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.

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

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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”.

It made sense at the time. And while the situation is very complicated right now, it still does.

Moshe Phillips

Dan Hadani collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

U.S. President Donald Trump might be surprised to learn that long before he proposed moving Arabs from Gaza to Jordan, Yitzhak Rabin recommended the exact same thing.

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By Victor Sharpe | Feb 10, 2025

On August 23, 2011, I wrote an article in Israel National News titled, The Philadelphi Corridor; Take it back and very soon.

Now in the year 2025 I am filled with a mixture of anger and deep anguish for I knew 14 years ago that a terrible mistake by Israel was taking place and that it might result in a national future tragedy. And so it did when on October 7, 2023 Hamas monsters invaded Israel and committed a barbaric massacre of 1,200 Jews, a horrific crime not committed since the Holocaust.

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Peloni:  With the collapse of the Surrender Deal with Hamas, the question remains how Israel will deal with the Hezbollah threat from the North, which will not be countered by the Hezbollah allied, if not controlled, LAF.  Hezbollah must be disarmed by the terms of the deal with Hezbollah, but true to form adopted over the past decades, even under Trump’s first term, their is always little interest in dealing with Hezbollah as if they are the Iranian proxy terror army which is beyond dispute.  As Badran explains, the pretense regarding the situation in the North is untenable, but continuing.

Inevitably acting as the Lebanese’s lawyers, Morgan Ortagus and Gen. Jasper Jeffers (head of Amos Hochstein’s monitoring mechanism) are compelling Israel to withdraw from Lebanon by Feb 18 (right before Hezbollah’s planned funeral ceremony for Nasrallah), even as the IDF is still… https://t.co/YrieRY01o1 pic.twitter.com/slDVIsiYM8

— Tony Badran (@AcrossTheBay) February 10, 2025

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Peloni:  The call to keep the Pals of Gaza in Gaza is simply the desire to maintain them as a weaponized vehicle against Israel.  This was the purpose and effect of the creation of UNRWA and also the reason why there has been so much advocacy for the preservation of Hamas and Hezbollah.  This is both intolerable and unacceptable.  Of course, the weaponization of the Gazans against Israel has been quite successful over the years, which is why the rogues which still support holding these well designed tools of Jewish destruction in place where they might effect the long sought prospect of eliminating the Jewish State once and for all.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | Feb 10, 2025

President Trump has expressed his hope to improve the lives of the Palestinians in Gaza, once the rubble has been removed and the infrastructure rebuilt, with the money for both that rubble removal and that rebuilding coming from the rich Arab states of the Gulf. He envisions turning the Strip, with its long beachfront of golden sands on the Mediterranean coast, into a future “Riviera.” This trial balloon has been greeted with ridicule in the West, and with condemnation from the Arabs. But the British historian Andrew Roberts thinks Trump’s plan, which would require the displacement of most of the Gazans, who should not have to endure living in what would become a huge construction site, has historical precedents, and should not be dismissed out of hand. More of Andrew Roberts’ history lesson can be found here: “The Historical Case for Trump’s Riviera,” by Andrew Roberts, Washington Free Beacon, February 8, 2025:

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And over $18 billion to Islamic terrorist states.

Daniel Greenfield | Feb 10, 2025

“It is really, really a sad day in America,” Rep. Ilhan Omar declared at a rally protesting the reconstruction of USAID.

It wasn’t a sad day for America, but it was so for Somalia.

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The women hostages were Hamas’ biggest prize, Hamas knows that as the number of living hostages it holds is reduced, it will have less leverage.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Hamas has been wrestling with what to do in the next stage of the deal, even as it claimed late Monday night that it won’t even fulfill the first stage of the deal.

The terrorist group is continuing to try to decide – internally – if it has the upper hand. It clearly tried to show that it was victorious in Gaza. It has been mocking Israel, mocking the IDF units that fought in Gaza, and mocking the claims of Israeli politicians of “total victory.”

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