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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 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. (Image source: iStock/Getty Images)
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
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by Daniel Greenfield • February 4, 2025 at 5:00 am
Fresh from his success of implementing the Biden plan and saving Hamas, Steven Witkoff, acting as President Donald Trump's Middle East Envoy, went to Saudi Arabia, homeland of the 9/11 hijackers, and met with Hussein Al-Sheikh, secretary-general of the PLO Executive Committee and head of the Palestinian Authority (PA) General Authority of Civil Affairs, who is apparently the leading candidate to replace PLO chief and PA President Mahmoud Abbas. Al-Sheikh has a vision. Terror and more terror. In English, Al-Sheikh is referring to the 'Pay-to-Slay' program under which the Palestinian Authority funds terror by providing payments to imprisoned terrorists or the families of dead terrorists. 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.
At a January 7, 2023 ceremony marking Palestinian Martyr's Day, PLO Executive Committee Secretary-General Hussein al-Sheikh claimed the Palestinians would spend every single penny they have on the so-called martyrs (dead terrorists) and their families as well as imprisoned terrorists. (Image source: MEMRI)
Fresh from his success of implementing the Biden plan and saving Hamas, Steven Witkoff, acting as President Donald Trump's Middle East Envoy, went to Saudi Arabia, homeland of the 9/11 hijackers, and met with Hussein Al-Sheikh, secretary-general of the PLO Executive Committee and head of the Palestinian Authority (PA) General Authority of Civil Affairs, who is apparently the leading candidate to replace PLO chief and PA President Mahmoud Abbas. The meeting between Witkoff and 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. 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.
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by Khaled Abu Toameh • 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.
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. Pictured: Palestinian terrorists in Jenin on March 8, 2023, at the funeral of fellow terrorists who were killed the previous day when they attacked Israeli soldiers. (Photo by Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP via Getty Images)
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.
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by Con Coughlin • February 2, 2025 at 5:00 am
For Trump to make genuine progress in bringing peace and stability to the region in his second term, though, his administration must first focus on the root cause of much of the unrest blighting the region. In response to the Muslim Brotherhood's violent ideology, a number of pro-Western Arab regimes, such as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, have designated the organisation as a terrorist entity. The need for the world's major Western democracies to take firm action against the Muslim Brotherhood has become even more urgent following the October 7 attacks, with militant groups inspired by the Brotherhood's ideology said to be responsible for provoking anti-Jewish riots on American university campuses and staging weekly hate marches in many European capitals, such as London. [Ed] Husain, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is among a number of Middle East experts arguing in favour of the incoming Trump administration designating the Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation. He argues that such a move would "force Europe to reconsider the financial, media and mosque networks used by Iran and the Brotherhood in their own countries to project power back into the Middle East." At the same time Trump should confront the Gulf state of Qatar over its blatant double standards in supporting terror groups such as Hamas, whose leaders have drawn heavily on the Muslim Brotherhood's dogma, while at the same time pretending to be an ally of the West. [Qatar's state-owned media] described the worst terrorist attack in Israel's history as a "heroic operation," a "miracle" and a "historic turning point" that restored the honour of the Muslim nation, while placing the Palestinian cause back on the world's agenda. Qatar played a similar role during the Afghan conflict, when its willingness to provide Taliban negotiators with a base in Doha ultimately resulted in the Taliban regaining power in Kabul, re-establishing its uncompromising Islamist rule over the Afghan people. While the Qataris maintain that their mediation efforts on the Gaza conflict are aimed at ending the bloodshed, their real motive is to ensure that Hamas, the group whose terrorist infrastructure they have helped to finance, survives the conflict, enabling it to maintain its threatening presence on Israel's southern border. This mission of Qatar's is a goal about which President Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, and even President Trump himself, might not be aware. Given Qatar's overt sympathy for the Hamas cause, at the very least the Trump administration should undertake a serious review of its dealings with Doha, and consider relocating the US military's Al Udeid Air Base from Qatar to a more friendly location in the region, such as the United Arab Emirates.
If US President Donald Trump is really serious about making a positive impact on the Middle East, a good place for him to start would be to designate the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood movement as a terrorist organisation and scale down Washington's ties with the Gulf state of Qatar. Pictured: President Donald Trump and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani meet in the White House July 9, 2019. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
If US President Donald Trump is really serious about making a positive impact on the Middle East, a good place for him to start would be to designate the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood movement as a terrorist organisation and scale down Washington's ties with the Gulf state of Qatar. Since he won re-election, there has been much speculation that Trump, architect of the ground-breaking Abraham Accords, intends to use his second term in office to negotiate a wide-ranging peace deal aimed at bringing lasting stability to the Middle East. Before he had even taken office, Trump was credited with helping to finalise the Gaza ceasefire deal, after he threatened that "all hell will break out" if Hamas did not release the remaining Israeli hostages held in captivity.
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by Amir Taheri • February 2, 2025 at 4:00 am
The Americans told the Chinese: If you want us to do something that you want, first deliver what we want. The Chinese complied and were rewarded. Applying the Chinese model to normalization with Iran's mullahs will have to start with a long laundry list that Iran has to deal with in domestic and foreign policy fields. Is "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenei ready for a seven-year ordeal in the hope of securing relief at the end? Does he have the clout that Mao had when he agreed to dramatically change course? Will he even last that long?
The Nixon-in-China episode was about hard-nosed diplomacy, which had little to do with realpolitik. The Americans told the Chinese: If you want us to do something that you want, first deliver what we want. The Chinese complied and were rewarded. Pictured: Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong welcomes US President Richard Nixon to his house in Beijing, on February 21, 1972. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)
"Trump in Tehran!" This is the name of an operetta imagined by some American advocates of realpolitik calling themselves the Council on Foreign Relations, rather than the sobriquet that G.K. Chesterton would have suggested: The Club of Queer Trades. The "real" part of the English-German cliché is misleading; what is offered has nothing to do with reality but a fantasized perception of it. The realpolitik crowd looks at a country, decides who is Big Cheese at any given time, and tries to make a deal with him regardless of ethical, idealistic or even geostrategic considerations. One prominent advocate of the approach was Hans Morgenthau, a German-American academic. Like his fellow German Karl Marx, who looked for "laws of history," Morgenthau tried to find "the laws of politics" as applied to international relations. In his worldview, the concept of power was the overriding goal in international relations as it defined national interests.
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by Majid Rafizadeh • February 1, 2025 at 5:00 am
The Iranian regime's motivations are rooted in its desperation to ensure its survival and to advance its expansionist agenda, not in any willingness to abide by international norms or foster peace. By re-entering the global financial system and emerging from international isolation, Iran would gain the political and economic breathing room it needs to consolidate power and suppress dissent in the full knowledge that it had bought itself time and reduced the likelihood of coordinated international action against it. A deal would also provide Iran with political legitimacy and be seen as a victory for the regime, allowing it to portray itself as a credible and lawful actor on the global stage when in truth it is anything but that.
The Iranian regime's motivations are rooted in its desperation to ensure its survival and to advance its expansionist agenda, not in any willingness to abide by international norms or foster peace. Pictured: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a graduation ceremony for Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers, on May 20, 2015 in Tehran. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)
The Iranian regime has recently demonstrated an unusual eagerness to negotiate with the Trump administration to reach a deal with the West. This sudden shift should not deceive the West, particularly the United States, into believing that Tehran's intentions are either genuine or benign. The Iranian regime's motivations are rooted in its desperation to ensure its survival and to advance its expansionist agenda, not in any willingness to abide by international norms or foster peace. Recognizing this is critical to preventing what could become a fatal mistake.
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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. Pictured: Witkoff speaks during the inaugural parade in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
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.
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by Nils A. Haug • January 30, 2025 at 5:00 am
"The number of Christians intentionally murdered, let alone tortured, raped, kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam far exceeds the number of Gazans killed unintentionally as Israel directs its fire at terrorists who hide behind civilians. Indeed, Israel is defending its population from the very same jihadist assaults faced by African Christians." — Charles Jacobs and Uzay Bulut, Gatestone Institute, December 25, 2024. Africa, it seems, is simply not a priority for the West at this time -- and that appears exactly why China, taking advantage of this vacuum, is making deep inroads throughout Africa (and the other unprioritized continent, South America) economically, financially, and politically – predominantly through their "Belt and Road" seductive-sounding loan initiatives, many of which turn out to be debt-traps. In a strategy described as ISIS's "global long game", the movement aims to permeate all of Africa. Currently, its affiliates successfully operate in "Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, Somalia, Mozambique, and West Africa." Hence, it is imperative that the West, particularly the US and Europe, significantly increase its presence in Africa. Only in this way is there a chance of containing Islamist jihadism, and ensuring that democracy prevails on the world's second-largest continent; one with a population that could soon reach two billion. Accordting to Lt. Col. Joseph G. Bruhl of the US Army's Southern European Task Force, Africa, "In 2019, Russia held the first-ever Russia-Africa summit—hosting 45 African heads of state. China holds a similar event called the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation. The U.S. hosts no such initiative." Why not?
Islamist extremists are focusing anew their efforts to establish a global Caliphate, through their usual tactics of terror and upheaval, by permeating the continent of Africa. Pictured: State officials walk past wounded survivors of a jihadist attack on St. Francis Catholic Church in Ondo State, Nigeria, in which they murdered 50 Christians, on June 5, 2022. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)
With Iran awaiting its fate from Western powers concerned about its nuclear advancement, Middle Eastern jihadist groups have faced crippling defeat through brilliantly planned retaliation by Israel -- aided, to an erratic extent, by the United States and United Kingdom. Islamist extremists are focusing anew their efforts to establish a global Caliphate, through their usual tactics of terror and upheaval, by permeating the continent of Africa. A report from the US-based Foreign Policy Research Institute notes that in 2024, although, a primary exponent of terror, Islamic State, "is no longer anchored in the Middle East, many of its most prolific and active branches are now located in Africa, where ISIS branches regularly claim attacks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Mozambique, and Nigeria."
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by Lawrence Kadish • January 29, 2025 at 5:00 am
The Trump administration must immediately establish a "Manhattan Project" to meet this new technological revolution in nuclear fusion energy by developing tokamaks superior to China's. Pictured: The HL-2M nuclear fusion tokamak, at a research laboratory in Chengdu, China. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
This is no time for complacency. Communist China's DeepSeek, a breakthrough in inexpensive AI computing that rocked US tech markets this week (tech investor Marc Andreesen called it a "Sputnik moment") is really a wake-up to the Trump administration. Call to form a Manhattan Project as soon as possible – this week! – to ensure that America stays competitive in what is sure to be the next breakthrough – which China is already developing: unlimited amounts of totally clean energy produced by nuclear fusion in donut-shaped reactors called tokamaks.
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by Frank J. Gaffney • January 28, 2025 at 7:30 am
The Trump 2.0 presidency is scarcely a week old and a number of political appointees who do not share the president's agenda are now in key positions in his administration. An epic struggle, it seems, is already underway to subvert the Trump administration from within. So how is it that three individuals who worked for Charles Koch are now serving as Deputy Assistant Secretaries of Defense (DASDs) or their equivalent, in some of the most sensitive positions in the government? The obvious answer is that Dan Caldwell was head of the Defense Department transition team and simply planted his friends in top jobs. A sizeable majority of the American people voted for a change in the nation's foreign and defense policies, not a continuation of the failed ones of the Obama-Biden years. President Donald J. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth – and our country – must not be represented, and undermined, by subordinates who disagree.
The Trump 2.0 presidency is scarcely a week old and a number of political appointees who do not share the president's agenda are now in key positions in his administration. President Donald J. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth – and our country – must not be represented, and undermined, by subordinates who disagree. Pictured: Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Hegseth (right) attend the 125th Army-Navy football game on December 14, 2024 in Landover, Maryland. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
The Trump 2.0 presidency is scarcely a week old and a number of political appointees who do not share the president's agenda are now in key positions in his administration. An epic struggle, it seems, is already underway to subvert the Trump administration from within. The problem is not simply a recalcitrant bureaucracy made up of "burrowed-in" Obama-Biden holdovers and leftist civil servants. Obstructionism of President Donald J. Trump's policy of "peace through strength" from such quarters was expected. In a well-researched article posted by The Free Press, Eli Lake documents the problematic views of several alumni of institutions funded by anti-Trump libertarian Charles Koch, recently installed inside Trump's wire at the Pentagon.
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by Gordon G. Chang • January 28, 2025 at 5:00 am
In short, Trump nullified the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. A president, however, does not possess that inherent power. China is using the app to target every future American president, Supreme Court chief justice, and House speaker by accumulating information — and blackmail material — on most of America's young. Since when does the U.S. need China's approval to protect itself from China's attacks? The U.S., therefore, has the right to expropriate without compensation — confiscate or "forfeit" in legal terms — the app, including its algorithm.
On January 20, President Donald Trump signed an executive order effectively delaying the application of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, better known as the "TikTok ban." This executive order is legally questionable and severely undermines the national security of the United States. Pictured: Trump speaks to journalists about TikTok as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, on January 20, 2025. (Photo by Jim Watson/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
On January 20, just hours after taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order effectively delaying the application of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, better known as the "TikTok ban." This executive order is legally questionable and severely undermines the national security of the United States. It is, to say the least, disappointing that one of the new president's first actions was to help the Communist Party of China continue its assault on the United States with its social media weapon. The Act provides that no person may "distribute, maintain, or update" a "foreign adversary controlled application." The measure designates any app owned by ByteDance, including TikTok, as such an app. In short, American app stores cannot distribute that app and no American business may offer web-hosting services to it.
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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.
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. Pictured: Hamas terrorists in Gaza City on January 25, 2025. (Photo by Abood Abusalama/Middle East Images via AFP)
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.
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by Raymond Ibrahim • January 26, 2025 at 5:00 am
"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."
On December 19, "just days before Christmas, a period of heightened security risks due to festive gatherings," Spanish police arrested four Muslim migrants of Moroccan origin (aged 14 to 17), for plotting a terrorist attack on the Basilica of Santa María in Elche (pictured), a UNESCO World Heritage Site that draws large crowds, especially around Christmas time. (Image source: iStock/Getty Images)
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:
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by Amir Taheri • January 26, 2025 at 4:00 am
A leading French pundit wonders how "someone with Trump's profile" could win a convincing election victory by saying the first thing that comes to his mind (often on X), while seasoned European politicians with carefully crafted messages have failed to do so for more than half a century. The ruling elite has also developed a discourse woven around a number of lies... The politicians' caste teaches you to re-write everything by replacing facts with half-truths or even outright lies in the name of political correctness.
Pictured: US President Donald Trump is seen on a giant screen during his remote address by video conference at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 23, 2025. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)
Four years ago, when Donald J. Trump failed to win a second term as president of the United States, many in the globalist elites initially assumed that they had seen the back of him. A few saw him as a mischievous spirit, like the Ridgeway Ghost of Wisconsin, destined to fade away in time. Last Monday, however, he was back for more. The European elite are split on what to do with Trump. Some recommend the grin-and-bear-it posture: swallow the castor oil and pray it passes through. Others go for the "if you can't beat them, join them" tactic. Some, like the outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, however, though barely standing, have opted for grandstanding against a figure they cannot quite gauge.
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by Majid Rafizadeh • January 25, 2025 at 5:00 am
Diplomacy, negotiations, or a new "deal," have no hope of limiting the regime's plans either for a nuclear weapons breakout or for "exporting the revolution" after Trump has safely left office. "There's a one in trillion chance you'll degrade the Iranian nuclear program through diplomacy. There's a 90% chance you'll degrade it through military action by Israel, supported by the United States." — US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Politico, January 19, 2025. An empowered, nuclear-armed Iran would no doubt increase its support for its terrorist proxies, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, as well as most likely triggering the mother of all nuclear arms-races. Ending Iran's nuclear program, bluntly, is a matter of global security. The United States must stand not just with Israel and the Gulf States, but with itself. "If we don't do that," Graham said, "it will be a historical mistake."
Diplomacy, negotiations, or a new "deal," have no hope of limiting the regime's plans either for a nuclear weapons breakout or for "exporting the revolution" after Trump has safely left office. Pictured: A Fattah hypersonic ballistic missile is displayed during the annual military parade in Tehran, on September 22, 2023. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)
Iran, led by the mullahs, is on the brink of crossing the nuclear weapons threshold. Once it reaches this milestone, the regime is presumably hoping that it would then be too hazardous for any country to stop it. It is critical to act decisively as soon as possible to stop Iran before it crosses that threshold. Failing to will only embolden a regime known for unremitting aggression at home and abroad. The Iranian regime seeks to acquire the power to expand its ideological reach to dominate the region -- for a start. Diplomacy, negotiations, or a new "deal," have no hope of limiting the regime's plans either for a nuclear weapons breakout or for "exporting the revolution" after Trump has safely left office. As US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) put it:
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