Peloni: Trump’s statement seems to remind me of a quote from Stonewall Jackson from before the outbreak of the American Civil War in which he stated, “The time for war has not yet come, but it will come, and that soon; and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard.” Yet, we are beyond the point of the outbreak of war, well beyond it, and despite this fact, the sword has been returned to its scabbard at the insistence of the incoming Trump administration. Now we are at the decisive point of Stage Two of the Surrender Deal, and the question remains whether or not Israel should continue to accept the surrender deal which was forced on her by the US, even after the US, itself, has conceded that the deal is untenable and should be undone. Doing so would be an egregious error characteristic of the Old Conception, which is why I am confident that Bibi will choose wisely and return to finish the war which was unfortunately interrupted.  Failing to do so would discredit him in every way possible, and this is not something which Bibi would likely accept, even if he were inclined to do so.

?Trump on the hostages, here is the video ? https://t.co/5EtFROq5d9 pic.twitter.com/KDwT8YsonA

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) February 26, 2025

Fake quotes from grand muftis condemning Hamas show just the opposite.

Daniel Greenfield | Feb 24, 2025

After Hamas paraded the coffins of 9-month-old Kfir and 4-year-old Ariel to the cheers and jeers of its supporters, before turning over the coffins, locked with keys that did not fit to Israel, people looked for something to restore their faith in the goodness of mankind in the Muslim world.

Millions thought they found it in fake quotes from the grand muftis of Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

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Peloni:  It is hard to look back at how removed from reality everything was before October 7, but not as hard as it is to grasp that many are still trying to find a way back to being removed from reality once again.

Jonathan D. Halevi | X | Feb 25, 2025

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— Jonathan D. Halevi (@jdhalevi) February 25, 2025

Four Days Before the October 7 Attack – Security Officials’ Recommendation to the Government: Reducing “Civil Measures” in the Gaza Strip “Harms Israel’s Strategic Interest”; It Is Recommended to Approve Additional Economic Easing, Including Increasing the Number of Workers from Gaza Allowed to Work in Israel

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Peloni:  Among other things, Avivi addresses the main issue which is blocking the movement of Gazans out of Gaza, and it isn’t about the interest of the Gazans, but about keeping this weaponized psychopathic horde in Israel where they can carryon the fight against Israel.

Peloni:  This is an important first step towards seeing the pointless slaughter in Ukraine continuing while providing the US with the ability to recover much of the value of its wasted assets in Ukraine.

Cookie Schwaeber-Issan | All Isreal News | February 25, 2025

Scanné par van Nuytts (original published in 1898)

It was more than 120 years ago when a 35-year-old French artillery officer named Alfred Dreyfus was accused of treason “for communicating French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris.” Sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island, he was forced to spend the next five years of his life under intolerable conditions.

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Peloni:  Must watch interview with Mudar Zahran by Tomar Yonah.  Mudar provides significant details of what to expect following his rise to power in Jordan.

My interview with Israeli radio

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Where have they gone? To another continent or country, another city? Try blocks away.

Moshe Phillips | Feb 25, 2025

Palestinian walking amid the ruble in Gaza originally posted to Flickr by Al Jazeera English ( Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.)

Did you know that moving a few miles to temporarily get out of the way of gunfire constitutes an “exodus”?

I didn’t either until I read the appalling headline on the front page of The New York Times on Feb. 18: “In West Bank, Israel’s Tactics Cause Exodus.”

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Peloni:  The constant monitoring of govt rolls – impressively brilliant!

Why clean voter rolls, why not clean every government roll?

Omega4America |Feb 25, 2025

Roman man voting in one of the assemblies . Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. 

Before D.O.G.E. there was a nice little industry – mostly middle-aged women looking for recognition or retired guys working in the basement – cleaning voter rolls.

They sat around on Zoom calls complaining no Secretary of State would take their evidence and clean a voter roll.

They accomplished literally zero, from 2020 to 2024 – writing articles and giving interviews about why nobody cleaned the voter rolls they found so polluted.

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By Christine Douglass-Williams | Feb 25, 2025

Under Syria’s former President Bashar al-Assad, Syria was suspended from the Arab League in 2011, but now that the al-Qaeda linked jihadist Abu Mohammad al-Julani (aka Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa) is president, Syria is now in good graces with the Arab League. Al-Sharaa was put there by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) notes:

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?By Hugh Fitzgerald | Feb 24, 2025

Elder of Ziyon has a series of observations on the funeral, with 50,000 participants, of Hassan Nasrallah, the late, and for the civilized world unlamented, leader of Hezbollah. The state of Lebanon was hardly in evidence at the funeral — no Lebanese flags, no mention of the country of Lebanon, no playing of the Lebanese national anthem — but Israel was. The Jewish state reminded everyone of its powerful presence in the IAF planes flying overhead, whose sonic booms could be heard all over Beirut. More of Elder of Ziyon’s notes on the funeral can be found here: “Anecdotes from Nasrallah’s funeral,” Elder of Ziyon, February 23, 2025:

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Hamas Backtracks on Senior Official’s Statements Regretting Consequences of 2023 Assault on Israel

FDD | Feb 24, 2025

Peloni:  The hostage deal was a grave mistake.  It strengthened Hamas, abandoned strategic Israeli positions, released openly unrepentant butchers on the streets of Israel, and demonstrated to the world that the long abandoned enterprise of stealing Jew is a winning strategy, even for the most abject evil creatures which walk the earth.

A healthy society embraces life. A sick society worships death.

Sarah N. Stern | Feb 24, 2025

How does one adequately mourn a baby of barely 9 months, who was just beginning to crawl and eat solid food? How does one mourn a 4-year-old who loved Batman and had sparkling eyes that carried with them an intense thirst for knowledge? Or a terrified mother who would do anything to shield and protect her children?

Why has the world forgotten about the babies burned in ovens in front of their parents on Oct. 7, 2023? Or about parents brutally executed in front of their children?

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Peloni:  In regards to the question raised by Diane Bederman, What Would King Solomon Do, one of our astute readers raised the point that the answer would have been addressed by Solomon as exemplified in the story of Maharam of Rothenburg.

There is only one reason why the ancient art of ransoming Jews has been reborn in the modern era, and it is because the ransom is being paid.  Instead of responding to this barbaric practice as the Galut Jews were forced to do, Israel should instead hunt down the kidnappers with extreme prejudice, in real time, and with such devastation that it is clear that the raison detre of the Jewish State, namely to act to defend the Jewish people as needed, is being fulfilled.  Instead, paying those who kidnap, murder and abuse our people for their arts of depravity will only see that such depravity becomes a wider industry in our age…and this can not be permitted.

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Rabbi Meir ben Baruch, the Maharam of Rothenburg (1225-1293) became the leader of Ashkenazic Jewry and one of the greatest rabbis of all time. We have close to 3,500 legal responses of his. It is just enormous.

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Navigating Hamas barbarism needs knowledge of what the law allows. And Israel’s war is unequivocally within its rights.

Prof. Louis René Beres |   Feb 25, 2025

Immediately following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, a reconfiguration of jihadi groups began to take shape. In ways not yet fully understood, this complex reconfiguration is being accelerated by Israel-Hamas hostage release agreements. But whatever the precise forms of this worrisome reconfiguration, an authoritative distinction will continue to distinguish between terror criminality and law-based counter-terrorism. In essence, this unhanging distinction will concern the universal jihadi embrace of “criminal intent” or mens rea.

Regarding Israel’s inherent right to survival and self-defense, pertinent law is fully clarifying and exculpatory. While the harms inflicted by Israeli counter-terrorism operations are collateral to international law-enforcement, the harms perpetrated on Israeli civilian hostages by Hamas and kindred jihadists are invariably the product of intentional law violation. Inter alia, it was improper for the International Criminal Court to issue coinciding arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and leaders of Hamas. On its face, this ICC-declared symmetry was political and contrived. It was not in any way jurisprudential.

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Peloni:  Much of what Pollard asserts should be done is accurate, but his analysis of Bibi’s career being built on failure after failure is not just harsh, but unbalanced, unfair, and I would suggest inaccurate.  Nonetheless, the time for inspired action is at hand and Bibi should seize the advantage which is now before him.