Peloni:  Ukraine’s continued grandstanding campaigns can not erase the deficiency in their manpower, munitions and morale.  They simply can not win this war.

Not Like Pearl Harbor

Peloni:  Martin provides a clarion call for the mounting levels of insanity which are taking form as insurrection against the legitimately elected Israeli govt, and the need to recognize the terrible consequences which might result if these outrages continue to be left to fester as if they do not represent a clear and present threat to the nation’s survival.

By MARTIN SHERMAN

 The only way to prevent a civil war in Israel is to acknowledge its impending outbreak, so that steps can be taken to forestall it.

Israel is on the brink of civil war. An irreconcilable rift is beginning to open up between rival segments of Israeli society, which no amount of unilateral goodwill can amicably bridge. The tectonic fault lines, threatening to split the nation’s societal fabric asunder, center on Benjamin Netanyahu’s tenacious hold on power, despite multiple attempts to pry it loose.

Weaponizing the legal system

Having seemingly despaired of the possibility of defeating him at the polls, his adversaries have turned—more clumsily than not—to weaponising the legal system as a means of realizing their political goals.

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Michael Ordman | VGNI | June 1, 2025

In the 1st Jun 25 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• The IDF is using powerful lasers to successfully destroy hostile drones.
• Israel surgeons used an artificial heart for the first time, to save a patient’s life.
• Israeli medics have now treated over 500 Syrians in Syria.
• More examples of Israeli technology benefiting the USA and globally.
• Israel’s wealth fund investments achieved huge returns.
• Many 13th century literary treasures have returned to Jerusalem.
• Israel celebrated Jerusalem Day in the heart of its re-unified capital city. 

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Jo Elizabeth | All Israel News | Published: June 3, 2025

Airplanes at Ben-Gurion International Airport (NATBG). (Photo taken during the Iron Swords War – Israel, January 2024. By Chenspec – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0)

The Houthi terror group has vowed to target civilian planes following an escalation in attacks.

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Peloni:  Yair Pinto provides a good review of where things stand on multiple fronts.

Peloni:  The taxing authority is used to help focus public expenditures towards a successful desired outcome.  While it might be seen to be debatable as to whether this is an appropriate use of this authority, it is inexplicable that increasing support for terrorism should be counted as normative or even tolerable goal of any govt, much less one such as the US which has had thousands killed as a consequence of terrorist activities over the years, and the innocents who are to be counted as victims of terror continue to increase, most recently with the execution of Hersh Goldberg-Polin.  

One part of the Treasury Department sanctions a terror front group while another helps fund it.

by Daniel Greenfield | June 3, 2025

Image by U.S. Government – Extracted from PDF version of the Treasury 2003 performance report (direct PDF URL [1])., Public Domain

Samidoun, a group that the United States Treasury described as a “sham charity” that serves as a fundraiser for terrorists, had some thoughts on the recent D.C. leftist terrorist attack.

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Peloni:  The West is building its own demise thru policies of ignorance and miscalculations, and arguably nowhere is this more clear than with its efforts to support Erdogan’s fantasies of a neo Ottoman empire.

By Alexander Maistrovoy | June 2, 2025

After meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky announced that the Turkish president considers Crimea “Ukrainian.” Western media were touched by the “firm position” of the Turkish leader and his support for the “collective democratic West” in opposing the Russian invasion.

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Peloni:  Melanie is brilliant!

Peloni:  See additional commentary by Sundance as to why Russian bombers were arrayed in the open.

Attacking Nuclear Bomber Bases does not really benefit Ukraine

Peloni:  This was fascinating

Janet Levy: Trump is moving with breakneck speed to achieve central control.

He is implementing Real ID and creating an all digital financial system that cancels cash and paper tax returns. The Genius Act implements Stable Coin through the owners of the Federal Reserve, NOT Congress.

The purpose of DOGE was NOT to cut the federal budget as was the pitch. DOGE built a centralized AI-accessible data grid by pulling data from the Treasury, the IRS, Social Security and Health and Human Services. This is a centralized grid to make government databases “talk to each other” – the foundation for the social credit system.

Listen to investment banker and former HUD official Catherine Austin Fitts (8 minutes):

by Rafael Medoff

Harvard Crimson logo 2020. By Harvard University – https://gocrimson.com/documents/2021/7/27/Harvard_Athletics_Brand_Identity_Guide.pdf, Public Domain

Harvard University has shown appropriate sensitivity to the African American community by agreeing to relinquish seven photographs of half-naked Black slaves, which a professor commissioned in 1850 because he believed their physique proved they were racially inferior.

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Peloni:  In his opening segment, Mark discusses the recent ruling by the US Court of International Trade which ruled against Trump’s use of emergency powers to address the economic crisis in the US.  Mark explains that the core of the ruling is based upon the concept and practice of separations of power, and even the court itself addresses this fact.  The problem with acknowledging this fact, however, is that Congress is not only not supporting the complaint in the case, but that there is no material Congressional objection to Trump exercising the emergency powers.  Mark also raises the point that Congress has not even attempted to draw back the powers delegated to the president in a bill which was signed into law back in 1977, further demonstrating that Congress has no objections to Trump’s actions on this topic.  While stating that the case is a dispute between executive and legislative powers, the Trade Court ignores the fact that there is no dispute between the executive and legislative branches, as the case in question is exclusively based on private complaints, which begs the question from where does the court draw its authority to intercede in a the president exercising the authority empowered to the presidency by the legislature some 50yrs ago.

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Peloni:  This provides very good coverage of the ongoing chaos in France over the past two nights.

If Hamas returns to power, it will be interpreted as Allah’s favor, opening the door to new victories

Alexander Maistrovoy | May 31, 2025

The war in Gaza and the “sinat chinam” in Israel itself, when the elite openly turned against its own people, made me remember an interview I conducted almost 20 years ago, in the now distant year of 2007. My interlocutor was the historian Asher Eder from Jerusalem. He was not a so famous, he was not invited to prestigious world conferences, forums, TV studios; he had no titles or positions. But I think he could give them all a head start in erudition.

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