Ukraine Admits Frontlines In Kharkiv Are Collapsing  

Peloni: “Drip, drip, flood”…

by Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge | May 13, 2024

For the first time since Russia launched its major cross-border offensive into Ukraine’s Kharkiv region (it began last Friday), Ukraine’s government has acknowledged that Moscow forces have made rapid gains.

Oleg Sinegubov, the head of the military administration of the Kharkov Region, has said Russia is pushing past the frontline. “Essentially, the frontline is expanding as the enemy is advancing from multiple positions,” he admitted during an interview with Sky News.

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May 14, 2024 | 11:26 am | 1 Comment »

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UN seemingly halves estimate of Gazan women, children killed  

Peloni:  There is a basic premise in any data collection scenario which should always be noted: Garbage in leads to garbage out.  If you can’t trust the source of the data, there is really very little to talk about and little need to explain why you shouldn’t be talking about it.

The UN  also highlighted that the plurality of identified fatalities were men (40%), while children were (32%) and women (20%).

By YUVAL BARNEA | JPOST | MAY 11, 2024

THE UNITED NATIONS headquarters building in New York City, and the UN logo: Today’s UN needs to be reimagined and reformed to address the limited problems it can effectively handle, says the writer.  (photo credit: CARLO ALLEGRI/REUTERS)

The United Nations seemingly halved the estimated number of women and children killed in Gaza, according to UN data published on May 6 and 8.

The UN published the number of fatalities reported by the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health. The Government Media Office in Gaza and Israeli authorities provided a disclaimer below the data: “The UN has so far not been able to produce independent, comprehensive, and verified casualty figures.”

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May 14, 2024 | 11:03 am | Comments »

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The Exodus Project: A Jewish Answer to the University Crisis  

Peloni:   “The case for an exodus from the corrupt quads of Columbia and Harvard seems both urgent and clear. The question is: an Exodus to where and for what purpose? To save ourselves as Jews or to help save America from those who seek to destroy us?”  It is a fascinating, thoughtful, and challenging discussion in which Cohen ultimately challenges American Jewry to “focus not simply on our safety in America but our responsibility for America.”  Full text can be found on Mosaic, here.

Eric Cohen | Tikvah | May 13, 2024

Tikvah’s CEO Eric Cohen delivers a special video address on a Jewish answer to the university crisis. The long-brewing crisis on our university campuses has reached a tipping point. The anti-Israel encampments that recently took over Columbia, Yale, UCLA, and dozens of schools across America—chanting pro-Hamas slogans, harassing Jewish students, vandalizing and trespassing—force us to confront the moral confusion that plagues so much of higher education. This assault on Jews and Israel is also an assault on America and the West. How should American Jews respond? Can our most prestigious universities be saved, or is it time to build new centers of learning that advance our noblest Jewish and American values? Are these storied institutions of higher learning worthy of our children, our creativity, and our support, or is it time for an exodus?

May 14, 2024 | 7:41 am | 3 Comments »

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My son’s death cannot be in vain  

By Caroline Glick, JNS    13 May 2024

This Yom HaZikaron, author and journalist Caroline Glick spoke with bereaved mother Sarah Schwartz on what it feels like to have lost her son on Oct. 7th. Her son, Segev Schwartz, died fighting Hamas in Kibbutz Sufa. Sarah is active in pushing the Israeli government to finish Hamas in Gaza and to not listen to an outside world that doesn’t understand the Middle East and the war Israel faces. The family is running several campaigns to support bereaved families and in memory of their son.

May 14, 2024 | 4:00 am | Comments »

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Everything’s Coming Up Trump – Until The Pros Show Up  

E. Rowell:  Is Trump’s election team consulting with Omega4America or going with yesterday’s technology and “Election Integrity Teams”?  Remember in 2020 when Harmeet Dhillon of the RNC said on national TV, “We’ve got teams of lawyers ready to go to prevent election fraud”?

“Best campaign ever” – until it counts

By OMEGA4AMERICA    13 May 2024

80,000 people flock to hear Trump in New Jersey.

Virginia and New Jersey now in play.

Trump is leading in every swing state – some by 11 points.

“The best campaign ever” is about to crush a dementia-riddled old man, who cannot speak, cannot campaign and cannot walk down a set of stairs.

It’s sunrise in America!

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May 13, 2024 | 4:02 pm | 4 Comments »

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The Left Were Domestic Enemies From the Founding  

Daniel Greenfield’s first book reveals we have fought today’s political battles before – and won.

By Mark Tapson, FRONT PAGE    13 May 2024

Our particularly American addiction to the now, the new, and the what’s next means we tend to perceive our political conflicts through the lens of “breaking news,” or at most, the weekly news cycle. It doesn’t help that more and more of us, especially young people, get our news from the ever-advancing timelines of social media, which draw us constantly forward moment by moment, denying us the time to reflect upon events in a broader historical context.

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May 13, 2024 | 3:26 pm | 1 Comment »

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Is the Backlash to Universities Becoming Real?  

Taxpayers, politicians, and employers are realizing that campus leftism has gone too far. The question is whether it’s too late to stop 

By Richard Hanania, TABLET MAGAZINE    9 May 2024

Police officers arrest a demonstrator during a protest against the war in Gaza at Emory University on April 25, 2024/ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

In 2019, Ron DeSantis appointed Brian Lamb, a former point guard at the University of South Florida, to the 17-member board of regents for the state university system. The Florida governor, when he made the pick, was clearly thinking more about his athletic accomplishments than his ideological principles, as Lamb soon afterward became head of diversity and inclusion at JPMorgan Chase. It therefore probably shouldn’t have been surprising when, after the death of George Floyd, Lamb sent a memo to all presidents of public colleges in Florida demanding they “prioritize and support diversity, racial and gender equity, and inclusion” and telling them that they would be held “accountable for policies, programs, and actions” in this area.

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May 13, 2024 | 3:04 pm | Comments »

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The Fall of the House of Presidential Persecutions  

E. Rowell:  Victor Davis Hanson’s title alludes to the short story by Edgar Allen Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” in which a mysterious secret afflicts a house and eats away at its owner.  The mysterious secret remains hidden, but the symbol of that secret comes to light and destroys the family for good.*

What will be the endgame of all these attacks on the American legal system and the warping of it for blatant political purposes?

By Victor Davis Hanson, AMERICAN GREATNESS   13 May 2024

None of the five civil and criminal cases currently lodged against former President Donald Trump have ever had merit. They were all predicated on using the law to injure his re-election candidacy—given a widespread derangement syndrome among the left and a fear they cannot entrust a Trump/Biden election to the people.

These criminal and civil trials are merely the continuation of extra-legal efforts of the last eight years to destroy a presidential candidate in lieu of opposing him in transparent elections.

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May 13, 2024 | 2:34 pm | 3 Comments »

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Israel is one of the only countries with two memorial days.  

As they say in Israel: Yom HaZikaron reminds us about the cost of having a state, and Yom HaShoah about the cost of not.

By Joshua Hoffman, FUTURE OF JEWISH    13 May 2024

A grave at Mount Herzl, Israel’s national cemetery in Jerusalem (photo: Levi Meir Clancy)

Today is Memorial Day in Israel, one of the only countries that has two official memorial days.

Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Day) is observed on the 27th of the Hebrew month Nisan (in April or May) and Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day) is a day for the fallen soldiers of Israeli wars and victims of terrorism, observed the day before Independence Day (tomorrow).

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May 13, 2024 | 2:02 pm | Comments »

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Israel Declares Independence from Biden  

The 76th Independence Day will be a true test of Israel’s independence.

by Daniel Greenfield | FrontPage | May 13, 2024

This week, Israel will mark its 76th Independence Day. Usually a day filled with parades and fireworks, the Israeli people will instead buckle down to the grim business of being at war.

Too much of the population is either deployed in the field or may soon be, displaced from their homes near the Gaza border or aware that at any moment rocket alerts could sound for incoming missiles from Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen or Iran. This year, Yom HaZikaron, Memorial Day annually observed for the fallen, will overshadow Yom Ha’atzmaut or Independence Day.

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May 13, 2024 | 9:19 am | 3 Comments »

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Biden administration throws obstacles at Israeli op in Rafah while tooling an unfinished pier around the Eastern Med  

Elections have consequences.

J.E. Dyer, The OPTIMISTIC CONSERVATIVE May 9, 2024

The short summary of where Israel’s war in Gaza stands this week is that Israel has seized the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing and begun warnings and evacuation of Rafah, followed by bombing, in preparation for the final push to remove Hamas from Gaza.  The Biden administration is attempting to impede this operation by touting a supposed ceasefire/hostages agreement with Hamas, warning Israel not to go into Rafah, and withholding a previously-approved and scheduled delivery of munitions to Israel in order to extort Israel’s policy compliance on the Rafah campaign matter.

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May 13, 2024 | 8:41 am | 1 Comment »

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Biden Regime’s Betrayal of Israel is Not Just to Get Votes  

Peloni:  It is inexplicable that so many reference the motivation for the Biden betrayal of Israel to be due to electoral interests.  The move by the current administration to revive the Iranian pivot long preceded the astroturf campus protests, and it ignores the opportunity costs of  jeopardizing the electoral support of some ~80% of Americans who support Israel while pursuing the support of Arab Americans.  The motivation in betraying Israel is not relatable to electoral math.

It’s also the result of the Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of his administration.

by Robert Spencer | FrontPage | May 13, 2024

The pressure on the Biden regime over its ostensible but hollow (at best) support for Israel has been high for months. The regime’s betrayal of Israel has been widely explained as a capitulation to threats from Muslim leaders that Old Joe would receive no Muslim votes in November unless he stabbed the Jewish state in the back. That consideration likely had a great deal to do with the betrayal, but the pressure also comes from within the regime: his handlers have appointed Muslim Brotherhood-linked haters of Israel to numerous positions of influence, and that influence is being felt.

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May 13, 2024 | 8:17 am | 3 Comments »

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The People Setting America on Fire  

An investigation into the witches’ brew of billionaires, Islamists, and leftists behind the campus protests

BY PARK MACDOUGALD, TABLET  MAY 06, 2024

A person stands among tents at an encampment set up by pro-Palestinian protesters on the campus of Columbia University in New York on April 25, 2024LEONARDO MUNOZ/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Over the past several weeks, Americans have witnessed what has seemed like a mass outpouring of support for terror on elite college campuses. At Columbia, Yale, Princeton, NYU, UCLA, Northwestern, Texas, and elsewhere, masked mobs have occupied schools with tent encampments, established self-proclaimed “autonomous zones,” clashed with police, harassed and threatened visibly Jewish students, and issued demands for their universities to divest from Israeli “genocide.” Politically, moreover, the protests have displayed an incoherent mix of campus progressivism, hardcore Islamism and Arab nationalism, and revolutionary anarchism and communism, including open praise for North Korea. The only unifying thread would appear to be opposition to Israel and its alleged imperial patron, the United States.

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May 13, 2024 | 7:22 am | 3 Comments »

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Only in our absurd world, terror is rewarded with statehood – opinion  

Only in the world of the absurd can the majority of the international community deliberately ignore the openly genocidal intentions of Iran, Hamas, and other Palestinian terror organizations.

By ALAN BAKER | JPOST | MAY 13, 2024

ISRAEL’S UN AMBASSADOR Gilad Erdan uses a paper shredder to tear up a copy of the United Nations Charter as he addresses the General Assembly before a vote on recognizing the Palestinians as qualified to become a full UN member, last Friday.  (photo credit: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

Only in the world of the absurd can a despicable purveyor of terror, Hamas, carry out a brutal massacre, killing over a thousand innocent people, torturing, murdering, and carrying out sadistic mass rape, and all this over a space of a few hours, and then run-away home to Gaza, taking with them hundreds of hostages.

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May 13, 2024 | 7:11 am | 2 Comments »

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President Trump Challenges ‘Crooked Joe’ at Massive Rally in Democrat Stronghold of New Jersey  

Peloni | May 11, 2024

In a massive campaign rally on Saturday night, Trump addressed the issues of antisemitism, the astroturf riots on university campuses in the US, and the funding going to Democratic coffers from antisemites, and anti-American donors.  Here are the relevant excerpts from Trump’s speech:

Just think about this – this week he announced that he will withhold shipping weapons to Israel as they fight to eradicate Hamas terrorists in Gaza.  Now was shocking to hear, even while there are still American hostages being held by Hamas.  And they’re saying October 7th never happened.  You know they say that and Biden has fallen for it.  Crooked Joe’s action is one of the worst betrayals of an American Ally in the history of our country.

I support Israel’s right to win its war on terror… you got to do what’s right you got.  It was a terrible attack, October 7th was a terrible attack.  I don’t know, it’s probably bad politically but I don’t care.  You have to do the right thing.  There would have been no war in Gaza with me in the White House.  There would not have even been a chance you know.  Iran was broke when I was President.  I said if you buy oil anybody buys oil from Iran they can’t do business with the United States.  They were totally broke.  Now they have $250 billion.  They made it all in three and 1/2 years.

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May 13, 2024 | 6:55 am | Comments »

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Fake News Until Proven Real …  

Or Real News Until Proven Fake?

By Erik Carlson, BADLANDS MEDIA    10 MAY 2024

Before getting started, I must say I get a lot of joy in seeing how the Biden Administration has painted itself into a corner in regards to Israel, Gaza and Iran. We are now at a point where there is nothing they can say or do without offending a large segment of their base.

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May 12, 2024 | 2:59 pm | 6 Comments »

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Rabbi Linda’s Hilarious Invitation to Speak on the ‘Morality of Intifada’  

“What the hell is going on?” is a weekly series in which we bring you the most bizarre, outlandish, and surreal developments from around the Jewish world during the past week.

By Joshua Hoffman, FUTURE OF JEWISH    12 May 2024

Hamas declared that it had “accepted” a ceasefire agreement, prompting some 3,000 news organizations to breathlessly push out news alerts to that effect.

The truth is Hamas has not accepted any of the 1,401 proposals which Israel has offered in recent weeks. Regardless, the foundation was laid for reports to be, “Israel rejected a ceasefire and invaded Rafah.”

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May 12, 2024 | 2:36 pm | 1 Comment »

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All Roads Lead to Jordan for a Palestinian Homeland  

Interview with Mudar Zahran, Secretary General of the Jordanian Opposition Coalition

By Jonny Gould, YOUTUBE    11 April 2024

In Jonny Gould’s Jewish State Podcast, Mudar Zahran explains what Palestinians want:  dignity and a homeland where they can have normal lives.  He explains how the Palestinian leaders want all of Israel, which is more about hating Jews than about any good feeling towards Palestinians.

He states that the Palestinians in Jordan don’t want to exercise the right of return.  This was established in a US State Department cable, “The Grand Bargain.”

“A similar position to the current situation of the Palestinians was India and Pakistan.  The separation enabled all the citizens of each state to have citizenship. ”

“All wars are unfair and the results of wars are unfair.  For some reason, the globalist powers don’t seem to want the Israelis and the Palestinians to move on. ”

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May 12, 2024 | 2:15 pm | Comments »

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