?BREAKING? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an address (in English) to the citizens of Iran: “Your tyrants invested more than 30 billion dollars in supporting Assad in Syria. After only 11 days of fighting, his regime collapsed into dust.” Listen ? pic.twitter.com/ZVVtxjcLOT

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) December 12, 2024

Sundance | Dec 13, 2024

The Office of the Inspector General for the DOJ (DOJ-OIG) has outlined an 88-page report on events around the January 6th, 2021, DC protest. The report is AVAILABLE HERE.

FBI Director Chris Wray announced his decision to resign from office one day before the Inspector General report was released. The report shows that 26 FBI Confidential Human Sources (CHSs) were used officially and unofficially during the J6 events. Four entered the Capitol building, another 13 entered the restricted area around the building.

[OIG REPORT HERE]

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Any Israeli alliances should include the restoration of a profoundly just, moral, and enduring pact with the Kurdish people, as in the days of Mustafa Barazani. Opinion.

Victor Sharpe | Dec 11, 2024

Kurd MilitantIsrale news   photo Creative Commons

Iran, Turkey, and Qatar have swiftly mobilized to falsely condemn Israel’s defensive operations in Syria following the overthrow of the Assad dictatorship. These three nations, notorious for their own troubling actions in Syria, are now hiding their own nefarious involvement in the region by predictably and falsely singling out Israel.

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The election of Donald Trump and the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria will compel a recalibration of recalibration of France’s past policies. Opinion.

Martin Sherman | Dec 13, 2024

Emmanuel Macron   Reuters

Often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself –Jean de La Fontaine

French President, Emmanuel Macron is facing trying times, and recent pronouncements by French officials appear only to exacerbate his unenviable situation.

As will be recalled, last week, the French government fell with a resounding thud that could well reverberate across Europe.

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Peloni:  One point which I would add to Glick’s important essay is that Israel’s ruling class is not merely acting out its own fantasy of never relinquishing its own source of power over the Israeli people, but that they are additionally acting upon the demands and designs being pushed upon them by the Obiden acolytes in Washington as the twilight of  power and influence emanating from these anti-Israel villains grow nigh.

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Today, perhaps, the main question is: what next? Opinion.

Alexander Maistrovoy | Dec 9, 2024

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After the blitzkrieg in Syria, the Sunni “jihadists” may not stop, and quite possibly will not stop. Appetite comes with eating, and rapid victorious campaigns very often become in history a prelude to new successful conquests.

This is exactly what happened with the Arabs themselves when, with extraordinary speed they captured Baghdad and Damascus in 750 C.E. and rushed in all directions: from Byzantium in the west to Iran, the Caucasus and Central Asia in the east and Egypt and North Africa in the south.

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Peloni: Haaretz is even more damaging to Israel than is the Qatari Al Jazera rag.  When foreign papers, politicians or activists attack Israel, they routinely cite the propaganda promoted and distributed from the Haaretz as a source of some weight given its prestigious history and relevance of it being an Israeli source.  The fact that it took October 7 to pass the legislation eliminating govt funding for this propaganda is both telling and regretful.

Ori Wertman | University of South Wales | December 11, 2024

Peloni:  The LAF and UNIFIL are each complicit in effecting Hezbollah’s control over Lebanon, and yet these two organizations are to be left to enforce this latest ceasefire?  Someone help make sense out of this nonsense.

CENTCOM Gen. Kurilla inspects withdrawal, meets with Lebanese army commanders

All Israel News Staff | December 12, 2024  

Israeli soldiers from the Golani Brigade and Armored Corps operating in Ayta ash Shab, in southern Lebanon, during Israeli military operations in southern Lebanon, October 21, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90

For the first time since the ceasefire in Lebanon took effect, Israeli troops on Wednesday began withdrawing from their positions in southern Lebanon, which were taken over by U.N. peacekeepers and troops of the Lebanese army.

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By Seth Frantzman | December 11, 2024

IDF soldiers from the Gaza Division uncover a tunnel in Gaza in early December. (IDF)

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) intercepted two projectiles fired from central Gaza on December 11. The IDF did not specify if the threats were rockets or mortars, but Israeli defense systems are capable of intercepting various types of projectiles. No sirens sounded in Israel as the attack appeared to target an open area, and Israel’s alarm system is fine-tuned to avoid unnecessary public alerts.

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Peloni:  Mudar explains that the speed and effectiveness of the fall of Assad was a result of it being a managed event in which the Great Powers of the world transferred its support from the pro-Iranian Assad govt to the anti-Iranian Syrian opposition forces, and that this will lead to a temporary situation which will be further resolved over the next four years.  Mudar also explains that this was just the first of many dominoes in the region which will fall over time, making the Middle East a less volatile region.  He further explains that the motivation for this change of interest among the Great Powers is to stop wasting military assets in a region whose continued conflicts have been largely manufactured for that effect, and to instead reserve these military assets to deal with the growing threat from China as or if needed.

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By Walter E. Block

Thank God for the Hezbollah truce violations in Lebanon. Ordinarily, I am not much of a fan of this terrorist organization, but fair is fair: when upon the rare occasion they do something positive, I compliment them upon it.

Yes, I full well acknowledge, superficially this seems like an awful thing to say. First of all, have I now switched my long-standing very pro-Israel stand? How else can I actually praise this terrorist organization of anything?

Secondly, a truce means a cessation of hostility, an end to fighting. War implies the death of innocent people. Therefore a truce, or a pause, or a cease fire, or peace for that matter, would appear to be a good thing; a very good thing. How can I, a peace-loving person, oppose this Hezbollah policy?

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Peloni:  Kedar provides an important detailed examination of the context, background and implications of the fall of Assad in Syria.  Highly recommended.

Dalia Ziada tweeted the following:

VERY IMPORTANT TO WATCH

The birth of pragmatic Political Jihadism in the Middle East

We are witnessing a critical shift in the history of the Middle East. What we are seeing today is similar to what happened in the 1980s after the Islamic Revolution took over Iran.

The… pic.twitter.com/ZJAM0uta8l

— Dalia Ziada – ????? ????? (@daliaziada) December 10, 2024

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Rebel leader Mohammad al-Jolani stated today: “Syria will not wage a new war with Israel. The country is not ready for another war. Our biggest threat is Hezbollah and the Iranian-backed Shiite militias in Syria.” – Osint613

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "If the new regime in Syria allows Iran to re-establish itself, or allows the transfer of Iranian weapons to Hezbollah – we will respond forcefully and we will exact a heavy price." pic.twitter.com/B5UTGCXoGN

— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) December 10, 2024

Sadly, many Jews today realize that governments aren’t protecting us and that we must stand up to Jew-haters.

Antisemitic mural in Milwaukee. Source: Screenshot.

Peter Mehler and Zechariah Mehler will walk into a Milwaukee courtroom on Dec. 12 and potentially face three years in prison for the crime of destroying a mural showing a swastika within the Star of David that read: “The irony of becoming what you once hated.”

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Dennis Ross is on television and in news articles offering unsolicited advice to Israel. But from 1993 to 1994, he was a source of hot air.

Moshe Phillips

Dennis Ross, a former U.S. Mideast envoy and peace negotiator, attends the Israeli Presidential Conference at the International Conference Centre in Jerusalem on May 14, 2008. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

[Moshe Phillips is national chairman of Americans For A Safe Israel (www.AFSI.org), a leading pro-Israel advocacy and education organization.]

As chaos envelops Syria—with one gang of terrorists overthrowing the other gang of terrorists who ran the government—the question needs to be asked: Can you imagine the danger Israel would now be facing if it had surrendered to U.S. demands in the 1990s to give up the Golan Heights?

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Peloni:  Natasha presents a brilliantly effective voice to the Oxford Union debate.

Peloni:  While the world celebrates Assad’s fall, Turkey steals a march in regards to its war against the Kurds

FDD | Dec 11, 2024

Latest Developments

• Turkish-Backed Forces Advance on SDF Territory: On November 30, the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) launched “Operation Dawn of Freedom” targeting the Manbij region with two main goals: disrupting supply lines controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and creating a corridor between the cities of al-Bab and Tel Rifaat, which the SNA captured on December 1.

• Manbij is Key to Turkey’s Ambitions in Syria: Manbij, the last SDF-controlled area west of the Euphrates, is key to Turkey’s goal of pushing the SDF eastward beyond the river to thereby enable the Syrian National Army to advance toward the city of Kobane on the Turkish border.

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