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‘Hamas doesn’t want peace’ Jonathan Sacerdoti on the end of the Gaza ceasefire. Brendan O’Neill

By on March 27th, 2025

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/03/27/hamas-doesnt-want-peace/

When the ceasefire in Gaza broke down last week, Israel was roundly accused of escalating the violence. World leaders called for ‘restraint’ and condemned the resumption of the war as ‘unjustifiable’ and ‘intolerable’. But, typically for this conflict, this isn’t the full picture. From the off, Hamas showed it is not a good-faith partner for peace. It paraded hostages in grotesque ceremonies, flagrantly lied about which hostages were alive or dead, and used the pause in fighting to rearm and prepare for more attacks.

Writer and broadcaster Jonathan Sacerdoti joined The Brendan O’Neil Show last week to discuss why the ceasefire was always doomed to fail. What follows is an edited extract from that conversation. Listen to the full thing here.

Brendan O’Neill: What do you make of the resumption of hostilities between Israel and Hamas?

Jonathan Sacerdoti: Israel found itself trapped in an untenable situation. Active combat had largely ceased, and Hamas was regrouping and strengthening its position. At the same time, Hamas wasn’t releasing any more hostages, because phase one of the agreement had ended. Humanitarian aid intended for the citizens of Gaza was, once again, being taken control of by Hamas.

Hamas appeared very comfortable with that position. It miscalculated, assuming that internal political disputes within Israel would stop decisive action.

It also perhaps misinterpreted US diplomatic engagement. The US had sent Adam Boehler, its special envoy for hostage response, to negotiate directly with Hamas. Hamas leaders might have seen that as a sign of America’s willingness to tolerate them. So, from Hamas’s perspective, everything seemed good.

In effect, that added up to Israel deciding to resume the war. It was a strategic decision. Israel took out quite a few senior Hamas leaders in the first night of air strikes.

O’Neill: Hamas clearly hasn’t been a serious partner in peace. Why should Israel have to live next door to an existential enemy?

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The Alien Enemies Act, ‘Public Safety,’ the Separation of Powers, and That Little Word ‘Or’ by Lawrence Kadish

By on March 27th, 2025

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21508/alien-enemies-act-public-safety

The only matter about which there seems no dispute in President Donald J. Trump’s administration having officially designated Tren de Aragua and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, is that they are a threat to public safety.

The text of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, written 10 years after the Constitution was ratified, states:

§21 Restraint, regulation, and removal

Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion OR predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or government, and the President makes public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall be within the United States and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies. The President is authorized in any such event, by his proclamation thereof, or other public act, to direct the conduct to be observed on the part of the United States, toward the aliens who become so liable; the manner and degree of the restraint to which they shall be subject and in what cases, and upon what security their residence shall be permitted, and to provide for the removal of those who, not being permitted to reside within the United States, refuse or neglect to depart therefrom; and to establish any other regulations which are found necessary in the premises and for the public safety.
(R.S. §4067; Apr. 16, 1918, ch. 55, 40 Stat. 531. Emphases added)

The decision to deport alien enemies when a “predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened,” is clearly mandated to the president, who recently ordered deportations of members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua, and Latin America’s MS-13.

If anyone was deported unjustly, he can file from abroad for a writ of habeas corpus, to protest having been unjustly imprisoned.

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Gazan Civilians to Hamas: Stop Fighting Israel, Get Off Our Backs What happened to the “pro-Palestinian” narrative? P. David Hornik

By on March 27th, 2025

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So, in what appears to be an intensifying phenomenon, Palestinians in Gaza are now demonstrating angrily against…Hamas (reports here and here).

“Pro-Palestinians” on US campuses are not marching in sympathy with the protesting Gazans. If anything, they’re suffering a bout of cognitive dissonance. What’s happening in Gaza now does not fit their narrative of demonic Israelis and innocent Palestinian victims.

In the real Gaza this week, thousands of Gazans are showing up to vent frustration at the ones more and more of them see as the culprit—Hamas. They’re demanding that it stop waging—futile—war on Israel and give up its power.

In Shejaiya, a neighborhood in Gaza City considered a Hamas stronghold, protesters are shouting, “For God’s sake—Hamas out!”

In Beit Lahiya, a town in northern Gaza, there are cries of “The people want the fall of Hamas!” and “Hamas out, out, Hamas is a terrorist!”

On Tuesday last week Israel launched a new offensive in Gaza, aimed at stopping Hamas’s rearmament and pressuring it to stop stonewalling on the issue of the Israeli hostages. Again Gazans hear the bombs exploding and the Israeli warnings to evacuate neighborhoods.

In a video in Hebrew and Arabic released on Wednesday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz urged Gazans to step up the protests. Saying the IDF would soon launch a new round of attacks, he told Gazans they would have to

leave the combat zones for your protection.

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Carney’s Snap Election — And Trump Saw It Coming By Sonia Bailley

By on March 27th, 2025

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/carney_s_snap_election_and_trump_saw_it_coming.html

Mark Carney’s snap election is a globalist power grab disguised as leadership, continuing Trudeau’s agenda with a more polished image. But Donald Trump saw this coming — and he may be the only one ready to stop it.

Mark Carney’s sudden rise to power isn’t a win for democracy — it’s a globalist takeover in a Canadian suit. Recentlyinstalled as Prime Minister of Canada without a single vote, Carney now leads both the country and the Liberal Party just months before a federal snap election that he called. This isn’t about Canadian politics — it’s about global control. 

But Canadians have seen this movie before. Carney is former prime minister Trudeau’s spiritual twin: polished, elitist, and devoted to the same globalist networks. The only difference? Carney doesn’t wear blackface — he wears a central banker’s smile. If you think you’re voting for a nationalist in Carney, think again. You’re voting for a globalist in a Canadian suit.

Trump saw it coming long before most Canadians did. His unapologetic stance against Trudeau wasn’t just bluster — it was a strategic masterstroke. When Trump floated the idea of annexing Canada, it wasn’t a real policy proposal. It was a provocation designed to rattle the status quo — and it worked. Trudeau’s image crumbled under the weight of his own hypocrisy, incompetence, and allegiance to foreign interests. Trump exposed him on the world stage without firing a shot.

Now, Trudeau is gone — but the machine that backed him is not. Mark Carney stepped into power not through a democratic vote, but by appointment: unelected, unaccountable, and even more dangerous than his predecessor. A longtime insider of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, and the UN’s climate finance movement, Carney is not a nationalist. He is a globalist operative tasked with keeping the Liberal regime alive and Canada under elite control.

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Is Tren de Aragua a Military Incursion? You Bet! Judge Boasberg blocks Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Tren de Aragua, despite intelligence linking the gang to Venezuela’s government and acts of sabotage in the U.S. By Bart Marcois

By on March 27th, 2025

https://amgreatness.com/2025/03/27/is-tren-de-aragua-a-military-incursion-you-bet/

As President Trump fulfills his campaign promise to deport criminal illegal aliens, a blatantly corrupt judge is trying to stop him. Judge James Boasberg, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, has abandoned all pretense to fairness. I will leave it to others to focus on his conflicts of interest (the FISA Court, his wife, his daughter) and his double standard of justice.

This article is based on an intelligence briefing and refutes Boasberg’s central argument—that it is inappropriate for President Trump to apply the Alien Enemies Act against Tren de Aragua (TdA). Boasberg said TdA is not a foreign government against whom the United States has declared war. But that is a deliberate misreading of the text of the law. The law is quite simple. Here it is, in its entirety:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever there shall be a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion shall be perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government, and the President of the United States shall make public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being males of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies. [Emphasis added]

The law states clearly that the predicates for invoking the Act include “any invasion or predatory incursion attempted … by any foreign nation or government” and that “the President shall make public declaration of the event.” Are those conditions met?

The president made the required declaration. On March 15, he issued the official proclamation: “I find and declare that TdA is perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States. TdA is undertaking hostile actions and conducting irregular warfare against the territory of the United States both directly and at the direction, clandestine or otherwise, of the Maduro regime in Venezuela.”

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From Profanity-Chic to Terrorist-Porn Democrats, reeling from electoral losses, embrace profanity-laced rhetoric, street-theater activism, and veiled support for political violence, alienating voters and hastening their own decline. By Victor Davis Hanson

By on March 27th, 2025

https://amgreatness.com/2025/03/27/from-profanity-chic-to-terrorist-porn/

The Democratic Party is polling about 27 percent approval—and sinking.

In 2024, it lost the White House, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and both the popular vote and the Electoral College, 312-226.

In 2024, Trump won over 46 percent of the Hispanic vote, including a majority of Hispanic men. Trump also likely captured 26 percent of the black male vote, doubling his 2020 total.

In 2024, Trump increased his 2020 vote total in every single state. And he won 89 percent of all the counties in the United States.

On every issue, Democrats sided with strident leftist movements rather than the majority of Americans.

They supported globalism over nationalism, high-priced green energy over lower gas and electricity prices, and an open border and 12 million unaudited illegal aliens over security and legal-only immigration.

They seem unconcerned with our $36 trillion debt or the deterrence lost abroad that led to two theater-wide existential wars.

Democrats stay mum about unfair trade and budget deficits. They prefer the Black Lives Matter fixation on the color of our skin rather than Martin Luther King’s emphasis on the content of our character.

They support allowing biological men to overpower women in female sports events—in opposition to 80 percent of the electorate.

Democrats faced choices after their catastrophic defeat last year.

One, they could have stopped the hemorrhaging of their base of 18-30-year-olds, black men, Hispanics, and Independents by moving toward the center.

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Adam Zivo There’s No Such Thing as a “Safer Supply” of Drugs Sweden, the U.K., and Canada all experimented with providing opioids to addicts. The results were disastrous.

By on March 27th, 2025

https://www.city-journal.org/article/drugs-harm-reduction-safer-supply-opioids-denver-sweden-uk-canada
Adam Zivo is director of the Canadian Centre for Responsible Drug Policy.

Last August, Denver’s city council passed a proclamation endorsing radical “harm reduction” strategies to address the drug crisis. Among these was “safer supply,” the idea that the government should give drug users their drug of choice, for free. Safer supply is a popular idea among drug-reform activists. But other countries have already tested this experiment and seen disastrous results, including more addiction, crime, and overdose deaths. It would be foolish to follow their example.

The safer-supply movement maintains that drug-related overdoses, infections, and deaths are driven by the unpredictability of the black market, where drugs are inconsistently dosed and often adulterated with other toxic substances. With ultra-potent opioids like fentanyl, even minor dosing errors can prove fatal. Drug contaminants, which dealers use to provide a stronger high at a lower cost, can be just as deadly and potentially disfiguring.

Because of this, harm-reduction activists sometimes argue that governments should provide a free supply of unadulterated, “safe” drugs to get users to abandon the dangerous street supply. Or they say that such drugs should be sold in a controlled manner, like alcohol or cannabis—an endorsement of partial or total drug legalization.

But “safe” is a relative term: the drugs championed by these activists include pharmaceutical-grade fentanyl, hydromorphone (an opioid as potent as heroin), and prescription meth. Though less risky than their illicit alternatives, these drugs are still profoundly dangerous.

The theory behind safer supply is not entirely unreasonable, but in every country that has tried it, implementation has led to increased suffering and addiction. In Europe, only Sweden and the U.K. have tested safer supply, both in the 1960s. The Swedish model gave more than 100 addicts nearly unlimited access through their doctors to prescriptions for morphine and amphetamines, with no expectations of supervised consumption. Recipients mostly sold their free drugs on the black market, often through a network of “satellite patients” (addicts who purchased prescribed drugs). This led to an explosion of addiction and public disorder.

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Nurses in Iran Face Poverty Dwindling numbers under barbaric tyranny. by Struan Stevenson

By on March 27th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/nurses-in-iran-face-poverty/

Women in Iran have been treated as second-class citizens by the mullahs for almost five decades. Women’s dress codes are under constant scrutiny. They must wear the hijab, and ‘morality police’ are on relentless patrol to enforce the law. The death in custody of the young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in September 2022 for not wearing her hijab properly ignited a nationwide uprising and a brutal crackdown by the mullahs that led to more than 750 deaths and tens of thousands of arrests. Women, particularly young women like Mahsa Amini, are singled out for brutal attacks for the ‘crime’ of malveiling. Girls who were deemed to be improperly dressed in the street have suffered horrific acid attacks and stabbings, in assaults openly condoned by the mullahs. Teenage girls arrested for the offense of posting videos of themselves dancing or singing on social media have been publicly flogged. Young female students attending end-of-term parties have been fined and beaten. This is what gender equality looks like in Iran today. But courageous women have led the protests, chanting “Women, resistance, freedom.” They have been on the front line of demonstrations calling for overthrowing the theocratic regime.

Against this background of unrelenting misogyny and discrimination, the exploitation of Iranian nurses, a respected and hardworking sector of society, continues unabated. As the Iranian economy collapses under a tsunami of political incompetence, corruption, warmongering, and international sanctions, the rial has halved in value since Masoud Pezeshkian, the so-called ‘moderate’ president, took office in August last year.

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The Groves of Academe Get Some Needed Weeding Clearing the noxious ideological weeds that are choking our youth. by Bruce Thornton

By on March 27th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-groves-of-academe-get-some-needed-weeding/

After fifty years of pedagogical malpractice and trillions of squandered taxpayer dollars, Donald Trump has begun to rid our public schools of their destructive politicization. He’s directed Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to start dismantling the Department of Education, and has commenced “pausing” funds given to rich, prestigious universities that promote transgender voodoo, tolerate anti-Semitism, and enable supporters of terrorism.

Most important, he’s acting to reverse the failures of our public schools to teach foundational skills and knowledge necessary for citizens living in a free state with unalienable rights and political equality.

And he’s starting with the exorbitant public funding of private universities flush with huge, tax-free endowments, and taxpayer subsidies distributed through government-backed student loans managed by the Department of Education–– “a student-loan boondoggle,” the Wall Street Journal writes, “with a $1.6 trillion portfolio, while harassing schools, states and districts with progressive diktats on everything from transgender bathroom use to Covid-19 mask rules.”

Moreover, universities with bulging endowments have been raising tuition costs far beyond the rate of inflation, at the same time they create politicized programs, even as completion and graduation rates decline, administrator outnumber tenured faculty, GPA inflation skyrockets, and fundamental skills and knowledge are replaced with leftist ideological fads like illiberal identity politics programs.

Trump’s cutting back on federal funds is a good way to fight back against this degradation of curricula. Taking back $400 million from Columbia is a good start. Its indulgence of violent protests against Israel, replete with anti-Semitic, genocidal slogans, swastika graffiti targeting Israel, and violence against Jewish students, epitomize the ideological corruption of our once-most prestigious universities.

But Trump also is offering a smart way to get the funds back: by requiring universities to agree to meet his nine demands, including “banning masks, empowering campus police and putting the school’s department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies under ‘academic receivership,’” the Journal writes, which means such programs would no longer be controlled by the faculty. After some grousing, Columbia has acceded to Trump’s conditions.

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DOGE in the 1830s The war against big government has been going on for a long time. by Robert Spencer

By on March 27th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/doge-in-the-1830s/

The war against big government has been going on much longer than President Trump has been in office. One of the first arenas in which it played out was the struggle over the Bank of the United States. Such a bank, a private corporation, had been established during the

Washington administration in 1791, but its charter expired in 1811 when a vote to renew it was narrowly defeated: the Senate vote was a tie, and President James Madison’s vice president, George Clinton, voted against the bank. Nevertheless, the idea of a central bank for federal funds did not die.

The Bank’s advocates contended that it was necessary to put the nation’s finances in order; its foes, including Madison, argued that it was an unconstitutional power grab on the part of the federal government. It was also dangerous, then as now, to turn power over the public funds to an oligarchy of private financiers; the possibility for corruption, and for a de facto second government developed by buying favors until large enough to challenge the government of the United States, was immense. Nonetheless, it was the Bank’s great foe, Madison, whose signature brought the Bank of the United States back to life in 1816.

Opposition to the Bank was one of the issues that later propelled Andrew Jackson into the White House in 1829. President Jackson called the Bank of the United States a “monster,” and denounced its “power and corruption.” He charged it with interfering in the political process and bribing elected officials and journalists with “loans” so that they would do its bidding. There was ample evidence for this. The New York Courier and Enquirer, which up until the 1832 election had opposed the Bank, received a substantial loan from it and suddenly became a vocal supporter of rechartering the Bank.

The pro-Jackson Washington Globe accused pro-Bank senators George Poindexter of Mississippi and Josiah Johnston of Louisiana of accepting enormous bribes in return for their support of the Bank, and indeed, Poindexter had received from the Bank a $10,000 loan ($300,000 today) and Johnston one of $36,000 (over $1 million today). These were by no means the only loans the Bank gave to politicians.

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