Peloni:  The US must divest itself from all aspects of Qatari influence peddling, including the Qatari propaganda hub better known as Al Jazeera

AJ+ is headquartered in the United States but the Justice Department found it operates “at the direction and control” of the Qatari government.

There’s one challenge in the Middle East that President Donald Trump can easily tackle. During his first term, his administration ordered AJ+, a U.S.-based project of the Al Jazeera Media Network, to register as a foreign agent acting on behalf of Qatar. Al Jazeera remains noncompliant. As the Qatari network faces heat for aiding and abetting Hamas terrorism—including a lawsuit in U.S. Federal Court—the Trump administration should enforce its original order.

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Peloni:  Accountability before the law is an essential aspect of civilized society.  Lacking this, there is little which distinguishes civilization from the very real barbarians who stand at the gates.

By Thomas McInerney LTG, USAF (Ret) & Paul E. Vallely MG, US Army (Ret) | March 23, 2025

By secumem – secumem, CC BY-SA 3.0

Federal authorities eventually confirmed that the laptop belonging to President Biden’s son was authentic. However, national security experts have stated that they stand by the 2020 letter they penned, expressing their concerns about disinformation. Emails from the device, which was left at a Delaware computer shop, showed that the younger Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm where Hunter, 54, sat on the board.

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Peloni:  Recall that in a recent interview, Witkof confessed to having never actually spoken to Hamas, and that he negotiated thru the Qatari’s, even remarking that this made it essential to be able to trust the Qatari’s to mediate with Hamas.  It would of course never occur to the Qatari-enamored Witkof that any deception which took place in his negotiations emanated from the inappropriate trust which he claimed to have for the Hamas allied Qataris who finance, support, and protect Hamas.   Such duplicity is beyond contempt, and beyond believability.

By Christine Douglass-Williams | Mar 24, 2025

Secretary Marco Rubio, with from left, U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad al-Aiban, the Russian president’s foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a meeting together at Diriyah Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 18, 2025. (Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett)

Whether it be Hamas, Iran, or al-Jolani in Syria (who is the latest jihadist to dupe the EU), jihadists cannot be trusted in any deals. They inevitably break them.

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Peloni: Will the Trump administration continue the Biden administration’s support of UNRWA’s immunity from prosecution for its role in October 7?   The answer will reveal a pivotal decision of law, justice and decency.

?? | Update on the massive civil lawsuit filed by over 100 Israeli victims from October 7 against UNRWA: the case is currently awaiting another position paper from the @realDonaldTrump administration, which has requested an extension of time to evaluate its position on this… pic.twitter.com/vleSO74RUA

— Gal G., Adv ?? (@ICK_GalG) March 22, 2025

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Peloni:  This is a vital first step towards realizing and facilitating Trump’s vision of Pal emigration.  Subsequent to the publication of this report, Ofer Winter has been appointed to lead the voluntary migration administration discussed in the report.  See below Stein’s report for more on Ofer Winter.

Israel and US ‘working together’ to advance Gazan migration plan, minister tells cabinet • Ofer Winter tipped to head new Israeli office

By AMICHAI STEIN | JPOST |MARCH 23, 2025

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands during their joint press conference, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Benjamin D. Applebaum)….

US President Donald Trump’s administration was searching for countries willing to absorb and resettle Palestinians from Gaza, Israeli ministers were told during a cabinet meeting held on Saturday.

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Peloni:  The American Judiciary is meant to uphold the laws of the land in the US, and the Legislature is meant to hold the individual justices accountable for their fidelity to the law.  The failure of both of these branches of govt to maintain fidelity with these obligations is now taking the form of blocking the very real need for reform being exercised by the Executive, and as Sen. Shumer recently confessed, the appointed judges involved in this effort were specifically appointed for this very reason, demonstrating the fact that the failure of equitable rulings of constitutionality in America is entirely by design.  The solution to all of this is thru the ballot box, to elect a more responsible legislature which will hold the Judiciary to account rather than adding to its politicization and judicial failures.  Yet, the electoral process in the US, which led to the 2020 election debacle, complete with the support of the failure of Robert’s court, has yet to be reformed.  And notably, any reform which might be proposed to enforce the concept of Consent of the Governed will itself be faced with the mail-storm of “Progressive justice” now blocking ongoing reforms in the US.  So the US stands at a point in which systemic corruption is actively being maintained by the corrupt activists, which will act as intended to block any redress which reduces their hold on power in the US…very similar to the Judicial standoff now ongoing in Israel…and thru it all, Chief Justice Roberts continues to fail in his duty to uphold the Constitution as he remains silent on the confessed weaponizing of the court system in the US.

By Amil Imani | Am Thinker | Mar 21, 2025

Image: Public domain.

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Israeli flag at Masada Public Domain

The Ottoman Empire ruled Palestine from 1517 until WWI, relinquishing the sovereignty of the territory to the Allies in the Treaty of Sèvres of August 10, 1920. This enabled the Jews to pursue their historic claim to Palestine contends Dore Gold, historian and former Israeli ambassador. The British did not give Palestine to the Jews; “it was a de jure recognition of a situation that existed de facto,” asserts historian Isiah Friedman. They assumed that the Arabs and Jews would be able to live together in harmony and that the Arabs would profit from this arrangement. But the British acknowledged an overriding issue: The Jews had the more compelling and credible case, and that this was sui generis.

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Michael Ordman | Mar 23, 2025

In the 23rd Mar 25 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• Hundreds of Syrian Druze visit Israel for the first time since 1948.
• An Israeli discovery advances research into cures for genetic diseases.
• Judea and Samaria leaders are welcomed in the UAE.
• High school students launch Israel’s largest network of satellites.
• Google’s $32 billion purchase of Wiz is the largest in Israeli history.
• The Jewish festival of Purim was full of surprises.

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All Israel News Staff | Published: March 23, 2025

By Amos Ben Gershom / Government Press Office of Israel, CC BY-SA 3.0

Following a three-hour-long discussion, ministers of Netanyahu’s government voted today to express no confidence in Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara.

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Peloni:  Erdogan has more lives than a colony of cats.  Hence, unfortunately, it is unlikely that he will not survive this most recent democratic outrage, even as the protests persist.

By Andrea Widburg | Am Thinker | March 23, 2025

Last week, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, Turkey’s Islamist president, arrested a political rival. That sparked several days of protest, and, today, it’s seemingly culminated with protestors invading the presidential palace. The big question is whether this ends with a brutal response or the end of Erdo?an’s reign. Obviously, I have no answer to that question, but I can provide a little, very superficial background to help make some sense of what’s happening in Turkey today.

Today’s Turkey is the remnant of the once formidable Ottoman Empire, which, at its peak in 1683, before it was beaten back at the Gates of Vienna, controlled vast swaths of central Europe and the Middle East for hundreds of years:

Image by Chamboz. CC B-SA 4.0.

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Peloni:  It continues to be revealing how well the Leftist Juristocracy in Israel is being used as a model around which the Progressives in the US are subverting executive authority. Relatedly, Levin raises a pivotal point in his Mar 22 monologue as he raise the question of whether Justices John Roberts and Amy Comey Barret will be part of the revolution which puts an end to the representative govt in America.

Mar 22: Levin discusses the ideological roots of Progressivism as it relates to the ongoing revolution against the will of the people and representative govt, which is taking place via the rulings by progressive judges which were recently appointed by the Biden administration for exactly this purpose.

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Celebrating the work of Linda Goudsmit

by Bruce Deitrick Price | March 23, 2025

I am thrilled to post education reformer Bruce Deitrick Price’s podcast transcript, March 12, 2025, Let’s Fix Education: Episode 193, Big Picture Thinking:

TRANSCRIPT:

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To celebrate Ramadan 2025, and published on the Muslim holy day of Friday for double points, here is Jalal Tagreeb’s review of a recent, tortuous work of Islamic apologetics. Jalal himself is a former Muslim apologist who lost his faith after being exposed to Islam’s flaws in debates with non-Muslims. He now champions secularism and freethinking. His story and analysis of several popular Islamic arguments can be read in his Jihad by Word series, published in the Freethinker in 2024.

by Jalal Tagreeb | Mar 21, 2025

Seizure of the Banu Qurayza stronghold. Illustration from 1808 edition of Mirza Muhammad Rafi Bazil’s Hamla-i Haydari, a versified telling of the life of Muhammad and his first four successors. By Muhammad Rafi’ B?zil – Bibliothèque nationale de France, Public Domain

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