Shoshana Bryen • JPC • December 31, 2024

Turkish President Recep Tayvip Erdogan. (Photo: Paul Morigi / Brookings )

The world was once a series of empires. The British Empire, at its peak in 1922, covered about a quarter of the Earth’s land and ruled over 458 million people. The Russian Empire once covered about 8,800,000 sq/mi, roughly one-sixth of the world’s landmass, making it the third-largest empire in history, behind only the British and Mongols. An 1897 census recorded 125.6 million people under Russian control. Genghis Khan’s Mongol Empire, while short, was the largest contiguous empire in history.

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Peloni:  Political Islam as practiced by Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood is a threat to survival of Israel, to the lives of Jews throughout the Diaspora, and to the continuation of the Western World.  Israel stands at the forefront of this war, and her every defeat in this war only serves to bring this war closer to the wider Western World and to the Jews living there.  A decisive victory over these Islamist forces by Israel makes the entire Western World safer, and this includes Jews who are calling for Israel to accept defeat instead.   All ships in the West rise with an Israeli victory, and her defeat will only embolden terror for all.

Real people who are being harmed by Hamas kidnappers and Hezbollah’s rockets, writes the head of Americans For A Safe Israel.

Tolik Piflaks | Published: January 2, 2025

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, August 18, 2020. Photo by Flash90

In May 1982, a Palestinian doctoral candidate at Moscow’s Patrice Lumumba University completed his dissertation. The work, titled,”The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism,” presented stark claims: that Zionist leaders were “basic partners in crime” with the Nazis, that the movement deliberately incited Nazi hatred against Jews to fuel mass extermination, that the widely accepted figure of six million Holocaust victims was a “fantastic lie,” and that Zionism shared ideological parallels with Nazi racial theories. The student even argued that the 1942 Biltmore Conference had provoked Hitler into accelerating the Final Solution. The candidate’s controversial thesis earned him a Candidate of Sciences degree, equivalent to a PhD in Western universities.

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Take a bow Hamas cheer squad… your role in the New Orleans terror attack… pic.twitter.com/vnQHw25hOf

— Erin Molan (@Erin_Molan) January 2, 2025

By Seth Frantzman | December 30, 2024

An Israeli commander speaks on a radio as troops battle terrorists in Jabaliya. (IDF)

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) eliminated “dozens” of terrorists in the northern Gaza area of Jabaliya overnight between December 29 and December 30. The militants were killed in ambushes. The discovery of so many terrorists is a rare occurrence in Jabaliya, where the IDF has been fighting since early October. The nearly three-month battle has primarily been a slow, grinding campaign against the remnants of Hamas and other groups in this portion of northern Gaza.

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Peloni:  It is the three deficiencies which spell Ukraine’s ultimate doom: men, morale & munitions.  This article focused on the first two, which all by themselves would likely be enough to seal Ukraine’s fate, but the lack of munitions certainly makes this imminent eventuality quite impossible to dismiss.

#FPWorld: As many as 1,700 soldiers have reportedly deserted a Ukrainian brigade trained by France and equipped by European Union, highlighting a key problem plaguing Ukraine’s war efforts.

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— Firstpost (@firstpost) January 3, 2025

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Sirens blared across central Israeli communities in the early hours of Tuesday morning, wrenching millions of Israeli civilians out of their beds for the seventh time in two weeks as another Houthi missile targeted the Jewish state. Based in Yemen, more than 1,500 miles away from Tel Aviv, the Houthis present a new kind of challenge to the Israel Defense Forces. Addressing the threat may provide a critical opportunity to secure strategic alliances that could dramatically alter the future of the region.

During Israel’s most recent round of airstrikes against the Houthis last week, the IDF hit Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, putting its international airport out of commission. This is the fourth round of airstrikes that the IDF has launched since the Houthis began attacking Israel in October 2023. Israel has sought to target Houthi infrastructure, disrupt Iranian weapons shipments and degrade the terror proxy’s ability to import oil.

Despite these missions, the Houthis remain undeterred. Less than a day after the IDF attacks last week, they continued launching missiles.

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Peloni:  The comparisons between October 7 and the Hebron Massacre are eerily disquieting, as if the century which divided them, and the historical context which distinguish them, did not exist.  Yet, while listening to Yardena discussing the complacency of the Jewish community within Hebron, their belief in coexistence and their sense of solidarity with their Arab neighbors, resulting in the awakening of Jewish resolve to protect their own, one mark which stands forth as uniquely different was that as 3000 Arabs participated in the Jew Hunt in Hebron back in 1929, more than two dozen Arab families risked their own lives while saving the lives of more than 200 Jews.  Indeed, not only was there no such parallel in the slaughter of October 7, but there has yet to be one Jew saved from the terror dens of Gaza due to the efforts of any Arab.

Peloni:  The death penalty should be employed against terrorists such as the perpetrators of October 7.  Doing so would serve to alleviate the concerns of the petitioners bemoaning the living conditions of the too well kept butchers who owe their continued good health and splendid quarters to the over indulgent support of the very people they were caught trying to slaughter.

Israel’s Supreme Court’s diligent concern for the conditions of Hamas terrorists outrages the Israeli public

Douglas Altabef | Jan 2, 2025

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There are moments in life when a person or an institution will do something that causes jaws to drop and provokes mass headshaking in disbelief.

Such an event recently occurred when Israel’s Supreme Court, its self-proclaimed bastion of democracy, took it upon itself to aggressively worry about the conditions of Hamas prisoners, including the Nuhkba sadistic murderers of October 7, 2023, now incarcerated in Israeli prisons.

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By Hugh Fitzgerald | Jan 2, 2024

One last story about Jimmy Carter and his Jewish problem: this is about his attempt to prevent a Nazi war criminal from being deported. More can be read about it here: “When Humanitarianism Ends: Jimmy Carter’s Disturbing Request on Behalf of a Nazi War Criminal,” by Varda Meyers Epstein (Judean Rose), Elder of Ziyon, January 1, 2025:

Jimmy Carter died, but few Jews mourn him. Carter’s animus toward the Jewish people is by now, legendary. Elder of Ziyon offered an overview Carter’s overt Jew-hatred in Jimmy Carter, antisemite. Saving the worst for last, Elder detailed Jimmy Carter’s plea for leniency for Martin Bartesch, a former SS guard at the Mauthausen work camp during WWII:

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Peloni:  This is fascinating!

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Peloni: MK Rothman describes the long path which has been put in place by the current govt to end the TSS.  Importantly, this  legislative campaign has broad support.

Peloni:  Why is it so hard for people to accept this fact?

Peloni:  Gadi & Mike discuss the ongoing pressure for Biden to carry out a re-do of Obama’s January Surprise after Trump was elected back in 2016.

Too many Americans keep asking “Why is Israel still fighting?” It’s as if Israel’s right to self-defense after October 7 had a two-month expiration date.

By GIL TROY | JANUARY 1, 2025

Footage released by Houthi Military Media says to show a launch of missile, which the Houthis say they fired at Israel, at an unknown location in this screen grab obtained from a handout video released on December 19, 2024.

The Houthis’ ongoing missile barrage provides the moral clarity Israelis need in battle – and the motivation to keep fighting this multi-front war we spent years trying to avoid. Soldiers have always reported, “There are no atheists in foxholes.” Having been awakened Friday night by the latest air raid sirens in Jerusalem, I’ve discovered there are no pacifists in bomb shelters, either.

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Peloni:  Be sure to watch the short video below the article in which Yousef explains that the war is not about Palestine, and that the faux rhetoric on behalf of the Pals is nothing more a rouse in the war against Israel by the Muslim world.

Mosab Hassan Yousef warns that freeing prisoners could reinvigorate Hamas’ global terror network.

Isfrafan | December 31, 2024

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For people who don’t believe in objective evil, all you have to do is look at what happened in New Orleans early this morning. pic.twitter.com/RE6bUHPRH0

— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) January 1, 2025

John Oyewale  | Daily Caller | January 01, 2025

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