The US demand that “…air force bombardment is out of the question, even in areas …from which Hamas has attacked the IDF,” gave Herzi Halevi the opportunity to open a new front against the IDF ground forces. He started using Hamas as his proxy force to thin out the IDF ground forces.

ANJULI PANDAVAR | 24 Jan 2025

“The rules are there to protect us from ourselves,” not from Hamas.

For the past year, especially, the Biden Administration’s antics will have filled the rear-view mirrors of many social critics in the United States. It is perhaps understandable if, in such critics’ assessment of Israel, the role of the Biden Administration appears larger than it actually was, relative to factors not necessarily that prominent in the United States. Caroline Glick and American social critic, Victor Davis Hanson, agree on the Biden Administration’s role in the Israel-Gaza War. Hanson says:

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Peloni:  The release of these butchers are a disgraceful reproach on the American people by their own govt which has manipulated Israel to set free these criminals who should instead be sitting on Death Row in some US institution awaiting the ultimate penalty for their savagery against their American citizen victims.  The shame and ignominy of having released these and other such barbarians will hang about the necks of those responsible, as the future victims of these savages will come to cry out for the very retribution which should have been finalized following the cries of their original victims which are described below.  The shameful outrage over this undoing of justice and morality is simply overwhelming as will be the subsequent costs for having done so.

It is with the greatest sense of outrage that anyone would allow, much less demand, the release of these terrorists.

AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL / www.afsi.org / info@afsi.org / 212-828-2424

NEWS RELEASE: January 24, 2025

NEW YORK –  The Palestinian Arab terrorists who are being set free as part of the Gaza deal include killers of 23 Americans (not 16, as was initially reported).

Americans For A Safe Israel (AFSI) is urging President Donald Trump to demand that the Palestinian Authority surrender the terrorists for prosecution in the United States. The complete and updated list, as of January 24:

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by Rafael Medoff

In the spring of 1994, Rice was director of Africa Affairs for the National Security Council, under President Bill Clinton. Reports began pouring in about machete-wielding militias of the Hutu tribe in Rwanda carrying out nationwide massacres of the country’s ethnic minority, the Tutsis.

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Peloni:  Highly recommended article.  Caroline Glick presents an important explanation for why Trump must turn away from the failed tactic employed by the Biden administration forcing Israel to surrender and instead to back Israel’s need to win this war.  Doing so will leave the region more stable, and as a consequence Americans will be safer.  As I have noted previously, America’s strength in the region lies with a strong Israel, and to do this, Israel must fulfill its war aims before bringing this war to a conclusion.

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Peloni:  FM Saar reiterates that Israel won’t accept Hamas governing in Gaza under any circumstances or format.

Following earlier reports that Steve Witkoff, who negotiated the Surrender Deal with Hamas, would be leading the negotiating team with Iran, Trump clarified that this would not be the case.  Read more here:

https://jewishinsider.com/2025/01/trump-denies-witkoff-will-lead-diplomatic-efforts-with-iran/

by Alan M. Dershowitz  •  Gatestone Institute •  January 17, 2025

The decision by the Israeli government to make significant concessions to the Hamas kidnappers should never be called a “deal.” It was an extortion. Would you call it a deal if somebody kidnapped your child and you “agreed” to pay ransom to get her back? Of course not. The kidnapping was a crime. And the extortionate demand was an additional crime. Pictured: A Hamas terrorist holds two of the many Israeli children that Hamas murdered, or abducted and brought as captives to the Gaza Strip, on October 7, 2023. (Image source: Hamas/X [Twitter])

• The decision by the Israeli government to make significant concessions to the Hamas kidnappers should never be called a “deal.” It was an extortion…. The kidnapping was a crime. And the extortionate demand was an additional crime.

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Peloni:  Here are two important essays by Fitzgerald which give proper context to the report of Carlson having chosen not to applaud the return of the hostages during Trump’s inaguration speech, something which was made all the more apparent given his prominent seating and the fact that everyone else present joined in the standing ovation.  Beyond what Fitzgerald relates, recall also Carlson statement about being “shocked by how little they care about our country” in reference to Ben Shapiro and others pro-Israel supporters in the US.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | Jan 22, 2025

During his years on Fox News, the one word that was almost never mentioned on his 8-9 p.m. show was “Israel.” Carlson knew that many conservatives In his audience were Israel supporters, and he didn’t wish to alienate them. But after he was let go by Fox, and started his podcast on X, he began to unmask himself as an antisemite — for only an antisemite would provide a platform for such beyond-the-pale antisemites as Darryl Cooper, Candace Owens, and Munther Isaac. In recognition of Carlson’s happily providing a platform for such people to spread their nonsense and lies, Amichai Chikli, the Israeli Minister for Diaspora Affairs, tweeted his own message. “Tucker Carlson Giving ‘Leading Platform’ to Jew-Hatred, Chikli Says,” by Joseph Feldman, JNS, December 17, 2024:

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“We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies. We want to be able to live in an entirely different environment of relations with our enemies.” — Ehud Olmert, March 2006.’

Peloni:  Avi is absolutely correct!!  As he states, “The Trump team must stand firm and understand that any outcome other than Israel’s full control over Gaza endangers not just Israel but the entire free world.”

This isn’t about an “occupation.” It is a religiously inspired genocide against the Jewish people and the State of Israel.

Avi Abelow | Jan 24, 2025

Peloni:  Are rhetorical taunts over exaggerated Russian casualties and failing economy another Biden policy hold-over under Trump?

Seems to endorse a discredited theory on Russia

The body of a Russian soldier is seen near a destroyed Russian tank in the village of Storozheve in the Donetsk region on June 14. —RFE

President Donald Trump, on Truth Social and in interviews, is pushing the idea that Russia needs to hurry up and make a deal on Ukraine before Trump, taking advantage of Russia’s economic problems, imposes high tariffs and other sanctions on Russia. To emphasize his own thinking about the futility of the Ukraine war, Trump says that Russia has suffered over a million casualties and Ukraine 800,000.

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Peloni:  This is very troubling.  The offshoring of responsibility of Gaza will forever make it impossible for Israel to independently respond to whatever comes next without gaining the consent of foreign powers.

UAE is seen as regional leader in the fight against radical Islam and Jihadism

All Israel News Staff | Published: January 23, 2025

Palestinians amid destruction in Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, on June 8, 2024. Photo by Khaled Ali/Flash90

The United Arab Emirates and Israel agreed that the Gulf emirate would take over the management of the Gaza Strip after the war, according to a report by Israel Hayom.

The question of who will govern and rebuild the devastated enclave has once again received much attention in the wake of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

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