Peloni:  Highly Recommended film.  Pierre Rehov’s production on the creation of the Palestinian narrative is being throttled on the web.  Please share it widely with family and friends.

by Guy Millière  •  Gatestone Institute  •  April 13, 2025

The vast majority of Israelis seem finally to have understood that the goal of Palestinian organizations is not to create a state living in peace alongside Israel, but to destroy Israel. The West, wrote the columnist Melanie Phillips, needs “to take off its blinders, join up the dots and fight like Israel to survive.” Pictured: Hamas terrorists on their way into Israel from Gaza Strip, on their mission to murder Jews, on the morning of October 7, 2023. (Photo by CCTV footage: No human authorship – Financial Times, Public Domain)

• [A]ll Hamas needs to do to prevent this destruction is return all the hostages it should not have kidnapped in the first place. Amnesty International has served up a remarkable inversion of facts.

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Peloni:  These negotiations are a grave mistake, and any ‘deal’ arising from them will be fraught with betrayal and delay which will only advantage the Iranians in outlasting Trump’s remaining less than 4yr term.   Consenting to using Witkoff rather than Rubio to conduct these proceedings was a second obviously owned error.  The outcome of these discussions will define US policy in the region, but they must not limit Israel from pursuing her own Red Lines as stated by Bibi after meeting with Trump.

The lessons from 2015 must be clear to avoid another disastrous deal. No negotiations should begin until Iran fully dismantles its nuclear program.

DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Marianique Santos, Public Domain

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s recent visit to Washington dealt with two main issues that could become points of contention in the otherwise warm relations between PM Netanyahu and President Trump—tariffs and the Iran nuclear program, the latter of which we will focus on.

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Peloni:  Political violence is the antithesis of freedom of speech and it is the key by which free nations fall.  It will be interesting to see what basis of threat underlines this latest threat, but as the well know two previous attempts on then candidate Former President Trump demonstrates, there should be strong penalties applied for any and all crimes which have actually been committed.

By Robert Spencer | April 12, 2025

Today, #FBI Atlanta arrested 25 year old, Aliakbar Mohammed Amin of Lilburn, GA for threatening communications against @DNIGabbard, @Potus, & @WhiteHouse. Bottom line, the FBI does not tolerate threats and will hold offenders fully accountable. pic.twitter.com/la5doFNMbU

— FBI Atlanta (@FBIAtlanta) April 12, 2025

The details that have been revealed thus far are extremely sparse. Fox 5 Atlanta reported Friday that the FBI had revealed that “a Georgia man” had been arrested for making threats against Donald Trump and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. That’s almost all we know at this point, but there is one other salient detail that raises a number of other questions about this case.

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“Mahmoud Khalil hates the United States and what we stand for”

by Daniel Greenfield | April 12, 2025

Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia U student, was a leading figure in the campus riot movement that celebrated the Hamas attacks of Oct 7, endorsed terrorism, called for ‘Death to America’ and was “fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.”

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Peloni:  In a year and a half, not a single Gazan has come to report details surrounding the whereabouts of a single hostage.  NOT ONE.  So while Katz’ commentary to the Gazans about the distinctions which separate them from the Hamas leadership is useful to inform the entire world of these facts, it must be understood by all reasonable men that Gazans are Hamas.  They have been well trained for the effect of rejoicing in the savagery of October 7 and resistant to the most generous of offers to produce just one equivalent of the Righteous Gentiles of WWII…and yet we here only crickets in response.

All Israel News Staff | Published: April 12, 2025

Israeli forces in the Rafah area (Photo: IDF)

The Israeli military has encircled the strategically important southern Gazan border town Rafah, the IDF confirmed in an official statement.

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Peloni:  In a WSJ Op Ed, Trump’s Mideast Envoy, Steve Witkoff has already signaled a position of retreat in place of what should have been clear US resolve to have Iran, itself, retreat.   Stating that “Where our red line will be, there can’t be weaponization of your nuclear capability” Witkoff has indicated a significant weaking of Trump’s own message to Iran.  Indeed, after assembling the greatest military presence in history in the region, alongside the equivocating threat from Trump himself, Witkoff’s prevarication will unfortunately betray US resolve while strengthening Iranian resistance.  This portends a very unfortunate outcome should Witkoff’s statements indicate Trump’s true position in this negotiation.  If Trump’s position has not changed, the FDD assessment below should have been used in place of the Witkoff strategy of weakness.

Orde Kittrie, Andrea Stricker & Behnam Ben Taleblu | FDD | April 11, 2025

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The United States and Iran are set to hold landmark talks on April 12, President Donald Trump announced earlier in the week, just weeks after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei refused the idea. The watershed event follows the president’s letter to Khamenei in early March in which he posed a stark ultimatum to Tehran: negotiate a deal within two months that removes the nuclear threat, or face punishing U.S. sanctions and possibly strikes on the regime’s nuclear facilities.

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Peloni:  Is this the real reason that the Russiagate files, which had full authorization to be released, were leaked, ie to taint the release with an implied political bias?

Sundance | April 12, 2025

Regarding the recently released Russiagate files. Again, emphasizing that process matters, let me explain how and why we are being purposefully misled, even with Trump ‘allies’ in control of various govt agencies (silos).

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By Daniel Greenfield| April 9, 2025

New York Times Building.  By Jleon (talk) – I (Jleon (talk)) created this work entirely by myself., CC BY-SA 3.0

At least when it’s leftist antisemitism.

In surprising news, the newspaper that published a list of Jewish members of Congress with yellow marks over their names during the Iran Deal vote (not in 1939 but in 2015) thinks fighting antisemitism is a bad idea.

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | April 7, 2025,

Passover, Mathilde Hahn Meyer, Germany, late 19th or early 20th century, painting on canvas.  By Center for Jewish History, NYC – Flickr/, No restrictions

1. Passover (April 12-19, 2025) is a Jewish national liberation holiday, highlighting the Exodus, the Parting of the Sea, the Ten Commandments, the 40 years of wandering in the desert, and the return to the Land of Israel 3,600 years ago. From physical and spiritual servitude in Egypt to physical and spiritual liberty in the Land of Israel.

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By Christine Douglass-Williams | April 11, 2025

Numan Kurtulmu?, leader of Erdogan’s People’s Voice Party meets with Ismail Haniyeh in 2012.  By Mehmettorun – Own work of Mehmettorun, CC BY-SA 3.0

Israel’s enemies repeatedly call Israel an occupier of Judea and Samaria, although the Jews are indigenous to the land. Given the jihad against it, Israel needs to expand its presence in Judea and Samaria even more in order to preserve its state. At the end of February, the IDF discovered Hamas plans for a mass jihad attack in Judea, Samaria and central Israel. And in mid-February, an Israeli brigadier general warned that released jihadi prisoners would wage jihad and build militias in Judea and Samaria.

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Peloni:  I can not believe that Canada will elect CCP pet Carney.  This will be devastating, for both Canada and Israel.

Peloni:  While you are talking, you are not shooting.  Until this situation changes, Iran will keep its nuclear program intact and ongoing.  The Mullahs respond to only one calculus, and it is based on kinetic, not verbal, action

By Hugh Fitzgerald | April 10, 2025

Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu left Washington without having an assurance from President Trump that the 17% tariff the President placed on Israeli goods would be removed, even though Israel, the day before, had removed all tariffs on American goods. Lowering that tariff will now be the subject of negotiation. But when it came to Gaza, there was no disagreement, no hint of any American dismay with the way the IDF was conducting the war. That was a great relief for the Israelis, who remember the pressures Israel experience during the Biden administration, which tried to direct the IDF’s conduct of its war.

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Peloni:  See breakdown of lawsuit HERE

Israel and Turkey have recently discussed creating a coordination mechanism in Syria in efforts to prevent friction, days after Trump praised Erdogan in his meeting with Netanyahu.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | APRIL 10, 2025

Israeli & Turkish Flags, Created by AI

Days after US President Donald Trump met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and praised Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it appears that Israel and Turkey may be on track for talks about Syria.

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