COMMENTARY / OPINION
JFK Assassination – Revelations [13:51] JEROME R. CORSI, PH.D.
Dr. Jerome Corsi and Dr. David Mantik Pull Back the Curtain Exposing Six Decades of Lies
FEB 05, 2025
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“We want ONE thing: PEACE.” TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
FEB 05, 2025
President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu gave a press conference yesterday and revealed plans for Gaza and the Middle East. President Trump caused a huge uproar by recommending that the US ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip. The media and the swamp is spinning this every way they can – and, of course, calling America the great OCCUPIERS.
Let’s look at excerpts of what he actually said in context and what I think it means for America, Israel and the Middle East.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Today I’m delighted to welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu back to the White House. It’s a wonderful feeling and a wonderful event. He’s the first foreign head of state to visit during our administration. We had great victories together four years ago, not so many victories over the past four years, however.
In my first term, the Prime Minister and I forged a tremendously successful partnership that brought peace and stability to the Middle East. Together, we defeated ISIS, we ended the disastrous Iran nuclear deal, one of the worst deals ever made, and imposed the toughest ever sanctions on the Iranian regime. We starved Hamas and Iran’s other terrorist proxies, and we starved them like they had never seen before, resources and support disappeared for them.
I recognized Israel’s capital, opened the American embassy in Jerusalem and got it built at a price that nobody has seen for years. It’s beautiful, all Jerusalem stone right from nearby and it’s something that’s very special.
We recognized Israeli’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights – something that they talked about for years and they weren’t able to get it. And I got it done. And with the historic Abraham Accords, we achieved the most significant Middle East peace agreements in half a century.
And I really believe that many countries will soon be joining this amazing peace and economic development transaction. The Abraham Accords are really a big economic development transaction. I think we’re going to have a lot of people signing up very quickly. Unfortunately for four years, nobody signed up. Nobody did anything for four years except in the negative.
Unfortunately, the weakness and incompetence of those past four years, the grave damage around the globe that was done, including in the Middle East, caused grave damage all over the globe. The horrors of October 7th would never have happened if I were president, the Ukraine and Russia disaster would never have happened if I were president.
Over the past months, Israel has endured a sustained aggressive and murderous assault on every front, but they fought back bravely. You see that and you know that. What we have witnessed is an all-out attack on the very existence of a Jewish state in the Jewish homeland. The Israelis have stood strong and united in the face of an enemy that has kidnapped, tortured, raped and slaughtered innocent men, women, children and even little babies.
I want to salute the Israeli people for meeting this trial with courage and determination and unflinching resolve. They have been strong.
In our meetings today, the prime minister and I focused on the future, discussing how we can work together to ensure Hamas is eliminated and ultimately restore peace to a very troubled region.
What has happened in the last four years [under Biden] has not been good. I want to thank Prime Minister Netanyahu for working closely with my transition team and special envoy Steve Witkoff. What a good job he’s done. Proud of you, you’ve done a fantastic job.
The only reason the Palestinians want to go back to Gaza right now is they have no alternative. It’s right now a demolition site. Virtually every building is down. The people in Gaza are living under fallen concrete that’s very dangerous and very precarious. The US will take over the Gaza Strip. We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out. We’ll create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area. Do a real job, do something different.
I’m hopeful that this ceasefire could be the beginning of a larger and more enduring peace that will end the bloodshed and killing once and for all.
Together, America and Israel will renew the optimism that shines so brightly. Just four years ago, it was really a bright, beautiful light. We will restore calm and stability to the region and expand prosperity opportunity and hope to our nations and for all people of the Middle East, including the Arab and Muslim nations.
Very important. We want the Arab and Muslim nations to have peace and have tranquility and have great lives.
PM NETANYAHU: Thank you, Mr. President. You are the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House.
You also brokered the groundbreaking Abraham Accords in which Israel made peace with four Arab states. We did this in four months. Nothing had happened before for a quarter of a century. But in four months, we were able working together under your leadership to have four historic peace accords. And now, now in the first days of your second term, you picked up right where you left off. Your leadership helped bring our hostages home. Among them, American citizens.
You freed up munitions that have been withheld from Israel, they had been withheld from Israel in the midst of a seven front war for our existence. And you just freed it. You ended unjust sanctions against law abiding Israeli citizens. You boldly confronted the scourge of antisemitism. You stopped funding, as you just said, international organizations like UNRWA that support and fund terrorists.
And today, you renewed the maximum pressure campaign against Iran. Ladies and gentlemen, all this in just two weeks. Can we imagine where we’ll be in four years? I can. I know you can, Mr. President.
For our part, we in Israel have been pretty busy too. Since the horrendous October 7th attack, we’ve been fighting our common enemies and changing the face of the Middle East.
On that infamous day, Hamas monsters savage – savagely murdered innocent people, including more than Americans. They beheaded men. They raped women. They burned babies alive. And they took people hostage to the dungeons of Gaza. And after this worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust, Iran and its henchmen in the Middle East were absolutely ecstatic.
Haniyeh praised the massacre. Sinwar said that Israel was finished. Nasrallah boasted that Israel was – here’s what he said, “is feeble as a spider’s web”. Well, Mr President, Haniya is gone. Sinwar is gone. Nasrallah is gone. We’ve devastated Hamas. We decimated Hezbollah. We destroyed Assad’s remaining armaments.
And we crippled Iran’s air defenses. And in doing this, we’ve defeated some of America’s worst enemies. The Bible says that the people of Israel shall rise like lions. And boy, did we rise. But as we discussed, Mr President, to secure our future and bring peace to our region, we have to finish the job.
Mr. President, your willingness to think outside the box with fresh ideas will help us achieve all these goals. And I’ve seen you do this many times. You cut to the chase. You see things others refuse to see. You say things others refuse to say. And then, after the jaws drop, people scratch their heads. And they say, you know, he’s right. And this is the kind of thinking that enabled us to bring the Abraham Accords.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much, Bibi. Very nice. We’ll take questions now. [I edited the answers to shorten them.]
TRUMP: I do see the United States in a long-term ownership position in Gaza and I see it bringing great stability to that part of the Middle East, and maybe the entire Middle East. And everybody I’ve spoken to – this was not a decision made lightly -everybody I’ve spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs.
All you see right now in Gaza is death and destruction and rubble and demolished buildings falling all over. It’s just a terrible, terrible sight. I’ve studied it – I’ve studied this very closely over a lot of months, and I’ve seen it from every different angle. And it’s a very, very dangerous place to be and it’s only going to get worse. I think it’s something that could change history and it’s worthwhile really pursuing this avenue.
This decision doesn’t mean anything about a two-state or a one-state or any other state. It means that we want to give people a chance at life. They have never had a chance at life because the Gaza Strip has been a hellhole for people living there. It’s been horrible. Hamas has made it so bad, so bad, so dangerous, so unfair to people.
And by doing what I’m recommending that we do, we think we’re going to bring perhaps great peace to long beyond this area. And I have to stress, this is not just for Israel, this is for everybody in the Middle East – Arabs, Muslims – this is for everybody.
You can’t keep doing the same mistake over and over again. Gaza is a hellhole and it was even before the bombing started frankly. And we’re going to give people a chance to live in a beautiful community that’s safe and secure. And I think you’re going to see tremendous – a tremendous outflowing of support.
I can tell you, I spoke to other leaders of countries in the Middle East and they love the idea. They say it would really bring stability and what we need is stability.
I also want Iran to be peaceful and successful. But they can’t have money to make nuclear weapons or support Hamas & Hezbollah or any form of terror. And I say this to Iran who is listening very intently, I would love to be able to make a great deal, a deal where you can get on with your lives. Iranians are incredible people. Industrious, beautiful, just an unbelievable group of people in Iran. And I know them well. I have many friends from Iran and many friends that are Americans from Iran. And they’re very proud of Iran.
I really want to see peace. But Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. It’s very simple. They cannot have a nuclear weapon. And if I think that they will have a nuclear weapon, despite what I just said, I think that’s going to be very unfortunate for them.
If on the other hand, they can convince us that they won’t, and I hope they can. It’s very easy to do. It’s actually very easy to do. I think they’re going to have an unbelievable future.
The Middle East is an incredible place, so vibrant – it’s just one of the really beautiful places. And with great people. And I think a lot of bad leadership has taken place in the Middle East that has allowed this to happen.
It’s just terrible. And that includes on the American side, by the way. We should have never gone in there a long time ago, spent trillions of dollars and created so much death.
I envision a world in Gaza – people living there, the world’s people. I think we’ll make that into an international, unbelievable place. I think the potential in the Gaza Strip is unbelievable. And I think the entire world, representatives from all over the world will be there and they’ll live there. Palestinians also. Palestinians will live there, many people will live there. But they’ve tried the other and they’ve tried it for decades and decades and decades. It’s not going to work. It didn’t work. It will never work. And you have to learn from history. History has – you know, you just can’t let it keep repeating itself.
We have an opportunity to do something that could be phenomenal. And I don’t want to be cute. I don’t want to be a wise guy. But Gaza could be the Riviera of the Middle East, magnificent. But more importantly than that is the people that have been absolutely destroyed, that live there now, can live in peace in a much better situation. Because right now they are living in hell. And those people will now be able to live in peace. We’ll make sure that it’s done world class.
It will be wonderful for the people. Palestinians, Palestinians mostly we’re talking about. And I have a feeling that despite them saying no, I have a feeling that the King in Jordan and that the general President [Sisi] in Egypt will open their hearts and will give us the kind of land that we need to get this done, and people can live in harmony and in peace.
Thank you all, very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.
There are beautiful beaches at Gaza but nobody can use them safely any more because Hamas flows raw sewage into the sea and it causes 25% of all disease. And, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
So, that’s what was said at the press conference. David Friedman, the former Ambassador to Israel responded with this:
Charge of the Hour: Transfer the Gaza Population by Haggai Lober, founder of Aspaklaria Theater Company and father of St.-Sgt. Yehonatan who fell in Gaza in Dec. ’23, translated by Hillel Fendel.
Let’s not lose the momentum! The three reasons not to take the ethical road and expel the Arabs of Gaza are no longer relevant.
The issue of expelling a war-hungry Arab populace from our country – which Ben-Gurion and his generals did as a matter of course during the War of Independence – has become in recent decades a dirty word. It has become forbidden and immoral to even think about, let alone say out loud.
But in light of the horrors seen and still being seen by our own eyes, we have no choice but to reexamine this and other old positions.
There were three principal reasons that stood as an iron wall against any thought of resolving some of our problems by expelling murderous and hostile Arabs. These hold in many circles even now, when it is clear to all that had Gaza not been full of Arabs 16 months ago, Israel would have enjoyed security and growth, and would certainly not have had to undergo the horrors of Oct. 7th.
The three are: alleged rights, morality, and the U.S. position.
Rights: It is claimed around the world, with very little to back it up, that “the Arabs in Israel have the right to unite as a Palestinian nation,” that “they were here before us and they therefore have national rights to the land,” and that “there is a national Palestinian history and legacy.” For years the world has been discussing the question of which of the two “peoples” – Jews and Palestinians – have more substantial rights to this land. [This of course ignores the Balfour Declaration, which specifically mentioned only the “civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine;” no national or political rights were accorded them. -HF]
By the time of the Oslo Accords, in the early 1990’s, the world had already made up its mind: There is a Palestinian entity and it has the right to be sovereign over a large part of the “contested” territory, if not the entire State of Israel (as in the widespread “Free Palestine” chants). Israel stands in the face of a “conventional wisdom” that determines that it must cede large pieces of its territory, despite the great dangers, in favor of a recently-invented Palestinian people.
However: Even assuming that this people has certain rights (which the pro-Israel side has still not quite signed on to), the murderous path by which this collective has chosen to actualize them over the years must establish clearly for all that the Palestinians have lost any claim to rights in this land.
After all, rights are acquired and can be lost. A murderer and other criminals lose their natural rights to freedom; they are placed in prison until they die, even if they maintain that their victims did them wrong.
Yes, a collective can become a nation on its own recognizance. However, the enlightened world can also, and is even obligated to, dismantle this entity – if it turns out that murder and evil are the basis of its nationhood. As the Mishna teaches: “Gathering wicked people together is bad for them and bad for the world; dispersing them is good for them and good for the world” (Sanhedrin 8,5).
The second element that negates a political Palestinian presence in the land is morality, or the lack thereof. Do Arabs who commit crimes of terrorism deserve to remain here? It is precisely those who insisted on seeing the Arabs of the Land of Israel as a national collective who relate to its terrorist organizations as individual and isolated instances. They refuse to attribute any nationalistic motives to these terrorist groups. Have they forgotten that these acts are not just neighborhood crimes or gang fights, but rather full-fledged acts of war that must be responded to as such?
The widespread lie that “aside from some bad terrorists, the Arab populace in general wants only peace and a comfortable life” – was totally shattered on Oct. 7th. “Regular” citizens joined gleefully in the atrocities, and our soldiers later found guns and other weapons in cribs throughout Gaza (and in Judea and Samaria). They also found that the walls in every children’s room feature the pictures of child-killers and other terrorists, as a basic part of the educational curriculum over there.
Nationalistic terrorism is war. And because of the important role played by the local Gaza population in encouraging and enabling the terrorists to kill Jews, this supportive populace may not be considered “uninvolved,” but must rather be dealt with forcefully and severely.
In fact, the “ethical” argument must actually be reversed, as follows: “It is not ethical towards us, nor towards the world, not to deal with this murderous and ideological hornets’ nest, and to let this abominable collective continue to exist while we deal only with the murderers themselves. This is simply not moral!”
In the case of Gaza, there is no doubt: A mass evacuation of the population to Arab countries will dismantle the collective murderous demon that the Palestinian people, and its supporters around the world, have become.
And finally, the third reason for not deporting or expelling the Arabs of Gaza: “We can’t buck the United States, which wants a two-state solution and nothing else. We can’t afford to disagree.”
Even if this argument is worthy of consideration, and even if one might want to check from a historical standpoint whether it was the U.S. that led us into surrender, or perhaps it was we who got the Americans to force us to supply the terrorists with “humanitarian aid” – either way, it appears that the point is now moot. It’s President Trump himself who is leading the charge to empty Gaza of Arabs!
In the light of the collapse of the third argument against transfer, we would be wise to “collapse” the other two as well, and go full-steam ahead towards the only solution that will enable our children to grow up in peace and security in their land: the dissolution of the Hamas-Gaza populace. This plan has the best chances for success – and could even win President Trump a Nobel Peace Prize.
One thing is certain: The Nation of Israel, including international Jewry, will receive the great prize of all: the prize of life. This means the ability of Jewish parents like me to see their children grow up alongside them without fear of death by war, or murder, rape and kidnappings by our bloodthirsty enemies.
It has to be done now – right now. We can’t lose the momentum.
Trump’s Gaza Plan is “The Final task before Messiah” ADAM ELIYAHU BERKOWITZ
FEBRUARY 5, 2025 Israel 365 News – During his first term in office, President Trump was a steadfast ally of Israel, acknowledging Jerusalem as its eternal capital by moving the embassy, recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan, and instituting the Pompeo Doctrine, stating that Jews living in Judea and Samaria did not violate international law.
While many of his opponents tried to discount the Abraham Accords as a non-achievement, it stands as a foundation for peace and prosperity in the region. The agreement was achieved by discarding decades of unsuccessful policy based on the false premise that peace between Israel and any Arab state could only be achieved through the creation of a Palestinian state. The Biden administration rejected the success of the Abraham Accords and returned to a policy based on a horribly misnamed “Two-State Solution.” Biden’s policy of appeasing Iran was directly responsible for the Oct. 7 attack on Israel and the resulting multi-front war Israel is currently fighting.
Less than a month into his second term, the “Trump effect” results are already being felt in the region. After almost two years of negotiations by the Biden administration based on a strategy of pressuring Israel, Israeli hostages were still languishing in Gaza. The threat of a pro-Israel administration resulted in a ceasefire agreement that released some of the hostages.
But it is already clear that the best is yet to come. Netanyahu is currently in Washington as the first foreign leader hosted by Trump at the White House. And the news coming out of the Oval Office is stunning. Just a few weeks ago, Saudi Arabia threatened that they would not sign an agreement normalizing relations with Israel that did not include the creation of a Palestinian State. Trump announced on Wednesday that the Saudis had backed down and would consider an Abrahamic agreement with Israel. He also announced that the hostage release deal would be completed.
Perhaps the most stunning revelation was a typically straight-to-the-heart-of-the-matter solution to Gaza proposed by Trump. Much of the debate over Gaza has focused on the day after the war ends. While it is clear that Hamas cannot be allowed to rule Gaza, the Palestinian Authority has allied with Hamas. It has shown itself to be unstable and a promoter of violence. Anti-Israel elements from other countries object to a return to 2005 when Israel controlled the security in Gaza.
So Trump announced an entirely unexpected proposal on Tuesday:
“The US will take over the Gaza Strip,” Trump said at a joint press conference. “And we will do a job with it too. We’ll own it.”
“We will be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, [for] get[ting] rid of the destroyed buildings, level[ing] it out, creat[ing] an economy development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing to the people of the area,” Trump said.
The president said the Palestinians “have no alternative” but to leave the “big pile of rubble” that is Gaza and voluntarily relocate to one or more countries “with humanitarian hearts.”
“[We’ve got to] do something different. You just can’t go back. If you go back, it’s going to end up the same way it has been for 100 years,” he said, adding that other regional leaders backed his idea.
“It should not go through a process of rebuilding and occupation by the same people that have… lived there and died there and lived a miserable existence there,” Trump said.
He described his vision in which the “world’s people” would settle in Gaza once the US finishes rebuilding it, and that while the Palestinians could be among them, the site on the Mediterranean will become an “international” hub.
“I don’t want to be cute. I don’t want to be a wise guy,” Trump said, adding that Gaza could become “the Riviera of the Middle East. This could be something that could be so magnificent.”
He admitted that US troops could be sent to the area “if necessary.”
While Palestinians prefer to advance a “victimhood narrative” that paints Gaza as an “open-air prison,” it is an idyllic locale on the Mediterranean Sea. Before the Jewish communities of Gush Katif were forcibly expelled in 2005, the region hosted a thriving agri-industry that exported more than $80,000 of produce every day.
When considering the future of Gaza concerning Israel, it is essential to understand its role in the Bible and prophecy. Gaza appears 18 times in the Hebrew Bible and is listed in Genesis 10:19 as being included in the southern border of the Promised Land. Gaza was, nonetheless, sporadically conquered and occupied by foreigners, including the Assyrians, Philistines, and Egyptians. It was, in fact, one of five Philistine cities on the coastal plain of Israel, remaining as one of the cities that Joshua failed to capture in his lifetime (Joshua 10:41).
Rabbi Yekutiel Fish, a respected mystic rabbi from Jerusalem who authors a Torah blog titled Sod HaChashmal, praised Trump’s plan and predicted that its success was inevitable.
“Trump is a successful man and puts together business deals that no one else could manage,” Rabbi Fish said. “For him, this is a deal that all sides benefit.”
But Rabbi Fish saw Trump’s Gaza plan as part of a bigger picture.
“Everyone is focused on Gaza, but that is only one part of the end-of-days agenda, which has the Jews living in Israel’s prophesied borders,” Rabbi Fish said. “The Torah explicitly includes Gaza. What Trump is doing is cleaning out Gaza of all the haters of Israel. They cannot be in Israel after the Messiah comes. After the Messiah, the only people who can be in the Biblical borders of Israel are those who believe He is One and His name is One. This will include Gaza, half of Lebanon, and much of Jordan.”
And we see that we are almost there. Syria fell. Lebanon is half gone. Gaza is ripped up. The stage is nearly set for Messiah. But how can the Palestinians be here when we go to greet the Messiah? The Messiah needs someone to take care of this, and in this case, it is Donald Trump. Trump is merely carrying out the final tasks needed before Messiah is revealed,” Rabbi Fish said.
Exposing the truth about the Israel-H*mas war on Israeli TV [15:53] Rabbi Manis Friedman
Oct 14, 2024 – Does Ishmael have any claim to the land of Israel? Does he inherit from his father Abraham? Rabbi Friedman breaks it down very simply in this conversation with Ruchi Avital of @tovnews TV.
What Is Really Destroying Europe? The EU. by Drieu Godefridi
February 5, 2025 at 5:30 am
- The truth is that the reduction in CO2 emissions in Europe is almost exclusively due to industry leaving Europe. That is the dirty little secret of the Green Deal: Europe is reducing its CO2 emissions to the extent and in proportion to the destruction of its industry.
- The EU elite has lost control of the narrative. Europeans are turning away from the lies and myths of the Green Deal en masse.
- Given the absence of precise definitions, the censors do whatever they want…. In practice, these censors massively quash so-called “right-wing” content, while leaving the abundant anti-Semitic, Islamist and Marxist literature untouched.
- [T]he EU is, in reality, a Potemkin democracy. It looks like a democracy, but is in fact an authoritarian bureaucracy. There is no election by the citizens of a parliament worthy of the name, no transparency, no recourses and, it seems, no way of eliminating the organization or any part of it. European citizens can vote as they please, but it is a self-appointed elite within the European institutions who decide the future of Europe. These “elites” will do anything to keep themselves and their ideology in power.
- In addition, Qatar has massively infiltrated the European Parliament, buying parliamentarians to promote its interests and its Islamist vision of the world.
- Can one measure the sense of alienation that must be felt by Europeans, forced to finance a corrupt bureaucracy working against their interests?
- When it comes to migration, the economy, free speech and democracy, the EU is not the solution to any problem. The EU is the problem.
The founding idea of the European Union was to build, through shared prosperity, solidarity and a sense of shared destiny among the nations of Europe. That was why three communities were formed: the economy, coal and steel, and nuclear energy. Until around 2000, in terms of growth and innovation, the European economy, year in, year out, was on par with the American one.
Of that initial — and fairly brilliant — gesture of “peace through prosperity,” literally nothing remains. None of the EU’s current leaders cares about the financial well-being of Europeans. Coal is regarded as the devil’s fuel, and nuclear energy is abhorred by Europe’s elites, who say they prefer the inefficient and erratic wind turbines. Since 2000, the European economy has been mired in stagnation, which has worsened since 2008 and threatens to reach its height in the coming years — ending in the destruction of Europe.
Green Deal
The EU is a web of institutions with which an American would find nothing familiar, so let us just say that this web is dominated by one institution: the European Commission. It is a kind of European “government'” with a monopoly on legislative initiatives. Nothing is voted on in the EU without the Commission’s assent.
Brigitte Gabriel: The Truth About Islam They Don’t Want You to Know [17:59]
Jan 30, 2025 – Brigitte Gabriel gives a powerful short history lesson about Islam at the Values Voter Summit in 2015.
Jordan Peterson & Mosab Hassan Yousef: The Shocking Truth About Islam, Iran, and Nuclear Threats [18:50]
February 2, 2025
How a Powerful Alliance Between the U.S. and Israel Could Doom Globalism– The Importance of Trump Meeting Netanyahu DR. PETER AND GINGER BREGGIN
FEB 04, 2025 – President Donald Trump’s meeting today, Tuesday, February 4, 2025, with Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu, is Trump’s first meeting with a foreign head of state. And Trump arranges it in the midst of his incredible campaign to reestablish America First as our national policy. What’s the ultimate importance of this meeting?
At first glance, President Trump is simply reminding the nation and the world that America and Israel are strong allies. Since Israel is a Jewish state, it is also a reminder that Trump stands fast with the Jewish people, as he did in his first term when he became the first U.S. President to acknowledge Jerusalem as the capital of Isreal. This action enraged the hornet’s nest of globalism and antisemitism at the UN, resulting in 128 nations voting for a UN resolution that condemned his action. Only nine nations voted against the resolution.
But many question Trump’s support of Israel. Is it driven by the power of the Jewish and Israeli lobby? Is it motivated by the seemingly close ties between our CIA and Israel’s Mossad? Will it lead to increased antisemitism in the U.S. and around the world?
In reality, the core of America First and the core of Judaism and Israel have enormous similarities. As I described in my book, Wow, I’m an American: How to Live Like our nation’s Heroic Founders, many of the Founders felt inspired by the Hebrew Bible, especially the Exodus of the Jews to freedom.
America First and the Jewish State Against Globalism
Although I have been very critical of Netanyahu as a globalist, my hope is that Trump’s America First policies will embolden Netanyahu to establish an Israel First policy in contrast to his earlier promotion of globalism. As Trump declared in his stunning address to the UN in 2017, America First is a policy for all nations in opposition to their destruction by the global predators.
Both an independent America and an independent Israel are inherently threatening to the emerging global domination that we call the Western and the Eastern Global Empires, as well as to the less powerful Islamic Global Empire which most immediately threatens Israel.
Empires are collectivist. In order to enslave humanity, they must submerge the people of the world into a more easily controlled “global mass” or exterminate them. The globalists can only accomplish their aims if most people can be forced to give up their individual freedom, their national and cultural identities, and their belief in being personally created in the image of a loving God who endows them with the rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness.
When crushing free peoples seems impossible to achieve, empires must exterminate them. Empires have always sought to crush autonomous, freedom loving peoples, or to exterminate them. Several empires over history have attempted to exterminate the Jews of Israel, including the Babylonians, the Greeks and the Romans. Numerous empires have tried to destroy America, from the original British Empire, through the Nazi, Japanese and U.S.S.R. empires, and continuing today with Western Global Empire and the Chinese Communists at the head of the Eastern Global Empire.
Much as America First and America as a genuine republic threatens those who want to dominate the world, so does Judaism and Israel, although both in recent times have been tragically moving toward globalism. Globalism, remember, is collectivism and its enemy is individualism, including a pride in one’s identity and determination to preserve it. Therefore, both America and Israel are prime targets for destruction.
Globalism as an Enemy of the Jews
The Jews are the one and only people that has survived for millennia, long before the written word, as an identifiable nationality (Israel), an identifiable religion (Judaism), an identifiable language (Hebrew) and an identifiable source book (the Hebrew Bible). Even more striking, the Jewish people have an identifiable God, the one true God of the Judeo-Christian world. No other people have a historical identity that compares to the Jews in their several-thousand-year existence. No other nation has maintained any one of these qualities for such a length of time and with such clarity—an identifiable nationality, religion, language, and source book, capped with a claim for bringing God to the world.
And so, the Jews represent to dictators and totalitarians the one and only group whose identity has never been eradicated by time, or by enemies from within and without. Until they have wiped out the Jews, every violent and ambitious tyrant has a frustration in this group it cannot completely tame or eradicate. The existence of the Jews represents a last flicker of freedom as the world darkens with oppression. Perhaps that is one of the messages to be taken from the Holocaust—if the Jews and their legacy, including one God, can be wiped out, then evil will know no limits. In predatory, top-down organized globalism, we face the evil of worldwide totalitarianism.
Meanwhile, a powerful alliance between a proud and independent United States and a proud and independent Israel should expedite the doom of globalism.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-156481447
Why The Palestinian Authority Will Not Be Able to Control Gaza by Khaled Abu Toameh
The US Must Cut Ties with Qatar, Designate the Muslim Brotherhood a Foreign Terrorist Organization
February 3, 2025 at 5:00 am
- The failure of the Palestinian Authority’s security operation against the Jenin gunmen shows why the PA cannot be trusted to assume control over the Gaza Strip, where thousands of Hamas and PIJ terrorists continue to operate, especially after the recent US-brokered ceasefire-hostages deal between Israel and Hamas.
- Like Abbas, no Arab country will invest in or get involved in the Gaza Strip as long as Iran’s Islamist proxies continue to dominate it. Given the recent return of hundreds of convicted terrorists released from Israeli prisons to the streets in exchange for hostages — many of whom are dead — the possibility of another October 7-style atrocity against Israelis is still all too real.
- President Donald J. Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, may have the best of intentions, but unfortunately appears to have placed his trust in his real estate business associate, Qatar, which is a major funder of Hamas.
- Witkoff, who regrettably took a terrible, ready-to-wear deal from the Biden administration… is proving an unfortunate embarrassment to Trump.
- From the beginning, the deal should have been, as then-President-elect Trump put it, that all the hostages must be released before his inauguration or “all hell will break out.” Such a warning presupposes that all the hostages, dead and alive, are placed at the border, on a certain date at a certain time. No negotiations, no release of hundreds of terrorists, nothing… It would be interesting to know how Trump’s strong, original vision got so badly derailed.
- “Qatar is at the top of funding terrorism worldwide, even more than Iran.” — Ehud Levi, retired head of the Mossad’s unit for economic warfare against terrorist organizations, Ynet, April 18, 2024.
- Qatar’s plan undoubtedly is to see that Hamas, one of its preeminent clients, remains in power. As the mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas through its vast television empire, Al Jazeera, Qatar does not want to see Israel in the region any more than Hamas does.
- There is only one viable way to address the Gaza Strip’s problems: discard Qatar as a supposedly honest broker (it is not), designate the Muslim Brotherhood a Foreign Terrorist Organization (it is), disarm all the terrorist groups, and oust Hamas completely from power.
Qatar and Egypt are now spearheading efforts to bring the Palestinian Authority (PA) back to the Gaza Strip. The two countries are apparently trying to persuade the US administration to back the idea.
If the PA has been unable, or perhaps unwilling, to rein in dozens of gunmen in the West Bank, how can anyone expect it to take control of the Gaza Strip, where thousands of terrorists from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) continue to operate? PA President Mahmoud Abbas is not foolish enough to send his men to the Gaza Strip, where they are likely to be slaughtered again, as they were in 2007.
In the eyes of Hamas and many Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Abbas and the PA are traitors, mainly because they conduct security coordination with Israel in the West Bank. Abbas is aware that if and when he dares to enter the Gaza Strip, he will meet the same fate as Palestinians suspected of “collaboration” with Israel: he will be murdered.
Since the US-brokered ceasefire-for-hostages agreement between Israel and Hamas went into effect last month, Hamas has executed several Palestinians and shot others in the legs after accusing them of “collaboration” with Israel. The executions are aimed at sending a message to Abbas as to what awaits him and his men should they set foot in the Gaza Strip.
A few weeks ago, the Palestinian Authority launched a major security operation against Iran-backed armed groups in Jenin Refugee Camp in the northern West Bank, which were threatening Abbas’s rule.
After besieging the camp for 40 days and killing and arresting several Palestinians, the PA and the gunmen, most of whom belong to Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas, reached an agreement to end the PA operation. According to the agreement, the PA security forces would stop pursuing the gunmen in the camp and release detainees. In return, PA forces would be allowed to remain in the camp. The agreement, however, did not end the “presence of armed groups” in the camp, thereby signaling the failure of the PA’s security operation. It is estimated that dozens of gunmen continue to operate inside the camp, as well as in several nearby Palestinian towns.
The failure of the Palestinian Authority’s security operation against the Jenin gunmen shows why the PA cannot be trusted to assume control over the Gaza Strip, where thousands of Hamas and PIJ terrorists continue to operate, especially after the recent US-brokered ceasefire-hostages deal between Israel and Hamas.
Immediately after the ceasefire-hostages agreement was announced, thousands of armed Hamas and PIJ terrorists reappeared on the streets of the Gaza Strip. The vast majority of the terrorists had been hiding in tunnels, hospitals and humanitarian zones during the 15-month Israel-Hamas war, which started after the Hamas-led invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023. More than 1,200 Israelis were murdered and thousands wounded during the attack. Another 250 Israelis, including children, women and the elderly, were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and “ordinary” Palestinians.
As Abbas’s security operation was underway in Jenin Refugee Camp, Hamas denounced the Palestinian Authority for its “catastrophic [security] coordination” with Israel. Hamas also held the PA responsible for the Palestinian “bloodletting” and accused it of committing a crime against the Palestinian people. Hamas, in other words, is saying that Abbas is a traitor who has Palestinian blood on his hands.
It is wrong to assume that Hamas or any other terrorist organization would consent to the PA regaining security control of the Gaza Strip. At most, Hamas will permit the PA to renter the Gaza Strip as a civilian body tasked with funding reconstruction efforts and paying salaries.
For now, Abbas feels safer living under Israeli security control in the West Bank than being with the masked terrorists of Hamas and PIJ in the Gaza Strip. Like Abbas, no Arab country will invest in or get involved in the Gaza Strip as long as Iran’s Islamist proxies continue to dominate it. Given the recent return of hundreds of convicted terrorists released from Israeli prisons to the streets in exchange for hostages — many of whom are dead — the possibility of another October 7-style atrocity against Israelis is still all too real.
President Donald J. Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, may have the best of intentions, but unfortunately appears to have placed his trust in his real estate business associate, Qatar, which is a major funder of Hamas. Witkoff recently sold to Qatar the Park Lane Hotel in New York City, “once called the world’s greatest site for development.”
Witkoff, who regrettably took a terrible, ready-to-wear deal from the Biden administration — a deal ensuring that Hamas will remain in power in the Gaza Strip — is proving an unfortunate embarrassment to Trump.
From the beginning, the deal should have been, as then-President-elect Trump put it, that all the hostages must be released before his inauguration or “all hell will break out.” Such a warning presupposes that all the hostages, dead and alive, are placed at the border, on a certain date at a certain time. No negotiations, no release of hundreds of terrorists, nothing — just like the release of American hostages from Iran under President Ronald Reagan in 1981. It would be interesting to know how Trump’s strong, original vision got so badly derailed.
Qatar is a major funder of Hamas, with donations of more than $1 billion annually.
Qatar has also for decades been a state sponsor of Islamist terrorism in general (see here, here, here, here, here, here and here).
According to Ehud Levi, retired head of the Mossad’s unit for economic warfare against terrorist organizations, “Qatar is at the top of funding terrorism worldwide, even more than Iran.”
Qatar’s plan undoubtedly is to see that Hamas, one of its preeminent clients, remains in power. As the mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas through its vast television empire, Al Jazeera, Qatar does not want to see Israel in the region any more than Hamas does.
Qatar has “spent nearly $6 billion since 2007 lobbying the American government and funneling cash to the United States’ top universities,” according to the investigative journalist Adam Kredo of the Free Beacon.
“In 2023, the country spent $5 million lobbying the American government. Another $11 million was spent on nongovernment lobbying expenses, according to public records. From 2020 to 2022, Doha spent more than $130 million on government and nongovernment lobbying efforts.
“Qatar also has invested heavily in America, spending more than $30 billion as of 2019 through its sovereign wealth fund, the Qatar Investment Authority, according to the State Department.”
There is only one viable way to address the Gaza Strip’s problems: discard Qatar as a supposedly honest broker (it is not), designate the Muslim Brotherhood a Foreign Terrorist Organization (it is), disarm all the terrorist groups, and oust Hamas completely from power.
Khaled Abu Toameh is an award-winning journalist based in Jerusalem.
GAZA WAR DIARY: 2 FEBRUARY 2025 By Naomi Ragen
Another week in which the joy of hostages released was mitigated by the horror of terrorists released. The images of hundreds of thousands of Gazans mindlessly hurrying back to their “homes” in the north was a bit surrealistic, especially when they were halted in their path because of Hamas’ failure to release hostage Arbel Yahud. They will all remember her name.
I have to say I had a certain sense of glee seeing these Hamas supporters encountering for the first time what the IDF has done in northern Gaza. Many turned around and headed straight back to where they came from, complaining loudly that Hamas had tricked them, and that there was no water and no electricity… and no house. In one especially amusing video, a Gazan stands in his bombed out apartment and says: “It’s okay as long as the walls are still standing,” reaching out to touch a wall which immediately crumbles. Ha!
I’m not being mean. The images of Gazans – including women and children – surrounding the young women IDF observers as they were released showed that there are no innocents in Gaza and they haven’t learned anything. So yes, I think it’s delightful to watch them discovering what their “Flood” has accomplished for them. Morons. But I have to say they are being inventive in keep up a brave face. One Gazan asked someone to tell him if his house was still standing. “Yes, it’s standing,” he was told. “But it’s on its knees bowing to Allah.”
Gazans are still stubbornly claiming victory: Senior Hamas negotiator Khalil al-Hayya: “What happened on October 7 is a military victory that will remain a source of pride for our people, our nation, and future generations.”
I agree with Abu Ali who says: “Allowing Hamas any achievements whatsoever – and securing the release of over one thousand jailed Palestinian terrorists is a major achievement – justifies the events of Oct. 7 and their devastating aftermath in the eyes of the Palestinians. The effect will be even worse if the West pushes for the rapid creation of a Palestinian state in response to this war.”
We have to keep fighting. We have to win a decisive victory. We have to hunt down and kill every, single terrorist murderer released under duress from our jails. And most of all we have to institute the death penalty so that this revolving door finally has a stopper.
While we might have a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon, the IDF is now in a full scale war against terrorists in Judea and Samaria, adjacent to the population centers in the heart of Israel. “Operation Iron Wall” in Jenin represents a “shift in Israel’s security doctrine in Judea and Samaria,” said Defense Minister Israel Katz. According to Israel Today: “the goal is to eradicate the Iran-funded terrorist infrastructure that threatens Jewish life in the biblical heartland and beyond.” “Belt of Fire” attacks that are familiar from the wars in Gaza and Lebanon but have never yet been seen in Judea and Samaria, have destroyed 23 buildings in Jenin, whose population of terror supporters have been banished. It is absolutely necessary, and we are glad this is happening.
In Gaza and Lebanon, Israel is closely observing and reacting decisively to any ceasefire violations. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit on Sunday reported that “An IAF aircraft fired at a suspicious vehicle that was advancing northward from the central Gaza Strip along a route that is not the agreed inspection route, thus violating the framework of the agreement.” The vehicle was destroyed, and several stupid people got what they deserved.
In Lebanon, Israel is conscious of the very chummy relationship of the Lebanese Army with Hezbollah as the latter attempts to reestablish its presence in the villages along the border with Israel. But I was happy to see the special envoy Trump has appointed to discuss these violations with the Lebanese government was wearing a huge diamond Magen David around her neck (I have the same, exact one.). Morgan Ortagus who takes over from Amos Hochstein, is a Jewish convert and a very firm Israel supporter. She is very experienced and played an important role in the David Accords.
The new Chief of Staff taking over from Herzi Halevi is Maj. Gen. (res.) Eyal Zamir, currently Director General of the Ministry of Defense. Across the board, the appointment has earned praise and support among all parties and factions.
A true professional, he is exactly what we need. Known to be in favor of Israel developing and producting its own weapons, he had this to say
Today: “We were all brought up on the phrase ‘The State of Israel will defend itself by itself.’ I now also tell you that the State of Israel will produce its own munitions, in the face of any threat and any scenario… Reducing dependence on the world is good for security, for the economy and for the industry. It will also prove itself in the export of security technologies… Our neighbors, from Iran to Gaza, from Yemen to Beirut and Damascus, are mistaken about us. The people of Israel and the IDF are strong. At the moment of truth, we see a fighting nation. We must salute the IDF, its fighters and commanders. They saved the State of Israel. The Ministry of Defense gave the IDF the tools, the support and the safety net to meet the challenge. In the war, the IDF rose from the depths – the enemies on all fronts were defeated and their leaders are buried under the rubble, but the campaign is not over and the challenges are still ahead of us. We must remember the heavy price we paid in casualties and wounded. 2025 will be another year of war. The Ministry of Defense must continue to build the force and support the needs of the IDF and the national security missions.”
Of all the hostages, the released young women observers tug at our heartstrings the most. They were, after all, IDF soldiers and were captured because of an IDF failure to listen to their warnings that war was about to break out. They say that they were abducted rather late on October 7 and were thus aware of the magnitude of the atrocities. From the bomb shelter where they barricaded themselves, they witnessed the death and murder of their friends. It has had a significant effect on them. They also said they used black humor to communicate, occasionally dropping in Arabic words as they all became proficient in the language.
They are now together at Beilinson Hospital surrounded by close friends and family. Recovery will hopefully be complete in the end. Such brave young women! Barely out of their teens! They are awesome.
Naama Levy was held hostage on her own for a long time until she was united with the other girls. Then she asked them if they were really alive. Four of the girls tried to pass the time with physical exercise despite the difficult condition they were held in and the lack of food.
American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegal, released on Saturday, thought his son had been murdered and then heard his voice on the radio All of the hostages were held in tunnels for months and starved, even as truckloads of food allowed Hamas to stuff themselves, if the beefy operatives guarding the girls are any indication.
One can only imagine the feelings of released hostage Yarden Bibas, husband of Shiri and those little red-heads we have all been following. Yarden did his best to protect his family as terrorists overran Kibbutz Nir Oz. But he was overwhelmed. He was kept in cages, beaten, starved and tormented constantly by his captors over the fate of his wife and children. I am sure his return without knowing what happened to them must be heartbreaking. Gazans are Nazis.
No, this war isn’t over. And many hostages remain. At present, there is no clear plan for when second phase negotiations will begin – or so says
Qatar’s foreign minister. Since Qatar is Hamas’ main supporter, their prominent role as “negotiator” is bizarre, don’t you think? What we are waiting for, is for the last hostage to be freed, and for the IDF to return and finish them off!
As seventy bloodthirsty released Hamas prisoners now housed in an Eygptian hotel are finding out, nobody actually wants them. Turning buildings into rubble isn’t enough unless all the Gazans responsible for these atrocities are underneath them.
Naomi Ragen is an American-born novelist, playwright and journalist who has lived in Israel since 1971. She has published thirteen internationally best-selling novels, and is the author of a hit play, “Women’s Minyan”, that has been performed more than 600 times in Israel’s National Theatre as well as in the United States and Argentine. Naomi has written for the Jerusalem Post and other publications in Israel and abroad, as well as to her blog list, about Israel and Jewish issues. An Orthodox woman, feminist and iconoclast, Naomi is a tireless advocate for women’s rights in Israel, waging a relentless campaign against domestic abuse and bias in rabbinical courts, as well as a successful Supreme Court case against gender segregation on Israeli buses.
Denying the Jewish Past By Alex Grobman PhD.
5 Shevat 5785 – February 2, 2025
No one can realistically be expected to know everything about the Palestinian Arab/Israeli conflict, yet there are recurring canards that one should be prepared to address with some level of knowledge.
In order to delegitimize the Jewish state, Arabs often deny the Jewish historical connection to the land, especially the city of Jerusalem.
Denying the Historical Connection of Jews to the Land of Israel
One example involves Dennis Ross, the chief US Middle East peace negotiator from 1988 to 2001. In his book The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East, Ross relates how Yasser Arafat, former chairman of the (Palestinian Authority) PA, claimed that in all the archeological excavations conducted during 34 years near the Western Wall, they “found not a single stone that the Temple of Solomon was there, because historically the Temple was not in Palestine [at all]. They found only remnants of a shrine of the Roman Herod.”
At the 2000 Camp David summit, Yasser Arafat alleged that “Solomon’s Temple was not in Jerusalem, but Nablus.” Ross understood that in making this outrageous charge, Arafat “was challenging the core of Jewish faith, and seeking to deny Israel any claim in the old City.” This absurd assertion and Arafat’s history of incitement and involvement in the murder of Israelis should have signaled that the US was once again being duped and played as a fool. Yet Ross and President Bill Clinton ignored Arafat’s rantings, because an agreement was their ultimate goal.
According to Yael Yehoshua writing in MEMRI, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), Arafat’s successor, also impugns Israel’s “claim that 2000 years ago they had a temple. I challenge that this is so.”
Itamar Marcus, founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch, quotes Dr. Hassan Khader, founder of the Al Quds Encyclopedia on PA TV, who claimed, “The first connection of the Jews to this site [the Western Wall] began in the 16th Century…The Jewish connection to this site is a recent connection, not ancient…like the roots of the Islamic connection…The Jewish connection to this site is a fabricated connection, a coincidental connection.”
The Jerusalem Post reported that Sheik Raed Salah, who directs the northern faction of the Islamic Movement in Israel, also denied the Temple ever existed, insisting that, “the claims of the Jews are big lies, and they have no right to any speck of dust here.”
In addition, some members of the Arab academic community have gone so far as to deny Israel’s legitimacy by portraying the Jewish state as a product of colonialism and that Jews have a tenuous claim to the land at best.
Employing Archeology
Among those espousing of this view is Nadia Abu El-Haj, a professor of anthropology at Barnard College. She argues that Israeli archeologists use their profession to prove Israel’s right to establish a Jewish national homeland in a land where Jews never lived.
In her book Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society, she contends that “There never was an actual metropole [mother city] for Jewish settlers in Palestine…the projects of settlement and of nation-building developed at one and the same time on a single colonial terrain.” In the process, the Israelis have “erased other geographies. Most centrally, it effaced Arab/Palestinian claims to and presences within the very same place.”
Establishing the Historic Jewish Presence
William G. Dever, an American archaeologist and biblical scholar, said archeologists have been using the evidence found in archeological excavations as an additional method to authenticate Israel’s claim to a Jewish presence in the land from the time of Joshua bin-Nun (1354 BCE-1244 BCE) to the Arab conquest in the 7th century .
The archeological evidence is significant.
Samaria
The Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology (Aiba) describes the extensive excavations of Samaria by Harvard University, the British Academy, the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, the Palestine Exploration Fund and The Hebrew University.
Samaria, founded by the Israelite king Omri during the mid-to-late ninth century BCE, served as Israel’s capital for roughly 200 years. Writing in Aiba, Seth Malone said, “Understanding ancient Samaria is crucial to understanding biblical history. As the capital of the north, Samaria was more than just a city, it was a symbol for the kingdom of Israel.”
Excavations, which began more than a 100 years ago, indicate proof of significant infrastructure, sophisticated fortifications, and royal palaces. Malone concludes that “The archaeological findings at Samaria paint a detailed picture of what the ancient city was like, highlighting the luxurious lifestyle of the monarchs and the cosmopolitan nature of its society.”
The centrality of Jerusalem
Attempts to deny the Jewish connection to Jerusalem are part of this unrelenting war against Israel.
Shalom Paul, a professor of Bible at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and chair of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation, and Dever said that beginning in 2004, Israeli archeologists examined the ruins the Waqf deposited in the Kidron Valley, Slightly northeast of the Old City of Jerusalem. Among the rubble, they found remnants from the late period of the kings of Judea (8th and 7th centuries BCE) including a seal of impression in ancient Hebrew script of the last days of the First Temple.
In an article in Abia, Christopher Eames reports on an excavation where coinage produced by the Jewish people in rebellion against Roman rule was found at the City of David National Park’s sifting project. “Nothing says ‘revolt’ and ‘self-determination’ like the creation of one’s own coins,” he said. .At times, the Roman coinage “was decorated with religious Jewish symbols and ancient Hebrew script, the type used.”
He adds that “one coin is labeled ‘Year Two’ (of the Revolt)—unsurprising, as most of the Revolt coins found are from this year (67–68 C.E).” But this one is different.
“This is a rare find,” said Dr. Robert Kool, head of the Israel Antiquities Authority’s coin department. “Out of many thousands of coins discovered to date in archeological excavations, only about 30 coins are made of silver, from the period of the Great Revolt (66–70 C.E.).”
Kool explained that “since the temple was the prime treasury of silver in Israel, we can say with caution that this coin is, apparently, one of the only items we hold today that originated on the temple itself.”
One side of the coin displays the image of a cup and the ancient Hebrew text “Israel Shekel, Year Two;” the other face has the words “Holy Jerusalem” and a depiction of pomegranates. (Other revolt coins typically read “For the Freedom of Zion;” Year Four coins, in a sign of desperation due to the besieged capital, read “For the Redemption of Zion.”)
Palestinian Media Watch founder Itamar Marcus says the main target of denying the Jewish people’s connection to Jerusalem is supposedly the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which Israel allegedly schemes to demolish to build the Jewish Temple. Palestinian Authority political and religious leaders, officials and academics refer to the Temple as Al-Haikal Al-Maz’oom, the “alleged Temple.”
The question of the centrality of Jerusalem to the Jewish people is irrefutable from many sources. Historian Rivkah Duker Fishman examined the works of Greek and Roman authors of classical antiquity from nearly 20 diverse sources dating from the third century BCE to the third century CE, roughly six centuries.
Fishman found that the authors of these historic works unanimously agreed that Jerusalem was Jewish since it was “founded by Jews, its inhabitants were Jews and that the Temple, located in Jerusalem, was the center of the Jewish religion.”
Even though some of these authors like Manetho, Apion, Tacitus and Juvenal held clearly negative views about Jews and Judaism, they were completely in accord about the Jewish identity of Jerusalem.
After its destruction in 70 CE, the memory of the Temple persisted in the retrospective histories by Tacitus and by Cassius Dio.”
Archeology in Perspective
Shalom Paul and William G. Dever place the role of archeology in perspective. They assert that it is essential to understand that the connection between archeology and the Bible is frequently misconstrued. “The most dangerous error” is to assume that the role of archeology is “to prove the Bible.”
Faith in the Bible is founded on history, but fundamentally “biblical faith is beyond history: it is a way of viewing the result of God’s action in history which interprets events through the ‘eyes of the faith.’” With regard to the Land of Israel, the Bible’s “claim is not that Israel took the Land, but that God gave the Land to Israel.”
This declaration is not open for investigation since this is a matter of faith which archeology cannot prove or disprove. Archeology increases our ability to study the Bible in the context of contemporaneous events, and becomes a valuable tool to understand the life of the Jews who lived in the land of Israel.
Inadvertently Acknowledging Jewish Connection
Even when the Palestinian Arabs unintentionally concede the Jewish connection to the Land of Israel, this contradiction is hardly, if ever, exposed in the media declares Itamar Marcus. When a Judean Shekel coin from the year 66 CE, the first year of the Jewish rebellion against Rome, for example, was sold in auction in March 2012, the PA daily claimed the Hebrew coin to be an “ancient Palestinian coin” and part of the “Palestinian cultural tradition.” As a result, the PA categorically admitted the Jewish people’s historical presence in the land of Israel by citing the Jewish revolt against the Romans.
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Trump intends to defeat radical Islamic lobby, sympathetic to Hamas, in the leadership of Ukraine By Slavisha Milaćic
February 3, 2025
The Republicans who came to power in the United States, who are particularly sympathetic to the Israelis, decided to eradicate the Islamic lobby in the Ukrainian military department. The administration of American President Donald Trump has already initiated a large-scale audit in the Ukrainian military department to check the spending of previously allocated funds. This has already led to the first resignations of Ukrainian officials. Defense Minister Rustem Umerov has come under attack.
Another scandal has broken out in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. According to the statement of the “Anti-Corruption Action Center”, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine has opened a criminal case on abuse of power from official position. https://antac.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/25_0124_20_TSPK_z_NABU_st_364_KKU.pdf This article provides for a punishment of up to six years in prison. According to Ukrainian media, even the head of the military department, Rustem Umerov, may suffer. https://www.unian.ua/politics/rustem-umyerov-nabu-rozpochalo-kriminalne-provadzhennya-proti-ministra-oboroni-ukrajini-12898842.html
Under public pressure, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov was forced to fire his key deputy minister, Dmitry Klimenkov, who was responsible for arms procurement. According to the official version, Klimenkov lost his position due to the failure of procurement for the Ukrainian army. According to the unofficial version, due to the resale of Western military aid to Islamist movements in the Middle East, which could soon cause harm to the Ukrainian Defense Minister himself.
The fact is that the administration of American President Donald Trump has declared the need to conduct an investigation and find out where Ukraine spent the billions of dollars allocated to it. “There are a lot of really good reasons to be concerned because Ukraine has been known as a place of corruption, a place of money laundering,” said Cash Patel, a candidate for the post of FBI director.
In addition, an audit of the funds already allocated will be conducted. The audit will be conducted, among others, by the United States Ministry of Defense
Weapons for Ukraine ended up in Hamas
Earlier, journalists reported that during the IDF operation in Gaza and its environs, caches with military equipment of European and American production intended for the Armed Forces of Ukraine were discovered.
Sources of the Algerian publication Menadefense reported that Deputy Ministers of Defense of Ukraine Yuriy Dzhigir and Dmitry Klimenkov, responsible for finance and procurement of the defense department, were behind the arms supplies to Hamas. https://www.menadefense.net/middle-east/hamas-sourcing-weapons-in-ukraine/
In Israel, back in June 2023, there were concerns that weapons supplied to Ukraine could be used in the Middle East. In an interview with the Jerusalem Post, Benjamin Netanyahu reported that Western anti-tank weapons intended for the Ukrainian Armed Forces had been spotted on the borders of Israel.
The Hamas attack of 2023 confirmed the validity of Tel Aviv’s mistrust of Kyiv. The Palestinian group then acquired FGM-148 Javelin and NLAW anti-tank missile launchers, as well as AT4 missile launchers made in the US and Sweden. These weapons were supplied to Ukraine, but a considerable part of them ended up in the Gaza Strip due to corruption in the top leadership of Ukraine and sympathy for the militants on the part of high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Defense.
In order to protect Israel from Islamist attacks in the future, Trump and his circle are interested in understanding what happened with military equipment and to punish Ukraine for corruption
Umerov’s counter steps
After the looming reputational threat, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov decided to terminate the contract with the head of the Defense Procurement Agency, Maria Bezrukova. He appointed his trusted man, fellow countryman, ethnic Crimean Tatar and Muslim Arsen Zhumadilov, as the new director of the Defense Procurement Agency. Previously, he headed the Defense Ministry procurement agency “State Rear Operator”, and was engaged in the procurement of food for the Ukrainian army. Zhumadilov and Umerov have long-standing friendly relations. This reshuffle will allow Umerov to retain his influence in the sphere of arms supplies even after a possible resignation, which is now not excluded due to the scandal with the initiation of a criminal case.
Muslims in the leadership of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
Earlier, the German media outlet Publikum wrote that the Ukrainian Defense Ministry is ruled by an Islamic lobby sympathetic to Hamas. It is involved in secret deliveries of weapons supplied by the West as military aid to Islamist groups. Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, an ethnic Crimean Tatar, is helped by his Muslim subordinates to carry out the uninterrupted illegal sale of military equipment. https://publikum.net/ukrainisches-verteidigungsministerium-wird-von-einer-islamischen-lobby-beherrscht-die-mit-der-hamas-sympathisiert/
The office of President Volodymyr Zelensky encourages the Islamic lobby in the military leadership. The resale of military equipment to Islamist movements meets the interests of both the functionaries of the Ukrainian military department and the president’s entourage: the former fulfill an ideological duty, the latter make good money on it.
Rustem Umerov is the first Crimean Tatar and Muslim to head a Ukrainian ministry, but he is not the only follower of Islam in the current leadership of the Ministry of Defense. The dismissed Dmitry Klimenkov voluntarily converted to Islam many years ago.
In May 2019, in an interview with the YouTube channel Seytumer Bağçaraylı, Klimenkov said that he, an ethnic Ukrainian, “had been a Muslim all his life, but did not know it.” In this religion, Klimenkov, who adopted the name Daud when he converted to Islam, found answers that fully corresponded to his concept of God. The deputy defense minister’s wife and children also converted to Islam.
Klimenkov’s interview, in which he portrays himself as a devout Muslim, has not attracted public attention, perhaps due to the small audience of the Seytumer Bağçaraylı channel. Klimenkov himself does not advertise his religious affiliation, although he uses his Muslim name, Daud, on his social media account X. https://twitter.com/Daud_Klimenkov
Sympathies of Umerov and his entourage for radical Islamists
Until 2023, the current Minister of Defense of Ukraine was not noticed in excessive publicity. Umerov entered big politics in 2019, when he became a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. After three years in the Ukrainian parliament, he briefly headed the State Property Fund. When Umerov replaced Reznikov as Minister of Defense, information about his participation in negotiations on a grain deal and in the process of exchanging prisoners with Russia began to be widely circulated.
Former colleagues in the Verkhovna Rada described Umerov as a successful negotiator with the Arab world. The Minister of Defense has had close ties to the Middle East for a long time, since the time when he accompanied the leader of the Crimean Tatar national movement, Mustafa Dzhemilev, a well-known follower of the ideology of nationalism and radicalism, on foreign trips. Officially, Umerov was Dzhemilev’s adviser, but in fact, his right hand and successor. Zhumadilov was also Dzhemilev’s subordinate – he headed the department for ensuring the activities of the presidential commissioner for the affairs of the Crimean Tatar people.
Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Nikolov previously reported that Klimenkov is listed as a co-founder of the Muslim religious community “Unity of Muslims” in the Desnyansky district of Kyiv. It holds joint events with the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people and the ASTEM Foundation. The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people has long established partnerships with the Palestinians and held meetings with them. The de facto leader of the Mejlis is the same Dzhemilev, and the co-founder of the ASTEM Foundation is his protégé Umerov. https://www.facebook.com/yuurii.nikolov/posts/pfbid0ZM8mFm9huKCDTU13msg7t4zHbg3aH6QrKwqEtkjsdB3Jd7WdqT5W6NKKNBtgnV8zl
Like Umerov, the fired Klimenkov and the appointed Zhumadilov are experienced procurement managers. Skills acquired in the corporate sector and in government service, connections to Arab countries, and an ideologically motivated sympathy for radical Islamist groups seem to have helped Umerov’s team quickly and smoothly establish shadow arms supplies to militants.
But now, with the help of the Americans, the Israelis are preparing their response. Most likely, Klimenkov’s resignation is a preventive step by Umerov to hide traces of the illegal business of reselling weapons to the Middle East. After all, large-scale inspections initiated by the Trump administration are ahead.
Witkoff Meets PLO Leader Who Vowed to Spend ‘Last Penny’ Financing Terror BY DANIEL GREENFIELD
JAN 31, 2025 5:00 PM
What is Witkoff doing?
Fresh from his success of implementing the Biden plan and saving Hamas, Steven Witkoff, acting as Trump’s Middle East Envoy, went to Saudi Arabia, homeland of the 9/11 hijackers, and met with a top PLO leader.
Hussein Al-Sheikh, secretary-general of the PLO Executive Committee and head of the General Authority of Civil Affairs, who is apparently the leading candidate to replace ‘Abbas,
The meeting between Witkoff and Hussein al-Sheikh took place amid efforts by the Trump administration to end the war in Gaza and push for a Saudi-Israeli peace deal that includes a path toward a Palestinian state.
Hussein al-Sheikh isn’t just an Abbas adviser, he’s a possible successor to the aging PLO tyrant (or at least he was until he was recorded badmouthing Abbas) to run the Palestinian Authority.
And Al-Sheikh has a vision. Terror and more terror.
According to a MEMRI report, Sheikh claimed the Palestinians would spend every single dime they have on the so-called martyrs (dead terrorists) and their families as well as imprisoned terrorists.
Sheikh said, “I would like to reassure you of our firm and unwavering commitment: Our martyrs, prisoners, and their families are where we cross the line.”
He added, “Even if we have one penny left, it will be spent on the families of the martyrs and prisoners…They are our purest, most permanent, loftiest, and most precious jewel.”
In English, Al-Sheikh is referring to the ‘Pay-to-Slay’ program under which the PLO funds terror by providing payments to imprisoned terrorists or the families of dead terrorists.
Al-Sheikh also claimed that “our arms are open to” Hamas and bragged of the PLO’s role in defending the fellow Islamic terrorist group with which it had signed a unity agreement under the aegis of Communist China.
“Even as the world talked and demanded that Hamas be designated as a terror organization, who stood up the world? Was it not Abu Mazen who stood in front of the UN and declared, ‘No, Hamas is not a terror organization?’” al-Sheikh says, referring to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
“The real terrorism is the Israeli occupation. The real terrorism are the settlements. The real terrorism is the crime being committed against the Palestinian people. We’ve done our homework… and know very well what our priorities are and how to defend our internal front,” al-Sheikh adds.
The Saudis are proposing some sort of deal under which Al-Sheikh gets a terrorist state in Israel to run. Witkoff ought to be asked why he’s pulling America into nation-building terrorist states.
That’s not America First. That’s Jihad First.
