Lebanon Still Held Hostage by Hezbollah; Christians Forced Out  

by Uzay Bulut  •  Gatestone Institute  •  December 10, 2025 at 5:00 am


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Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque and St. George Maronite Cathedral, Beirut, Lebanon. Photo by Rados?aw Botev, CC BY 3.0 pl, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=135294599Today, Lebanon, like formerly Christian Turkey and Egypt, is majority-Muslim. The once-thriving Christian community has plummeted to roughly one-third of the population. Increasingly, Shia Hezbollah families, with financial backing from Iran, have been purchasing properties in Christian areas, threatening Christians with weapons, and gaining wider control while many Christians flee the country. Pictured:  Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque and St. George Maronite Cathedral, Beirut, Lebanon. Photo by Rados?aw Botev, CC BY 3.0 pl, Wikipedia

  • Christianity — Maronite, Orthodox, Catholic, as well as other denominations — was the dominant religion in the entire Levant before the Islamic military invasions and conquests in the seventh century. Constantinople (renamed Istanbul in 1930) was the capital of the great Christian Byzantine Empire.

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December 13, 2025 | 2:54 pm | Comments »

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Texas Gov. Abbott vs. the Muslim Brotherhood  

Finally, some pushback against a sinister organization.

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WTTC Global Summit 2016 World Travel & Tourism Council Flickr images.  Photo by World Travel & Tourism Council - Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54703342WTTC Global Summit 2016 World Travel & Tourism Council Flickr images. Photo by World Travel & Tourism Council – Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia

Last month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott started the ball rolling, designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) “foreign terrorist organizations.” While the establishment media complacently assured us that he couldn’t really do such a thing and that his proclamation would turn out to be meaningless, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had an altogether different reaction: he thought Abbott’s action was eminently worthy of emulation.

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America’s Quiet Slide Into Social Scoring  

Peloni: If America is a nation founded upon the concept of liberty being the offspring of the divined dignity of men, why is America designing safeguards which ignores the dignity of man and openly defies G_d given rights.  Liberty is not a gift of government but the deed on which freedoms are built.  The limits of the US govt are clearly enumerated in the Constitution and nothing about what is described here can be honestly be found listed there.  Security and emergency powers are the catch phrases on which liberty and freedom are too regularly abandoned, and as Aynaz explains here, this has every aspect of doing exactly this.

The U.S. is preparing to judge human beings by their digital past

Aynaz Anni Cyrus | Dec 11, 2025

The Department of Homeland Security has proposed a rule that should have sent shockwaves through every newsroom in the country: visitors entering the United States under visa-waiver programs may soon be required to hand over five years of their social-media history before boarding a plane. No context, no criminal suspicion, no triggering event, just a mandatory reveal of your digital life, tied directly to your passport.

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December 12, 2025 | 7:22 pm | 7 Comments »

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City of David’s Pilgrimage Road proves Jewish history, identity and indigeneity  

Roamnrab:  Noone needs any more proof to the FALSE ARAB-MUSLIM NARRATIVE regarding Jewish Rights and Sovereignty Claims to The Holy Land of G-d and His Holy People- Am Yisroel, than THE VEHEMENCE of our Enemies against us and our homestead Rights!

THEY, AND THE ENTIRE “INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY” are all ACCOMPLICES in Violent RACISM and THEFT OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE!

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December 12, 2025 | 3:46 pm | 1 Comment »

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Trump Bans State regulations on AI  

Peloni:  Why is it that first the Republicans in congress and now the US president require a lack of regulatory oversight on AI.  AI is a dangerously manipulating tool which should have more oversight rather than less so as to protect the public welfare.

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ensures a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence

PREVENTING A PATCHWORK OF AI REGULATIONS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to protect American AI innovation from an inconsistent and costly compliance regime resulting from varying State laws.

  • The Order directs the Attorney General to establish an AI Litigation Task Force to challenge unconstitutional, preempted, or otherwise unlawful State AI laws that harm innovation.

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December 12, 2025 | 3:43 pm | 2 Comments »

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Pope Leo’s Missed Opportunity  

Rabbi Barbara Aiello | TOI Blogs | Dec 3, 2025

Pope Leo XIV. Photo by Edgar Beltrán, The Pillar - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=165144720Pope Leo XIV. Photo by Edgar Beltrán, The Pillar – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

A 15-minute drive. A missed opportunity. Several days ago Pope Leo XIV made his first official journey outside the Vatican. The pope traveled to Turkey where he met with Catholics, Christians and Muslims. In fact the Muslim encounter included a visit to Istanbul’s Sultan Ahmed Mosque, known as the Blue Mosque, a name that highlights the thousands of hand-made turquoise ceramic tiles that grace the Muslim house of prayer.

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December 12, 2025 | 5:25 am | 3 Comments »

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Yoo Hoo, VP Vance––Your Character is Showing!  

Peloni:  While Vance is not shy about demonstrating his contempt for Israeli MKs dealing with issues of sovereignty in Israel, he appears too timid to chastise the antisemites supporting him.  Joan’s reference to this being evidence of a character flaw is spot on accurate.  Leaders lead, while followers follow.  Whichever of these two groupings Vance might like to characterize himself, his failure in these matters are highly problematic.

By Joan Swirsky, ©2025 | Dec 11, 2025

Vice President J.D. Vance (Official White House photo)

“Maybe he had a stroke,” a nurse friend told me as she theorized about Tucker Carlson’s seemingly bizarre transformation from a rock-ribbed conservative commentator to a flaming anti-Semite whose hatred of both Jews and Israel found him interviewing––and nodding in delirious agreement with––fervid Hitler and Stalin admirer Nick Fuentes, among many other rabid racists.

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December 12, 2025 | 3:14 am | 11 Comments »

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“Calling this “Phase 2″ is a joke”  

Peloni:  Damning rebuke of Trump’s effort to push Israel into Phase 2

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December 12, 2025 | 12:01 am | 5 Comments »

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Israel reprimands Ukrainian ambassador Korniychuk after stinging criticism of PM Netanyahu  

Peloni:  It is funny reading that Ukraine’s ambassador found Netanyahu’s mention of Putin to be immoral.  Indeed, does anyone recall that Ukraine has voted more often with Russia than not on the topic of Israel, as they were each voting against Israel.  Was that moral?  More than this, what could be more immoral than to show support for the Two State Solution, particularly after October 7?  Yet support for this immoral demand remains to be Ukraine’s position as it was before October 7.  Notably, while we are on the topic of morality, Amb Korniychuk could learn a lesson or two about morality by studying Israel’s insanely overly moral military doctrine which not only has a higher moral standard than Ukraine (far higher), it results in far greater successes while taking far fewer casualties, even as it maintains far greater morale in the army and public without the need of dragging soldiers to the front lines.  Indeed, there is much which might be discussed on the subject of morality with the Ukrainian Ambassador, as I haven’t even addressed the penchant for Nazi insignia in Ukraine and the memorials of Nazi war criminals which adorn Ukraine’s countryside.  

Israeli President Reuvin Rivlin meets Ukrainian Amb. Yevgen Korniychuk. Phot by Mark Neyman / Government Press Office of Israel, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=102527359Israeli President Reuvin Rivlin meets Ukrainian Amb. Yevgen Korniychuk. Phot by Mark Neyman / Government Press Office of Israel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia

Israel summoned the Ukrainian ambassador for a reprimand on Wednesday, after he strongly criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for making positive comments about his relations with the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin.

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December 11, 2025 | 10:35 pm | 3 Comments »

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Fight To Keep China Out of U.S. K-12 Classrooms Comes to Congress  

American children in grades K-12 are influenced by many things, including their parents, peers, and various forms of media. China, Qatar, and Iran don’t belong on the list, and three recent bills moving through Congress indicate that many lawmakers agree.

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Netanyahu and Modi Plan Meeting to Bolster India-Israel Strategic Partnership  

Peloni:  This strengthening partnership between Israel and India an important indication for Israel’s future geopolitical diversity, economic expansion, arms trade and war on terror.

Leaders reaffirm counterterrorism stance and discuss Gaza peace efforts in phone call.

Israfan | Dec 11, 2025

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi with the Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem, Israel on July 05, 2017. Photo by Prime Minister's Office (GODL-India), GODL-India, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72480914The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi with the Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem, Israel on July 05, 2017. Photo by Prime Minister’s Office (GODL-India), GODL-India, Wikipedia

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet “very soon,” according to a statement released Wednesday by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). The announcement followed a warm and friendly phone conversation between the two leaders.

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The shaky state of American Jewry  

Sarah N. Stern | Dec 9, 2025

To describe the state of American Jewry after the warm spring of the 1950s through the early 1970s is akin to watching a shriveled brown leaf fluttering aimlessly in the wind in the midst of a cold and bitter winter.

At mid-century, the images of the Holocaust and its aftermath were still seared into the consciousness of the American public. Today, young students and even congressional staffers I meet on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., dismiss it as “ancient history.” The moral memory that once anchored U.S. society has been steadily eroding.

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US Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast, President Trump Confirms  

Wallace White Defense Reporter | Daily Caller

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The U.S. seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday.

The tanker’s ownership and origin were not revealed, but Trump said the vessel was “very large” while speaking to reporters on Wednesday. The president did not offer the rationale behind the seizure during his remarks. “As you probably know, we’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela,” he said. “Large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized actually.”

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