E. Rowell:  As a young teenager I asked my stepmom a question to which she replied, “It all depends on what you want out of life.”  I remember feeling a bit dumbstruck.  It hadn’t yet occurred to me that I could choose what I wanted out of life!  That simple, seemingly offhand comment of my stepmom’s made a huge difference in my life:  it was empowering, for which I will always be grateful.

By J. B. Shurk, AMERICAN THINKER    28 April 2024

Image via PickPIk.

Every once in a while, someone expresses to me the feeling that all is lost.  Politics and current events are a daily gut punch, and it is impossible to avoid the cultural revolution exploding just outside our windows.  These are, indeed, troubling times for weary souls.

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E. Rowell:  The motive of the Obama-Biden Administration to foil Israel’s ability to win the war against Hamas is clear.  The sum of all their efforts on a regular basis goes to preventing Israel from completing the mission in Gaza while protecting Iran and her proxies.  They want to prevent a triumphant Israel at all costs.  This is unacceptable to the majority of Americans who support Israel.  In addition, the efforts which they created and now support, to cultivate anti-Zionism and Jew hatred on college campuses, has led directly to the genocidal groups on campuses, threatening Jews and Israelis.  This is psychological warfare against Jewish people everywhere.  Now even democrat voters are disgusted with both the Pro-Palestinian rioters and this administration’s craven Jew hatred.

Mishaps and mortars and cargo and kitchens.

By  J. E. Dyer, THE OPTIMISTIC CONSERVATIVE   26 April 2024

It’s tempting to place a major focus on the mishaps now besetting the U.S. temporary pier project off Gaza.  But we’re going to get past that lightly, for a brief, even more important discussion of a couple of unbudging realities in the overall situation.

One is that the Biden administration continues to try to thwart Israel’s strategy for Gaza, which is to eliminate Hamas as a factor there and reset post-Hamas conditions for long-term arrangements as advantageously as possible for stability and Israeli security.

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By Barry Shaw

In February 2024, Yoav Gallant, the Israeli Defense Minister, revealed that at least 12 UNRWA Gaza staffers actively participated in the 7 October butchery of rape, torture, murder and hostage taking, and that at least 1,500 UNRWA workers had active ties to terror groups stating that UNRWA  has “lost all legitimacy and can no longer function as a UN body” in good faith.

UNRWA, in an attempt to persuade governments to reinstate their funding for this corrupt anti-Israel organization, is preparing what they call an impartial committee to produce a report intended to whitewash this Hamas infected organization of all its sins by claiming there is no truth to the claims that UNRWA has been guilty of indoctrinating a generation of Palestinians to hate Israel and a world without Israel.

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By Isabel Vincent, NEW YORK POST    26 April 2024

ISRAEL HATE CAMPS EXPLODE-FUNDED BY SOROS

George Soros is paying agitators who are fueling the explosion of radical anti-Israel protests at colleges across the country.

George Soros and his hard-left acolytes are paying agitators who are fueling the explosion of radical anti-Israel protests at colleges across the country.

The protests, which began when students took over Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus lawn last week, have mushroomed nationwide.

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A Rubicon has been crossed, and advance troops are already besieging various outposts of our taken-for-granted institutions and assumptions about our social lives. 

By Roger Kimball, AMGREATNESS

Iwould wager that a million or more words have been written about the trials and tribulations—but especially the trials—of Donald Trump. I have written quite a few myself, here at American Greatness and elsewhere.

Some stories from the left are of the gleefully salivating variety. “Goodie! The Bad Orange Man is Getting His and Might Even go to Jail.  Hallelujah!”
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Peloni:  In fact, the Jews of America carry a large burden in the coming election.  Their support for the current regime aided in the replacement of the most pro Israel, philosemitic govt in US history with the most anti Israel, antisemitic govt in US history.  The consequences of this dereliction to their own self defense and self interest is directly linked to the Pal riots which are today targeting the children of those same American Jews who pulled the lever for Biden over Trump.  Hence there can be no self deception among American Jews in the coming election, as their safety and security is once again to be on the ballot as the choice is to be once again between the same well demonstrated philosemite and his well demonstrated antisemitic rival.  While this will be seen to be the most important election in US history, it will likewise be the most pivotal election in the history of both Israel and American Jewry, so I would call on the Jewish Democrats to be more deliberative than spontaneous in making their choice.  They should in fact make this choice as if their lives and livelihoods as well as that of their loved ones may be significantly impacted by their choice, because they will be.

The shameful silence on Jewish Democrats’ part has led to the current Jew hating thugs on college campuses. And if and when Biden loses, it will get worse. Opinion.

Alan Bergstein, INN     April 28, 2024

Alan Bergstein    INN: AB

There’s not much I can do about this sitting Biden presidency and my two local self-hating, Jewish congresspeople, Lois Frankel and Jared Moskowitz, except speak out and campaign against them and their evil Democrat Party until the next election comes along.

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Peloni: I agree with Chikli:

“Min. Chikli: I’ll oppose a deal, we can’t stop the war”

It would be a devastating betrayal of both the dead and the living to accept any surrender to Hamas, even more so a surrender which abandons dozens of abductees to their ultimate fate in the hands of the Hamas butchers and rapists.  The goals of the war, all of the goals, must be pursued to completion.  Any deviation from such a pursuit would have the gravest of consequences.  Personally, I do not believe this will happen, and in fact, it must not.

A new Israeli proposal for a possible hostage deal with Hamas includes a willingness to discuss the “restoration of sustainable calm” in Gaza after an initial release of hostages on humanitarian grounds, two Israeli officials told Axios.

Why it matters: It is the first time since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas that Israeli leaders have suggested they are open to discussing an end to the war in Gaza as part of a hostage deal.

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Peloni:  The Neocons simply have no sense of restraint nor any conception of the consequence for their lack of restraint.  As is true in all wars, it will the people who will pay the butcher’s bill for the choices of the political elites should this war be widened further.

US Troops to Ukraine After Biden is Reelected?

Stephen Bryen, Weapons and Strategy Substack    April 25, 2024

Mercenaries training with wooden guns in Ukraine

NATO is starting to deploy combat troops to Ukraine.  They are in uniform and mostly are concentrated in the western part of the country, although in some cases they are close to the actual fighting in the east.  Soldiers from Poland, France, the UK, Finland and other NATO members are arriving in larger numbers.  These troops are not mercenaries.  They wear the flag of their country on their shirts.

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Peloni:  This bridge is not targeting humanitarian needs but Israeli sovereignty.  I can’t wait for the Iranian war goods to be drop shipped right on top of it with extreme prejudice.  The Yankees have no role to play in Israel.

Mishaps and mortars and cargo and kitchens.

J. E. Dyer, The Optimistic Conservative     April 26, 2024

Peloni:  Smotrich announces Round 2 on threats to completely defund the PA.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has warned that unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state by the U.N. General Assembly will result in an immediate halt to all transfers of funds to the P.A.

JNS, April 25, 2024

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in Jerusalem, May 30, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Thursday threatened to crush the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) financially if certain unilateral actions are brought against Israel in the international arena.

In an open letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Smotrich warned that if any decision is made by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to unilaterally issue arrest warrants against Israeli citizens, or “a decision is made unilaterally in the [United Nations] General Assembly to recognize a Palestinian state, I will unilaterally and immediately stop the transfer of all funds to the P.A.”

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E. Rowell:  This article is a follow up to previous articles on Israpundit regarding the threat made by the US to sanction the Netzah Yehuda Battalion of the IDF.

“This will have no impact on our support for Israel’s ability to defend itself against Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah or other threats,” the U.S. secretary of state wrote to House Speaker Mike Johnson.

By Andrew Bernard, JNS    26 April

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hosts an International Women’s Day Reception at the Department of State in Washington, March 8, 2024. Photo by Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department

The U.S. State Department is engaged with Israel to find a path to “remediation” for an Israel Defense Forces unit that it has determined is credibly accused of “gross human-rights violations,” according to a letter JNS viewed.

Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, stated in the letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Saturday that it is his assessment that some IDF units might be in violation of U.S. law, but that would not affect U.S. military support to Israel.

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Dayan implored Dr. Shafik to “lead with moral principles, not only with administrative regulations. Speak up.”

By Jerusalem Post Staff     April 27, 2024

They stand together, facing the abyss of secularism and atheism.

By Dov Fischer, AMERICAN SPECTATOR    26 April 2024

Art by Bill Wilson

I grew up in the 1960s as an Orthodox Jew in a semi-parochial community in Brooklyn, New York, a neighborhood tucked between Flatbush, Flatlands, and Canarsie. Although very few of our neighbors were Orthodox, the community must have been 95 percent Jewish. Kathy was the one Catholic kid on the block. Hers was the only window in a half-mile radius that did not display a menorah kindling in December. Since she was the only non-Jew in our world, we assumed all non-Jews were Catholic. Protestants were exotic. There were Italian Catholics, Irish Catholics, Polish Catholics, and Kathy.

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By Joshua Hoffman, FUTURE OF JEWISH    26 April 2024

The Free Palestine Movement was founded in 2003 by Yasser Qashlaq, a Syria-born Palestinian businessman of considerable wealth.

Unsurprisingly, Qashlaq is known for his antisemitic views, having repeatedly called Jews “dregs of European garbage,” a “gang of criminal murderers,”1 and “human pieces of filth”2 that should be deported to Europe.

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Analysis of the latest version of the amendments

By Prof. Fred Nazar, SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS    27 April 2024

A global government needs a global Constitution.

A global coup needs the appearance of a legally binding document which acts like a Constitution.

That’s why they try to use the WHO pandemic agreements to be voted at the end of May 2024, as a first step in a scissor move:

• One blade of the scissor is the Pandemic Accord (they don’t call it Treaty so that people won’t realize that Congress should approve it)

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By Jim Rickards, WAR ROOM

Democratic members of Congress waive Ukrainian flags on the floor of the House of Representatives on April 20, 2024, after passing several foreign military assistance bills including the REPO Act

If you caught my appearance on the Bannon WarRoom podcast this past Wednesday, you heard me give details on how the REPO Act was written to essentially tie Donald Trump’s hands during his second term as president. But there is much more to tell than what I revealed on air. Here’s the rest of the story.

To review, the U.S. and its allies in Europe are moving quickly to steal U.S. Treasury securities lawfully owned by the Russian Federation. The consequences of this theft in the international monetary system would be momentous and highly adverse for the United States. Let’s look at the background to this situation before weighing the future damage.

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Peloni:  It is time to end these interminable delays and finally move into Rafah and erradicate the remaining elements of Hamas.  There can be no half measures, no negotiated settlements, and no further delay.  The savagery which was perpetrated on October 7 should inform all of the consequence of permitting Hamas and its masters to persist.  It is time to end the delays, move the civilians out, and at long last settle this matter, with the greatest of speed and intensity.

“What is important now is for all of us, all of us who … cherish our values and our civilization to stand up together and to say: Enough is enough,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Caroline Glick, JNS    April 26, 2024

On Wednesday, hikers around the southern Israeli city of Arad discovered the remains of an Iranian ballistic missile from the April 13 overnight assault. Israel’s Channel 11 identified it as a Khader-1 missile. The Khader-1, like the Imad missiles, which Iran also used in its strike, are nuclear capable.

The fact that Iran used two ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads should sound every alarm bell. In an interview with Deutsche Welle on Tuesday, International Atomic Energy Agency chairman Rafael Grossi said that Iran is “weeks rather than months” away from having enough enriched uranium to develop a nuclear bomb.

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by Jonathan Spyer, The Spectator     April 24, 2024

On Tuesday, Hezbollah launched its deepest attack into Israel since the current round of hostilities between Jerusalem and the Iran-supported Islamist group began last October. Sirens sounded in the town of Acre as drones and rockets were launched at what pro-Hezbollah media described as ‘military targets’ between Acre and Nahariya. There were no casualties. In response, Israeli aircraft struck at Hezbollah targets across the border.

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Peloni:  We must never forget the tragedy of October 7, not a single aspect of its savagery, and not a single victim who was stolen, murdered or raped.  Our determined will to maintain a vigilance of what took place will both strengthen our resolve and make certain of our victory, and provide for a more viable, and a more survivable, future.

In ‘Screams Before Silence’ documentary, survivors and witnesses share details of inconceivable cruelty by Palestinian terrorists in Israel and Gaza in hopes the world will listen

By Renee Ghert-Zand, TOI    April 26, 2024

Click for link to Documentary

Following a world premiere in New York on Thursday, “Screams Before Silence,” former Meta chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg’s new documentary on the systematic sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas against Israelis on October 7, is now available for open-access online viewing.

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The “pier” is already a useless disaster.

By Daniel Greenfield, FPM April 26/24

Construction on Biden’s pier-to-nowhere just began and it’s already a disaster with a UN team having to run for cover as the scheme to deliver aid through a floating island/pier came under terrorist mortar fire.

While the Biden administration hyped the idea that this would be an international effort, the only ones actually securing it are the Israeli forces on the ground.

Biden tasked 1,000 military personnel with the job while keeping them off the ground in Gaza (some are instead deployed in parts of Israel outside terrorist control) which meant that the Israeli military had to do the heavy lifting.

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