Illegal migrant from Lebanon caught at border admitted he’s a Hezbollah terrorist hoping ‘to make a bomb’ — and was headed for NY  

By Jennie Taer, NY POST                                                                                   17 March 2024Border Patrol memo exclusively obtained by The Post showing Lebanese migrant Basel Bassel Ebbadi

A Lebanese migrant who was caught sneaking over the border admitted he’s a member of Hezbollah, he hoped to make a bomb, and his destination was New York, The Post can reveal.

Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, was caught by the US Border Patrol on March 9 near El Paso, Texas. While in custody, he was asked what he was doing in the US, to which he replied, “I’m going to try to make a bomb,” according to a Border Patrol document exclusively obtained by The Post.

But Ebbadi later claimed in an interview that he had been trying to flee Lebanon and Hezbollah because he “didn’t want to kill people” and said “once you’re in, you can never get out,” according to internal US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) documents.

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March 18, 2024 | 11:16 pm | Comments »

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The Israeli Left’s crime: Self-deception  

The Arabs finally learned the secret: say nice words to Leftist Jews and many will fall over themselves to give away their own heritage. Don’t they know that while it is a sin to deceive one’s neighbor, it is a crime to deceive oneself? Opinion.

By Victor Sharpe, INN                                                                                   18  March 2024

There would be nothing more wondrous than true peace by a Muslim Arab state with Israel. However, I suspect that true and everlasting peace with any Muslim state is nothing more than a cruel mirage in the sands of the Middle East.

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The native and indigenous people, the Jews, are not colonialists and do not need to annex what is – since time immemorial – their own historical, Biblical, and spiritual land. As for a “Palestinian state or territory,” there has never existed such a one, and there has never been a separate Palestinian Arab people throughout all of history.

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The Most “Non-Pretending” and Brutally Honest Video So Far This Year  

E. Rowell:  The black men watching and commenting on the video made by a black woman talk about how ignorant they were about politics before they started getting together and talking about it with each other.  The political awakening that is happening amongst the black community happened in white people living in flyover country before the 2016 election:  people who felt politicians come and go and they NEVER do anything for them, but they make the same tired promises over and over.  Black people know this now about themselves.  The democrat party is panicking.  They thought they’d have every minority in the country forever.   In addition, the plan was to divide people by identity group.  One of the black men makes the point that now whites and blacks are starting to think the same way politically.

By Sundance, CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE                                         17 March 2024

This video is buckets of brutal and pragmatic honesty.  So much so, that it’s actually stunningly refreshing.

In an era where everything is seemingly constructed around false pretenses, manufactured narratives and just plain nonsense, the cold reality of truth stands as a beacon that draws attention from those who just know that things are not right.  Watch this video and see a woman who is completely unafraid to state the truth without pretending.

March 18, 2024 | 7:18 pm | Comments »

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Mistakes Were Made  

By C. J. Hopkins                                                                                             15 March 2024

Make fun of the Germans all you want, and I’ve certainly done that a bit during these past few years, but, if there’s one thing they’re exceptionally good at, it’s taking responsibility for their mistakes. Seriously, when it comes to acknowledging one’s mistakes, and not rationalizing, or minimizing, or attempting to deny them, and any discomfort they may have allegedly caused, no one does it quite like the Germans.

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March 18, 2024 | 6:40 pm | 1 Comment »

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Don’t Expect the NY Times to Report This Awful Hamas Detail  

By Ron Dermer, DAVE RUBIN                                                                 15 March 2024

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. and now Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer about the ongoing conflict in Israel; how Hamas intentionally built schools over terrorist tunnels to use human shields as a part of its larger strategy; how Israel is fighting a war on many fronts, with skirmishes on the northern border and an all-out war in the south; how Israel is systematically dismantling Hamas’ military machine in Gaza; the importance of Israel’s victory for the United States; his hopes for the conflict in the north being resolved diplomatically; and much more.

March 18, 2024 | 4:58 pm | Comments »

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Okay editors, what about this simplified language?  

By Meryl Nass, M. D., MERYL’S COVID NEWSLETTER                     17 March 2024

The WHO Director-General is about to become the World Health Dictator, unless we stop him!

The WHO’s 194 member nations are being asked to vote on two documents this May that will transfer unprecedented powers to the WHO.  Here’s what is happening:

  1. A new Pandemic Treaty is being proposed that would legalize worldwide use of experimental, liability-free vaccines, impose health censorship and much more.
  2. Major amendments to the International Health Regulations are being proposed that give the WHO the power to impose worldwide lockdowns, vaccine mandates and much more.

If either one passes it will be a massive attack on our civil rights, Constitutions, and our national sovereignty and individual autonomy.

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March 18, 2024 | 4:51 pm | Comments »

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with members of the AIPAC board  

Peloni:  Bibi again addresses the resolve with which he and the Israeli people have with regards to pursuing the complete destruction of Hamas, in true Bibi form.

PM Netanyahu |  March 18, 2024

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Prime Minister Netanyahu to members of the IPAC board:

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Biden White House Is Funding Palestinian Security Forces  

By Antonio Graceffo, GATEWAY                                                          17 March 2024

The Palestinian Security Forces (PASF) were founded by the US, UN, and Russia in 1993. They have been funded and trained by the US on and off ever since. Now, the Biden White House wants to boost the PASF through the U.S. State Department. Allegedly, this will contribute to regional stability, as the PASF could coordinate with the Israel Defense Force (IDF). Furthermore, there is some discussion of deploying the PASF into Gaza to maintain order.

Providing weapons, money, and training to the same authority that birthed Hamas and the PLO—what could possibly go wrong?

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March 18, 2024 | 3:07 am | Comments »

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Trump breaks silence on Israel’s military campaign in Gaza: ‘Finish the problem’  

Peloni:  Context matters.  If Trump had been in the White House, there would have been no attack on October 7, but at the same time, Trump would not have been restraining Israel from winning this war decisively as has been the objective of the Biden White House.  As Trump noted, the war needs to be ended quickly.  A decisive victory would not only stabilize Israel, it would stabilize the region.  It would lead to greater recognition of Israel’s permanent status in the region, which in turn would lead to the Sunnis acting in accordance with this fact.

So as Biden is pushing for the war to end with a cease fire which would spell defeat and destruction for Israel, Trump is pushing for Bibi to ‘finish it up’ which would lead to victory and greater peace in the region.

Am I wrong in understanding Trump’s comments?  I would be curious to hear what others think of his remarks.

Former President Donald Trump has mostly kept silent since the massacre in Israel on October 7th and the outbreak of the Sword of Iron War in Gaza. Last week Trump broke his silence on Israel’s military campaign and called to, “Finish the problem.”

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The 3rd solution for Gaza is the one that can work.  

Read on to find out what the three suggested solutions for the day after the war are – and why the only one that can work is the third. Opinion.

Avi Abelow | INN | Mar 17, 2024

Little by little the Israeli establishment media is talking about the day after, and believe it or not, pushing Israel for new elections in the middle of the war, because they don’t like the direction this government might move in for the day after. And all this with the obvious support of the Biden administration, as President Biden, VP Harris and even Jewish Senator Chuck Schumer have clearly voiced how they think the Israeli people are not represented by our current government.

It is unbelievable how off they are on reading Israeli society today. Israeli society wants total victory and wants the Israeli government to ignore the evil pressure from the Biden administration stopping us from winning this war and freeing our captives in Gaza.

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March 18, 2024 | 2:07 am | 1 Comment »

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Netanyahu: Israel will not cave to demands Hamas survive  

Peloni:  Notably during the very time in which the US leadership is demanding regime change in Israel, the US has sanctioned Israelis in J&S even as it is provided Iran with $10 Bn sanction waiver with which it will fund its terror war against Israel and the US.  So too the US has been reported to have slowed the delivery of arms to Israel to manipulate Israel’s ability to refuse US demands.   All of this is taking place despite Iran and its proxies having effectively stymied free travel on the high seas and their routine attacks against US forces across the region while US citizens remain among the Hamas abductees.  Thus, it should be unmistakably clear that the US is resolved to pursue their pivot towards Iran irregardless of the cost or damage to itself or its allies.  This is not about moral clarity, but rather it is simply about a US policy which is completely devoid of any moral basis at all.  Indeed, the US continues to facilitate the subsidizing of state sponsored terrorism, even as that terrorism is directed at US interests and US citizens.  This remains very problematic for both Israel and the US.  Despite the many threats leveled at Israel for doing so, Bibi has resolved to act in support of his nation’s interests which are both moral and just, and hopefully in time the US will come to choose better leadership so that they might once again be able to make the same claim.

The PM called out the international community’s moral blindness, asking, “Is your memory so short?”

Charles Bybelezer | JNS | March 17, 2024

Israel will continue to fight until the Hamas terrorist group is defeated in the Gaza Strip, despite efforts to force Jerusalem to end the war immediately, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed at the start of Sunday’s Cabinet meeting.

“It is no secret that international pressure against us is increasing. There are those trying to stop the war now, before all of its goals are achieved,” began the premier. “They do this by making false accusations against the IDF, against the Israeli government and against the prime minister of Israel. They do this by trying to bring about elections in the midst of the war.

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March 17, 2024 | 7:16 pm | 3 Comments »

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The road to Oct. 7: How Hamas got the intelligence it needed  

New information on why Israel was caught off guard by the scope and quality of the information the terrorists had in planning the atrocities.

By Itay Ilnai, JNS     17 March 2024

A military helicopter flies at sunset near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, March 11, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

In recent years, the Israel Defense Forces, Mossad and Israel Security Agency began to notice an increased awareness on the part of Hamas regarding everything related to the field of intelligence gathering. It seemed that the terror organization, which has always sought to obtain as much information as possible about Israel, was shifting into higher gear in this area in a dramatic way.

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March 17, 2024 | 6:26 pm | 3 Comments »

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2024: The Stand of the Based Americans  

E. Rowell:  The author articulates what the majority of Americans are thinking.  However, I take issue with only one of his ideas: “If in 2016 Trump’s supporters knew something was up, if not quite what…”  In fact, Trump listened and learned from his supporters.  These hard working Americans in flyover country not only realized how different this America was from the America of our founding fathers, but they realized exactly what needed to change.  They were laser focused on policy issues and when they felt Trump had listened to them, and created policies based upon what was needed for their ability to thrive, they became avid Trump supporters.  This is how the movement was built.

By T. J. Harker, MANS WORLD MAGAZINE                                               5 March 2024

For the first time in more than twenty years, the ruling elite’s stranglehold on the nation’s power structures threatens to collapse. Simultaneously, ambitious mandarins in big tech, high finance, big law, and the administrative bureaucracy vie for supremacy in the face of a power vacuum that grows with Biden’s deteriorating mental faculties. Meanwhile, millions of ordinary Americans seek a common political principle around which to organize a coherent defense of their way of life. 2024 is shaping up to be the year in which the existing balance of power between these two groups is consolidated or upended. 2024 will be the year that the new based Americans finally join the battle against the established ruling elite and its regime mandarins.

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March 17, 2024 | 5:38 pm | 11 Comments »

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Shattered  

Peloni: This is excellent!

There is no word in the psychological lexicon for what happened on Oct. 7 or the new world in which Israelis now live. But “shattered” comes closer than “trauma.”

Pamela Paresky | Jewish Journal | March, 2024

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When Israelis speak about Oct. 7, they frequently say “there are no words.” But one word they consistently use is “shattered.”

Israeli psychologists have been treating severe trauma, complex trauma and collective trauma. The word “trauma,” however, fails to convey the scale, the savagery or the sadism of events that day. The term does not encompass the complex mix of disorientation, anguish, emotional overload and the experience of utter brokenness after the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.

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March 17, 2024 | 7:59 am | 1 Comment »

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Ben-Gvir to Turkey: No access to prisoners because of Hamas ties  

The minister said visits will only be allowed if Ankara pressures Hamas to allow similar visits to Israelis held in Gaza.

Amir Ettinger | JNS | March 25, 2024

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir with police at the site of a terrorist attack in Jerusalem in 2023. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has refused a request relayed by the Turkish embassy for information on two Turks serving sentences in an Israeli prison, because of the Anatolian nation’s ties to Hamas.

Ben-Gvir also said Israel would not allow the embassy to visit the inmates, saying that this was due to Turkey’s support of Hamas. He further noted that if the embassy wanted to get the information it would have to pressure Hamas to allow Israel to visit hostages in Gaza. Read more…

March 17, 2024 | 7:32 am | 4 Comments »

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Iran: Senior Khamenei advisor says ‘We must increase our strategic depth’ to be able to strike US with missiles  

By Christine Douglass-Williams | Jihad Watch | March 16, 2024

Gen. Yahyah Safavi, Senior Advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei

Gen. Yahyah Safavi, Senior Advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei, is referring exclusively to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s military capability when he declares that the regime must increase its  “strategic depth.” Thousands of kilometres means that Iran would have the capacity to strike the EU and America with long-range missiles.

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March 17, 2024 | 7:18 am | Comments »

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Netanyahu advisor: ‘We can, and must, win in Rafah’  

Ophir Falk, an advisor to the Prime Minister, explains why the world’s pressure to stop the offensive in Gaza is both unfounded and counterproductive.

Israel National News | INN | Mar 17, 2024

IDF forces in Gaza

Ophir Falk, an advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wrote in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal that victory for Israel in Rafah was not as far away as it seems.

Falk began by declaring that international disapproval would not affect Israel’s strategy for the continuation of the war. “Mounting international pressure to end the war won’t weaken Israel’s resolve to accomplish its mission of destroying Hamas, freeing the hostages, and guaranteeing that Gaza will never pose a threat to Israel again,” he wrote.

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March 17, 2024 | 7:12 am | Comments »

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