Forget George Floyd, remember the 14,000.
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Protesters drive by a large under-construction building that went up in flames during unrest over the murder of George Floyd. May 28, 2020. (Photo by Chad Davis – Flickr, CC BY 2.0)
In 2019, the FBI recorded less than 17,000 homicides. After George Floyd died of a drug overdose while violently resisting arrest, we would not see numbers like that again.
Peloni: Cohen tells the story of two elite units of Gideonim and Yamam which broke the momentum of Hamas’ advance on October 7, preventing a deeper incursion into central Israel.
Peloni: Prof. Fransisco Gil-White interviews Gadi Taub on the constitutional crisis in Israel, but also delves into a discussion over whether PM Shamir should have explained the connection between Fatah and Iran to pre-empt the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991.
Peloni: The shattering effect of October 7 changed the world, in ways which were both great and terrible. The quiet resolve supporting the Jerusalem Day celebrations is certainly to be counted among these. A powerful and important result of the sense of unity and identity which was previously far less universal than it stands today.
The parade, a long cherished part of the day’s celebration, was regarded with fear and loathing by the Left right through 2023. Now they are seen as teaching self-respect.
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One way to gauge the change and difference the horrific October 7th massacre and the ensuing Swords of Iron war has made in contrast to the previous prevailing “conceptzia” is to consider the Jerusalem Day parade.
Peloni: The final statement in this report by Noem seems to highlight Trump’s need to restrain Bibi as he continues to push forward on his efforts of negotiating with the duplicitous Mullahs, while failing to appreciate that there is no good outcome to be had which keeps the Mullahs in power. Good for Bibi for providing some upstream pressure on what will be Trump’s greatest failure should he succeed in his attempts at a ‘better deal’.
Homeland Security Secretary Noem says she and Netanyahu had ‘candid and direct’ conversation
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. Jerusalem May 23, 2017, CC BY 2.0)
The most recent phone call between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump involved a heated exchange and exposed differences between the two leaders on how best to deal with the Iranian threat according to a report in Israel’s Channel 12 news.
By Ted Belman
Martin Sherman in his seminal post, Distorting the Declaration, after noting that the protestors support the following David Horovitz’s, claim,
“Our Declaration of Independence promises that the State of Israel ‘will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture…’”
argued, that while this is true, it was misleading. He wrote and proved, “the focus of Israel’s Declaration of Independence is overwhelmingly on Jewish sovereignty and political independence in the ancestral Jewish homeland—not on liberal democratic governance” as the protestors would have you believe.
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Victor Sharpe
Zionism, simply put, is the Jewish people’s national liberation movement. Put in Biblical terms, it is the return from exile of the Jews to Zion – to that very special land promised by God to the first Jew, Abraham, and through Isaac, Jacob and the Jewish prophets to the Jewish people forever.
The Hebrew Scriptures equate Zion with the holiest city in Judaism, Israel’s 3,000-year-old capital city of Jerusalem. You can read numerous references in the Bible and the Psalms to the word Zion, such as in Psalm 135:21, II Samuel 5:7 and Isaiah 24:23.
The Biblical yearning of the Jews, ancient and modern, to return to their ancestral homeland is mirrored in the modern political usage of the term Zionism, first employed in 1890 by the Jewish author and poet, Nathan Birnbaum.
Peloni: Even amid war, the celebrations which define and characterize the Jewish state are not set aside. Among these one of the most relative celebrations is the, unification of, and Jewish connection to, Jerusalem.
Despite ongoing challenges, Jerusalem Day unites Israelis in joy and remembrance of a pivotal moment in Jewish history.
Israfan | April 26, 2025
Jerusalem Day 2007. (Photo by Hoheit, to commons uploaded Daniel.baranek 11:10, 6 May 2007 (UTC) – de-wiki, CC BY-SA 2.0 de)
As the sun sets over the ancient stones of Jerusalem, Israelis from all walks of life gather to mark one of the most defining moments in modern Jewish history the reunification of Jerusalem and the liberation of Judea and Samaria. This year, Jerusalem Day commemorates 58 years since the miraculous victory of the 1967 Six-Day War that returned the heart of the Jewish nation to its rightful guardians.
Peloni: This comes in the wake of an announcement of France and Saudi Arabia to co-chair UN conference on resuscitating the defunct two state paradigm in coordination with China and Canada.
In recent days, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas made a rare visit to Lebanon, during which he declared the need for Palestinian weapons – specifically those held in refugee camps and by Palestinian factions in the Land of the Cedars – to be handed over to the state. According to a report that aired on Kan Reshet Bet on Monday morning, the driving force behind this move is Saudi Arabia.
By Janet Levy | Am Thinker | May 27, 2025
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China’s global ambitions are rooted in the allure of an ancient concept for the Chinese people—the Middle Kingdom, envisioning China as a divinely appointed ruling nation that is central and superior to others. In the Art of War, Sun Tzu crystallized this idea into the ideal of a benevolent Chinese emperor conquering the entire world—Tianxia, or All-Under-Heaven—without violence or destruction.
Peloni: The quote included in this essay by Gen. Lee has always been one of my favorites, since I was a young. In fact, war is the undoing of society such that society might be preserved, and the more terrible the war, the more lasting will be the resulting peace.
By J.B. Shurk | Am Thinker | May 26, 2025
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I noticed something years ago about class descriptions on college campuses. If a course’s subject matter included the word “war,” it was much more popular with students. A seminar on “organizational theory” might find a few takers; a seminar on “military organization and war planning” would attract too many students for most classrooms to hold. I asked a professor about this once, and he grinned slyly, reminding me that young professors who teach popular classes have greater career prospects. The observation struck me as a bit perverse.
Peloni: Be sure to read thru the early comments which I and others made on this article below. The solution for the dilemma facing Israel today has long ago been described by Ted Belman, obm, and it remains so today. It is the Jordan Option, which only requires the US and Israel to act as if the Hashemites are a threat and that there is an alternative to them being maintained in power, one which is antithetical to the Islamist allied Hashemites, and that alternative is Mudar Zahran.
T. Belman [Jan. 15, 2024]: Be sure to read the comment that appeared on Jihad Watch. I reposted it.
By Ted Belman (24.7.22)
Pres Biden has come and gone with little to show for it. But he has, however, left some debris in his wake that will set the stage for Israel’s coming election.
While he reaffirmed his support for the Two-State Solution (TSS) he went on to say “the ground is not right at this moment to restart negotiations,” and,
”The two-state solution is still the best way to ensure peace and democracy for Israelis and Palestinians; however, I don’t see a near horizon for this solution.””
Both Prime Minister Lapid and Benny Gantz share that view. Lapid said ”A two-state solution is a guarantee for a strong, democratic State of Israel with a Jewish majority.”
Peloni: From the Nova concert on October 7 to the Amsterdam Jew Hunts of November 6-7, 2024 to the Washington Jewish Museum murders on May 22 and now back to Europe once more. The hatred and hunting of Jews must be faced and defeated. Jews who have the ability to arm themselves must take full advantage of training and protecting themselves, and the authorities must step up to provide their Jewish citizens with support and protection. But most of all, the citizens of the world must come to grips with knowing that they face a choice between living like civilized people or revisiting some of the darkest moments of world history as have be heralded by the rekindling of antisemitic fervor, which has made itself known in every age, but never before with such a resoundingly internationally global effect, as if from every corner of the world. In fact, it is the neighbors of the hunted and attacked Jews who will determine how successful and how well tolerated the current wave of global terrorism being raised against the Jewish people will come to be.
Switzerland, long seen as a bastion of peace and neutrality, now finds itself in turmoil. In a frightening escalation, a coalition of radical pro-Hamas agitators and their far-left useful idiot activists reportedly attempted to storm the main synagogue in Bern, to kill Jewish worshippers.
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SWITZERLAND looks like a war zone as Islamic jihadists are trying to kill Jews there
Baharav-Miara in swearing-in ceremony of Judge Yitzchak Amit as President of the Supreme Court of Israel (Py Maayan Toaf – Spokesperson unit of the President of Israel, CC BY-SA 3.0)
The annual conference of the Israel Bar Association continues today (Monday), with the participation of senior figures from the judicial and law enforcement systems. Supreme Court President Yitzhak Amit said the judiciary is currently under political and public attack.
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | May 13, 2025
*47 years of US negotiation with the Ayatollah regime suggest that US policy makers have been impressed with the, supposedly, pragmatism of Iranian negotiators. However, while the US considers agreements with the Ayatollah regime and its proxies (e.g., the Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah) a step toward reconciliation and peaceful coexistence, the Ayatollah regime considers negotiation as a step toward the realization of its ideology – a global domination of all walks of life by Shia Islam, headed by Shia clerics.
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Bombshell Report Says British Government Knowingly Funding Hamas With Millions,” by Hank Berrien, Daily Wire, May 25, 2025:
A bombshell new report states that the British government is knowingly sending millions of pounds to the terrorist group Hamas.
NGO Monitor obtained a British Consulate-General in Jerusalem (BCGJ) document dated November 2022 with a plan for “UK Humanitarian Support in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.”
Peloni: On Saturday’s show, Mark has a special episode in which he shares interviews various members of Trump’s cabinet over the past month or so. The first of these is Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Sec. of Defense. They discuss the irrevocable determination of Trump to stop Iran from gaining nuclear weapons. He also explains the budgetary investments needed by the US military to present a deterrence via peace thru strength. In the second segment, Mark interviews Kristi Noem, Sec. of DHS, and they discussed the need to seal the northern and southern borders, to close sanctuary cities, and to fight the state and local opposition to Trump’s agenda.
By Andrea Widburg | Am Thinker | May 26, 2025
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We all heard about the Muslim Australian nurses who boasted about hoping to kill and refusing to treat Jewish patients unlucky enough to come under their care. We in America, though, shouldn’t feel smug because we have the same antisemitism problem brewing here. Because we’ve imported doctors from foreign countries, we’ve also imported their loathsome pathologies. And what’s even worse is that we’re producing American-educated doctors who are just as bad.
