E. Rowell:  Israel is on the receiving end of a psychological war being waged to break Israeli determination in order that Hamas will live to attack Israel again.  This US plan for perpetual war in the Middle East has been ongoing since before 1979, in which Iran was to be empowered and Israel undermined, all while pretending to the world and the American public that the US and Israel had an “ironclad” alliance.  Look at the “alliance” when Israel decides to finally defeat Hamas.  The knives then come out against Israel.  There is only one statesman in Israel who can stand up to the hyenas of the world, salivating for Israel’s demise:  Bibi Netanyahu.

PM says in address before Knesset the claims he is not giving negotiating teams freedom to make a deal to free the hostages are false, warns pressure on govt. makes Sinwar harden his positions.

By ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS    27 May 204

PM Netanyahu in the Knesset

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a speech in the Knesset this evening (Monday) in which he rejected the claims that he has not allowed the negotiating team sufficient freedom in the talks for a deal for the release of hostages.

“Regarding the despicable lie that I am not giving the negotiating team the mandate it requests, know that I have granted all five requests to expand the team’s mandate,” Netanyahu said.

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E. Rowell:  In life in general it is important to pay attention to what someone says and to what someone does.  It is a good sign when the words and music match.  However, when it comes to politics, paying attention to actions is often more useful than paying attention to words.

The move is “another step towards the transformation of a curriculum into an educational framework which encourages tolerance, peace and greater equality,” said IMPACT-se CEO Marcus Sheff.

By JNS    28 May 2024

Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Saudi Arabia has removed practically all antisemitism and anti-Israel material from its schoolbooks, in a major shift from the past and a harbinger of a better future, a study released Tuesday found.

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E. Rowell:  While this article might on its face be criticized as mere Russian state propaganda, it is difficult to argue with the author’s substantive points.  Numerous American and international analysts have written essays or contributed video analysis that document and support the thesis made by the author;  the US and NATO under Joe Biden’s leadership has been checkmated.

As it seeks to minimize its own risks, the US-led bloc is about to hit a dead end.

By Sergey Poletaev, THE INTEL DROP     25 May 2024

FILE PHOTO ©  RIA Novosti / Sputnik

In our last article, we analyzed Kiev’s military prospects in light of its new mobilization law. Here we consider the West’s options in the proxy war it’s using the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) to fight.

Western officials have been talking about sending troops to Ukraine since the beginning of the year. French President Emmanuel Macron said that he is ready to consider “any scenario,” including a ground operation. Government officials in Estonia and Lithuania (including Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte) were quick to support him. And the Leader of the House Democratic Caucus Hakeem Jeffries became the first US politician who didn’t exclude the possibility of sending troops.

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E. Rowell:  The US foreign policy establishment has enabled Iran to hold the US and the Middle East hostage since the Iranian Revolution, apart from the years during which Trump was President.  Biden’s protection of the Iranian Nuclear Program now is exactly what Obama’s goal was all along, to give the Iranians nuclear capability.  The “dialogue” was always for show.  For a US President like Biden to act or not act towards Iran based upon fear of retaliation implies that the US has helped create a monster it can no longer control.  The deeper goal all along was the destruction of the United States.

By Seth Mandel, COMMENTARY    27 May 2024

Usually when we talk about a campaign based on the politics of fear we mean the candidate is trying to scare the public into voting for him. “If you don’t vote for me, this will be America’s last election” etc. But with President Biden we’re seeing a campaign dominated by a different kind of fear: Joe Biden’s.

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Beware the two-faced Egypt.

Christine Williams | Front Page | May 28, 2024

Pressure is building between Israel and Egypt over Palestinian refugees as Israel prepares its offensive on Rafah, where Hamas is hiding out and using human shields. According to an Atlantic Council report:

Relations between Egypt and Israel have soured in recent weeks as Israel prepares to launch a full-scale ground offensive into Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip—a move that Cairo has warned would put its peace treaty with Israel at risk and destabilize the region.

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Peloni: Another insightful analysis by Glick.  She highlights Nasrallah’s recent remarks which attributed the ICC’s arrest warrants for Israeli officials as being another hallmark obtained by the October 7 slaughter.  After briefly refencing the scandalous document released by Shikma Bressler in which it is disclosed that the protesters are working with the support of Biden and the ICC, Glick discusses polling data from both Israel and the US, indicating strong support for Bibi and Israel’s war against the terrorists.

Caroline Glick | JNS | May 27, 2024

The ICC immorally and illegally decided that Hamas and Israel are the same, leftist Israelis once again misread the Israeli public and a reservist soldier is arrested for wanting victory.

Peloni:  Contrary to what is being reported here and elsewhere, Trump has always supported Israel’s war on terror and has been urging them on towards a quick victory.

Presumptive Republican nominee calls demonstrations against Israel’s war in Gaza part of a ‘radical revolution’

Robert Tait | Guardian | May 27, 2024

Donald Trump has told a group of wealthy donors that he will crush pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses if he is returned to the White House.

The former president and presumptive Republican nominee called the demonstrations against Israel’s war in Gaza part of a “radical revolution” and promised the predominantly Jewish donors that he would set the movement back 25 or 30 years if they helped him beat Joe Biden in November’s presidential election. Read more…

Peloni:  This is essential reading as are the articles referenced by Regan.  Eerily, too many have expressed the motivation of the Dem support of Iran and its assets to be tied to either ignorant leadership or electoral calculations, but the truth is that the pivot towards Iran is in fact a fundamental policy shift which was interrupted by Trump but restarted almost the very moment Trump left the White House.  It is vital that people come to appreciate the fact that the sea change which accompanied the return of Obama’s retinue to power included the completion of his betrayal and abandonment of Israel, as we are currently witnessing in full effect.

By Lauri Regan | American Thinker | May 22, 2024

Every once in a while, there is a seminal article written that elucidates political calculations not obvious on their surface. In particular, foreign policy matters tend to be complicated to the point that most Americans focus little attention on understanding the motivations of presidents’ foreign policy decisions despite their broad national security implications.

One of the most important columns that comes to mind is Michael Doran’s brilliant essay from 2015 entitled Obama’s Secret Iran Strategy in which Doran explains Barack Obama’s motivation for empowering Iran as a regional hegemon at the expense of U.S. national security and regional alliances.

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By Amir Tsarfati, YOUTUBE    27 May 2024

The IDF announced: The Joint Chiefs of Staff’s investigation mechanism (an independent investigative body that is not subordinate to the Chief of Staff) will investigate the airstrike tonight in Rafah in which, according to the Palestinians, dozens of civilians were killed.

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E. Rowell:  That which emanates from the union between globalist elites who want to own the world and third world dictators is one source of animus towards Israel.  That which emanates from the United States results from over a century of Marxist cultural infiltration and subversion of every single institution in the country:  education, government, the military, the media, and the largest international corporations.  So when we feel overwhelmed with the degree of anti-Israel hatred from all these directions, that should not surprise us.  What is surprising is that there is still a majority of Americans who, despite all these subversive efforts, STILL SUPPORT ISRAEL and support Israel’s effort to win this war!

We are living through a moral apocalypse. Each day brings a new series of outrages against Israel. Staying sane in the face of lies and evil has become a full-time job. Fortunately, you are up to it.

By Nachum Kaplan, MORAL CLARITY NEWSLETTER    26 May 2024

The International Criminal Court (center) and the International Court of Justice, with the United Nations in the background.

The good news is that you are not crazy. You are not imagining things. The bad news is that the world is every bit as morally unhinged as it looks.

It is easy to think your mind is slipping when you read daily about a world where wrong is the norm, evil is venerated, racism is acceptable, terror is rewarded, and palpable lies are treated as truth. It is not you. It is the world.

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We’re stocked with DEI-fed social warriors; we’re dangerously short on USA-centered citizens like Staff Sgt. Harry Wells.

By M. D. Kittle, THE FEDERALIST    27 May 2024

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We received some sad news last week. The mother of one of my best friends died. As a fellow of a certain age (child of the ‘80s), parents passing, unfortunately, is becoming a regular occurrence.

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Trumpophobia (fright over Trump) is cresting with his polls.

By Victor Davis Hanson, AMERICAN GREATNESS    27 May 2024

As Trump continues to show leads in critical swing states, as various lawfare-inspired cases against him seem to the public to be more persecutions than prosecutions, and as Joe Biden appears daily more incoherent and lost, the left on spec has resorted to warning the nation about all the supposedly catastrophic consequences of a future Trump presidency.

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E. Rowell:  From Amir Tsarfati’s Telegram channel on 20/5: “Intellitimes blog reveals that Iran fitted President Raisi with a government helicopter based on a military Bell 412EP equipped with 4 rotors, depending on the size and number of passengers in this version, but on the day of the crash it was observed with only two rotors, similar to the Bell 212, indicating a change which was made in a helicopter possibly because of shortage of original parts or a poorly made upgrade.  This means that the helicopter that was originally designed to carry 10 passengers using a propulsion force created by 4 rotors took off that morning, with 9 passengers, with propulsion power from only 2 rotors and in weather and wind conditions that did not match its original design.”

By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS    26 May 2024

Raisi’s crashed helicopter, May 20, 2024./YouTube screenshot

The Telegraph Defense and Foreign Affairs Editor Con Coughlin, on Sunday, reported that “The rotten Iranian regime is on the edge of collapse,” and suggested that “Instead of appeasing its leaders, the West should be helping to bring about its downfall.”

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Biden’s betrayal of Israel may end up costing him the election

By Daniel Greenfield, FRONT PAGE    24 May 2024

After tossing Jewish voters overboard to accommodate the Hamas supporters of Dearborn, Michigan, the Democrats are starting to get nervous about the choice they made.Despite the rollout of the campaign, beginning with Senator Schumer’s floor speech blasting Israel, and various liberal Jewish surrogates, including Rep. Jerry Nadler, vocally opposing the campaign against Hamas, the Democrats did not manage to sell Jews on Biden’s betrayal.

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E. Rowell:  The author’s friend looks at Trump the way elitists in general do.  Trump refuses to be politically correct and bow to the gods of DEI, therefore he is beyond the pale-someone no one need even listen to let alone vote for as President.  While praising Trump, the author points out that Trump is not perfect.  One very serious problem glossed over by the author is that he never repealed Obama’s executive order that created the DEI program now embedded in every single federal agency and most alarmingly, into the FBI and CIA.  When Trump issued his executive order to cancel DEI late in his presidency it was already too late.  DEI now RUNS the US government agencies and is totally embedded in each and every office and office holder of the deep state.  His appointing Gina Haspel to lead the CIA made a devastating problem worse.*

The man I heard in the Bronx bears scant resemblance to the bumbling yet dangerous ogre that the world has fabricated around the name Trump.

By Roger Kimball, AMERICAN GREATNESS    26 May 2024

Donald Trump’s Bronx rally on Thursday was memorable not only for its display of political virility in a foreign—i.e., Democrat—clime but also for the rhetorical excellence of the speech that Trump, in his usual circuitous manner, delivered.

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Military analyst Yossi Yehoshua says October 7 massacre could have been avoided had IDF’s General Staff acted differently. ‘It is not connected to the identity of the Prime Minister.’

INN | May 26, 2024

Military analyst Yossi Yehoshua believes that the responsibility for the October 7 massacre and the ensuing war rests mostly on the military echelon.

In an interview with 103FM Radio, Yehoshua explained, “The absolute majority of responsibility is on the IDF. Different handling by the General Staff’s echelon on that night would have prevented most of the incident. It is not connected to the identity of the prime minister.”

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Hugh Fitzgerald | Jihad Watch | May 26, 2024

He is calling again for the destruction of the Jewish state. Oh, not in so many words. But the clear implication of what PA officials are saying is that Israel must be destroyed as a Jewish state, and be replaced by a 23rd Arab one. More on this veiled threat can be found here: “Abbas’ advisor threatens Israel with more massacres: ‘Oct. 7 can repeat itself 100 times, and perhaps even more seriously,’” by Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, May 20, 2024:

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Even impeccable Israeli “hasbara” can’t compete with Pallywood productions and comparable fake news, regardless of how blatantly mendacious. Op-ed.

Ruthie Blum | INN | May 27, 2024

The footage screened on a digital billboard in New York City’s Times Square on Friday isn’t for the faint-hearted. Still, viewing it is a must for anyone who doesn’t believe, or has forgotten, the atrocities committed by Hamas on Oct. 7.

The clip was released on Wednesday by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. It was filmed by a group of Palestinian Arab terrorists armed with deadly weapons and body cameras—the latter to document their genocidal attack.

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Peloni: It should be recalled that on September 6, a threatening statement against the Netanyahu govt was made suggesting that due to the pursuit of Judicial Reform by Bibi’s govt, the govt would find itself without the army, without Shin Bet, and without Mossad.  One month later, Hamas attacked the Otef, and as was threatened, the army and intelligence was seen to be terribly absent.  This statement was released via X by Shikma Bressler, who was the leader of the Black Flags, which is a violent activist group formed back in 2020 to manipulate the govt.  This is the same activist leader who is released a very revealing message, again via X, and is described in the following article.

Shakma Bresler shared the link, deleted it – and published an apology

One of the prominent leaders of the protest against the government shared a briefing document for activists under the title “A friend brings a friend” • In the sections “Why the protest is likely to succeed”, it is written that it is supported by the President of the United States, heads of government in the West and the Middle East and the Hague Tribunal – and because of “his illness of the Prime Minister” • In the end she deleted the link: “I shared a website where nonsense was written that has nothing to do with reality”

Or Ravid | N12 | May 26, 2024

Shakma Bresler, one of the leaders of the protest against the government, published a link that offers “tools for a conversation that will bring the members back to the protest.” The link included, among other things, “common positions against the protest” such as the claims that the demonstration raises the price of the kidnapped and harms unity. In the section called: “Why the protest is likely to succeed”, it is written: “Powerful international factors are helping the struggle, including: the President of the United States, heads of government in the West and the Middle East, and the Hague Tribunal.” In another section, it is claimed that the protest will succeed because “the public prosecution And the media for exposing the Prime Minister’s illness is increasing.”

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