By Prof. Eitan Shamir | July 14, 2024

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2.289, July 14, 2024

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Ten months after the surprise attack by Hamas on October 7, it is possible to assess the strategic achievements of the antagonists. In addition to inflicting heavy casualties and many wounded on the Israelis, Hamas succeeded in undermining Israeli society and causing divisions within it on the issue of the hostages. Hamas also succeeded in undermining Israel’s international status. Israel’s economic situation has been severely damaged and continues to deteriorate. Hamas brought the Palestinian issue back to center stage as a condition for a regional settlement, and recruited the Iranian proxies, mainly Hezbollah and the Houthis, for a war of attrition against Israel.

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By Allan J. Feifer | July 15, 2024

Events may have overtaken Biden’s now widely known cognitive issues.  What you can readily take away from past assassination attempts is the empathy factor.  None of the major networks (except Fox) regularly carry Trump rallies.  This is likely to change after the near assassination of President Trump.  Merely the optics of Trump, wounded but defiant, standing beneath an American flag and railing against a lone gunman, already dead but who thought he would rid the planet of Trump, is a harbinger of a November win.

By that act, Thomas Matthew Crooks will be recorded by history in one of several ways: misguided, crazy, a true believer, or perhaps even as a dedicated soldier of the progressive Left.

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Morning Intelligence Report

MG Paul E Vallely, US Army (Ret)

Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump Failed! What’s Next?
by George Mcclellan

July 14, 2024

Guest Editorial:

The Progressives, as I have often predicted, have so vilified Donald Trump as a danger to democracy that it was almost inevitable that somewhere, sometimes, a true believer would self-activate to try to take Trump out. They tried and failed, and Trump lives! The attempted assassin, supposedly a 20-year-old white male named Thomas Matthew Crooks, was a registered Republican. However, a short video surfaced of a fellow claiming he was Thomas Matthew Crooks, adding: “I hate Trump, I hate Republicans, and guess what, you got the wrong man!” And yet, there he lies DRT, on a rooftop in Butler, Pa., but not before he got his shots off. It is probable that the short video, allegedly made by Crooks, was misinformation, a prerecorded effort to confuse the investigation. The issue of the shooter’s true identity needs to be clarified, and that can be accomplished by bringing the person on the video up on the stage for all to see. Any bets?

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Sundance | July 15, 2024

Cliff Notes – On the upside JD Vance brings with him the full support of Silicon Valley and unites the various social media clans and venture capitalists (Musk, Ackerman, Thiel, etc.).  This means a big boost to the financial position of the Trump campaign, support from half the banking community, and also the absence of internet protocols that would restrict or oppose his 2024 campaign platform.

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Peloni: Most of Trump’s Secret Service security detail was reassigned to protect Jill Biden, leaving Trump to be protected by temporary replacements.  Another timely coincidence.

Sundance | July 14, 2024

New details about the assassination attempt on President Trump are coming fast.

Earlier this morning former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino gave his opinion about the Secret Service almost unfathomable drop in security protocol that allowed a gunman with a rifle to climb atop a building a mere 130 yards away from President Trump.  Having some very specific insight into protection detail protocol, Bongino gives a unique perspective on what might have gone wrong.

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Peloni:  The outrages from the American govt continue to build in support of terror and towards the slaughter of the Jewish people.

Daniel Greenfield | July 14, 2024

USAID boss Samantha Power has some news for Americans. Another $100 million for terrorists.

Today, Administrator Samantha Power announced that the United States, through USAID, will provide an additional $100 million in critical humanitarian assistance for Palestinians in dire need throughout Gaza and the West Bank.

Critical and dire need. So critical and so dire that we’ve been lied to and told that all the Islamic terrorists and their supporters have been starving to death for 8 months.

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by Jonathan Spyer | The Australian | July 8, 2024

The Lebanese Hezbollah organisation has in recent days carried out the largest drone and missile attacks on northern Israel since the latest round of hostilities commenced on October 8.

Two hundred missiles and 20 drones were launched at Israel’s north, according to a statement issued by the Iranian proxy Shia Islamist group. The barrage came hours earlier in response to Israel’s killing of a senior Hezbollah commander, Mohammed Nasser.

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Peloni:  This is an important report.

Just as in the North, the question of a major war breaking out is when, not if.

By Eric R. Mandel | July 14, 2024

AN IDF soldier walks along the barrier surrounding Kalkilya, on the seam line.  (photo credit: Courtesy Eric Mandel)

I recently visited with the new IDF Panther battalion created specifically to deal with the growing threat of Hamas and other jihadist groups on Israel’s seam line, the boundary between the northern West Bank (Samaria) and Israel’s narrow waistline, only nine miles to the Mediterranean Sea.

The seam line is part of the 1949 Armistice line (Green Line or 1967 line) that runs north to south on the western border of the West Bank, close to Israel’s major coastal cities, including Tel Aviv. Two large Palestinian cities, Tulkarm and Kalkilya, are on the seam line.

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Morning Intelligence Report

MG Paul E Vallely, US Army (Ret)

Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump Failed! What’s Next?
by George Mcclellan  July 14, 2024

The Progressives, as I have often predicted, have so vilified Donald Trump as a danger to democracy that it was almost inevitable that somewhere, sometimes, a true believer would self-activate to try to take Trump out. They tried and failed, and Trump lives! The attempted assassin, supposedly a 20-year-old white male named Thomas Matthew Crooks, was a registered Republican. However, a short video surfaced of a fellow claiming he was Thomas Matthew Crooks, adding: “I hate Trump, I hate Republicans, and guess what, you got the wrong man!” And yet, there he lies DRT, on a rooftop in Butler, Pa., but not before he got his shots off. It is probable that the short video, allegedly made by Crooks, was misinformation, a prerecorded effort to confuse the investigation. The issue of the shooter’s true identity needs to be clarified, and that can be accomplished by bringing the person on the video up on the stage for all to see. Any bets?

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— Abedalelah Almaala (@AbedAlmaala) July 14, 2024

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The Left gets what it wanted.

By Robert Spencer | July 13, 2024

The left has finally gotten what it has longed for since Donald Trump announced his first candidacy for president in 2015: a bloodied Trump being led off a stage. But they didn’t get what they want most of all, for he is still alive.

Early Saturday evening, Donald Trump was speaking at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania when shots rang out. Trump turned, grabbed his ear, and then ducked behind the podium as Secret Service agents rushed to surround him. Moments later, he stood up and was being ushered quickly off the stage when he stopped the agents, saying: “Wait!” Then, his face bloodied, he raised his fist in defiance and said to the crowd, “Fight!”

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Document Reflects 20 GOP Principles, Roadmap to Make America Great Again

MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Today, the Republican National Committee (RNC) Platform Committee adopted President Donald J. Trump’s 2024 Republican Party Platform with overwhelming support– a pro-American agenda that stands in stark contrast to the record of weakness, failure, and dishonesty created by Joe Biden. President Trump’s platform serves as a contract with the American voter that makes clear what we can and will deliver under a President Trump administration with the Republican Party leading the country for the next four years.

“President Trump’s 2024 Republican Party Platform articulates his vision to Make America Great Again in a way that is concise and digestible for every voter,” said Trump Campaign Senior Advisors Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles. “While Joe Biden and Democrats argue about who will be at the top of their ticket and have implemented policies that have raised prices on everyday families, opened the floodgates to migrant crime via wide-open borders, shackled American energy with red tape forced by Washington bureaucrats, and sewn chaos across the world through weak foreign policy, President Trump will Make America Great Again through these America First principles.”

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Peloni: The role being played in Ukraine by the US has been one which has literally destabilized all of Europe, challenged supply chains, exacerbated failing economic policies, and achieved none of the designed objectives intended, namely the defeat of Russia, the recapture of Crimea or the regime changing of Putin.  More than this, this war has demonstrated to the world American incompetence, and the limited use of American arms in direct competition with those of Russia.  The threat of expansion is not only imminent, it has been evident over the past two years, as every limit of US aid to Ukraine has been routinely and repeatedly crossed and redrawn to an ever concerning level, and despite this reality, Ukraine continues to be pushed in the wrong direction in its’ campaign to “March to the Sea” and retake either Crimea or even Marioupol.   This war must end.  The ceding of territory to Russia must end.  The uncontrolled flow of funds to Ukraine must end.  The lack of competence in American leadership must end.  The needless slaughter of Ukrainians and Russians must end.  And yet this would take true leadership from a leader who has a true interest in peace, and for that, we will have to wait for Trump to return to the White House in another 4 months.

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Sundance | July 13, 2024

I’m not going to narrate what you can witness with your own eyes and ears.  The camera lens is pointed toward two U.S Secret Service protective detail snipers on the roof behind President Trump. One is the spotter. Turn on sound.  You can clearly see both USSS spot the shooter, do nothing, wait for the incoming fire, then respond.

Again, video might not last.

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Sundance | July 13, 2024

Video interview with BBC Below (fyi, video might not last):

Video interview with BBC Embedded Below (fyi, video might not last):An eyewitness gave a statement to BBC news, very angry about why nothing was done by secret service to secure a specific area.

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Tierney’s News | July 13, 2024

There have been many things happening behind the scenes in the past few weeks which appear to be another orchestrated coup against the office of President – but this time it’s to take down Joe Biden.

Now, I have no love for Joe Biden nor do I believe he is a legitimate President – he’s an old mobster and he was installed by the CIA & the New World Order. The same people who stole the White House from President Trump to install Joe Biden now want him removed and replaced with someone else. In other words, the will of people doesn’t matter in the US anymore – it’s the will of the New World Order and their chosen Deep State lackeys.

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Gaza: The Day After… pic.twitter.com/9CDu1ATQ1i

— martin sherman (@martinsherman2) July 11, 2024

Reports say two shooters

Stephen Bryen | WEAPONS AND SECURITY | July 13, 2024

We are awaiting more news on the attempt to kill former President Donald Trump. He was speaking in Butler, Pennsylvania at a campaign rally when shots rang out. One of the first shots hit Mr. Trump in or around his left ear. There was blood strewn across his face. Immediately after he was hit, he ducked down (which probably saved his life.)

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