🚨 Back In The Batter Box – March 24 2025

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Lead: Israel's Government Imploding

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Massive protests raged in Israel this weekend against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Protestors held up images of hostages to re-iterate that Netanyahu never had their best interest in mind and Israelis know it.

The protests were sparked after the dismissal of Ronen Bar, the director of the Israeli Security Agency, commonly known as Shin Bet. After he was ousted, an unnamed source reportedly admitted that Bar had known about October 7 hours before the attack.

Obviously. The Egyptian government warned Israel for days in advance of October 7. This should not be controversial. Israel knew.

Bar moved to thwart his dismissal, which prompted the Prime Minister to once again call for "judicial overhaul now." Netanyahu was unpopular before October 7 for calling for this same thing and the people protested.

Bar was also said to be investigating the Prime Minister's own office for alleged Qatari spies.

After October 7, Hamas always offered an all-for-all hostage exchange with the Israeli government and Netanyahu flatly refused, choosing revenge instead. If the conflict in Gaza ends, Netanyahu would face some ominous music and it is clear he is avoiding that at all costs and using fellow government officials as human shields. For how long can he do this?

The Telegraph asks this: "after nearly 80 years, are the wheels coming off the Middle East’s only democracy?"

War In Gaza Intensifies

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The Trump administration says that it supports Israel's renewed attacks on Gaza, even with a reported 200 children killed.

The Trump administration “fully supports Israel and the IDF and the actions that they’ve taken in recent days,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

The White House company line is that Hamas violated the terms of the ceasefire, which is false. Israel reneged on the ceasefire and Israelis know it, which is why they are protesting.

Hamas began retaliating on Thursday, sending rockets into Tel Aviv. The Times of Israel reports that three long-range rockets were launched. Two struck open areas and one was intercepted by air defenses.

Israel's attacks killed at least two Hamas leaders on Sunday, including Hamas leader Ismail Barhoum and a member of Hamas’s Political Bureau, Salah al-Bardawil. The attacks came near civilian and makeshift displacement camps.

Israel also says that it has begun annexing Palestinians from the Gaza Strip with a goal of removing between 5,000-10,000 people per day. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that the goal is to remove all Palestinians within 6-12 months. Israel set up a “migration administration” to manage the project but they won't go into Israel. Of course not. They are heading to Egypt where a "temporary" refugee camp will hold these people "while Gaza is rebuilt."

The governments of Syria, Somalia, Somaliland, and Sudan all reported that the U.S. has approached them to receive Palestinian refugees too.

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Peace Talks Resume

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Saudi Arabia is hosting peace talks this week for the war in Ukraine. On Sunday, officials from Ukraine met with officials from the U.S. Those same U.S. officials will meet with officials from Russia on Monday.

The U.S. interest in Ukrainian resources seems back on the table. Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said this on X: "We have concluded our meeting with the American team. The discussion was productive and focused — we addressed key points including energy. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s goal is to secure a just and lasting peace for our country and our people — and, by extension, for all of Europe. We are working to make that goal a reality."

Steve Witcoff, the U.S. envoy in the middle east, told Tucker Carlson this weekend that the goal this week is to arrange a 30-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine that will be extended into a permanent agreement.

Ukrainian President Zelensky continues to repeat pie-in-the-sky demands such as NATO membership and regaining lost land but that seems to be because Europe wants to hear that, not because he will actually get those things. He may eventually stop speaking nonsense if a deal is reached.

It would be not a moment too soon. Moscow accused Ukraine of striking an oil depot and gas metering station in recent days, violating an "energy truce." They warned that they reserve the right to retaliate, barring a peace deal.

News By The Numbers

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$85 million. That is how much Disney was hoping that Snow White would make in its opening weekend. It made about half of that with estimates at $45 million for opening weekend, which earns the film the title of Disney's biggest loss.

2 years. That is how long Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez have been engaged but the couple now have a reported wedding date for sometime this summer it Italy on his $500 million yacht.

15. That is how many people were stripped of security clearances by the White House this weekend including former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Senator Hillary Clinton, Joseph R. Biden Jr., and "any other member of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s family." 

What's Trending?

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Epcot Fire is trending because a backstage fire broke out on Saturday evening at Epcot in Disney World, causing evacuations of a major ride. There are no reported injuries.

Jutta Leerdam is trending because she got engaged this weekend to YouTuber Jake Paul. Given this set up and the clothes they are wearing, I would wager it wasn't a surprise.

Denzel Washington is trending because a new Broadway production of Othello opened this weekend starring Washington in the lead role with Jake Gyllenhaal as Iago. It broke records in its first week, earning $2.8 million.

Cartel War

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The drug cartels in the U.S. may be joining forces to fight the U.S. government and using advanced weaponry to do it.

These gangs are notorious for being violent against each other but the U.S. government is now their common enemy.

“What we’re seeing is cartels consolidate,” Ammon Blair, intelligence consultant and senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Secure & Sovereign Texas Initiative, told the Epoch Times. He says that the cartels have "military-grade weapons and equipment, including advanced surveillance technology." This includes "undetectable drones, military-grade encryption built into their own cellular networks, and access to an Israeli Pegasus spy system that can break into any cellphone undetected."

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond validates this problem.

“What we’ve observed is that coordination between cartels,” he said. “This is dangerous business.”

They are fighting to sell drugs to American children, which has made them rich. The Trump administration cannot solve this by simply closing the border and making ICE arrests. They may have a real fight on their hands, a war not just on the border but within.

Arresting dangerous people may not solve the problem since the cartels can use drones to delivery drugs undetected and the drones "can be armed with explosives and deployed for spying."

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