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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Peloni:  The removal of Gallant from the govt was a significant victory as he was the final obstacle acting on part of the Americans in obstructing Netanyahu’s control over the course of the war.  His resignation have the same effect for the govt in being able to pass essential legislation such as the Heredi Draft Law.

Coalition and opposition leaders criticize Gallant’s resignation

All Israel News Staff | January 2, 2025

Former defense minister Yoav Gallant announcing his resignation from the Knesset, January 1, 2025 (Photo used under section 27A of the copyright law).

Yoav Gallant, who was removed from his post as defense minister some two months ago, resigned his post as member of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, on Wednesday.

In a short video statement, Gallant asserted he would stay in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, ending rumors that he intends to join another party and run against Netanyahu in the coming elections.

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Janet Levy:In his New Year’s Day address at Mar-a-Largo, Trump confirmed his commitment to H-1B visas and his support for Mike Johnson as speaker.

Very disappointing!  We voted for MAGA and got the globalists.

Also, conservatives have gone back to sleep.  Few people – Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon, Laura Loomer – are speaking out about this betrayal.

Sundance | Jan 1, 2025

There are many people who only became aware of Elon Musk after he dropped Ron DeSantis and took up a position in support of President Trump.

Most of those people do not have a reference for Musk complying with the platform control demands of Brazil, France and Turkey [Durov (Telegram), and Pavlovski (Rumble) did not].

Most of those Pro-Elon people also do not have a reference for Musk claiming he and his legal team did not know former FBI Chief Legal Counsel James Baker was the legal counsel for Twitter at the time of the purchase, until after independent journalist Matt Taibbi was researching the Twitter Files and complained about Baker filtering information. {GO DEEP} Musk fired Baker, and eventually, Musk kicked Taibbi out and shut down the Twitter File reviews.

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Update 2:

DEVELOPING: CT investigators tell me they're following leads the Bourbon Street terrorist was radicalized at a pro-jihad MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD mosque in N. Houston that actively converts inmates inside the Texas Dept of Corrections. Jabbar recently traveled to BROTHERHOOD HQ: Cairo.

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) January 2, 2025

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Hostages once held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip detailed brutal acts of torture and violence perpetrated against them in captivity in a new report prepared for the U.N. by the Israeli government.

The report, dated Dec. 23, draws on testimony of hostages taken by Hamas during the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks who were subsequently released or set free. Among other abuses, the prisoners testified that the Hamas terrorists subjected them to sexual assaults, brutal psychological torture, branding with hot objects, deliberate starvation and more.

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Speakers who have been featured in recent months—and one who is slated to talk in January—have promoted anti-Israel libels.

Moshe Phillips | Dec 30, 2024
Birkbeck College, part of the University of London. Credit: Ohototram/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.

One of Great Britain’s most prominent institutes for the study of antisemitism is quickly turning into a home for extreme Israel-bashers.

When the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism was created at the University of London in 2010, there was great hope that it would live up to its declared mission of promoting research and teaching to combat “antisemitism, racialization and religious intolerance.” The public had no reason to doubt the institute, which was originally named after its founder, the Pears Foundation, would live up to its mission “to promote genuine advances in the understanding of complex issues.”

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Iran’s ring of fire strategy is in tatters thanks to Hamas’ war, and Iran’s nuclear program is likely about to meet its Waterloo, and with it potentially, Iran’s theocratic dictatorship.

Long-standing Iranian grand strategy in the Middle East has been to use a network of proxy militias to do its bidding and to keep its hands clean hoping to avoid retaliation. The Iranian doctrine involved using its proxy militias to destroy Israel in a ‘ring of fire’ and push the U.S. out of the Middle East before it would settle accounts with its Sunni opponents. To that end, Iran armed, trained, and supported Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Syrian regime, the Houthis in Yemen, and Shia militias in Iraq all with the goal of finishing off Israel. Iran used its network of regional militias to become a regional military threat in the Middle East perhaps until it could become a nuclear power to dominate the area and threaten Europe. 

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Peloni: I don’t think Trump chose the likes of Rubio to begin a war with China/Russia, but rather to threaten them into accepting an America First price for peace.  Trump is not one to move towards peace thru weakness and capitulation (we could agree to call this the Carlon-Owens plan for peace), but thru strength and resolve.  In fact, failing to act as if war is a clear and obvious choice will not bring peace of any lasting permanence, and doing so would harm America’s standing in the world, something which Trump would not tolerate.  So the question is whether Rubio will be calling the shots or if Trump will, and I think the answer is that Trump will be making the decisions on any war which he embarks on in the coming term.  Notably, there is a precedent for Trump having done something similar to what I am describing here with his inexplicable appointment of  John Bolton in his first term.  Trump gave Bolton little if any heed, even as he used Bolton’s advocacy for war with Iran to intimidate Iran from taking any rash moves – and their nearly impotent response to Suleimani’s death demonstrated how effective hiring a War Hawk might be for Trump’s peace thru strength agenda.  Notably, war with Iran was and remains an unavoidable reality, unless an overt attempt at regime change is successfully employed.

Trump was elected on a platform of closing the border and bringing sanity back to US foreign policy but the early signs indicate Americans who voted for a man of peace could end up with a man of war.

Peloni:  In the wake of  criticisms being revisited over the continued monetized of accounts on X which promote antisemitism, several such accounts are now being demonetized.

Hey Jew-haters, you wanted free speech? Well, congratulations! Now your speech is free, because no one’s paying you for it. pic.twitter.com/MyW6wrncNX

— Awesome Jew (@JewsAreTheGOAT) January 1, 2025

Peloni: Peace thru strength requires the presence of, and willingness to, employ strength to establish peace.

Seth Frantzman tweeted the following in regards to news of Hamas’ bad faith negotiations:

Let’s be honest here. Hamas was told by its hosts and backers to keep the hostages. Hamas goal is to hold them for years maybe up to five or ten years releasing a few at a time. Their backers in Doha and Ankara have calculated that this will bring Hamas to power in the West Bank after Abbas passes. Hamas is laying the groundwork now with PIJ in Jenin, Tulkarm and other areas for this.

Israel has chosen to stay in Netzarim and Rafah but not remove Hamas from Gaza, a calculated approach that goes back to 2007. In this situation there is no pressure for a deal.

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Peloni:  Trump addresses a series of questions from the press, including doubling down on support for both H1b visas and Speaker Johnson’s re-election.  He closes with the following statement:  “They better let the hostages go soon!”

Also, Raylan Givens reports that members of American hostages are expected to attend Trump’s inauguration.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | Dec 31, 2024

The latest tales of derring-do from the annals of Mossad and the IDF’s military intelligence,, with particular attention to their infiltration of Hezbollah, can be found here: “Internal espionage: How Israeli spies infiltrated Hezbollah for decades – NYT,” Jerusalem Post, December 29, 2024:

Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah’s former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was the culmination of extensive spy infiltration and intelligence gathering from the terror group that spanned decades, the New York Times reported on Sunday.

The NYT investigation, based on interviews with more than two dozen current and former Israeli, American, and European officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss classified operations, revealed just how extensively Israeli spies had penetrated Hezbollah as part of two decades of methodical intelligence work in preparation for an all-out war that many expected would eventually come.

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The Citizenship Amendment Act passed in 2019 by Modi’s government allowed Indian citizenship for non-Muslim refugees from neighbouring countries. [Non-Muslims] who fled to India from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan before December 31, 2014, were eligible for citizenship.

Peloni:  This is a very thorough review of Qatar’s role in promoting terrorism around the world.

Visegrad 24 | Dec 30, 2024

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By Robert Spencer | Dec 30, 2024

Did the Times know he was Hamas? Would the Times brass have cared if they did know?

“Israel arrests Gaza hospital director who wrote for New York Times, accuses him of being a Hamas terrorist,” by Ronny Reyes, New York Post, December 29, 2024:

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By Hugh Fitzgerald | Dec 30, 2024

The chief drafter of Resolution 242 was Lord Caradon (Hugh M. Foot), the permanent representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations from 1964 to 1970. At the time of the Resolution’s discussion and subsequent unanimous passage, and on many occasions since, Lord Caradon always insisted that the phrase “from the territories” quite deliberately did not mean “all the territories,” but merely some of the territories.

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