Eric Rozenman’s recent book, Jews Make the Best Demons (New English Review Press,2018), is a depressing reminder of the reality of renewed anti-Semitism to a degree unimaginable to those of us whose parents agonized through the 1930s. We grew up secure in the belief that the Allied victory in World War II had ended this insane carry-over of hatred from the Middle Ages with its long tradition of religious bigotry. How wrong we were!
Peloni: Must see video. As usual, Martin Sherman eliminates routine delusions as he discusses reality on a range of topics. He insists that Egypt must allow the Gazans refuge from the war, and if needed Israel should focus relentless pressure upon Egypt to allow the Gazans enter Egypt of secure lives elsewhere, and that Israel should extend sovereignty over Gaza entirely.. He explains that the incoming Trump govt is far more hawkish than the Israeli govt and that Netanyahu should harness this reality in dealing with the intolerable situation of the Gazans who are collectively culpable for the horrors of October 7. Much more discussed as well.
Progressives rationalize tenets that justify atrocities against Jews and destroying a sovereign democratic state, while they cheer Hamas for resisting an “occupation” that only exists in the minds of leftists, terrorists, and Palestinian Arab revisionists.
Matthew M. Hausman |
Islamist Swastika protester
After the horrific events of last year and the war that followed, Hamas was finally recognized as a genocidal terror organization – but only by some and only for a moment. The global community almost immediately cast Hamas in a conciliatory light by contextualizing its brutality as “resistance to occupation,” though Israel withdrew from Gaza nearly twenty years ago.
The GCC rhetoric on Israel masks its true aims to decouple Syria’s Assad and the Islamic Republic and declaw Hezbollah in Lebanon
Hussain Abdul-Hussain | FDD |December 3, 2024
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) held its annual summit in Kuwait on Sunday and issued a statement that sounded like Iran in thrashing Israel, but that aligned with the Jewish state in opposing the Islamic Republic’s troublemaking behavior. However, for the Gulf “wish list” to come true, Gulf countries need to end the discrepancy between their rhetoric and policy. If the Gulf wants Iran reined in, they’d be well advised to openly side with Israel.
The dichotomy might have resulted from the GCC incorporating the contradictory policies of its six member states. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is closest to Israel. Qatar is the closest to Iran. Saudi Arabia is more naturally allied with the UAE. Oman is with Qatar. Kuwait, indebted to America for liberating it from Saddam Hussein’s army but now under the spell of a surging Islamist wave, is in the middle.
Peloni: Brig Gen.(Res.) Yossi Kuperwasser weigh in with Prof. Russel Berman & Amir Oren on the significance of the Syrian conflict with regards to Israel as Iran and Turkey battle for dominance, and what we should focus on going forwrad.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is linked throughout the Biden-Ukraine entanglements, from Trump’s first impeachment to Hunter Biden’s business dealings.
Back in 2019, the then-National Intelligence Council analyst Eric Ciaramella anonymously accused Trump of demanding an investigation into Biden’s alleged corruption in Ukraine in exchange for military aid, according to Real Clear Investigations.
Peloni: The perspective which the incoming Trump administration adopts with regards to Erdogan’s Islamist regime will significantly affect the success of Trump’s Mid East policy objectives.
And he touts Islam’s “human-centered civilization” over the West’s “blood, tears, massacres and exploitation.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan doesn’t much like the United States or Europe, and passionately hates Israel, and so it’s not particularly surprising when he looks forward with happy anticipation to the collapse of Western civilization. What is a trifle surprising is that despite Erdogan’s ever-lengthening record of bellicosity toward and contempt for the West, as well as his re-Islamization of Turkey, the Turkish Republic remains in NATO and continues to be regarded in Washington as a reliable ally. Given the unreality and refusal to face facts that characterizes official Washington, however, even that is worth only the brief raising of one eyebrow. Erdogan has made quite clear which side he is on. The “experts” in Washington are willfully blind.
Just because something is not implemented, does not mean that it is worth implementing. Resolution 1701 is a fraud shielded behind the fraud of its non-implementation. Ehud Olmert pulled the first scam; the Biden regime is pulling the second. The victims of this double-scam are the Israeli people.
Former US President Bill Clinton unwittingly highlighted the greatest double-scam ever pulled on the Israeli people: that the Palestinians want a state; and that they negotiated for it in the “peace process”. According to Clinton:
The only time Yasser Arafat didn’t tell me the truth, was when he promised me he was going to accept the peace deal that we had worked out, which would have given the Palestinians a state on 96% of the West Bank and 4% of Israel, and they got to choose where the 4% of Israel was. So they would have the effect of the same land of all the West Bank. They would have a capital in East Jerusalem. They would have the—I can hardly talk about this—and they would have equal access, all day, every day, to the security towns that Israel maintained all through the West Bank up to the Golan Heights, all this was offered, including, I will say it again, a capital in East Jerusalem and two of the four quadrants of the old city of Jerusalem, confirmed by the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and his Cabinet, and they said, “No,” and I think part of it is that Hamas did not care about a homeland for the Palestinians.
Anyone whatsoever who calls out the truth about the jihad is deemed an “Islamophobe,” “hateful,” “racist” and the like. No discussion is allowed. The freedom of speech does not exist in Sharia-adherent countries, as well as the Palestinian territories. Although the Palestinian Authority permits “freedom of belief, worship, and the performance of religious rites,” Islam is the official religion, with the Sharia as the “main source of legislation.” It is no secret that the Palestinian leadership — the Palestinian Authority as well as Hamas — have been waging an Islamic jihad war against the State of Israel. Such has been pronounced repeatedly at Al Aqsa mosque and on Palestinian Authority TV and elsewhere, yet the mainstream media pays no attention.
WILD REPORT: Assad reportedly conveyed a message to Israel via the Saudis, offering to begin removing the IRGC from Syria in exchange for assistance against Syrian rebels. pic.twitter.com/QeqePqBt3l
The changing tide of Iran’s position in the Middle East was hit with yet another significant blow. As indicated in the Tweet above, a Channel 14 article reports that Assad reached out to Israel for support of his regime’s survival in its fight against the rising success of the Syrian rebels.
Over 50 Iranian-Backed Militants were killed, and at least a dozen Military Trucks and Technicals were destroyed yesterday in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate of Eastern Syria, after a Convoy entering from Iraq was targeted by several A-10 “Warthog” Close-Air Support Attack Aircraft…
“The US has to decide if it is going to stabilize the region by working with Turkey or is it going to stabilize the region by working with Russia and Iran? ” – Mike Doran
Peloni : I think the above dichotomous statement by Mike Doran fairly captures his outlook on the ME, but as Avivi describes in his recent briefing, there is a third axis which the US should choose over that of both the radical Sunnis, ie Turkey, and the radical Shia, ie Iran, and that is the moderate Sunnis led by MBS. It is not in America’s interest to die down with either of the radical movements in the region, and promoting the Radical Sunnis in the region will not lead towards stabilization of the region any more than did promoting the Radical Shia. Hence, the US should reject both of these radical elements and push onward with the AA which was intended to promote moderate powers over radicalism, albeit emanating from Iran, but this alliance should be seen to simultaneously stand as a threat to, as well as a potential casualty of, promoting Turkey to a position of regional dominance, as was true of promoting Iran in its place. The irony is that there is no place for radicalism in a peaceful ME, even as this has been the earmark of the region for a very long time – it is time to pursue a different path.
Dive into the latest at #DeepDive ft. @HudsonInstitute with Senior Fellows @Doranimated, @jonathanhessen, Dr. Jonathan Schachter, and former Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Mark Kimmitt.
20 mins of full analysis of the Hunter Biden Pardon scandal w/ @Liz_Wheeler.
“This is 11 years of blanket pardon, for all crimes whether charged or not. He could have murdered someone during that time and he’s evidently got a pardon for it now.” pic.twitter.com/1y2Fm3phiE
Peloni: Trump will not want to be remembered as the president who failed this test of wills with the Mullahs, and he has the means and military muscle to regime change the Mullahs at his beacon call. The problem is that regime change alone will not necessarily end Iran’s dreams of nuclearization as Madel suggests, and that is the real problem which faces Trump.
The fact that Iran has not turned the final screw of an active atomic device will likely be good enough for the United States to do effectively nothing.
Dr. Eric R. Mandel | December 2, 2024
Israel’s David’s Sling missile-defense system. Photo by Israel Ministry of Defense Spokesperson’s Office.
Will historians look back at the end of 2024, with Iran defenseless against an American and Israeli attack, as the great missed opportunity to have stopped a nuclear Iran?Read more…
Peloni: Israel is reacting to Hezbollah violations while ignoring the international mechamism included in the ceasefire arrangement which is why the US and others condemn Israel, even while ignoring the terrorist violations which precipitated this. The clarity which these facts provide should not be ignored. Israel is refusing to submit to ceding its sovereignty in reacting to these violations, just as Israel submitting itself to American control is the only aspect of the ceasefire which actually interests the US, and both of these facts should be seen to portend significant implications going forward.
Lebanese media reports series of Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon
Smoke rises from a village in southern Lebanon, as it seen from the Israeli side of the border, December 2, 2024. (Photo: Erik Marmor/Flash90)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed a strong response after Hezbollah took responsibility for launching two mortar grenades at IDF positions on Mount Dov earlier Monday.
“Hezbollah fire at Mt. Dov constitutes a severe violation of the ceasefire, and Israel will respond forcefully,” the prime minister stated in the evening.
Self-portrait, Prague (Peter Kien, 1936)
