Why travel to Tel Aviv, risking capture along the way?

Moshe Phillips | August 23, 2024

Tel Aviv District Commander Peretz Amar following a failed bombing attack, in Tel Aviv, Aug. 19, 2024. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90

The fumbled suicide bombing in Tel Aviv might sound as if it was just another one of the countless attempted terrorist attacks that fail for whatever reason and are ignored by the international community. But if you look closer, you see that there’s much to be learned from this incident.

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Hamas has no dignified way out of impending cease-fire deal, and Sinwar must choose between 2 options — both bad for him; Israel can live with terms of deal, but ironically interests of Israel and Hamas coincide where regional war concerned

Brigadier General (res.) Amir Avivi | August 24, 2024

Hamas leader Yahyah Sinwar  ( Photo: AP, IDF  Spokesperson’s Unit)

One common motif in folk tales is the story of the villain who is caught in his own trap. Who among us isn’t pleased to hear that scarcely a single step separates Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, from the pit that he himself has dug?

For the sake of understanding the specific story ahead of us and the alignment of forces on the Mideast chessboard, the newness of the current situation must first be appreciated. The difference before our eyes is that Israeli and US are in agreement regarding all that concerns the ceasefire deal. Thus, essentially for the first time, the two countries are on the same side regarding everything about the nature of the deal. The present deal was first formulated last weekend in negotiations that bridged the gaps between the American and Israeli positions, and the countries agreed on a document that was delivered to Hamas. Now the ball has been passed to Hamas.

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Israel succeeded tactically, but that it didn’t use this moment to address the deeper strategic failure of its de facto surrender of northern Israel to Hizballah terror & then sent its team to Cairo right after Hamas again flipped Israel the bird is frankly disappointing. https://t.co/7NBzuYH0Lq

— David Wurmser (@Wurmserscribit) August 25, 2024

Peloni:  This was an important event, with Israel demonstrating not only that they had the means and skill to inflict a costly price on the enemy, but that they had the political will to do so as well.  In fact, I would argue that this latter aspect was the most important element in this engagement.  Meanwhile the feckless UNIFIL has once again demonstrated for all the world to see their failure to do more than gesticulate in support for their mandate to implement UNSC 1701 and let us not forget UNSC 1559 as well.

A return to the cessation of hostilities, followed by the implementation of UN Security Council resolution 1701, is the only sustainable way forward.

We will continue our contacts to strongly urge for de-escalation.

— UNIFIL (@UNIFIL_) August 25, 2024

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Peloni:  We live in an age of totalitarians, where freedom is defined by those who restrict freedom.

Sundance | August 25, 2024

Pavel Durov and his brother Nikolai are genuinely brilliant tech programmers, mathematicians and entrepreneurs.  The Durov brothers founded the Telegram communication app in 2013.  Telegram now has 950 million active users who can send messages, photos and videos, take part in chats for groups of up to 200,000 people and broadcast to unlimited audiences.

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Peloni: Great insights!

What’s wrong and right with the world.

J.E. Dyer, a retired Naval Intelligence officer, blogs as The Optimistic Conservative, August 23, 2024

Will we ever get inside? Images: Pixabay; author

As the Democratic National Convention & Mass Protest-fest bursts upon us, it’s time to get some updates out of the way so we can concentrate on whatever moments of eventhood may eventuate this week.

There are quite a few notables to tag, so these will not be in-depth treatments. There are several national security issues, but we’ll start with an economic policy topic that demands urgent treatment, because most commentators are focusing on the wrong thing in discussing it.

They’re focusing on what they understand (very well, to be sure), and not on what we’ll really – really – regret in the long run.

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Iran is trying to force Israel, the US, UK and other countries to be on alert every time the regime desires to gain attention

Seth J. Frantzman | August 22, 2024

Israel has been on alert during the first two weeks of August. Iran’s threats to attack with a multi-front assault, using Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed proxies, has kept the Middle East on its toes.

Each day has brought new reports that Iran could attack in the next 48 hours. The hours have stretched by and become days and weeks.

Iran has claimed it has a right to retaliate because it accuses Israel of killing Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. The Hamas leader was in the city to attend the inauguration of the country’s new president in late July.

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by Victor Rosenthal | August 24, 2024

Western elites would like to live in a society based on a derivative of Christian morality, even though most of them have left Christianity behind. They believe that all human beings must be given the same basic rights simply by virtue of being human. They hate violence but believe it should be treated with understanding, and criminal behavior with rehabilitation at best and isolation at worst. For them, revenge is an atavistic act that has no place in civilized society. Honor is something that one pays lip service to, but gaining or losing it has no real consequences. Religion is a private matter that must be subservient to secular authority. Government is based on consent. They aspire to a world run according to these principles, governed by impartial international law and democratic institutions to enforce it. They believe that these values are so obviously superior that social evolution will ultimately bring them to infuse the world, and that opposing ideologies are bound to disappear.

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Daniel Greenfield | August 24, 2024

“What can be, unburdened by what has been,” Vice President Kamala Harris recites looking into the cameras, into her teleprompter and into the glare of the afternoon sunshine in a swing state.

Unburdened by the laws of her economics, her past track record or reality, anything is possible.

The much mocked phrase has become to her brand what “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for” was to Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. The twin statements of faith, their awkward construction of both deliberately echoing the cadence of old school preachers and new school gurus, are transformative in very different ways. Where Obama appeared to be offering his followers the opportunity to participate in a new revolution, Kamala offers her supporters the rebirth of forgetting that the old ever existed.

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‘There has never been a Palestinian entity’

By Robert Spencer | August 23, 2024

In a sane world, Youssef El-Khoury would be president of Lebanon. In this world, the host had to disavow his remarks on the program, or the host and the station could have faced violent reprisals.

“Lebanese Filmmaker Youssef El-Khoury: The Palestinian Cause Is Fake, There Has Never Been a Palestinian Entity; Nasrallah Should Just Shut Up, He Pollutes the Lebanese Mind, History, and Heritage,” MEMRI, August 8, 2024:

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Peloni: Gen. Vallely provides a blueprint by which to save America

by MG Paul E Vallely, US Army (Ret) | Aug 20, 2024

Chairman – Stand Up America US Foundation

With the Left making giant strides in its war on America, what is going to become of our country? The answer to this question is we have a choice. Two paths lay before us. One path—the one preferred by the Left—leads to government control, racial and gender strife, economic stagnation, identity confusion, a culture of WOKEness, a weakened military, removal of God from all aspects of daily life, and the loss of our constitutionally guaranteed freedoms.

However, there is another path that beckons us to restore the vision of our Founding Fathers. This path with President Donald Trump promises to again make the United States the most powerful, prosperous, and free nation on earth. It is a vision of a ‘more perfect union’, as eloquently described in the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution:

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Peloni:  This was a must happen victory in the war being waged to re-establish the American Republic.  This being stated, it still remains to be seen how the Trump team, even with the backing of Kennedy and his supporters, will come to defeat the election machine which bases the election results on Trump’s final tally, as was the case in 2020.

Be sure to see some important reflection on Kennedy’s endorsement by Patrick Bet-David, Brett Weinstein, Mike Huckaby and Bill Ackman at the bottom.

Sundance | August 23, 2024

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By Monica Showalter | Am Thinker | August 23, 2024

How does fake news get out there?

Well, based on this latest event, it comes not from Russian bots and fringe websites that the censorship lobby keeps howling about, but from the mainstream media itself, allowing its political biases to run wild at the expense of the facts.

According to the New York Post:

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T. Belman. I watched the whole speech and was blown away. He blamed the US for the Ukainian War, went into great detail as to why dealing with chronic diseases in the US must be the highest priority and why freedom of speech is so important.

Tierney’s Real News Aug 23

This is one of the most important speeches I’ve ever heard. Please read this shortened transcript and share this with everyone you can. RFK Jr. just explained why he left the Democrat party, ran for President – and is now dropping out to endorse President Trump. In the end – President Trump asked RFK Jr. to join him the day after he they tried to murder him. That’s the REAL story behind this union.

Independents like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Vivek, Tucker, Tulsi, RFK Jr. and more are now aligning with President Trump and MAGA because they LOVE America and HATE the NWO and Communism.

No matter what your party – this is important for all to hear. THE TRUTH HAS NO AGENDA. All the news networks (FOX, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC) cut away from this speech today. Why? Because it’s the TRUTH.

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By Moshe Phillips

In public, J Street says it’s horrified by the antisemitism of pro-Hamas protesters. But in private this week, J Street’s president pressured Jewish Democrats to stop accusing the protesters of being antisemitic. Why the two faces?

After last month’s pro-Hamas protests in Washington, D.C., J Street issued a statement denouncing what it called “the hateful, antisemitic, protests and harassment.” The July 25 news release said it was “vile and abhorrent” for the protesters to use “pro-Hamas slogans” and charged that their behavior “instills fear and fuels hate.” J Street said anybody “associating with the brutal terror organization Hamas must be condemned.”

But J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami sure sang a different tune at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. During a meeting with Jewish Democrats, Ben-Ami said the pro-Hamas protesters outside the convention “don’t intend” to offend Jews and merely need help understanding “the history of the Jewish people and the things that they can and can’t say that will rub the wrong way and trigger us in ways that they don’t intend.”

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It’s clear where her loyalties lie.

by Hugh Fitzgerald | August 23, 2024

Zvika Klein is a well-respected Israeli journalist of long-standing; he’s now the editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post. Klein been looking into the Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, and is deeply troubled by what he’s discovered. He believes that if she were to become President, it would be a “disaster for Israel and the Jewish people.” More on his qualms about the energetic glad-hander from San Francisco can be found here: “Editor’s Notes: Harris as president could be a disaster for Israel and the Jewish people,” by Zvika Klein, Jerusalem Post, August 8, 2024:

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Peloni:  It is a deep sickness which abandons the duty of adults to protect children from this harmful injection.  The moral, ethical, and rational abandoment of the young provides then American totalitarians with the means to introduce significant risks to those who would otherwise face no risk.  Indeed, no healthy child has any serious risk from Covid, but the same can not be made regarding these shots.  Profit and power displaces the standard of evidence based medicine and the precautionary principle, and the ones who will pay for this aberration of ethics and reason will be the children.

John Klar | Brownstone Institute | August 14, 2024

A controversial Vermont Supreme Court decision reached the rather astonishing conclusion that the government can vaccinate very young children with experimental products without parental consent or legal recourse. The ruling is surreal in a state that claims it prizes individual liberties. If not overturned by sane minds in the US Supreme Court, the consequences of this shortsighted, simplistic opinion may prove profound for American civil rights law.

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