Peloni: Is the return of American exceptionalism really to be based upon H-1b visas?   Is this really how Americans make America Great Again?  With an immigration injection of the right stuff, so to speak?  The problem with the likes of Ramaswamy, who owes his success to funds from the Soros family and the promotion of a failed Alzheimer drug which was known to fail before Ram promoted its successes, is that he is not “Trumpier than Trump”, as he once sardonically claimed.  In fact, Ram has no appreciation of the American people, and in fact has a great disdain for them, their acumen, and the culture which initiated the concept of American exceptionalism in the first place.  Indeed, the hallmark of American exceptionalism is not based on personal academic marks nor on personal academic acceptance, both of which the H-1b program would focus upon.  Instead, I think that Eric Weinstein explains this point best in the following 2min video [LINK] 

Arguably, American exceptionalism is, at least in part, based on accepting and promoting unconventional thought as often expressed by unconventional individuals, for if convention is to be the height of what is viewed as exceptional in America, we would be lowering the bar of potential success considerably, exposing an enormous Achilles Heal in Ram’s erroneously short sighted claim that a return of American exceptionalism must come thru the cultural change which will be led by foreign immigration forced thru the H-1b program.  Indeed, the number of H-1b candidates which Ram would be injecting into American society would be woefully short of being capable of making any such cultural change possible as Ram is suggesting?  Instead it might be better argued that one would be better situated to Make America Great Again by unleashing the American born initiative which would come from unburdening American individuality, American ingenuity, and American advancement.  By doing so America will, without any need of foreign competition, lead the world towards greater heights than Ram’s plan to ram thru his cheap labor sourcing of compliant, conventional, and cost effective H-1b candidates.

Sundance | Dec 26, 2024

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Fuad Shubaki devoted his life to financing the bombers, snipers, grenade-hurlers, stabbers and rock-throwers waging nonstop jihad against Israel.

Moshe Phillips – national chairman of Americans For A Safe Israel, a leading pro-Israel advocacy and education group

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas with Fuad Shubaki, March 2023 Source: “Wafa” News Agency via MEMRI.

If there was one terrorist whose life epitomized the Arab war against Israel and shattered the illusions fostered by the Oslo Accords, it was Fuad Shubaki, who died this week at the age of 83.

Shubaki was born in Gaza in 1940. Note that the Jews didn’t rule Gaza in those days (the British did), so Gazans didn’t demand a Palestinian state and didn’t organize any movement for independence. The next occupier was Egypt. The Egyptians illegally occupied Gaza in 1948 and ruled it for the next 19 years—yet still, there was no uprising against an occupation.

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His strategy against Israel and the United States was working—until Hamas attacked Israel.

By Reuel Marc Gerecht | December 23, 2024

On October 6, 2023, the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, could have done a tour d’horizon of the Middle East and been proud. His anti-Israeli/anti-American battle plan was working. An array of Shiite and Palestinian Sunni Islamist militias—the Houthis in Yemen, Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and a smorgasbord of militant groups in Iraq—had effectively given Iran imperial reach at relatively little cost.

Through this “Axis of Resistance,” the clerical regime could harass Americans in Iraq and Syria. Ever fearful of escalation, Washington never took the fight back to Iran directly—with the exception of President Donald Trump’s decision in 2020 to kill in Baghdad Qassem Suleimani, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force and the operational mastermind behind Iranian strategy. The axis was designed to keep America fatigued in the Middle East, to keep it leery of deeper intervention. Similarly, the alliance intended to complicate Israeli calculations, to keep Jerusalem from “mowing the lawn”—the routine pummeling of Israel’s nearest foes—for fear that military escalation against one party might trigger a wider conflict. With time, the axis would only get stronger; the Zionists and Americans weaker. For years, this approach worked.

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Peloni:  Priceless!

Our approach should be humanitarian aid, yes, but no to US reconstruction aid or sanctions relief until Syria is unambiguously not jihadist.

By ERIC R. MANDEL | DECEMBER 25, 2024

HTS LEADER Abu Mohammed al-Julani (right), meets with Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt in Damascus.   (photo credit: Khalil Ashawi/Reuters)

A New York Times editorial disguised as a front-page news article demanded, “The West must ease financial controls to help the [Syrian] economy… the way forward starts with sanctions relief.” The writer, Patricia Cohen, claims “there is widespread agreement… the single most important step in rebuilding Syria’s economy can be taken only by the United States: Lift the punishing layers of sanctions.”

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Peloni:  Another highly granular review, this time on the recent events in Ukraine.

Seth J. Frantzman | FDD | Dec 23, 2024

Latest Developments

• Netanyahu Promises Strong Response Against Houthis: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel will strike hard against the Houthi rebels in Yemen after the Iran-backed terrorist group launched multiple ballistic missiles and drones at Israel during the previous week. “Just as we acted forcefully against the terrorist arm of Iran’s axis of evil, so we will act against the Houthis,” Netanyahu said on December 22, alluding to Israel’s dismantling of Iranian proxies Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon since Hamas’s mass atrocities on Israel on October 7, 2023.  

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Barbara Diamond | Dec 4, 2024

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Sundance | Dec 25,  2024

The surveillance state is an outcropping of the Fourth Branch of Government, which is, essentially, the unelected intelligence community in control of our government.

The surveillance state comes from the creation of the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) which is an entirely inward-looking agency. Prior to the Patriot Act, the surveillance sweep searching for terror threats focused outward, looking outside the U.S borders. The Patriot Act took the surveillance sweep a full 360 degrees and looked inside the Homeland for terror threats. Hence, DHS was created.

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As Iran begins the countdown toward the collapse of the Ayatollah regime, Turkey is heading in the opposite direction, gradually being overtaken by Islamism. Years ago, Bernard Lewis, the preeminent Middle East scholar of our time, remarked that the day would come when ‘Iran will become Turkey, and Turkey will become Iran.’

A market in Istanbul, Photo: Avi Cohen

Over recent decades, Iran has spared no effort in advancing its flagship regional project: establishing dominance in the Fertile Crescent, a stretch spanning Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza. Iran’s proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas, have sought to encircle Israel in a ring of fire and suffocation as the first step toward its destruction.

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Peloni:  If the Druze are able to take their lands and voluntarily cede them to the Jewish State, how might we prevent such a voluntary movement of lands at the will of an ethnic minority when it is next applied to the Pals amid their claims of genocide in Gaza or in J&S?  I would be curious to read the comments of others on this point.

As jihadist forces march through the region, minority communities know that aligning with Israel is their only chance for survival. Opinion.

Avi Abelow | Dec 25, 2024

IDF soldier with Druze flag   iStock

A stunning and historic development has emerged in southern Syria: Six Druze villages have formally requested to be included as part of the Jewish State of Israel. Let that sink in. At a time when Israel faces demonization on the world stage and lies about “apartheid” and “oppression” dominate global headlines, minorities in the Middle East are making their voices heard.

Why would these Druze communities—non-Jewish minorities—want to join Israel?

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By Moshe Phillips – national chairman of Americans For A Safe Israel (www.AFSI.org), a leading pro-Israel advocacy and education organization

Earlier this month many news outlets reported that in the aftermath of the fall of Assad and the Ba’athist party Israel was searching for the remains of the Mossad agent Eli Cohen who was executed in Syria nearly 60 years ago.

The story of Eli Cohen’s life should be recalled today even if he had never gone undercover in Syria.

When Eli Cohen was publicly executed by the government of Syria on May 18, 1965, it was clear to Israelis and Syrians that he had succeeded in becoming a friend of the president of Syria, and had penetrated the innermost Syrian government circles. What was not yet known, however, was that he had gathered the intelligence that would later save the State of Israel from being destroyed.

More than any other one man, Eli Cohen, an Egyptian-born Jew, earned the Mossad its reputation as one of the best intelligence services in the world, and paved the way for Israel to win on the Golan front in the Six-Day War in June 1967.

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By Daniel Greenfield | Dec 25, 2024

Miracles can still happen here.

On this Chanukah, menorahs will be lit not only in the land of Israel, from Jerusalem to Gaza, but in Lebanon and on the heights of Mt. Hermon overlooking Syria. Vacationing families will visit the waterfalls of the Hermon Stream in the Golan Heights from which the Syrian Greek armies had descended thousands of years ago to conquer Israel leading to the events of. Chanukah.

The lights of the menorahs over darkness are a reminder that miracles can still happen here.

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Peloni:  In the test of wills with its enemies, there can be but one master of the seas, and that must inevitably be the American Navy.  As such, the imposition of the Panama govt to wage a economic war against the US should be seen in the light in which it was intended, as a sign of deference to China over the US, and with the return of Trump to office, it should be understood that this early warning shot towards Panama is in fact intended to represent the Trump’s refusal to let the American economy suffer such abuses from friend or foe.

Robert Spencer | December 23, 2024

AP Photo/Alex Brandon

First, President-elect Donald Trump tweaked Canada’s far-left Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about becoming governor of the 51st state of the United States of America. Then he said that the Panama Canal should once again come under American control. Make that the 52nd state. And now, are you ready for a 53rd state? On Sunday, Trump renewed a call he made during his first term: that the United States should buy Greenland from Denmark. Could the man possibly be serious?

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Peloni:  The barbarians are inside the wire, and their savagery is already on full display with this being just the most recent assault on civilized norms, and it will clearly not the last of such assaults to come.

YouTube screen grab. ABC 7  NYC

Jason Hopkins  | Daily Caller | December 23, 2024

The man accused of burning a sleeping subway passenger to death is an illegal migrant who was previously deported from the United States, federal immigration authorities have confirmed.

The New York Police Department has detained an illegal Guatemalan migrant who they suspect is responsible for burning a woman alive Sunday morning at a New York City subway station. Investigators believe the suspect walked up to the sleeping passenger, who so far has remained unidentified, and used a lighter to set her clothing on fire, and then is believed to have stayed on scene to watch the victim succumb to her injuries.

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