The arms cutoff shows that Washington wants to let Hamas win the war it started on Oct. 7. This will do incalculable harm to U.S. interests abroad and at home.
JONATHAN S. TOBIN (May 9, 2024 / JNS)
Israeli reserve soldiers take part in a military drill in the Golan Heights in northern Israel on May 8, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.
This isn’t the first dispute between the governments of the United States and Israel. Nor is it the first time that Washington has used the supply of arms to try to pressure the Jewish state to bend to its will. But there is no precedent for what President Joe Biden has just done.
By declaring that he will stop supplying weapons to Israel, including high-tech heavy bombs and artillery shells, if it seeks to enter Rafah and eliminate Hamas’s last remaining stronghold in Gaza, the president was making a clear declaration that the United States was mandating an end to the war that the terrorist group began with the massacre of men, women and children on Oct. 7.
Peloni: As Biden withholds arms from Israel to fight terrorists, it authorizes arms sales to terrorist controlled nations.
Adam Kredo | The Free Beacon | May 10, 2024
Less than a day before the Biden administration announced its intent to cut off U.S. arms sales to Israel, it issued a sanctions waiver to bypass congressional prohibitions on arms sales to a host of Arab nations that boycott the Jewish state, including Hamas ally Qatar and Iran-controlled Lebanon, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
Peloni: This is an important update by Gen. Avivi. Among other matters, Avivi shares that Israel has enough weapons to conquer Gaza and deal with the North, but that the hold on the supply of arms will change how strongly Israel can operate in the North, and also in response to further attacks from Iran. Avivi goes on to note that before the assault on Rafah, the pressure on Israel is at its peak to keep Israel from going into Rafah, but that once the assault on Rafah is completed, the situation will change and the pressure on the US administration to release the weapons to Israel will be at that point be at its peak due to the influence of Congressmen, Senators and the public. He also challenges all American Jews, regardless of political persuasion, to recognize that it is their responsibility to press the US govt to stop withholding vital munitions from Israel during its war against the existential threats which have so viciously attacked her.
Gen. Amir Avivi | IDSF | May 10, 2024
PM Netanyahu | Dr. Phil Primetime | May 9, 2024
Dr. Phil sits down with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, for an in-depth interview. Join us as we discuss the war between Isreal and Hamas and how it has made an impact on the United States. Don’t miss this exclusive conversation.
Peloni: I usually agree with everything which Amb. Friedman states, which is why his lukewarm comments on Qatar drew my attention. Qatar is Israels enemy. They funded Hamas and controlled the security of the Hamas leadership, all while that leadership planned and executed the October 7 slaughter against Israel. The Qatari claims of seeking stability in the region could not be more false, and the role which they are funding the spread of antisemitism among the youth of America is also no secret. Not to mention the corruption in which Qatar was caught in secretly funding Gen. Allen who was lobbying on behalf of Qatar, the same Gen. Allen who is today lobbying Congress against Israel on behalf of Hamas, and who has been pushing forward the libelous claims that Israel is sexually assaulting the Pals over the past several months. There should be no equivocating on Qatar. They are an enemy of both Israel and America, an ally of Iran, and their claims of seeking stability are as completely duplicitous.
Ambassador David Friedman, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, discusses the situation in Israel today, the rise in global antisemitism, and the geopolitics of the Middle East with David Harris.
E. Rowell: A great experiment has taken place in the USA. The entire educational system from K through college graduation has been subverted through DEI indoctrination. One of the first consequences of CRT and DEI is the destruction of meritocracy. A second consequence is the normalization of racism. A third consequence is the normalization of Jew hatred. Federal funding for public school education and college education should be conditioned upon the ending of DEI and CRT curricula, the firing of all DEI personnel and departments, and the firing of DEI professional hires. Colleges must show that their faculty represent a broad array of political positions. In addition, all points of views of students are to be encouraged, with schools being required to prove that they have accomplished this before funding is re-instated.
It may be the only way to save America.
By Daniel Greenfield, FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE 9 May 2024
1 in 10 college students answered that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez had created the New Deal. And only 1 in 10 knew James Madison’s role in shaping the Constitution.
That survey from the ‘American Council of Trustees and Alumni’ was one of several warnings about the catastrophic illiteracy of college students and graduates.
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute did its own survey of over 28,000 undergraduates from 80 colleges and the average score on the civic literacy exam was an F. At top schools, including Yale, seniors actually knew less than freshmen. A Collegiate Learning Assessment found that after two years almost half of students showed “no significant gains in learning”.
Dennis Prager | Town Hall | May 7, 2024
I doubt that there is any national or religious group that produces the percentage of people who aid those who wish to hurt, let alone kill, that group as do Jews.
By Andrew Korybko 9 May 2024
There’ll be those activist-minded members of the Mainstream Media and the Alt-Media Community who’ll pick and choose which element of this policy to focus on in advance of their ideological agenda but the fact of the matter is that the entire whole represents a comprehensive diplomatic push.
Many observers from the Mainstream Media and the Alt-Media Community alike were shocked when Defense Secretary Austin confirmed on Wednesday during a congressional testimony that the US had withheld “one shipment of high payload munitions” on the pretext that they could be used in Rafah. Biden then expanded on this newfound policy later in the day when declaring that “We’re not going to supply the weapons and artillery shells” if the IDF goes into Rafah’s population centers.
The State Election Board admits that Fulton County violated election law
Emerald Robinson’s The Right Way | May 9, 2024
Citizen journalist Joe Rossi showed up at the Georgia State Capitol yesterday for the State Election Board meeting to announce that America’s corrupt voting system had finally been caught beyond a shadow of a doubt.
How?
It’s now been proven that Fulton County’s hand audit and the certified machine count are both in violation of Georgia’s election law.
That’s right: Georgia’s State Election Board has been forced to admit in writing that Fulton County cheated.
E. Rowell: Since the end of World War II, the CIA used its power to destroy any individual or harm any country that was deemed a “threat” to the US or to US corporations. Under Directors Allen Dulles and Richard Helms, CIA operatives carried out assassinations of political leaders all over the world, (including our own) and they used the media to defame, delegitimize, dishonor, and destroy anyone in the public eye that they deemed a “threat.” They used various means of hijacking elections; in the 1950’s and ’60s it was to prevent Communist parties from gaining power. Now electoral fraud is required to maintain its power. Meanwhile Americans are watching.
By J. B. Shurk, AMERICAN THINKER 9 May 2024
Image: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center via Flickr, CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
As I’ve watched the political Uniparty and administrative Deep State conspire to destroy Donald Trump over the last eight years, a tinge of optimism has taken root inside me. Not only have his tormentors been unsuccessful, but also a growing share of the population see the attacks against him as un-American, vindictive, and dangerous. There is a heightened social awareness that D.C. is filled with corrupt people who operate the tentacles of government solely for their own benefit and enrichment.
By David Harsanyi, THE FEDERALIST 7 May 2024
Office of the US Chief of Counsel for the prosecution of Axis criminality/Wikimedia Commons
In the 12th century, the Christian dualist movement Catharism began spreading across northern Italy and southern France. It was neither the first nor the last heretical challenge to orthodox Christianity in medieval Europe — as Catholics can surely attest.
In any event, the Cathars essentially believed, among many other heresies, in two gods: one of eternal heaven and another of worldly evil. The belief became so popular that Pope Innocent III, apparently not a fan of religious liberty, was compelled to launch the Albigensian Crusade to stamp out this theological perversion. Hundreds of thousands likely perished. In one French Cathar city, 20,000 people were reported slaughtered under papal legate.
Here are ten of their most common untruths about October 7 and the war that followed.
Peloni: There is a great deal to be garnered from this conversation, which includes good ideas, bad suggestions, and great dilemmas, all of which face Israel as it approaches the Day After Gaza.
A Tablet roundtable about the challenges facing Israel in Gaza, Lebanon, and Washington, with Elliott Abrams, Jeremy Ben-Ami, Amiad Cohen, Michael Doran, Jon Greenwald, and Lee Smith
by Tony Badran | Tablet | May 08, 2024
Israel had barely begun its military operation in Gaza, after Hamas slaughtered 1,200 people and kidnapped 240 more, when the Biden administration began talking about what would need to happen the day after the war was over. “There has to be a vision of what comes next,” President Biden said on Oct. 25, 2023.
How neoconservatives and their military-industrial complex allies keep America losing
Erik Prince | Asia Times | May 3, 2024
It is painfully apparent to anyone of sound mind and judgment that there’s something gravely wrong with America’s current military capacity and our ability to project power in the world.
The WWII-era fighting force composed of 14 million GIs with a muscular industrial base backing them up is almost unimaginable today. In the last three years, five different US embassies have been hastily evacuated: Sudan, Afghanistan, Belarus, Ukraine, and Niger.
Peloni: There is no possibility that Israel can accept defeat in this war, none at all. Whatever the costs, it must end in victory, and the quicker, the better – and this will result in fewer lives being lost on all sides.
Netanyahu: ‘If we have to conquer Gaza with our fingernails, we are going to do it. We’re going to do it even if you don’t give us ammunition, even if you don’t give us weapons — we’re going in and we’re not going to lose the war.’”
Warren Kinsella | Toronto Sun | May 7, 2024
Israel won’t stop its military advance against the Hamas stronghold of Rafah, says a former senior ranking Israeli military commander — whether the United States and Western allies approve or not. Read more…
T. Belman. Israel doesn’t need the bombs. Just as in the War of Independence when there was an American embargo on the sale of arms to Israel, Israel sourced them elsewhere. Don’t think for a moment that Israel has been idle since Oct 7/23.
In my article Don’t Muddy the Waters, I asked two military judges, Bruce Tucker Smith, JD, LL.M. (International Law), Lt Col USAFR (ret) for a legal opinion on what restrictions or laws Israel is subject to in its self-defense and included the opinion in my post Bomb Gaza. Win the War.
In sum: Israel is free to employ ALL munitions, tactics, equipment and personnel in her arsenal to defend herself against the outlaw Hamas terrorist organization. Short of the intentional targeting and murder of truly uninvolved and innocent civilians, Israel can (and should) operate as freely as she desires to protect her territorial sovereignty and the lives of her citizens.
US President says he will halt shipments of American weapons to Israel if Netanyahu orders a major invasion of Rafah: “Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs”.
By Elad Benari, INN May 9/24
Joe BidenREUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
“Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers,” Biden told CNN’s Erin Burnett in an exclusive interview, referring to 2,000-pound bombs that Biden paused shipments of last week.
Peloni: Natation-states rather than transnational organizations must be the level at which sovereign choices, including the health care choices of their citizens, are determined and implemented. Failing this, the decisions made by such extra-national leviathans such as the WHO will be but mandates chosen by Globalist tyrants which will be left to be administered by national leaders who will become little more than the satraps of the new globalist hivemind.
Indeed, while nations may cooperate and interact with one another, they must maintain the ability to do so due to a sovereign choice, rather than because of a contractually binding commitment to any globalist master.
Reagan Reese | Daily Caller | May 8, 2024
REUTERS/Pierre Albouy
A band of state Attorneys Generals are urging President Joe Biden not to hand over several vast pandemic powers to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Daily Caller first learned.
Led by Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, 22 state attorneys generals wrote a letter to Biden, obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller, voicing their concern over potential plans to give the WHO a series of powers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. World governments have been discussing the amendments that would give the WHO more leeway to help “prevent, prepare for and respond to pandemics.” (RELATED: Bret Weinstein Warns Tucker WHO Is Making ‘Troubling’ Moves To Control Health Emergency Responses)
By Mahyar Tousi, YOUTUBE 7 May 2024
Mahyar Tousi has his own YouTube channel. He is committed to truth in journalism, no matter where the truth takes him. He is British of Iranian descent. This brief video encapsulates what the war in Gaza is about.
E. Rowell; The attempted hijacking of Western democracies by international billionaire crime syndicates is leading in the direction of collapse. Ideologies that are destructive of family, faith, country have been sweeping the land. Censorship and authoritarian police state tactics have attempted to marginalize and demonize patriots and those who believe in the rule of law. Lawfare and electoral fraud have made a mockery of our Constitution and system of justice. Those whose goal is the murder of all Jews are given free reign to control colleges, while law abiding Jewish students are prevented from attending classes or are beaten up. The President appears helpless in the face of this, while at the same time he demands that Israel submit to Hamas’s genocide, and allow Hamas to win the war. But Netanyahu and the people of Israel will have none of this, and they are the real heroes of our day and time. Milei reminds us of how we in the West got started, with the idea of liberty, and the need to focus the mind on regaining it.
By Steven Hayward, POWERLINE 7 May 2024
That’s not a headline I ever expected to write, even in satire. But the current experiment in Argentina, under the presidency of Javier Milei, is perhaps grounds for hope that at some point when things get so bad, voters return to their senses. (I’m looking at you, California and Minnesota.) He may not succeed, but the attempt is certainly inspiring.
Milei gave a speech a few days ago at the Milken Institute’s annual conference. Here are some of the best parts:
“The West is in danger. It is in danger because its leaders long ago moved away from the ideas of freedom. Ideas that made the West the most important civilizational achievement in the history of mankind. And instead of defending the ideas that generated the prosperity that everyone here enjoys, they listen to siren songs that lead inexorably to socialism, and consequently to poverty.
Peloni: Revolver News continues to provide greater clarity of the facts and details which surrounded the psyop exploited on January 6.
Revolver News | May 7, 2024
The Ides of March, H.G. Well’s prediction of atomic weaponry, and Babe Ruth’s iconic finger pointed toward the stands all enjoy pride of place in the annals of historic prognostications. When all is said and done, these annals may need to open once again to accommodate a largely unsung Nostradamus by the name of Donell Harvin, former chief of the Homeland Security and Intelligence division of Washington, D.C.’s Fusion Intelligence Center. This deep-state official and vehement never-Trumper is responsible for predicting the infamous January 6th pipe bombs to an uncanny and rather troubling degree of accuracy. Why isn’t he interested in taking credit?
