Ukraine Attacks TurkStream Pipeline  

Europe Could Face an Economic Nightmare

The Ukrainians sent nine drones to attack a natural gas compressor station in the Krasnodar region of southern Russia. The compressor station was part of the TurkStream pipeline. All the drones were shot down. There was some minor damage, but the compressor station is operating normally.

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January 15, 2025 | 10:12 am | 1 Comment »

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Israel’s Good News Newsletter to 12th Jan 2025  

By Michael Ordman, VGNI

In the 12th Jan 25 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

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January 15, 2025 | 9:28 am | Comments »

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Why Israel’s enemies hate cartology  

Jordanian Parliament Speaker Ahmad al-Safadi said maps of ancient Israel “express a criminal mentality and malicious ambitions that cannot be tolerated.”

Moshe Phillips | Jan 14, 2025

A map of ancient Israel and Judea. Credit: Richardprins via Wikimedia Commons.

Enemies of the Jewish state hate cartology—the study of mapmaking—as the world was reminded again last week in the commotion over a map of biblical Israel.

Some Israel-hater noticed that the X (Twitter) account of the Israeli Foreign Ministry included a map showing the biblical borders of the ancient kingdoms of Judea and Israel, including the parts that extended eastward across the Jordan River.

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January 15, 2025 | 9:22 am | 3 Comments »

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The Imam at the Inauguration and Trump’s Adviser on Arab and Middle East Affairs, Massad Boulos  

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The curious choice of pro-Hezbollah Imam Husham al-Husainy to offer a prayer at Trump’s inauguration has brought new attention to Massad Boulos, whom Trump has appointed to be his senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. Massad Boulos is a Lebanese-American billionaire businessman who campaigned for Trump among Arab voters in Michigan, and helped to persuade enough of them to vote Republican so that Trump won that state. Boulos also happens to be the father of Michael Boulos, who is the husband of Trump’s daughter Tiffany. Now he has been rewarded for his help in Michigan, and for his status as Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law, with this appointment to serve as Trump’s senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. It’s a bit worrisome because Boulos, though Greek Orthodox, has ties to a Christian Lebanese named Franjieh, who happens to be a political ally of Hezbollah.

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January 15, 2025 | 9:08 am | 4 Comments »

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The Hamas Surrender Deal  

Peloni:  This surrender deal looks worse and worse should reports prove to be accurate.

A moral and strategic abomination that sells out America and Israel.

Daniel Greenfield | Jan 14, 2025

After a Pearl Harbor or an Oct 7, the only ‘deal’ that could be considered with the perpetrators is their absolute surrender. Hamas however took hostages to force an Israeli retreat.

That’s what a ‘ceasefire’ always was.

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January 15, 2025 | 9:03 am | 12 Comments »

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THE REAL CHARLIE KIRK AND TPUSA  

Kelleigh Nelson 

We are told that there are conservatives, liberals and independents in America. We wish this were true, so that our task would not be so great. The truth is that 99% of Americans are liberals. They do not know it and they cannot help it, until they relearn what conservatism is and what it is not. -The Don Bell Report

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen –Samuel Adams

Thus sayeth the Lord of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.  Jeremiah 23:17

The GOP establishment is toothless and most of them favor the unconstitutional rot promoted by the Democrat Party. You know who they are! I wrote about these false friends in a 23-part series in 2014.  Other writers received complaints about my work because they felt I was disparaging conservative leaders.  Nevertheless, many politicians with an “R” behind their names are false friends.  Look at the 12 Republicans who voted for the Respect for Marriage Act.

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January 15, 2025 | 8:10 am | Comments »

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Steve Bannon: “I will have Elon Musk run out of here by Inauguration Day”  

January 14, 2025 | 4:59 pm | 11 Comments »

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The Syrian Pipeline Game: How Turkey’s Plans Affect Israel’s Regional Ambitions  

By | January 13, 2025

BESA Geo-Energy Insights No. 7, January 13, 2025

 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has revived Turkey’s plans to construct oil and gas pipelines through the country, turning it into a regional “energy corridor” for neighboring states. Some of these plans would offer the Arab Gulf States a more convenient land route for exporting energy to Europe through Turkey, posing a challenge to Israel’s similar aspirations. Israel has other opportunities to export its natural gas to new markets via pipeline, but they pose the risk of undermining Israel’s relationship with Greece and Cyprus. Israel should follow the “pipeline game” in Syria closely to ensure that new economic opportunities in the region don’t pass it by.

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January 14, 2025 | 3:51 pm | 1 Comment »

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Silence in the Face of Actual Genocide  

by Rafael Medoff 

The Biden administration has confirmed that Arab militias are committing genocide against black Africans in Sudan. So how will those who are falsely accusing Israel of genocide respond to the news that real genocide is underway?

It seems unlikely there will be much of a response. After all, the evidence of genocide in Sudan has been reported for many months, yet there have been no noticeable protests. 

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof reported last year that “Some of the same Arab forces responsible for the genocide in [the Sudanese region of Darfur] in the 2000s are picking up where they left off…massacring, torturing, raping and mutilating members of non-Arab ethnic groups—the same victims as before—while burning or bulldozing their villages…”

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January 14, 2025 | 2:10 pm | 4 Comments »

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Lebanon’s Christian President Joseph Aoun  

Arthur A. Flower | January 12, 2025

Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Boutros Al-Rahi meeting Joseph Aoun in January 2024. (Photo: The Maronite Patriarchate)

In a significant political breakthrough, Lebanon’s parliament elected army commander Joseph Aoun as the country’s 14th president in January 2025, ending a presidential vacuum that had lasted more than two years. The 61-year-old Maronite Christian military leader ascended to the presidency with broad domestic support and international backing, particularly from the United States and Saudi Arabia.

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January 14, 2025 | 1:02 pm | 2 Comments »

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IDF faces growing threat from IEDs in northern Gaza  

By Seth Frantzman | January 13, 2025

IDF troops from the Nahal Brigade operating in northern Gaza. (IDF)

Seven Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers have been killed in two recent incidents in northern Gaza, illustrating the continued challenges Israeli troops face from terrorist cells and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The IDF has been clearing the areas of Jabaliya, Beit Lahiya, and Beit Hanoun over the last three months. Operations recently shifted toward Beit Hanoun, where Israeli troops have encountered terrorists and booby traps.

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January 14, 2025 | 10:09 am | 3 Comments »

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Jihadi terror as religious sacrifice – pathway to a nuclear war with Iran  

Whatever differences emerge between Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its predecessors, whether suddenly or incrementally, all jihadi groups will continue to embrace terrorism as a redemptive expression of religious sacrifice.

“The death fear of the ego is lessened by the killing, the sacrifice, of the other; through the death of the other, one buys oneself free from the penalty of dying.” – Otto Rank, Will Therapy and Reality (1936)

Following the collapse of Syria’s Bashar al Assad’s regime, jihadi terror groups are being refashioned in the Middle East. Though there are evident and significant differences between these groups, all share a single overriding objective. This common goal is not geopolitical advantage or national self-determination, but “power over death.” Whatever else differentiates jihadi terror group ideologies and tactics from one another, all Islamist groups seek personal redemption through “sacred violence.”

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January 14, 2025 | 10:01 am | Comments »

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American Jewish Groups Opposing Gaza Resettlement Have Learned Nothing from History  

Avi Abelow | Jan 12, 2025

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The Times of Israel recently reported the statements of a number of prominent centrist and liberal American Jewish organizations opposing the resettlement of Gaza by Jews, calling it a “far-right” policy. Groups opposed to the idea include the Jewish Federations of North America, the American Jewish Committee (AJC), United Reform Judaism, United Synagogue (the Conservative movement) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

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January 14, 2025 | 9:53 am | 5 Comments »

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Who is Joseph Aoun – Lebanon’s newly elected president?  

Newly-elected Lebanese President Joseph Aoun poses for a picture at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon, January 9, 2025. Dalati Nohra/Handout via REUTERS

The country of Lebanon ended a two year period without a president when it elected Lebanese Army commander, General Joseph Aoun, to the position last Thursday.

The 61-year-old career soldier has a reputation for no nonsense leadership and a disdain for politics. He made a name for himself by leading Lebanon’s army during a period of severe economic crisis and challenge.

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January 14, 2025 | 9:44 am | 2 Comments »

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Israeli expert believes Trump will pressure Israel to concede to Saudi conditions for peace – a Palestinian state  

Peloni:  Granting statehood to the very people who participated in October 7 and who still celebrate the savagery committed over a year ago are the price which Trump will trade for Saudi normalization?  Nonsense.  The only use of Saudi normalization is greater stability in the region, and carving a state for the Pals out of Israel will achieve the complete opposite of this, and this fact can not be wasted on anyone involved in pursuing such a deal.  The Saudi’s have always proven themselves to be excellent negotiators, but they will negotiate on behalf of their interests, not on behalf of that of the Pals, who have only ever had a destabilizing effect on the region.

An Israeli expert recently stated in an interview that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is likely to pressure Israel to address various demands outlined by the Saudi Kingdom as prerequisites for any normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

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January 13, 2025 | 1:20 pm | 51 Comments »

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‘Need To Rectify That’: JD Vance Lays Out Administration’s Plan For J6 Pardons  

Peloni:  These were political show trials.  There was no justice involved in these prosecutions, not by intent of the investigations and not by execution of the prosecutions.  All defendants should be pardoned or have charges dropped.  What is more, something which is missing in the conversation about “committed to seeing the equal administration of law” as Vance describes it, is the pursuit of criminal investigations against those responsible for the perversion of legal standards which rendered them to be political show trials.  There can be no justice if justice is not blind, and in fact, the persecution of the Jan 6 defendants were purposefully driven to achieve a political outcome.  Lawfare is not legal, and there must be accountability for those who substituted this arbitrary derangement of legal practices in place of legal norms.

Hailey Gomez | Daily Caller | January 12, 2025

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Vice President-elect J.D. Vance said Sunday on Fox News that the incoming administration’s plan for Jan. 6 pardons will depend on whether the imprisoned protesters were violent.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecuted over 1,200 individuals from nearly all 50 states in connection with the attack on the Capitol. On “Fox News Sunday,” host Shannon Bream questioned Vance on where the “line” will be drawn when it comes to pardoning those punished for the riot.

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January 13, 2025 | 12:43 pm | Comments »

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Britain’s Soul Is In Lockdown – Elon Musk Sees Tommy Robinson As The Key  

Linda Goudsmit:  This is a very important article!

We are at a turning point in history. We the people in America, in Britain, in Canada, and in Israel, have the opportunity to resurrect our nations and save our souls by making our countries moral again. The globalist elite who have trampled our rights are targeting our nations’ children, because children are the future of every society on earth. “Progressive” British governments have been protecting Muslim rape gangs in Britain for decades. “Progressive” American governments have been indoctrinating American children with Marxism for decades in American schools. “Progressive” Canadian governments have been tearing Canada apart piece by piece, and “Progressive” Israeli governments have collaborated with a savage enemy to topple Netanyahu’s nationalist government. So, what do these “progressive” governments all have in common?

Each named government is being funded and fomented by the globalist elite, but to what end? Progress toward what??

Globalism is a replacement ideology and its progress is toward establishment of the globalist elite’s dystopian world government, where individual and national sovereignty is replaced with planetary feudalism. In the globalist Unistate the people’s future is humanity’s feudal past. The globalist war is a war of attrition. My generation of American patriots is dying. My children’s generation of millennials is transitional. It is my grandchildren and great-grandchildren who are the primary targets of the globalist elite. And it is the globalist elite who are funding and fomenting worldwide proxy wars to destroy the innocence of the western world’s precious children. The innocence of children is being attacked by Muslim rape gangs in England, by Marxist indoctrination in American schools, by “progressive” policies in Canada, and by “progressive” enemies of the State in Israel. Everything is connected, and the globalist elite are swinging progressivism’s coordinated wrecking ball to collapse western civilization by destroying its Judeo-Christian infrastructure, including its morality which protects the individual, individual sovereignty, and the sovereignty of the nation state.

Make no mistake, the rape of little English school girls is the key to understanding the globalist elite and their wrecking ball, and Tommy Robinson is globalism’s existential enemy. Muslim rape gangs are funded, fomented, and protected by the globalist elite, because the globalist elite are in the business of soul murder. Any society that can ignore the intentional destruction of innocent children is already dead. But the English people can Make Britain Moral Again (MBMA), the Americans can Make America Moral Again (MAMA), the Canadians can Make Canada Moral Again (MCMA), and the Israelis cam Make Israel Moral Again (MIMA).

We the people of the world must stand together and say NO! We are the mothers, fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers, uncles, aunts, friends, and neighbors who must protect the innocence of children. We are the family of man who must stand together and fight for the children, because the children cannot protect themselves. Elon Musk is correct––Tommy Robinson is the key to understanding the entire globalist megalomaniacal scheme to impose one world government––and it is not just Britain’s soul that is in lockdown. The western world must recognize that progressivism’s multiculturalism is the seismic humanitarian hoax that advances globalism’s population jihad, population replacement, and western societal collapse––one rape at a time.

Tommy Robinson, the undaunted, much maligned, imprisoned hero of little British schoolgirls, is the fulcrum on which the politics of the entire western world will turn––and we the people of the world must help him by simply being moral again. Let’s start by rejectting progressivism’s moral relativism and state unequivocally: Right and wrong exist. Raping little girls is simply wrong. It is wrong anywhere and everywhere and anytime it happens in the world. Period. Now, that wasn’t so hard was it?

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January 13, 2025 | 7:07 am | 9 Comments »

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