By Michael Odman, VGNI

In the 19th Jan 25 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• Mother of three is a part-time PhD student and an IDF Command Center manager.
• Israeli Professor boosts the immune system to slow the aging process.
• Nine inspiring prize-winning young immigrants give hope for Israel’s future.
• Four teams of Israelis are helping combat California’s wildfires.
• Israeli technology could prevent future wildfires.
• Nvidia is investing half a billion dollars in a new Israeli development center.
• Israelis thought “outside the box” when stranded on a snowy mountain.
• Two ancient structures unearthed from the Kingdom of Judah.

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Peloni:  Debarred?  Is this really to be the level of penalty leveraged against those who are responsible for the deaths of untold numbers, and the ruin of untold livelihoods?  The perpetrators of the faux pandemic should each be forced to sit in the dock, to be tried in every locality in which their efforts had a deleterious consequence.  Their liberty should be forfeit, their fortunes should be seized, and their investments should be liquidated to the benefit of those who are still suffering from the tragedies which unfolded following the events described below.  In all of this, justice will either be blind in allocating a fair remedy for the horrors of the past years, or it will be blinded by those still in power who are able to prevent a just remedy for those who manufactured this tragedy… and that would of course be an even greater crime.

Robert McGreevy  | Daily Caller | January 18, 2025

[Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) formally debarred Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, a company which coordinated with Dr. Anthony Fauci’s aides to receive funding for gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China, according to documents the House Oversight Committee released Friday.

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Peloni:  Fleisher is correct!  The simultaneous release of dozens of terrorists in coordination with the release of 3 Israeli hostages is both immoral and damaging to Israel’s security.

Peloni:  Should this report, which is based on unnamed sources, prove to be accurate, it will be very damaging to the peace agreed upon in the North.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | Jan 19, 2025

In southern Lebanon, a 60-day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah is now in force. Both sides made certain solemn commitments. The Israelis said that they would remove their troops from Lebanon within 60 days, provided that Hezbollah honored its pledge to pull its own troops and weapons out of southern Lebanon and to redeploy them north of the Litani River. The ceasefire began on November 27, and already there have been violations by Hezbollah, which has been caught by the Israelis moving troops not out of, but rather, into different positions within southern Lebanon. It has also been found smuggling in more weapons from Syria and also trying to place rockets still in southern Lebanon into new hiding places, thereby violating its promise to remove all weapons from the area. Israel naturally responded by tank fire on suspects carrying weapons in. a car, and on Hezbollah military structures near the border with Israel.

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Peloni:  Gaza is Hamas

?Israeli hostages passing between vehicles in seconds, in front of the "innocent" Gazan mob who wants to lynch them. pic.twitter.com/kpNfLOX1Pf

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) January 19, 2025

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Peloni:  Avivi describes the Hostage Deal as providing a positive segway towards regional development and benefits for both Israel and the US.  He also reaffirms that he does not foresee Israel abandoning its goals in this war, and that Israel needs to work with the US to develop a new reality within the Middle East, as well as globally.

Peloni:  Excellent article by Katsman describing the corruption and moral failing of the West, and the hope for the greater moral clarity as the Trump administration is about to take over.

By Abe Katsman | Am Thinker | Jan 19, 2025

Image via Pixabay.

The lone man of principle faces down a menace.  The stakes are high; the odds of success are not.  Yet, bolstered by that principle, he defeats the menace.

That motif runs through our culture, our history, and our mythology, and especially our cinema.  Americans in particular so strongly identify with versions of these morality tales that we invented an entire genre — the Western.

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Peloni:  The first half of this conversation provides granular detail of how the deal will play, but the second half discusses the likelihood that the deal will not move beyond Phase 1, and the likely consequences of the deal.

By Sha’i ben-Tekoa | Am Thinker | Jan 15, 2025

Image: Nazi pseudoscience about Semitic identity. Fair use.

About a century before the current crop of deceitful neologisms invaded and polluted our minds—e.g. homophobia, islamophobia, transphobia, etc.—”anti-Semitism” preceded them. Like the others, it is illogical and untruthful. For there to be such a thing as anti-Semitism, there first must be a thing called Semitism, when there is not now and never was.

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Peloni:  As a follow-up to our publication of excerpts from Joseph Shellim’s “Philistine-To-Palestine”, we are happy to be able to present a series of excerpts from his informative “BEN HUR II – EXILE” [aka “HOLY-WAR: ROME AND THE JEWS“.  Below is the second installment.  Link at bottom for previous installment

HOLY WAR – ROME’S MARCH OF MIGHT

As the dawn breaks, Mighty Rome’s war processions have burst forth like a gigantic caterpillar heaving through the cobbled stone grounds of the ancient towns of Judea. The Hebrew scribe Josephus is now embedded in Rome’s march of might, to account history’s greatest super power marching to the calamitous destination of the famed holy city of Jerusalem.

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By Joan Swirsky, ©2025

Oy vey! The glass is not half empty—it’s completely empty!

Oy gevalt! The sky really is falling!

That’s what our purportedly most astute and seasoned political commentators would have you believe about the ceasefire agreement that was reached just a day or so ago between Hamas and Israel.

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FDD | Jan 16, 2025

Peloni:  The next few months are critical for Trump on many areas of import.  Hopefully Trump will demonstrate that the huge cost of forcing Israel to accept this surrender deal will be worth the undisclosed potential benefits which may stand in the not too distant future.

Trump’s desire to seal a pre-inauguration deal forced Israel’s acquiescence.

Douglas Altabef |   Jan 17, 2025

Donald Trump and Marco Rubio   REUTERS/Jonathan Drake

There is widespread and justifiable disappointment, unto anger, about the just announced hostage deal. Yes, thankfully, hostages are going to be released. But the price being paid is steep.

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Peloni:  Trump must take back control securing the freedom of the seas, in such a way that it is seen that this is taking place on his terms and not those of the Houthis.  Failing to do so will only lead to the grasp of US impotence growing under the return of Trump to the White House rather than the opposite.

The message from the Houthis is that they decide the time and place of attacks. The message they think will resonate is that they got away with this. Time will tell if this is the case.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | JANUARY 16, 2025

Peloni:  Turkey stands as a looming threat to regional stability, as it leads the radical Sunni axis in opposition to both the Iranian radical Shiite axis, as well as to Israel and the moderate Sunni states.

By Christine Douglass-Williams | Jan 17, 2025

Turkey is a dangerous Islamic supremacist state under its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has expansionary goals of a revived Ottoman Empire with himself as caliph. And he’s getting closer.

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