Take LAND from Hamas while they hold hostages!
Thank you @EVKontorovich for bringing this brilliant idea into the conversation, and to Ben Shapiro for highlighting it.
?”If holding the hostages were to result in more territory being annexed by Israel with the permission and… pic.twitter.com/8G6ZbqTGEW
— Etana Hecht ?? ?? (@etanadeeIL) December 4, 2024
Peloni: The anticipated withdrawal of forces from Southern Lebanon is a serious loss of ground taken at significant costs, but if this arrangement leads to some arrangement in which the real threat from Lebanon is addressed, namely Iran, by extension the elimination of the Iranian threat will be simultaneously addressed.
A road sign in Maroun al-Ras
There is no point in analyzing whether to support or reject Israel’s ceasefire agreements with Hizbullah: they are a done deal. It is clear that given the IDF’s military achievements, it would have been desirable for the agreement to approximate closer to the far-reaching expectations many of us had developed. We would have been happy if the agreement had established a buffer zone, prohibited the return of Lebanese border village residents to their homes, and required Hizbullah to disarm, per UN Security Council Resolution 1559 of 2004. On the other hand, what we achieved is not insignificant, and the agreement is very different from Resolution 1701, on which it is ostensibly based.
Peloni: As Dr. Kedar indicates, there are significant differences between the existing capabilities of the Jihadi radical rebels and the Iranian Mullahs. Whereas Israel will need to remain dilligent against the rising threat emanating from the Turkish backed rebels, the elimination of Iran from Syria will be an enormous victory, and the resulting power shift will lead to both the diminishment of Iran’s prowess in the region, as well as an increased interest in advancing their nuclear program. No matter the outcome in Syria, the threat emanating from Iran must be eliminated with all possible speed.
By Moshe Phillips
[Moshe Phillips is national chairman of Americans For A Safe Israel (www.AFSI.org), a leading pro-Israel advocacy and education organization.]
The Australian government’s refusal to grant a visa to former Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked is outrageous. It’s also incredibly hypocritical.
Australian Immigration Minister Tony Burke has said that Shaked will not be allowed to enter Australia, because she was strongly critical of the Palestinian Arabs in the aftermath of the October 7 massacres and rapes.
Peloni: The ceasefire will only result from an Israeli surrender to return to October 6, or with the defeat of the Mullah regime in Tehran. Any attempt to side step these realities results in mutually exclusive positions which are acceptable to either Israel or Iran, which is precipitated on the presence or absence of an Iranian terror army on Israel’s border.
Fiery but mostly peaceful ceasefire continues.
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The Biden ceasefire for Lebanon fell apart within 4 days. Officially the ceasefire is holding even as fighting continues between Israel and the Hezbollah Islamic terrorist group.
When is a ceasefire not a ceasefire, but still officially a ceasefire? When it’s a fiery but mostly peaceful ceasefire with terrorists.
Arlene Kushner | December 5, 2024
We would not expect a sense of quiet across the world, even in the best of times. There are always places of unrest – of political instability, war, etc. But it somehow seems that this is particularly the case now, at least from where I sit here is Israel. From day to day, situations shift, and even among the informed there is scant agreement in assessing the meaning of these shifts.
Looking on the positive side from the midst of the turmoil, there is hope for change that ultimately brings a better world. Change is necessary, but it’s a very hard haul.
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Let us focus here on Gaza, a site of great upheaval, where we are continuing to weaken the Hamas presence.
Peloni: This is an important analysis by Sundance. Whereby he explains the context for many choices already made by Trump.
Sundance| December 5, 2024
Anytime the professional leftists lose anything, they immediately become victims. Whether defeated in the battle of ideas (retreat to safe spaces), defeated in the field of pop culture, or even defeated linguistically through debate (words are violence). Whenever the professional left loses, they immediately become victims. It’s what they do.
The professional political left, newest version from the Chicago spawn of Dohrn/Ayers, has been waging full combat Lawfare via a weaponized government for the past 16 years. However, Obama/Plouffe were defeated, “their kind” rose again and won the 2024 U.S. Presidential election.
Vile Jew hatred has reared its ugly head in Montreal which has endured the most anti-Semitic hate crimes of any city in North America. Since the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre in Israel, anti-Semitic incidents in Canada have increased by an astounding 670%. Fueled by a progressive leftist agenda, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has done next to nothing to stem the anti-Semitism.
Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney had remarked that ‘in the wake of the Holocaust… firewalls were thrown up, and the bonfires of antisemitism were for a time reduced to flickering embers. But those firewalls, weakened by the passage of time and willful neglect, have been breached. Cloaked in the armour of free speech, fuelled by hate and stoked by the oxygen of the internet and social media, those fires now burn out of control.’
Peloni: Hazem Alghabra paints a picture in which there is little hope for the Assad’s regime in Syria unless the US enters the war to achieve this outcome, and that the Rebels, despite their radical Islamist nature, are currently gaining popular support as they move against Assad.
By Walter E. Block
Starvation is a particularly cruel way to die. There is no good way to pass away before your time, but this must rank amongst one of the worst. A bullet to the head ends your life with a lot of pain (I infer) but it is over in a matter of seconds. Ditto for a bomb, a missile, a drone. But starvation, especially of the slow variety is vicious, nasty, depraved, uncivilized.
Let us stipulate, however, that this weapon is legitimate in war when used against combatants. There is a plethora of examples when one army blockaded another in an attempt to bring the latter to its knees through surrender. For example, during the American Revolutionary War against Great Britain, Militia companies trapped the British in Boston. They attempted to starve out the redcoats while the nearby frozen waters would not allow the UK navy to supply them.
Just because it’s an anti-Israel narrative doesn’t mean you have to believe it. Opinion.
Naomi Kahn Hezki Baruch
Naomi Linder Kahnis the Director of the International Division of Regavim, an organization dedicated to preserving Israel’s sovereignty and protecting its resoruces.
The Umm al-Hiran case underscores a critical truth: Manipulation and misinformation have fueled the anti-Israel narrative for years. The real facts, upheld repeatedly by Israel’s courts, are clear:
Until recently, and for many decades, a handful of Bedouin squatters belonging to the Abu al-Qiyan clan blocked the development of a new, legal Israeli community in the Negev; holding the town of Dror [Hiran] and the 2000 families who should be living there hostage. They held successive Israeli governments over a barrel, constantly upping their demands and spreading defamatory accusations of racism and dispossession.
All American universities must end campus antisemitism or they will lose accreditation, President-elect Donald Trump promised during a rally against antisemitism in Washington.
To “defeat antisemitism and defend Jewish citizens in America,” Trump said he would inform every college president that if they do not “end antisemitic propaganda,” they would lose accreditation and federal support.
By Sha’i ben-TBy Sha’i ben-Tekoaekoa | Am Thinker | December 5, 2024
Images: Christians kidnapped by Muslim Barbary pirates (1817). Public domain.
On November 27, 2024, at four in the morning in the Holy Land, the government of Israel agreed to cease attacking the Shiite Muslims in southern Lebanon. At the end of the speech explaining the plan to the people of Israel, PM Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel has a “sacred mission of releasing our hostages,” using religious language befitting a region famous for its religions.
Indeed, the oldest book still in use in the world, the Jewish Bible, contains arguably the oldest record of hostage-taking. Abraham, the progenitor of the Jewish people, had a nephew named Lot. Lot was living not in Sodom but nearby when an alliance of five communities warred against an alliance of four. During the fight, Lot was kidnapped (Genesis 14:14-15).
Peloni: This is a very important video with David Wurmser. Wurmser explains that Israel must pursue a quick completion of eliminating the Iranian threat so it can shift to dealing with the Islamist threats emerging in the post-Ayatollah world. He once again addresses the feckless nature of Sisi’s ‘alliance’ with Israel while also noting that the Abraham Accords partners are not willing to openly support Israel in a meaningful way. He explains that by quickly bringing the regime in Tehran to a speedy end, Israel will be far more successful move for Israel and will likely result in far more substantive peace treaties for Israel than making strategic sacrifices to placate potential peace partners.
Peace thru strength leads peace, while peace thru weakness leads to war.
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‘Western Civilization Will Collapse’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an: The West’s Progress Is Built on Blood, Tears, and Genocide; Western Civilization Will Collapse, Our Divine and Humane Civilization Will Flourish pic.twitter.com/98pTJg7qPY
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) December 4, 2024
Peloni: The claim made below suggesting that there is no significant military presence by Hamas in Gaza while Israel continues its “relentless seige” demonstrates a clear bias on Boulos’ part to preserve what remains of Hamas going forward, as it is in fact against Hamas that Israel’s actions in the North are directed against. For such a key member of Trump’s inner circle to hold such an ill informed opinion, is particularly concerning. Recalling how impossible it was for Trump to fire his son in law during his first term, this presents an importantly worrisome outlook for Trump’s administration, even with the many important allies of Israel staffing many key positions. Trump should not have picked Boulos.
EXCLUSIVE. Massad Boulos, Donald Trump’s new Middle East advisor and father of one of the president’s sons-in-law, reveals in an interview @LePoint his vision for the region, which shakes things up in #Lebanon, #Gaza, #Israel & #Iran .
A THREAD
SON-IN-LAW. Massad Boulos, 53, is a Lebanese-American businessman who built his fortune selling cars in Nigeria. He was thrust into Donald Trump’s inner circle after his son Michael Boulos married Tiffany Trump, one of the US president’s daughters, in 2022.
VISION. «The vision is to achieve lasting peace in the Middle East », says Massad Boulos in his exclusive interview with @LePoint, describing a region that « has been suffering for a long time ». « We have four years of work and we hope to achieve something that will be sustainable for the future and generations to come. »
