By Sha’i ben-TBy Sha’i ben-Tekoaekoa | Am Thinker | December 5, 2024

Images: Christians kidnapped by Muslim Barbary pirates (1817). Public domain.

On November 27, 2024, at four in the morning in the Holy Land, the government of Israel agreed to cease attacking the Shiite Muslims in southern Lebanon. At the end of the speech explaining the plan to the people of Israel, PM Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel has a “sacred mission of releasing our hostages,” using religious language befitting a region famous for its religions.

Indeed, the oldest book still in use in the world, the Jewish Bible, contains arguably the oldest record of hostage-taking. Abraham, the progenitor of the Jewish people, had a nephew named Lot. Lot was living not in Sodom but nearby when an alliance of five communities warred against an alliance of four. During the fight, Lot was kidnapped (Genesis 14:14-15).

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Peloni:  This is a very important video with David Wurmser.  Wurmser explains that Israel must pursue a quick completion of eliminating the Iranian threat so it can shift to dealing with the Islamist threats emerging in the post-Ayatollah world.  He once again addresses the feckless nature of Sisi’s ‘alliance’ with Israel while also noting that the Abraham Accords partners are not willing to openly support Israel in a meaningful way.  He explains that by quickly bringing the regime in Tehran to a speedy end, Israel will be far more successful move for Israel and will likely result in far more substantive peace treaties for Israel than making strategic sacrifices to placate potential peace partners.

Peace thru strength leads peace, while peace thru weakness leads to war.

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‘Western Civilization Will Collapse’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an: The West’s Progress Is Built on Blood, Tears, and Genocide; Western Civilization Will Collapse, Our Divine and Humane Civilization Will Flourish pic.twitter.com/98pTJg7qPY

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) December 4, 2024

Peloni:  The claim made below suggesting that there is no significant military presence by Hamas in Gaza while Israel continues its “relentless seige” demonstrates a clear bias on Boulos’ part to preserve what remains of Hamas going forward, as it is in fact against Hamas that Israel’s actions in the North are directed against.  For such a key member of Trump’s inner circle to hold such an ill informed opinion, is particularly concerning.  Recalling how impossible it was for Trump to fire his son in law during his first term, this presents an importantly worrisome outlook for Trump’s administration, even with the many important allies of Israel staffing many key positions.  Trump should not have picked Boulos.

Armin Arefi

EXCLUSIVE. Massad Boulos, Donald Trump’s new Middle East advisor and father of one of the president’s sons-in-law, reveals in an interview @LePoint his vision for the region, which shakes things up in #Lebanon, #Gaza, #Israel & #Iran .
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SON-IN-LAW. Massad Boulos, 53, is a Lebanese-American businessman who built his fortune selling cars in Nigeria. He was thrust into Donald Trump’s inner circle after his son Michael Boulos married Tiffany Trump, one of the US president’s daughters, in 2022.

VISION. «The vision is to achieve lasting peace in the Middle East », says Massad Boulos in his exclusive interview with @LePoint, describing a region that « has been suffering for a long time ». « We have four years of work and we hope to achieve something that will be sustainable for the future and generations to come. »

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Peloni:  I can’t conceive of anyone embracing anything so thoroughly evil as the mutilation of children.  The societal movement which advocates on behalf of such a specific tragedy should be shunned, delegitimized and prosecuted.

Peloni:  Peter Navarro is one of the great appointments which Trump made in his first term as President.  His loyalty to the constitution, the American public and to the president himself, none of which posed any conflicts, provided the nation with a voice of clarity and honesty, for which he was duly persecuted.  It is greatly satisfying to see that Navarro will once be serving in the second Trump White House.  Now let us see where Trump will place Flynn.

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by Norman Berdichevsky (December 2024)

Self-portrait, Prague (Peter Kien, 1936)

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!

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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 | Dec 1, 2024

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.

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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.

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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.   

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.”

by Robert Spencer |December 3, 2024

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.

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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.

ANJULI PANDAVAR | Dec 2, 2024

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.

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by Daniel Greenfield | December 4, 2024

If we don’t want terrorism, we should really stop funding it.

And that means…

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By Christine Douglass-Williams | December 2, 2024

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.

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