By Sha’i ben-Tekoa | Am Thinker | Jan 27, 2025
On January 21, the Israeli media reported that the country’s Defense Minister Israel Katz paid a visit to the military command post in Samaria overseeing an IDF operation called “Iron Wall” in progress inside the Jenin “refugee camp” (and never mind there is no camp and the people there are not refugees).
Rabbi Herzog
A little from the quiver of “Azraq Al-Yamama.”
Mourning in Jordan. Hashemite tears. And orphans.
The Queen of Jordan is convinced that the black magic, which cost her millions, will protect her. This will not happen.
Peloni: The need for Judicial reform becomes ever more necessary and ever more obvious.
Appointment of new judges requires cooperation between Justice Min. and Supreme Court
Newly-elected Supreme Court President Isaac Amit seen after a meeting of the Committee for the Appointment of Judges in Jerusalem, January 26, 2025. (Photo: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Justice Minister Yariv Levin declared he won’t recognize the election of new Supreme Court president Isaac Amit and vowed not to cooperate with him, further endangering the functioning of Israel’s justice system that is already stretched thin.
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Netanyahu will meet President Trump at the White House next week, becoming the first foreign leader to visit since Trump took office – Walla News. https://t.co/v7ErQ2W4nE pic.twitter.com/Xnndxw9KFe
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) January 27, 2025
Peloni: Qatar should have no leverage over American political elites, and the fact that they do presents a certain challenge for the Trump administration as its Mid East Envoy, Witkoff, was seen in the negotition of Israel’s Surrender Deal with Hamas to show reverence of, rather than contempt for, the Qataris, who should have been the target of US rather than Israel.
by Michael Pregent | The Hill | Jan 22, 2025
An alliance with the U.S. — specifically, a Major Non-NATO alliance — was once the most highly coveted relationship a nation could earn, a sacrosanct pact of mutual importance. But one such alliance is now a liability for both the U.S. and its long-time allies.
Qatar, our oil-wealthy “ally” in the Persian Gulf, is funding and harboring terrorists that not only threaten American forces but are attacking long-standing American allies. Worse yet, Doha believes this terrorist/ally balance is protected because the country hosts the largest U.S. military base in the Middle East.
A U.S. base should give America leverage with the country hosting it — it should not give leverage to Iran, in the case of Iraq; and it should not give leverage to Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis in the case of Qatar.
Jerome Corsi | Am Thinker | Jan 26, 2025
The late Jimmy Carter didn’t come up spontaneously with the idea of giving away the Panama Canal, which America spent blood and gold on and which is an essential part of its national security. Instead, he had Robert A. Pastor, a communist, whispering in his ear.
Peloni: This is an encouraging report by Hassan.
I can see everyone absolutely having a meltdown over their perception of what could be the US’s policy towards Iran and suspected/alleged Qatari influence over Steve Witkoff. Many are focusing on a tiny piece(s) of the whole picture and are jumping to conclusions.
Yesterday in an X Space, I explained that things are hardly what they seem and that Trump’s policy towards Iran will be shaped largely by his relationship with his closest allies in the region, Saudi Arabia and Israel, among other elements, including the situation in the Horn of Africa and repercussions on global trade (link to the recording in the first comment).
Mudar Zahran Tweeted the Following:
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PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLING FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES IN JORDAN, JORDAN’S PALESTINIAN MAJORITY SEEMS TO LARGELY AGREE…
HERE’S A SECRET CABLE BY THE US EMBASSY IN JORDAN:
By Michael Odman | VGNI
News of Israel’s Achievements and Heartwarming Stories from the Jewish State.
In the 26th Jan 25 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
“Our maniac reaction to every reproach—to accept responsibility as a people for every action of a Jew, and to make excuses in front of everybody including hell knows who. We demand the right to have our own villains, exactly as other people have them.” — Ze’ev Jabotinsky, 1911.
To Herzi Halevi’s generation, a Palestinian state is an article of faith. These Jews, indeed, do have a Devil. To their parents’ generation, that Devil was Prime Minister Menachem Begin; to theirs, it is Bibi. If they are still around after Netanyahu is gone, then the next leader who stands between them and submission to the Arabs will be the next Devil. They have already identified him, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and are trying to head him off at the pass.But all this is still only at the level of religion/ideology. Beneath that level is where the real fight takes place: between the ruling elite, mostly Ashkenazi, on the one hand, and the closest thing to citizens-in-arms, the IDF ground forces and their reserves, mostly Sephardi and Mizrahi, and mostly residents of Judea and Samaria, on the other. Read more…
Peloni: Korybko offers an important context for Trump’s suspension of Foreign Developmental Aid
Andrew Korybko | Jan 25, 2025
American influence might rebound in the Global South since a large part of why many of these countries started turning away from the US since the start of the century was due to it violating their sovereignty by funding “NGOs” that meddle in their affairs.
One of the Executive Orders that Trump just signed suspends some foreign aid for 90 days, specifically “development assistance funds to foreign countries and implementing non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and contractors”, in order to assess their “efficiencies and consistency with US foreign policy”. It remains unclear at the time of writing whether the State Department’s subsequent “stop-work orders” will affect military aid to Ukraine so that possibility won’t be covered in this analysis.
Peloni: It is both unfair, but also unwise, to make such a comparison between Ukraine and Israel. The war in Ukraine should be ended, and it should have never begun, as a negotiated arrangement was always possible, and negotiations were in fact arranged a decade ago, even as the relevant parties in Ukraine and the West admit having betrayed the purpose of those negotiations, which ultimately led to war. Meanwhile, the war in Gaza should have been ended a decade ago when Hamas launched its attack upon Israel in 2015, or even a decade before that when Gaza became the terror enclave of Hamastan. as Schwaeber-Issan states, the border disputes in Ukraine are not what lies behind the onslaught of October 7, and if this war is not ended in Gaza, it will venture to foreign lands such as are taking root in Europe and America today. Critical reasoning should be capable of discerning these facts.
| All Israel News | January 26, 2025
Rescuers use an aerial lift to reach the floors of an apartment block damaged by a Russian drone attack in Vyshneve, Ukraine, January 25, 2025. (Photo: Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform/NurPhoto)
Perhaps, even more than sealing the southern border and solving the inflation problem, U.S. President Donald Trump longs to preside over a war-free administration, where no conflicts are threatening to pull America into the fray.
By Jonathan Feldstein
Recently, Elon Musk has been at the eye of a storm of accusations of antisemitism, making a gesture that was/may be the same as/similar to the Nazi-like “heil Hitler” salute.
Musk, the world’s richest person, owner of Tesla, SpaceX, PayPal, Twitter/X, and recently appointed Administrator of the US Department of Government Efficiency, made the gesture as a warmup act preceding President Trump’s public signing of numerous executive orders immediately following his inauguration. Musk’s making waves and headlines surrounded in controversy is not unprecedented, but rather than extinguishing the flames, he poured fuel on the fire.
By | Jan 25, 2025
The veteran journalist Ira Stoll has many times in the past held up for critical inspection the New York Times’ coverage of Israel and the Middle East which, he demonstrates, “is becoming increasingly unmoored from reality.” More from his latest philippic can be found here: “New York Times ‘Ceasefire’ Coverage Laments That Israel Will Exist,” by Ira Stoll, Algemeiner, January 23, 2025:
“Build housing in a different location where I think they could maybe live in peace for a change.”
Daniel Greenfield | Jan 26, 2025
The ‘Palestinians’ were a made-up people invented by Soviet propagandists during the Cold War. In reality, they’re Arab Muslim settlers, many of whom moved to Israel not that long ago. For example, the al-Husayni clan, who gave us Hitler’s Mufti and much of the ‘Palestinian’ Jihadist elite, moved to Israel in the 18th century. Yasser Arafat, the godfather of ‘Palestinianism’, came out of Egypt.
Peloni: In making this statement, Trump has made both a seismic shift in policy as well as the greatest single move ever towards achieving actual peace in the region. The Pals have been specifically and purposefully weaponized toward the rape, murder and pillaging of their Jewish neighbors, and the eradication of any remnant of the Jewish entity in the region. Furthermore, they have been programmed, at the expense of Western funding, towards the butchery of Jews in general, making their emigration to any nation with even a small community of Jews into a act of supporting savagery…which makes Jordan and Egypt ideal localities to which the Pals might be contained, either short term or (hopefully) long term, as expressed by Trump in his statements. Additionally, in moving to Jordan or Egypt, the Pals would find a like a minded population in these Israeli “peace” partner nations, which have seen fit to weaponize their own population with a similar programming of Jew Hatred, so the arriving Pals would represent little more than a similar sauce for the gander, so to speak. Hence, Gaza should be emptied of its so called ‘innocent’ population, who are routinely employed as both human shields as well as new recruits for the Hamas ranks. The forced containment of the population has been both an aberration of routine practices during war as well as a means by which Israel is routinely criticized for having to deal with the reality which has been leveraged against its defensive war with Hamas. The problem lies in the fact that Abdullah fears the Pals who he keeps in a constant state of subjugation and squalor. Additionally, the radicalized Pals living in Jordan and those coming from Gaza will need to be deradicalized, and Abdullah’s entire regime is tied to the radicalization of the Pals. What Trump needs is the Jordan Option.
VOA | Jan 25, 2025
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE —
President Donald Trump said Saturday he’d like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip — potentially moving out enough of the population to “just clean out” the war-torn area to create a virtual clean slate.
During a 20-minute question-and-answer session with reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday, Trump also said he’s ended his predecessor’s hold on sending 907-kilogram bombs to Israel. That lifts a pressure point that had been meant to reduce civilian casualties during Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza that is now halted by a tenuous ceasefire.
Peloni: I remember reading about Memoli 3 1/2 years ago, and his attempt to right the ship of insanity which had come from Project Warp Speed. The enthusiasm was of course short lived as his speech was barely covered in any of the Pravda state run media around the world. In fact, the outcome following his hushed outcry was to see the marshaling of all resources to push forward with even more determination to have more shots in every arm, the youth, the babies, and even the pregnant women included. We are now watching as unforeseen heart-attacks are now routine rather than rare, and obscure and unknown cancers are occurring with sudden onset and incredibly rapid growth as never experienced before. So, while it may seem that we should say better late than never to have someone such as Memoli leading the research arm of the American medical bureaucracies, it is highly disturbing to read about the new Stargate program which will advance as a Warp Speed 2.0, unleashing a new mRNA variant upon the world while still ignoring the harms and tragedies which were put in place following Warp Speed 1.0 . The injuries associated from the Covid shots are real, they are severe, and they need to be addressed as if the tragedies of the past might have a bearing upon the tragedies of the future. Indeed, where is RFK, and why is he speaking about matters, though material, are far less relevant to his efforts to prevent another disaster as followed the rollout of the Covid shots. Indeed, it would be refreshing to hear anyone speak about the elephant in the room, the adverse effects which seem should not be spoken, even as Warp Speed 2.0 is being brought online. Are we to only learn of the medical tragedies possible with this latest boondoggle to PHARMA after it has been unleashed on an unsuspecting public as was done back in Dec 2020? Perhaps Memoli could use his temporary position, tied to his reputation of being an honest advocate for rational dissent to speak about what the political appointees seem to be otherwise constrained from addressing at the moment.
By | Brownstone Institute | January 25, 2025
Part of the sweep of government in the first days of the Trump administration has been a freeze on communications. The explosion has hit the whole of public health bureaucracies, which Trump personally blames in part for the meltdown of his previous term of president in his last year. The pause in operations is designed to figure out exactly what is going on.
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