Peloni:  Reports are that former Pres. Poroshenko and former PM Yulia Tymoshenko who leads the far right opposition party, Batkivshchyna (Fatherland), are rejecting the notion of wartime elections.  To be honest, the stronger opposition leader than either of these should be the mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko.  Furthermore, Tymoshenko’s Fatherland party is notably not the least bit aligned with Trump’s objectives of peace with Russia, and never has been.  Additionally, Poroshenko tried using the ruse of marshal law in 2019 to do exactly what Zelensky did last year, ie cancelling elections. All of this raises questions of the veracity of this report which is sourced to Politico, one of Trump’s very strong detractors in general and on the issue of Ukraine specifically.  In any event, Zelensky has commented more than once since the meeting in the Oval Office that the choice for Ukraine should be the choice of the Ukrainian people, and he claims to still hold a majority in the polls in any event.  So let the people prove the polls right and give Zel his currently missing mandate, or his walking papers.

Peloni:  Gadi Taub & Mike Doran discuss the recent IDF probe on October 7 and the ongoing feud between the political and intelligence community, as well as the impact of the US-Ukraine debacle and US-Iran relations.

?URGENT : Today, as announced by AIA-GN (https://t.co/1nlem2l1oz), Simon Moshiashvili, a member of the @KnessetT from the Shas party, which is part of @netanyahu‘s government, made a policy statement in parliament regarding the strategic partnership between #Israel and… https://t.co/gvNIh8cdkH pic.twitter.com/p5W9SlRlK7

— Azerbaijani-Israeli Alliance Global News (@aiagn7278) March 5, 2025

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Peloni:  This probe demonstrates the inability of the Shin Bet to address the underlying issues honestly.  This is a face saving distortion of a story half told due to self interest, which is not unrelated to the causes of the October 7 failures.

Security agency’s report largely shifts blame to other bodies, cites unclear division of responsibilities with IDF, government’s overly defensive Gaza policies

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff | TOI | Mar 4, 2025

By ???? ?????? – Tomer Persico – ???? ??? ??? ????? ?? ??????? – The photographer emailed me the pictures, CC BY-SA 3.0

The Shin Bet security agency on Tuesday published a summary of its investigations into its failures during the lead-up to the Hamas terror group’s October 7, 2023, onslaught, with agency chief Ronen Bar acknowledging that if the agency had acted differently “the massacre would have been avoided.”

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J. Micah Hancock | | All Israel News | Published: March 5, 2025

The President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, hosting the outgoing head of the Shin Bet, Nadav Argaman, and the incoming head of the Shin Bet, Ronen Bar. Wednesday, October 13, 2021By Amos Ben Gershom / Government Press Office of Israel, CC BY-SA 3.0

Tensions between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) Director Ronen Bar have become increasingly hostile in recent days, exposing divisions between the government and the security establishment over accountability for significant intelligence and operational failures leading up to the October 7 Hamas attacks in 2023, which resulted in over 1,200 deaths and the kidnapping of 251 hostages.

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Peloni:  The plan put forward by the Arab League has no details because there is no consensus for the plan.  Attention will now recenter on Trump’s proposal, which Netanyahu has called to support.

Update:  Trump has now rejected the Egypt’s so called plan

Dead-on-arrival plan for non-factional interim committee to run Gaza during transition is dissociated from reality

by Hussain Abdul-Hussain | March 5, 2025

The Cairo venue for the talks. Photo: Egyptian State Information Service

The Arab peace plan for Gaza sidelines the strip’s rulers, Hamas, as well as the internationally recognized, inept and corrupt Palestinian Authority (PA), but only for six months, “in preparation for enabling the PA to fully return to the Gaza Strip.” In the interim, a “Gaza Administration Committee is being formed” and will be “composed of technocrats and non-factional figures … to manage the affairs” of the strip during the “transitional phase.”

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By Christine Douglass-Williams | Mar5, 2025

By kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0

Yedioth Ahronoth is Israel’s second-largest daily newspaper after Israel Today, and it reports that Israel is working with Russia to keep Turkey out of Syria. With most of the Western world obsessed with Russia and Ukraine, many may be nonplussed by this news. But there are other pressing issues besides Ukraine. For instance, Trump has warned that America “should worry less about Putin and more about migrant gangs, drug lords, murderers,” so that the US doesn’t end up like the European Union.

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By Hugh Fitzgerald | Mar 5, 2025

By Jason Persse – Kanye West @ MoMA, CC BY-SA 2.0

More rubbish from the unhinged cretin Kanye West can be found here: “Kanye West: ‘Antisemitism is the only path to freedom,’” by Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post, March 3, 2025:

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By Andrea Widburg | Am Thinker | Mar 6, 2025

March 1 was the beginning for Ramadan, the month-long Islamic celebration that’s marked by daytime fasting and nighttime feasting. Muslim countries, of course, celebrate Ramadan’s beginning and end. Traditionally, Christian countries do not. Instead, they celebrate things like Christmas and Easter.

However, in the UK, once a proudly Christian country, Ramadan is now a “thing.” How else to explain its being celebrated in Parliament (with a speech by the Prime Minister about the suffering in Gaza) and in Windsor Castle, the home of England’s Christian kings and queens for almost a thousand years? Ordinary Brits are not happy but, frankly, what can they do?

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Peloni:  Halevi is finally gone.  Unbelievable it took this long.

Keeping Israel strong is in America’s interest because the Jewish state is the US’s only reliable regional ally, creating opportunities to advance US interests.

By ERIC R. MANDEL | MARCH 5, 2025

By Dan Scavino, Public Domain

The US has been trying to leave the Middle East for years, especially after the controversial wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the region has a way of always calling America back.

In reality, America still has substantial national security interests in the region that will not depart anytime soon. It is not a binary choice between pivoting to an adversarial China or remaining engaged in the quagmire of the Middle East. 

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Incredible MUST WATCH speech from Gal Gadot:

“My name is Gal, and I’m Jewish. Isn’t it crazy that just saying that, just expressing a simple fact about who I am, feels like a controversial statement?”pic.twitter.com/2IAcUIW26F

— Jews Fight Back ???? (@JewsFightBack) March 5, 2025

Peloni: Wurmser discusses American subsidizing Hamas in Gaza, faulty US bombs supplied to Israel being turned into IED’s by Hamas, and more.  20min video

Peloni:  The deep repulsion evident throughout this short statement is the tone which should be employed by all descent people when addressing or even discussing the barbaric Hamas.  I congratulate President Trump on rising to the moment as the world failed to do so for 15 months.

Following a meeting with the former hostages recently freed from Hamas’ torture tunnels, President Trump issued the following statement:

Peloni:  Europe is big on bravado but short of funds.  Their economy is suffering from their self-imposed increase in energy which has led to the de-industrialization of Germany, which has always provided the lion’s share of Europe’s member state economies.  The consequence of this is that Europeans are suffering, and the likelihood of Europeans spending large sums on defense are pretty small.

Stephen Bryen | Weapons & Strategy | Mar 05, 2025

By © European Union, 2025, CC BY 4.0

Ursula Von Der Leyen, the President of the European Commission has proposed that Europe increase its defense spending by 1.5% GDP over the average 2.0% GDP European countries are currently spending on defense. She fears that Europe has to defend itself and she understands that the United States probably will not act as a savior if Europe gets into trouble. President Trump’s administration is already signaling a big change in NATO. In future, according to reports circulating in Washington, NATO should be headed by either a British or French general (supposing Germany does not have any generals!). Over the years, the top NATO general always was an American. Washington wants to change that.

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Hillel Neuer | X | Mar 4

Syrian Activist to UN: “I testify before God: Israel is not the problem!” In only 90 seconds, Rawan Osman brilliantly calls out the regimes of Qatar, Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon & Syria.

“Are you outraged with the war in Gaza? So am I.

My name is Rawan Osman. I am half… pic.twitter.com/46HhkYfPaB

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) March 4, 2025

Syrian Activist to UN: “I testify before God: Israel is not the problem!” In only 90 seconds, Rawan Osman brilliantly calls out the regimes of Qatar, Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon & Syria.

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Peloni:  The PA was created from a terrorist organization by a renowned terrorist.  His successor was himself a terrorist, and remains so to this day, and doesn’t disguise this fact with his public patronage of terror on the streets of Israel and abroad, many of which are conducted by members of his own security forces.  Moderate allies are not to be found in the ranks of terrorists, and if nothing else could be learned by the folly which followed Oslo, this surely should be clear by now.  This was in fact one of the most beguiling aspects of the old conception, and it should not survive in any way or to take any part in the what comes to be the new conception.

Calculations based on body counts don’t tell the whole story as to whether terrorism is increasing or decreasing.

Moshe Phillips

By U.S. Department of State – https://www.flickr.com/photos/9364837@N06/53313240267/, Public Domain

A prominent Washington think tank analyst has added up various terrorism statistics to “prove” that a Palestinian Arab state might not be such a bad idea after all. The problem is that his math is all wrong.

Writing in Mosaic this week, Robert Satloff of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy implores Israel not to give up on the Palestinian statehood idea. Because, he says, the math shows that having the Palestinian Authority around has reduced terrorism.

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European elites are pushing for a war they are not prepared to fight against an enemy they cannot defeat without pushing the world to the edge of nuclear armageddon. At that point, all bets are off.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer closed out what amounted to a war summit in London Sunday by pledging more billions for missiles to Ukraine and committing to British “boots on the ground and planes in the sky.”

He called for a “coalition of the willing” to bolster his war effort against Russia. No longer satisfied to use Ukraine as a proxy, he now wants to sacrifice his own nation’s sons and daughters. If he and his evil twin in Paris can get their way, they will launch strikes against Russia, get their soldiers killed, then play the victim and hope this is enough to drag America into their self-provoked war with Russia. At that point, all bets are off and we launch recklessly into World War III.

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Peloni:  I disagree with the view that there is any relevance between Ukraine and Israel in their respective wars, but the disparity which exists in the support from those who would continue a war of boundaries such as is being fought in Ukraine as compared to the support for forcing Israel to capitulate in its war of annihilation speaks volumes of those who do so.

Even many who haven’t visited Israel – yet! – have been shaped by their Birthright buddies’ identity revelations.

By GIL TROY | MARCH 5, 2025

As American Jews mourn the younger generation’s supposed alienation from Israel, many blame Bibi rather than their decisions to raise their kids on tikkun olam/social justice diets that Poisoned Ivy League Progressives distorted and turned against Israel.

“What do you expect?” many ask. “Jews born after 2000 have only known an Israel defined by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and right-wing, religious fanatics.”

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