Strong Rumors: Rubio at State – Waltz as NatSec – Kash at CIA  

Sundance | November 11, 2024

If the basic story unfolding in Mar-a-Lago is to be believed, RFK JR, Elon Musk and a small group of technocrats and billionaires have become the ‘kitchen cabinet’ advisors putting the Trump administration together.  Rumors swirl that Melania Trump, Devin Nunes and Dan Scavino have checked out of the ridiculous “non-clown-car” hot mess until the dust settles.

Adding evidence to this possibility, the media are starting to report on some rather, well, shall we say, curious picks from the Mar-a-Lago transition group.

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November 12, 2024 | 7:46 am | 2 Comments »

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Trump Won Jewish Neighborhoods Across America  

Peloni:  This is very encouraging news.

The real facts about how Jews voted in 2024.

 by Daniel Greenfield | November 12, 2024

Trump won the largest Jewish county in the country, the only entirely Jewish town and village, and some of the densest, fastest growing and most Jewish neighborhoods in America.

Borough Park, Brooklyn is the densest Jewish neighborhood in the country. Its two square miles contain nearly 100,000 Jewish people in 23,000 households. 83% are married and only 2% are divorced. 96% are members of synagogues. This was where large crowds protested pandemic lockdowns, tearing down playground fences and burning masks.

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November 12, 2024 | 7:18 am | 3 Comments »

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Netanyahu slams media-led ‘witch hunt’ against his office after latest investigation announced  

Peloni:  When Lawfare is your only lever on power, your opponent’s every act appears as legally actionable, and as the saying goes, ‘For my friends, everything, but for my enemies, the law.”  After literally decades of leaks, there seems an unhinged interest in this one leak, even as the knowledge of the head of Mosad previously leaking plans to attack Iran a decade ago are still ignored.  Disingenuous alarm seems to be the new reality so long as it supports the toppling of a government willing to prosecute the war against the will of the American establishment and their Leftist allies in Jerusalem.

Prime minister calls media accusations of scandals ‘an additional front’ in the war

In a video announcement to various social media platforms, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Israeli media of organizing a “witch hunt” against his office during the middle of a war, weakening the state of Israel.

He described the media attacks as being “an additional front” in the war.

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November 12, 2024 | 12:10 am | 20 Comments »

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Trump Selects Pro-Israel Rep. Elise Stefanik as US Ambassador to UN  

Peloni:  An excellent choice!

A Staunch Ally for Israel Takes the Helm in Global Diplomacy.

Israfan.com | November 11, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed that Congresswoman Elise Stefanik will serve as his administration’s U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. The choice of Stefanik, a Republican representative and an outspoken advocate for Israel, signals Trump’s commitment to strengthening U.S.-Israel ties on the international stage. “Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter,” Trump told the New York Post.

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November 11, 2024 | 3:06 pm | 16 Comments »

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Jews Hunted in European Pogrom  

Jonathan Feldstein

A pogrom is a premeditated, organized, violent riot with the aim of threatening, intimidating, and massacring Jews, made common in late 19th and early 20th century Russia and Eastern Europe. Last week, in the continent best known for a genocide against the Jewish people less than a century ago, that’s exactly what happened again.

It’s ironic that the latest pogrom took place in the country made famous by Anne Frank whose family was initially hidden, but then turned in by another antisemites, and Righteous Gentiles like Corrie Ten Boom who put their own lives on the line to protect Jews, Jews are once again being hunted, and not protected by the authorities.

It’s ironic that the latest pogrom happened the week of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 Nazi pogrom throughout Germany, an event that was not only threatening to Jews, but a test the rest of the world failed by not speaking up and stopping the Nazis then. As a result, the Nazis understood they could implement their “final solution”, and nobody would rise up to protect the Jews. The latest pogrom is a similar test for the future of Europe.

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November 11, 2024 | 10:53 am | 6 Comments »

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America Reimaging, Modernizing and Restructuring of the Armed Forces  

MG Paul E Vallely | Nov 10, 2024

New Presidential Plan for 2025

 Armed Forces of America

Model One of Two

Developed by the Stand Up America US Foundation

Our dedicated team of seasoned military strategists and experts with a wealth of experience have crafted two models for the new President to consider when restructuring the Armed Forces of America.

Issues/Initiatives:

Eliminating the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a crucial step. This outdated structure provides no advanced command advisory capabilities to deal with current and future threats to America. It must be converted to a Command-driven military rather than an advisory/staff organization of the Armed Forces of America. This is not just critical; it’s urgent and cannot be ignored. Action will begin the week of January 20th after the inauguration. This is necessary to ensure the safety and security of our nation and eliminate all domestic and foreign threats to America.

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November 11, 2024 | 10:53 am | 4 Comments »

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Extraordinary opportunities call for extraordinary acts. Everything else is squander  

By ANJULI PANDAVAR9 Nov 2024

The man what done Soleimani is back!

Benjamin Kerstein, in his reflection on the Democratic Party’s defeat in the 2024 US Presidential election, observed that, “the Democrats thought they could appease the antisemites. What they could not or would not understand is that antisemitism cannot be appeased. It will accept nothing but genocide.” Kerstein is certainly correct. The implications of his insight go well beyond the autopsy currently underway over the corpse of Democratic electoral fantasies. If anti-Semitism, “will accept nothing but genocide,” then negotiation and compromise are irrelevant. Those who seek genocide will not stop until either they accomplish it, or they are, like the severed metallic hand of Terminator, or the putrid skeletal hand of a captive wight, destroyed utterly. The desire to kill all Jews on the conviction that they must all be killed is, of course, much older than the word anti-Semitism. For example, the idea is canonised in Islam’s notorious genocide hadith:

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November 11, 2024 | 8:34 am | 3 Comments »

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From Israel: More Than Just Very Ugly!!  

Peloni:  Bravo!  Arlene provides a masterful summary of the Amsterdam Pogrom from many directions.

Arlene Kushner, November 10, 2024

Israellycool

On Thursday night, there was a pogrom in Amsterdam. It was directed against some 3,000 Israelis who were in the city to cheer on the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team, which was playing against the Dutch team Ajax in a UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) Europa League match.
Masked assailants – Muslims, some shouting “Free Palestine” – brutally attacked the Israelis. It is the most serious attack – actually a series of attacks – on Jews since October 7 and is being called a pogrom because of its scope and virulence.

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November 11, 2024 | 12:20 am | 6 Comments »

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Deception 7: The Refugee Deception.  

Peloni:  Here is the 6th installment of Joseph Shellim’s 12 Deceptions, an excerpt from his important work, Philistine-To-Palestine.  We are posting one Deception each week, and  links to the previous installments can be found at the bottom.

Joseph Shellim

Jewish refugees fleeing persecution, murder and property confiscations in Arabia.

Who Are the Refugees? 
Are the Arabs or Jews the refugees of Palestine? This important question is well validated by history  and many Arab Muslim experts, yet both remain disregarded. The only refugees of Palestine reported  are of the Arabs, with no explanation how such a conclusion is arrived at. How can Arab Palestinians  be from other Arab countries that are not Palestinian, as claimed by an award-winning Arab Journalist:  

  • “Not only do the Arab countries despise the Palestinians; they also want them to be the problem of Israel alone. That is why since 1948, Arab governments have refused to allow Palestinians permanently  to settle in their countries and become equal citizens. Now these Arab countries are not only denying  Palestinians their basic rights, they are also killing and torturing them, and subjecting them to ethnic  cleansing.” – (Ethnic Cleansing of ‘Palestinians’ by Khaled Abu Toameh, an Arab Muslim and a  veteran award-winning journalist covering Palestinian affairs for nearly three decades, Senior Fellow at  the Gatestone Institute. Yonkers Tribune)  

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November 10, 2024 | 2:49 pm | 5 Comments »

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IDF preparing for long-term Gaza presence? Military increases control over the Netzarim Corridor  

Peloni:  Israel should maintain permanent security presence over all of Gaza and should also take the northern half or third of Gaza for Jewish settlement.  The only penalty which the Arabs recognize as penalizing is the loss of territory, and they must understand that the purposeful mutilation, slaughter, rape and kidnapping of Israeli citizens, as took place on October 7, will have penalizing effects.

Former reserve officer says plan is for limited military rule – ‘I don’t think Israel should live in Gaza’

Israeli soldiers patrolling along the Netzarim Corridor (Photo: IDF)

Reports in Hebrew news media indicate that the IDF is preparing for a long-term presence in the Gaza Strip, even after the end of the war.

The IDF has built up its presence and control of several key points in the Strip over the past few months in what analysts say is a preparation for a long-term military presence in the enclave after fighting has ended.

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November 10, 2024 | 2:30 pm | 7 Comments »

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Iran Grows Silent On Its Threats of Retaliation  

By | November 9, 2024

After the devastating Israeli attack on Iran on October 25, when IAF airstrikes destroyed Iran’s air defense systems, including all four of the Russian S-400 anti-missile defense systems that protected Tehran and all of Iran’s ballistic missile plants, the Iranians have been warning Israel to soon expect, as the Supreme Leader put it, “a crushing response.” To make its intentions clear to the world, the Iranian government put up a huge billboard in Tehran depicting “Teloshima” — a portmanteau word combining “Tel Aviv” and “Hiroshima” — to make sure Israel understood Iran’s nuclear threat. But it has been more than two weeks since the Israeli attack, and the Iranian regime has suddenly gone quiet.

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November 10, 2024 | 2:17 pm | 4 Comments »

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Media Lies About Muslim Street Violence Against Jews in Amsterdam  

The media is doing what it always does.

Daniel Greenfield | November 10, 2024

While most elected officials condemned the sustained Muslim street violence campaign against Jews (and anyone they thought was Jewish or at least non-Muslim in a given part of Amsterdam), the media quickly rushed into cover-up mode, describing it as ‘soccer hooliganism’ and a ‘clash’ involving ‘fans of an Israeli soccer team’ triggered by the burning of a PLO flag.

1. Soccer or ‘football’ was not the issue. It just created Jewish targets. This was a friendly match with a local soccer team that has a lot of Jewish fans. The Muslim mobs attacking Jews were not supporting the other team.

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November 10, 2024 | 2:12 pm | 1 Comment »

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Seeing the big overall picture  

Peloni:  As American efforts are focused on ceasefire and negotiations, Israel is faced with a choice of victory or returning to some version of the status quo.  The future will be an extension of which path will be pursued, and as Avivi notes, “It depends on our ability to persist and win.”  There can be no substitute for victory, though the costs will be painful to bear.

‘Absolute victory’ is closer than ever, and it’s worth the heavy price according to the chairman of IDSF, who also outlines the flourishing of Israel on the day after

Brig. Gen. (Res.) Amir Avivi |

Israeli flag in the Gaza Strip
(Photo: IDF)

The saying goes, “It’s always darkest before the dawn,” and right now, it feels like we are in that dark moment, awaiting the dawn. Certainly, the past year, and the past month in specific, have put us through deep darkness, with tears for the many fallen.

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November 10, 2024 | 9:09 am | 1 Comment »

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ISRAEL UPDATE: TRUMP IS IN; GALLANT IS OUT  

 

Peloni:  Great discussion of recent events covering Trump’s election, Gallant’s firing, as well as the emerging scandal and possible motivation surrounding a recent intelligence leak.

November 10, 2024 | 8:17 am | Comments »

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