DM Katz — ‘We will not allow terrorism to grow again’
he Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Sunday morning a significant expansion of ongoing counter-terror operations in Samaria following the attempted bus bombings Friday, which were connected to terror groups in that area.
Peloni: This is one small step towards sanity. Let it lead towards a full gallop towards accountability. End this capitulation to terror and unleash all hell on Gaza and eliminate this threat on the coast once and for all.
BREAKING ??
Prime Minister’s Office :
“In light of Hamas’ repeated violations – including the ceremonies that demean the dignity of our hostages and the cynical use of the hostages for propaganda purposes – it was decided to delay the release of the terrorists planned for… pic.twitter.com/P9Z3dR1B5d
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) February 22, 2025
Netanyahu is finally in a position to dismantle the forces that have long sought to subvert the will of the electorate.
Avi Abelow | Feb 20, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Ron Dermer (center), strategic affairs minister, and Danny Danon, ambassador to the United Nations, at Blair House in Washington, D.C., Feb. 3, 2025. Credit: Israeli mission to the United Nations
One of the most misunderstood and underreported significant developments in Israel’s war effort is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent decision to appoint Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer as the head of the ceasefire/hostage negotiations instead of the heads of the intelligence services.
Peloni: Jonathan Schanzer provides details surrounding the recent release of the Bibas family bodies as well as choices going forward
by John Podhoretz | Commentary | Feb 21, 2025
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Daniel Greenfield | Feb 21, 2025
“O God, do not be silent; hold not Thy peace, and be not still,” the Chief Rabbi of Israel prayed the words of Psalm 83 over the bodies of two murdered children, their mother and an old man.
Hamas and PLO terrorists had mockingly paraded their coffins to the cheers and jeers of Muslim men, women and children occupying Gaza while upbeat music played, they had mixed up the bodies, locked the boxes and then attached keys that did not work. After inspecting the coffins for explosives, Israel had covered them with its blue and white flag and prayed over them.
Peloni: Trump policy on Turkey begins to take form, and as expressed by Rubio, it properly marginalizes Turkey in preference of Saudi Arabia.
By | Feb 21, 2025
This is wise, in light of Saudi Arabia’s attempt to retreat from some of the harsher aspects of Wahhabi Islam, and Turkey’s Ottoman revanchism. Ultimately, however, none of these countries can be trusted to be reliable allies.
Peloni: I have raised the issue of the lack of independence of Ukrainian leadership from its radical elements in the past. It is a tangible and sizeable issue which if addressed could significantly improve the possibilities in Ukraine for a durable and lasting peace. Unfortunately, realizing such an outcome would not be easily achieved, particularly while the war is still ongoing.
Valery Zaluzhny and Volodymyr Zelensky in London.
President Trump says he has “had it” with Zelensky, and leaks from Washington suggest that Zelensky go into exile, maybe to France. But is that the right approach to getting a Ukraine deal? Maybe not.
By Barbara Diamond | Feb 19, 2025
Words matter. The misuse of words… matters even more. It is not a new phenomenon for words to be appropriated by those the least appropriate to do so. When the word “genocide” which was clearly used to discuss Hitler’s evil plan to eliminate the Jews of Europe… is now twisted to somehow be hurled against later generations of those self-same Jews when they courageously respond to the murderous attacks by Hamas barbarians against the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren of those who escaped Hitler’s clutches…. is simply unconscionable.
It is bad enough when our enemies make claims against Israel which are invalid, but when self-professed “morally-superior” Jews do it, it is time to discuss the error of their ways.
Mudar Zahran | X | Feb 21, 2025
The Muslim Brotherhood is the root of all evil and should be classified as a terrorist organization.
Peloni: Establishing a ‘credible threat of military force’, as described in detail in the Section 3 under the Policy Recommendations header in this essay, will not deter the Mullahs who are motivated by a armeggedonist ideology. Failing to appreciate this reality will only serve to embolden the Mullahs as precious time is spent in the pretense that such radicals as those who designed the October 7 massacre can be either threatened into capitulation or reasoned into rational compliance. Instead of establishing a credible threat of military force, the West, led by the US, should eliminate the existing threat emanating from Iran, which is organized throughout both Europe and South and Central America. Coordinating an attack on its nuclear and oil producing infrastructure with regime change operations should be executed in lieu of demonstrations of force as described below. By thus cutting the head off this nearly nuclear Hydra, the US led effort will stabilize and protect, not just the Middle East, but the entire world, while also freeing the people of Iran and Lebanon which are currently held fast in the fist of the tyrannical Mullahs.
Andrea Stricker | FDD | Feb 19, 2025
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Executive Summary
A secret team of Iranian scientists is working to shorten the country’s route to nuclear weapons, according to current and former U.S. officials. This intelligence was collected during President Joe Biden’s final months in office, then relayed to the incoming national security team under President Donald Trump.1
By GIL TROY | FEBRUARY 20, 2025
The Federations of Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto, and Montreal hosted me from February 2 through February 12, having purchased over 2,500 copies of my book The Academic Intifada: Letters to My Students on Defending the Zionist Dream.
I spoke in Jewish day schools to sixth and twelfth graders, on campus and in Hillels, to fellow professors and teachers of Zionism and Israeli history, to interfaith groups and Jewish federations. The trip introduced me to a post-October 7 Canada – and academic world – I did not recognize.
Mudar Zahran | X | Feb 20, 2025
Hamas Leaders Fleeing Gaza…
A Double Standard for the People of the Strip
Seth J. Frantzman | Feb 19, 2025
The White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
US President Donald Trump has conveyed a clear message to Israel. “You do whatever you want,” he says he told Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This is a shift from the messaging during the Biden administration and for Israel’s governing coalition this appears to be welcome news. However, the complete support that Israel is now getting from the White House will now require Israel to come up with a plan regarding Gaza.
by Daniel Greenfield • Gatestone Institute • February 20, 2025
Lebanon’s government is a Hezbollah puppet regime. The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) is a puppet army. The $3 billion that America squandered on the LAF, like the even larger sums wasted on arming and training the Iraqi military, didn’t counter Shiite Islamic rule, it enabled it. Pictured: Soldiers of the LAF organize displaced persons outside the village of Kfar Kila, in southern Lebanon on February 18, 2025. (Photo by Rabih Daher/AFP via Getty Images)
Peloni: Where is Netanyahu as Trump again calls for the utter destruction of Gaza?
? JUST IN
Israel’s Channel 14: Trump tells advisors he wants ‘Gaza wiped out’ after Hamas parades coffins of dead hostages mom, two young sons, elderly man
“I want to see Gaza wiped out. I don’t want to see even one building standing.” pic.twitter.com/w1sBcp7D8d
— Awesome Jew (@JewsAreTheGOAT) February 20, 2025
Peloni: Trump should learn from this spontaneous rebuke of Phizer’s CEO by a very enthusiastic crowd which had just been chanting for Trump to run for another term. The public rejection of the hushed silence surrounding the mRNA tragedies are real and Trump should support this outcry rather than ignoring it.
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??????????????Is President Trump this STUPID??
OR… is he just this BRILLIANT??
He thanks Dr. Albert Bourla CEO of Pfizer for being there today. pic.twitter.com/wSC6AtPEed— Curtis Fernheiser III (@CurtFernheiser) February 20, 2025
Peloni: This is an important interview. Qatar is an existential threat to the West, and to America in particular. Hence, it begs the question as to why key appointments within the Trump White House have included many who have business ties or lobbyist connections for this nation of Jihadists, such as AG Bondi, FBI Director Patel, Middle East Envoy Witkof and EPA Administrator Zeldin. Qatar has infiltrated nations all around the world, and as Carmon discusses in this interview, it came to influence Trump’s first administration regarding the US base in Qatar. This lesson should be taken to heart, and there should have been a zero tolerance for any connection to Qatar within Trump’s second administration. This litmus test was unfortunately not employed, and it does not bode well for the current administration’s abiltity to act against Qatari influence, which was most apparent when the damaging Witkof surrender deal was forced on Israel, following Witkof’s consultation with the Qatari’s.
Peloni: This outrage has gone on long enough. As the murder of the Bibas infants were being celebrated by the Gazan public, their mother’s body has been replaced with an imposter corpse. The macabre dysphoria surrounding these intentional outrages by the Gazan hordes can not be allowed to continue or be rewarded. It is time for Israel to return to Gaza without restraint. Let us end the hypocrisy of negotiating with terrorists and replace it with a policy of annihilation.
@Osint613 | X | Feb 20, 2025
Bernd Schwabe, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
IDF Spokesman: After completing the identification process by the National Center for Forensic Medicine in cooperation with the Israel Police, IDF representatives informed the Bibas family that their loved ones, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, of blessed memory, have been identified.
According to the assessment of the professional authorities, in accordance with the intelligence available to us and forensic findings from the identification process, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, the late, were brutally murdered in captivity in November 2023, by terrorists.
By Walter E. Block
Michael Geissinger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
In the view of Thomas Friedman of the New York Times: “I am not a judge. I don’t know what the ‘just’ proportion of Palestinian civilian lives and houses that the laws of war might say [it is] OK for Israel to destroy in response to October 7 for every Israeli Jew and house ravaged that day. But I am sure that whatever the number is, Israel has now exceeded it.”
UPDATE ?
– Five buses had explosives on them
– They were supposed to go off tomorrow morning during the hostage release
– Hamas has taken responsibility
– Netanyahu has called for an emergency meeting pic.twitter.com/HSmu1C7ZAh— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) February 20, 2025
