Update:

Steven Cheung, a spokesperson for Trump, said in a brief text message to Jewish Insider on Wednesday that the post “is clearly referencing Obama’s failed policies and the corrupt media.”

But he did not respond to a request for clarification that Trump was not endorsing Sachs’ condemnation of Netanyahu, whom he described in the video as an “obsessive” leader “still trying to get us to fight Iran to this day.”

Peloni:  Coincidently, it is being reported today that Netanyahu will likely not be attending Trump’s inauguration, with an aide stating that “Netanyahu had not received an official invitation, though it was unclear if he had been informally asked to attend.”  Notably, Netanyahu had previously intended to attend the inauguration, even following his recent prostate surgery.

The claims made by Sachs in the video reposted by Trump are illogical, unfactual, and unsupportable.  They are also inflammatory, divisive, and antisemitic.  Beyond all of this, though, they are also completely contrary to Trump’s own political perspective and that of his MAGA base, which has long held that US Forever Wars are not due to influence from Israel, nor from Bibi, but are related to the political and economic interests of US elites which sway US policy towards such misadventures as took place in Iraq.  In fact, Trump has never once made any comment supportive of the rant put forward by Sachs in this video.  Marina Medvin suggests that Trump may have posted it without watching it, perhaps at the suggestion of a trusted third party.  This of course is a very reasonable proposal, but as of this posting, the Sachs video has still not been removed from Trump’s TS account, to the delight and claimed affirmation of too many antisemites on the web to count.

Sachs ranted about Netanyahu’s obsession to manipulate US foreign policy to “get rid of Hamas and Hezbollah” by removing regimes that support them via military force.

By JAMES GENN | JPOST | JANUARY 10, 2025

US President-elect Donald Trump shared a video of Jewish-American economist Jeffrey Sachs on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Wednesday wherein Sachs called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “a dark son of a b****” and of dragging the US into wars in the Middle East.

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Peloni:  It should be anticipated that the new era in Lebanon will look remarkably similar to the old era, so long as the Mullahs are left in power in Tehran.

FDD | Jan 9, 2025

Latest Developments

• Lebanon Chooses New President: Lebanon’s parliament elected Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) General Joseph Aoun to be the country’s next president. Aoun, who has been backed by both the United States and Saudi Arabia, vowed a “new era” for Lebanon in his acceptance speech on January 9. The parliament’s successful vote for Aoun follows 12 unsuccessful attempts to fill the presidency after it was vacated in 2022 by Michel Aoun (who is not related to Joseph Aoun).

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Peloni:  Sanctions, no matter how crushing, will not forestall Iran from continuing its path towards nuclear hegemony.  This leaves either war or regime change as the only paths forward to end Iran’s nuclear plans.  The irony is that Trump is outwardly opposed to such tactics of regime change or war.  Trump has stated that he will prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear status, so it will be interesting to see how long he will pursue sanctions before accepting that these are at best a delaying action, and at worst delusional basis on which to fulfill this promise.

Peloni:  I have read several inspiring tweets of late by Rawan Oswan, but I was not familiar with her or her background.  Coincidently, I was sent this short video to watch and was quite surprised to find that this was the same person whose tweets I had recently read.  Please watch.

Linda Goudsmit:  Dominic Green wrote an excellent summary of the horrific complicity of the despicable and functionally amoral British government. What Green fails to discuss is why the government was, and continues to be complicit. Disguised as multiculturalism, the British government is complicit in the globalist elite campaign to collapse England from within. The Brits are doing the same thing in England that the leftist/Islamist/globalist alliance is doing in the U.S. They intentionally import millions of Muslims with hostile norms into their respective countries in order to collapse the economies, and to collapse their Judeo-Christian infrastructures. Importing millions of immigrants with hostile norms is not only the biggest peacetime crime and cover-up in British history, it is a seismic humanitarian hoax disguised and being perpetrated as multiculturalism.

Elon Musk has shocked the world by “saying the unsayable about the unspeakable.” Now it is time for the sleeping British public and willfully ignorant American public to do something about it! The savage rape and murder of young children is acceptable in Islamic sharia law, but can never ever be accepted in civilized western societies. Multiculturalism, including the importing of millions of Muslims with hostile norms, is an act of war and must be understood in those terms to make sense of the nonsensical. The globalist elite is advancing its megalomaniacal campaign for world government by destabilizing and collapsing western nations from within. Ignorance is not bliss––it is just ignorance. And willful blindness is not a survival strategy. I thank Elon Musk for his temerity and courage in exposing this horrific and tactical maneuver in globalism’s war on the nation-state.

Dominic Green | Jan 5, 2025

Click Link Below for Article

https://www.thefp.com/p/muslim-grooming-gangs-cover-up-keir-starmer-elon-musk

Peloni:  Hamas must be destroyed while UNWRA must be disbanded and its relevant members must be prosecuted for crimes against Israel.

Did a ‘foreign actor’ play a role in the Oct 7 invasion? Leaked Documents Case takes a shocking turn

All Israel News Staff | Published: January 9, 2025

Aaron “Ari” Rosenfeld, one of the suspects in the classified documents leak case arrives to the courtroom at the Tel Aviv District Court on January 7, 2025. Photo by Koko/Flash90

The “Leaked Documents Case,” in which a former aide of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and an IDF intelligence reservist are accused of leaking classified information, has held the attention of Israel’s media for months.

While much of the initially censored information has been revealed, like the name of the second main suspect Ari Rosenfeld, the case continues to take surprising turns.

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By Monica Showalter | Am Thinker | Jan 8, 2025

It started with a tweet by conservative Hollywood actor James Woods, posting a video of a fire in a Pacific Palisades canyon threatening his neighbor’s house, and saying, “Leaving”:

Given the wind seen, I had a bad feeling about it.

Within an hour or two, a flood of tweet videos followed, showing a full blown inferno, with stories about cars jammed in gridlock, and people abandoning their cars to flee on foot. Writer Naomi Wolf, who might have been one of them, or who may have been in a similar incident earlier (I couldn’t tell from her tweet), said they fled because they literally couldn’t breathe.

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Peloni: Unbelievable tragedy strikes as fires spread consuming homes, businesses and lives.  Mass evacuations creating impassable traffick jams, no water pressure to fight the fires paint the landscape of this ensuing disaster.

? The fires in LA pic.twitter.com/XBZn1Dz1IJ

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) January 8, 2025

? Israel Treasury Minister Smotrich: “We are now preparing a very fundamental change in how we conduct the war in Gaza. We are preparing hell for Hams.”

“I think there should have been no negotiations with Hams, but I can't understand it even more when we will come to the table… pic.twitter.com/e0RsdzxCpg

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) January 8, 2025

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Assad prevented Syria-based proxies from opening war front against Israel, general says

All Israel News Staff | Published: January 9, 2025

A worker tears down the pictures of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, Lebanon’s late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a gas station in Nubl, a Shi’ite village seized by rebels, in rural Aleppo, Syria, December 11, 2024. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Following the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria and the subsequent expulsion of the large Iranian presence, the Ayatollah regime has publicly sought to downplay the loss, but internally, power factions quickly turned on each other to assign blame.

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Peloni:  It should surprise no one that not only did Hezbollah enter into the cease-fire deal in bad faith, but also that the LAF is acting in coordination to provide diplomatic cover for Hezbollah which is more or less their master – ie, they have no agency of their own and never will so long as the Mullahs remain in power in Tehran.  In fact, the deal was pushed forward by the Washington elites in their continued campaign to preserve as much of Iran’s hegemony over the ME as possible, regardless of its has on the people involved or the region at large.  In other words, this “deal” was never  intended to be anything more than diplomatic kabuki theater from the outset.

By David Daoud & Ahmad Sharawi | January 8, 2025

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A false narrative has emerged claiming Lebanese authorities searched an Iranian plane last week at Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport over suspicion the aircraft was smuggling funds to Hezbollah and seized the funds. Many saw this as the long-awaited action by the Lebanese state to restrain Hezbollah and prevent its regeneration after the group’s adventurism invited yet another destructive war upon the Levantine country. One Lebanese propagandist described the event as “historic, confirming Hezbollah’s end.” However, closer inspection reveals that, though this is the impression Beirut wanted to create out of the incident, it could not be farther from the truth.

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Peloni:  Israel should annex one-third to one-half of northern Gaza.  This would impose a penalty on Gaza for their war, one which provide a deterrance against war with Israel by any of her neighbors.  So, while ending Hamas is a necessary solution to this war, it should not be the limit of the solution.

by Seth Mandel | Commentary | Jan  08, 2025

The preference for freezing wars instead of ending them is one of the more dangerous trends in Western policymaking. What was once widely recognized as an innovation of Vladimir Putin’s Russia has somehow become Plan A among a panicky Western public that refuses to look more than a few hours into the future.

And the insistence on applying this policy to Israel’s war against Hamas recalls the adage “it was worse than a crime; it was a blunder.” In this case, pressuring Israel to freeze its conflict with Hamas in place is more than immoral; it is irrational.

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Peloni:  Devastating report of a Ukrainian unit trained and armed in France which was significantly cannibalized and dispersed to fill vacancies among other frontline units, backfilled with raw recruits and still sent to the front as being ready to serve.  The  disaster which ensued was predictable, embarrassing and revealing of the gross incompetence within Ukraine’s emphasis upon optics and corruption over victory.  Very tragic.

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Channel 12 reports that on Tuesday night, Defense Minister Yisrael Katz called an urgent meeting with local authorities in Judea & Samaria warning that they were on the brink of war with full scale preparations ongoing to meet the challenge.  At the meeting which included commander of the Central Command, Major General Avi Balut, and the coordinator of government operations in the territories, Major General Rasan Alian, Katz revealed that the original plans for October 7 included Hamas extending their invasion into Judea and Samaria.

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The wave of Palestinian Arab violence that raged from December 1987 to the autumn of 1993 featured murderous bombings, shootings and stabbings.

Moshe Phillips | Jan 7, 2025

Palestinians take part in anti-Israel protests and preparation for a third intifada in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Oct. 13, 2015. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90.

What was this intifada that protesters on college campuses and in the streets of American cities keep screaming about?

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