Policies concerning refugees, foreign aid and ceasefires must be informed by the reality that a large segment of Gaza’s population supports a terror group.
Moshe Phillips
Leila Fadel on NPR’s Morning Edition on June 5 interviewed Graeme Groom, a British surgeon who worked recently at Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip. Groom’s comments were entirely one-sided and naive. “The current campaign is directed almost exclusively at the blameless and defenseless,” he said.
The outrageously false accusation that Israel is specifically targeting civilians echoes some of the darkest periods in Jewish history, when blood libels were a regular occurrence.
Peloni: The question remains how this strategy might advantage Israel’s ability to achieve a decisive victory and to facilitate Gazan emmigration. While the use of these clans might possibly advantage the former, it would seem to be counterintuitive to support the latter.
Critics assail Israel for employing a strategy the U.S. used in World War II, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed last week that Israel is arming local clans inside Gaza to fight Hamas. Critics immediately called the move dangerous and reckless. Former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman even claimed one of the groups receiving weapons has ties to ISIS.
I fought in Iraq and commanded U.S. soldiers on the streets of Baghdad, and I can tell you: This isn’t a desperate gamble. It’s a hard-learned, historically grounded strategy, and one of the most effective tools in asymmetric warfare.
“The networks organizing the EU’s migration policy wrap themselves in a humanitarian ambiguity that conceals their financial sources.”(Photo by DTRocks – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0)
The networks organizing the EU’s migration policy wrap themselves in a humanitarian ambiguity that conceals their financial sources.
Peloni: This is an important 13min video. In an interview by Elazar Shturm, Prof. Yaron Zelekha suggests that the Israeli Deep State is limited to the judiciary.
Zelekha also provides an important context for the insidious aspects of the power held by current select non-state power moguls who have the ability to limit and control the liberties of ordinary people, unlike any non-state actor in history. While it falls to govts, particularly the US govt, to regulate, control and limit this power, there can be no such governmental safeguard provided when these power barons join the govt. Indeed, as the term “public-private” has become an altogether routine description of joint enterprises between the govt and these power moguls in the private sector, individual liberties and personal enfranchisement are a necessary loser, as the interests of the govt are altered from being directed towards individual rights and liberties towards being towards the enterprises surrounding the public private enterprises. A notable example of this was to be seen in Operation Warp Speed, where the US govt adopted and protected the interests of Big Pharma over that of American citizens.
For over two decades, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stood virtually alone on the world stage, sounding the alarm about the threat of a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic of Iran.
He warned in countless speeches, briefings, and especially at the yearly United Nations forums, that a regime which openly calls for Israel’s annihilation, as Israel is the little satan with the USA the big satan, must never be allowed to possess the most dangerous weapons humanity has ever created.
Peloni: When political control is divorced from public consent, such politically insane tactics appear far less insane as it represents a turf war between factions.
Brit Hume appeared on Fox News Monday to criticize Democrats who oppose President Donald Trump and his decision to deploy U.S. forces to assist local law enforcement in the wake of the Los Angeles riots.
Peloni: The target in this war is grander than Israel, and more broad than the US, but these two nations, the so called little Satan and big Satan, respectively, are all that threatens the success of the barbarians. As corporations, individuals and nation states act to pretend that the outcome of this war will not affect them as they submit to the demands of the Islamists, they forget that submission is both the literal translation of Islam as well as the intent of the Jihadist war before them. Indeed, by deferring to the Islamists, these Westerners are in fact acting to solidify their own capitulation, and as they are acting to capitulate to barbarism, the consequences of doing so will be the abrogation of not only their own fate and liberty, but that of their successive generations as well. It is a time to fight or submit, and the consequences will be the inheritance of civliziation or its demise to the future, so choose carefully when attemting to not offend the Islamists as Howard discusses in this insightfully poignant essay.
Each time liberal Jews, police, media, universities, Jewish organizations, or Christians adjust their plans or their speech so as not to “offend” Islamists, we are one step closer to submission. The War has started and we are in danger of losing it.
Howard Rotberg |
What is the effect of the American and European, police, media, universities, et al deferring to masked, violent hateful young Islamists and Leftists by foolishly tolerating their breaking of laws (except for Trump’s refreshing calling a spade a spade)? What might be the effect on Israel’s long term security?
Recent poll sees former PM Naftali Bennett as leading candidate to replace Netanyahu
Israeli Knesset in 2021. Photo by Kobi Gideon / Government Press Office of Israel, CC BY-SA 3.0
With the government seemingly about to fall apart after an unusually long run, particularly amid the ongoing war, Israel’s political class is gearing up for new elections, which could be declared in the coming days and be set for the end of this year.
Peloni: Kelleigh provides an important review of significant issues contained within the Big Beautiful Bill. Using this as a guide might help Washington policy makers make wise decisions about revisions to the bill before passage.
By Kelleigh Nelson
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. Thomas Sowell
Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I’ve never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I’ve never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity. Arthur Laffer
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. James Madison
Peloni: In his first segment Mark raises the issue of amending the US Constitution. Mark explains that there is a top down process, where the proposed amendments are made by Congress to be ratified by the state, but there is also a process where the states make the proposed amendments, this latter process not having been previously invoked. Mark explains that the Congress has proven to be hopelessly useless in reigning in the debt, and that it falls to the American people to make the case before their state legislatures to gain support for a Constitutional Convention. What he doesn’t address, however, is that the Congress is empowered to choose the delegates to any Constitutional Convention formed, which would provide significant leverage for the Congress while using either process.
Early this morning the Israeli navy took control of the British-flagged yacht Madleen, emphasis on Mad, operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which was attempting to enter a war zone to give comfort adsupport to the genocidal death cult that invaded my country killing, torturing, raping, and kidnapping hundreds in including our elderly, girls, and babies.
A self-destructive step undertaken by US negotiators has been the assumption that negotiation with the Ayatollah regime (and any other terroristic regime) can be based on Western negotiation tactics.
Peloni: Both Israel and Russia have an interest in opposing the continued Turkish expansion in the region. Of course, coordination between Israel and Russia is not a new event, but in coordination to opposing Turkey it is both new, enlightening, and holds important implications going forward for not only Russia, Israel and Turkey, but for the US as well.
All riots are organized, and the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles, going on now, are no exception.
We’ve seen the pallets of bricks turn up, as they did in recent race riots:
None of this is organic. This is staged. Just like the BLM riots. You don’t get pallets of bricks showing up out of nowhere unless someone’s funding it.
This has deep state fingerprints all over it. CIA-level chaos. Sanctuary cities like LA didn’t just accidentally become… pic.twitter.com/tBdbOw5Dbo
Israel History War of Independence, 1948-1949 Photographs;Jaffa (Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel) Photographs. (Photo by Benno Rothenberg /Meitar Collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, CC BY 4.0)
The failure to place the blame and responsibility for the Palestinian refugee problem where it correctly belongs, on the Arab panic and during 1947-48, squarely on the divided and corrupt Arab leadership is easy to ascertain from eye witness accounts reporting internal intimidation, blackmail, arson, looting, and mass flight were and remain the norm in inter-Arab conflicts.