Peloni: These radical shills are disgusting and dangerous, and their legitimizing of violence against Jews should be treated as a crime
“The uprising of October 7th was an act of armed resistance. It is not a terrorist attack and it’s not an antisemitic attack.”
by Daniel Greenfield | Feb 15, 2025
Judith Butler, a radical leftist academic who described Hamas as “progressive” and part of the Left, and who defended the atrocities of Oct 7 by the Islamic terrorist group, was one of the top signatories to a petition by a group of anti-Israel activists, calling themselves the ‘ In Our Name Campaign’ claiming that they are “Jews” opposed to “ethnic cleansing”.
Peloni: It will be interesting to see what policy Trump prefers with regards to Erdogan, and if it will differ much from his first term’s policy. Erdogan’s expansionist motives must be kept in check, and the best way for the US to do this is to eliminate the ever pervasive and dominating threat from Iran, so as to have a free hand to deal with Turkey. If Trump is going to prefer the policy of negotiating with Iran, it will ultimately result in his inability to adequately deal with the threats from either Turkey or Iran. And that would be very unfortunate for the region, but for the US as well.
Eric R. Mandel | Feb 12, 2025
Voice of America, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
While the Trump administration is focused on releasing all the hostages, making the Gaza and Lebanon ceasefires permanent, bringing the Israelis and Saudis toward normalization, and strategizing on what to do if Iran makes a mad dash to the bomb, a less imminent but equally important event is reshaping the Middle East for decades to come.
Gaunt Jews do not play into the narrative of the world media, which has bought into Hamas’s deliberate strategy of painting Gazans as victims and Israelis as aggressors.
By GIL HOFFMAN | FEBRUARY 15, 2025
A photo of my frail grandmother helping her even more gaunt sister choose a dress after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen death camp graces the wall at the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center.
My grandmother recovered physically but was scarred emotionally. Nevertheless, she still managed to move to Israel, run a business, raise a family, and live long enough to see her grandchildren thrive in the Jewish state.
Peloni: This was a very important speech. As Vance reproaches Europe’s move toward totalitarian election practices, it must be recalled that the most important qualifying aspect of any election result is transparency of an accurate election outcome. Accordingly, I look forward to seeing the US institute policies which might be exported around the world which ensure the accuracy and transparency of election results. The return of power of the people must not be limited to elections with supermajority outcomes as made the recent US election too big to rig, and even in that election, while Trump was able to cobble together an election coalition to overcome the election rigging, many of his party members were no so fortunately able. Indeed, as was made clear long before Trump’s election victory, the single issue which mattered more than any other was that the power be returned to the people, that the collective choices of the voting public would decide their future, and that consent of the governed would once again deliver the fate of America back to the hands of the American people. Consequently, it will be important for Vance’s well deserved chastising of Europe’s turn toward autocracy centered around the Leftist ideology to be followed by reforms in the US which demonstrate to the world how the power might best be returned to the people in such a way as it is clear that the power actually is in the hands of the people. It will take more than speeches, even one as impressive as this, to ply the power from the powerful and return it to the masses where it belongs.
The Gaza drama is putting Egypt’s peace with Israel under new strain. This is not the result of only events in the past weeks but is rather the culmination of much longer-term dynamics that cannot easily be mastered and reversed at this stage. The conflagration that Hamas began on October 7, 2023, may have triggered a chain of events that exposes these long-term trends and failures and brings them to a head — perhaps even including a broader war.
Rubio says US will give Arab states time to ‘hopefully’ have ‘really good plan to present’ to Trump
President Donald Trump welcomes Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Monday, April 3, 2017, at the West Wing entrance of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
The Trump administration is upping the pressure on Cairo to accept the U.S. president’s plan to resettle large parts of the population of Gaza on Egyptian territory.
On Thursday, the Qatari outlet Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported that the Pentagon had reached out to warn Egyptian officials that part of the over $1.4 billion in annual military aid might be cut if Cairo won’t accept President Donald Trump’s plan.
Peloni: In an enlightened society, it is unbearable to tolerate such yokes of depravity which seek to draw the modern world back towards an age in which such barbarity and oppressive subjugation of Jews was both publicly commonplace and institutionally popularized, and yet, this is exactly what has been accelerating across American campuses. Not one more day should pass before the investigations, indictments and prosecutions should begin. If civilization is to be preserved, it must immediately move to purge its most basic institutions of any support or even tolerance for the call to savagery against Jews, which has been masked as some perverse re-write of the Freedom of Speech.
The issues on campus and elsewhere extend beyond free-speech protections.
In “Mr. Trump, Investigate My Campus” (op-ed, Feb. 3) Prof. Steven Davidoff Solomon calls for an investigation of incidents of antisemitism at the University of California, Berkeley. Chancellor Rich Lyons suggests that such an investigation isn’t needed, citing the First Amendment (“No Need to Investigate My Campus, Mr. Trump,” Letters, Feb. 6).
From my meeting with Deputy Speaker of the Knesset and Likud MK Mr. Nissim Vaturi, we reaffirmed our shared commitment to peace, prosperity, and the right to self-determination for both peoples—the Jordanian-Palestinian and Israeli. Despite our differences, we agree on the… pic.twitter.com/oxDSqHVt1b
Peloni: Facilitated emigration has always been the only real solution to resolve the Pal cleft which has been weaponized against Israel. Of course this weaponization was the very basis for the Arabs and collective West to refuse to consider any Pal emigration as viable. For Israel, it was the dependency on the Hashemites as some form of necessary ally to their survival which held them addicted to maintaining the Cleft in place, even though the Hashemites were neither necessary nor even a reliable ally to Israel. For these reasons, the Cleft has been maintained in place over the decades where the Pals have themselves become the victims of this cruel game, and whereby their well trained savagery brought about attack after attack on innocent Jews, and the response was consistently and inexplicably leveraged by Israel’s allies and enemies alike towards demands of greater and greater concessions from Israel without any beneficial effect. It is time to exercise the legitimate option of facilitated emigration to resolve this conflict, and a rational and efficient plan has in fact already been formulated and proposed towards this goal. It is the Jordan Option as described by Ted in his The Ultimate Alternate Israel-Palestine Solution (Jordan Option), Memo To Kushner, and other essays listed at the top of the main page of this site. We will hopefully see this plan come to fruition in the not too distant future. In fact, the description of the creation of a city for the Pals in Jordan, as mentioned by Trump, was one of the many elements which was described by Ted and Mudar in the Jordan Option.
An Israeli APC entering the Philadelphi corridor near Rafah during the Israel-Palestine warGalei Tsahal, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
In the wake of the horrific condition of the last three Israelis released by Hamas from captivity in Gaza, U.S. President Donald Trump has stirred the pot again. He and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have ratcheted up the pressure on the terrorists with Israel taking clear steps toward the resumption of military operations in the Gaza Strip should the president’s conditions not be met.
Peloni: Benz returns to the Joe Rogan show to update and expand on his previous reporting there. It is three hours long, so I would focus on the first hour, but it is all very enlightening.
Peloni: The reality is that either the Pals will remain as a existential threat to Israel or they will find accommodations in some third party nation or nations. The connections between the Pals of Gaza and Jordan and Egypt are relevant and significant, and their continuing role in amplifying the violence against Israel from Hamastan is quite evident. When this plan is finally implemented, it will completely alter the dynamics in the Middle East, in a way which is both stabilize the region, and strengthen the US position against its peer rivals.
Emirati ambassador acknowledges challenges but sees no viable replacement.
The United Arab Emirates considers U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan for the Gaza Strip “difficult,” but currently sees no alternative, according to UAE Ambassador to the United States Yousef al-Otaiba. Speaking at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, al-Otaiba emphasized that Abu Dhabi is open to discussions but has yet to see a viable replacement for Trump’s proposal.
After U.S. President Donald Trump’s ultimatum to Hamas on Tuesday, many Israeli leaders responded favorably and urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to follow through on the president’s threats.
Two cases, to be heard jointly by the Supreme Court, which could potentially bankrupt the Palestinian Authority and the PLO, will be decided in the next few months. More on the cases, and their possible devastating effect on the Palestinian Authority’s finances, can be found here: “Supreme Court to hear case on Palestinian Authority’s ‘martyr’ payments,” by Marc Rod, Jewish Insider, February 10, 2025:
Peloni: Williams provides a particularly rational overview of the US negotiations with Russia, and why Ukraine and its supporters might have significant reason to be concerned. Ukraine can not win this war, and they can’t even fight it without the US support, which Trump is offsetting to Europe, which has likewise no means by which to back up their empty words which have always been characterized to fight to the last Ukrainian. I recommend focusing on the first 25min.
U.S. Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Since October 7th, Egypt has:
– Supported and celebrated Hamas’ terrorist attacks, including through state ministers who issued statements welcoming and celebrating the attacks, as well as referring to Israel as the “Zionist entity”, renouncing Egypt’s recognition of Israel and the Jewish state’s right to exist.
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