Peloni:  Williams provides a particularly rational overview of the US negotiations with Russia, and why Ukraine and its supporters might have significant reason to be concerned.  Ukraine can not win this war, and they can’t even fight it without the US support, which Trump is offsetting to Europe, which has likewise no means by which to back up their empty words which have always been characterized to fight to the last Ukrainian.  I recommend focusing on the first 25min.

Peloni:  Great report by Oren.  Highly recommended video

Peloni:  Egypt has increasingly sidelined itself from reality.  Should Sisi persist in this folly, he will find the consequences will be quite costly.

Khaled Hassan | X | Feb 13, 2025

U.S. Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Since October 7th, Egypt has:

– Supported and celebrated Hamas’ terrorist attacks, including through state ministers who issued statements welcoming and celebrating the attacks, as well as referring to Israel as the “Zionist entity”, renouncing Egypt’s recognition of Israel and the Jewish state’s right to exist.

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Peloni: RFK is finally confirmed to lead the HHS, so it will be refreshing to hear him comment on the coming Stargate nightmare which was announced during his confirmation period, while he remained noticeably silent on the subject.  The use of mRNA has been shown to be highly toxic and has been linked to unknown numbers of literally untold tragedies.  It is time for this silence to be ended, and for RFK, now as the Sec of HHS, to directly address the elephant in the room which is the tragedy and consequences of having used and intending to continue using, mRNA shots under the indemnified liability protection of being a ‘vacccine’.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s nominee for the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has now been confirmed by the U.S. Senate 52-48. pic.twitter.com/7GaJgi77dS

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) February 13, 2025

Linda Goudsmit:  Another excellent analysis by Daniel Greenfield. For me, what is missing from this article is the fact that Iran’s proxy, Hamas, declared war on Israel October 7, 2024 when it invaded Israel and slaughtered 1200 Israelis. In what universe is Israel not entitled to the spoils of that war? Israel never should have surrendered Gaza in its ill-advised 2005 land-for-peace deal, and now Gaza belongs to Israel once again. NEVER AGAIN is a reference to the reality of the Holocaust, but it should apply equally to any land-for-peace deal. Why? Because Israel’s Muslim enemies, including the Arab Muslim settlers in Gaza, are doctrinally committed to Israel’s extinction and to the annihilation of the Jewish people. So, this American Jew agrees with President Trump on resettling Gazan Muslims in Arab countries, because AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN is the inconvenient truth and reality of the Middle East!

DANIEL GREENFIELD | Feb 12, 2025

Is it the right thing to do and can it work? Yes it can.

Peloni: Spot on analysis!

By Sha’i ben-Tekoa | Am Thinker | Feb 12, 2025

Image from X, edited.

This conservative Jew used to be a big fan of Tucker Carlson when he had the highest ratings as an opinionator on FOX-TV, but then he outed himself as an anti-Jew, which likely played a role in his firing that otherwise mystified his fans.

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ByHugh Fitzgerald | Feb 12, 2025

Hamas has angrily rejected Trump’s proposal to move the Gazans out of the Strip, while what he accurately calls a “demolition site” full of rubble can be cleared away. The Palestinian Authority, with slightly less venom, has done the same. Trump had suggested that the Gazans could be resettled in both Egypt and Jordan, but both Egyptian General El-Sisi and King Abdullah of Jordan have also rejected the plan. El-Sisi says that Egypt will not take in any Gazans, and Abdullah has agreed to take in 2,000 children. But what about the people of Gaza? Do they all reject the Trump plan? Are they determined to remain in Gaza?

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Peloni:  This was more expected than surprising.

The October 7th attacks were funded in part by USAID.

Millions of American dollars were flowed to Hamas.

I am proud of my team for shining a light on this brazen action by the Biden State Department. https://t.co/mug08ehgp8 pic.twitter.com/dCG5mzzbkb

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 12, 2025

Peloni:  Another earth shaking move for Trump.  The big winner by design will of course be the US, while the big loser, again by design, will be China.  Additionally, Europe will stand on both sides of this equation.  Indeed, Europe will significantly benefit from becoming self reliant as well as significantly more independent should they play this right and accept the reality in which they stand.  And yet, accepting this reality as being really real will come at a significant cost, both to the respective European nations’ publics, as well as to the insanely Leftist leadership which have for too long placed their own interests over that of their respective nations.  Of course, it remains to be seen how the individual European nations will react, but their main hobby horse, USAID, has forever left the stable, leaving them with only hard choices among hard facts if they intend to continue their radical plan to continue this war further.  It is time for the war parties which  have been propped up by the US all across Europe to finally be replaced, and for Europe to find some form of security arrangement which respects and engages with Russia, rather than isolating and marginalizing them.  But this will be a very difficult undertaking, for Europe, for Russia, and for China, but for the US, it will be quite liberating while still being quite empowering.

No NATO Membership for Ukraine, No US Troops

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Peloni:  Qatar is a state sponsor of terror.  Having business ties to state sponsors of terror should be scorned by one and all.  Such connections, while potentially lucrative, should be disqualifying for anyone seeking higher office or political appointment.  Doing so would render Qatar’s influence, if not mute, more mute than it stands today where significant areas of interest of the US govt are being entrusted to people who did not view such connections as being enanthema.  With the obvious recognition that personnel makes policy, the outlook for Qatari influence over the Trump administration is quite worrisome as demonstrated by Witkof’s suggestion that Qatari leadership should be venerated with the Nobel Peace Prize, which is a rather disgusting and disquieting insight into his perspective of Qatar’s well known role in sponsoring terror.

Click link to read article:

https://jewishinsider.com/2025/02/lee-zeldin-epa-administrator-qatar-financial-disclosures/

Excerpt:

Zeldin is one of several Trump officials who have business ties to Qatari leaders. Others include Attorney General Pam Bondi, Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, and Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee to be FBI director. 

Peloni:  Avi again presents an important review of the Trump Gaza plan

Peloni:  Turkey’s radical Sunni axis is extending its dominance over Iran’s radical Shia axis in the border area of Lebanon, even as it has yet to consolidate its power in Syria, and more likely because it hasn’t consolidated its power in Syria.  The outcome of this battle between these rival Jihadi powers will decide which will come to challenge Israel’s dominance and survival in the coming years.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | Feb 12, 2025

A little history on intra-Arab and intra-Muslim conflicts in the recent past:

The war in Yemen between the Royalists, backed by Saudi Arabia, and the Republicans, backed. by Egypt, took place between 1962 and 1970, with most of the fighting over by the mid-1960s. In this war, Egypt sent tens of thousands of troops to Yemen, and the Egyptians suffered major losses in both men and weaponry. This left Egypt’s military in a weakened state when Nasser decided to make war on Israel in mid-May 1967.

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Peloni:  Cordial meeting between Trump and Abdullah where Trump maintains that not only will Jordan and Egypt take the Gazans, but that their will be a “parcel of land” from both Jordan and Egypt where the Pals of Gaza will be relocated.  Contrasting to this declaration, Abdullah deflects by making the gesture of accepting 2000 seriously ill children and referencing a future meeting in Saudi Arabia “to discuss how we can work with the president”.  Trump follows up by explaining that he is aware of “pretty much what will be presented” and that the “it’s going to be magnificent for the Palestinians.  They are going to be in love with it, I did very well with real estate…they are going to be in love with it”.