Peloni: There is a great deal to be garnered from this conversation, which includes good ideas, bad suggestions, and great dilemmas, all of which face Israel as it approaches the Day After Gaza.
A Tablet roundtable about the challenges facing Israel in Gaza, Lebanon, and Washington, with Elliott Abrams, Jeremy Ben-Ami, Amiad Cohen, Michael Doran, Jon Greenwald, and Lee Smith
by Tony Badran | Tablet | May 08, 2024
Israel had barely begun its military operation in Gaza, after Hamas slaughtered 1,200 people and kidnapped 240 more, when the Biden administration began talking about what would need to happen the day after the war was over. “There has to be a vision of what comes next,” President Biden said on Oct. 25, 2023.
How neoconservatives and their military-industrial complex allies keep America losing
Erik Prince | Asia Times | May 3, 2024
It is painfully apparent to anyone of sound mind and judgment that there’s something gravely wrong with America’s current military capacity and our ability to project power in the world.
The WWII-era fighting force composed of 14 million GIs with a muscular industrial base backing them up is almost unimaginable today. In the last three years, five different US embassies have been hastily evacuated: Sudan, Afghanistan, Belarus, Ukraine, and Niger.
Peloni: There is no possibility that Israel can accept defeat in this war, none at all. Whatever the costs, it must end in victory, and the quicker, the better – and this will result in fewer lives being lost on all sides.
Netanyahu: ‘If we have to conquer Gaza with our fingernails, we are going to do it. We’re going to do it even if you don’t give us ammunition, even if you don’t give us weapons — we’re going in and we’re not going to lose the war.’”
Warren Kinsella | Toronto Sun | May 7, 2024
Israel won’t stop its military advance against the Hamas stronghold of Rafah, says a former senior ranking Israeli military commander — whether the United States and Western allies approve or not. Read more…
T. Belman. Israel doesn’t need the bombs. Just as in the War of Independence when there was an American embargo on the sale of arms to Israel, Israel sourced them elsewhere. Don’t think for a moment that Israel has been idle since Oct 7/23.
In my article Don’t Muddy the Waters, I asked two military judges, Bruce Tucker Smith, JD, LL.M. (International Law), Lt Col USAFR (ret) for a legal opinion on what restrictions or laws Israel is subject to in its self-defense and included the opinion in my post Bomb Gaza. Win the War.
In sum: Israel is free to employ ALL munitions, tactics, equipment and personnel in her arsenal to defend herself against the outlaw Hamas terrorist organization. Short of the intentional targeting and murder of truly uninvolved and innocent civilians, Israel can (and should) operate as freely as she desires to protect her territorial sovereignty and the lives of her citizens.
US President says he will halt shipments of American weapons to Israel if Netanyahu orders a major invasion of Rafah: “Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs”.
By Elad Benari, INN May 9/24
Joe BidenREUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
“Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers,” Biden told CNN’s Erin Burnett in an exclusive interview, referring to 2,000-pound bombs that Biden paused shipments of last week.
Peloni: Natation-states rather than transnational organizations must be the level at which sovereign choices, including the health care choices of their citizens, are determined and implemented. Failing this, the decisions made by such extra-national leviathans such as the WHO will be but mandates chosen by Globalist tyrants which will be left to be administered by national leaders who will become little more than the satraps of the new globalist hivemind.
Indeed, while nations may cooperate and interact with one another, they must maintain the ability to do so due to a sovereign choice, rather than because of a contractually binding commitment to any globalist master.
Reagan Reese | Daily Caller | May 8, 2024
REUTERS/Pierre Albouy
A band of state Attorneys Generals are urging President Joe Biden not to hand over several vast pandemic powers to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Daily Caller first learned.
Led by Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, 22 state attorneys generals wrote a letter to Biden, obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller, voicing their concern over potential plans to give the WHO a series of powers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. World governments have been discussing the amendments that would give the WHO more leeway to help “prevent, prepare for and respond to pandemics.” (RELATED: Bret Weinstein Warns Tucker WHO Is Making ‘Troubling’ Moves To Control Health Emergency Responses)
By Mahyar Tousi, YOUTUBE 7 May 2024
Mahyar Tousi has his own YouTube channel. He is committed to truth in journalism, no matter where the truth takes him. He is British of Iranian descent. This brief video encapsulates what the war in Gaza is about.
E. Rowell; The attempted hijacking of Western democracies by international billionaire crime syndicates is leading in the direction of collapse. Ideologies that are destructive of family, faith, country have been sweeping the land. Censorship and authoritarian police state tactics have attempted to marginalize and demonize patriots and those who believe in the rule of law. Lawfare and electoral fraud have made a mockery of our Constitution and system of justice. Those whose goal is the murder of all Jews are given free reign to control colleges, while law abiding Jewish students are prevented from attending classes or are beaten up. The President appears helpless in the face of this, while at the same time he demands that Israel submit to Hamas’s genocide, and allow Hamas to win the war. But Netanyahu and the people of Israel will have none of this, and they are the real heroes of our day and time. Milei reminds us of how we in the West got started, with the idea of liberty, and the need to focus the mind on regaining it.
By Steven Hayward, POWERLINE 7 May 2024
That’s not a headline I ever expected to write, even in satire. But the current experiment in Argentina, under the presidency of Javier Milei, is perhaps grounds for hope that at some point when things get so bad, voters return to their senses. (I’m looking at you, California and Minnesota.) He may not succeed, but the attempt is certainly inspiring.
Milei gave a speech a few days ago at the Milken Institute’s annual conference. Here are some of the best parts:
“The West is in danger. It is in danger because its leaders long ago moved away from the ideas of freedom. Ideas that made the West the most important civilizational achievement in the history of mankind. And instead of defending the ideas that generated the prosperity that everyone here enjoys, they listen to siren songs that lead inexorably to socialism, and consequently to poverty.
Peloni: Revolver News continues to provide greater clarity of the facts and details which surrounded the psyop exploited on January 6.
Revolver News | May 7, 2024
The Ides of March, H.G. Well’s prediction of atomic weaponry, and Babe Ruth’s iconic finger pointed toward the stands all enjoy pride of place in the annals of historic prognostications. When all is said and done, these annals may need to open once again to accommodate a largely unsung Nostradamus by the name of Donell Harvin, former chief of the Homeland Security and Intelligence division of Washington, D.C.’s Fusion Intelligence Center. This deep-state official and vehement never-Trumper is responsible for predicting the infamous January 6th pipe bombs to an uncanny and rather troubling degree of accuracy. Why isn’t he interested in taking credit?
From drones to missiles to small arms, Israel’s military-industrial complex has found a desirable partner in the subcontinent
By Sameer Patil, TABLET MAGAZINE 6 May 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, hugs Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Jan. 15, 2018/MONEY SHARMA/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Earlier this year, on Jan. 10, India’s Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar flagged off a Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) called the Drishti-10 Starliner. The drone is an Indian-made version of Israel’s Elbit Systems’ cutting-edge Hermes-900 UAV. It reportedly boasts over 70% local components. Produced by Adani Defence and Aerospace, an Indian defense manufacturer, the drone will be inducted in the Indian navy later this year, significantly boosting the country’s intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities across the Indian Ocean region. The Indian army has also placed orders for these drones, likely for deployment along the disputed Himalayan border with China, where tensions have simmered for over three years.
By Robert Williams, GATESTONE 8 May 2024
A Hamas weapons cache discovered by Israel Defense Force soldiers in the Gaza Strip, in December 2023. (Image source: IDF)
Caroline Glick In-Focus
By Alexander G. Markovsky, AM THINKER May 6/24
According to the Times of Israel, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, during a visit to the Palmachim Airbase, stated, “In Gaza, we are obligated to eliminate Hamas and also to return the hostages. We are working on these two tasks, and I am determined to accomplish both things. It will take as long as it takes.” “….as long as it takes” is neither a strategy nor a policy. It conveys uncertainty rather than a focused operational approach. Moreover, the longer it takes, the higher the toll on military personnel’s lives. General Gallant understands that he lost the war and is just trying to stay in uniform for as long as possible.
Peloni : Also, don’t forget the detailed expose on Gantz prepared by Yossi Baum earlier this year.
How America is using ex-IDF Chief Benny Gantz as its Trojan horse to impose U.S. demands—and ensure Israel’s defeat in Gaza
Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz arrives at the U.S. State Department in Washington DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images
In the eyes of the Biden administration Hamas is the smaller problem. The bigger problem is Benjamin Netanyahu. The U.S. is willing to live with Iran’s proxies everywhere, as part of its “regional integration” policy—i.e., appeasing Iran. But they are unwilling to live with Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition. The stubborn Netanyahu clearly does not want to learn from his would-be tutors like U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken how to “share the neighborhood” with genocidaires in Gaza, Judea and Samaria, Lebanon, and Tehran, whom his electorate understands to be bent on murdering them.
This Amazing document from the British archive reveals, Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, served as a spy for Nazi Germany.
Holocaust Remembrance Day is an opportunity to reveal the deep relationship between the Nazis and Muslim Brotherhood.
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Caroline Glick | JNS | May 7, 2024
After failed hostage negotiations with Hamas, Israel finally begins its Rafah operation; the Biden administration illegally seems to half ammunition transfer and how this Holocaust Memorial Day should change who American Jewry thinks of as is allies.
Peloni: This moment has taken too long to become realized. Let us pray that this victory is cemented with a vigilance and dedication to end the clandestine arms transfers into Gaza, and hopefully too, one day soon facilitate the free passage of Gazans out of Gaza.
Footage from earlier today showing Soldiers of the 401st “Iron Tracks” Armor Brigade of the Israel Defense Force raising the Israeli Flag at the Rafah Border Crossing between Egypt and Southern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/4SmCklJ8Ls
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) May 7, 2024
by Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE • May 7, 2024
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh on April 29, 2024. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Backing Hamas isn’t the first time the U.N. and ‘the international community’ have chosen the side of killers over their victims
By Ben Posner, THE DAILY SCROLL/THE BACK PAGES 6 May 2024
April 7, 2024, marked six months since the largest genocidal mass murder of Jews this century; it also was the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Rwandan genocide. Of the various similarities any rational person can discern between the two crimes, one stands out in its repulsiveness: Just as it was a generation ago, the United Nations is perhaps the greatest facilitator of genocide on Earth.
By ANDREW KORYBKO’S NEWSLETTER 7 May 2024
The importance of his defection rests in the widespread attention that it generated in Polish society on the eve of what might soon be the commencement of a conventional NATO intervention in Ukraine.
Polish judge Tomasz Szmydt, who served at the Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw and was the head of the legal department at the National Council of Judges, held a press conference in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on Monday where he arrived to ask for political asylum. BelTA’s Russian-language report that can be read here summarizes his main points, which will be reviewed in this piece for the reader’s convenience prior to being analyzed. Folks can also follow his regular updates on Telegram here.
