Erin Molan in Israel  

Peloni:  Erin grasps the true reality around which the entire world dances as she explains that the war with Israel’s enemies in this war is simply about good vs evil.  Her strength, fortitude and unyielding persistence to explain this message in the most basic terms is something missing in the conversation surrounding this war.

December 23, 2024 | 1:34 am | 1 Comment »

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U.S. Super Hornet Shot Down Over Red Sea in Friendly Fire Incident; Aviators Safe  

Peloni:  The US use of force to preserve this conflict in place around the Red Sea and elsewhere comes at a significant expense in prestige, trade, treasure, and blood.  Like releasing terrorists from US jails, this policy provides America and American citizens with no benefits and only extends the costs for all involved.  It is good that these two crewman survived this unforced US error, but the opportunity costs of having maintained the conflict rather than ending it are still not ended, and we may not be so fortunate when the next so called mishap arises due to American complicity in preserving Iran’s hegemony over the Red Sea.

| USNI News | December 21, 2024

This post has been updated with additional information on the timing of the incident.

Two U.S. Navy aviators are safe after their two-seat F/A-18F Super Hornet was shot down by an American ship by mistake, according to a late Saturday statement from U.S. Central Command.

The Super Hornet, assigned to aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), was flying over the Red Sea when guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG-64) fired upon it, according to the CENTCOM statement.

“Both pilots were safely recovered. Initial assessments indicate that one of the crew members sustained minor injuries,” reads a statement from CENTCOM.
“This incident was not the result of hostile fire, and a full investigation is underway.”

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December 22, 2024 | 4:12 pm | Comments »

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Is the Jenin Camp undergoing ‘Gazafication’? – analysis  

Peloni:  The UN, which has funded and administered UNWRA since its creation, could hardly be argued to be an unrelated party to the terror wars against Israel, which is why they will not act in any meaningful way to support Israel or to counter the terrorists with whom their complicity continues to become ever more clear and obvious.

The fact that armed men seem to have taken over a health center and the UN didn’t do anything illustrates the ‘Gazafication’ of Jenin.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | DECEMBER 22, 2024

Mourners attend the funeral of Palestinian Ribhi Shalabi, who was killed in clashes with Palestinian Authority forces, in Jenin camp in the West Bank, December 10, 2024.  (photo credit: RANEEN SAWAFTA/REUTERS)

On December 14 the head of UNRWA wrote that the UN organization “has been forced to suspend services in Jenin Camp, in the northern West Bank, for yet another day, as violent clashes between Palestinian Security Forces and Palestinian armed actors continue. Children remain out of school, and camp residents are unable to access primary healthcare & other critical services.”

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December 22, 2024 | 3:47 pm | 1 Comment »

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Huckabee Assures Israel of Ongoing Support in Its ‘Fight for Freedom’  

Trump’s ambassador-nominee pledges unwavering support for Israel at One Israel Fund gala.

Israfan | December 20, 2024

 

Mike Huckabee, nominated by President-elect Donald Trump as the next U.S. ambassador to Israel, delivered a heartfelt message of solidarity with the Jewish state during the One Israel Fund’s 30th anniversary gala. Speaking to an audience of supporters, Huckabee assured Israel of America’s unwavering commitment.

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December 22, 2024 | 2:49 pm | Comments »

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Netanyahu tells WSJ Israel is ‘not going to leave Hamas in power in Gaza’  

Prime Minister talks about the effect that changing US support had on Israel’s war effort

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony for military combat officers at an army base near Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, October 31, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a recent interview with Wall Street Journal editorial writer Elliot Kaufman, took a firm stance regarding the situation in Gaza.

“I’m not going to agree to end the war before we remove Hamas,” Netanyahu said. “We’re not going to leave them in power in Gaza, 30 miles from Tel Aviv. It’s not going to happen.”

Netanyahu was responding to a question regarding the hostage deal being currently discussed.  He is willing to discuss a temporary ceasefire but remains firmly committed to removing Hamas from Gaza.

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December 22, 2024 | 2:47 pm | 2 Comments »

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The Options We Face in Syria – And What’s Good for Israel  

Eyal Hulata | FDD | Dec 20, 2024

The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria in the face of rebel groups, primarily Hayat Tahrir al-Sham headed by Abu Mohammad Al-Jolani, constitutes a genuine turning point in the Middle East. For years, the murderous Assad regime brutally repressed the gamut of Syria’s minority groups and, with Russian and Iranian support,  managed to repress rebellions and assert its authority. The fall of Assad is another sign of the collapse of the Iranian axis on Israel’s northern front. Israel must now prepare for the new reality that is rapidly emerging in front of our eyes.

It is unclear whether Al-Jolani’s attempts to reunite Syria into a single entity will succeed or whether Syria will continue to be a patchwork of minority groups fighting each other. Israel, for its part, should continue backing the minorities that cooperate with it (especially the Druze and the Kurds) and keep hostile elements away from its border. Israel also did the right thing by exploiting the opportunity to destroy Syria’s remaining military capabilities and ensuring that its air defense capabilities, military equipment, and offensive weaponry do not fall into the hands of extremist forces. In this context, it is important to remember that Assad had an enormous stockpile of chemical weapons, and it can be assumed that the IDF airstrikes did not manage to destroy them all. If this weaponry falls into the hands of Islamist extremists, this could set a dangerous precedent not just for Israel but also for Western countries. In my opinion, before Western countries rush to embrace the emerging government in Syria and its backers in Ankara, they must demand the immediate entry of forces trained to collect all the stockpiles of non-conventional weapons and capabilities, (as the United States and Russia partly did in 2013) — the sooner the better.

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December 22, 2024 | 2:42 pm | Comments »

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“The conversation that every national security professional should be having.”  

Khaled Hassan tweeted his response to this video:

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December 22, 2024 | 11:08 am | 3 Comments »

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Erdogan: Patience Brings Victory  

Peloni:  Empowering Turkey is a very bad strategy.  He seeks not just erecting an Islamist led version of the Ottoman Empire, but also the fall of the entire Western world.

December 22, 2024 | 10:00 am | 1 Comment »

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FOREIGN PODICY | What Does Regime Change in Syria Change?  

Peloni:  Schanzer, May and Gerecht of the FDD question and challenge Doran’s proposed policy regarding his support for Erdogan and Al Golani.  The most important part of the interview begins at about 16min and lasts about half an hour.  Doran continues to dispel the radical nature of Erdogan by stating that Erdogan’s radical statements are  not “useful in understanding what the Turks will do” while emphasizing that Israel and the Turks are the only two US allies in the region with the ability to project power outside their own borders.  Notably, the use of the term ally with regards to Erdogan must be questioned.  Additionally, Schanzer’s remarks at 18min regarding the normalization of a Sunni Jihadi state and its effect and implications on the wider Middle East must be emphasized.

December 22, 2024 | 9:37 am | 1 Comment »

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Biden Frees Men Who Scammed $5 Billion With Over 1 Million Victims  

Peloni:  Elections have consequences…Stolen elections only have bad consequences and the consequences of the 2020 election are still being unraveled today.

The single greatest mass jailbreak of corrupt scammers in history.

by

 

Some people lost their life savings while others lost their dreams in a $900 million fraud that was described as one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history and left behind 1 million victims.

Investors in ‘Zeek’ had taken out loans and mortgages on their homes expecting to get a 125% return on their investment. Victims included the parents of a leukemia patient who were trying to pay for their daughter’s hospital visits. And while some of the money was recovered, people in towns like Lexington, North Carolina, where ZeekRewards had its office, are still suffering.  Zeek’s victims were working class people who didn’t understand what they were getting into.

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December 21, 2024 | 2:51 pm | 5 Comments »

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CAIR Executive Director Celebrates October 7  

Minister Amichai Chikli tweeted the following:

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The time has come to discuss @CAIRNational, its origins, and the hidden ideology behind its self-definition as a “human rights organization.”

Let’s begin – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1994.

The organization has a national headquarters in Washington, D.C. and 32 regional chapters spanning more than 20 states.

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December 21, 2024 | 2:48 pm | 2 Comments »

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Owens and Carlson Are Trying to Move US Foreign Policy Away From Israel  

@AThinksAloud tweeted the following with Lee Smith’s reply below:

Candace and Tucker are targeting Christians with a very consistent, clear message.

Here is the game they’re playing:

Candace expresses views about p-rn that many Christians share, to get them nodding and agreeing with her, so she can then lead them to this conclusion—“And the Jews did this to hurt Christians.”

Tucker will talk about Assad protecting Christians, after previously saying multiple times that Israel and Zionists influence America to wage war on Christians, so you arrive at this same place. “And the Jews did it to hurt Christians.”

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December 21, 2024 | 2:41 pm | 8 Comments »

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Déjà vu? Expecting secularism from an Islamist Radical didn’t work in 1979, why would it work today?  

Peloni:  The Radical Shia were said by the West to be the emancipators of the Shah’s Iran, just as the Radical Sunnis are now being viewed by the West as the emancipators of Assad’s Syria.  Insanity is said to be doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results…unless of course, there is no expectation of a different result.

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December 21, 2024 | 2:31 pm | 2 Comments »

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Israel has the lowest proportion of civilians killed in war compared to soldiers; is it time for a change?  

By Walter E. Block

The average figures regarding this phenomenon are that, apart from the IDF, for every combatant killed in wars, nine civilians meet their maker. That is a one to nine ratio. What of the IDF in Gaza? Here, the ratio is much lower: 1:1.5. That is to say, for every two Hamas terrorists dispatched, only three civilians are slain, not eighteen.

And the ratio would be even lower, far lower, if the IDF did not have to fight building by building, street by street. It would be reduced even the more if Hamas did not commandeer women and children Gazans to be used as shields. They did so by placing rocket, missile, drone launchers in the midst of hospitals, Mosques, schools, residential areas. It would be further decreased if Hamas did not steal the food sent into this unhappy corner of the word by Israel.

Does Israel get credit for the deaths of so few civilians, relatively speaking? To ask this is to answer it, of course not. But a bit of evidence on this matter may not be amiss in this context.

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December 21, 2024 | 2:10 pm | 3 Comments »

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Tatters, Is It Time to Strike Iran’s Nuclear Program?  

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Iran is now more vulnerable to attack than at any time since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979. On October 26, the Israel Air Force struck Iran, destroying its ballistic missile plants and all of its missile defense systems, including the Russian S-300 batteries that protected Tehran. The Iranians as a result are now nearly defenseless against attacks from the air, either by Israeli missiles or by its bombers. The Iranians have promised that in response to that attack, they will “crush” the Zionists, but nearly two months have gone by, and they have done nothing, not even launching a single drone toward the Jewish state. They know perfectly well that if they did launch such a attack, no matter how ineffectual such an effort might be, it would provide Israel with the excuse to let loose with a massive attack on Iran’s nuclear program.

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December 21, 2024 | 11:49 am | 3 Comments »

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Meta’s Oversight Board is stacking the decks against Zionism  

The reality is that in 2018 Meta – which owns Facebook and Instagram – handed over content decisions to an unelected Oversight Board that it cannot fire. Read on.

Meta office   iStock

With the realization that we cant really improve Israel’s PR, comes the realization that social media has the ability to mass influence minds in a way like never before. And against that backdrop, many assume that Mark Zuckerberg, a liberal Jew, runs Meta’s platforms. But the reality is that in 2018 Meta – which owns Facebook and Instagram – handed over content decisions to an Oversight Board—an unelected body that Meta can’t fire – and which maintains global power over what users can and can’t say.

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December 21, 2024 | 11:38 am | 3 Comments »

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German Christmas market attack leaves at least 2 dead, nearly 70 injured  

Peloni:  It is so sad to see what has become of Europe.  The recent embrace of terrorists on their streets will continue to have an impact on the safety and security of their citizens which extends well beyond that of their Jewish minority communities, for whom they have demonstrated gross contempt and utter disregard.

December 21, 2024 | 9:51 am | 6 Comments »

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Israel unveils first domestically constructed quantum computer  

Israel’s quantum computer (Photo: IAI)

Israel’s first domestically built quantum computer is now operational. The 20-qubit quantum computer is the product of a collaborative effort between The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Israel Innovation Authority, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), and Yissum, an academic technology transfer company.

The powerful supercomputer has been developed for both civilian and security-related applications.

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December 20, 2024 | 12:06 pm | 1 Comment »

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