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Trump’s peace plan is the Western left’s worst nightmare By turning the screws on Hamas, Trump has exposed who’s really responsible for this dreadful war. Brendan O’Neill

By on September 30th, 2025

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/30/trumps-peace-plan-is-the-western-lefts-worst-nightmare/

Has the prospect of peace ever been greeted with such gloom? No sooner had President Trump unveiled his peace plan for Israel-Gaza than the opinion-forming classes were frantically sowing cynicism. The possibility that the ghastly war in Gaza will be brought to a close gave rise not to optimism but to sarcasm, suspicion, even an eerie grumpiness unbecoming of a deal that might save thousands of lives. From the BBC to Sky News to the Israelophobic swamp of social media, the cry went up: ‘It’ll never work.’

I’m sure some of this haughty scepticism springs from the faint strains of Trump Derangement Syndrome that linger in elite circles. Hence, the BBC’s focus was less on the lives that might be preserved in Gaza than on Trump’s ‘hyperbole’ and his ‘exotic overstatement’. The Beeb preferred to rip the piss out of Trump for probably thinking this was ‘one of the greatest days in the history of civilisation’ than to ponder on a better future for Gaza. Nice moral priorities you have there.

Sky’s analysis positively dripped with derision. What happens when the ‘applause dwindles’, it wondered, and either Hamas or the Israeli ‘far right’, with all its ‘spitting fury’, rejects the plan? You would think a media empire that has convinced itself the war in Gaza is a ‘genocide’ would be more sanguine about a deal that might bring the ‘genocidal’ horrors to an end. You would be wrong.

A strange melancholy likewise descended on the digital haters of the Jewish State. They noisily gnashed their teeth over the ‘problematic’ small print in the deal, which is a weird way to respond to something that might bring to an end what they claim (insanely) to be an Auschwitz-level calamity. ‘The Palestinians must reject this surrender deal’, said Roshan M Salih of the Islamic website 5Pillars. So let the ‘genocide’ continue? It’s an original rallying cry, I’ll give him that.

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Media And U.N. Portray Mahmoud Abbas As A World Leader Despite Lack Of Elections Moshe Phillips

By on September 30th, 2025

https://thej.ca/2025/09/29/media-and-u-n-portray-mahmoud-abbas-as-a-world-leader-despite-lack-of-elections/

ABC News coverage of Abbas’s Sept. 25 U.N. address drew criticism for calling him a world leader while he remains in office well past his elected term and faces allegations of failing to uphold Oslo commitments.

Mahmoud Abbas was elected to a single four-year term as chairman of the Palestinian Authority well over 20 years ago. Several journalists at ABC News, in their reports on Abbas’s speech (given via video to the UN General Assembly on September 25), referred to him as a “world leader” and otherwise skewed their coverage of the man who has been chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) since Yasser Arafat died in 2004.

This is significant, since the official emblem of Abbas’s PLO still features a map of “Palestine” that leaves no room for any State of Israel—”from the river to the sea.”

When Abbas looks around him, he must be astonished at how news outlets and the international community have acquiesced to his brutal dictatorship and unwillingness to hold elections.

Here are some direct quotes from the ABC News staffers:

Shannon Kingston breathlessly reported that it was “remarkable to see Abbas … say that… he would work with him (Trump) and that’s because the two leaders have a lot of bad blood in the past.” It is disturbing that Kingston would draw any such comparison between an elected U.S. president and the leader of the murderous PLO.

Kyra Phillips (no relation) called Abbas the “leader of the war-torn region.” What’s worse, she said, “(Abbas) also called for the release of all hostages on both sides.” Israel does not hold any hostages; it has prisoners and detainees.

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You’ll Totally Believe Who’s Secretly in Charge of the Gaza ‘Relief’ Flotilla

By on September 30th, 2025

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/09/30/youll-totally-believe-whos-secretly-in-charge-of-the-gaza-relief-flotilla-n4944291

Surprise! That Sumud “relief” flotilla crossing the Mediterranean to the Gaza Strip is actually a Hamas operation, according to secret documents just uncovered by Israeli forces operating in Gaza.

As I reported earlier this month, Greta’s Gaza blockade-buster flotilla is perhaps the largest effort of its kind. The most recent reports indicate that the flotilla consists of more than 50 vessels from 44 countries. Its sponsors include the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, Global Movement to Gaza, Maghreb Sumud Flotilla, and Sumud Nusantara.

Ostensibly, the flotilla is supposed to make its way to Gaza City, where it will provide relief, end the war, and allow everybody to live happily ever after.

In reality, Sumud’s mission is far more sinister — an attempt at Hamas “enlarging” its way out of a deadly impasse. I’ve read it all so that you don’t have to, but you do need to take a quick look at the evidence.

OSINT investigator Eitan Fischberger has all the boring details on X, including copies of the original documents and their English translations. But the quick and dirty version is that Greta & Co. are nothing more than the Western face of “Hamas Abroad,” as Fischberger described Hamas’s overseas branches, which run the flotilla “through the PCPA [Palestinian Conference for Palestinians Abroad].”

“A second document lists flotilla operatives, including Zaher Birawi (UK), longtime flotilla leader, and Saif Abu Kashk (Spain),” Fischberger continued. And how about that, Hamas bigwigs openly operating in Britain and Spain? I’ll give you a moment to pretend to pick your jaw up off the floor.

Aside from that, I’ll keep light on the paperwork details because they’re not of much interest to anyone outside the intel community…

…but what they reveal is fascinating.

If we set the Wayback Machine to Oct. 7, 2023, to re-witness the unimaginably cruel Hamas terror invasion of southern Israel — don’t worry, I won’t actually ask you to watch any of that again — it requires no imagination at all to infer what Hamas was up to.

I mean, aside from setting babies on fire, raping women to death, and taking hundreds of hostages. That was all in Hamas’s idea of good fun, I suppose, but the methods were not the goal. The goal was to provoke the kind of murderous response-in-kind from Israel that would isolate the Jewish state completely, even from its allies in America.

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Britain’s Most Shameful Hour Since Before World War II Rivaling in its immorality and stupidity Chamberlain’s betrayal of Czechoslovakia in 1938. by Hugh Fitzgerald Leave a Comment

By on September 30th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/britains-most-shameful-hour-since-before-world-war-ii/

Now Keir Starmer has gone and done it: he’s broken with decades of his country’s foreign policy and, in synchronicity with two other appalling leaders, Mark Carney of Canada and Anthony Albanese of Australia, who have made the same announcement at the same time, has announced his country’s recognition of a “state of Palestine.”

Starmer hasn’t offered any hint as to the borders of this new state, nor explained why he thinks the 3,500-year history of the Jews in Judea and Samaria (which is where most of that new state would be located) should be ignored, or why he thinks he can simply forget about the League of Nations’ Mandate for Palestine, that in 1922 assigned all the territory “from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea” to be included in the area subject to the Palestinian Mandate, which would in time become the Jewish state of Israel. Nor has he shown any awareness of UN Security Council Resolution 242 — written largely by the British representative to the U.N. Lord Caradon — which allowed Israel to retain territory it won in the Six-Day War that it deemed necessary to hold onto if it was to have “secure and recognized borders.”

Nor has Keir Starmer said anything about what would happen, in this “state of Palestine,” to the 500,000 Israelis who have been living in Judea and Samaria for decades, or to the 200,000 Israelis now living in east Jerusalem, all three areas having been claimed by the most “moderate” of Palestinians to become part of their state. The non-moderates, of course, lay claim to all of the land “from the river to the sea,” by which they mean the disappearance of Israel, the expulsion or killing of all of its Jewish inhabitants, and its replacement by a twenty-third Arab state.

Jake Wallis Simons casts a cold eye on Keir Starmer’s betrayal of an ally here: “Starmer’s shame,” Jake Wallis Simons, September 21, 2025:

…Polling published yesterday revealed that 90 per cent of Britons thought it a bad idea, and for once the majority view is the right one. For evidence of this, one need look no further than Hamas, which has responded with unbridled glee and has wholeheartedly congratulated Starmer.

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Rewarding Oct 7 Will Globalize Oct 7 And the next Oct 7 attacks may happen in Paris, London or New York City. by Daniel Greenfield

By on September 30th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/rewarding-oct-7-will-globalize-oct-7/

On July 23, 1968, the era of terrorist airline hijacking and hostage taking went into full swing when terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked an El-Al flight originating in London’s Heathrow Airport and headed out of Rome on the way to Israel.

What became the world’s longest hijacking lasted for forty days. The PLO’s UN observer bragged that the hijackings had “awakened the media and public opinion much more” than its political propaganda. France paid a $7.5 million ransom and the hijackers were flown out to their destination of choice after Israel released 16 terrorists with blood on their hands.

Notes from the Johnson administration had initially expressed its concern “over serious blow(s) to international civil air transport which likely arise if hijacking of El Al aircraft permitted to stand… this incident, if not quickly redressed, might stimulate competitive hijacking attempts.”

And indeed it did.

The hijacking by a Marxist-Islamist group backed by the USSR and trained by its proxies in Egypt and Syria, spurred a new wave of Cuba hijackings by leftist sympathizers in the U.S, who had been briefly active earlier in the decade but whose attacks had fallen off, by the PFLP,  by the North Koreans, the Japanese Red Army, Pakistanis and other members of the Red-Green Alliance. What had been the behavior of the occasional madman became a wave of terrorism.

The copycat leftist terrorists include a Black Panther who hijacked a TWA flight out of Oakland after murdering a police lieutenant and was able to live out the rest of his life in Cuba.

When PFLP terrorists were arrested, their allies attacked other airplanes, took more hostages and traded them for the hijackers. Governments that had formerly condemned the attacks, negotiated, made deals and paid out millions, freeing and financing the terrorists attacking them.

When Israel struck back at the states harboring the hijackers, it was condemned by the UN in resolutions like Resolution 262 while the State Department warned Israel that “we simply cannot have this kind of violence in the Near East.” Not by the terrorists hijacking Americans. By Israel.

On September 9, 1970, the PFLP hijacked four planes headed for New York City in the largest airplane hijacking campaign of the time that would prefigure and inspire September 11.

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Christopher F. Rufo The Left-Wing Terror Memeplex Here’s how the nature of political violence works now.

By on September 30th, 2025

https://www.city-journal.org/article/left-wing-political-violence-terror

Many of us who work in politics have felt sickened since the assassination of Charlie Kirk. We sense that a line has been crossed, perhaps permanently.

For years, the Left had accused conservative intellectuals of fomenting “stochastic terrorism”—incendiary rhetoric that inspires violence. This accusation was used to purge conservatives from social media, and, during the Biden administration, contributed to the F.B.I.’s decision to monitor conservatives, including parents who opposed critical race theory. The Left sought to use the stochastic terrorism construction as an all-purpose censorship tool.

This year, the tables have turned. Donald Trump is in power and left-wing violence has surged. Even The Atlantic, which previously seconded the idea of stochastic terrorism, has now conceded that political violence from the Left outstrips that from the Right.

After studying several recent incidents of left-wing terrorism, I want to articulate some initial thoughts about what I call the “left-wing terror memeplex.” This system, in which left-wing narratives inspire decentralized acts of violence, has four elements: prestige narratives, radicalized memespaces, copycat models, and disturbed individuals.

The memeplex is not organized like the older model of left-wing political terrorism, which relied on organized groups (such as the Weather Underground and Black Liberation Army), decentralized cells, ideological formation, and meticulous planning. By contrast, the memeplex is decentralized, mediated through the Internet, and, on the surface, appears unorganized. Left-wing media and political figures peddle narratives through the digital sphere; an individual commits an act of terrorism inspired by those narratives; and the media and political figures pretend that the two are unrelated and that the terrorist was a “lone wolf.”

But if you dig beneath the surface, it becomes apparent that these dots are often connected and that the memeplex, though decentralized, is designed to radicalize disturbed individuals and generate bloodshed—with plausible deniability for political actors. In other words, the progressives who seed the memeplex are fomenting precisely the “stochastic terrorism” that they previously decried.

Let’s examine the elements one by one. First: the prestige narratives. For the past decade, the Left’s elite media and political figures have entrenched a series of hyperbolic and highly polemical narratives: that Donald Trump is analogous to Adolf Hitler; that America is about to fall to fascism; that conservatives are organizing a genocide of transgender people; that deportations are laying the groundwork for martial law. These narratives have taken root not only on the fringes of activism and academia, but are reflected in the headlines of the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Public Radio, MSNBC, and other mainstream outlets.

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Santiago Vidal Calvo Some Bright Spots in Immigration Policy Several recent policy shifts point toward an approach that emphasizes U.S. values and interests.

By on September 30th, 2025

https://www.city-journal.org/article/us-citizenship-test-naturalization-exam-immigration-policy

The United States has never promised newcomers an easy path, but it has always offered them a meaningful one. For the hopeful immigrant, citizenship is meant to be not a participation trophy but a solemn commitment to a constitutional republic that asks the same of every citizen: knowledge, loyalty, and responsibility.

That’s why U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ recent plans to toughen the naturalization exam deserve support. The potential changes include adding an essay, restoring the 2020 civics test, and sharpening the criteria for judging “good moral character” and English proficiency.

The idea behind these measures is simple: if citizenship confers solemn responsibilities, then it should require more than memorization of a handful of facts and slogans. USCIS director Joseph Edlow believes that the current naturalization exam is “just too easy”—and he’s right.

By law, applicants for U.S. citizenship must show that they can read, write, and speak basic English, and that they understand U.S. history and how our government works. USCIS assesses this knowledge during the naturalization interview and test. Under the current format, citizenship applicants must answer six out of ten basic civics questions correctly (drawn from a list of 100) and demonstrate modest English skills.

The updated test will ask applicants up to 20 questions, drawn from a 128-question study bank. Applicants who answer 12 correctly will pass; officers will stop the examination once the applicant meets that threshold or answers nine incorrectly.

A genuinely pro-American immigration policy starts with assimilation and civic education. Tougher naturalization standards should be paired with higher expectations—expanding basic civics and English requirements for permanent residency and certain work visas that have a path to citizenship—so newcomers are prepared to participate fully in America’s political system.

Because so many temporary immigrants eventually become Americans, we should expand the “pro-Americanism” filtering and civic-readiness screening before they arrive. About 53 percent of immigrants living in the U.S. (roughly 25 million people) are now naturalized U.S. citizens. In FY2023 alone, roughly 878,000 immigrants were naturalized (down from 969,000 in FY2022 but still above the 2010–2020 average of 721,000). The administration could implement a less extensive version of the civics tests for applicants with green cards or work visas.

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China and Russia: The Axis of War by Gordon G. Chang

By on September 30th, 2025

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21941/china-russia-axis-of-war

The [Washington Post] report, based on a study issued by the U.K.-based Royal United Services Institute, notes that China is undoubtedly planning an airborne assault on Taiwan.

Trump’s plan is not working. Russia’s forces are making progress in Ukraine, and, viewing the response of the great democracies to his invasion as feeble, Putin is already taking on other neighbors.

On July 2, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Kaja Kallas, the EU foreign policy chief, that Beijing does not want to see Russia lose in Ukraine because then the U.S. would focus on China in East Asia. China, by implication, also wants to see the war drag on to tie down the United States.

The West and friends are finally realizing how close they are to catastrophe.

Russia is providing equipment, technology, and training to China for an airborne invasion, the Washington Post reported on September 26. The report, based on a study issued by the U.K.-based Royal United Services Institute, notes that China is planning an airborne assault on Taiwan.

The day before the Washington Post article, Reuters revealed that Chinese experts had traveled to Russia to help that country develop drones. According to the wire service, Sichuan AEE, a Chinese company, sold attack and surveillance drones to Russian company IEMZ Kupol through an intermediary sanctioned by the U.S. and the EU.

The two reports highlight the close cooperation between Russia and China in military theaters around the world. These two aggressive states, from all appearances, have effectively formed a military alliance.

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ENVIRONMENT AND JUNK SCIENCE Comments turned off

Fact Checking Trump’s Climate Claims

By on September 30th, 2025

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/09/30/fact-checking-trumps-climate-claims/

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President Donald Trump spoke at the United Nations last week in an address that the world needed to hear. It was of course picked apart, particularly his claims about global warming. He twisted facts and made “false claims,” say the gatekeepers of the Great Climate Narrative. Is this so?

Let’s look:

Trump called the global warming scare a “hoax.” Not a word we would use, but he’s closer to the truth than the climatistas. It’s obvious to those with open minds that the global warming tale is the product of academic fraud, gross exaggerations, and an effort to lie to the public to move opinion and force politics into what should be a scientific debate.

Trump said renewable energy sources “don’t work,” are “too expensive” and a “joke.” They work, but not as advertised. Renewables are unreliable and they are far too costly (without taxpayer-funded subsidies they’re dead). “Joke” is another word we wouldn’t use, because the damage done by the blind drive to net zero emissions is not funny.

“All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong,” Trump said. “They were made by stupid people.” They are not stupid. But they are conniving, deceitful, shameless, wrong and vicious. They are also dangerous (see the point above).

Trump called the global warming account “the greatest con job perpetrated by the world.” The predictions of doom have not materialized. The models they are based on are overheated. The real motive for clamping down on fossil fuel use is not to save the sky but to break capitalism, phase out human existence, force a false religion on others and take control of the economy. Sure, it’s a con, and it’s worked fairly well. As Elon Musk recently said, “legacy media propaganda is very effective at making people believe things that aren’t true.”

Wind turbines, the president said, are “so pathetic.” Still not a word we would use but we are in agreement with the greater point. The world is shunning wind and solar power. More than 1,000 proposed projects have been blocked globally. In addition to the inferior nature of renewables, land-use conflicts are constraining their growth as are investors, who don’t want to squander their capital on investments that won’t earn them a profit.

“Now,” said Trump, the zealots “just call it climate change, because that way, they can’t miss. It’s climate change, because if it goes higher or lower, whatever the hell happens, there’s climate change.” He’s correct. The green jihad was rebranded because the warming argument wasn’t working – the climate was not cooperating with fantastic tales about an overheating planet.

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Two Historic Speeches at the UN General Assembly Trump and Netanyahu bring truth to the globalist hall of lies. by Joseph Klein

By on September 30th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/two-historic-speeches-at-the-un-general-assembly/

President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered stern but much-needed addresses to the United Nations General Assembly during this year’s annual General Assembly High-Level Week. Both leaders presented stark truths rather than the platitudes and strident rhetoric that normally permeates the General Assembly Hall. 

President Trump asked the fundamental question about the UN today. What is its purpose? “The UN has such tremendous potential,” he said. “All they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter, and then never follow that letter up. It’s empty words — and empty words don’t solve war. The only thing that solves war and wars is action.”

Even worse, the UN has created problems of its own. “Not only is the UN not solving the problems it should,” President Trump said, “too often, it is actually creating new problems for us to solve.” He noted, for example, that the United Nations is “funding an assault on Western countries and their borders,” including spending in 2024 “$372 million in cash to support 624,000 migrants to journey into the United States to infiltrate our southern border.”

President Trump denounced in his speech what he called the “double-tailed monster” of uncontrolled open borders and the “green energy scam.”

“In the United States,” he said, “we reject the idea that mass numbers of people from foreign lands can be permitted to travel halfway around the world, trample our borders, violate our sovereignty, cause unmitigated crime and deplete our social safety net.” He called upon other nations, particularly in Europe, to follow his administration’s example or risk losing their countries.

What President Trump made crystal clear in his speech is his insistence that each nation is sovereign with its own history, heritage, traditions, and culture that “makes each nation majestic and unique” in its own right.

President Trump reminded the global assemblage that so-called climate “experts” and environmental activists have been making apocalyptic predictions for years that unchecked climate change would wreak catastrophic devastation unless humanity quickly reverses course. According to the fearmongers, we must abandon fossil fuels and convert to total reliance on green energy before it is too late.

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