By Jacob Olidort  Former Director of Research, JINSA

Israel, unlike the United States, has demonstrated its resolve to respond with force to each and every attack against it by Iran or its proxies. However, it is not just Israel’s willingness to use force that is noteworthy but its disposition to do so in a way that coerces and constrains Iranian power.

The United States should learn from Israel’s approach, particularly its April 19 strike inside Iran, and apply, together with Israel, a coercive strategy that seeks to constrain, degrade, and eventually collapse the Iranian regime.

The Biden administration has only recently come around to appreciate this approach when it took out an Iranian proxy commander in response to Iran’s January 28 drone attack that killed three U.S. servicemembers. Since then, Iran appears to have paused attacks against U.S. personnel. Up until that point, the United States had responded to Iranian proxy escalation by striking token weapons depots and killing low-level Iranian military bystanders, describing each response as “self-defense.” Unsurprisingly, those responses only encouraged Iranian escalation.

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by Jonathan Spyer June 24/24

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Tensions on Israel’s northern border are currently at their highest point since the outbreak of hostilities in October last year. On Friday, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said: ‘One rash move – one miscalculation – could trigger a catastrophe that goes far beyond the border, and frankly, beyond imagination.’

The latest reports indicate that the US has declared it will give Israel its ‘full support’ in the event of war with Hezbollah. This appears to go hand in hand, however, with an American determination to prevent any Israeli action which might precipitate such a war. So what is the current situation? And where are things heading?
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Peloni:  Before watching this video, you might consider if you are ready to hear the truth.  Here are a few tests to answer that question:

“Behind who’s censoring what your children can read in K thru 12 schools is the head of the CIA, the head of the NSA, the head of the military, the head of NATO, the head of the State Dept and the head of DHS…”

“Once they got away with it for the 2020 election and Covid, they expanded this to climate, they expanded this to abortion, they expanded this to immigration, they expanded this to Ukraine.  Any dissident voice on any sensitive policy issue was deemed to be an attack on critical infrastructure if you expressed misinformation online about it… “

“When you say they, is it the Democrats or the Republicans?  It is the Empire rather than the Homeland.  It is the peoples whose jobs are in the managerial class of our international relations rather than those whose are in the domestic priorities of the homeland.”

“[Their agenda] is so much worse than [nefarious] because it actually ends the idea of America.”

“The Censorship Industry in this country was formed around the cover of Russiagate.  All the domestic censorship that was done around the 2020 election and for Covid 19 and for Climate issues and for abortion issues and immigration and Ukraine was laundered in thru that first predicate that Russia had rigged the 2016 election by all of its influence over US social media, and it is important to substantiate that that was a totally  unsubstantiated lie.”

Highly recommended viewing.

By Hussain Abdul-Hussain

Amid increasingly violent cross-border exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and growing fears of a full-scale war, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah last week threatened to attack Cyprus if the Mediterranean island made its military bases available to Israel.

Washington has cautioned Israel against any escalation that might encourage other Iran-backed Shiite militias from Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and Syria to join in, but that warning poses questions: What would the US advise European capitals to do if Nasrallah threatened them over any disagreements they might have with Tehran? And who will guarantee that Tehran, once it produces nuclear weapons, will not threaten to use them against Cyprus or the rest of Europe?

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Peloni: The authoritarians in Washington are terrified of losing their unconstitutionally adopted autocratic authorities. The greatest challenge to the Deep State’s hold on power is coming in November’s election, and they have made every effort, while still failing, to forestall the inevitable return of Trump to even participate in that election.  The balance of victory in November is all that stands between the continued rule of the unelected beaurocrats and the rule by consent of the governed.  This is why these coming months are likely to be more chaotic and more challenging than even what we have see thus far from the Deep State as they make every effort to preserve their beaurocratic choke-hold on controlling the American people.

Jeffrey A. Tucker. | June 24, 2024

You know the term “authoritarian.” You think you know what it means.

An authoritarian dad, boss, or government says: my way or the highway. They are forever barking orders and see compliance as the answer to all human problems. There is no room for uncertainty, adaptation to time and place, or negotiation. It’s ruling by personal dictate while tolerating no dissent.

To be authoritarian is to be inhumane, to rule with arbitrary and capricious imposition. It can also mean to be ruled impersonally by a machine regardless of the cost. 

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The Documentary, “Screams before Silence,” is incredibly difficult to watch because, sadly, it graphicly portrays the Death and Destruction that Hamas has unleashed. I urge people to support the Documentary and watch, if able.  We demand that all Hostages taken October 7th from… pic.twitter.com/SFEayJwkel

— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) June 25, 2024

Peloni:  More details surrounding the facts put forward in the lawsuit against UNWRA for its role in supporting terror and the October 7 Massacre.

By Patricia McCarthy, AMERICAN THINKER
Fountainhead – noun as in principal source; person who originates – administrator, builder, creator, originator, leader….

Ayn Rand’s novel, The Fountainhead, published in 1943, has been read by millions of people over the years (37 million books sold).  The truncated film version, released in 1949, has been seen by millions of people as well.

Of course, the left has always hated Rand, her books and the films based on them.  Her philosophy is a celebration of individualism, a testament to gifted and talented men and women who are able to remain true to themselves in a world that reveres and celebrates mediocrity. Ayn Rand was born in Russia in 1905, and educated there; she was twelve years old during the Bolshevik Revolution.  She emigrated to the U.S. in 1926.

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The War on Warriors. Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free by Pete Hegseth discusses the betrayal of those serving. He uses his own experiences, plus others who served, to show what is happening today. Hegseth is a co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend, an Army veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and was also a guard at Guantanamo Bay. He holds two Bronze Stars and a Combat Infantryman’s Badge for his time in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The book talks about how the military brass are no different than the rest of our country emphasizing cultural chaos and weakness, how a woke socialist influence has removed essential core values. The book delves deeply into the political and cultural forces that have undermined the morale and effectiveness of U.S. armed forces, revealing the shocking truth behind the betrayal of the men and women who risk their lives to protect American freedoms.

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Peloni: The deployment of these Jew-Hate bully brute squads to the streets of LA is yet a further evidence of the maliciously antisemitic posture accepted by the Democratic Party whose donors were knowingly responsible for financing the campus violence campaign over the past months.  The demonstration of the authoritarian credo “To my friends, everything, and to my enemies, the Law” should be a stark message to every Jew in America.  This is not about politics, it isn’t about Trump, it is about your safety and the survival of your loved ones.  The Jews of America are under threat, and those in the Democratic party which have been viewed to be either allies or benefactors or representatives have demonstrated that they are in fact the enemies of the Jewish people.  The Jews of America, regardless of their political views, must come to terms with this fact, regardless of how difficult it might be, and act upon it.

While it is good to see the Jewish community acting in its own defense on the streets, the American Jews must come to accept that they must do the same on the political field.  Failing to do so will only see such scenes as those below come about much more often with much greater consequences.

With the complicity of local Los Angeles authorities.

Daniel Greenfield | June 24, 2024

Some people are calling this a “pogrom”. It was at best a low-level riot against Jews by Islamic terrorist supporters and Antifa with the complicity of local Los Angeles authorities. I have an article with more to say about it, but the videos speak for themselves.

The target was Congregation Adas Torah (Congregation of the Bible) but the pro-terror rally spread out to two adjoining synagogues and then the violence spread out past Kosher restaurants, a Jewish school and to nearby residential streets on both sides of Pico Blvd in the Pico Robertson neighborhood where the Hamas rioters freely attacked Jews.

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By Moshe Phillips

An Israeli cabinet minister whose responsibilities include supervising Israeli-controlled parts of Judea-Samaria has instituted a minor administrative change in those areas, a change that is permitted by the Oslo Accords.

So what’s the problem?

In a faux expose last week, the New York Times claimed to have uncovered a “stealthy” Israeli conspiracy to annex “the West Bank.”

The problem is it’s not stealthy, it’s not a conspiracy, and it only impacts the portions of Judea-Samaria that the Palestinian Authority (PA) agreed, at Oslo, can be run by Israel in any way it sees fit.

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Unyielding reality: why an Islamic Middle East rejects Israel

By LOUIS RENÉ BERES  JUNE 24, 2024 04:57

IRAN’S LATE SUPREME LEADER Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meets with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, last month. It doesn’t matter at all to Iran and Hamas if Israel agrees to political and territorial concessions, says the writer. (photo credit: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/West Asia News Agency/Reuters)

‘The hour of judgment shall not come until the Muslims fight the Jews, and kill them….”Sahih Muslim, Book 41, cited at The Charter of Hamas (1988)

Israel is loathed by its jihadist enemies because it is a Jewish state, not because it is Zionist. For these enemies, both state and sub-state, Israel is never more than the individual Jew writ large. It matters not at all to Iran, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, etc., if Israel agrees to political compromises and territorial surrenders. For these recalcitrant foes, Muslims are still obligated to “fight the Jews, and kill them…” For them, a Jewish state in the Dar al Islam (the world of Islam) – any Jewish state – represents an inherently intolerable abomination.

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By Rodney Atkinson, THE CONSERVATIVE WOMAN – June 17, 2024

THE West’s Ukrainian proxy war against Russia continues to go badly with Russian advances on all fronts and big Ukrainian troop losses. Even worse, the most belligerent political leaders (Biden, Macron and Sunak) are losing votes at home. French President Macron lost extremely badly in the European elections, with Marine Le Pen’s National Rallygarnering twice as many votes as Macron’s Renaissanceparty. This led Macron to call a snap general election, and there is talk of his resignation if he does not win.

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T. Belman. The authors could have mentioned that weapons issued to the Egyptian army have been found on killed Hamas terrorists. They also could have mentioned Egypt’s refusal to allow refugee camps to be set up in Egypt was intended, among other things, to keep the Gazans bottled up uin Gaza

By Reuel Marc Gerecht June 23, 2024 2:08 pm ET

Antony Blinken has visited Cairo again. The U.S. secretary of state met with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on June 10 to talk about Israel, Hamas, hostages and the future of the Gaza Strip.

The Egyptian military, like Iran and Qatar, knows Hamas’s leadership well. This surely isn’t only because of proximity. Although neither Washington nor Jerusalem wants to say so, the Oct. 7 attack on Israel couldn’t have happened without the Egyptian army’s turning a blind eye to the shipment of arms and other materiel over and under the Egypt-Gaza border. Greed and anti-Zionist sympathies likely fed trade and ties between senior Egyptian officers and Hamas commanders.

Good or bad for the Jewish state?

Hugh Fitzgerald | June 24, 2024

As Europeans have increasingly turned to the right, with the electoral victories of Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom in the Netherlands, of Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia in Italy, of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella’s National Rally in France, and of Alice Weidel’s Alternative für Deutschland in Germany, Israel should unembarrassedly make common cause with these leaders and parties, all of which have expressed stout support for Israel. The increased popularity of these parties is due mainly to their firm stance against continued Muslim migration into their countries, a stance that has caused them to be labelled, quite unfairly, as “far-right.”

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Peloni:  The Uniparty has two wings, the Right and the Left, and neither has any respect for the public whose elections are being stolen.  It is good that Trump has finally gained control over the party, or most of it, but a question remains to be answered, Where was Trump’s Republican party during the election fraud which took place during the Lynchburg Va election, and how will they act now that this election was violated?  The answer to both of these questions have implications for November, as does the RINO candidate which won the election in question.

BREAKING: Poll watchers in Lynchburg, Virginia have released BOMBSHELL proof of fraud that took place in Tuesday's election. They were prevented from seeing mail-in ballot processing and records show ballot box seals broken and ballots counted without anyone watching

Election… pic.twitter.com/AN2F9qD9Jj

— George (@BehizyTweets) June 23, 2024

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,215, 23 June 2024

by Dr. Eado Hecht

IDF forces activity in the Gaza Strip. © IDF Spokesperson

We cannot always prevent the murder of workers in an orchard or sleeping families, but we can set a high price for our blood. A price too high for the Arab settlement, the Arab army and the Arab government to pay. … [Retaliation operations] are not for vengeance. It is an act of punishment and warning, that if that state does not control its population and does not prevent them attacking us – the Israeli forces will cause havoc in its land.“

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