J. Micah Hancock | All Israel News | Published: January 31, 2025

Palestinians, who fled the eastern part of Gaza City after they were ordered by Israeli army to evacuate their neighborhoods, carry their belongings, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City, July 7, 2024. (Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

The continuation of the hostage release ceasefire agreement, which led to the return of thousands of Palestinians evacuees to the northern Gaza Strip this week, is raising security concerns for Israeli leaders.

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UAE’s EDGE Group deepens military technology ties with Israel through $10 million investment.

Israfan | January 30, 2025

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By Gerald A. Honigman

Terrorizing the hostages till the very end. pic.twitter.com/nSU42xgwnS

— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) January 30, 2025

I was getting ready to do some chores and decided to check my incoming email first.

The link above is what stood out, and then I realized that I needed to take additional blood pressure medication.

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Peloni:  The entire world stands in a much more secure position today due to the election of Pres. Trump.  From the shores of the US, to the Eastern Mediterranean, across all of Europe and throughout the Pacific.  In fact, his election was an inflection point in history, in which the world might take a step back from the brink of many impending and evolving disasters, not the least most relevance of which lies in the Middle East and within Israel most particularly.  There can be no regret that the gross incompetence and even grosser corruption of Obama’s acolytes have once again been turned out of power, hopefully forever, and we can only hope that Trump’s return as leader of the free world will meet the many challenges it faces with a sense of responsibility and certain judgement, and devoid of such inside trading tactics and political malfeasance which characterized the Biden regime from its first day to its last.  I still remain hopeful that this will be the legacy of Trump’s second term, and that the disastrously harmful Witkof affair will soon be dwarfed by the potentially revolutionizing steps which have yet to be played out in what will come to be the remaking of the Middle East, leaving Israel far more secure, and the world in general far safer than it stands today.  Time will tell if the deeply troubling Witkof affair will be the mark of Trump’s second term or simply an aberration of his policies.   Again, hopefully it will be the latter.

By Joan Swirsky | Am Thinker | January 31, 2025

A few days ago, I took issue with the Doomsday Squad of prominent pearl-clutchers and naysayers — including Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, director of Jihad Watch and prolific author Robert Spencer, president of the Middle East Forum Daniel Pipes, prolific British writer Melanie Phillips, and the formidable Morton Klein of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) — all of whom condemned in the strongest language the ceasefire/hostage release deal that then-president-elect Donald Trump insisted on before his January 20, 2025 inauguration.

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Janet Levy:  We must say “NO” to STARGATE, the $500 Billion program Trump just ENDORSED to EXPAND the use of the deadly mRNA technology, essentially a bioweapon.

If you think Operation Warp Speed was lethal, this is MUCH WORSE!  Plus, Stargate is coupled with AI surveillance.

Watch the two minute trailer, and, if you are so inclined, view the documentary.

Peloni:  Egypt has been given a long leash on which to act against its previous allies.  I am particularly looking forward to seeing Trump return the relationship with Sisi to one based on reciprocity or more preferably to simply see the relationship being handled over to someone else altogether.

Jonathan Schanzer & Mariam Wahba | FDD |  Jan 31, 2024

Hours after President Donald Trump revealed plans to ask Egypt to enable Palestinian refugees looking to escape the war to enter the Sinai Peninsula from Gaza, Cairo’s Foreign Ministry issued a firm rejection of the proposal. Cairo called any attempt to displace Palestinians an “infringement on inalienable rights” and warned such actions would threaten “regional stability, risk further conflict escalation, and undermine prospects for peace and coexistence among the region’s peoples.”

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Peloni:  The US needs to divest itself from Qatar entirely.  They should cease all forms of Qatari investments and dealings with the US.  They should also relocate the US base in Qatar.  And then they should impose massive sanctions on them.  They are a terror hub within the Middle East and this fact should be well recognized and acted upon.  Unfortunately, Qatari influence peddling in the US is well established, well funded, and well accepted… which is why none of this has yet come to pass.  The question is if this established corruption of American institutions and political elites will continue under Trump.  Sadly, the advocacy by Witkof for his allies in Qatar would seem to indicate that it will.

Stop the funding!https://t.co/A2JdPMxH4P pic.twitter.com/VNt630iiaS

— Kitty Surprise (@KittySurprise1) January 31, 2025

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Lawmakers have been scrutinizing Gabbard’s ties to the Science of Identity Foundation, according to the report

Rhian Lubin | Independent | Jan 29, 2025

Tulsi Gabbard’s campaign paid a firm to “mask connections” to an alleged pyramid scheme linked to a secretive sect she grew up in, according to a report.

The Senate Intelligence Committee is set to grill President Donald Trump’s pick to serve as director of national intelligence on Thursday over her questionable connections and background. Since she was named as nominee to the post, she has faced questions and pushback given her previous statements and her history with foreign nations.

Lawmakers have been scrutinizing Gabbard’s ties to the Science of Identity Foundation and the Hong Kong-based marketing firm QI Group, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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Peloni:  Excellent article!

The real lessons are those we still haven’t learned.

By Daniel Greenfield | Jan 31, 2025

Philosophers, writers and thinkers insisted that the Holocaust was an inflection point in history, but it’s clearer now than ever before that it did not change history, it only accelerated it.

Israel was not, as politicians all too often insist, “born out of the ashes of the Holocaust.” It was born out of the blood, sweat and determination of a relatively small group of Zionists who defied the traditionalists and leftists in their own communities to go and rebuild their own homeland.

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Peloni:  While Trump’s EO puts an end to the abuses which have been suffered on children in the guise of medical intervention, those medical institutions, clinicians and school personnel who were responsible for subjecting children to these life scarring events without parental consent should be prosecuted for child abuse.

Honored to be back on air live with @IngrahamAngle https://t.co/0BkbGr43U7

— Dr Jared L. Ross (@jared999) January 31, 2025

FDD | Jan 30, 2025

Latest Developments

• Trump Signs Executive Order Combatting Antisemitism: President Donald Trump issued an executive order on January 29 to combat antisemitism, pledging to deport individuals who publicly supported Hamas following its October 7, 2023, atrocities in Israel. The order cites the “unprecedented wave of vile” antisemitism witnessed at American universities throughout 2024 and expands on the president’s previous order targeting antisemitism, which was issued in 2019 during his first term in office.
• Order Seeks to Stem Hamas Support in United States: Trump’s latest order outlines a federal plan to quell what the administration called a “campaign of intimidation, vandalism, and violence” in support of Hamas throughout America in the wake of the October 7 attacks. Actions in the report include directing the attorney general “to aggressively prosecute terroristic threats, arson, vandalism, and violence against American Jews,” along with deporting “resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests,” to which Trump added, “we will find you, and we will deport you.” The president also vowed to “cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses.”

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Palestinian statehood has become almost a religion in which no new developments will ever make those who support it reconsider their unshakeable, almost fanatical faith.

Moshe Phillips

Israeli President Isaac Herzog is backing away from his previous support for Palestinian statehood, saying that the Hamas-led assault in his country on Oct. 7, 2023, changed his thinking.

Speaking on Jan. 21 at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Herzog said he still favors “a political move forward on the Palestinian front,” but he pointedly did not repeat his longtime promotion of a Palestinian state. That’s significant.

Instead, he explained to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, a journalist and political commentator of an eponymous weekly Sunday-morning news show, afterwards that he needs to see real evidence that the hearts and minds of Palestinian Arabs have changed.

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Peloni:  Great article!

Cherie Zaslawsky | Jan 30, 2025

On January 21^st, 2025, California’s Silicon Valley residents awakened to a glorious morning—a bright blue sky with nary a trace of cloud or even chemtrail, just dazzling sunshine—and, for some of us, the indescribable happiness to know that the nightmare of the past four years is over at last, and Trump is our President once again.

Joy cometh in the morning!

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by Frank J. Gaffney  • Gatestone Institute • January 28, 2025

The Trump 2.0 presidency is scarcely a week old and a number of political appointees who do not share the president’s agenda are now in key positions in his administration. President Donald J. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth – and our country – must not be represented, and undermined, by subordinates who disagree. Pictured: Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Hegseth (right) attend the 125th Army-Navy football game on December 14, 2024 in Landover, Maryland. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

• The Trump 2.0 presidency is scarcely a week old and a number of political appointees who do not share the president’s agenda are now in key positions in his administration. An epic struggle, it seems, is already underway to subvert the Trump administration from within.

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A new age now begins?

J.E. Dyer, a retired Naval Intelligence officer, blogs as The Optimistic Conservative | Jan 27, 2025

[I try to avoid using eye cues to call out significant points, but that’s the readiest way in this case to just get done the job of outlining a new way of thinking. – J.E.]

There’s no question President Trump disappointed a whole lot of people and lost a lot of momentum with some supporters when he appeared to knuckle under to a ceasefire-for-hostages plan as an operational interruption to the Gaza war.  It can’t help looking Biden-like.  It has the essential elements of what Biden had been incessantly pushing since the 10/7 attack:   ceasefire for its own sake, which everyone expects Hamas to duly break, as always; negotiating with terrorists for hostages, which invariably produces wildly disproportionate personnel exchanges; grand, vague, and misdirected posturing on “solutions” for “peace” and who should be in charge of directing the world at ramming speed to a “Palestinian state.”

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