Peloni:  This nonsensical story should have been expected, as Lebanon remains to be the special case where even the most ardent supporters of Israel seem captivated with the notion that Hezbollah might be seen to be an honest broker with which to negotiate, despite the preposterous nature of this conclusion.  Indeed, the lack of clarity displayed while Israel is trying to normalize with a nation which is controlled by a terror organization established to destroy Israel would seem to be beyond dispute.  Notably, while Israel is in effect negotiating with Hezbollah again, it should recalled that the Maritime deal was forced on Israel such that gas fields were ceded to Hezbollah as a presumable condition of peace with Lebanon, yet war broke out less than a year later.  Hence, Israel should insist that based on the vitiation of the maritime deal terms, as a precondition to any negotiation with Hezbollah or Lebanon that those gas field should be returned to Israel before anything further is discussed.

13 points on the border have never been resolved, including strategic areas

All Israel News Staff | Published: March 12, 2025

Israel-Lebanon border By US Dept.of State. – Library of Congress, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=94223687

Israel is seeking normalization with Lebanon, an Israeli political official told media outlets on Wednesday, after representatives from Israel, Lebanon, the United States, and France agreed to form working groups to discuss several outstanding disputes.

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Peloni: The appointment of Koch-allied anti-Trump Daniel Davis to become Trump’s Deputy Director of National Intelligence on Mission Integration is very disturbing.  Davis’ perspectives on a whole host of topics, including Israel, are completely contrary to that of President Trump, as explained in the Jewish Insider article linked below.  Beyond the JI report, Davis’ lack of respect for Trump, personally, is clear.  It should be noted that just one month ago, Davis made his lack of respect for Trump quite clear as he described Trump as being disconnected, manipulated and “highly influenced by Netanyahu” while analyzing Trump’s Gaza Emigration proposal with fellow anti-Trumper Chas Freeman.  Given the fact that Davis’ will play a key role on DNI Gabbard staff, while recalling Gabbard’s own disturbing positions on Israel over the years (here, here, & here), it begs the question as to from where the suggestion to appoint Davis might have arisen.  To be honest, I can’t believe Trump would appoint Davis to any role if these facts were known to him.

Click on link for article:

SCOOP | @DanielLDavis1, a senior fellow at the @defpriorities think tank with a record of strident criticism of Israel, has been tapped as a deputy director of national intelligence, three sources told Jewish Insider. @marcrod97 reports:https://t.co/kzFAuLU7yA

— Jewish Insider (@J_Insider) March 12, 2025

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Peloni:  Every rational person, and certainly every Zionist, should recognize the tragedy which was manufactured by forcing the Pals to remain in close quarters to the Jews of Israel, particularly as the Pals were weaponized by the internationally funded efforts of UNRWA towards the goal of slaughtering the Jews.  Trump has made an important proposal, which is based on history and law, which supports the efforts to let the Gazans choose to leave, and it is vital that this proposal be supported by every voice which has any support for either the Jews in Israel or the Pals in Gaza, not to mention the Pals in J&S.

Levi Eshkol and Yitzhak Rabin, both of the Labor Party, were on board decades ago to offer freedom for Palestinian Arabs to emigrate elsewhere.

Moshe Phillips

Levi Eshkol and Yitzhak Rabin By Boris Carmi /Meitar Collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, CC BY 4.0

Critics of the U.S. plan for rebuilding Gaza say that the idea of residents relocating to other countries is part of a plot by the Israeli right to carry out “ethnic cleansing.” But it turns out that it was the Israeli left, and not the Israeli right, which was the first to organize emigration from Gaza.

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By Sha’i ben-Tekoa | Am Thinker | Mar 11, 2025

Image by Michael Foran. CC BY 2.0. 

In his inaugural speech as president, Joe Biden said, “The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer,” adding that it faced “a rise in political extremism, white supremacy, [and] domestic terrorism…” That might have been the first symptom of his dementia.

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Peloni:  Matt Williams provides a good analysis of the situation which has arisen out of Ukraine’s refusal to support Trump’s peace initiatives, as well as the shifting strategic opportunity which might have simultaneously motivated Ukraine to finally agree to Trump’s demand while also leading Putin to be reluctant to do, particularly with only a 30 day pause in fighting.

Peloni:  Highly recommended video.  Yishai Fleisher & Regavim’s Naomi Kahn discuss a conference covering the issue of Trump’s plan for Gaza and how realistic and the consequences of acting on Trump’s vision for Gaza.

Point 1: Don’t Support a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

Leonard Grunstein |   Mar 11, 2025

Protests in Thomas Paine Park against the detention of Palestinian activist and Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil. By SWinxy – Own work, CC BY 4.0

It is a privilege to study at a college, university, graduate school or professional school in the US. Non-citizens afforded this opportunity are indeed fortunate.

Although many of the institutions of higher learning tout their devotion to academic freedom, the current scenes on campus bear no resemblance to genuine critical thinking and the civil exchange of ideas. Moreover, academic freedom does not mean students, professors or staff members are free to violate the law or engage in proscribed behavior, inconsistent with the code of conduct at the particular institution. This includes not harassing, intimidating or assaulting fellow students or staff, or committing vandalism.

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By Seth Frantzman | March 11, 2025

Members of the SDF Internal Security Forces during a campaign in the countryside of Deir Ezzor in February. (SDF)

On March 10, Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), signed an agreement with Syria’s interim President Ahmad al Sharaa. The deal outlines a plan to integrate the SDF and other civil and military institutions in northeastern Syria into the new Damascus administration over the next nine months. The effort will include responsibility for border crossings, an airport, and oil and gas fields, the agreement states.

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Despite funding outrageously cartoonish progressive projects, lighting money on fire isn’t even close to being USAID’s most destructive activity.<

2nd Smartest Guy in the World | Mar 11, 2025

by Matthew D. Palumbo

DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 27JAN11 – George Soros, Chairman, Soros Fund Management, USA, is captured during the session ‘Redesigning the International Monetary System: A Davos Debate’ at the Annual Meeting 2011 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 27, 2011.  Copyright by World Economic Forum  swiss-image.ch/Photo by Michael Wuertenberg

The recent attention on USAID and explosive revelations on where its spending is really going surely comes as an early Christmas gift for Rand Paul when it comes time for him to prepare his annual Festivus report.

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Peloni:  A one month ceasefire?  Just as Kursk is collapsing?  There would seem to be little to entice Russia to accept this offer, particularly following the Ukrainian attack on Moscow.  We will see how Putin will respond, but it does not seem likely that he would accept this ceasefire offer without some significant advantage offered to them to entice them to accept the one month pause.

Prospects for a successful outcome are minimal

Peloni:  Dershowitz is right in announcing that American Jewry is on a dangerous trajectory, and there needs to be a change in Jewish leadership, a change in Jewish attitudes and a change in priorities, and that Jewish weakness must be replaced with Jewish strength.  But as Fleisher suggests, one of the most pivotal changes in attitudes is the support and advocacy for a second Palestinian Arab state, and one of the most pivotal changes in leadership should be to have Dershowitz and other Jewish leadersacknowledge thatthe support for yet another terror state in the Middle East, particularly one which would be carved from the Jewish Lands entitled to the Jewish People in the state of Israel, is beyond the pale of reason, obligation or sanity.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | Mar 11, 2025

I was amazed when I listened at NPR on March 10, because on every newscast all day long up until 4 p.m. — I tuned into NPR on every hour, just to check — the first or second story was not about the more than 1,000 Alawite civilians murdered in Latakia, or the massacres in Sudan, or the Russian missiles just shot into Ukraine, or the budget battle in Congress, or the election of Mark Carney as prime minister of Canada, or tariffs on Mexico, China and Canada. No, that first (or second) story was about Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student at Columbia who had just had his green card revoked, and had been taken into custody by ICE, which plans to deport him. Why this hypertrophied interest in the status of this one rather unappealing fellow, I wondered.

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Peloni:  Ukraine needs to demonstrate their conviction for peace.  To be honest, Zelensky’s demonstrations have thus far been demonstrative of just the opposite, making any pretense to the contrary seem to be a hard sell to all but the naive and those predisposed to ignore his obstructionist actions thus far.

Sundance | March 11, 2025

The information from Secretary of State Marco Rubio looks good.  During his flight to Saudi Arabia, Secretary Rubio answered a few questions about the U.S. delegation expectations of the meeting with Ukraine officials.

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by Robert Williams  •  Gatestone Institute  •  March 11, 2025

At the latest UN Climate Conference, COP29, in November 2024, developing countries apparently demanded payments of $1.3 trillion annually from developed countries. Notably, China retained its status as a “developing country” at the COP29, thereby exposing the enormous extent of the climate hoax. According to the International Energy Agency, “China’s total CO₂ emissions exceeded those of the advanced economies combined in 2020, and in 2023 were 15% higher.” In addition, while China continues to build more coal-fired power plants than the rest of the entire world combined, the West continues on the path of deindustrialization in the name of the climate. Pictured: A steel mill with a coal-fired generator in Hebei, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

• Perhaps the climate hoax is actually not about saving the environment? What is it, then?

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Initial Report

Peloni:  The barbarity and vicious display of subjugating, dehumanizing, and slaughtering their Alawhites subjects has removed the thin veneer which should have always been quite transparent to the true nature of the Al-Sharaa and his ilk.  Syria remains a failed state, complete with the emerging terror lord, even as he promises peace and inclusion to the regret of anyone foolish enough to believe the facts which are obvious and apparent.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | Mar 10, 2025

In Latakia, the stronghold of the Alawites, jihadists belonging to Ahmed Al-Sharaa’s government and unaffiliated Sunni gunmen as well have been fighting with the locals, and so far have murdered 340 Alawite civilians. These civilians are being held collectively responsible for the atrocities carried out by Bashar Assad, who is himself an Alawite and relied on his Alawite-officered army to suppress the Sunnis during Syria’s long civil war, that lasted from 2011 to the end of 2024. More on the fighting in Latakia can be found here: “Over 340 civilians killed by Syrian government-linked gunmen – report,” Reuters, March 8, 2025:

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