Mar 6, 2025

By Jonathan Klinger – Aharon Barak, CC BY-SA 2.0

Mandatory Reading – Exposure:

1. Unbelievable: The first person to claim that the Attorney General’s legal opinion was binding on the government was—yes, yes—Aharon Barak himself. As a result, Rabin’s government fell, the right-wing rose to power, and Barak found himself in personal trouble.

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Peloni:  It is pure folly to foster any pretense that the LAF presents any control over Hezbollah in any meaningful way.  So long as the US maintains this narcissistic fantasy, particularly in combination with the ruse being fostered in negotiating with Iran, Hezbollah will continue to stand as a very real threat to Israel and the people of Lebanon as well.

By David Daoud & Ahmad Sharawi | March 7, 2025

The state of ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel, which went into effect on November 27, 2024, has now officially expired. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has withdrawn from almost all areas occupied in south Lebanon during the conflict with Hezbollah and, per the terms of the ceasefire agreement, handed them over to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF).

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Peloni:  This is an important undertaking and one which has a strong potential of resulting in significant benefits for Israel if successful.  Pandavar discussed this important topic previously in “Israel’s psychological warfare attack, excellent start!”

“To conquer your enemy, you need to conquer his mind first.” — Sun Tsu

Peloni:  The ultimate goal of the US, namely a ceasefire followed by a negotiated peace, is contrary to the goals still being pursued by Zelensky, who has no interest in peace and continues to setup obfuscating demands as preconditions to even accepting a ceasefire.  Hence, Ukrainians continue to suffer for a want of having their choice of leadership being considered as Zelensky is close to entering the seventh year of his five year term of office, during which he has spent the past three years avoiding every avenue of peacefully resolving this war, and will likely continue to do so til he is removed from office, which he defers to only being possible after the conclusion of the war which he will not end…

Meanwhile Washington’s Negotiation with Russia on Ukraine are Stalled

By Kelleigh Nelson

By Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Byron Donalds, CC BY-SA 2.0

There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.  James Madison

A centrally managed, centrally controlled, Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is a tool for coercion and control. Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH)

We don’t know who’s using a $100 bill today and we don’t know who’s using a 1,000-peso bill today. The key difference with the CBDC is the central bank will have absolute control on the rules and regulations that will determine the use of that expression of central bank liability, and also, we will have the technology to enforce that. BIS General Manager Augustín Carstens

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Yossi Baum | X | MAR 1, 2025

Exposure: In the first eight hours of the massacre, the Air Force operated only in Gaza.

Contrary to the “investigations” commissioned by the IDF, there exists a very detailed document with highly authentic characteristics, from which it emerges that the Air Force did not operate inside Israel until around 3 p.m., except perhaps for a few isolated exceptions.

This is part of the project “The Day That Changed Our Lives” by the Ynet website, which includes thousands of news flashes from the Black Sabbath — averaging around 60 reports per hour, and more than a hundred during the “difficult” hours.

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Peloni:  Is this the the beginning of a thaw between Trump & Musk?  It is good to have boundaries, and all personnel must appreciate and adhere to such boundaries,  but the egos and perspectives of Trump and his chief lieutenant are not aligned in many significant ways, making both this statement, as well as Musk’s adherence to it, necessary.  Musk’s interest in mind chipping the world and his ties to China and the globalist elites are but a few of the distinctions which come to mind regarding these two personalities, and these should not be seen as being unrelated to the work which Musk is undertaking.

Reagan Reese  | Daily Caller | March 06, 2025

President Donald Trump hosts an expanded bilateral meeting and working lunch with King Abdullah II of Jordan and his son, Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah, Tuesday, February 11, 2025, in the Cabinet Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

President Donald Trump convened his cabinet on Thursday to discuss the Department of Government Efficiency being run by Elon Musk and how it needs to start working with the federal agencies, he announced via a TruthSocial post.Since taking office, Musk’s DOGE has dominated the headlines as he has gone from agency to agency with his team auditing department spending and employee efficiency. In late February, Musk instructed federal employees to provide him a list of five things they accomplished during the last week, but some department and agency heads instructed their staff to ignore the emails. Trump told his cabinet and Musk that they need to work on “cost cutting measures and staffing,” according to his Truth Social post.  “As the Secretaries learn about, and understand, the people working for the various Departments, they can be very precise as to who will remain, and who will go,” Trump wrote. “We say the ‘scalpel’ rather than the ‘hatchet.’ The combination of them, Elon, DOGE and other great people will be able to do things at a historic level.”

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Peloni:  This is long overdue.  AG Baharav-Miara’s role has been one of obstruction and overreach since Netanyahu’s govt was formed.

Tamar Almog / KAN 11 | Published: March 6, 2025

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara & Pres. Isaac Herzog in Eilat By Amos Ben Gershom / Government Press Office of Israel, CC BY-SA 3.0

Israeli Justice Minister Yariv Levin on Wednesday evening announced the start of proceedings to dismiss Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara.

The process will begin with a government decision expressing no confidence in the attorney general. Following this, the missing members of the selection committee will be appointed, and the committee will convene. The committee’s recommendation will then be brought for a government decision, and finally, petitions to the High Court of Justice on the matter will be possible. The entire process is expected to take several months.

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Peloni: Great interview! Edwin Black does a deep dive into the history and perversion of Gaza and the potential paths forward.

Peloni:  Reports are that former Pres. Poroshenko and former PM Yulia Tymoshenko who leads the far right opposition party, Batkivshchyna (Fatherland), are rejecting the notion of wartime elections.  To be honest, the stronger opposition leader than either of these should be the mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko.  Furthermore, Tymoshenko’s Fatherland party is notably not the least bit aligned with Trump’s objectives of peace with Russia, and never has been.  Additionally, Poroshenko tried using the ruse of marshal law in 2019 to do exactly what Zelensky did last year, ie cancelling elections. All of this raises questions of the veracity of this report which is sourced to Politico, one of Trump’s very strong detractors in general and on the issue of Ukraine specifically.  In any event, Zelensky has commented more than once since the meeting in the Oval Office that the choice for Ukraine should be the choice of the Ukrainian people, and he claims to still hold a majority in the polls in any event.  So let the people prove the polls right and give Zel his currently missing mandate, or his walking papers.

Peloni:  Gadi Taub & Mike Doran discuss the recent IDF probe on October 7 and the ongoing feud between the political and intelligence community, as well as the impact of the US-Ukraine debacle and US-Iran relations.

?URGENT : Today, as announced by AIA-GN (https://t.co/1nlem2l1oz), Simon Moshiashvili, a member of the @KnessetT from the Shas party, which is part of @netanyahu‘s government, made a policy statement in parliament regarding the strategic partnership between #Israel and… https://t.co/gvNIh8cdkH pic.twitter.com/p5W9SlRlK7

— Azerbaijani-Israeli Alliance Global News (@aiagn7278) March 5, 2025

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Peloni:  This probe demonstrates the inability of the Shin Bet to address the underlying issues honestly.  This is a face saving distortion of a story half told due to self interest, which is not unrelated to the causes of the October 7 failures.

Security agency’s report largely shifts blame to other bodies, cites unclear division of responsibilities with IDF, government’s overly defensive Gaza policies

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff | TOI | Mar 4, 2025

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The Shin Bet security agency on Tuesday published a summary of its investigations into its failures during the lead-up to the Hamas terror group’s October 7, 2023, onslaught, with agency chief Ronen Bar acknowledging that if the agency had acted differently “the massacre would have been avoided.”

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J. Micah Hancock | | All Israel News | Published: March 5, 2025

The President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, hosting the outgoing head of the Shin Bet, Nadav Argaman, and the incoming head of the Shin Bet, Ronen Bar. Wednesday, October 13, 2021By Amos Ben Gershom / Government Press Office of Israel, CC BY-SA 3.0

Tensions between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) Director Ronen Bar have become increasingly hostile in recent days, exposing divisions between the government and the security establishment over accountability for significant intelligence and operational failures leading up to the October 7 Hamas attacks in 2023, which resulted in over 1,200 deaths and the kidnapping of 251 hostages.

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Peloni:  The plan put forward by the Arab League has no details because there is no consensus for the plan.  Attention will now recenter on Trump’s proposal, which Netanyahu has called to support.

Update:  Trump has now rejected the Egypt’s so called plan

Dead-on-arrival plan for non-factional interim committee to run Gaza during transition is dissociated from reality

by Hussain Abdul-Hussain | March 5, 2025

The Cairo venue for the talks. Photo: Egyptian State Information Service

The Arab peace plan for Gaza sidelines the strip’s rulers, Hamas, as well as the internationally recognized, inept and corrupt Palestinian Authority (PA), but only for six months, “in preparation for enabling the PA to fully return to the Gaza Strip.” In the interim, a “Gaza Administration Committee is being formed” and will be “composed of technocrats and non-factional figures … to manage the affairs” of the strip during the “transitional phase.”

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