The Mossad neither slumbers nor sleeps.

by Hugh Fitzgerald | Jan 8, 2025

Ismail Haniyeh was until this past July the leader of the terror group Hamas. He lived in Doha, Qatar, protected by many layers of security provided by the rulers of Qatar, the Al-Thani family. But the Israelis managed to kill him while he was on a visit to Iran. The Mossad knew when he arrived in Tehran, and where — in what room of what guest house, that was provided with the highest possible security — he would be staying. One of its operatives managed to plant a bomb in his pillow that blew the arch-terrorist to smithereens. How the Mossad accomplished this remarkable feat can be found here: “Man on the inside? Details of Haniyeh assassination in the heart of Tehran revealed,” by Mathilda Heller, Jerusalem Post, December 29, 2024:

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By Janet Levy | Am Thinker |October 15, 2022

He who controls the weather controls the world.” These ominous words were spoken in 1962, at Southwest Texas State University, by then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. In that Cold War era speech, he was alluding to what could happen after the “development of a weather satellite that will permit man to determine the world cloud layer and ultimately control the weather.”

Later, as president, LBJ would authorize Operation Popeye, the spraying of silver and lead iodide into monsoon storm clouds over Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam to facilitate U.S. military operations by causing landslides and washing out river crossings. This was exposed by reporter Jack Anderson (in an 18 March 1971 column in Washington Post), Seymour Hersh, and the Pentagon Papers in the New York Times. America and the world woke up to the possibility that weather engineering could be part of invisible warfare, producing cloud cover, droughts, storms, or floods.

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Peloni:  The slowed pace of the war, the propaganda campaign in favor of Hamas, and the international campaigns to continue feeding and thereby funding Hamas have each played a role in stabilizing Hamas in Gaza rather than displacing it.  This has also had the counter effect of reducing Gazan expectation of Hamas being ultimately displaced from power, thus intimidating any locals who might have an interest of working with Israel.  Thus, we are caught in a stymied mess of achieving victories without ultimate victory, while any local resistance to Hamas is in turn quashed by the limits placed upon the war, and the butcher’s bill just gets longer and more painful to achieve.  There can be no end to this war without defeating Hamas, but defeating Hamas requires that the war must begin in earnest, which is currently nowhere in sight.

Despite multiple IDF campaigns, Hamas continues to recruit fighters

by Seth J. Frantzman | Jan 7, 2025

As the new year begins, Israel will need to find a strategy for the war in Gaza. Several factors are at play in this decision. First, the war has gone on for more than fifteen months since it began with the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. Although Israel has fought long conflicts in the past, such as the Second Intifada and the war in Lebanon that began in 1982 and lasted for eighteen years, the war in Gaza has been of greater intensity and complexity than those other wars. This is because the war in Gaza also set off Iranian-backed attacks on Israel from multiple fronts. It is also due to the fact Hamas still holds 100 hostages captive in Gaza.

The conflict in Gaza is challenging because there is evidence Hamas continues to recruit and also controls a large swath of the area. “We are not yet at the point of defeating Hamas entirely,” Brigadier General (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser told ILTV in December 2024. A separate report at The Jerusalem Post noted that Hamas is recruiting more members.

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Janet Levy:  Steve Bannon, who served as the CEO of Donald Trump‘s 2016 campaign as well as a White House adviser in his former administration, and Musk, who donated over a quarter billion dollars to help get the president-elect across the finish line in 2024, are two of the Republican leader’s top allies. However, Bannon has long been critical of Musk, and routinely criticized his business ties to China.

The podcaster has previously called Musk a “stone cold liar” and said “his paymasters” are from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In a recent interview with Semafor, Bannon said that he and Musk disagree on “just about everything.”

https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-issues-new-elon-musk-warning-masters-beijing-2009798

by Gordon G. Chang | MEF | Dec 30, 2024

Elon Musk is brilliant when it comes to providing what the world needs, but he is ignorant about Taiwan. So, respectfully, Mr. Musk: China is China, Taiwan is Taiwan, and Taiwan, although close to China, is not China. Pictured: Musk meets with China’s then Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing on January 9, 2019. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AFP via Getty Images)

Peloni:  A very important Q&A by Trump.  Trump provides extensive discussions on Hostages held in Gaza, Canada, Greenland, January 6, and a great deal more.

By Janet Levy | Jan 7, 2024

Image by Grok.

On Sunday, December 22, President-elect Donald Trump reiterated his desire for America to take control of Greenland, saying it is an “absolute necessity.” The very next day, Greenland’s prime minister, Mute Egede, said the autonomous island, part of the Danish kingdom, was not for sale. But Trump’s plan—like that of William H. Seward, who, as secretary of state, oversaw the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867—is not without tremendous geopolitical advantage to America.

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Peloni:  This is long overdue.  Egypt must be significantly reduce its military presence in the Sanai.  Egypt’s massive military force presents a significant threat to Israel’s security along its long border with Israel, and this is not something which Israel should have ignored, even before the revelations regarding Egypt’s role in facilitating Hamas’ preparations for its offensive war with Israel.

US slightly reduces military aid to Egypt due to human rights accusations

All Israel News Staff | Published: January 7, 2025

View of the Philadelphi Corridor between the southern Gaza Strip and Egypt, July 15, 2024. (Photo: Oren Cohen/Flash90)

Israel has contacted Egypt to demand answers after the IDF has recognized a significant increase of military activity in the Sinai peninsula, violating the peace agreement between the countries, Channel 14 reported.

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Peloni:  Not a single objection raised against Trump’s confirmation, just four years after a massive psyop was employed to validate a rigged election, the consequence of which left the nation more divided, the presidency more constrained, and thousands of Americans incarcerated, presaging the political show trials which are still ongoing against Trump.  And yet, there was not a single objection to Trump’s electoral victory.  Has America overnight become so centered around a Trump presidency that not a single contrary vote was raised against Trump’s return to power, not by any RINO, not by any Globalist, and not even by any of the still unhinged Dems?   Such a united front emanating from the US provides for many opportunities even while it raises many questions.  Greenfield believes this is due to tactical self interest.  I am curious what others might attribute this inexplicable solidarity around Trump’s recent election victory.

For the first time this century.

by Daniel Greenfield | Jan 7, 2025

In the past, I have pointed out that Democrats objected to every single Republican presidential victory in this century. The Washington Times however notes that this time around,.”It was the first time congressional Democrats did not raise a challenge to a Republican winner of the presidential election since certifying George H.W. Bush’s victory in 1989.”

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ANJULI PANDAVAR | 07 Jan 2025

The Management of Savagery / “We’ll cut off your head if you say we’re violent”.

Tommy Robinson recounts his first childhood awareness of Muslims. In his school dining hall, all the children from all backgrounds mucked in together all over the place, except in the far corner, huddled amongst themselves, were the Muslims. Quite clearly, nothing bad happened to him here. This was not a traumatic childhood experience that would scar someone for life. Yet, it is easy to see how this would leave a lasting impression on him.

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Peloni:  The ongoing cooperation and partnership between India and Israel is very important and presages many advantages for each in the future.

Peloni: As the initial Kursk offensive led to the collapse of the Pokrovsk, this latest incursion may well lead to additionally difficult consequences for Ukraine.  Their limit of men, munitions and moral place them in a difficult position with regards to making such attempts to create new chapters in this war which they are not situated as being capable of winning.  An important question will be to what degree the incoming Trump administration might support such an expansion of this war, even if it were successful, and I expect that they will not be supportive of doing so at all…

Stephen Bryen | Weapons & Strategy | Jan 06, 2025

Commission appears to express pessimistic view of relations between new Syrian government and Turkey

All Israel News Staff | January 7, 2025

Former National Security Council head Yaakov Nagel at the Cybertech Israel Conference and Exhibition in Tel Aviv, on January 26, 2016. Photo by Miriam Alster/FLASH90.

An Israeli government commission published a strident warning about the possibility of conflict with Turkey in its latest report.

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Cultural appropriation of the Swastika and Kaffiyeh- a switch from love to hate

Diane Bederman | Jan 6, 2025

Keffiyeh    Bederman

“What is there to separate the Muslims in Europe and around the world from us Germans? We have common aims. There is no more solid basis for cooperation than common aims and common ideals. For 200 years, Germany has not had the slightest conflict with Islam.” (Heinrich Himmler)

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Peloni: Brilliant piece by Tucker

Jeffrey A. Tucker | Brownstone Institute | January 6, 2025

Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula (1892) was written as a Victorian-style moralizing tale of sin and its consequences. The author, a political and religious conservative of his times, never could have imagined that his novel would become a bestseller in his own time largely due to its lascivious imagery and terrifying plotline that fed into every anxiety over morality, science, and public health, much less kick off a century and a quarter of vampire films.

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Peloni:  Finally, Trudeau has been undone and the long road to restoring trust in a representative govt may soon begin for the people of the True North.  Hopefully it will take form soon under the direction of an honest champion of individual rights and freedoms such as Pierre Poilievre.

But he tried his best.

by Robert Spencer | Jan 7, 2025

At long last, on Monday Justin Trudeau has announced his pending resignation, although it will be awhile before he is actually gone. In declaring his intention to resign, Trudeau prorogued parliament until March 4, which means it will not be in session, but will not be dissolved. During this period, the Liberal Party will select a new leader, after which Trudeau says he will finally depart from the scene. Thus the misrule of this curious man is likely to come to a definitive end reasonably soon, and we can only hope that he doesn’t do too much more damage between now and then.

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Peloni:  In the second half of this Morning Briefing, Schanzer interviews Ken Stein who was a former staffer and longtime, close associate of Jimmy Carter until 2006 when Carter in fact advocated on behalf of terrorism against Israel.  Stein provides an interesting perspective on Carter, emphasizing that Carter continuously chose his positions such that he would have a pivotal role to play in any negotiations which might follow.