Peloni:  Mike Benz explores a granular discussion of the good and the bad aspects of Rubio’s reforms within the State Dept.

Janet Levy:  Two Pakistani-born Texas legislators, Suleman Lalani and Salman Bhojani, have introduced significant legislation to turn your state into an Islamic stronghold.

Is anyone in Texas doing anything about this?

Diane Weber Bederman | April 23, 2025

We are told to pander to Islam so we are not accused of Islamophobia!

There are approximately 8 billion people on earth and almost 2 billion Muslims-one quarter of the world population. And 2.4 billion Catholics/Christians. Many researchers project that Muslims will outnumber Christians by the year 2050. There are 193 countries. Muslims are the majority in 49 countries which means these countries are ruled by sharia Law.

Muslims now live all over the world in countries that are based on the Judea/Christian ethic: all people are born with equal intrinsic value, all life is sacred and we have free will– which is anathema to Islam.

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Peloni:  Martin Sherman discusses many topics beginning with the Azerbaijan’s unique relationship with Israel.  Sherman voices skepticism about the potential of Azerbaijan in successfully mediating with Turkey due to the deeply seeded hatred which Erdogan holds for Israel.  He also explains that the Abraham Accords will not likely be useful to deter or stop Iran, and that only a significant and material threat, if not kenetic action, is all that will deter/stop Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear bomb.  He also notes that attacking the local dams in Iran, exploiting the significant water deficit in Iran, would likely bring about a widespread response against the Mullahs by the Iranian people, while also noting that regime change is the only long term solution for Iran’s nuclear ambition.  Sherman expresses his great concerns about the growing tension in Israel between the anti-Bibi and the not-anti-Bibi divide, explaining that the refusal of the anti-Bibi crowd to admit defeat while preferring to destabilize the nation to the advantage of Israel’s enemies. He challenges that open calls for sedition from significant individuals with impunity, and selective application of the law is not something which is sustainable, representing a very great threat to the state and society of Israel.

President calls to remember Holocaust ‘with appropriate study, prayers & commemoration’

All Israel News Staff | Published: April 24, 2025

President Trump at the Israel Museum. Jerusalem May 23, 2017.  (Photo by U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv – President Trump at the Israel Museum. Jerusalem May 23, 2017 President Trump at the Israel Museum. Jerusalem May 23, 2017, CC BY 2.0)

U.S. President Donald Trump released an official proclamation on Wednesday evening announcing the observance of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, paying tribute to the memory of the six million Jews and millions of other innocent victims murdered by the Nazis during World War II.

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Peloni:  Hypocrisy turned liberals into totalitarians, colleges into war zones, and court rooms into political rallies.  Indeed, the loss of power by the elites brought them to use every aspect of society against the consent of the governed so as to maintain their control over the masses, only to reveal the very real gross perversions which have come to inhabit and corrupt Western society and Western values towards this purpose.  Only thru a process of diligence and determination by the people themselves might the full measure of this tragedy be undone, and much of the heavy lifting in this process is still yet to be performed.  Notably, conserving the importance of the past amidst the unveiling disorder inherent in the age of emerging AI was always going to be a challenge, but for this to be the moment in which the rule of the elites was to be restricted to the will of the people has presented an altogether different and daunting aspect to this equation.  Conserving the foundations of the past in combination with the essential and beneficial innovations of the present is how societies progress into the future without losing track of the values and influences which formed the ties which bound them as one.  So, while the war with the liberals-turned-totalitarians is not yet over, it is vital that the earth shaking innovations of AI be adopted in such a way as to support the foundations of the Western world, even as this foundation is being resurrected.  Failing to do so will only serve to complete the goals pursued by the liberals-turned-totalitarian-hypocrites when they killed liberalism as Daniel so brilliantly describes below.

Liberalism is dead and liberals killed it

Daniel Greenfield | April 23, 2025

A handful of years after they cheered a president flanked by armed soldiers declaring half the countries to be enemies of the state, liberals are denouncing President Trump as a dangerous authoritarian. The misinformation censors of yesteryear have suddenly discovered that they love free speech and the men who filled D.C. with federal troops worry about the right to protest.

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They’re firing them from civilian homes. Every house, every single piece of infrastructure that is used in Gaza is used to kill Jews. Each and every single house.

Peloni:  Trump simultaneously ends DEI and re-installs the requirement from his first term of foreign donations to US colleges, the latter having been cancelled by Biden.  A return to meritocracy and financial transparency in US centers of education.

By Aaron Gifford | NTD News |  April 23, 2025

President Donald Trump signs an Executive Order to dismantle the Department of Education, Thursday, March 20, 2025, in the East Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

President Donald Trump on April 23 announced additional education reform measures that he said will promote transparency and meritocracy over diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; boost technology and innovation; and improve learning environments.

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Peloni:  Trump’s Turkey policy will be seen to be pivotal to the stability of the region, particularly if he is successful in dealing with Iran’s nuclear program.  He should not be securing this rogue nation with the means to further expand its borders at the expense of its neighbors, and allowing him to return to the F35 program will do exactly this.

Sinan Ciddi & Jonathan Schanzer | Apr 23, 2025
(Photo by The White House from Washington, DC – President Trump at the G20, Public Domain)

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan recently declared Ankara would purchase an estimated $20 billion in American spare parts, ammunition, and electronics for its military. Turkey wants more than just spare parts. It wants to be re-admitted to the small club of countries that can purchase the advanced F-35 jet fighter. Turkey was booted from the program in 2019 for purchasing the Russian-made S-400 air defense system, defying explicit warnings from the Trump administration.

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We must never forget—not only the horrors of the past but the miracle of the present. and how they are connected. Because If a sovereign Jewish state had existed in the 1930s, millions of Jews could have been saved.

Avi Abelow | Apr 24, 2025

Today, on Yom HaShoah, we stop everything.

Sirens will wail across Israel. Cars will halt in the middle of highways. People will stand still in offices and supermarkets.

An entire nation freezes—for two minutes of sacred silence.

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By Christine Douglass-Williams | April 22, 2025

I wrote in January: “Russia and Iran have signed a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement, ‘pledging to promote a new fair and sustainable multipolar world order.’ The two countries have been staunch allies in Russia’s war with Ukraine, with Iran supplying Russia with drones.

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Peloni:  This is a very important first step.  I agree with CHD’s call to have the access to these shots prohibited.  Healthy children face no harms from the Covid shots, making every adverse event suffered by a child easily avoided.   The long wait for what should seem to be a preliminary step to further restriction, if not a recall, has been disappointing and worrisome.

According to the two people who spoke to Politico on condition of anonymity, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has advocated internally to have the CDC stop recommending COVID-19 vaccines for children, arguing there is little scientific evidence that the shot provides a benefit to babies and young children.

by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. | The Defender | April 23, 2025

This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website.

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is considering pulling the COVID-19 vaccine from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) list of recommended vaccines for children, two people familiar with the situation told Politico.

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Peloni: Israel must ignore the call of the international community to fuel Hamas’s terror war.  Smotrich is again quite correct.  End any support of the enemy, and force them to choose between surrender and obliteration.  There can be no third alternative offered to them.

‘Hamas will have to be defeated under the next government,’ Yair Lapid says

All Israel News Staff | Published: April 23, 2025

Photo by Yair Lieberman – Own work CC BY-SA 4.0

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich hinted that he would resign from the government if Israel resumed humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, following a clash over the issue with the IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir during the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday evening.

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Peloni:  Is Zelensky posturing for a better deal?  I have argued that he is not.  He just can’t be seen to negotiate with Russia, so the peace deal will go nowhere.

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