A website reveals the planning and strategy behind the current college mayhem.

By The Editorial Board, WSJ

Wonder Land: On April 30, 2024, Columbia’s Gaza encampment invaded Hamilton Hall via Instagram. And unless Joe Biden separates himself from the violence-prone left, his candidacy could die this summer in Chicago. Image: Stephani Spindel/Shutterstock

The recent anti-Israel protests are often portrayed as a spontaneous uprising of student indignation against the Gaza war. But we’re learning that behind the young idealists is an organized movement of leftists who want to spread disorder and whose candid strategy is to defy school administrators and police to achieve their radical goals.

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Peloni:  This article describes the one great strength which the Mullahs have and why they are still in power despite not holding a majority support in Iran: the intractable divisions and conflicting visions which divide the Iranian opposition.  In fact, the communists, the royalists, the republicans stand in greater opposition to eachother than they do to the Mullahs.  When these divisions are finally ended with a consolidation of support for one of the many dissedent groups or some working coalition, so too will end the rule of the Mullahs.

Iran International Newsroom | May 3, 2024

Iran’s ruler Ali Khamenei during a religious ceremony in Tehran

Alex Traiman & Josh Hasten | JNS TV | May 2, 2024

Prime Minister Netanyahu has declared that a Rafah operation will happen regardless of whether Hamas accepts the new hostage deal offered by Israel. But how much longer will Israel wait to go in? How much of this rhetoric is public diplomacy and how much can be trusted as actual policy? JNS CEO Alex Traiman and Middle East correspondent Josh Hasten analyze this story in all its angles as well as top stories happening in Israel – ICC threatening arrest warrant against Netanyahu – Biden administration accusing whole IDF units of human rights violations – Violent anti-Israel protests across campus – Antony Blinken’s Middle East trip and much more!

The hostage deal is stuck between Netanyahu’s ‘rock’ and Sinwar’s ‘hard place,’ as the world waits for Hamas’ answer to the current proposal ? The much anticipated Rafah offensive has been mythologized to Stalingrad status, but its strategic value is hardly the ‘total victory’ it has been chalked up to be

Amos Harel | Haaretz | May 3, 2024

Israeli soldiers rest on top of a tank, near the Israel-Gaza border, Thursday.Credit: Amir Cohen/ REUTERS

As the wait drags on for the reply of the real decision-maker – Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ leader in the Gaza Strip – it’s best not to develop inflated expectations this time either. As of Thursday evening, Sinwar, located somewhere in “Lower Gaza,” was still silent. But top Hamas figures abroad, though it’s unclear whether they speak in their leader’s name, maintain that their view of the latest Egyptian mediation proposal is negative and are hinting that behind the proposal is an Israeli scheme.

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Francisco Gil-White | The Management of Reality Substack | May 3, 2024

Developments in Doha’s West Bay district have seen an increase in the population density of the area with the construction of several high-rises. Source: Wikipedia.

If you inferred from my headline that I would report on the progress of anti-Qatar protests on US campuses, that’s on you. I didn’t say that. And there are no such protests.

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The series of arrests is driven by security concerns distinctly connected to the deadly events of Oct. 7, Riyadh-based diplomats and human rights groups state.

By  Adi Nirman | Israel Hayom | May 3, 2024

Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, April 29, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool | Photo: REUTERS

As the war between Israel and Hamas drags on, Saudi Arabia is intensifying arrests of citizens for social media posts criticizing Israel or expressing pro-Palestinian views, according to Bloomberg.

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The White House and its supporters are using Muslims in Michigan to justify a slew of deeply hostile policies against Israel. Will that matter come fall?

By Caroline Glick, JNS    3 May 2024

Former U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and U.S. President Donald Trump on the campaign trail in 2020. Source: Trump campaign via Facebook/Biden Campaign via Facebook

A few weeks ago, a sermon by Reform Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, the senior rabbi at the Steven Wise Free Synagogue in New York, shocked millions from that city to Tel Aviv. Standing at his pulpit, Hirsch delivered a stern warning to the Democrats.

Noting that he is someone “who is finely attuned to American Jewish sentiment,” Hirsch told Democratic elected officials: “Do not take American Jews for granted.”

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By Robert Williams, GATESTONE    3 May 2024

The terrorist threat to Europe from the Islamic Republic of Iran — and Hamas and Hezbollah, its proxies — is growing. In the past five years, Iran has been behind at least 33 terrorist plots in Europe. There are, it is estimated, 450 Hamas operatives in Germany alone. (Image source: iStock/Getty Images)

• “Hamas sees Western countries such as Germany as a refuge in which the organization can concentrate on collecting donations, recruiting new supporters, and spreading its propaganda.” — Germany’s domestic intelligence service, apnews.com, November 23, 2023.

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E. Rowell:  Don Surber is a journalist who lives in West Virginia.

By DON SURBER SUBSTACK    2 May 2024

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Americans woke up Wednesday morning to scenes on TV of police in blue cities arresting college students who camped on campuses. The action came as Democrats were appalled —

— by their polling numbers.

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Nations have historically looked to usurp Israel’s place in the Divine plan.

By David P. Goldman, AMERICAN MIND   2 May 2024

The Jews formed the first nation-state, that is, the first polity defined by common language and religion. The pagan empires were agglomerations of subject peoples; the only empire of antiquity that survives in recognizable form is China, with its 200 dialects and countless ethnicities. Not until Polybius in the second century BCE did it occur to any Greek thinker of note to unite all the Greeks into a single polity, more than 800 years after David established his kingdom in Jerusalem.

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The precedent of the ICC indicting Netanyahu and members of his government over the Israel-Gaza War could easily be used by U.S. adversaries to seek indictments against Biden officials.

By Fred Fleitz, AMGREATNESS May 3/24

According to press reports, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague is preparing to issue arrest warrants for war crimes against Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over the war in Gaza. Such an indictment would not just further isolate Israel over this war; it also would create a dangerous precedent that could lead to indictments of U.S. officials and servicemembers by this unaccountable and unconstitutional international court.

The Biden administration’s response to possible ICC indictments of Israeli officials has been extremely mild. President Biden dismissed them as “over the top.” White House Spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre deflected a question about this issue by saying, “We don’t believe the ICC has jurisdiction. We don’t support this investigation.” House Speaker Johnson said on Tuesday that a Biden official would tell the ICC “to stand down.”

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Peloni:  From the article: “There was no choice but to go outside the law, and to find a man willing and able to hit back by any means.” 

The lack of fidelity between the people and the govt in America today would seem to lead people to make such non-choice choices as are referenced above.  Indeed, it would appear that we need another Lansky to fill the void which might enforce a return of order in today’s society, and not just with regards to the antisemitic riots which we are referencing here.  Yet, I would argue that we are dealing today with a different situation than existed in the 1930’s.  Indeed, is there anyone reading this who might be deceived into believing that if some modern-day Lansky ordered his bully brute squad to march on Columbia armed with bats and mob violence to chase off the genocidal jihadi worshipers, that the US govt would remain idle as these events unfolded?  In fact there would be an instantaneous response by the Feds, who would likely manipulate the situation to increase the power of the growing tyranny in America against the American people and its American Jewry.   So, while a call to violence might seem to be the reasonable response to the growing breach between the American govt and the American people, and more specifically the American Jews, I would argue that the consequences for making a choice such as was made nearly a century ago would likely lead to far greater tragedies for the wrong people than we have seen to date.  Do recall the justice which was meted out for January 6, and notably, the Feds provided most if not all of the agitation which took place that day.

Still,  it would be interesting to read the opinions of others on these matters.

Once I wrote: ” Where are the Jewish gangsters when we need them?” And we need them now. On college campuses. Op-ed.

Jack Engelhard, INN    May 3, 2024

Been getting messages from readers asking me to revisit a column i wrote last November…” Where are the Jewish gangsters when we need them?”

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Peloni:  The free press is the defining element between a free nation and national tyranny.  The fact that this is being met with a bipartisan silence is demonstrative of the control which the Uniparty has gained over elected officials running the American govt.

The media will become a taxpayer-subsidized state propaganda enterprise.

Daniel Greenfield, Front Page Magazine   May 2, 2024

The state of the conservative movement is such that Soros can take over some of the largest radio networks in the country and Dems can begin building a massive taxpayer-subsidized media in plain sight, yet stories on these subjects will get a fraction of the attention of the latest influencer feuds and assorted nonsense.

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Peloni:  The US is leveraging the Israeli govt from multiple vantage points to surrender their pursuit of the war and the question remains whether the Israeli govt will do so.  Gadi and Mike have differing opinions on this matter, but  I find that I am in far greater agreement with Gadi than with Mike in this discussion.  Regardless of this, though, the conversation is insightful and important to contemplate.

Gadi Taub & Mike Doran, Tablet    May 1, 2024

The Biden administration is pressing for an end to the war in a hostage deal, while working to topple Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. It has many allies and tools in this effort: the threat to sanction an IDF unit, the looming specter of international arrest warrants from the Hauge, the Israeli anti-Netanyahu press and, from within the cabinet, an attempt by Benny Gantz to push for accepting a near-surrender hostage deal. At the same time, the right flank of Netanyahu’s coalition has issued an ultimatum: should such a deal come to pass they will opt out and topple the coalition. Has Netanyahu reached the end of his rope?

The ground has not settled in Israel, our spirits are not at peace, and the blood of our victims cries out for justice. Op-ed.

Yshai Amichai, INN    May 2, 2024

Scales of JusticeFlash 90

Justice, Justice shall you pursue, so that you may live and inherit the Land that the Lord your God Gave you.” (Deuteronomy 16:20).

Hamas’s October 7th attack against Israel was so brutal and devastating, that its shockwaves continue to rock us to this day. As with the aftershocks of a massive earthquake, the ground has not settled in Israel, our spirits are not at peace, and the blood of our victims cries out for justice.

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Peloni:  Well, it looks like the TSS is now on the American ballot.  For the first time in history, we have an ally running for the White House who openly retreats from advancing the the caustic, pointless, and impossible vehicle for war known as the TSS.

Ambassador Friedman: “Kudos to President Trump for recognizing that the October 7 attack, and its endorsement by more than 80% of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria, kills the two-state solution. Democrat leaders should recognize this as well and stop pressuring Israel to commit national suicide.”

“Most people thought it was going to be a two-state solution. I’m not sure a two-state solution anymore is gonna work.”

Troy Osher Fritzhand, JNS    May 2. 2024

U.S. President Donald Trump at a campaign rally held at the Mohegan Sun Arena on Aug. 2, 2018. Credit: Evan El-Amin/Shutterstock.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump signaled that he would be opposed to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a wide-ranging interview with TIME magazine published this week.

“Most people thought it was going to be a two-state solution. I’m not sure a two-state solution anymore is gonna work,” the former president said.

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Peloni:  The current regime in Washington has its sights set on Israel and its Middle East partners, but the real target of its assault is America itself.  Undermining and devastating American influence in that region is intended to actually undermine and devastate America and its position in the world.  And it is working.

The Palestinian terror organization refuses to release hostages while clinging to its last stronghold in Rafah. So why is the Biden administration throwing the full weight of the U.S. government at Israel to prevent it from routing Hamas?

by Lee Smith, Tablet    May 1, 2024

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani in Riyadh, on April 29, 2024  EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/POOL/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Reports are circulating that the Israelis are planning an operation in Rafah to eliminate the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza. If so, the Netanyahu government will be acting against the very public wishes of the Biden administration, which has spent the last half year moving heaven and earth to save a terrorist organization from destruction. Bizarrely, the White House’s statements and actions show that Hamas’ survival is more important than the security of a traditional American partner, Israel; more crucial to American interests than the preservation of the U.S.-led order of the Middle East; more precious than the dozens of American lives that Hamas ended on Oct. 7; more valuable than however many Americans and Israelis are still alive in the terror army’s tunnels.

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Will the “war of attrition,” which has continued already for half a year on Israel’s northern border, expand into a full-scale war?

INSS Insight No. 1850, May 2, 2024

By Orna Mizrahi  and Yoram Schweitzer, INSS

Although Hezbollah and Iran are not yet interested in a large-scale war, Israel’s campaign against Lebanon could escalate under two main scenarios: (1) If Hezbollah continues to fight against Israel as long as the war in Gaza persists or if Iran requests that the Lebanese-based group becomes more involved in its campaign against Israel; (2) If Israel launches an extensive operation that ignores the “rules of engagement” with Hezbollah, aiming to change the security situation on the northern border and facilitate the return of the Israelis who were evacuated from their homes.

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The deadlock in negotiations for the release of Israeli captives, coupled with American accusations against the group, has paved the way for the offensive. Opinion.

By Meir Ben Shabbat, INN    1 May 2024

Meir Ben Shabbat

(JNS) As signs of an imminent IDF operation in Rafah intensify, there is growing concern that Israel will unnecessarily exercise self-imposed restraint by acting with insufficient force, so as not to upset the Biden administration, the Egyptians, or the ICC prosecutor at The Hague.

Meanwhile, Hamas is exploiting the prolonged waiting period and preparing well for the ground operation in this sector, which will undoubtedly pose complex operational challenges for the IDF. Despite the political pressures, Israel’s decision-makers must make it a top priority to attain the objectives with minimal risk to the lives of our forces.

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The army has already conducted large-scale urban warfare sweeps in Khan Yunis, Gaza City.

By Yaakov Lappin, JNS    2 May 2024

Israeli soldiers in Khan Yunis, the southern Gaza Strip, Jan. 14, 2024. Credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.

As the War Cabinet waits for a reply from Hamas to the latest far-reaching, unprecedented Israeli proposal for a hostage release deal, the IDF has drawn up operational plans for large-scale urban warfare in Hamas’s last remaining bastion in Rafah, southern Gaza.

These plans rely on the massive experience the IDF has gained over recent months while fighting in Gaza City and Khan Yunis, including the ability to evacuate masses of civilians.
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