A new age now begins?

J.E. Dyer, a retired Naval Intelligence officer, blogs as The Optimistic Conservative | Jan 27, 2025

[I try to avoid using eye cues to call out significant points, but that’s the readiest way in this case to just get done the job of outlining a new way of thinking. – J.E.]

There’s no question President Trump disappointed a whole lot of people and lost a lot of momentum with some supporters when he appeared to knuckle under to a ceasefire-for-hostages plan as an operational interruption to the Gaza war.  It can’t help looking Biden-like.  It has the essential elements of what Biden had been incessantly pushing since the 10/7 attack:   ceasefire for its own sake, which everyone expects Hamas to duly break, as always; negotiating with terrorists for hostages, which invariably produces wildly disproportionate personnel exchanges; grand, vague, and misdirected posturing on “solutions” for “peace” and who should be in charge of directing the world at ramming speed to a “Palestinian state.”

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Well-known Al Jazeera journalist proposed to orchestrate cynical release ceremonies

All Israel News Staff | Published: January 30, 2025

Four Israeli female soldiers are present as members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Hamas sign documents for exchanges under the ongoing Gaza ceasefire agreement in Gaza City, Gaza, on January 25, 2025. (Photo by Momen Faiz/NurPhoto)

Over the past few weeks, Hamas has elaborately orchestrated the hostage releases of the ceasefire’s first stage, using them as a show of force and to humiliate the hostages live on TV.

Now, i24 News revealed that Hamas hired a Qatar-based Al Jazeera journalist to professionally direct the hostage release ceremonies from afar.

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Peloni:  Why is Mike DiMino in Trump’s White House?

My scumbag of the week on #TheQuad: Mike DiMino who argued among other things that the U.S. should halt providing “defensive support” for Israel against Hezbollah attacks and claimed the Abraham Accords was a “mistake”

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Jonathan Feldstein

UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees is set to go out of business this week, in Israel at least, none too soon. RIP.

From its inception in 1949, UNRWA has been a controversial organization, criticized for policies and actions that have harmed both Israel and Palestinian Arabs. In the wake of Israel’s war of Independence, UNRWA was ostensibly set up to provide humanitarian aid to Palestinian Arab refugees. Yet its unique and disturbing mandate and political entanglements have made it an obstacle to peace rather than a solution; perpetuating refugee status for people who should have been settled in the countries in which they are, making this the only ethnic group in the world among whom refugee status is inherited from generation to generation, fostering and even emboldening radicalization for future generations, and maintaining an unsustainable and dangerous status quo that ultimately harms both sides.

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Peloni:  The Lebanese have no agency. They have no control over their own future. Like other nations, the power is concentrated in the hands of the powerful, and in Lebanon, the powerful are Hezbollah and their Shia backers, even though the Shia represent a minority within the country. This is where the power will forever reside in Lebanon, so long as the Mullahs reside in Iran and the West fails to act to eliminate their stranglehold over the Lebanese people.

By David Daoud | January 29, 202

Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem’s last speech, delivered on Monday, was his most defiant to date. Qassem spoke one day after the expiration of the November 27 Israel-Lebanon ceasefire deal’s 60-day timetable for the withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from south Lebanon.

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Eitan Fischberger tweeted the following:

? Breaking: Senior Al Jazeera Journalist Produced Hamas’ Hostage Release Ceremonies ?

According to @BaruchYedid in an exposé for @i24NEWS_HE, the Qatari network’s Tamer Mishel produced the ceremonies as well as the recent documentary, “What is Hidden is Greater,” in which Al… pic.twitter.com/SAyCG3CAdC

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) January 29, 2025

Senior Al Jazeera Journalist Produced Hamas’ Hostage Release Ceremonies According to @BaruchYedid in an exposé for @i24NEWS_HE, the Qatari network’s Tamer Mishel produced the ceremonies as well as the recent documentary, “What is Hidden is Greater,” in which Al Jazeera aired exclusive footage of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar sneaking around Gaza like a rat.

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Peloni:  This is a disgusting caveat to the Surrender Deal.  The world is going to award the chief coordinator of terror with the Nobel Peace Prize.  Having coerced its influence over Trump’s envoy to manipulate the Israeli govt into concessions which will be devastating over the coming years, they are now to gain world renown for their influence peddling among Trump’s inner circle and call it peace making.

Natalie Ecanow | Jan 29, 2025

A Qatari diplomat recently suggested that the emir of Qatar deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the war in Gaza that Doha effectively abetted. In a statement to The Jerusalem Post, Qatar’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Sheikh Abdullah Al Thani, claimed that Qatar “played a pivotal role in ending the war” and that “in recognition of its sacrifices and leadership,” Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Sheikh Abdullah’s congratulations to his uncle are deceiving. Qatar has pumped upwards of $1 billion into Hamas-run Gaza, provided a haven for Hamas leaders and financiers, and legitimized Hamas propaganda on its state-owned media network Al Jazeera. Doha released a statement on October 7, 2023, holding “Israel alone responsible” for Hamas’s massacre. Yet despite its leverage over the terrorist group, Doha repeatedly failed to exert pressure on Hamas during months of negotiations.

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Tik Tok and REDnote – “Spiritual Fentanyl”

Peloni:  As per usual, Avi is right on the money!  Barbarism does not distinguish between Israel and its Western allies.  They seek to subdue and destroy us all!

Instead of Witkoff pressuring Hamas, Iran, Qatar, and Egypt, who were all complicit in the October 7 atrocities, the pressure was placed on Israel. While Trump expels terror supporters from the US, Israel is forced to release terrorists into our midst.

Avi Abelow | Jan 28, 2025

Trump shakes hands with relatives of hostages   REUTERS/Brian Snyder

The Israeli government recently revealed the disturbing fact that released hostages Romi, Emily, and Doron were held in United Nations shelters in Gaza, structures meant to house the homeless Gaza civilians.

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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.

By 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.

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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!”

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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 Daniel Greenfield | 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’.

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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

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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’

All Israel News Staff | Published: January 28, 2025

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.

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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.

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