We Can Never Know How Evil These People Were  

Peloni:  Now that Trump is about to retake the White House, will there be any accounting for any of these crimes?  Or will we see that the notion that some crimes are too great to prosecute continues to be true?

By: Alan Joseph Bauer | TownHall.com | December 28, 2024

As those whom the media have protected may finally be exposed for their actions, we might get a glimpse of how evil certain people have been at home and abroad.

 Joseph Stalin was a mass murderer. He was also, unfortunately for humanity, a fairly smart guy. He made many observations, such as that it does not matter who votes but rather who counts the ballots. Or when pressed to get the Pope to come out against the Nazis, he asked how many divisions the Pope had available to fight. One of Stalin’s famous comments was, “One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.” There is no way to know how many people Joe Stalin,  Adolph Hitler, or Chairman Mao killed. If one searches for the number, he might find quite a broad range, plus or minus a couple million. There is no way to know how evil these people were. We may know a great deal but never have a final accounting.

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January 4, 2025 | 10:14 am | 3 Comments »

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Why Erdogan’s Turkish Empire Is an Emerging Threat  

Shoshana Bryen • JPC • 

Turkish President Recep Tayvip Erdogan. (Photo: Paul Morigi / Brookings )

The world was once a series of empires. The British Empire, at its peak in 1922, covered about a quarter of the Earth’s land and ruled over 458 million people. The Russian Empire once covered about 8,800,000 sq/mi, roughly one-sixth of the world’s landmass, making it the third-largest empire in history, behind only the British and Mongols. An 1897 census recorded 125.6 million people under Russian control. Genghis Khan’s Mongol Empire, while short, was the largest contiguous empire in history.

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January 4, 2025 | 7:48 am | 3 Comments »

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Calls to ‘end the war in Gaza’ before Hamas is defeated risk us repeating our painful past  

Peloni:  Political Islam as practiced by Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood is a threat to survival of Israel, to the lives of Jews throughout the Diaspora, and to the continuation of the Western World.  Israel stands at the forefront of this war, and her every defeat in this war only serves to bring this war closer to the wider Western World and to the Jews living there.  A decisive victory over these Islamist forces by Israel makes the entire Western World safer, and this includes Jews who are calling for Israel to accept defeat instead.   All ships in the West rise with an Israeli victory, and her defeat will only embolden terror for all.

Real people who are being harmed by Hamas kidnappers and Hezbollah’s rockets, writes the head of Americans For A Safe Israel.

Moshe Phillips 

The question of whether American Jews should criticize Israel has nothing to do with free speech, or democracy, or peace in the Middle East. It has everything to do with the real-life consequences that Israelis suffer when they bow to criticism from abroad.

In a recent JTA op-ed, Rabbi Jill Jacobs called on American Jews to pressure Israel to “end the war in Gaza.” That might sound appealing at first glance. After all, war is bad. Everyone wants wars to end. But what would be the real-life consequences for Israelis if Israel ceased firing at Hamas now, before victory has been achieved?

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January 4, 2025 | 7:06 am | 2 Comments »

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Inside the PLO: The hidden history behind the Palestinian leadership  

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, August 18, 2020. Photo by Flash90

In May 1982, a Palestinian doctoral candidate at Moscow’s Patrice Lumumba University completed his dissertation. The work, titled,”The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism,” presented stark claims: that Zionist leaders were “basic partners in crime” with the Nazis, that the movement deliberately incited Nazi hatred against Jews to fuel mass extermination, that the widely accepted figure of six million Holocaust victims was a “fantastic lie,” and that Zionism shared ideological parallels with Nazi racial theories. The student even argued that the 1942 Biltmore Conference had provoked Hitler into accelerating the Final Solution. The candidate’s controversial thesis earned him a Candidate of Sciences degree, equivalent to a PhD in Western universities.

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January 4, 2025 | 2:52 am | 3 Comments »

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Multi-month battle for Jabaliya underscores Israel’s security challenge in northern Gaza  

By Seth Frantzman | December 30, 2024

An Israeli commander speaks on a radio as troops battle terrorists in Jabaliya. (IDF)

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) eliminated “dozens” of terrorists in the northern Gaza area of Jabaliya overnight between December 29 and December 30. The militants were killed in ambushes. The discovery of so many terrorists is a rare occurrence in Jabaliya, where the IDF has been fighting since early October. The nearly three-month battle has primarily been a slow, grinding campaign against the remnants of Hamas and other groups in this portion of northern Gaza.

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January 3, 2025 | 3:00 pm | 1 Comment »

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1,700 West-trained Ukrainian soldiers flee before reaching frontlines  

Peloni:  It is the three deficiencies which spell Ukraine’s ultimate doom: men, morale & munitions.  This article focused on the first two, which all by themselves would likely be enough to seal Ukraine’s fate, but the lack of munitions certainly makes this imminent eventuality quite impossible to dismiss.


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January 3, 2025 | 2:22 pm | 1 Comment »

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The Art of the Bad Deal  

By Walter E. Block

Donald Trump wrote a book called the Art of the Deal. He meant to focus his spotlight on good deals. And he did so. Spectacularly well.

One day someone will write a book entitled The Art of the Bad Deal. If this ever comes to pass, the author ought to include a chapter on the exchange of one Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, in return for the release of 1027 Arabs in Israeli prisons. One of these jailbirds was Yahya Sinwar, the brains behind the Aqsa Flood, the October 7, 2033 murder and kidnapping of almost 1500 Israelis and other nationals.

The past is the past of course and cannot now be changed. I write at present, however, not to do any such thing. Never again! Rather, it is to attempt to dissuade Israel from ever doing anything like that ever again. Unfortunately, there will be a strong temptation to repeat the past in this regard. With the demise of Yahya Sinwar, the enemies of Israel in Europe, in the United Nations, all around the world, are even more intent than in the past that a deal be imposed upon Israel to “take the win” and engage in a pause, a cease-fire, peace, and the release of some 100 remaining abductees held by Hamas.

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January 3, 2025 | 1:51 pm | 3 Comments »

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Critical and opportune: Time to take out the Houthis  

Addressing the threat may provide a critical opportunity to secure strategic alliances that could dramatically alter the future of the region.

Aaron Goren & Enia Krivine | Jan 2, 2025

Sirens blared across central Israeli communities in the early hours of Tuesday morning, wrenching millions of Israeli civilians out of their beds for the seventh time in two weeks as another Houthi missile targeted the Jewish state. Based in Yemen, more than 1,500 miles away from Tel Aviv, the Houthis present a new kind of challenge to the Israel Defense Forces. Addressing the threat may provide a critical opportunity to secure strategic alliances that could dramatically alter the future of the region.

During Israel’s most recent round of airstrikes against the Houthis last week, the IDF hit Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, putting its international airport out of commission. This is the fourth round of airstrikes that the IDF has launched since the Houthis began attacking Israel in October 2023. Israel has sought to target Houthi infrastructure, disrupt Iranian weapons shipments and degrade the terror proxy’s ability to import oil.

Despite these missions, the Houthis remain undeterred. Less than a day after the IDF attacks last week, they continued launching missiles.

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January 3, 2025 | 1:23 pm | Comments »

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1929: A harbinger of October 7th – with Yardena Schwartz  

Peloni:  The comparisons between October 7 and the Hebron Massacre are eerily disquieting, as if the century which divided them, and the historical context which distinguish them, did not exist.  Yet, while listening to Yardena discussing the complacency of the Jewish community within Hebron, their belief in coexistence and their sense of solidarity with their Arab neighbors, resulting in the awakening of Jewish resolve to protect their own, one mark which stands forth as uniquely different was that as 3000 Arabs participated in the Jew Hunt in Hebron back in 1929, more than two dozen Arab families risked their own lives while saving the lives of more than 200 Jews.  Indeed, not only was there no such parallel in the slaughter of October 7, but there has yet to be one Jew saved from the terror dens of Gaza due to the efforts of any Arab.

January 3, 2025 | 12:12 pm | Comments »

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Israel’s Supreme Court judges: Merely tone deaf, or simply morally obtuse?  

Peloni:  The death penalty should be employed against terrorists such as the perpetrators of October 7.  Doing so would serve to alleviate the concerns of the petitioners bemoaning the living conditions of the too well kept butchers who owe their continued good health and splendid quarters to the over indulgent support of the very people they were caught trying to slaughter.

Israel’s Supreme Court’s diligent concern for the conditions of Hamas terrorists outrages the Israeli public

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There are moments in life when a person or an institution will do something that causes jaws to drop and provokes mass headshaking in disbelief.

Such an event recently occurred when Israel’s Supreme Court, its self-proclaimed bastion of democracy, took it upon itself to aggressively worry about the conditions of Hamas prisoners, including the Nuhkba sadistic murderers of October 7, 2023, now incarcerated in Israeli prisons.

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January 3, 2025 | 7:43 am | 10 Comments »

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Jimmy Carter and a Nazi Murderer  

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One last story about Jimmy Carter and his Jewish problem: this is about his attempt to prevent a Nazi war criminal from being deported. More can be read about it here: “When Humanitarianism Ends: Jimmy Carter’s Disturbing Request on Behalf of a Nazi War Criminal,” by Varda Meyers Epstein (Judean Rose), Elder of Ziyon, January 1, 2025:

Jimmy Carter died, but few Jews mourn him. Carter’s animus toward the Jewish people is by now, legendary. Elder of Ziyon offered an overview Carter’s overt Jew-hatred in Jimmy Carter, antisemite. Saving the worst for last, Elder detailed Jimmy Carter’s plea for leniency for Martin Bartesch, a former SS guard at the Mauthausen work camp during WWII:

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January 3, 2025 | 1:12 am | 13 Comments »

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From Israel: Putting One Foot in Front of the Other!!  

Arlene Kushner | January 2, 2025

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That’s what we must continue to do, as we advance our security and protect our rights – sometimes with great speed and sometimes slowly…

Last night I lit my last Chanukah candles for this holiday season; I was sorry to see it end as the light of the candles brings me peace.

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January 3, 2025 | 12:23 am | 2 Comments »

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How Israel should respond to the Houthis: Make them fear us more than we fear them  

Too many Americans keep asking “Why is Israel still fighting?” It’s as if Israel’s right to self-defense after October 7 had a two-month expiration date.

By GIL TROY | JANUARY 1, 2025

Footage released by Houthi Military Media says to show a launch of missile, which the Houthis say they fired at Israel, at an unknown location in this screen grab obtained from a handout video released on December 19, 2024.

The Houthis’ ongoing missile barrage provides the moral clarity Israelis need in battle – and the motivation to keep fighting this multi-front war we spent years trying to avoid. Soldiers have always reported, “There are no atheists in foxholes.” Having been awakened Friday night by the latest air raid sirens in Jerusalem, I’ve discovered there are no pacifists in bomb shelters, either.

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January 2, 2025 | 4:28 pm | Comments »

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Son of Hamas Founder Urges Israel Not to Release Terrorists for Hostages  

Peloni:  Be sure to watch the short video below the article in which Yousef explains that the war is not about Palestine, and that the faux rhetoric on behalf of the Pals is nothing more a rouse in the war against Israel by the Muslim world.

Mosab Hassan Yousef warns that freeing prisoners could reinvigorate Hamas’ global terror network.

Isfrafan | December 31, 2024

The son of a Hamas co-founder has issued a stark warning to Israel against releasing convicted terrorists in exchange for hostages held by the terror organization. Mosab Hassan Yousef, speaking to The Telegraph in an interview published Saturday, cautioned that such a move would embolden Hamas and reignite its terror capabilities.

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January 2, 2025 | 3:54 pm | 1 Comment »

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