Qatar’s Influence Over the West Must End  

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January 31, 2025 | 10:58 am | 5 Comments »

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Tulsi Gabbard ‘paid to mask connections’ to alleged pyramid scheme tied to her childhood Hindu sect  

Lawmakers have been scrutinizing Gabbard’s ties to the Science of Identity Foundation, according to the report

Rhian Lubin | Independent | Jan 29, 2025

Tulsi Gabbard’s campaign paid a firm to “mask connections” to an alleged pyramid scheme linked to a secretive sect she grew up in, according to a report.

The Senate Intelligence Committee is set to grill President Donald Trump’s pick to serve as director of national intelligence on Thursday over her questionable connections and background. Since she was named as nominee to the post, she has faced questions and pushback given her previous statements and her history with foreign nations.

Lawmakers have been scrutinizing Gabbard’s ties to the Science of Identity Foundation and the Hong Kong-based marketing firm QI Group, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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January 31, 2025 | 10:37 am | 2 Comments »

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Will Iran Drop a Nuclear Weapon on Israel?  

Peloni:  This article was written before Trump became president, but the arguments are still relevant and important.

By Walter E. Block

Will Iran Drop a Nuclear Weapon on Israel? The jury is still out on that one.

On the one hand, according to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: “No, we aren’t thinking about nuclear weapons. I have said many times that our nuclear weapon is this nation. Our nuclear weapons are these youths. We don’t want nuclear weapons. A state that has so many young believers and this unified nation doesn’t need nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons, their production, storage, and use, each has a problem. We have also expressed our religious opinion, which is clear, and everyone knows it.” He went on to say that that the “use” of nuclear arms is “haram” (forbidden).

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January 31, 2025 | 10:09 am | 5 Comments »

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The Holocaust Didn’t Really Change Anything  

Peloni:  Excellent article!

The real lessons are those we still haven’t learned.

By Daniel Greenfield | Jan 31, 2025

Philosophers, writers and thinkers insisted that the Holocaust was an inflection point in history, but it’s clearer now than ever before that it did not change history, it only accelerated it.

Israel was not, as politicians all too often insist, “born out of the ashes of the Holocaust.” It was born out of the blood, sweat and determination of a relatively small group of Zionists who defied the traditionalists and leftists in their own communities to go and rebuild their own homeland.

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January 31, 2025 | 8:48 am | 5 Comments »

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Dr. Ross of Do No Harm Reflects on Trump EO Protecting Minors from Harmful Sex Change Interventions  

Peloni:  While Trump’s EO puts an end to the abuses which have been suffered on children in the guise of medical intervention, those medical institutions, clinicians and school personnel who were responsible for subjecting children to these life scarring events without parental consent should be prosecuted for child abuse.

January 31, 2025 | 7:58 am | 1 Comment »

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Trump Vows to Deport Hamas-Supporting Students, Combat Antisemitism in America With Executive Order  

FDD | Jan 30, 2025

Latest Developments

  • Trump Signs Executive Order Combatting Antisemitism: President Donald Trump issued an executive order on January 29 to combat antisemitism, pledging to deport individuals who publicly supported Hamas following its October 7, 2023, atrocities in Israel. The order cites the “unprecedented wave of vile” antisemitism witnessed at American universities throughout 2024 and expands on the president’s previous order targeting antisemitism, which was issued in 2019 during his first term in office.
  • Order Seeks to Stem Hamas Support in United States: Trump’s latest order outlines a federal plan to quell what the administration called a “campaign of intimidation, vandalism, and violence” in support of Hamas throughout America in the wake of the October 7 attacks. Actions in the report include directing the attorney general “to aggressively prosecute terroristic threats, arson, vandalism, and violence against American Jews,” along with deporting “resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests,” to which Trump added, “we will find you, and we will deport you.” The president also vowed to “cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses.”

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January 31, 2025 | 4:43 am | Comments »

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Herzog gets a ‘wake-up’ call, but the rest of the left are sound asleep  

Palestinian statehood has become almost a religion in which no new developments will ever make those who support it reconsider their unshakeable, almost fanatical faith.

Moshe Phillips

Israeli President Isaac Herzog is backing away from his previous support for Palestinian statehood, saying that the Hamas-led assault in his country on Oct. 7, 2023, changed his thinking.

Speaking on Jan. 21 at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Herzog said he still favors “a political move forward on the Palestinian front,” but he pointedly did not repeat his longtime promotion of a Palestinian state. That’s significant.

Instead, he explained to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, a journalist and political commentator of an eponymous weekly Sunday-morning news show, afterwards that he needs to see real evidence that the hearts and minds of Palestinian Arabs have changed.

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January 31, 2025 | 12:20 am | 2 Comments »

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Trump’s Inauguration 2.0: Returning America to Sanity  

Peloni:  Great article!

Cherie Zaslawsky | Jan 30, 2025

On January 21st, 2025, California’s Silicon Valley residents awakened to a glorious morning—a bright blue sky with nary a trace of cloud or even chemtrail, just dazzling sunshine—and, for some of us, the indescribable happiness to know that the nightmare of the past four years is over at last, and Trump is our President once again.

Joy cometh in the morning!

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January 31, 2025 | 12:03 am | 1 Comment »

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We just witnessed the Supreme Court’s breathtaking hypocrisy  

Peloni:  As I have held since before Bibi won the last election, Judicial reform will be instituted in this election or the next.  It is a topic which will not pass from the public’s consciousness, because the whimsical use of arbitrary power as evidenced in the judgements of the court are what brought this matter to take root in the public’s consciousness in the first place, and the outrages which are forthcoming from the High Court will only increase as they feel the threat of public scrutiny or inspection…and the circumstances surrounding Justice Amit’s appointment clearly demonstrate this.

The Supreme Court has failed the most basic test of judiciousness, showing itself to be rash, tone-deaf, and ultimately unaccountable.

By DOUGLAS ALTABEF | JANUARY 30, 2025

JUSTICE MINISTER Yariv Levin and Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara attend a farewell ceremony for retiring acting Supreme Court president Uzi Vogelman, last October. Levin has been appropriately adamant that Justice Yitzhak Amit’s case should be investigated, the writer maintains.  (photo credit: OREN BEN HAKOON/FLASH90)

It is often said that wrongdoers ultimately trip themselves up. In that spirit, we have just seen a prime display of self-revelatory guilt with our Supreme Court’s handling, or rather, non-handling of the elevation of Justice Isaac Amit to president of the court.

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January 30, 2025 | 4:02 pm | 1 Comment »

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Trump Was Not Elected to Sound Retreat Voters Want “Peace Through Strength,” Not Defeatism  

by Frank J. Gaffney  • Gatestone Institute • January 28, 2025

The Trump 2.0 presidency is scarcely a week old and a number of political appointees who do not share the president’s agenda are now in key positions in his administration. President Donald J. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth – and our country – must not be represented, and undermined, by subordinates who disagree. Pictured: Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Hegseth (right) attend the 125th Army-Navy football game on December 14, 2024 in Landover, Maryland. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

  • The Trump 2.0 presidency is scarcely a week old and a number of political appointees who do not share the president’s agenda are now in key positions in his administration. An epic struggle, it seems, is already underway to subvert the Trump administration from within.

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January 30, 2025 | 3:29 pm | Comments »

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Trump and Gaza  

A new age now begins?

J.E. Dyer, a retired Naval Intelligence officer, blogs as The Optimistic Conservative | Jan 27, 2025

[I try to avoid using eye cues to call out significant points, but that’s the readiest way in this case to just get done the job of outlining a new way of thinking. – J.E.]

There’s no question President Trump disappointed a whole lot of people and lost a lot of momentum with some supporters when he appeared to knuckle under to a ceasefire-for-hostages plan as an operational interruption to the Gaza war.  It can’t help looking Biden-like.  It has the essential elements of what Biden had been incessantly pushing since the 10/7 attack:   ceasefire for its own sake, which everyone expects Hamas to duly break, as always; negotiating with terrorists for hostages, which invariably produces wildly disproportionate personnel exchanges; grand, vague, and misdirected posturing on “solutions” for “peace” and who should be in charge of directing the world at ramming speed to a “Palestinian state.”

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January 30, 2025 | 3:12 pm | 2 Comments »

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Hamas’ ‘terror theater’ is being conducted by Al Jazeera ‘journalist’ in Qatar – report  

Well-known Al Jazeera journalist proposed to orchestrate cynical release ceremonies

Four Israeli female soldiers are present as members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Hamas sign documents for exchanges under the ongoing Gaza ceasefire agreement in Gaza City, Gaza, on January 25, 2025. (Photo by Momen Faiz/NurPhoto)

Over the past few weeks, Hamas has elaborately orchestrated the hostage releases of the ceasefire’s first stage, using them as a show of force and to humiliate the hostages live on TV.

Now, i24 News revealed that Hamas hired a Qatar-based Al Jazeera journalist to professionally direct the hostage release ceremonies from afar.

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January 30, 2025 | 11:15 am | 1 Comment »

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The Problemsss with Mike Dimino  

Peloni:  Why is Mike DiMino in Trump’s White House?

January 30, 2025 | 11:00 am | Comments »

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R.I.P. UNRWA  

Jonathan Feldstein

UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees is set to go out of business this week, in Israel at least, none too soon. RIP.

From its inception in 1949, UNRWA has been a controversial organization, criticized for policies and actions that have harmed both Israel and Palestinian Arabs. In the wake of Israel’s war of Independence, UNRWA was ostensibly set up to provide humanitarian aid to Palestinian Arab refugees. Yet its unique and disturbing mandate and political entanglements have made it an obstacle to peace rather than a solution; perpetuating refugee status for people who should have been settled in the countries in which they are, making this the only ethnic group in the world among whom refugee status is inherited from generation to generation, fostering and even emboldening radicalization for future generations, and maintaining an unsustainable and dangerous status quo that ultimately harms both sides.

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January 30, 2025 | 10:51 am | 7 Comments »

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Analysis: Naim Qassem’s most defiant speech yet as Hezbollah secretary-general  

Peloni:  The Lebanese have no agency. They have no control over their own future. Like other nations, the power is concentrated in the hands of the powerful, and in Lebanon, the powerful are Hezbollah and their Shia backers, even though the Shia represent a minority within the country. This is where the power will forever reside in Lebanon, so long as the Mullahs reside in Iran and the West fails to act to eliminate their stranglehold over the Lebanese people.

By  | January 29, 202

Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem’s last speech, delivered on Monday, was his most defiant to date. Qassem spoke one day after the expiration of the November 27 Israel-Lebanon ceasefire deal’s 60-day timetable for the withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from south Lebanon.

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January 30, 2025 | 10:34 am | 2 Comments »

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Senior Al Jazeera Journalist Produced Hamas’ Hostage Release Ceremonies  

Eitan Fischberger tweeted the following:

Senior Al Jazeera Journalist Produced Hamas’ Hostage Release Ceremonies According to @BaruchYedid in an exposé for @i24NEWS_HE, the Qatari network’s Tamer Mishel produced the ceremonies as well as the recent documentary, “What is Hidden is Greater,” in which Al Jazeera aired exclusive footage of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar sneaking around Gaza like a rat.

Full transcript of the clip

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January 30, 2025 | 10:14 am | Comments »

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Qatar Seeks Nobel Peace Prize for Gaza Mediation Despite Enabling Hamas  

Peloni:  This is a disgusting caveat to the Surrender Deal.  The world is going to award the chief coordinator of terror with the Nobel Peace Prize.  Having coerced its influence over Trump’s envoy to manipulate the Israeli govt into concessions which will be devastating over the coming years, they are now to gain world renown for their influence peddling among Trump’s inner circle and call it peace making.

Natalie Ecanow | Jan 29, 2025

A Qatari diplomat recently suggested that the emir of Qatar deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the war in Gaza that Doha effectively abetted. In a statement to The Jerusalem Post, Qatar’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Sheikh Abdullah Al Thani, claimed that Qatar “played a pivotal role in ending the war” and that “in recognition of its sacrifices and leadership,” Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Sheikh Abdullah’s congratulations to his uncle are deceiving. Qatar has pumped upwards of $1 billion into Hamas-run Gaza, provided a haven for Hamas leaders and financiers, and legitimized Hamas propaganda on its state-owned media network Al Jazeera. Doha released a statement on October 7, 2023, holding “Israel alone responsible” for Hamas’s massacre. Yet despite its leverage over the terrorist group, Doha repeatedly failed to exert pressure on Hamas during months of negotiations.

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January 30, 2025 | 2:22 am | 4 Comments »

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CCP’s Insidious Plot to Undermine America (Part II)  

Tik Tok and REDnote – “Spiritual Fentanyl”

By MG Paul E Vallely MG, US Army (Ret) and The China Team | January 21, 2025

Although TikTok was only halted for a few hours on Jan. 19, 2025, the CCP had a chance to launch an intense anti-America combat on social media and traditional media. The massive hostile propaganda ruptured almost like a mini-cultural Revolution.

Hua Chunying, CCP’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs spoke out to warmly welcome American “Tik Tok refugees” to REDnote, stressing that “young people should have the freedom of making choices”. A CCP Youtuber announced in an assertive tone that “for certain, China will not compromise on Tik Tok because China is no longer a little brother to America. Today’s China is not Japan or South Korea. In fact, Tik Tok has become a focal point of the rivalries between two superpowers at an equal level.”

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January 30, 2025 | 2:07 am | 1 Comment »

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