Peloni:  Egypt is entirely complicit in the arming of Hamas, while also providing Hamas with their Pal human shields locked in Gaza.

David May & Haisam Hassanein | FDD | July 15, 2024

Egypt recently hosted top US and Israeli officials for Israel-Hamas ceasefire discussions. But nine months into a war that Hamas launched, Egypt has often exacerbated the conflict and largely evaded criticism for intensifying Palestinian suffering.

CIA director Bill Burns, top Biden Middle East advisor Brett McGurk, and senior Israel officials arrived in Cairo earlier this month to discuss a ceasefire deal, the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza, and mechanisms for securing the Egypt-Gaza border.

The last element is pivotal for weakening Hamas. The terrorist group has imported much of its weaponry via tunnels underneath the Gaza-Egypt border. Shutting off that valve is central to Israel’s war plans. In May, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that it discovered around 20 tunnels along the Philadelphi Corridor, the strip of land that runs along the Egypt-Gaza border, most of which crossed into Egypt.

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IDSF would like to congratulate @JDVance1 on becoming President Trump’s VP Candidate!

“The first time we met in Jerusalem and spoke about our combat experiences, it was clear to me that you have the leadership skills and vision to Make America Great Again, lead a coalition with… pic.twitter.com/bBi1UrJGuV

— Habithonistim IDSF (@idsfisrael) July 16, 2024

Peloni:  Pres. Trump posted Bibi’s statement on his TruthSocial account.

By Victor Rosenthal | July 12, 2024

“…the great IDF, that was supposed to protect them, disappeared and left them alone against a satanic and bloodthirsty enemy that murdered, burned, raped, looted, and kidnapped for long hours almost without interference.” – Yoav Limor, Israel Hayom, 12 July 2024.

The real dimensions of Israel’s failure to provide for the most basic part of the social
contract, to protect its citizens against attack, are only now becoming clear. But nine
months after the disaster of 7 October 2023, one thing is undeniable:

Almost all of those in the government, the IDF, and all the security services who were
responsible for the policies that made the invasion and massacre possible, who did not
have adequate contingency plans, who ignored compelling intelligence information
beforehand, and whose response was inexcusably slow and inadequate, still have their
jobs.

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Peloni:  A very important analysis by J.E. Dyer.  Highly recommended.

This fight must be to win.

J.E. Dyer, a retired Naval Intelligence officer, blogs as The Optimistic Conservative.

July 14, 2024

Even more “opening” caveat:  As I prepare to post this article, former President Trump has just been shot at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.  He appears to have been hit – grazed – just above his right ear.  He got up on his own, fist pumped the crowd, and went offstage surrounded by his Secret Service escort.

Trump being shot at is fresh and powerful evidence that the war on both the U.S. and Israel is being fought for keeps.  This isn’t a war to preserve the status quo.  The aggressor-opponent is fighting to take down the stabilizing, freedom-protecting power of both nations.  With all their warts, Trump and Netanyahu are the men whose guiding hands the enemy wants to eliminate.

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Peloni:  The Western world has fallen and the liberties and traditions which defined it have become perverted beyond all recollection.

BREAKING: The Paris memorial for the 1972 Olympic massacre is going to be held in secret due to concerns that it will be a target for violence.

It was originally supposed to take place at the Paris City Hall but was canceled because of safety concerns and moved to a secret… pic.twitter.com/9d89CmvdW3

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) July 14, 2024

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Peloni:  This story is still pending confirmation from China, but if true, the resulting destabilizing effect of such an event is likely to have significant consequences, both inside China as well as around the world.

Pending more confirmation!

Xi Jinping just had a stroke at CCP’s Third Plenary Session?

Since yesterday, Chinese social media has been buzzing with the news that something 'big' has happened. pic.twitter.com/FXKmDgh4uP

— Jack Straw (@JackStr42679640) July 16, 2024

Peloni: While I agree with the general sentiments cited by Kirkland in this article, it has long been my view that what was achieved at Nuremberg was less than justice, and I would argue that what is needed in this moment is not to empower such a tribunal with powers greater than that of the individual nation states.  The source of many of the crimes which Kirkland suggests should be tried in another extra-national tribunal extends from the globalist ambitions, ambitions which would only be augmented by empowering such an extra-nationalist court.  In fact, I would argue that these crimes should be weighed in the local communities in which their toll was exacted.  Ceding this responsibility to something presumed to be more powerful or legitimate than the nation states in which the crimes were committed would only serve to delegitimize the nation states as the model best capable of serving justice for the respective communities of the world.

You Say You Want a Revolution? YOU GOT IT!

RESA WARCHICK KIRKLAND | July 15, 2024

The Zapruder Film of the Trump Assassination Attempt, July 13, 2024

The original fighting of the Revolutionary War began with a shot that has unknown origins, although most historians and witness accounts place it on an agitated British Soldier.

I concur. Had it been an American, he would have come forward after America’s shocking victory against what was then the greatest standing Army in the Western hemisphere.

He’d have been hailed an HERO.

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Peloni:  A really insightful endorsement of free speech.

Jeffrey A. Tucker | July 15, 2024

There is only one major social media platform that is relatively free of censorship. That is X, once known as Twitter, and owned by Elon Musk, who has preached free speech for years and sacrificed billions in advertising dollars in order to protect it. If we don’t have that, he says, we lose freedom itself. He also maintains that it is the best path to finding the truth. 

The crisis that broke out after the attempt on Donald Trump’s life put the principle in motion. I was posting regular updates and never censored. I’m not aware of anyone who was. We were getting second-by-second updates in real time. The videos were flying along with every conceivable rumor, many false and then corrected, alongside free speech “spaces” in which everyone was sharing their views.

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From the little man on the wedding cake to Donald Trump.

by Robert Spencer | July 15, 2024

On Saturday evening, we saw where the left’s overheated rhetoric leads.

Leftists have called Trump a traitor, an insurrectionist, a dictator, and much more. Above all, they have repeatedly likened him to the man whose name has become synonymous with evil, Adolf Hitler. Is it any wonder, in light of the way the left has portrayed Trump since 2015, that someone tried to kill him?

Trump, however, is by no means the left’s first Hitler, and likely won’t be the last. You probably remember “Bushitler,” but this reprehensible and incendiary tactic goes back for earlier than Bush 43. The left has been using it for decades, and despite the assassination attempt, Donald Trump isn’t even likely to be the left’s last Hitler.

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”
July 12, 2024

*The October 7, 2023 horrific Palestinian terrorism was committed by graduates of the hate-driven K-12 Palestinian school curriculum, which has been a most effective production-line of terrorists, since it was established in 1993 by Mahmoud Abbas. The tightly controlled Palestinian school curriculum, as well as the official Palestinian mosque sermons, constitute the most authentic reflection of the Palestinian culture, aspirations, strategy and policy.

*In contrast, the UAE school curriculum was thoroughly overhauled since the conclusion of the 2020 peace accord with Israel, highlighting peaceful coexistence, and reflecting the peace-driven vision of the UAE.

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Barry Shaw | July 13, 2024

There is nothing wrong with a nation state.

Iran, for example, would be far more civilized, far more peaceful, far less a threat, as a
nation state, and not the revolutionary regime projecting a barbaric medieval form of
Islam.

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Peloni:  This tragedy, which has been ongoing for decades, is far more effective than even the tragedy of October 7 at defeating the Jewish People.  Indeed, the very purpose of the Pals deminishing our past is so that they can be better situated to erase our future.  This must end.  Just as the old conception which held that a terror statelet posed no threat to the Jewish State has been overturned, so too must long held conception that the historical record of our past is not worth the trouble which would be needed to secure it from the malicious intents of our enemies.  This betrayal of the Jewish people and its historical record must be ended.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | July 15,2024

The Palestinians do not only want to destroy the Jews living in Israel, and to replace the Jewish state “from the river to the sea” with a 23rd Arab state. They also want to destroy the evidence of the Jewish past — 3000 years of Jewish history — in Judea and Samaria. More on this attempted annihilation of the history that connects the Jewish people to their land can be found here: “Palestinian destruction of Jewish archaeological sites must be halted – opinion,” by David M. Weinberg, Jerusalem Post, July 13, 2024:

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Peloni: Highly concerning, yet fascinating analysis indicating upto three shooters involved in the attempt to assassinate Pres. Trump.

Was there a Second Shooter? New Acoustic Forensic Evidence

by Stephen Bryen | WEAPONS AND SECURITY  | July 15, 2024

AR-15 from article Accurize your AR-15

An audio forensic analysis by Catalin Grigoras, director of the National Center for Media Forensics at the University of Colorado in Denver, and Cole Whitecotton, Senior Professional Research Associate, also at Media Forensics, based on audio recorded in Butler Pennsylvania, appears to show the possibility of three shooters.  According to these experts, “The first three shots were consistent with alleged weapon A, the next five were consistent with alleged weapon B, and the final “acoustic impulse” was emitted by a possible weapon C.”

Only one shooter has been identified and the FBI says he acted alone.

They may want to reconsider their conclusion.

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The other implication of recent events is that the probability of @POTUS Biden stepping aside is now very close to zero. The Democratic Party will not be able to find anyone capable willing to run against @realDonaldTrump. With no good potential replacements, the pressure on…

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) July 14, 2024