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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Peloni:  It will take real leadership in the West to prove Benz wrong. Today, America has such leadership in President Trump to resist the avarice and influence which began and maintains the Ukrainian war fever, but where is his like to be found in Europe? Where is his like to be found in the US?  The paucity of competent leadership in the West is a tragic reality with tangible consquences, which will perpetuate the tragedy of Ukraine across Europe and into the future.

“There will never be peace in Ukraine. Not in our lifetime.” @MikeBenzCyber explains why he believes conflict will continue overseas, even if a peace deal is struck.

Watch the full segment with @JesseKellyDC on YouTube & Subscribe: https://t.co/ETWKyUC1Wu pic.twitter.com/gMirEC26ks

— The First (@TheFirstonTV) March 4, 2025

Peloni:  The diversity of opinions held by the wider Druze community should be reflected upon as it contrasts with the alignment of Israel’s faithful and patriotic Druze community.  There are no more patriotic supporters of Israel than can be found in Israel’s Druze community, so it should not be surprising that a similarly patriotic Syrian mentality persists among the Syrian Druze, even as they are now caught in a situation where their Alawite protectors in Syria have been replaced with a Jihadi in sheep clothing.  Hence the pronouncement by the Syrian Druze that Israeli support would be the lessor of two evils.  The implications of that sentiment, and the inner conflict to which it speaks, should be expected to persist among the Syrian Druze for at least some time.

Jo Elizabeth | All Israel News | Published: March 4, 2025

Israeli flag being flown in the Druze area of Suwayda (Photo: Screenshot)

A day after Israeli Air Force (IAF) fighter jets attacked a military site in the Qardahah area in Syria, footage of an Israeli flag being flown in the Druze area of Suwayda surfaced on social media.

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By Hugh Fitzgerald | Mar 4, 2025

What went wrong at the Nahal Oz IDF base on October 7, 2023?

Everything.

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“[TONIGHT] WILL BE BIG. I WILL TELL IT LIKE IT IS!”

Peloni:  Zelensky burned a great deal of credibility with Trump for very little gain.  As I noted before, doing so was a very big mistake, for him and Ukraine.  The inartful choice of retreating thru a tweet rather than a via public statement or interview speaks to the fact that this needed doing quickly without the possibility of Zelensky putting a foot wrong after having failed to repair the situation thru many interviews.  Hence, as Sundance explains below, no one should or likely does Trust Zelensky’s newly broached move towards championing peace.

According to Reuters, the Trump Administration and Ukraine are expected the sign the much-debated “Mineral Deal” sometime today, without any kind of Ceremony or Press Briefing; as U.S. President Donald J. Trump has told his Advisors he wants to be able to announce the Agreement… pic.twitter.com/RQ8zVh5Q3G

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) March 4, 2025

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Arlene Kushner | March 4, 2025

AFP

I have been tracking the “process” – if I can call it that – that is following stage one of the “ceasefire deal.” And as has often been the case of late, I have delayed in writing because the situation has been so unclear and so fluid. I knew that by the time a posting went out, the situation would likely have shifted again.

But now it is time to write.

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? JUST IN: FINALLY! President Trump is going against the Pro-Hams campus protesters—promises to expel students and withhold funds from those who allow illegal protests. pic.twitter.com/G8PbU9BgNe

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) March 4, 2025

Peloni:  The purpose of public commentary to advise institutional actions taken by such bureaucratic institutions as HHS is to offer public input into the implementation of policies which are almost uniquely designed by non-elected officials.  Refusing to take the pulse of the people on such decisions presents a mindset based in elitism which should be seen to be quite distinct from the public face on which RFK Jr ran in this past election.  Hopefully this radical endeavor to shield the HHS, of all institutions, from public feedback will be blocked.

In notice to Federal Register, health agency says public participation is not needed in many decisions; HHS would rescind its longtime

By Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., CC BY-SA 2.0

“This includes grants, loans, and benefits, which is a large portion of what HHS does.”

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