DAILY SHMUTZ | COMMENTARY / OPINION | 1/31/25

COMMENTARY / OPINION

 

Douglas Murray: Gaza must reject terror of Hamas for war to end   By Douglas Murray

Jan. 31, 2025, 9:22 a.m. ET  New York Post – How do wars end?

There is a modern belief that they end around a negotiating table.

In fact, historically, most wars end by one side winning and the other side losing.

Critical to this is that the side that has won knows that it has won, and that the side that has lost knows that it has lost.

Which brings me to the Middle East.

Over the past 15 months, since Hamas invaded Israel and Hezbollah attacked from the north, Israel and its enemies have been in a full-on conflict. The Revolutionary Islamic Government in Iran has been funding and organizing a multi-pronged attack to destroy the Jewish state. And it has failed.

Now, as some Israeli hostages are being returned and an uneasy pause in hostilities continues, some people think that the war might be over.

But it is not — and it should not be.

Not just because the hostages — including the American hostages — ALL need to be returned home. And not just because Hamas still has an active presence in Gaza. As demonstrated by its sick publicity stunts while releasing some female hostages.

First American hostage, dad of youngest captive held in Gaza among next to be released by Hamas, terror group says

No — the reason why the war shouldn’t be over is because it cannot be over until the people who started the war have lost. And are forced to realize that they have lost.

That is why I was so encouraged this past week by comments from President Trump where he talked about clearing people from the Gaza Strip.

His comments have caused howls from around parts of the Arab world and some of the oh-so-progressive countries in Europe and elsewhere. Some of these people have pretended that Trump’s comments are somehow “genocidal.” As though saying that a population should move is somehow “ethnic cleansing” and much more.

But it is no such thing. Recommending that a population might move from where it is living is not the same thing as killing it. That should be obvious to anyone. More important is that his comments change the possible terms of the postwar landscape.

Hamas has ruled Gaza pretty much ever since Israel withdrew from it in 2005. Within living memory, the Strip was ruled by Egypt. But strangely enough, today the Egyptians do not want the Arabs in Gaza to be part of Egypt. Just as the Jordanians seem never to have wanted to welcome the Arabs who live in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank).

It is almost as though they know something that we do not. Which is that these are highly radical populations. Every country that has taken in the Palestinians — including their leadership — has always had terror come in their wake. That has been the case for Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, among others. The Arab and Muslim world that claims to support the Palestinians does not in fact care for them. They mostly distrust them.

And you can understand why.

Look at the way in which the Palestinians in Gaza voted for a known genocidal terrorist group to govern them. Look at the way in which they celebrated the attacks of October 7 just as they celebrated the 9/11 attacks on this country.

Look at the way that even now, mobs of Gazans and Hamas terrorists surround the terrified female hostages as they are released.

Palestinian terrorists serving life sentences for heinous crimes among 110 freed by Israel in cease-fire swap

Is there a chance that this population that so enjoys terrorizing Jewish girls could suddenly become a lovely, pluralistic group of people? I’d say not.

The best postwar plans that anyone has been able to come up with seem to include the Palestinians being allowed to start all over again in Gaza. Which means the same thing happening again and again.

It will take many years to rebuild Gaza, whoever is there. It will take years not just because of the devastation — which I have seen with my own eyes — but because to even start to rebuild the Gaza Strip, you would have to fill in the hundreds of miles of tunnels that Hamas used Western taxpayer money to construct all these years. There isn’t an area in Gaza that hasn’t got a tunnel system underneath it, built by Hamas to move around and store weapons in.

How long will it take to remove all the bombs and boobytraps that Hamas has stockpiled in Gaza? How long will it be before anyone could be persuaded to put money into the area?

And in the meantime, where should the population go?

Trump has floated the idea that the Gazans could go to Egypt or Jordan. But I would like to extend that offer. Why not offer them to Ireland, Canada, Pakistan, and all those other countries that profess to care so much for the Palestinians? If they want these terrorist supporters so much, why shouldn’t Dublin, Toronto and Islamabad benefit from their presence? I’m sure the Palestinians will help these countries boom. In their own traditional ways.

Perhaps at some point, they could return to Gaza when they have learned how to govern themselves or be governed by someone else.

But here’s the thing: The citizens of Gaza mainly supported Hamas when Hamas started a war to annihilate Israel. And while Hamas has mostly lost — it has not yet lost completely.

Yet it must lose — completely. And if that means that they are no longer allowed to live in their enclave of terror, then so be it. There is no law of war that says you are allowed to keep waging wars, keep losing them, and then be allowed to do it all over again.

In fact, if you start a war that you then lose, you usually also lose all or most of the territory you started it from. That is not only right, but the only language that these terrorists and their masters understand.

And isn´t it just the best possible rider that all those losers on American college campuses who supported Hamas might now have their student visas withdrawn and so see the consequences of their actions first-hand, perhaps for the first time in their lives.

It’ll be a learning curve and a life lesson.

The lesson being that there are consequences to backing the losers. And for being them.

[Ed.:  There is a faulty premiss to this naive and uninformed article. Gaza’s innocent civilians would never reject terror or Hamas, even if Trump told them to!  The writer touched on the correct solution, but his Bible mistranslated the 6th Commandment.  The term was ‘murder’ not ‘kill’.]

 

What If?   By Joan Swirsky

January 31, 2025  American Thinker – A few days ago, I took issue with the Doomsday Squad of prominent pearl-clutchers and naysayers — including Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, director of Jihad Watch and prolific author Robert Spencer, president of the Middle East Forum Daniel Pipes, prolific British writer Melanie Phillips, and the formidable Morton Klein of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) — all of whom condemned in the strongest language the ceasefire/hostage release deal that then-president-elect Donald Trump insisted on before his January 20, 2025 inauguration.

In fact, Mr. Trump had sent a threatening ultimatum to Hamas, letting them know that the consequences of their failure to comply with the deal that his envoy — lawyer and business mega-mogul Steve Witkoff — worked out would be the following: “There will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against Humanity.”

The then-president-elect concluded by warning that “those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!”

QUESTION

What if Mr. Biden had uttered these words on October 7, 2023?  Had promised to defend Israel with all possible resources, both monetary as well as the “hell to pay” power of the American military?

…and, as they did upon hearing Mr. Trump’s words about the hostages, the Hamas terrorist cult complied by backing off and ending their savagery?

And what if Mr. Biden had not inflicted an arms embargo on Israel, severely hurting the momentum of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in the middle of the genuinely existential war the tiny Jewish state has been waging against not one, but seven surrounding enemies — Hamas, Hezb’allah, Syrian groups, the Houthis, Yemen, Iran, and Iraqi groups?

What if he had been a true ally and unleashed those weapons, which President Trump  — to his credit — did release immediately after taking the oath of office?

More from the Paper Tigers

After the three young Israeli female hostages were released on January 19, Hamas once again demonstrated an inability to keep their word by changing the agreed-upon date to release the names of several other hostages, thus delaying their release.

But it took only a few words from American and Israeli commentators for the keffiyeh-camouflaged terrorists to back down, with one headline reading, “Scared of Trump?”

QUESTION

What if Mr. Biden had let it be known that changing the rules was unacceptable…big time?

Would those predictably glass-is-half-empty savants have wrung their hands in despair and written that the world is practically coming to an end?

Of course not.  Because what now-president Trump has flushed out over the past nine years —  since he and his wife Melania descended the escalator in Trump Tower — is the astounding numbers of weak-kneed politicians and commentators who are so afraid of the righteous assertion of power and the positive things it can bring about that they inevitably opt for and support the passive accommodators and apologists who have contaminated the political landscape for the last four years, as well as for the eight years that preceded President Trump’s first term.

Much more crucial is this question: if Mr. Biden had acted as President Trump has acted, would we today be 15 months away from a war that never happened?  With almost 900 fallen IDF soldiers still with us?  With the unspeakable horror of the hostages’ suffering never having taken place?

More from the Puppet President

Shortly before the election, President-Elect Trump spelled out to all college administrators, in language clear as crystal, what he planned to do immediately upon taking the oath of office about the metastasis of antisemitism on college campuses, a strategy designed to stop the harassment, bullying, and vicious criminal behavior clearly endorsed not only by professors and administrators, but by the rampaging mobs of racist students we have witnessed over the past four years.

“They will lose their accreditation and federal funding,” he said.

Translation: All these schools will lose the objective measure by outside agencies of quality and educational value, and also the loss of multi-multi-multimillions of dollars every year.

And the perpetrators, Mr. Trump continued, “will be found accountable and charged with violations of the Civil Rights laws.”

Well, whaddaya know?  Colleges are already complying!

QUESTION

What if Mr. Biden had made this simple announcement, instead of reflexively — and preposterously — warning our citizens of the dangers of Islamophobia?

Imagine sparing our nation all those months — all these past four years — of all that violence and damage and danger and, again, malevolent racism.

The List Goes On

The What If list is too long — at least a few doctoral theses in length — for a mere article.

What if Mr. Biden had done or said X, Y, Z?  Would we have been spared such astronomically high food and gas prices, or the luxury hotels in several sanctuary states being filled with illegal migrants for a reported $1-billion cost per city?

Would we have been spared the five wars — count ’em, in Darfur, Yemen, Myanmar, Ukraine, and Israel — that didn’t exist when Trump 45 was in office?

Most important, would we have been spared the violence, the grief, the bloodshed of the Hamas-Israeli War?

The Hatred of Jews and Israel on Steroids

Let’s figure it out.  Going back to Barack Obama’s eight-year regime, there was clearly a fetish with putting nuclear weapons in the hands of the Iranian mullahs — for peaceful purposes, of course.

All the Democrat powers-that-be at the time — and to this day — supported this plan, even though they had all read the Iranian Charter and Mission Statement, both of which stated that their number-one goal — their objective, their desire, their raison d’être — was to wipe the State of Israel off the map and to make sure that every last Jew on Earth was dead.

They also knew that Iran was the sponsor of the bands of criminals, thugs, and murderers that the United States of America has listed as terrorist groups — Hamas, Hezb’allah, and the Yemenite Houthis, which Mr. Biden took off the list and President Trump just put back on.

None of this mattered to the leftist radicals, who continued to believe — and who believe to this day — that nothing was more important than putting nuclear weapons in the hands of the arch-enemy of our faithful ally, Israel.

But when President Trump 45 posed severe sanctions against Iran, in essence bringing about a depressed economy, the threat toward Israel somewhat abated.

However, when Joe Biden occupied the Oval Office, he immediately lifted those punitive sanctions because, as stated, nothing is more important to the Democrat enemies of Israel than putting a nuclear threat in Israel’s backyard.

It is sad, actually tragic, as well as infuriating, to think what things might look like today if President Trump’s four-year sabbatical had never happened.

Joan Swirsky is a New York–based journalist and author.  Her website is www.joanswirsky.com, and she can be reached at joanswirsky@gmail.com.

 

Hamas Deal Puts U.S. Boots on the Ground   by Daniel Greenfield
January 31, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • The Biden administration rolled Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s envoy, into signing off on their deal to save Hamas…
  • Witkoff admitted to Fox News that he had done nothing but agree to the Biden administration’s May 27 protocol… and all he had done was to “speed up the process” by pressuring Israel into making every possible concession to Hamas. By getting Trump to accept the Biden deal, Witkoff and his allies in the Trump transition team, some of whom are associated with the pro-Iran Koch network, had also bound President Trump to a comprehensive nation-building project…
  • Trump is right to be skeptical. And he was right when he said: “You certainly can’t have the people that were there. Most of them are dead. But they didn’t exactly run it well. They run viciously and badly. You can’t have that.”
  • But the deal foisted on him by Biden, Qatar, Witkoff and his Koch network allies does just that. It saves Hamas and puts the terrorists back in power.
  • The Trump administration can exit the Biden deal and the sooner we do it, the easier it will be.
  • Any rebuilding will be to the benefit of Hamas. And will put billions into the pockets of Islamic terrorists, just the way that our reconstruction projects in Afghanistan financed the Taliban.
  • And having US veterans risking their lives to inspect terrorists moving around Gaza is senseless.

The Biden administration rolled Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s envoy, into signing off on their deal to save Hamas. By exiting the deal, Trump can demonstrate once again that America is no longer in the nation-building business: that we will not squander blood and treasure for globalist agendas.

American soldiers are headed to Gaza.

They’re not there to fight Islamic terrorists, but to secure the disastrous Biden deal that saved Hamas by monitoring and inspecting the Gazans traveling across the “Netzarim corridor.”

One of the companies is UG Solutions, founded by a former Special Forces veteran, which hires US military vets to provide security. Hiring veterans as contractors became a common practice during the War on Terror because it allowed politicians to avoid accountability for US casualties.

Hundreds of Americans were killed working as contractors in Iraq, including, in one of the most infamous incidents in the war, when four ex-Special Forces contractors working for Blackwater had their bodies dragged through the streets, were beaten, hacked and hanged from a bridge while the Arab Muslim mobs of men, women and children cheered. The scene played out again in Benghazi, when two former Navy SEALS working as CIA contractors were murdered.

How soon until it plays out in Gaza?

Bringing in veterans as contractors has been a longtime way to disguise “boots on the ground.” But the men in those boots are still veterans who believe they’re serving their country. And when they die, it’s Americans dying to carry out the policies of their Commander in Chief.

Gaza is every bit as dangerous as Fallujah, Iraq or Benghazi, Libya. One American soldier already died in Biden’s futile Gaza pier aid-delivery effort. This will be far more risky.

In 2003, Islamic terrorists bombed an American diplomatic convoy in Gaza, killing three security contractors, John Branchizio, Mark Parsons and John Martin Linde Jr. Branchizio was a former Navy SEAL, Linde, an ex-Marine and Parson’s family sued the Palestinian Authority which freed the terrorist murderers of the three men. Sadly, nothing was learned from their murders.

Reportedly, the ex-military and CIA operatives are already there and planning operations.

No matter how they’re disguised, American boots are back on the ground and the lives of American soldiers are being risked in a nation-building project to create a terror state.

As FrontPage Magazine already reported, the UN is estimating that it will take $50 billion to rebuild Gaza, with an estimated completion date of 2040. And it’s already set to put armed Americans on the ground to secure a nation-building operation that is doomed to fail.

So why are we doing it all over again?

The Biden administration rolled Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s envoy, into signing off on their deal to save Hamas and, by Phase 3, begin building a “Palestinian state” paid for and protected by us.

Witkoff admitted to Fox News that he had done nothing but agree to the Biden administration’s May 27 protocol, had nothing to do with “the mathematics behind the prisoner release and the hostage release” and all he had done was to “speed up the process” by pressuring Israel into making every possible concession to Hamas. By getting Trump to accept the Biden deal, Witkoff and his allies in the Trump transition team, some of whom are associated with the pro-Iran Koch network, had also bound President Trump to a comprehensive nation-building project that would force him to spend his whole second term rebuilding Gaza and put ex-soldiers on the ground to secure it.

At an event, Trump correctly said that he is “not confident” that the ceasefire will hold, described Gaza as “a massive demolition site,” and said that it would need to be “rebuilt in a different way.”

“Beautiful things could be done over there, fantastic things,” he suggested. And asked if he’ll help rebuild Gaza, Trump answered, “I might.”

And that would be a catastrophic mistake.

America should not be in the business of nation-building in Gaza or anywhere in the Muslim world.

Trump is right to be skeptical. And he was right when he said:

“You certainly can’t have the people that were there. Most of them are dead. But they didn’t exactly run it well. They run viciously and badly. You can’t have that.”

But the deal foisted on him by Biden, Qatar, Witkoff and his Koch network allies does just that. It saves Hamas and puts the terrorists back in power.

Any rebuilding will be to the benefit of Hamas. And will put billions into the pockets of Islamic terrorists, just the way that our reconstruction projects in Afghanistan financed the Taliban.

And having US veterans risking their lives to inspect terrorists moving around Gaza is senseless.

The Israelis have shown that they are more than capable of controlling the Netzarim corridor and securing Gaza. They don’t need us to do it for them. Hamas and its allies need that. And once Americans are on the ground, Hamas will attack us to regain control of the zones in Gaza.

The Biden trap for the Trump administration will have us spending blood and treasure in Gaza.

Our people will have the thankless job of replacing the Israelis to keep them away from Hamas. Not only won’t Hamas thank us for it, the terrorists will set traps for us, accuse us of attacking them, and then attack us. Just like it already happened in Afghanistan and Iraq.

We’ll be there to enable a “technocratic” unity front government negotiated by Hamas and the PLO under the aegis of Communist China and Russia at meetings in Beijing and Moscow.

Biden personnel have trapped the Trump administration into nation-building one more time.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. The Trump administration can exit the Biden deal and the sooner we do it, the easier it will be. Not a single American has to die, and not a single dollar should be spent on nation-building in Gaza. And won’t be if we exit the Biden deal.

No one in the Trump administration or the conservative movement should take ownership of the Biden deal. That’s falling into a trap that will assign them the blame for the deal when it falls apart. Witkoff admitted what we already knew. It was the Biden deal. It should end with him.

By exiting the deal, Trump can demonstrate once again that America is no longer in the nation-building business: that we will not squander blood and treasure for globalist agendas.

The Israelis do not need us or want us in Gaza. All they want is a free hand to finish off the terrorists. And when they do that, it will be one more global problem we don’t have to deal with.

The U.S. should have no “boots” or “sneakers” on the ground. After the murders of John Branchizio, Mark Parsons and John Martin Linde Jr, not one more American should die for Gaza. We don’t need to rebuild Gaza, inspect it or try to teach its people about democracy.

Let’s leave Gaza. Leave the Biden deal with Hamas. And leave “Palestinian” nation-building to those countries stupid enough to think that what failed since the early 90s will work now.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Reprinted by kind permission of the Center’s Front Page Magazine.

 

LAST EPISODE! What’s Next for Israel and the Jewish people  [39:18]   Caroline Glick

January 30, 2025  JNS TV – Goodbye for now, and thank you!

In this last episode of Caroline Glick’s In-Focus, Caroline takes stock of the last year and a half of Israel’s war for survival.

We’ll discuss where the war stands, where Israel stands and what awaits us on the eve of PM Netanyahu’s critical visit to Washington on Feb 4. Join us for this final podcast…until next time!

 

Author: Hostage Deal Continues Mistakes of October 7th   [52:08]

January 30, 2025  JNS TV |  Think Twice with Jonathan Tobin

After nearly 16 months of war, a critical and comprehensive look at what went wrong on October 7th is yet to be done. What really were the crucial mistakes made on October 7th? Is Israel poised to repeat the same mistakes in the future? Is the hostage deal pushing Israel in the wrong direction strategically and morally?

To discuss all this, Jonathan Tobin is joined by Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Seth Frantzman, author of the new book, The October 7th War, Israel’s Battle for Security in Gaza.

 

“Terrorists Do Not Worship God”: Revisiting Trump’s Call to Action in 2017   By Collin Mcmahon

Jan. 30, 2025 11:45 am

Trump’s Call to Arab Leaders: End the Muslim Desecration of God   [12:03]   Avi Abelow

In May 2017, President Donald Trump delivered one of the most powerful speeches of his presidency at the Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

An opinion piece by Israeli-American guest contributor Avi Abelow from Efrat, Judea.

“Terrorists do not worship God. They are a desecration to God’s name,” Donald Trump said in 2017, standing before leaders from across the Muslim world.

This wasn’t just a speech—it was a defining moment. Trump called out the ideological and moral corruption of terrorism for what it truly is: a perversion of faith and a blight on humanity. He urged the Arab and Muslim world to take responsibility for rooting out the evil in their midst, making it clear that the battle against terrorism must begin at home.

These words weren’t just for the Middle East. They carry immense significance for the United States. It’s time to apply this vision domestically and take a firm stand against radical Islamic ideologies that are spreading within America itself.

Time for Action in America

If President Trump’s words from Riyadh are to have real meaning, they must lead to local action. Muslim jihad, which supports and preaches about terrorism, has infiltrated communities and institutions in America, often under the guise of free speech and religious freedom. To protect the future of the country, President Trump must confront these threats head-on.

  1. Radical Imams
    America must expel imams who preach hatred, jihad, and the destruction of the West. These individuals are not spiritual leaders; they are recruiters for the global jihad. Allowing them to stay is a direct threat to American security and values.
  2. Shut Down Muslim Brotherhood Front Groups
    Organizations like CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) and the Muslim Students Association (MSA) have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group that openly seeks to undermine Western societies from within. These organizations are not harmless advocacy groups; they are part of a strategic effort to destabilize America’s democratic institutions while simultaneously supporting the destruction of Israel.
  3. Protect College Campuses
    American universities have become breeding grounds for radicalization, with groups like the MSA inciting anti-American, anti-Semitic, and anti-Israel hatred. These groups often mask their agenda under the banner of “human rights” or “social justice,” but their ultimate goal is to erode the foundations of Western society.

Trump’s Opportunity to Lead

President Trump has the opportunity to lead a moral and strategic revolution in how America deals with radical Islamic ideology. Just as he challenged Arab and Muslim leaders to “drive them out,” he can lead by example in the United States.

As he said in Riyadh: “Drive them out. Drive them out of your communities. Drive them out of your holy lands. Drive them out of this earth.”

This must begin with the deportation of radical imams and the dismantling of networks tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. These actions are not about targeting a religion—they are about protecting America from those who seek to destroy it from within and protecting those American Muslims who want nothing to do with the jihadi elements within their own religion.

The Qatar Factor: Not a Neutral Partner

For Trump’s vision to truly take hold, he and his team must stop treating Qatar as a neutral mediator and recognize it for what it is: the global head of the Muslim Brotherhood. Qatar is not only a state sponsor of Hamas but also a hub for radical Islamic ideologies that fuel terrorism worldwide. It funds extremist organizations, hosts the exiled leadership of Hamas, and uses platforms like Al Jazeera and Al-Jazeera Plus to spread Islamist propaganda.

By allowing Qatar to maintain its guise as a neutral partner, the U.S. is empowering the very forces Trump vowed to eradicate. If Trump is serious about defeating terrorism and protecting the freedom-loving world, he should hold Qatar accountable by ending its role as a mediator, cutting off its influence in American institutions, and forbidding all Qatar funding to US institutions and especially universities.

The Battle Between Good and Evil

The fight against terrorism is not just a physical battle; it is a battle of ideas. It is a fight between good and evil, between those who value life and those who glorify death. It is a battle that the freedom-loving people of the world must win.

President Trump’s speech in 2017 was a call to arms—not with weapons, but with the moral clarity to distinguish right from wrong. As we look to the future, let us pray that Trump remembers these words and takes the bold steps necessary to protect America and its allies.

Only by addressing the root of the problem—including state sponsors of jihad like Qatar—can Trump fulfill the moral clarity of his 2017 speech and truly safeguard America, Israel, and the world from radical Islamic terror.

A United Front

This fight is not just for America. It is for all freedom-loving nations, including Israel, the frontline against jihadist terror. By standing together and seeing President Trump take decisive action in the USA, we can ensure a safer, freer world for future generations.

Avi Abelow is an Israeli-American filmmaker and journalist living in Efrat, Judea. He is the host of the Pulse of Israel daily video/podcast and the CEO of 12Tribe Films Foundation.

 

Institute a Death Penalty for terrorists with blood on their hands   Rabbi Prof. Alan Friedlander

Repeat after me: ‘it is wrong to release unrepentant murders out onto the streets for any reason.’ We do not have to make that release possible. Opinion.

Jan 30, 2025, 9:30 AM (GMT+2)  Israel National NewsWhat a nightmare to watch the injustice of terrorists gaining freedom while the people they murdered lie in their graves. What a perversion that the release of hostages, an otherwise extremely holy act, is used to fuel such evil.

The last time Israel gave away so many terrorists to release an Israeli hostage, it included the mastermind of the October 7th massacre. What new risks to the people of Israel has the government of Israel negotiated itself into? If there had been an active death penalty for terrorists with blood on their hands, we would have been celebrating the release of hostages without worrying about the new potential dangers that lay in wait. It’s high time for such a law to be legislated by the Knesset.

Fourteen years ago I wrote that “When emotions no longer rule policy, lawmakers will face the need to do something to avoid this from ever happening again.” and “Repeat after me, ‘it is wrong to release unrepentant murders out onto the streets for any reason.'”

If there were only pro-terrorism advocates without blood on their hands in Israeli prisons before the Biden hostage exchange occurred, then there would have been less clear and present danger in their being sent back to Gaza to attempt to kill our citizens again. Furthermore, the October 7th massacre revealed a new and deeper-running cruelty on the street among many Gazans, so that the risk of attempted terror from this group of criminals is greater than from any criminal element ever released before.

Among the most basic concepts of criminal profiling is to deliberate over recidivistic tendencies. I am unsatisfied that this was sufficiently considered in this case.
Now the media quickly misuse heartwarming photos of those hostages being released and only talk about that, so that we can put all this out of our minds long enough to complete this circle of danger!! …I call this a misappropriation of hasbara for the wrong reasons.
These matters have long been known. These dangers have long been preventable. Multiple governmental administrations under different Prime Ministers have not fixed this. This is a systemic problem and must be repaired. It will take public outcry to motivate this change.
If your friend, even your very best friend, likes to drive while drunk, do not give him the keys to the car. Especially if he wants to give you a lift. If he is sober at the moment, but has the same philosophy of driving drunk being some kind of a legitimate option, and he also has a bottle of liquor within his reach, you should still not trust him behind the steering wheel. Similarly, we should not put this temptation upon future governments to have to deal with. Once there is no new supply of murderers sitting in jail waiting or the PLO to potentially upgrade their roster, there will be no more kidnappings to fuel their release. This nightmare will be over, permanently.

Practically speaking, it’s time to admit, the risk of kidnapping is not going to go away unless and until a real peace solution is fully in place. If an Israeli government would consider the legislation suggested here, the following is a vital point: Include a clause that requires swift fulfillment of the order of execution. Closing potential appeal processes within a matter of days or weeks, not months or years, keeps such a law a practical deterrence of hostage takings. Otherwise there would be a fresh supply of terrorists with blood on their hands potentially motivating more kidnappings.

If the government will not protect the people (Likud,) and another government elected will not protect the people (Bennett / Lapid,) then it is time to cry out to Heaven for help. The need is urgent. The intent of government of most parties is to not recognize this as an important value.

But God is our King, and He can intervene, and will if we but ask Him to. Despite God’s plan of freewill for humanity, we may ask him to intervene in such circumstances, to preserve civilization, as it says, “A king’s heart is like rivulets of water in the Lord’s hand; wherever He wishes, He turns it.” (Proverbs 21:1) & “Israel shall be saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation; you shall neither be ashamed nor disgraced to all eternity. For so said the Lord, the Creator of heaven, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, He established it; He did not create it for a waste, He formed it to be inhabited, “I am the Lord and there is no other.” (Isaiah 45:17 & 18)
Let’s encourage the habitation of the land by proving that those who come to the Holy Land can do so through a reassurance of safety, and ensure the long life of those who live there by a reassurance of justice.
May the government recognize the need to protect their citizens and act accordingly in an appropriate manner. May it soon by so, by the grace of God.

Rabbi Prof. Alan Friedlander is a former Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Touro College in New York.

 

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:

January 29, 2025

The Zionist Organization of America strongly criticizes the mostly far-left wing Jewish groups who sent a letter to President Trump opposing deporting unvetted criminal aliens even though this morally necessary action protects Americans and American Jews from potential acts of violence, rape and murder. These groups, from the Reform, Conservative and Reconstruction movements to J Street, Truah, Bend the Arc, HIAS, NCJW and JCRCs are dangerously opposing an important moral Jewish and American value. The ZOA strongly supports President Trump’s policy on illegal aliens, many of whom come from countries whose people and government are hostile to the Jewish State and are frequently antisemitic.

As ZOA has often explained, “Pikuach Nefesh” – preserving life – is a preeminent Jewish value, which trumps most other Jewish laws. The Torah commands: “Take heed and carefully guard your lives.” (Deuteronomy 4:9 and 4:15). Before his death, Moses blessed the Jewish people with a prayer for strong borders “sealed like iron and copper” to enable the people to live “securely” into healthy “old age.” (Deuteronomy 33:25, 28.)

Furthermore, keeping all Americans safe is “Job One” of a responsible U.S. president.

The need to deport unvetted criminal aliens is especially pressing in light of the rampant violent antisemitism on American college campuses and streets, much of it carried out by Jew-hating foreigners, Islamists and foreign students. On our campuses, Jewish students have been attacked with bottles, jabbed in the eye with a flagpole, blocked from attending classes and from walking across college quads, hit in the head with a megaphone (breaking the Jewish student’s nose) and confronted with daily calls to “globalize the Intifada” – meaning, to kill every Jew. (See ZOA letter to Attny Gen’l Garland et al describing multiple incidents.) As Eli Wiesel proclaimed, “If they say they want to kill you, believe them!”

No rational reading of Jewish law places foreign attackers’ freedom from deportation above the safety of our students, or above the lives of future Laken Rileys, a nursing student murdered by an unvetted criminal illegal alien.

Jews continue to be the most vulnerable religious group in the nation. The recent (2023) FBI data reveals that 67.8% of religion-based hate crimes targeted Jews.

It is thus downright dangerous that a group of far-left extremist Jewish organizations (J Street; T’ruah; Bend the Arc, etc.), accompanied by groups such as left wing HIAS (a resettlement agency which receives huge government grants to settle immigrants, legal and illegal – now disproportionately Muslims, whom polls show are mostly antisemitic) into the U.S., the left wing Union of Reform Judaism (URJ), far-left Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, the Left/Center Conservative Judaism Movement’s Rabbinical Assembly, left wing National Council of Jewish Women (many of these groups defended the Israel-bashing, antisemitic, violent, Black Lives Matter organization as “the civil rights movement of our time”) and eight cities’ mostly left wing JCRCs, signed a letter wrongly accusing the Trump administration of planning “widespread persecution of immigrants.” Removing unvetted illegal immigrants who pose a danger to Americans is not “persecution of immigrants.”

 

Trump’s New Gaza Plan ROCKS Deep State    [47:56]

January 28, 2025  JNS TV – Is it time for Gazans to kick rocks and head to Egypt? U.S. President Donald Trump certainly thinks his plan might bring lasting peace to the Middle East. JNS senior contributing editor Caroline Glick will discuss the latest proposal from the White House on this episode of “In-Focus!”

Also, learn what’s happening behind the scenes in the ongoing drama surrounding the war that the Israeli left has been waging against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; the latest hostage release; and Gazans returning to the northern Strip.

 

The unbelievable double standard   Avi Abelow

Instead of Witkoff pressuring Hamas, Iran, Qatar, and Egypt, who were all complicit in the October 7 atrocities, the pressure was placed on Israel. While Trump expels terror supporters from the US, Israel is forced to release terrorists into our midst.  Opinion.

Jan 28, 2025, 6:10 PM (GMT+2)  Israel National NewsThe Israeli government recently revealed the disturbing fact that released hostages Romi, Emily, and Doron were held in United Nations shelters in Gaza, structures meant to house the homeless Gaza civilians.

This sheds light on the troubling reality that many have tried to get the world to see for months, if not years: the United Nations and its agencies, particularly UNRWA, have been complicit in the actions of Hamas. Despite overwhelming evidence that UNRWA employs Hamas operatives, stores weapons in its schools, hospitals, and offices, and now shelters Israeli hostages taken in a massacre, the UN refuses to hold Hamas accountable. The silence and inaction betray the very principles the UN claims to stand for—peace and security.

A Call for Accountability

The United Nations has long been biased against Israel, but this latest revelation is beyond the pale. UNRWA, funded heavily by Western nations, including the United States, has been directly connected to the horrors of October 7. From employing Hamas terrorists to turning a blind eye as its facilities are used for terror operations, UNRWA is not a neutral humanitarian organization. It is a tool for those who seek to harm Israel.

The Western world, particularly the United States, must wake up to the reality that appeasing or ignoring these transgressions does not buy peace; it emboldens evil. The US withholding funding from UNRWA is not enough. Europe continues to fund UNRWA, and the United Nations itself is complicit in its evil ways. The lack of accountability for the UN and its agencies sends a dangerous message: supporting terror works, they can continue supporting terror, and there are no consequences to force them to stop.

Israel: Alone Yet Essential

Time and time again, Israel has faced its battles alone. The United States did not begin

providing aid or weapons to Israel until after Israel miraculously won the Six-Day War in 1967.

Since then, the international community has never allowed Israel to win a war. On the contrary, it has forced us to give back hard-won land to our aggressors.

This isn’t new, but it’s a stark reminder that we must rely on our own strength, determination, and resilience. Yes, we have allies, but their interests often differ from ours.

The ceasefire deal that Trump’s Middle East envoy Steven Witkoff pressured Netanyahu to agree to highlights this harsh reality. Instead of pressuring Hamas, Iran, Qatar, and Egypt, who were all complicit in the October 7 atrocities, the pressure was placed on Israel.

As Trump prepares to expel illegal immigrants and terror supporters from the United States to protect American citizens, he is feeling proud about a deal that pressured Israel to release thousands of Hamas terrorists back into our midst, endangering the lives of all Israeli citizens.

This double standard is staggering. This not only emboldens Hamas but also sends the wrong message: terror pays.

This approach is not only immoral but also strategically flawed. Whenever a U.S. administration pressures Israel to appease our enemies, it empowers those same enemies to target American citizens as well. Islamic jihadists do not differentiate between Jews in Israel and Americans in New York or Los Angeles. They view all freedom-loving people as their adversaries.

A Global Frontline

Israel is not just defending itself—it is the frontline of the freedom-loving world. The war against Islamic jihad is not confined to the Middle East. Its ideologies and operatives have reached American and European shores. The decisions made regarding Israel’s security should be viewed as decisions impacting the security of the United States and its allies.

For this reason, American policymakers must approach Israel’s security with the same

seriousness and urgency they would if American citizens were under attack. The partnership between Israel and the U.S. should not be about Israel conceding to misguided diplomatic strategies but about standing together against a common enemy.

Moving Forward

Ultimately, Israel’s victory is a victory for all who cherish freedom and justice. The lessons from October 7 and the UN’s complicity must galvanize not just Israel but all of our allies to take a stronger, more united stand against terror. We cannot afford anything less.

Avi Abelow is the host of the Pulse of Israel daily video/podcast and the CEO of 12Tribe Films Foundation.

 

Damning Evidence on Ms. Tulsi – Cults, Communism, Corruption   By Kelleigh Nelson

January 28th, 2025

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide. “Foreign Policy Drains U.S. of Main Weapon,”  —The Los Angeles times, Sept. 9, 1962, G2

In communist terminology “world peace” simply means an absence of resistance to world Marxist-Leninist domination. What would the CPUSA do if the United States got into a full-scale military confrontation with China?  —Trevor Loudon

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.  —Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propagandist

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.  —Marcus Tullius Cicero

Is there a difference between socialism and communism?  Not really.  Karl Marx, who remains the most prominent writer on the subject, used either term interchangeably, following the same convention as many other authors.

Former Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), nominated for Director of National Intelligence (DNI), has a history with this country’s most influential Marxist group, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).  She began moving to the left long ago and in 2017 and was a paid-up member of the openly socialist Bernie Sanders Congressional Progressive Caucus.  Here is their list of members.

The Progressive Caucus is now almost 100 members strong or 40% of the Democrat caucus.  They promote the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, higher taxes, greater union power, illegal immigration amnesty and all of the DSA/CPUSA goals.

The DSA and Communist Party USA (CPUSA) have collaborated for decades and share some cross-membership.  Their policy positions are almost identical.  The socialist moniker DSA sounds more innocuous, and makes it easier to infiltrate churches, the Democrat Party and other organizations.

In 2015, the DSA boasted around 6,000 members nationwide, but after Trump’s 2016 campaign and the leftist backlash against him, the DSA has grown to 56,000 comrades.

Here is the list of congressional socialists, going all the way back to 1843 with the son of Robert Owens, Democrat Representative Robert Dale Owens from Indiana. Robert Owens Sr. emigrated to America in 1824 and put most of his fortune in an experimental socialistic community at New Harmony, Indiana, as a preliminary for his utopian society.

In 2016, Tulsi Gabbard endorsed Bernie Sanders for president.  She addressed “The People’s Summit” in Chicago and communicated several socialist talking points. Over 3,000 people attended including senior figures from the CPUSA.

Sanders spent four years at the University of Chicago where he joined the Young Peoples Socialist League, the youth wing of the Socialist Party USA.  He also worked for the communist led United Packinghouse Workers Union.  As a Vietnam protestor, he became active in the Liberty Union’s program which included nationalizing all US banks, public ownership of all utilities, ending compulsory education and establishing a worker-controlled government. In 1980 Sanders endorsed communist Andrew Pulley for president of Liberty Union.  Pulley was a member of the pro-Cuba Socialist Workers Party.

Sanders married his wife Jane in the Soviet Union and had a Soviet flag hanging in his mayoral office in Burlington, Vermont.

Tulsi also became a Fellow of the Sanders Institute with DSA Members Cornel West and Michael Lighty.

Gabbard introduced the Off-Fossil Fuels for a Better Future Act (H.R. 3671) with co-sponsors, comrades Barbara Lee, Jamie Raskin, Ted Lieu, Keith Ellison and others.  Our Revolution endorsed the move.  Our Revolution is run by former campaign workers and supporters of former socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. The goal is to support socialist candidates for office at all levels.

In December of 2018, Gabbard endorsed the DSA backed Green New Deal.  She willingly spread anti-capitalist, climate change, and peace propaganda for her DSA comrades.

She has heralded continued support of the Two-State Solution, and refused to support the censure of anti-Semite Ilhan Omar.  Tulsi supported policies that weakened Israel and Saudi Arabia while strengthening our enemies.

Gabbard also supports FISA-702 and warrantless searches in order to get confirmed as Director of National Intelligence.  It is abusive and unconstitutional. The Deep State will most likely easily confirm Kash Patel as FBI Director.  Patel is a big believer in the value of FISA-702, as is Speaker Mike Johnson, never mind 4th Amendment privacy protections for American citizens.  Congress exempted themselves and their staff, but not the American people. FISA-702 is the door to the AI surveillance system with Peter Thiel’s Palantir providing the AI facial recognition software.

Both left and right have backed Gabbard’s policies of foreign non-intervention including her support and defense of Russian allied leader Bashar al-Assad, intervention of the Russian backed Venezuelan president Maduro, and her calls for engagement with the Russian backed North Korea.  She has worked to defend these countries from US pressure.

Her fellow comrades are many. Dennis Kucinich and Gabbard sojourned to Syria.  The trip was funded and financed by the Arab American Community Center for Economic and Social Services in Ohio.  Kucinich has been involved with the pro-Moscow CPUSA for nearly 50 years.  As Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, he was closely allied with the Stalinists of the CPUSA who had significant influence in Cleveland.  Kucinich even endorsed Ohio Communist Party chairman, Rick Nagin in 2009 when he ran and won a seat on the Cleveland City Council.  Nagin endorsed Gabbard for President in 2019.

Gabbard’s ties to the DSA are significant.

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President Trump, Beware of Middle East Reality   Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger

January 28, 2025

*Ending wars and terrorism is a noble aspiration, which confronts the reality of NO intra-Muslim peaceful coexistence during the last 14 centuries. In fact, since 1948, intra-Muslim wars have featured a toll of mega-million fatalities (e.g., 3 million killed during two civil wars in the Sudan, 3 million during the Pakistan-Bangladesh war, over 1 million during the Afghan civil war, close to 1 million Syrians killed by Hafiz and Bashar Assad, 1 million killed during Iran-Iraq war, 350,000 in Yemen’s civil wars, etc.) compared with some 130,000 Arabs killed in Arab wars against Israel.

*Ending wars and terrorism must contend with the 14-century-old reality of intra-Muslim unpredictability, violent intolerance, ethnic and religious fragmentation, despotism, tenuous regimes-policies-accords, intrinsic terror and subversion. Not an “Arab Spring,’ but an “Arab Tsunami!”

*Ending wars and defeating terrorism mandates a regime-change in Iran, which has become the chief global epicenter of anti-US terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering and proliferation of advanced military systems all the way to Latin America and the US homeland.

*46 years of the US diplomatic option, and 40 years of US and UN economic sanctions (including crippling maximum pressure sanctions), have failed to moderate Iran; in fact, bolstering its anti-US capabilities. Economic sanctions are relatively ineffective when imposed on fanatical, apocalyptic regimes, and in view of the litany of financial, trade and diplomatic ways to bypass sanctions through third parties, which oppose sanctions.  Moreover, as documented by the Biden Administration, economic sanctions are reversible by a succeeding President. In fact, Iran’s defiance of economic sanctions has enhanced its strategic posture, regionally and globally.

*Iran’s regime-change would remove the Ayatollahs’ machete from the throats of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and all other pro-US Arab regimes, reducing regional and global violence. It would expand the Abraham Accords to Saudi Arabia, Oman and possibly Kuwait, Indonesia and additional Muslim countries.

*Ending wars and defeating terrorism requires recognition of the central role played by the 1,400-year-old fanatical, religious and imperialistic ideologies/visions, which transcend financial and diplomatic benefits. Fanatical, religious and megalomaniacal ideologies have driven Shiite terrorists (e.g., Iran’s Ayatollahs, Hezbollah and the Houthis) and Sunni terrorists (e.g., the Muslim Brotherhood and its branches, such as Hamas), mandating them to bring “apostates” and “infidels” to submission.

*Money talks in Western societies, but fanatical ideologies walk when it comes to Iran, Hezbollah, ISIS, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and the PLO (Palestinian Authority), as documented in their foundational charters, school curriculum, mosque sermons, official media, public monuments and financial support of terrorists’ families.

*Ending wars and defeating terrorism is preconditioned upon the realization that school curriculum is the most effective production-line of terrorists, and the most authentic reflection of rogue entities’ strategy/vision. School curriculum transcends moderate statements shared with the West. These statements represent the art of Taqiyya (dissimulation), which aims to mislead and overcome the “infidel” West.

*In the Middle East, one does not pay custom on words. Western preoccupation with (the comforting) moderate Middle Eastern talk, tends to obscure the (inconvenient and frustrating) Middle Eastern walk, that is frequently the reverse of the talk. For example, US emissaries to the Middle East are exposed to a barrage of pro-Palestinian Arab talk, while the Arab walk on the Palestinian issue has been (since 1948) anywhere from indifferent to negative. Thus, the six Israel-Arab peace treaties were not preconditioned upon the establishment of a Palestinian state.
*Contrary to Western policy makers, pro-US Arabs are preoccupied with the intra-Arab Palestinian walk, which has transformed the Palestinian into a role model of intra-Arab terrorism and treachery (e.g., Palestinian-Muslim Brotherhood terrorism in Egypt in the 1950s, Syria – 1960s, Jordan – 1970, Lebanon – 1970-1982, Kuwait – 1990). Arabs are aware of the systematic alignment of Palestinians with radical global entities, such as Nazi Germany, the Soviet Bloc, Ayatollah Khomeini, international terrorism, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, China and Russia. The Palestinian track record has convinced the pro-US Arab regimes that a Palestinian state would add fuel to the Middle East fire, toppling Jordan’s pro-US Hashemite regime, transforming Jordan into an uncontrollable entity and another platform of Islamic terrorism. It would undermine the stability of the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt and all pro-US oil-producing Arabian Peninsula regimes, benefiting Iran’s Ayatollahs (who may gain control of 48% of global oil reserves), the Muslim Brotherhood, Russia and China; thus, dealing a blow to Western trade, economy and homeland security.

*Middle East reality has documented that the Palestinian issue is NOT the crux of the Arab-Israeli conflict, NOT a core cause of Middle East turbulence and NOT a crown-jewel of Arab policy makers.

*Ending wars and terrorism, on the one hand, and snatching Hamas and Hezbollah from the jaws of obliteration, on the other hand, constitutes an oxymoron, which allows terrorists to recuperate, and plan the next wave of terror.

*Minimizing wars and terrorism, on the one hand, and disengaging from the Middle East (the chief epicenter of anti-US Islamic terrorism), on the other hand, is a contradiction in terms. While the US may wish to disengage itself from the bases of Islamic terrorism, Islamic terrorists do not intend to disengage from the US. Would the US prefer to fight Islamic terrorism in the terrorists’ trenches, or in the US trenches (e.g., NYC, San Bernardino, Orlando, etc.)?!

*Negotiation and deal-making are perceived by the West as a step toward reconciliation, but for terrorists it is a step toward regrouping and bringing the Western “infidel” and the “Great American Satan” to submission.

*As comforting as a hand-shake with Middle East terrorists (and their supporters) may be, President Trump is surely aware that Leopards don’t change their spots; only their tactics!

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Victor Davis Hanson: California—New Wildfires, Same Faces   [VIDEO 6:24]

January 27, 2025  The Daily Signal – Over 10,000 homes destroyed, and $50-$100 billion in damages as California battles another explosive wildfire. Find out why nothing has changed and who’s accountable:

“The estimate of the damage is somewhere now between, perhaps, $50 and $100 billion, and we don’t have enough homes for the people who were left. But here’s my point, nothing has really changed. Karen Bass is still the mayor. The deputy mayor, Brian Williams, is still under house arrest, or he’s under investigation for phoning in a bomb threat.”

“And we still have this mysterious thing, don’t we? Who causes these fires? It’s taboo. You cannot mention the word homeless, but there are no lightning strikes. There are no other exegesis that might explain why these things keep happening. But you do have tens of thousands of homeless people spread all over the L.A. area, of 18 million people, many of them in the hills that camp out. So, my point is, we now have another fire.”

“So, my point is, the perfect storm of water mismanagement, timber mismanagement, insurance mismanagement, civic government mismanagement, the role of DEI—they’re all in place.”

For Victor’s latest thoughts, go to: https://victorhanson.com/

00:00 Fire Crisis Update

00:13 Leadership and Accountability Issues

02:27 Current Fire Situation: Hughes Fire

02:49 Water and Resource Mismanagement

04:31 Future Outlook and Solutions

05:37 Conclusion: How the Left Want to Rebuild Los Angeles

 

YUGE UPDATE: President Trump Asks, “How About Just No Tax, Period?”    2ND SMARTEST GUY IN THE WORLD

Trump just called for Congress to abolish the income tax.

JAN 27, 2025 – Another day, another speech by President Trump exposing the destructive fraud that is “income” taxation in a followup speech reinforcing what he said just a few days prior…

BREAKING: President Trump Asks, “How About Just No Tax, Period?”     2ND SMARTEST GUY IN THE WORLD

JAN 25, 2025

Readers of this Substack appreciate that “income” taxation is one of the more pernicious social engineering scams leveraged under color of law and threat of State violence…

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…and so today Trump is calling for Congress to abolish the income tax; to wit:

America is going to be very rich again, and it’s gonna happen very quickly.

It’s time for the United States to return to the system that made us richer and more powerful than ever before.

Do you know, the United States in 1870 to 1913 — all tariffs — and that was the richest period in the history of the United States relatively speaking; in other words, relatively.

And they set up the great tariff commission of 1887, and this commission had one function: what to do with all the money that we took in.

[…]

We had no income tax. The income tax came in in 1913.

As I said in my speech last week: instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations we should be tariffing and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens.

Does that make sense? I think so.

It makes perfect sense to honor the Constitution, the law of the land, common law and natural rights and end this most abominable social engineering thievery and finally allow We the People to keep all of the fruits of our labors for ourselves, our families, and our communities.

There may be some economic turbulence when the External Revenue Service (or the great tariff commission of 2025) replaces the Internal Revenue Service, as inflation may briefly spike, but readers of this Substack appreciate that the true source of all inflation is money printing, and the central planning conjurers of profligate fiat out of thin air over at the Federal Reserve need to be eradicated along with the IRS in order to smooth out any potential price swings from said tariffing, and ultimately restore true free markets to America again.

Tariffs can go well past eleven so long as the stealing of “income” under egregious color of law is permanently halted.

Foreign goods that have tariffs levied upon them may not be purchased in favor of domestically produced products that are tariff-free, and so price increases may be circumnavigated if one so chooses, unlike the statist blackmail that is “voluntary” IRS “compliance” as enforced by the perennial threat of mobster-like State violence.

As this Substack had written previously, misguided and ruinous Operation Warp Speed notwithstanding, if President Trump does in fact manage to do away with both the IRS and the Fed, then he may very well go down as one of the greatest figures in American history…

They want you dead.

Do NOT comply.

 

Supreme Court Scandal: Netanyahu Must Dismantle Israel’s Deep State Like Trump  [16:11]   Avi Abelow

January 23, 2025 – Israel’s deep state is right now being exposed like never before, right at the top, the Supreme Court.

Despite the fact that Israel’s establishment media is totally ignoring the magnitude of the story, thanks to Israel’s growing alternative media, more and more Israelis are learning about how rotten Israel’s justice system is, from the top.  Do not miss this episode to better understand what is going on. We need Netanyahu to make the necessary changes and dismantle our deep state as President Trump is now doing in the USA.

 

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SHOCKING VIEW ON THE CURRENT CEASEFIRE WILL LEAVE YOU SPEECHLESS   by Phil Schneider

January 23, 2025 – “Phenomenal Potential” in Gaza. That’s right. That is what President Trump sees in the future of Gaza. What he means to not say but is clearly pondering is an idea that would turn the entire area of Gaza into some kind of a tourist site that would be put together either by a federation of Arab countries or by Israel. What President Trump is rather clearly indicating though is that he sees no point or logic at all in allowing Hamas terrorists to run things in Gaza any longer. It is rather refreshing to have a President who believes that terrorists should be punished and not rewarded with Land to continue their terror activities.

But before making any decisions about how to rebuild the coastline of southwest Israel, Israel’s leadership should make one principled decision that they any place that is used as a platform to bomb Israel from will be turned into part of the State of Israel. There is simply no more effective way to insure that the attacks stop. But when terrorists know that every time they lift a weapon, load a missile onto a launcher, or dig a tunnel, they are deciding to hand over that location to the State of Israel, the attacks will stop.

This is a more effective plan than building ten foot or twenty foot walls. Anyone who decides to be a terrorist needs to know that with their decision they are renouncing their basic rights. The only thing they should be entitled to is a lawyer to defend them in a court of law when they face conviction. Anyone who democratically decides to be part of a terrorist group should be killed by a democratically elected entity that decides to prioritize life over death. This is what is called healthy logic defeating progressive thinking.

Many people across the world, especially in California are waking up to understand the ramifications on the ground of woke ideas on rights, gender, and equality. Woke ideas lead directly to scorched earth policies, child mutilation, and support of terrorists. That is the true intersectionality that needs to be exposed for what it is. Donald Trump is an odd choice to be the agent of change who says it like it is. But these days, he is the #1 person who is saying it like it is about where woke policies lead the world. Gaza and California are two examples of woke ideas gone mad that lead to devastating consequences. The sooner these policies are reversed, the sooner the world will move towards sanity and throw out the insane policies that have led to destruction.

 

Things are hardly what they seem   Khaled Hassan

January 27, 2025 ISRAPUNDIT Khaled Hassan tweeted the following:

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).

I also explained that it was likely that Saudi investments, above $500 billion, were going to have a huge influence over his Iran policy and wider MENA policy, and that it’s likely Trump’s first overseas visit would be to Saudi Arabia (this was before the Saudis publicly announced that they were going to invest that amount: it was confirmed within a couple of hours after I made this statement).

Take a deep breath. Saudi Arabia will make sure Qatar has almost no influence over Trump. Qatar is negligible in comparison with the ties Trump, and his administration, have with Saudi Arabia.

Now that I have your attention, I’d like to throw around a couple of predictions (without going into details for reasons I’d rather not explain here):

– The ceasefire with Hamas and Hezbollah will collapse.
– The US and Israel will strike Iran.
– The US will get a few very interesting things done in the Horn of Africa.

[Ed.:  Always look to the organ grinder, not his monkey.]

 

Qatar’s ‘Day After’ Plan for Gaza: Keeping Hamas in Power   by Khaled Abu Toameh
January 27, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • Qatar wants the Palestinian Authority (PA) government to collect the garbage, rebuild destroyed houses, and pay salaries to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, while Hamas is busy rearming, regrouping and getting ready for the next attack on Israel.
  • [T]he PA government in Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinians in the West Bank, decided to suspend the broadcasts of the Qatar-owned Al-Jazeera television for supporting and promoting Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups. Israel and some Arab states had also shut down the broadcasts for the same reason.
  • The Qataris do not want the PA in the Gaza Strip to rein in Hamas and other terrorist groups, or to prevent attacks against Israel. Instead, they want the PA to act as a front to maintain Hamas’s hold on power — as a cover for keeping Hamas in power.
  • Qatar has one main purpose: to safeguard its friends in Hamas, continue promoting radical Islam, and deceive Westerners into believing that the Jihadists are a better alternative to the Arab world’s present regimes. Whether the new US administration will be as gullible as other Westerners in trusting Qatar remains to be seen.

Why does Qatar, the largest funder and sponsor of Hamas, have such a strong desire to restore the Palestinian Authority (PA) to the Gaza Strip? To guarantee Hamas’s continued domination of the Gaza Strip.

Qatar has no problem with the PA, which was expelled from the Gaza Strip by Hamas in 2007, taking up its duties there again as long as Hamas is permitted to maintain its grasp on power and preserve its security and military forces and capabilities.

Qatar wants the PA government to collect the garbage, rebuild destroyed houses, and pay salaries to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, while Hamas is busy rearming, regrouping and getting ready for the next attack on Israel.

Hamas has sustained enormous losses since the beginning of the war it started on October 7, 2023, when thousands of its terrorists and “ordinary” Palestinians invaded Israel, murdering 1,200 Israelis, wounding thousands, and kidnapping more than 250 others. The Qataris seem to realize that Hamas cannot undertake the task of rebuilding the Gaza Strip on its own. They also seem to understand that the international community will not agree to transfer funds to the Gaza Strip through Hamas. Qatar needs the PA in the Gaza Strip to facilitate the flow of millions of dollars in Western aid. The aid anyway should be supervised by international parties and donors, including the US, to make sure it is not stolen.

Two days after the announcement of the ceasefire-hostage agreement between Israel and Hamas, Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Abdulrahman Al Thani said that Doha hopes for the return of the PA to the Gaza Strip. Lasting peace in the Gaza Strip, he added, depends on Israel and Hamas showing good faith: “If they proceed in good faith, this will continue, and hopefully lead to a permanent ceasefire.”

This statement by the Qatari official, whose country has long supported and hosted the leaders of the terrorist group, was not made out of affection for the PA. Qatar’s financial and political backing of Hamas has caused tensions between the PA and Qatar over the past two decades. PA officials have frequently criticized Qatar for backing their rivals in Hamas.

Earlier this month, the PA-Qatar crisis reached its peak when the PA government in Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinians in the West Bank, decided to suspend the broadcasts of the Qatar-owned Al-Jazeera television for supporting and promoting Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups. Israel and some Arab states had also shut down the broadcasts for the same reason.

According to a recent investigative report by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI):

“Among the Islamist terrorist organizations that Qatar and Al-Jazeera have supported over the years are the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Hezbollah, the Al-Nusra Front/ Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham, ISIS, Hamas, and even the Shiite proxies in Yemen, Ansar Allah (the Houthis)…”

If the Palestinian Authority is allowed to operate in the Gaza Strip while Hamas is still in power, another slaughter of Israelis, most likely worse than the October 7 carnage, will occur. The Qataris do not want the PA in the Gaza Strip to rein in Hamas and other terrorist groups, or to prevent attacks against Israel. Instead, they want the PA to act as a front to maintain Hamas’s hold on power — as a cover for keeping Hamas in power. That is the main reason Qatar has refrained from calling on Hamas to cede control over the Gaza Strip in the wake of the catastrophe the terrorist group brought on the two million residents there.

If it truly cared about the safety and well-being of the Palestinians, Qatar would have stopped supporting Hamas and insisted that the terrorist group relinquish control of the Gaza Strip. After all these years, however, Qatar chose to do the exact opposite. Hamas was able to expand and strengthen its hold on the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip thanks to Qatar’s political and financial backing.

If Qatar truly cared about the Palestinians, it would not have allowed Al-Jazeera to act as a mouthpiece for Hamas and other Jihadist groups responsible for the death of thousands of Israelis and Palestinians.

Qatar has one main purpose: to safeguard its friends in Hamas, continue promoting radical Islam, and deceive Westerners into believing that the Jihadists are a better alternative to the Arab world’s present regimes. Whether the new US administration will be as gullible as other Westerners in trusting Qatar remains to be seen.

Khaled Abu Toameh is an award-winning journalist based in Jerusalem.

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Victor Davis Hanson: President Donald J. Trump and the Fate of the United States   [VIDEO  1:16:42]   Robinson Erhardt

Jan 26, 2025  Full Episodes

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00:00 Introduction

00:53 Victor’s Biggest Worries For Donald Trump’s Presidency

10:53 Should Donald Trump and the United States Annex Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal?

17:53 Are the CIA and FBI More Damaging to the United States than Donald Trump?

25:33 The Ideological Disease that Caused the California Wildfire Disaster

32:13 The Real Reason People Hate Donald Trump

45:16 Did California Elites Cause the Los Angeles Wildfire Disaster?

54:41 Does Donald Trump Have an Incompetent Cabinet?

1:04:45 Who’s More Competent? Blue Collar Americans or Bicoastal Elites?

1:07:07 Is China Trump’s Biggest Challenge?

1:11:44 Will the Middle East Finally See Peace Under Trump?

Victor Davis Hanson is a renowned classicist, military historian, and political commentator. He is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Among numerous other awards, Victor was presented with the National Humanities Medal in 2007. Victor most recently appeared on episode #231, which came out just before the 2024 election, and where he made a case to vote for Donald Trump. In this episode, Robinson and Victor discuss the results of the election and President Trump’s inauguration. More particularly, they talk about the biggest challenges he will face as president, the class- and culture war in the United States, Trump’s rhetorical abilities, the California wildfires, and geopolitics, including our relationships with China, Canada, Russia, and the Middle East. Keep up with Victor on Twitter, through his website, and on his podcast, The Victor Davis Hanson Show.

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The Only People You Are Allowed and Encouraged to Hate   CHANANYA WEISSMAN

Then you complain when the goyim do the same with you

JAN 27, 2025

Big expensive billboards (paid for by whom?) have been put up across Israel declaring that “the draft evasion law is sticking a knife in the back of the fighters”. This is in reference to a proposed law that would facilitate yeshiva students being exempt from Israel Death Factory servitude (a.k.a “IDF service”).

You know what’s really a knife in the back of fighters?

Getting upwards of 20,000 Jewish soldiers maimed and killed in Gaza, ostensibly for the sake of freeing hostages, then making absurdly lopsided “deals” anyway that all but guarantee we’ll do this rodeo again. That’s a knife in the back.

Proclaiming over and over that “victory” means the utter defeat of Hamas, then freeing thousands of Hamas fighters that you paid so bitterly to capture, and admitting that Hamas somehow replenished all their losses in the “war”. That’s a knife in the back.

Misleading religious Zionist suckers that they were fighting to resettle land they’d previously been evicted from, then cynically having them capture a target and pull back, over and over again like a yo-yo — each time paying with blood and limbs. That’s a knife in the back.

Ordering Jews into death traps, threatening them with all sorts of persecution if they refuse, while pretending there was a justifiable operational objective and it needed to be done specifically this way. That’s a knife in the back.

Prosecuting Jewish fighters for not being gentle enough with their enemies, a favor that is never returned when the shoe is on the other foot. That’s a knife in the back.

Raising taxes even more, ostensibly to pay for the war, driving even more people on the brink of poverty into the abyss. Meanwhile, Jewish soldiers needed worldwide fundraising to be fed and outfitted with the basics, while Gaza/Hamas got truckloads of supplies from Israel every day for free. That’s a knife in the back.

Doing all this and more, then conditioning these pitiful brainwashed suckers to direct all their anger at yeshiva students instead. They’re the enemy. They’re the existential threat. It’s all their fault. Hate them with all you’ve got.

And you take the bait, too, blaming yeshiva students for all the above and more. If only they paid more taxes. If only they received fewer benefits (or none at all!). If only they “sacrificed” like you. If only they all just left the country. If only they would just die. Then it would all be better.

And it drives you crazy that the goyim irrationally blame everything on you and hate you no matter what. You bemoan the unreasonable double standards, the obsession with hating you like no one else, the twisting of reality to always portray you as the villain, the lumping of everyone into one box, the insane justifications when people commit atrocities against you, and so much more.

You shower everyone with love and tolerance, slavishly yearning for their friendship and support, but the Jew who looks different and thinks differently and doesn’t sacrifice his body and soul for your false god — you’re consumed with hatred for him, especially for him, only for him.

And that’s why you get stabbed in the front.

 

Welfare fraud racket   TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS

JAN 26, 2025

Did you know that the head of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) isn’t a Lutheran OR a Christian at all? She’s a progressive Communist (atheist) who used to work for Obama & Hillary at the State Department and as Michelle Obama’s policy director? In other words, all these “refugee resettlement” operations that pretend to be organizations of faith are false prophets.

They renamed LIRS as “Global Refuge” to further confuse people.

CHARLIE KIRK: “Allow me to explain how the government sanctioned so-called refugee resettlement “non-profits” really work.

These are large companies that make more money from taxpayers the more “refugees” the government lets in. It’s another cog in the mass migration racket. They build in margins for each refugee they resettle, so when we stop admitting people, so does their financing. This represents an existential crisis for them.

So they misrepresent the scriptures, and they emotionally blackmail Americans on Sunday shows and in op-eds to gin up controversy and sob stories to game the refugee programs against our national interests. It’s a financial racket that Trump just slammed shut. We will not be manipulated anymore.”

The Lutheran Refugee Resettlement agency (LIRS) hired a progressive Democrat, non-Lutheran, and Michelle Obama’s former policy Director, as its President in 2019. That tells you all you need to know.

The ELCA’s Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS) is one of the largest refugee resettlement agencies in the United States along with Catholic Charities. It was originally founded in 1939 and partners with other resettlement organizations across the country – including some of the largest ones in the Twin Cities and St. Cloud – in Minnesota.

These resettlement “charities” make over $6,000 profit per “refugee” they resettle in America. It’s a huge profit center. President Trump’s previous policies, including limiting migration from nations that sponsor terror, have put a huge damper in their financial statements. The ELCA alone boasts of bringing 379,000, mostly Muslim, refugees to America – which translates to $2.2 billion in total revenue. How many of them are you seeing converted to Christianity by the ELCA? Right.

Many people wonder why Minnesota is home to so many Somali refugees? Why do so many Somali refugees end up in Minnesota when they are first brought to OTHER states? Because they MIGRATE to Minnesota after they are first sent to other states because of free everything. I’m going to illustrate what is going on using Minnesota because it is my home state and I know it. Here’s one example:

A mother from Somalia and her seven kids were on their way to Minnesota, less than two months after they arrived in Phoenix from Somalia:

“We didn’t know how to get jobs in Phoenix, and even if we did, we didn’t know how we’d get to them,” she explained through an interpreter because she didn’t speak English.

In Phoenix, without a car, they found themselves lost: Where were they supposed to get groceries? How did they go about setting up long-overdue doctor’s appointments under their new free ObamaCare program? How would they find work if they had no skills and didn’t speak English or Spanish? How would they get around without a car? How would they pay rent after their initial stipend from the U.S. government ran out?

The Somali Association of Arizona stepped in, providing groceries and setting up doctor’s appointments for the family. But they couldn’t do anything about the fact that the fact that with limited English and no training, they weren’t qualified for any jobs.

Worried that her rent would be cut off soon, the Mother decided they should move to Minnesota, where the benefits are excellent and where she, like virtually all Somalis, have family. The program coordinator for the Somali Association of Arizona says that her story is a common one.

As many as half the Somali refugees resettled in Arizona AND other states end up leaving for Minnesota.

The biggest challenge for Somali refugees is finding a job. Even jobs cleaning hotel rooms or washing dishes in a restaurant come with a requirement that applicants speak English — or, unofficially, Spanish. They speak neither. So how did Minnesota become a hub for Somali refugees?

“A lot of Somalis brought here to America moved to Minnesota from other states for jobs. Almost every Somali in Minnesota who came here between 1991 and 1998 worked at the chicken factories in Faribault and Marshall.”

Bill Clinton bragged back then that he was responsible for this – he thought Minnesota was too white and didn’t work hard enough. He said that these are the factory jobs that Americans won’t do…

Most credit the strength of Minnesota’s “voluntary agencies” – called VOLAGS. These quasi-governmental agencies welcomed the first wave of Somali refugees in the early 1990s, and others soon followed.

It should be noted that none of the VOLAGS are actually really associated with the true teachings of the church, they just hijack the name for political expediency or they have been instrumental in infiltrating certain denominations to take them over for the Communists. The U.S. State Department decides where new refugees (determined by the UN) should end up and it often depends on how many voluntary agencies are in the area to expedite the process.

Here’s how the refugee resettlement programs work. The United Nations High Commission on International Refugees selects and “vets” refugees to be distributed to the United States. The US sets an annual refugee cap and the US State Department contracts with voluntary agencies (VOLAGs) to help refugees get settled in their new homes.

Five of the top nine VOLAGs in America are so-called “Christian” non-profits (Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services, World Relief Corporation, Church World Service, and Episcopal* Migration Ministries.) The other four are Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, International Rescue Committee, US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, and the Ethiopian Community Development Council.

The primary VOLAGs in Minnesota are:

-Catholic Charities

-International Institute of Minnesota

-Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota

-Minnesota Council of Churches: Refugee Services

-Arrive Ministries

I believe that Lutheran Social Services is associated with the ELCA, not the Missouri Synod or WELS Lutheran church. Minnesota has the highest number of refugees per capita nationwide. With 2 percent of the nation’s population, Minnesota has 13 percent of its refugees. Minnesota is a refugee magnet because Minnesota has what refugees want — jobs, good social welfare programs, and plenty of people from their home countries.

Refugees cost Minnesota taxpayers an estimated $107,000 each in food, housing, education, aid, medical expenses and other services. Communities have no control over the in-flow of refugees, yet they must share the cost of supporting them. And residents often don’t speak out or even ask questions of the process for fear of being called racists.

The VOLAGs work with 350 subcontractors and are paid up to $4,225 per head to resettle refugees in Minnesota. Though they are officially “non-profit” organizations, these quasi-Governmental organizations are profiting from lucrative contracts with the Federal Government to resettle refugees in the United States.

Refugee resettlement is quite profitable. VOLAGs have almost no real responsibilities for these refugees after they are settled. After 4 months, the VOLAG is not even required to know where the refugee lives.

There are multiple ways for these VOLAGs to generate revenue from refugee resettlement:

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2.9 BILLION Reasons U.S. Bishops Loved Biden But Hate Trump

 

Bought and Paid For: How Qatar Turned Trump’s Envoy into Hamas’s Advocate   RABBI PESACH WOLICKI

JANUARY 26, 2025

The truth is painfully clear: Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s envoy on the hostage issue, has been bought and paid for by Qatar, compromising American foreign policy and endangering Israeli security at a critical moment in the war against Hamas.

WATCH  [5:21]

The damning evidence begins with a real estate deal gone wrong. In 2013, Witkoff, a New York real estate investor, purchased the prestigious Park Lane Hotel with Malaysian businessman Jho Low for $654 million. When their luxury apartment conversion plans collapsed and Low was exposed for embezzling billions from Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund, Witkoff found himself trapped in a financial quagmire. Unable to unload the property at his billion-dollar asking price, he was forced to take out a massive $615 million loan in 2019 just to stay afloat.

Enter Qatar’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, riding to the rescue in August 2023 with a $623 million bailout. The timing couldn’t be more suspect – just as Trump’s campaign was gaining momentum, Qatar shrewdly purchased not just a hotel, but influence within Trump’s inner circle. Their investment has paid off handsomely, as Witkoff’s appointment as special envoy has advanced Qatar’s agenda of preserving Hamas’s iron grip on Gaza.

Witkoff’s recent statements about Hamas are nothing short of shocking. In a jaw-dropping Fox News interview, he actually praised Qatar’s role in negotiations and welcomed Hamas’s supposed willingness to “dialogue” with America. This isn’t just naive – it’s dangerous. Hamas isn’t some misunderstood political movement; it’s a terrorist organization explicitly committed to Israel’s destruction and the genocide of Jews worldwide.

WATCH  [8:01]

Witkoff’s position stands in stark opposition to other senior Trump administration officials. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, incoming Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and incoming Secretary of State Marco Rubio all adamantly insist that Hamas must be eliminated. Even Trump himself has stated this. Yet here’s Witkoff, suggesting Hamas might hop aboard some imaginary peace train.

Let’s be crystal clear about Qatar’s role in this mess. They are Hamas’s sugar daddy, bankrolling their terrorism while cynically posing as peace brokers. Qatar funds anti-Israel demonstrations on American campuses, harbors Muslim Brotherhood leaders, and birthed the very ideological cesspool that spawned Hamas, ISIS, and Al-Qaeda. Now they’re exploiting the ceasefire to pump millions of gallons of fuel directly into Hamas’s hands – fuel that will power their terrorist infrastructure, not help civilians.

The ceasefire deal Witkoff helped ram through appears precision-engineered to keep Hamas in power. Qatar is now flooding Gaza with “humanitarian aid” that flows straight into Hamas’s coffers, strengthening their military capability and political control. This isn’t humanitarian assistance – it’s a terrorist resupply operation wrapped in humanitarian packaging.

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‘We Are Going to Behead You and Get a Big Reward’: The Persecution of Christians, December 2024   by Raymond Ibrahim
January 26, 2025

  • “Experts warn of a growing trend of youth radicalization through online platforms, where extremist groups exploit vulnerabilities to indoctrinate and recruit individuals. This year alone, 15 minors have been arrested across Spain for terrorism-related offenses….” — rmx.news, January 2, 2025, Spain.
  • “Despite the declarations of tolerance and inclusion by the new government in Syria, this attack on Christian sites is not the last, because jihadists continue to act and have fought for the new Syrian government. In particular, some, who are as close as two peas in a pod to the Islamic State, with the same patches on their combat uniforms.” – caliber.az, December 24, 2024, Syria.
  • Ahmed al-Sharaa, jihadist warlord and current leader of Syria, swiftly turning into an Islamic state, confessed in a Dec. 17 interview that, “When we build the Islamic caliphate, Christians will pay Jizya under Islamic Sharia.” — X.com, December 17, 2024.
  • The word jizya — a payment for protection — is often translated to “tribute” or “tax.” The requirement originates in Koran 9:29: “Fight those among the People of the Book [Christians and Jews] who do not believe in Allah, nor the Last Day, nor forbid what Allah and his Messenger have forbidden, nor embrace the religion of truth [Islam], until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves humbled.”

The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of December 2024.

Jihadist Hate and Terror for Christmas

Germany: On December 4, an Iraqi asylum seeker was arrested for plotting a terror attack, by plowing his vehicle into the crowd at a popular Christmas market in Augsburg. The man, known only as Ali al-G, has a long “history of posting pro-IS content on social media.” The report adds:

“This incident is the latest in a series of thwarted plots targeting Germany’s Christmas markets, which are particularly vulnerable to attacks. Last month, a 17-year-old male of Turkish descent was arrested in Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein, on suspicion of planning a truck attack on a local market. In November 2023, another Iraqi national was detained in Hanover after authorities discovered plans for a similar assault. Two teenagers were also apprehended last year for conspiring to execute an attack in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, using a fuel-laden truck. Authorities have been on heightened alert following the 2016 Berlin Christmas market attack that claimed 12 lives.”

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Hostage theatre and setting up the next intelligence failure   CHANANYA WEISSMAN

October 7 demands a sequel

JAN 26, 2025

Source is here, hat tip to the Hitnagdut Telegram group.

As part of the “hostage deal”, this week Hamas will be receiving 5 bulldozers of the very type that were used on October 7. Surely these are needed to build schools and hospitals.

They also have shiny new Toyota pickup trucks, and thousands more foot soldiers. No doubt there will be plenty of weapons and ammunition to go around for all of them. To protect the schools and hospitals.

You are allowed to believe the puppet leaders of the Freemason state of Israel are stupid, crazy, or cowardly, but under no circumstances can you believe that they are deliberately arming and working with executioners to do the dirty work for them.

Why can’t you believe this? Because they are Hebrew-speakers with biblical names like Binyamin, Yair, Betzalel, and Itamar. If their names were Adolf, Hans, Boris, or Vladimir, it wouldn’t be difficult.

That’s really all it takes. Because everyone knows Jews are smart.

Hamas and Israel work for the same production company (Hebrew)

This has over 13,000 views on Facebook. Many Israelis realize that the hostage release was a big theatrical production that made no sense…and that IDF soldiers were sent into death traps on purpose to be killed…and that we’re being fed a steady diet of ridiculous lies as part of a larger agenda.

But far too many STILL don’t realize it.

We need to accelerate the learning curve.

It seems that there were two categories of hostages: the peasant slaves who were actually taken hostage and didn’t fare too well, and state actors who were hidden away somewhere until such time as it was convenient to be “freed” in a theatrical way, and then continue serving the propaganda agenda. The latter were fed better than IDF soldiers.

On that note, none of the female lookouts who were just released in a theatrical production seem at all upset that the IDF ignored their warnings on October 7, allowing their friends to be slaughtered and them to be put through hell for the last 15 months in captivity. Remarkable.

World Economic Forum shill Eli Beer spreads ridiculous BS

Remember Eli Beer from Hatzalah in full regalia weaving a tall tale about how terrorists dressed as Arab farmers duped the IDF by the Gaza border on October 7?

Tell me again, Eli, how you were on the brink of death from covid and had a miraculous recovery before shilling for the shots.

Somehow the leftists trying to bring down Bibi have managed to hide all this from him for 16 months. Someone really needs to let him know! Ben Gvir and Smotrich, too!

For more than 15 months the cover story was that the IDF was “too surprised” to react on October 7. They were lying all along, they knew they were lying all along, the controlled media played along with the lie, and the useful idiots parroted it all this time. Are you just going to let this go? They are counting on that.

There have been several such cases of techiyas hameisim [revival of the dead,] but unfortunately none when it came to Jewish soldiers who were deliberately sent into death traps, while the brainwashed sheep cheered the elimination of hired assassins who were alive and well.

Another intelligence failure.

What else are they lying about?

What aren’t they lying about?

 

BREAKING: President Trump Asks, “How About Just No Tax, Period?”  2ND SMARTEST GUY IN THE WORLD

Nemo agit in seipsum.   

JAN 25, 2025 – Readers of this Substack appreciate that “income” taxation is one of the more pernicious social engineering scams leveraged under color of law and threat of State violence…

Memorandum of Law: The Legality Of Income Taxation In The “50 States” Of The Union   2ND SMARTEST GUY IN THE WORLD

APRIL 2, 2024

“Nemo agit in seipsum.”

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…and over the last year or so President Trump has been dropping various hints about ending all “income” taxation in America.

And just now he once again floated his vital thought experiment:

How about just no tax, period?

[APPLAUSE]

You know, if the tariffs worked out like that, a thing like that could happen.

[MORE APPLAUSE]

Years ago, 1870 to 1913 we didn’t have an income tax. We had— what we had is tariffs. Where foreign countries came in, and they stole our jobs and they stole our companies, they stole our product, they ripped us off.

You know, they used to do a numbers— and then we went to tariff— a tariff system— the tariff system made so much money. It was when we were the richest, from 1870 to 1913.

Then we came in with the— brilliantly— we came in with the income tax, that we don’t want others to pay, let’s have our people pay.

And then you had the Depression in 1928-1929— I call it 1929 that was a bad time, but you didn’t have tariffs. The tariffs ended in 1913.

But— uh— it was the richest our country ever was…

And President Trump of course is absolutely correct:

His recent promise of ‘no taxes on tips’ is an excellent start, but in order to truly free We the People he must end the IRS, and also end the Federal Reserve.

Speaking of the Fed and the Great Depression that President Trump was referencing, it is this privately owned central planning politburo that has been directly responsible for all of the market crashes since it was scammed into existence through an act of congress when most had gone home for Christmas holiday on December 23rd, 1913. No recess was called, and only three senators passed The Federal Reserve Act with a unanimous vote of just 3-0.

And here is exactly how the Fed caused this Great Depression that President Trump was referring to:

It is no mere coincidence that both the 16th Amendment and The Federal Reserve Act was foisted on We the People in 1913.

If President Trump does do away with both the IRS and the Fed, then he may very well go down as the greatest POTUS in America’s history, his misguided and ruinous Operation Warp Speed notwithstanding.

They want you dead.

Do NOT comply.

 

Egyptian-Born Filmmaker Aims to Tell the Truth about October 7th Massacre   [4:53] 

January 23, 2025  CBN News – What would drive an Egyptian filmmaker, born a Muslim, to make a documentary about Israel’s October 7th massacre?

“The truth has to be told,” Majed al-Shafi told CBN News. “Israel has a special place in my heart, and God used Israel to save my life.”

Born in Egypt and raised as a Muslim, Majed became a Christian and was persecuted for his faith.  He fled to Israel because it was the only place in the Middle East where he could find asylum and now he’s in Canada where he started One Free World International. Fast forward to October 7th, and the film Majed made about that day, “Dying to Live,” so he could let Israelis know they’re not alone in this fight.

Read the full story from CBN Israel’s Julie Stahl:  https://cbn.com/news/israel/egyptian-…

 

Israel must win this war   Caroline Glick

The Palestinian Arab war against Israel is a zero-sum game—either Israel wins, ensuring its survival, and the Palestinian Arabs are defeated; or they win and Israel’s countdown to destruction begins.   Opinion.

Jan 24, 2025, 2:47 PM (GMT+2)  Israel National News – (JNS)  On Oct. 7, 2023, Israelis saw what the end looks like.

Thousands upon thousands of Palestinian Arabs invaded the country in wave after wave. They were unified in their barbaric hatred of Jews and bloodlust. The atrocities the Palestinian Arabs committed against their overwhelmingly Jewish victims were like nothing we had ever imagined. And they were made all the worse by the fact that everyone participated.

Roaring crowds handed torches to 10-year-olds, giving them the honor of lighting homes ablaze, burning entire families alive. The Palestinian Arab hordes photographed, whooped and laughed in ecstasy as they raped, tortured and murdered their victims.

And when they arrived home to Gaza with their hostages—dead and alive—they were greeted by crowds of thousands as conquering heroes. Yes, Hamas planned the sadistic genocide. Yes, Hamas led the charge. But it was a whole-of-society endeavor.

Somehow, over the past two weeks of President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff’s dealmaking, the events of Oct. 7 seem to have faded from view. The deal he demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accept is incomprehensible in the context of that day.

Ignoring Oct. 7, Witkoff and his Israeli cheerleaders present the deal as a step on the road to peace. When the ceasefire becomes permanent, he has said, the Saudis will rush to make peace with Israel. So will Qatar and everyone else. Indeed, Witkoff told Fox News on Wednesday, even Hamas would be welcomed at the table. And Trump will get a Nobel Peace Prize.

In the same Fox News interview, Witkoff explained that his deal is precisely the deal that former president Joe Biden tried to coerce Israel to accept last May. The Biden deal, at its core, was a ransom deal. Israel, Biden said, would pay Hamas “generously” for the release of some of the hostages. How generously? Well, it depended on which phase you were in.

The Biden/Witkoff deal is a three-phase deal, and each phase is essentially a separate agreement. The first involves massive Israeli concessions to Hamas that are rife with dire strategic consequences for Israel in exchange for 33 hostages—including all of the women hostages.

To receive the 33, Israel is required to free nearly 2,000 terrorists, hundreds of whom are convicted mass murderers. It must withdraw its forces from the cities of Gaza and from the Netzarim Corridor, permitting the mass return of Palestinian Arabs to northern Gaza. And it must permit the full resupply of Gaza, still under Hamas control. All told, Israel is paying for the 33 in a manner that risks all of its soldiers’ hard-won gains on the battlefield over the past 15 months of war.

While that is a steep price, it pales in comparison to the price of moving to the second phase. Under the terms of the Witkoff/Biden agreement, in the second phase, Israel is to withdraw all of its remaining forces from Gaza, including from the border separating Gaza from Egypt. In other words, Israel must cede control of Gaza to Hamas. In exchange, Hamas will return the remaining live hostages to Israel—but retain the bodies of the hostages it has murdered.

Phase 1 will make it difficult for Israel to restore its previous gains and go on to achieve victory in the war.

Phase 2 secures Hamas’s victory.

The implication of a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza is that Hamas wins the war. It survives not only intact, but in full control of Gaza, respected worldwide as the jihadist force that committed genocide and survived to rebuild and do it again and again.

Phase 3, if implemented, involves Hamas’s return of the bodies of the dead in exchange for the establishment of a Palestinian proto-state controlled by Palestinian Arab terrorists. So if implemented, Phase 3 ensures that Hamas will renew its genocidal assault on Israel sooner rather than later.

Biden’s administration sold this deal by ignoring the strategic implications of Oct. 7. He and his advisers abjectly refused to draw the necessary conclusion from what happened. The atrocities of that day showed that the Palestinian Arab war against Israel is a zero-sum game—either Israel wins, ensuring its survival, and the Palestinian Arabs are defeated; or the Palestinian Arabs win and Israel’s countdown to destruction begins.

Instead of accepting that self-evident reality, Biden and his advisers talked about Israel as a “traumatized society.” A traumatized society is not one that needs to win. It is a society that needs a hug.

Israelis who demanded the destruction of Gaza were demonized as genocidal extremists rather than realists who understood the implications of the bloodlust. The administration refused to accept the legitimacy of Israel’s war goals of destroying Hamas and preventing Gaza from ever posing a threat in the future. They placed hostages at the center of the narrative instead. The Palestinian Arabs weren’t an enemy, they were victims of Israel, which was waging a war for no reason. Israel had the right to defend itself, but not to harm its enemy.

The hostage ransom deal as crafted by Biden administration officials was a means of joining Hamas in exploiting Israel’s anguish over the plight of the hostages to prevent Israel from winning the war. Israel, Biden and his advisers believed, would be ensnared in the deal as Phase 1 moved to Phase 2. The deal was structured in a way that would make it almost impossible for Israel to walk away.

Negotiations for Phase 2 are to begin 16 days after implementation of Phase 1 begins. And if Israel walked away, the last of the 33 would remain behind.

Given the stakes, two questions arise.

What does President Donald Trump intend to do with Biden’s agreement going forward; and what does Israel intend to do?

President Trump’s messaging regarding the deal has shifted several times over the first week of implementation. Initially, he said the deal will bring all of the hostages home—a statement that indicated he expects all three phases will be implemented. A couple of days later, the president said he is uncertain that the second and third phases will be implemented.

By adopting Biden’s framework, Trump placed himself in a box. Trump wishes to prevent new wars from happening in the Middle East. But if he maintains faith with this deal, he ensures that even larger wars will break out in the region during the course of his four years in office. He also guarantees that massive jihadist assaults in the U.S. and the West will occur. After all, if Hamas’s success in murdering 1,200 Israelis in a day gave rise to the avalanche of antisemitism and jihad worldwide, there can be little question what a Hamas victory over Israel in the war will bring.

This is doubly true if the reports that President Trump is insisting that Israel withdraw its forces from Lebanon next week and that he is urging Israel not to attack Iran’s nuclear installations are true. Hezbollah has not withdrawn its forces north of the Litani River. And the Lebanese Armed Forces, which are supposed to force Hezbollah forces to decamp to the north, are helping them to remain in the south. Under the circumstances, an Israeli withdrawal projects weakness that invites a future invasion.

As for Iran, if Hamas survives and Hezbollah survives, then Iran will emerge as the victor in this war. If Iran, the victor, is also permitted to keep its nuclear installations, it will quickly cross the nuclear threshold.

The Iranian regime is not interested in a deal. It is interested in destroying Israel and the United States.

That is why it has been trying to assassinate President Trump. And that is why it built terror armies all around Israel and has deployed thousands of Revolutionary Guard personnel to Central and South America, all while building nuclear weapons.

To win the peace of the Middle East, Trump must walk away from Biden’s failed policy of standing with Iran and its terror proxies Lebanon and the Palestinian Arabs in Gaza. He must restore his first term’s doctrine of supporting America’s allies against America’s enemies.

If Trump backs Israel in returning to the battlefield to secure Hamas’s defeat in Gaza, and maintaining its buffer zones in Gaza permanently to prevent the area from threatening the Jewish state in the future, then he will build the foundation for a long-term peace between Israel and the Arabs of the region.

If President Trump stands with Israel and backs its requirement for a security zone inside Lebanon that will prevent Hezbollah and other terror forces from invading northern Israel, and if he stands with Israel in its efforts to destroy Iran’s nuclear installations and supports the Iranian people that have fought for their freedom from the regime for decades, then he will restore America’s standing as the only significant superpower in the region.

If he fails to do these things, then he will cede the U.S.’s position to China.

China has been a beneficiary of Biden’s weakness and determination to realign the U.S. away from its allies and toward Iran and its terror armies.

As for Israel, the dilemma is whether to sacrifice its future collective security for the salvation of the hostages today, or to secure its national survival. Israelis who support the first option speak of the damage to Israel’s soul if we accept that the hostages may continue to suffer.

For those who receive their news from most Israeli media outlets, the dilemma isn’t too large. With a few notable exceptions, the Israeli media have been serving the public a diet of demoralization for nearly a year. Israel cannot win, they are told. There is no purpose to the fight. All it does is prolong the suffering of the hostages. The only reason we are still fighting is that the man they have spent the past decade demonizing—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—refuses to quit. He refuses to capitulate despite the futility of the fight, because fighting is the only way he stays in power.

The media—like the Biden administration— prefer to ignore the strategic ramifications of Oct. 7, which they prefer to present as a one-off. The Palestinian Arabs aren’t really the people who beheaded their victims, and who mutilated their bodies as they butchered them. That was a mistake, or something. And anyway, fighting is futile. Bring them home.

This week, former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren wrote an article resonating this view. Oren admitted that the deal means that Hamas wins the war. But then he counters that Israel will save its soul by showing its devotion to the lives of its hostages by losing. “Our victory is moral, deep and long lasting,” he crooned.

The problem with Oren’s argument and the broader claim of the deal-at-any-price advocates is that the war is not futile.

Our heroic soldiers are winning and can win. And they must win.

Oct. 7 will only be a one-off if Hamas is annihilated and Gaza remains pacified forever. They are willing to pay a steep price to secure the freedom of 33 hostages, but the fight cannot be forsaken.

Hostage taking is the cruelest form of psychological warfare. And it is the most powerful weapon that Israel’s enemies have in their arsenal. They know that while they sanctify death, the sanctification of life is the foundational creed of the Jewish people.

Those who seek a deal at all costs are right about the soul of Israel. Our collective soul was bludgeoned on Oct. 7, and the wound remains unhealed every day the hostages remain in Gaza. As the years pass, the wound will become a scar that every Israeli and every Jew on earth will carry till the end of time. But our ability to carry those scars requires Israel to survive.

Oct. 7 showed us our enemy. And now that we have seen it, we cannot ignore the truth. For the nation of Israel and the State of Israel to survive, Israel must win this war no matter what the cost.

Caroline B. Glick is the senior contributing editor of Jewish News Syndicate and host of the “Caroline Glick Show” on JNS TV. She is the diplomatic commentator for Israel’s Channel 14, as well as a columnist for Newsweek. Glick is the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington and a lecturer at Israel’s College of Statesmanship.

 

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