Israeli flag at Masada Public Domain

The Ottoman Empire ruled Palestine from 1517 until WWI, relinquishing the sovereignty of the territory to the Allies in the Treaty of Sèvres of August 10, 1920. This enabled the Jews to pursue their historic claim to Palestine contends Dore Gold, historian and former Israeli ambassador. The British did not give Palestine to the Jews; “it was a de jure recognition of a situation that existed de facto,” asserts historian Isiah Friedman. They assumed that the Arabs and Jews would be able to live together in harmony and that the Arabs would profit from this arrangement. But the British acknowledged an overriding issue: The Jews had the more compelling and credible case, and that this was sui generis.

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Michael Ordman | Mar 23, 2025

In the 23rd Mar 25 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• Hundreds of Syrian Druze visit Israel for the first time since 1948.
• An Israeli discovery advances research into cures for genetic diseases.
• Judea and Samaria leaders are welcomed in the UAE.
• High school students launch Israel’s largest network of satellites.
• Google’s $32 billion purchase of Wiz is the largest in Israeli history.
• The Jewish festival of Purim was full of surprises.

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All Israel News Staff | Published: March 23, 2025

By Amos Ben Gershom / Government Press Office of Israel, CC BY-SA 3.0

Following a three-hour-long discussion, ministers of Netanyahu’s government voted today to express no confidence in Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara.

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Peloni:  Erdogan has more lives than a colony of cats.  Hence, unfortunately, it is unlikely that he will not survive this most recent democratic outrage, even as the protests persist.

By Andrea Widburg | Am Thinker | March 23, 2025

Last week, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, Turkey’s Islamist president, arrested a political rival. That sparked several days of protest, and, today, it’s seemingly culminated with protestors invading the presidential palace. The big question is whether this ends with a brutal response or the end of Erdo?an’s reign. Obviously, I have no answer to that question, but I can provide a little, very superficial background to help make some sense of what’s happening in Turkey today.

Today’s Turkey is the remnant of the once formidable Ottoman Empire, which, at its peak in 1683, before it was beaten back at the Gates of Vienna, controlled vast swaths of central Europe and the Middle East for hundreds of years:

Image by Chamboz. CC B-SA 4.0.

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Peloni:  It continues to be revealing how well the Leftist Juristocracy in Israel is being used as a model around which the Progressives in the US are subverting executive authority. Relatedly, Levin raises a pivotal point in his Mar 22 monologue as he raise the question of whether Justices John Roberts and Amy Comey Barret will be part of the revolution which puts an end to the representative govt in America.

Mar 22: Levin discusses the ideological roots of Progressivism as it relates to the ongoing revolution against the will of the people and representative govt, which is taking place via the rulings by progressive judges which were recently appointed by the Biden administration for exactly this purpose.

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Celebrating the work of Linda Goudsmit

by Bruce Deitrick Price | March 23, 2025

I am thrilled to post education reformer Bruce Deitrick Price’s podcast transcript, March 12, 2025, Let’s Fix Education: Episode 193, Big Picture Thinking:

TRANSCRIPT:

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To celebrate Ramadan 2025, and published on the Muslim holy day of Friday for double points, here is Jalal Tagreeb’s review of a recent, tortuous work of Islamic apologetics. Jalal himself is a former Muslim apologist who lost his faith after being exposed to Islam’s flaws in debates with non-Muslims. He now champions secularism and freethinking. His story and analysis of several popular Islamic arguments can be read in his Jihad by Word series, published in the Freethinker in 2024.

by Jalal Tagreeb | Mar 21, 2025

Seizure of the Banu Qurayza stronghold. Illustration from 1808 edition of Mirza Muhammad Rafi Bazil’s Hamla-i Haydari, a versified telling of the life of Muhammad and his first four successors. By Muhammad Rafi’ B?zil – Bibliothèque nationale de France, Public Domain

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Peloni:  Highly recommended reading.  In the below linked article Tony Badran, a well known authority on all matters related to the Levant, presents a very extensive review of events taking place, both in the US and in the Middle East, as it relates to the reported slaughter of Christians taking place in the Levant.  Badran clarifies that there is an ongoing campaign to manipulate sympathy for the Eastern Churches in such a way as to increase antipathy for Israel while simultaneously undermining the base values on which the American experiment was founded.  He explains further that the captured status of the Eastern Churches by their respective Muslim overlords requires caution when any attempt is made to infer that these Eastern Christians have any agency of their own at all with which to speak freely or honestly regarding their situation as it relates to the interests of their Muslim overlords.  Hence, their exploited role in acting as the emissaries of the PA and other Muslim overlords is being  used to not only falsely abuse the Israel, but to also obscure the basis of their current situation being due to those same Muslim overlords.  Badran goes on to explain that Carlson and his fellow Iranian sycophants are acting to promote the false reports put forward by the captured Eastern Churches so as to vilify Israel and the US, and thereby unravel the alliance between the big and little Satans, as it were, while remaining specifically silent on the plight of the Eastern Christians themselves.

Comments are encouraged.

By Tony Badran | Tablet | Mar 22, 2025

Click on Link to Read Article:

https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/rights-sectarian-moment-syria-christians

Peloni:  PM Netanyahu addresses the public on the true series of events leading to the dismissal of the Shin Bet Chief, Ronin Bar.  See full transcript below.

Click on photo for partial video with translation 

Transcript:

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Peloni:  We Jews have the only right to these lands, but such rights are tied to obligations, the obligation to secure the land, to populate the land, and to also  recall the ties which demonstrate that our rights undeniable.  The preservation of the our past provides a tether to secure our future.

Don’t miss the story of the thirty year struggle which led to the the acknowledgement of Joshua’s Alter at the bottom

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Minority communities in Syria face grave danger, yet the world’s attention is elsewhere revealing a troubling pattern in international relations.

Avi Abelow | Mar 23, 2025

The Druze town of Buka (a small valley) in the Gol.  By Roded Shlomo Pikiwiki Israel, CC BY 2.5

A massacre taking place in Syria as Turkish-backed Sunni Muslim forces are murdering Alawites and Christians in their homes, on the streets and in the fields. Whole families and communities are being slaughtered. Yet as Syrians plead for the world to pay attention, it remains silent. There has been virtually no media attention despite plenty of video clips showing the massacres.

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Wallace White  | Daily Caller | March 22, 2025

the M/V Rubymar, a Belize-flagged, UK-owned bulk carrier leaking oil in the Gulf of Aden after taking significant damage after an attack by Iran-backed Houthi. By CENTCOM –  Public Domain

President Donald Trump has a prime opportunity to finally end the threat the Houthi rebels in Yemen pose to one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.

The U.S. conducted precision strikes on Houthi positions in Yemen Saturday, aiming to decapitate the group by targeting leadership and other key technical figures, Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich told reporters Monday at a press briefing. Trump made a name for himself in dealing with terror groups in his routing of ISIS during his first term, and while the Houthis present a unique challenge compared to ISIS, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that Trump has the opportunity to re-establish order against another Middle Eastern insurgency.

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Peloni:  The opportunity to deal with the tragedy which has been fostered with the support of international and domestic insanity requires immediate and cross sectional support.  The Trump vision is doable, and actionable, but it requires immediate political will and action from within the leadership of Israel to gain the very real dividends which will stabilize the region and Israel’s relationship with its neighbors.

The Trump proposal comprises a point of singularity reflecting a sharp break from past trends, and a sober recognition of the futility of the past pursuit of some mythical Palestinian Arab “peace partner.”

Martin Sherman | Mar 23, 2025

Israel is on the very cusp of major historical change. The only question is whether its leaders will seize the moment or, tragically, let it slip away.

The potential portal to a new tomorrow was created by Donald Trump’s audacious proposal for the removal of the population of Gaza as a precondition for peace—or at least stability—in the war-torn coastal enclave.

Jettisoning “false axioms”

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Peloni:  The Qatari influence peddling of politicians, administrators, and media has had the effect of maintaining the terror corruption which has systemically penetrated the entire US infrastructure, from the education system to the federal agencies, Qatar is protected and supported while the threat it presents against Western civilization should be condemned, excised and eliminated.  This banter between a pair of Qatari talking heads who represent the administration and the media respectively only exemplifies this fact.

“I think you have to trust the Qataris.”

by Daniel Greenfield | Mar 23, 2025

By Unknown author – , Public Domain

Steven Witkoff, the Trump administration’s official envoy who had past business ties to Qatar, sat down with Tucker Carlson, the former FOX News talking head turned Qatari apologist who had recently featured Qatar’s leader, to talk about how wonderful Qatar is.

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