?By Hugh Fitzgerald | Feb 24, 2025

Elder of Ziyon has a series of observations on the funeral, with 50,000 participants, of Hassan Nasrallah, the late, and for the civilized world unlamented, leader of Hezbollah. The state of Lebanon was hardly in evidence at the funeral — no Lebanese flags, no mention of the country of Lebanon, no playing of the Lebanese national anthem — but Israel was. The Jewish state reminded everyone of its powerful presence in the IAF planes flying overhead, whose sonic booms could be heard all over Beirut. More of Elder of Ziyon’s notes on the funeral can be found here: “Anecdotes from Nasrallah’s funeral,” Elder of Ziyon, February 23, 2025:

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Hamas Backtracks on Senior Official’s Statements Regretting Consequences of 2023 Assault on Israel

FDD | Feb 24, 2025

Peloni:  The hostage deal was a grave mistake.  It strengthened Hamas, abandoned strategic Israeli positions, released openly unrepentant butchers on the streets of Israel, and demonstrated to the world that the long abandoned enterprise of stealing Jew is a winning strategy, even for the most abject evil creatures which walk the earth.

A healthy society embraces life. A sick society worships death.

Sarah N. Stern | Feb 24, 2025

How does one adequately mourn a baby of barely 9 months, who was just beginning to crawl and eat solid food? How does one mourn a 4-year-old who loved Batman and had sparkling eyes that carried with them an intense thirst for knowledge? Or a terrified mother who would do anything to shield and protect her children?

Why has the world forgotten about the babies burned in ovens in front of their parents on Oct. 7, 2023? Or about parents brutally executed in front of their children?

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Peloni:  In regards to the question raised by Diane Bederman, What Would King Solomon Do, one of our astute readers raised the point that the answer would have been addressed by Solomon as exemplified in the story of Maharam of Rothenburg.

There is only one reason why the ancient art of ransoming Jews has been reborn in the modern era, and it is because the ransom is being paid.  Instead of responding to this barbaric practice as the Galut Jews were forced to do, Israel should instead hunt down the kidnappers with extreme prejudice, in real time, and with such devastation that it is clear that the raison detre of the Jewish State, namely to act to defend the Jewish people as needed, is being fulfilled.  Instead, paying those who kidnap, murder and abuse our people for their arts of depravity will only see that such depravity becomes a wider industry in our age…and this can not be permitted.

JewishHistory.org

Rabbi Meir ben Baruch, the Maharam of Rothenburg (1225-1293) became the leader of Ashkenazic Jewry and one of the greatest rabbis of all time. We have close to 3,500 legal responses of his. It is just enormous.

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Navigating Hamas barbarism needs knowledge of what the law allows. And Israel’s war is unequivocally within its rights.

Prof. Louis René Beres |   Feb 25, 2025

Immediately following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, a reconfiguration of jihadi groups began to take shape. In ways not yet fully understood, this complex reconfiguration is being accelerated by Israel-Hamas hostage release agreements. But whatever the precise forms of this worrisome reconfiguration, an authoritative distinction will continue to distinguish between terror criminality and law-based counter-terrorism. In essence, this unhanging distinction will concern the universal jihadi embrace of “criminal intent” or mens rea.

Regarding Israel’s inherent right to survival and self-defense, pertinent law is fully clarifying and exculpatory. While the harms inflicted by Israeli counter-terrorism operations are collateral to international law-enforcement, the harms perpetrated on Israeli civilian hostages by Hamas and kindred jihadists are invariably the product of intentional law violation. Inter alia, it was improper for the International Criminal Court to issue coinciding arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and leaders of Hamas. On its face, this ICC-declared symmetry was political and contrived. It was not in any way jurisprudential.

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Peloni:  Much of what Pollard asserts should be done is accurate, but his analysis of Bibi’s career being built on failure after failure is not just harsh, but unbalanced, unfair, and I would suggest inaccurate.  Nonetheless, the time for inspired action is at hand and Bibi should seize the advantage which is now before him.

I offer no apology. These were not just murders; they were debasements, degradations, humiliations. This is how Muslims understand victory. Nothing I write here can remotely approach the deeds that my words describe. I hope you find what you read shocking, revolting, sickening. Good.

ANJULI PANDAVAR | 24 Feb 2025

War is deceit.

For decades you worried about the Palestinian Arabs, spoke up for the Palestinian Arabs, marched for the Palestinian Arabs, you donated to the Palestinian Arabs, you even picked olives for the Palestinian Arabs. My goodness, you wore their t-shirts, waved their flags, even donned their keffiyahs, until one day, without letting you know so you could at least take an aspirin and lie down or something, they went on a butchering spree. Not just any old butchering spree, but the mother of all butchering sprees: they slashed, they burnt, they dismembered, er, people, you remember? They raped, they shot at point blank, they hacked living peoples’ heads off with shovels, they tossed babies into ovens while raping their mothers, yes, its all coming back now…

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Mudar Zahran | X 

Buckle up, and be ready for dramatic changes in the Arab world. The next phase is set to shatter the deep-rooted alliance of China, Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood- with regimes in Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq going down first…

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Peloni:  Israel draws a Red Line in Syria, with the Syrian Druze on the Israeli side.

UN envoy demands Israeli withdrawal: ‘No argument’ for IDF remaining in Syria

All Israel News Staff | Published: February 23, 2025

Israeli soldiers in Syria (Photo: IDF)

With the IDF still occupying a buffer zone in southern Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went a step further on Sunday and demanded that the new Syrian government commit to keeping its forces out of southern Syria.

“We demand full demilitarization of southern Syria from the forces of the new regime. Also, we will not tolerate any threat to the Druze community in southern Syria,” Netanyahu said during a speech at the graduation ceremony for new IDF combat officers.

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Peloni:  A very good and, regretfully, a very necessary article

‘A strong, engaged America is essential for global stability’ says Milstein, ‘Israel’s security is not just a Jewish issue; it is a core American strategic interest’.

By ADAM MILSTEIN | FEBRUARY 23, 2025

“Heil Hitler” salute given chairman of House Committee investigating un-American activities by first witness.  Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Throughout history, political movements, even those not initially antisemitic, have often seen their most radical factions steer them toward antisemitism. In recent years, segments of the American left have embraced militant Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, Critical Race Theory (CRT), Marxist ideologies, and policies that exacerbate societal divisions. This shift has, at times, fostered antisemitic sentiments, as observed in rhetoric from certain college campuses, organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Jewish Voice for Peace, national unions, civil rights groups, and members of the “Squad.” For instance, a recent report from StopAntisemitism revealed that 72% of Jewish college students in the US feel unwelcome, with over half having faced antisemitism.

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Peloni:  This is weak tea telling of what is known about the shots, and has been known for years.  It does nonetheless represent quite an important tide change to see the eminent Daily Mail now reporting these facts.

Where has this kind of reporting been for the last four years as people have been dying and getting sick after submitting to the injections?

Peloni:  Reality is being discussed more and more openly as the cult of God-like perception of Zelensky continues to crumble under closer examination following Trump having described the Ukrainian leader as the less than savory despotic chieftain which has long been clear for anyone willing to weigh the facts fairly.

By Amil Imani| Am Thinker | Feb 24, 2025

When Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky quickly became a global symbol of resistance.

Celebrated as a heroic leader standing up against a powerful foe, he appeared on television screens worldwide, calling for support and unity in the face of the Russian threat.

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Peloni:  Indeed, What would King Solomon Do…See Here for my thoughts on the matter.

Diane Bederman | Feb 23, 2025

What would King Solomon do?

King Solomon is well known from the Bible. The most famous Solomon story of all: two women come before him both claiming to be the mother of a baby. Solomon calls for a sword and says the solution is to cut the baby in two and give one half to each woman. One of the women is amenable to this solution, but the other protests, saying she would rather give the child up than see it killed. Solomon thus determines that the latter woman is the child’s mother. As the final verse of the chapter relates, the story burnished Solomon’s credentials as the possessor of transcendent wisdom: “When all Israel heard the decision that the king had rendered, they stood in awe of the king; for they saw that he possessed divine wisdom to execute justice.” (I Kings 3:28) Read more…

by Gerald A. Honigman

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I just finished watching the spectacular movie, Gladiator II, and was again reminded of the pain and anguish Rome brought to millions of different peoples in its quest for glory and power.

This, of course, hit home regarding the plight of my own beleaguered people due to the insatiable hunger of the Roman Eagle.

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Peloni:  Col. Reisner of the Austrian Military Academy provides a balanced and short, but thorough, review of the Ukrainian War (think of it as Drip,… Drip,… Flood), as well as the impending peace which Trump is advocating, while also indicating the implications for Europe should Trump be successful.

The simple reality is that while it is true that this war should never have been begun, it is also true that Europe, not the US, is ultimately faced with dealing with the errors of their ways, even though these errors were in no small part initiated by the American Russiophobic Neocons.

Peloni:  Levin discusses the establishment of American institutions and the attempt which has been made to defeat the purpose of those institutions, which is to fulfill the will of the American people.

Peloni:  The US sponsorship of terror continues…This must end!

The USAID money train to Gaza is still running.

By Daniel Greenfield | Feb 23, 2025

The disastrous Hamas deal negotiated by Biden and Steven Witkoff is continuing to exact an ugly price.

And the United States is paying for it. Literally.

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