Changing perceptions of Islam, Part 4: “Hassan Nasrallah’s children: During His Final Days, Our Father Was Depressed”  

The Iranian regime is forced to accept it lacks the means to intimidate Israel, and to order an invincible force to stand down has to be extremely carefully handled. The members of such a force would question the motives of a Supreme Leader who capitulates. Shari’a takes a dim view of such things.

March 28, 2025 | 8:44 am | 1 Comment »

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The future of Gaza  

By Walter E. Block

President Trump.  By Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0

Even Rip van Winkle, by now, knows of Donald Trump’s vision for the future of Gaza. The US will take it over, as a sort of protectorate, similar to what he hopes will be the fate of Greenland. For all we know, he intends that that latter be named Trumpland. As to the former, maybe, Trumpza, or Trumpgaz. And what of the fate of the almost 2 million Palestinians who now reside in this enclave? They will be shipped off to Jordan and/or Egypt.

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March 28, 2025 | 3:15 am | Comments »

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Columbia Capitulates  

Equity before the law requires more than the future application of the law, but also the prosecution of past violations, particularly when they are of such an obscene degree as has been witnessed in recent memory.  Hence, while capitulation and reform are a welcome sign of Columbia once again supporting the rights of its students, the relative parties must be prosecuted for the crimes which have thus far gone unaddressed.

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Columbia University has agreed to a series of changes demanded by the Trump administration as a precondition for restoring $400 million in federal funding that earlier this month the government had pulled, amid allegations that the school tolerated antisemitism on campus.

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March 28, 2025 | 12:03 am | 2 Comments »

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Iran Apparently Planning to Outwit or Outwait Trump, Not Relinquish Its Nuclear Programme  

by Con Coughlin • Gatestone Institute • March 26, 2025

Iran’s refusal to accept US President Donald Trump’s demand that it completely dismantle its controversial nuclear programme, which Western intelligence officials are convinced is ultimately designed to build nuclear weapons, raises the very real risk of the US launching direct military action to destroy the programme. Pictured: Trump signs an executive order “reimposing maximum pressure on Iran” in the White House on February 4, 2025. (Photo by Sean Spicer, White House Press Secretary @ twitter – Caption; Picture URL, Public Domain)

  • “Something’s going to happen one way or the other. I hope that Iran — and I’ve written him a letter, saying, ‘I hope you’re going to negotiate.’ Because if we have to go in militarily, it’s going to be a terrible thing — for them.” — US President Donald J. Trump, interview with Fox News, March 7, 2025

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March 27, 2025 | 5:09 pm | Comments »

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Knesset passes controversial Judicial Selection Law amid large protests and opposition boycotts  

Peloni:  The delay of Judicial reform both led to October 7 and has also made the pursuit of victory in the subsequent war impossible.

Passage of law comes days after coalition passed 2025 budget, averting new elections

Jerusalem – High Court building. By www.pikiwiki.org.il, CC BY 2.5

In a scene reminiscent of the spring and summer of 2023, when tens of thousands of Israelis were protesting the coalition government’s Judicial Reform bills in front of the Knesset and Supreme Court in Jerusalem, thousands of people again gathered outside the Knesset Wednesday night.

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March 27, 2025 | 4:05 pm | 1 Comment »

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The new sheriff in town won’t tolerate discrimination against Jews  

Peloni:  This is very welcome news!

Quoting from President Trump’s executive order to combat antisemitism, the Department of Justice has filed a Statement of Interest in a lawsuit against UCLA.

Leonard Grunstein | Mar 26, 2025

A hearing has been scheduled for March 31 before U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi in the pending case of Yitzchok Frankel, et al. v University of California Board of Regents, et al., by the Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney regarding the government’s interest in opposing the University of California, Los Angeles’ motion to dismiss a lawsuit.

This is the same case in which Scarsi issued a preliminary injunction against UCLA, on Aug. 13, 2024. In his ruling, the judge noted:

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March 27, 2025 | 7:18 am | 2 Comments »

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Hamas funded Columbia protesters, bragged to hostages about their ‘American operatives’  

Peloni:  The Barbarians are inside the wire and are actively corrupting and indoctrinating American children.

By | Mar 26, 2025

It was obvious from the beginning that the student protesters were tools of Hamas. Now it turns out that they were actually an arm of Hamas. This supports, of course, the idea that those among them who are not U.S. citizens should be deported.

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March 27, 2025 | 7:09 am | 1 Comment »

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Mahmoud Khalil Hid His Work with UNRWA  

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Mahmoud Khalil turns out to have been far more than the innocent student protester — not a leader, but just one among so many — whom he pretends to be. More on the latest news about Mahmoud Khalil can be found here: “US says Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil hid UNRWA work,” Reuters, March 

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March 27, 2025 | 12:39 am | Comments »

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‘Destroy Hamas, enable Gazans to leave, Israeli security control of Gaza’ – PM Netanyahu speaks on hostages and Gaza ‘Day After’  

Israeli premier lays out his view of hostage issue and plans for ‘day after’ in Gaza

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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with Gadi Taub (Photo: Screenshot)

For a long time, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been criticized for his hostile attitude toward Israeli media outlets and his refusal to give Hebrew-language interviews.

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March 27, 2025 | 12:32 am | Comments »

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ECHR rules Ukraine failed to prevent or investigate violence during Maidan protests [better known as Odessa Massacre]  

March 27, 2025 | 12:20 am | 4 Comments »

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President Trump signs Executive order to secure our elections  

Peloni:  Election reform is the most critical action Trump will take during his second term.  It’s success or failure will determine if the Americn Republic will be ruled by the consent of the governed or by the elitists who control the systemic election fraud.  Now wait for about 5min before all of these reforms are rendered moot by judicial activists play-acting as judges as they reaffirm the control of the US government is in the hands of their elitist masters.

Benny Johnson | X | Mar 26, 2025

President Trump signs Executive order to secure our elections:

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March 26, 2025 | 7:39 pm | Comments »

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Gabbard: The intelligence community says Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon  

Peloni: The claim that Iran is not seeking nuclear weapons is the result of a pro-Iranian bias which is and continues to characterize Tulsi Gabbard’s perspective.  I and many others warned about this fact before Gabbard was placed into the sensitive position she holds today, and this warning was first validated by her choice of the pro-Iran Daniel Davis to fill one of the most sensitive positions on her staff, and it has now been re-validated by Gabbard’s absurd statement before Congress, which ignores the capability of Iran having the means of being within a week’s effort of having a number of nuclear devices.  The deep disconnect which exists between this fact and Gabbard’s position is, in fact, not one of naivete, but one of supporting the nearly achieved outcome of Iran’s nuclear ambitions.  The pro-Iran element in Washington simply received an upgrade with Gabbard’s nomination.  Recalling that Personnel is Policy, we should concentrate on the reality that the sooner Gabbard’s position is vacated, the safer the US and the world will become.

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March 26, 2025 | 7:03 pm | 6 Comments »

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What’s It All About, Carlson & Rogan?  

Pondering the Big Platforming of Darryl Cooper

Diana West | Diana W Substack | Mar 24, 2025

One of the more interesting things Darryl Cooper revealed while ensconced on the massive Joe Rogan platform last week concerned his appearance on the even more massive Tucker Carlson platform last summer. It was the night before the Carlson interview, Cooper recalled, and he and Carlson were having dinner, talking about the upcoming show. Carlson informed Cooper that he was going to introduce him as America’s greatest living historian. Cooper says that he demurred, having explained to Carlson that he was no historian, did no original research, published nothing; rather, that he was someone who recorded stories about what he had read.

Carlson was having none of that. He was dead set on tagging Cooper with this nonsensically extravagant accolade and told him just to roll with it during the taping the next day. If you go back and watch Tucker’s opening of the Cooper show, you will notice that no blush, no gulp, and barely a muscle move across Cooper’s face as Tucker coats him with this syrupy wash of words — “the most important popular historian working in the United States today.” But even that wasn’t enough for Tucker: “I want people to know who you are, and I want you to be widely recognized as the most important historian in the United States today because —”

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March 26, 2025 | 6:52 pm | Comments »

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