Tommy Steiner | SIGNAL | November 14, 2024

Since the October 7th massacre in southern Israel and the outbreak of the war in Gaza, China’s leadership has conveyed outright support in word and deed for the Iran-led “Axis of Resistance.” The display of strategic vulnerability by Iran and its proxies since mid-August appears to have prompted Beijing to pause and reassess. Upon return from the National Day holiday in early October, China’s official messaging on Iran noticeably shifted. This adjustment has been further underscored by commentary from Chinese policy advisers specializing in the Middle East.

As events on the ground led to a review of its Middle East policies, China is refraining from outright public support of Iran and the Axis of Resistance it leads, at least for the time being. This is borne out by the striking difference between China’s response to Iran’s missile and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attack on Israel in mid-April and its reaction to the latest ballistic missile attack on Israel by Iran on October 1. Similarly, the Chinese response to Israel’s retaliatory strike on Iran on October 28 reflected this revised approach. While the Foreign Ministry refrained from condemning Israel per se for its most recent attack, one of China’s most respected Middle East policy advisers all but justified it in an op-ed published in the China Daily.

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By Moshe Phillips

(Moshe Phillips is National Chairman of Americans For A Safe Israel, a leading pro-Israel advocacy and education organization.)

A prominent institute for the study of antisemitism has once again chosen a professor who is hostile to Israel and Zionists to deliver a lecture about Israel and Zionists.

The Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, based at the University of London, has announced a December 3 online program about “Aliya, Antisemitism, and U.S. Zionism in the World,” featuring Doug Rossinow, a professor in Minnesota who has been harshly attacking Israel for more than twenty years.

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by Seth Mandel | Commentary | November 15, 2024

Less than a week after the pogrom in Amsterdam, UN celebrity Jew-baiter Francesca Albanese was scheduled to speak in London. Albanese has embraced authoritarian anti-Semitism and become a hero to the worst people in politics. The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism, a British organization, worked up plans to protest Albanese’s arrival.

But the protest never happened. The Telegraph explained why: Security officials picked up chatter on social media apps in which locals were very plainly making plans to attack the Jewish demonstrators. “Can’t wait to give the welcome they deserve,” said one resident, to which another—who had been using anti-Semitic lingo in the chat—responded: “Amsterdam-style.”

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Peloni:  The extensive political and educational control exercised by Qatar alongside its longstanding support of terrorism defines Qatar as a formidable enemy.  Of course, the political capture wielded on behalf of the Qatar in the West stands as the lynchpin by which it maintains its prominence while pursuing its continued control over the West, and it is here that the West must begin to react to regain both their sovereignty and their sanity while dealing equitably with the Qataris.

Tolik Piflaks | All Israel News | November 18, 2024

Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (L) and the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani arrive at a cornerstone laying ceremony for Hamad, a new residential neighborhood in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Oct. 23, 2012. (Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem)

As Trump’s return to power becomes a vivid reality, a revealing drama is being played out on the global stage. First came reports, sourced to senior Biden administration officials, that Qatar would expel Hamas leadership from Doha. Within hours, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry contradicted these claims, insisting Hamas’s office would remain open as “a channel of communication.” This wasn’t diplomatic confusion – it was a masterclass in Qatar’s sophisticated influence operations, demonstrating exactly why this tiny Gulf state represents such a unique challenge to Western interests.

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Peloni: This was an important briefing, detailing the parameters under which any deal might be struck in Lebanon, but more importantly reminding the world that the real source of aggression lies in Tehran and until the source is eliminated, the deal with Lebanon will require an ongoing state of acting on intelligence as needed to prevent the rise of a new terror army in Lebanon.

*The audio in this interview with Avivi is pretty muffled, but if you use the closed captions option you can read along and follow the conversation with ease.

Peloni:  The obvious need of judicial reform has made itself apparent in every phase of Israeli society and most particularly throughout the war.

Gantz slams Levin’s call to resume reforms – ‘they play a role in how we reached October 7’

All Israel News Staff | November 17, 2024 

Justice Minister Yariv Levin attends a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on November 6, 2024. (Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Two flares were fired at the private residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Caesarea on Saturday evening. Although Netanyahu was not at home, and no one was injured in the incident, Justice Minister Yariv Levin used the incident to call for a resumption of the controversial legislation which led to massive protests last year.

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by Bassam Tawil  •  Gatestone Institute • November 18, 2024

According to Israeli intelligence, more than 450 terrorists belonging to terrorist organizations in Gaza, mainly Hamas, are also employed by UNRWA. Several terrorists who participated in the October 7 atrocities were officially employed by UNRWA. Pictured: Israeli soldiers inspect the entrance to a Hamas terror tunnel directly outside an UNRWA compound in Gaza City, on February 8, 2024. (Photo by Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)

• According to Israeli intelligence, more than 450 terrorists belonging to terrorist organizations in Gaza, mainly Hamas, are also employed by UNRWA.

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Mike Benz: “This is SUPER nasty stuff. Mike Rogers, who may head Trump’s FBI, was not only the head of the Intel Committee behind the CIA’s Russiagate scam, he was in on the CIA cut-out IRI’s Beacon Project.”

This is SUPER nasty stuff. Mike Rogers, who may head Trump’s FBI, was not only the head of the Intel Committee behind the CIA’s Russiagate scam, he was in on the CIA cut-out IRI’s Beacon Project.

I told the story of the Beacon Project on this week’s stream for my X subscribers: https://t.co/ftIDRK1cFV pic.twitter.com/LVgbQKEaTR

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) November 16, 2024

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As he heads for the exit, President Biden is easing sanctions on Hamas and Hezbollah — while sanctioning Jews in Israel.

Under pressure from Israel-bashing critics, including scores of congressional Democrats, a president who stood firmly behind Israel after the Oct. 7 massacre seems to have lost his moral compass.

And just as President Barack Obama in his last months in office allowed the UN Security Council to pass a resolution slamming Israel, Biden may use sanctions to further turn the screws on the Jewish state in his lame-duck stretch.

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Peloni:  Trump’s victory is in fact a point of revolution which will be strongly resisted over the next four years but whatever victories might be achieved in that time will be felt over the next several generations.

Jeffrey A. Tucker | November 16, 2024

People are out and about, smiling at each other. It’s been true since the morning after the election, the results of which defied every prediction. Who doesn’t like to see the smug elites who have ruled the world for five awful years taken down a peg?

More than that, there are hints of a return to sanity. Mainstream advertisers are suddenly returning to X, putting their economic interest above their tribalist loyalties. The editor of pro-lockdowns Scientific American, which had long blessed totalitarian measures as true science, has resigned.

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Peloni:  Here is the 8th installment of Joseph Shellim’s 12 Deceptions, an excerpt from his important work, “Philistine-To-Palestine”.  We are posting one Deception each week, and  links to the previous installments can be found at the bottom.

Joseph Shellim

Arafat (second from right) with other civil engineering students in Cairo University, 1951

• “There is not even the smallest indication of the existence of a Jewish temple on this place (Jerusalem  Temple Mount) in the past. In the whole city there is not even a single stone indicating Jewish history.” – Yasser Arafat; Camp David Summit, 2000.

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By Geoffrey Clarfield, Nov 16, 2024, 12:51 AM

Galilee hillsides-photo by Geoffrey Clarfield

A few days ago I went to a lecture at a Synagogue in Montreal called, “The American Elections and What It Means for North American Jewry and Israel,” by Professor David M. Shribman, a Jewish Montreal born dual citizen of Canada and the USA,  distinguished professor of politics, with an impressive academic record as well as experience as a political journalist.

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Kelleigh Nelson

Trump cannot be bought, but his advisors can.  Tom Homan

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus, doubled agents are recruited and used. Sun Tzu

President Donald Trump has already declared what he plans to do.  He expressed his objectives over and over again in every rally.  He also promised to cancel all restrictions of arms shipments to Israel, already blessing our nation. We were overjoyed listening to him during those rallies, horrified at the assassination attempts and failure to protect him, and ultimately thrilled with the election results.

We said a resounding “NO” to the Stalinist Democrat Party’s promotion of inflation, border invasion, endless wars, presidents who try to jail their opponents, the celebration of infanticide and surgical mutilations of our children.

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Peloni:  Sometimes war is not the only way forward, but on occasion, war will be the only way way forward.  Being able to distinguish between these two sets of circumstances is the true test of leadership.  Regime change in Tehran is necessary for both Israel and the US.  Should Trump fail to recognize  and act on this fact, it will continue to endanger both these great nations.

by Con Coughlin  •  Gatestone Institute •  November 17, 2024 at 5:00 am

After the success Donald Trump enjoyed negotiating the Abraham Accords towards the end of his first term in office, which saw a number of leading Arab states normalise relations with Israel, it is widely expected that his new administration will want to pursue a similar policy of ending hostilities in the Middle East. Pictured from left to right: Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump, and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan participate in the signing of the Abraham Accords in Washington, DC on September 15, 2020. (Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

• The October 7, 2023 attacks carried out against Israel by Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists…. was the direct result of Tehran’s ability to fund the terrorist movement to the tune of $100 million a year, an operation that would not have been possible without Biden’s lenient attitude towards the ayatollahs.

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Emanuele Ottolenghi & Joe Truzman | November 15, 2024

In recent years, Iran steadily built up Hezbollah’s arsenal in Lebanon and Syria by shipping weapons, flying them in, and transporting them by truck. Weapons consignments arrived at ports and airports and were stored at warehouses in both countries before being distributed to Hezbollah units. Israel has sought to disrupt the flow of weapons, chiefly by bombing raids on targets in Syria (including the port of Latakia and the airport in Damascus). Since Hezbollah joined Hamas and opened a second front against Israel on October 8, 2023, Israel has hit targets in Lebanon as well. But Israel’s efforts to degrade and destroy Hezbollah’s arsenal and disrupt Iran’s efforts to resupply it have dramatically increased in tempo since September 28, the day after Israel eliminated Hezbollah’s late leader, Hassan Nasrallah.

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Peloni:  Ukraine’s only chance at survival of even its remaining Rump is a negotiated peace, and they are now faced with negotiating from the worst possible posture of retreat.

By Michael Odman, VGNI

In the 17th Nov 24 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• Volunteers at a Gaza border refreshment tent have served half a million IDF soldiers.
• Israeli innovations combat cancer, heart disease, PTSD, brain diseases, and aging.
• A Druze-Israeli spoke Arabic to save Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam.
• The war certainly doesn’t scare off visitors to Israel from the animal kingdom.
• Israeli startups can save the planet from plastic pollution.
• Israel’s economic indicators are increasingly healthy.
• Israeli technology protects more American soldiers.
• Two new Israeli Chief Rabbis have been inaugurated. 

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