Peloni:  Must Read Article

By Janet Levy | Am Thinker | Mar 3, 2025

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A new, Godless, quasi-religion—One Health—is being thrust upon the world. Its apostles say it will save humanity, or rather, life itself. Allied with Marxism in its denigration of the “exploitive nature of capitalism” as is demonstrated in the green movement, it debases humankind by equating us with, even putting us below, all other life forms. Its principal church is the World Health Organization (WHO), so President Donald Trump’s threat to withdraw from the WHO—or gain American control over it—must be seen in the light of this globalist agenda.

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Peloni:  Egypt would rather go to war with Israel, a war which they will lose, than to allow the Gazans to leave Gaza.  Mind you that Egypt has over a hundred million people, all of whom are so well instructed in antisemitism that Yair Pinto admits not being able to divulge that he is an Israeli when going to Egypt, yet Sisi claims his nation would be under threat from taking even a fraction of the 1.5 million Gazans.  The disengenous nature of this claim is made clear when considering that Sisi also objects to the Gazans being allowed to seek refuge elsewhere in the world, even with the support of the Gazans themselves in doing so.

Peloni:  Pay particular attention to the discussion of what the consequences might be should Ukraine lose US soft assets.  Quite simply, it would be Ukriane’s greatest nightmare.

Is Olmert’s story as straightforward as the media portrays it or is there something that the news outlets missed?

Moshe Phillips

By Michael Gross – Cropped from State Dept photo Secretary Rice With Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel, Public Domain

Ehud Olmert is (incredibly) generating headlines once again.

The BBC breathlessly reported on February 23 that “the map Olmert had drawn up now has an almost mythical status. Various interpretations have appeared over the years, but he has never revealed it to the media. Until now.”

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OSINTdefender | X | March 2, 2025

The spokesperson for the White House National Security Council Brian Hughes has told Barak Ravid of Axios that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to halt aid shipments into the Gaza Strip was backed by the Trump administration and that Hamas is “no longer… pic.twitter.com/k97syHDoeZ

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) March 2, 2025

The spokesperson for the White House National Security Council Brian Hughes has told Barak Ravid of Axios that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to halt aid shipments into the Gaza Strip was backed by the Trump administration and that Hamas is “no longer interested in a negotiated ceasefire.”

Full statement from the spokesperson:
“Israel has negotiated in good faith since the beginning of this administration to ensure the release of hostages held captive by Hamas terrorists. We will support their decision on next steps given Hamas has indicated it’s no longer interested in a negotiated ceasefire”

FDD | Feb 28, 2025

IDF Investigation of October 7 Finds Hamas Was Developing Attack Plan in 2016: On Thursday Doron Kadosh, military correspondent for Israel Army Radio, wrote about the IDF’s investigation into the failures of October 7, noting that according to the findings, Hamas decided to launch a large surprise attack following Operation Guardian of the Walls in 2021. A Hamas document found in Gaza in 2021 stated, “The defeat of Israel is not impossible. Imagine that if there were a conflict on all fronts, the enemy would not be able to hold out. We must prepare for the liberation, this has now become feasible.” However, as early as 2016, Hamas was preparing a plan for Nukhba forces to attack Israel and take hostages. After Yahya Sinwar came to power in Gaza in 2017, Hamas decided to add deception to the plan. It considered launching the attack twice in 2022, once in April and once in September, when it discussed carrying it out during the Jewish holidays in October. The IDF does not know why Hamas chose not to attack that year. A Hamas document states: “We must continue to work to convince the enemy that Hamas in Gaza is interested in calm and is working for economic prosperity …”

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Peloni:  Mike Doran, in a conversation with Dan Diker, discusses how the Biden administration structured their response to October 7 to revitalize the Two State Solution(TSS) to block the Right wing govt while also maintaining the administration’s momentum towards their Iranian Pivot away and from Israel.  Doran goes on to explain that the TSS is simply not going to happen due to Israeli and American interests and Israeli public shift against the TSS.  Doran asserts that the Turks and the Israelis will come to a “quiet accommodation”  based on the major security interests of the two nations, while still having significant disagreements on issues such as Gaza and the Palestinians.  It is his suggestion that the US should facilitate the cooperation of Turkey and Israel, despite these differences.  Despite Erdogan’s very recent call for retaking Jerusalem, Doran explains that Turkey is not looking for a fight with Israel, that it balances threats from the Balkans, Iran, Russia, the Caucuses and the Middle East, all at once resulting in the Turkish military maintaining a very cautious perspective.  Despite this view, it should be recalled that among all of these threats being balanced by the Turks, Iran was among the most overt and tangible, and with the Mullah’s hopefully soon to be extinction, this would result in a power vacuum in the Middle East which the Turks will certainly try to fill, just as they did in Syria after the Israelis decimated Hezbollah.  Such a possible eventuality would be a grave threat to Israel, as Turkey heads the radical Sunni Axis, which is far less objectionable to the Sunni nations of the region than the radical Shia Axis which Iran heads.

Peloni: It is time to fix this problem, and this requires open dialogue between the US and Russia, which was previously scorched by the US, to be re-established. This is what Zelensky opposes, it is why he demanded to be present when the US and Russia re-established their diplomatic connections, and it is why the US-Ukraine mineral deal has not yet been signed, even though it presents Ukraine with a substantial security commitment from the US. It may appear that Zelensky is the problem, but the truth is that the problem is embedded in the entire Ukrainian power structure, which is centered around war with Russia at any cost. They feel the US is obligated to Ukraine to continue its war with Russia because the US helped ignite that war, helped fuel that war, and helped keep that war going for the past three years. There is, however, no such obligation for the US, and in fact, it is specifically an American interest that this war be ended as soon as possible, under the best terms possible, so that the US can focus its entire effort on China.

?RFK Jr. is RIGHT about Ukraine and Russia

He explains how the war is nothing more than a money laundering scheme pic.twitter.com/41aVO9Gx6C

— Died Suddenly (@DiedSuddenly_) March 2, 2025

Peloni:  Ben Gvir was correct, both before and after he came to agree with the govt’s actions.  It was a great mistake for him to have left the govt.

Witkoff proposal calls for ceasefire extension during Ramadan-Passover, release of additional hostages

All Israel News Staff | Published: March 2, 2025

By PH3 James R. Klein – http://www.defenseimagery.mil; VIRIN: DN-ST-92-04697, Public Domain

Following a security cabinet meeting Saturday night, which also marked the end of the first phase of the hostage-ceasefire deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel would adopt a framework for a temporary ceasefire extension during the Ramadan and Passover period put forward by U.S. Presidential envoy Steve Witkoff.

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Michael Ordman | March 2, 2025

In the 2nd Mar 25 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• A week of contrasts – Buses & Bibas.
• An innovative, less-invasive, Israeli device to minimize the chance of a stroke.
• Israel had a friendly visit by a Pakistani Moslem leader.
• See what Israel uses to prevent wildfires.
• An Israeli startup is vastly extending the life of electric car batteries.
• Fiji promises to be the next country to open an embassy in Jerusalem.

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By Hugh Fitzgerald | Mar 1, 2025

While Israel has had its hands full, and its attention focused, on fighting Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and on “demilitarizing” Syria by destroying all the weaponry that Bashar Assad’s army had accumulated, it has at the same time been monitoring Tehran’s race to acquire nuclear weapons. The news is alarming. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said that since December, there has been a “dramatic increase” in the amount of uranium enriched to 60%, or just below weapons-grade, in Iran. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar now says that despite the new and crippling sanctions on Iran just imposed by the Trump administration, economic collapse may not be enough to halt Iran’s nuclear program, and a “military option” must remain on the table. More on Sa’ar’s warning can be found here: “‘Military option’ on table to halt Tehran’s nuclear threat, Sa’ar warns,” Jerusalem Post, February 26, 2025:

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Peloni:  The regime which Zelensky leads in Ukraine is the product of the US Deep State coup which overthrew the last Ukrainian president which was elected by the entire Ukrainian nation.  The factions and ideologies which have been established in Ukraine as dominant since that time will remain an obstacle to peace, no matter who leads the nation, and is likely why Zelensky has repeatedly acted to try to scuttle Trump’s attempts to make peace thus far, something which should be expected to likely continue.

By Monica Showalter | Am Thinker | Mar, 1, 2025

Is Volodymyr Zelensky somebody’s little puppet?

It was a strange specter to watch the Russian state media’s observation of that in response to the meeting between Zelensky and President Trump, which ended in a shouting match, and Zelensky sent home without his presidential lunch.

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by Majid Rafizadeh  •  Gatestone Institute • March 1, 2025 at 5:00 am

Despite having survived through the presidencies of multiple U.S. leaders — from Jimmy Carter through Joe Biden — the Iranian regime has never softened its hostility. Its leaders and supporters continue to chant “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.” Its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and proxy militias target U.S. interests, and are expanding its influence not only across the Middle East but deeply into Latin America. The exasperating reality is that every attempt at reconciliation or engagement seems only to embolden Iran’s regime further. Pictured: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vows “Death to America” in a televised appearance, in November 2022. (Image source: MEMRI)

• The Islamic of Republic of Iran is a revolutionary state, deeply committed to an ideological mission that transcends conventional diplomacy. Its very core identity is rooted in anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, and the goal of exporting its revolutionary ideals worldwide.

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Peloni:  This self imposed tragedy was the greatest Ukrainian defeat in the long list of defeats which Ukraine secured over the past more than a decade.  In fact, this catastrophic misstep by Zelensky is potentially if not likely regime changing in its nature.  The Ukrainian Ambassador facepalmed gesticulation during the event really captures the reality which Ukraine faces at this juncture.  As has been explained by Bryen, below and more extensively in his previous essays, Zelensky can not be seen to negotiate with Putin which likely played no small role in this diplomatic implosioin.  Quite a terrible moment for the Ukrainian rank and file whose morale was already at a significant deficit.

and some guesses about what happens next