DON’T MISS IT. HE IS VERY CRITICAL OF THE US SUPPORT FOR A TSS BUT OFFERS NO HOPE OF ITS ABANDONMENT..

Peloni: The breaking news is that the contents of the Seth Rich laptop will be turned over within fourteen days.  The rest of the article describes what is known of the circumstances surrounding Rich’s murder, and how it potentially ties into the Mueller probe, the Durham investigation and many key political Washington figures on both sides of the isle.  A great refresher by Sundance for those unfamiliar with the details of the case.

Potentially Important, but the Deep State Interests Are Massive

By Sundance, LAST REFUGE Nov 29/23

If you know the background context, the latest developments in the Seth Rich laptop legal battle could be extremely interesting.  However, despite a very favorable court ruling, I caution against too much optimism – the stakes in this ancillary story to the targeting of President Donald Trump are extremely high.

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T. Belman. This title and the article are misleading.

By JACOB MAGID, TOI

After the Biden administration appeared to leave open the possibility that the US might condition aid to Israel in the future, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told lawmakers this week that the White House isn’t seeking conditions on the aid for Jerusalem that it is asking Congress to pass.

Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen, who was among lawmakers who met privately with Sullivan on Tuesday, tells The Associated Press that Sullivan “made it clear that the White House is not asking for any conditionality in aid. So I want to leave that very clear.” A second person directly familiar with the meeting confirmed the account.

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The Gazans must be made to accept the fact that the Jewish people are the indigenous inhabitants of the Holy Land.

By  Jason Shvili, ISRAEL HAYOM  29 Nov 2023

As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has previously said, once Hamas has been eliminated in the Gaza Strip, the territory and its residents will need to be deradicalized. But deradicalized how? The short answer is that Gaza will need to be deradicalized the same way Germany was de-Nazified after World War II.

Gazan society will need to be rebuilt from the ground up. For starters, all symbols of the territory’s previous rulers must be banned, just as Nazi symbols like the swastika were banned in post-WWII Germany. The territory’s media and education system will need to be purged of antisemitism and the glorification of terrorism. Instead of being taught to hate and kill Jews, the Gazans must receive a constant flow of messaging promoting peace and coexistence with the Jewish people and Israel. They must be taught that their future ultimately depends on living side-by-side with their Jewish neighbors.

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The night after the attack, he was excluded from the conversation between the generals and the Chief of Staff, and was only updated afterwards.

By Amir Bohbot/Walla!, JPOST  29 Nov 2023

IDF Military Intelligence commander Aharon Haliva in Tel Aviv, November 4, 2022

IDF Military Intelligence Directorate Chief Aharon Haliva believed that following the events of October 7, his tenure in office was on borrowed time.

“Already that morning I understood that it was over,” he told his associates: “After the war is over I will have to go.”

Now, all that remains for Haliva is to figure out when he intends to retire, whether it be after Israel officially announces the end of the war, or before there is any sort of permanent ceasefire and the army switches to a method of raid operations only.
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i24NEWS November 28, 2023 at 03:21 AM

Peloni: More details surrounding what was included in the warnings about an attack by Hamas which were so strongly rebuked that threats of court martial were made if these concerns were raised again.

See also: Military Intelligence Directorate head to resign due to Oct. 7 massacre, takes responsibility

Officer who reviewed intelligence considered risk of big attack ‘an imaginary scenario’, leak suggests

By Peter Beaumont, THE GUARDIAN     Tue 28 Nov 2023 09.11 EST

Israel’s military and intelligence officials were given a highly detailed warning that Hamas was actively training to take over kibbutzim on the Gaza border and overrun military posts with the aim of inflicting substantial fatalities, according to reports in the Israeli media.

The claim made by Israel’s Channel 12 on Monday evening was based on leaked emails from the Israeli military’s 8200 cyber-intelligence unit discussing the warnings.

Those emails revealed that a senior officer who reviewed the intelligence considered the danger of a massive surprise attack by Hamas across the Gaza border to be “an imaginary scenario”.

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A book written before October 7 charts the way for Israel after October 7

by Bret Stephens, COMMENTARY

My COMMENTARY review of The Genius of Israel, Dan Senor and Saul Singer’s fascinating and compulsively readable follow-up to their 2009 international bestseller Start-Up Nation, was written, edited, and ready for publication when the catastrophe of October 7 put it on hold. I had given the book a glowing write-up. It offered, I thought, a timely and compelling antidote to the gloom that had beset so many Israelis and Diaspora Jews amid their bitter divisions over Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial-reform bills. And it showed why Israel was likely to continue to be an outperformer among nations.

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T. Belman. I recently said that the War was having this effect.

While a very small minority in the US and in the EU is marching in support of Hamas, the vast majority of the people are turning against Muslims in both the US and in the EU.

By Dick Morris

Then it all changed and Trump took control. Between October 27th and November 20, Trump led in 16 of 21 surveys, Biden only led in three and two were tied.

Why was the invasion of Israel so decisive?

In the short term, it reminded us all of the dangerous world in which we live as the threat of a wider war loomed increasingly large.

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The @CIA director is in Qatar to negotiate a “comprehensive” deal with Hamas, which will secure the release of all hostages in exchange for the safe exit of Hamas leaders and their families from the Gaza Strip and the handing over of power to “a joint local council of non-Hamas…

— Mudar Adnan Zahran ???????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) November 28, 2023

T. Belman. Biden is not counselling us on how to win a war but demanding that we lose the war.

It is evil to sacrifice our boys’ lives to a fake morality that does not exist, “global morality” that is neither global nor moral. 

Hamas is offering all the hostages in exchange for a full ceasefire. In other words, if Israel agrees to lose the war, and accept Hamas’s survival, it will give us the hostages.
If Israel takes this deal, we will be on the fast track to national destruction.

— Caroline Glick (@CarolineGlick) November 28, 2023

Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party is no better than Hamas. It has celebrated the Oct. 7 attacks.

By Eugene Kontorovich  and  Itamar Marcus, WSJ    Nov. 26, 2023

T. Belman. Why does the US treat the Gazans with kid gloves and didn’t give a shit about the Syrian refugees.

Also they keep putting new impediments in our way.

The Biden administration has “reinforced in very clear language” that renewed fighting must not “produce significant further displacement of persons.”

Israeli troops operating in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Nov. 22, 2023. Credit: IDF.

The White House says it has made clear to the Israeli government that its military campaign in Gaza’s south must differ substantially from its operations in the strip’s north in the opening weeks of its war against Hamas.

A senior administration official, briefing reporters on Tuesday, said U.S. President Joe Biden and others in his government have “reinforced in very clear language with the government of Israel” that the “conduct of the Israeli campaign, when it moves to the south, must be done in a way that is to a maximum extent not designed to produce significant further displacement of persons.”

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Peloni: Michael Doran and Gadi Taub provide a thoughtful analysis on the following topics:

• Will the war continue
• Costs of the pause
• The ongoing war against Bibi’s govt
• Is the consensus of Israelis with or against the hostage deal
• Ending national funding for Haaretz
• much more…

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November 27, 2023

The hostage deal has moved forward with a tense pause in the fighting. Michael Doran and Gadi Taub discuss how this can now play out, what pressures will be brought to bear by Israel, the US, Hamas and Iran.

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BY DAVID HARSANYI, FEDERALIST  NOV 28, 2023

Sure, the Israel-Gaza situation is bad right now. But that is no reason to make it worse.

“Ultimately,” contends Sen. Chris Murphy, the next Israeli government “is going to have to put us back on a path to have a Palestinian state. That’s not easy, but it is the only way forward for Israel, is the only way forward for long-term peace.”

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The Shin Bet interrogated dozens of senior Hamas terrorists who participated in the October 7 slaughter of Israelis in the South.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB, JPOST > NOVEMBER 22, 2023 12:53

Israeli soldier around the destruction caused by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, October 30, 2023.

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) has obtained intelligence regarding the most intimate and sensitive issues related to Hamas operations, their forces’ thinking, and internal dealings, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

Further, the agency has interrogated dozens of the more senior Hamas terrorists who participated in the October 7 slaughter of Israelis in the South.

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