Peloni:  Here is the 11th installment of Joseph Shellim’s 12 Deceptions, an excerpt from his important work, “Philistine-To-Palestine”.  We are posting one Deception each week, and  links to the previous installments can be found at the bottom.

Joseph Shellim

The Great Scholarly Manipulation. 
The quoting of a 5th Century BCE Greek Historian by his remark of ‘Syria Palaistinê’ and thereby that  there was a first century Palestine is a new historical distortion that underlies a deception. This claim is  used to justify the avoidance and negation of quoting a first century Judea, that this land was part of the  

Jews but of Syria, and that Jesus was an Arab Palestinian. Numerous anti-Israel scholars and  theologians have embraced this historical mendacity as a political agenda to deceive, via selective  media, history books and some encyclopedias that call First Century Judea as Palestine via this  Herodotus usage. 

There was no country called Palestine in the first century; Rome applied this name in the 2nd Century.  Judea was never a part of Syria; nor was Jesus an Arab Palestinian. The Herodotus reference was a  stray mention by a Greek writer with no impact of how this land was called or referred to in the first  century, other than applying to the land of Israel; yet many scholars have pounced upon this singular  quote as a new politically devised manipulation to promote an anti-Israel history. 

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Peloni: This video provides a highly granular review of Assad’s recent fall from power

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

“This is a historic day for the Middle East. The collapse of the Assad regime, the tyranny in Damascus, offers great opportunity but also is fraught with significant dangers.

Peloni:  The simple reality of recipients of massive US aid while refusing to surrender terrorists who are unquestionably responsible for the murder of American citizens over the years should not be seen as an indictment of the corrupt and capricious Jordanians, but of the corrupt and capricious American leaders who have funneled billions year after year to these nations, of which Jordan is just one example.  As has been made clear in recent months by Israel’s unilateral action in executing one after another of those responsible for the Syrian Barracks Bombing some 40years ago, Lebanon has been awash with the likes of Al-Tamimi, even as that terror enclave has received an ever increasing donative from the US budget each year, nearly without pause.  US support of terror enclaves, and those who offer refuge to these international butchers, such as Al-Tamimi must finally be ended.  Trump made a commitment to end state sponsored terrorism, and in his second term, this must finally be made a reality.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | Dec 8, 2024

The State Department spokesman Matthew Miller recently declared that the United States did not want the leaders of terrorist groups — he was speaking mainly of Hamas — to be given sanctuary anywhere, and those responsible for the deaths of American citizens should be extradited to the United States. But one Hamas terrorist, and the country where she has found refuge, were not mentioned by Mr. Miller. More on the silence about this terrorist, Ahlam Al-Tamimi, living the life of Riley in Jordan, can be found here: “The State Department says it wants Hamas terrorists who attacked Americans extradited to the US. Except for Ahlam Tamimi, Sbarro massacre murderer.” Elder of Ziyon, December 3, 2024:

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Peloni:  The Western support of illiberal means to control political rejection of elitist positions is now complete.  If Western govts holding contrarian views might be overthrown based solely on the hushed whispers of the Neocon elitist allied CIA, which actively shouted its objections for their own president during Trump’s first term, what redefined meaning is supplanting the definition of Democracy, which literally means “govt by the people”?  In fact, this definition is finally being replaced with Orwell’s Right Think, a conception which was intentionally employed to highlight how easy it would be for a democratic nation to become captured by an elitist collective, much as the West have been over the past decades.

This is stunning, yet in a way not unexpected all things considered.

Sundance | Dec 8, 2024

We previously outlined how Make Romania Great Again candidate C?lin Georgescu came out of nowhere and won the first round in the presidential election. {GO DEEP}

The U.S. and EU heads went bananas at the surprise upset.

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Peloni:  An important analysis.

How does it affect Israel?

Tolik Piflaks | December 8, 2024

A woman uses her mobile phone near a damaged picture of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as people celebrate, after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted President Bashar al-Assad, in Qamishli, Syria December 8, 2024. (Photo: REUTERS/Orhan Qereman)

In medicine, there’s a disturbing condition called Munchausen syndrome by proxy (now known as Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another), where a caregiver fabricates or induces illness in their dependents, often to maintain control and validate their role as ‘protector.’

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Peloni:  Avi Yemini continues to produce important footage highlighting the complicity of the Australian govt in its unabashed toleration of antisemitism in Australia as it has been weaponized against the Austrailian Jewish community amid govt inaction.

SHOCKING: Premier Flees Scene When Confronted About Synagogue Firebombing in Melbourne

Jacinta Allan arrived for a photo op at the burned Jewish place of worship this afternoon, but things certainly didn’t go to plan

SIGN & SHARE: https://t.co/Z5GvPbQWps pic.twitter.com/eGnziRcq9U

— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) December 6, 2024

Raylan Givens tweeted the following:

IDF MOVES INTO SYRIAN BUFFER ZONE: The IDF has launched a limited ground operation in the Quneitra buffer zone area of Syria in order to strengthen the defense of the border.

Furthermore, in accordance with the assessment of the situation in the Northern Command and the Home Front Command, it was decided that in the four Druze settlements in the Golan Heights there will be no school classes today.

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by Majid Rafizadeh  •  Gatestone Institute  •  December 7, 2024

Without the oppressive ruling mullahs, Iran could once again be a force for good, both domestically and globally. Freed from their brutal rulers, the Iranian people could channel their immense talent and potential into rebuilding their nation as a thriving hub of innovation, culture and prosperity. Pictured: Iranians protest the murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, murdered by police while in custody, in Tehran on September 21, 2022. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

• Unlike Iran’s regime, the country’s people are overwhelmingly pro-American and pro-Jewish — sentiments rooted in a historical alliance that made Iran the closest ally of both Israel and the United States before the mullahs came to power. The regime’s anti-American and antisemitic stance is an affront to the true nature of its citizens, who yearn for peace and global partnership.

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Peloni:  While the defeat of Obama’s plan of Iranian domination was due to the combined efforts of both Netanyahu and Trump, it was Obama’s initial failure to destroy Israel which led to the undoing of Obama’s vision for both the Levant and the US.  As Badran explains, the root of Obama’s failure was seeded by the vision and geopolitical mastery of Bibi Netanyahu.  While Bibi lacked the political strength and foresight to avoid October 7, it was his Master Class skills which initiated the implosion of Obama’s pro-Iran shift in America, as it was his leadership which has dealt the Mullah controlled Iran its greatest blow to date.  While personally confronting Obama’s un-American and anti-Israel stance from both Jerusalem and Washington, it was this statesmanship which sounded the clarion call confronting Obama’s diabolical vision, and we are currently witnessing the collapse of that pro-Iranian shift in America today.

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Peloni:  In fact, I would be greatly surprised if Assad had not made his escape from Syria some days ago.  Notably, the report of Assad’s supposed demise came hours after Trump posted his opposition to any support of Assad’s regime.

Also, while the victory of the Turkish backed Jihadi rebels will significantly diminish the Iranian radical Shia axis’ control over Lebanon, severing Iran’s land bridge to that failed state, the rising threat from the Turkish radical Sunni axis should not be ignored.  While less threatening than the wealthy, oil rich, near-nuclear state of Iran, the nature of these Turkish backed Jihadi villains should be understood to be both real and significant, for Israel and all those who are within easy reach of this disturbing ideology.  While many of the captured masses in Syria seem oblivious as to the fate which they are currently celebrating as the ‘freeing of Syria’, they will come to see that their current plight is still nothing about which to celebrate and that Syria still remains yet to be free.  Unfortunately, Syria has simply been passed from the dominating control of one colonialist Islamist regime to another.  So the call to free Syria still remains to be fulfilled, and that struggle will continue.

The Aircraft disappeared from Radar after making unusual movements to the West of Homs. https://t.co/NUAKKfXYwH

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) December 8, 2024

By Associated Press | VOA | December 7, 2024

Syrian opposition fighters remove a government Syrian flag from an official building in Salamiyah, east of Hama, Syria, Dec. 7, 2024.

BEIRUT — 

Syrian government appears to have fallen in stunning The Syrian government appeared to have fallen early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a lightning rebel offensive.

The head of a Syrian opposition war monitor said President Bashar Assad had left the country for an undisclosed location, fleeing ahead of insurgents who said they had entered Damascus after a stunning advance across the country.

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Peloni: Sen. Paterson’s condemnation of the Australian govt mirrors that of PM Netanyahu who states

“The burning of the Adass Israel synagogue in Melbourne is an abhorrent act of antisemitism. I expect the state authorities to use their full weight to prevent such antisemitic acts in the future.

“Unfortunately, it is impossible to separate this reprehensible act from the extreme anti-Israeli position of the Labor government in Australia, including the scandalous decision to support the UN resolution calling on Israel to bring an end to its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, as rapidly as possible”, and preventing a former Israeli minister from entering the country. Anti-Israel sentiment is antisemitism.”

All Israel News Staff | December 6, 2024 

Kuwairis Military Airport which Fell Into The Hands Of The Rebels In Aleppo Countryside, Syria, On December 3, 2024 (Photo by Rami Alsayed/NurPhoto via Reuters)

The State of Israel is preparing for the possible collapse of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, as Islamist rebel forces in northern Syria continued their lightning advance by capturing the city of Hama on Thursday and reaching the outskirts of Homs on Friday.

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Peloni:  It would be an enormous victory for the US, and by extension the world, to officially abandon the libel-borne terminology of the “West Bank” which was in fact imposed on these Jewish Lands after being stolen in 1948 and cleansed of its Jewish population.  Continuing the  naming of these lands based upon their presumed connection to Jordan is both dishonest and shameful.

By Hugh Fitzgerald |  December 6, 2024

Early in the second century A.D., the place name of the Roman province called “Judaea” was changed to “Syria Palaestina” (Syria of the Philistines), or “Palestine.” This was done in an obvious attempt to efface the Jewish connection to the land. “Palestine” stuck, but another change the Romans put in place — to rename the site where Jerusalem, by then razed to the ground, had stood — as “Aelia Capitolina,” did not.

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Take LAND from Hamas while they hold hostages!

Thank you @EVKontorovich for bringing this brilliant idea into the conversation, and to Ben Shapiro for highlighting it.

?”If holding the hostages were to result in more territory being annexed by Israel with the permission and… pic.twitter.com/8G6ZbqTGEW

— Etana Hecht ?? ?? (@etanadeeIL) December 4, 2024

Peloni:  The anticipated withdrawal of forces from Southern Lebanon is a serious loss of ground taken at significant costs, but if this arrangement leads to some arrangement in which the real threat from Lebanon is addressed, namely Iran, by extension the elimination of the Iranian threat will be simultaneously addressed.

Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser | JPCA | December 5, 2024

A road sign in Maroun al-Ras

There is no point in analyzing whether to support or reject Israel’s ceasefire agreements with Hizbullah: they are a done deal. It is clear that given the IDF’s military achievements, it would have been desirable for the agreement to approximate closer to the far-reaching expectations many of us had developed. We would have been happy if the agreement had established a buffer zone, prohibited the return of Lebanese border village residents to their homes, and required Hizbullah to disarm, per UN Security Council Resolution 1559 of 2004. On the other hand, what we achieved is not insignificant, and the agreement is very different from Resolution 1701, on which it is ostensibly based.

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Peloni:  As Dr. Kedar indicates, there are significant differences between the existing capabilities of the Jihadi radical rebels and the Iranian Mullahs.  Whereas Israel will need to remain dilligent against the rising threat emanating from the Turkish backed rebels, the elimination of Iran from Syria will be an enormous victory, and the resulting power shift will lead to both the diminishment of Iran’s prowess in the region, as well as an increased interest in advancing their nuclear program.  No matter the outcome in Syria, the threat emanating from Iran must be eliminated with all possible speed.