Peloni: Brilliant essay!
By Joan Swirsky, ©2025 | The Post & Email | April 5, 2025
King Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9).
The sun rises, and the sun goes down… all streams run to the sea… what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.
Peloni: As is true with most of what Trump has done since winning the election last November, China seems to be the underlying focus of much of Trumps policy efforts. While this video predates Trump’s Independence Day tariffs leveraged against most of the world, it speaks to Trumps motivation to reshuffle the world along a US vs China geopolitical reality, creating a members only arrangement with allies who are willing to comply with Trump’s demands. I am, however, not convinced that Canada will be among these as explained in the video below. Better informed opinions on the Canadian perspective would be most welcome.
Negotiations are a means but not always to the same end.
The White House is seriously considering indirect talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran, Axios reported on April 2. This follows President Trump’s March 5 letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in which the president warned of military action against Iran’s atomic infrastructure if the Islamic Republic failed to reach a nuclear deal within two months. Tehran initially said it rejected direct talks so long as it remains under maximum pressure sanctions but has since counteroffered with indirect talks via Oman.
Peloni: By failing to include Qatar in a bill proposed to eliminate foreign influence from adversaries on college campuses is just further evidence of the effectiveness and extent of Qatar’s influence in Washington. Their well documented funding of organizations behind the pro-Hamas protests on US campuses, let alone their funding of terrorism around the world, should have made their inclusion in this bill to be a primary focus and yet they are conspicuously absent from the legislation which has already passed thru the US House of Representatives, a clear mark of the influence which they wield over the power elites in the US.
Leaving Qatar Out of the DETERRENT Act Was a Mistake
“By omitting Qatar from the DETERRENT Act, Congress has essentially overlooked the covert influence Qatar wields in shaping American perceptions and policies.”
By @amineayoubx of @meforum https://t.co/DWbGNaiNI1
— Algemeiner (@Algemeiner) March 31, 2025
Peloni: Mike Doran and Gadi Taub discuss the invalidity of Qatargate in the first third of the video, followed by a discussion of Gadi’s fascinating interview with Netanyahu. In the final third of the video, 39min mark, they raise the topic of Turkey, in which Doran admits that he is more concerned than ever regarding a potential confrontation arising between Israel and Turkey. He notes that it is Ankara’s intention to make Syria into a Syrian base which Israel can not allow, while also point out that this is an important role to be addressed by the Trump Turkey policy, something which has yet to be formulated.
“Hamas has previously claimed that 70% of casualties have been women and children”
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Politicians and the media routinely quote Hamas casualty figures, usually attributing them to the Gaza ‘Ministry of Health’ or some other nonsensical facade for the terrorist group. And so when Hamas claimed that there were now 50,000 dead in Gaza, the media eagerly repeatedly those numbers.
By ANJULI PANDAVAR •
In the dying days of the Islamic State, Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, a cross between Goebbels and Soleimani, and the ISIS No.2, famously boasted, “We would be defeated and you victorious only if you were able to remove the Qur’an from Muslims’ hearts.” This week we saw Hamas playing the Qur’an-in-the-heart-of-Muslims card. A Muslim jihad organisation only does this when not just itself, but the entire ummah, is facing a shattering humiliation.
Peloni: Qatar is an enemy state. It must be recognized as such, but that will remain to be a near impossible feat so long as the US employs such Qatari sycophants as Steve Witkoff as its Mideast Envoy. Calls such as this need to be made more commonly, more vocally, and by more representatives of both Israel and the US.
At national security conference, Israeli minister urges action against Doha’s global influence.
Israfan | Apr 4, 2025
By Nizzan Cohen – Own work, CC BY 4.0 [Cropped]
Israeli Economy Minister Nir Barkat has called on the government to officially designate Qatar as a terror-supporting state, accusing the Gulf nation of being the world’s leading financier of terrorism. Barkat’s comments came during a keynote appearance at the Israel Defense and Security Forum’s “Year of Opportunity” National Security Conference, co-hosted by Channel 14.
The broader picture.
BARRY SHAW | Apr 04, 2025
Zvika Klein. By Israel Bardugo, CC BY-SA 4.0
As part of the Bar-Turgeman Shin Bet Qatargate intrigue intended to bring down Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Jerusalem Post editor, Zvika Klein was brought in for questioning and arrested by the police.
This is his harrowing public statement after his release;
Peloni: As the world has sat back demanding to know what the day after in Gaza would bring, they should have instead been contemplating what the day after in Iran would bring. The day in which the question regarding Iran’s future needs an answer may be fast approaching, and that answer will have reverberations most acutely affecting the regional Iranian proxies which might or might not still exist in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen, while also affecting the entire region and much of the world.
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | April 3, 2025
*Does US policy toward Iran refrain from – or repeat – past mistakes?
*The diplomatic option (negotiation and containment) is effective when conducted between parties, which consider negotiation as a step toward peaceful coexistence. However, as evidenced by its 46-year-old rogue track record (since toppling the pro-US Shah), the Ayatollah regime – just like ISIS, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, the PLO/PA and Hezbollah – has employed negotiation as a tactic to advance its aim to topple the “apostate” Sunni regimes and bring the “infidel” West to submission.
Peloni: The economic upheaval surrounding the tariffs will have a depleting effect on businesses around the world, leaving govts and businesses alike looking for opportunities to avoid or at least reduce the hardship which came with Trump’s “liberation day” announcement of reciprocal tariffs against friend and foe, alike. Such instability which is associated with such an economic policy of shock and awe as this is the worst thing for businesses, particularly for those which are struggling to remain out of the red. Trump would be well aware of this fact, and it is no doubt part of the calculus to bring whole industries to the shores of the US, while also bringing foreign govts to influence those companies which will remain abroad to direct their trade efforts towards reducing any disparities in trade balances, as exists between Israel and the US.
Finance Minister Smotrich says he’ll ‘study Trump’s order in depth’
By The White House from Washington, DC – President Trump Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Public Domain
The U.S. will impose a 17% tariff on Israeli imports, President Trump announced on Wednesday, as part of sweeping “reciprocal tariffs” reforms the administration declared on what it dubbed “Liberation Day.”
By Janatan Sayeh | April 3, 2025
231019-N-GF955-1113 RED SEA (Oct. 19, 2023) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) defeats a combination of Houthi missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles in the Red Sea, Oct. 19. Carney is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations to help ensure maritime security and stability in the Middle East region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron Lau)
Iran has ordered its military personnel to leave Yemen amidst the ongoing US bombing campaign in the country, The Telegraph reported on April 3. The newspaper’s source added that regime officials’ concerns over the Trump administration have eclipsed discussions on Tehran’s regional proxies, dominating every meeting and sidelining previous strategic priorities.
Peloni: The old conception made allowances for many bad actors, and among these was Qatar, which had bought a seat a the table thru its influence peddling among US polticos and agencies going back decades. The connection between Qatar and its associates in the West, not just Israel, need to be fully exposed, without regard for political interest. Unfortunately, as Avi explains, the toxic association with Qatar is being manipulated to once again try to destabilize Netanyahu’s govt.
How Peter Marks’ role in the COVID vaccine debacle exposed the flaws in America’s toxic health bureaucracy
A Midwestern Doctor | Apr 03, 2025
A frequent criticism of corporations (which I believe also applies to governmental bureaucracies) is that their organizational structure encourages sociopathic behavior. This is because members of these entities are shielded from legal or personal accountability for their actions, with any wrongdoings being attributed to the corporation as a whole. In contrast, the main form of accountability most members face is the pressure to advance the institution’s mission (e.g., make more money), leading to the proliferation of increasingly unethical methods to achieve that goal.
