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PELONI: “Elections aren’t about choosing between reality and perfection. They’re about choosing between the governments actually available to lead Israel.”
The final election polls, for what they are worth, show an array of outcomes. Israel Hayom’s Kantar Thrusday poll has Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar winning 23 seats while Netanyahu’s Likud has 21 and Naftali Bennett’s Beyachad has 14, and the Netanyahu national camp has only 50 while the opposition has 56. Channel 14’s Wednesday poll showed Likud with 30, the Right bloc with 62 and the opposition holding only 44. Meanwhile, the Forum’s poll of polls [statistically challenged by the fact that none of the polls averaged are known to be similarly managed] has the blocs at 53 each with 14 for the Arab parties. My advice is to ignore the polls. Look at this election and every election as if nothing less than the fate of the world lies on your choice. Above all things, vote. Make a choice based on your values, your hopes for the future, and with the encouraging reality that the same decision which was once made for you by your parents now resides with you to make for your children. And for G_d’s sake, choose wisely!
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As Julia Roberts iconic line in Pretty Woman – “BIG MISTAKE! BIG MISTAKE!”
I get it.
Many right-wing Israelis are angry.
By | Oct 23, 2026
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If anyone understands about the jihad, it’s Israel. The tiny Jewish state has been struggling against Muslim bullies since the day of its founding, before anyone could accuse it of “occupying” territories that supposedly belong to the Palestinians, or of torture of detainees, the targeting civilians, and other such nonsense. The new Jewish state was all too aware of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, aka “Hitler’s Mufti,” and his alliance with Hitler and Eichmann to keep Jews out of the region of their ancestry.
Western Europe has administered a lethal dose of poison to itself and is now writhing in convulsions.
Oct 21, 2026
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France is burning; so are Brussels, Milan, and Turin. Barbarians run wild beneath Palestinian and Algerian flags. Politicians are impotent, law enforcement is helpless, and the media lament the ‘difficult conditions’ these ‘poor children’ face in their schools.
Mike Wise | October 23, 2026
There is one word thst best describe the enemies of Isrel, antisemites and anti-Zionists: It is the word: “EVIL”. It describes the people who hate Israel and Jews, and it does so with the kind of blunt accuracy that most political slogans never manage to achieve.
There is no spin here. No euphemism. No diplomatic softening. The people who celebrate the murder of Jewish civilians, who deny Israel’s right to exist, who spread ancient hatred dressed up in modern political language, are “EVIL”. The slogan says so plainly. That is its strength.
Peloni
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Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Ludovic Hood moderated a discussion with David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, David Wurmser of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, and Michael Doran of Hudson Institute. The central question around which the dicussion was based was whether Benjamin Netanyahu could retain power in the current election. They also addressed the topics of Israel’s rightward shift and the future of US-Israeli relations, and Israel’s prospects for relations with its Arab neighbors going forward.
PELONI: As Likud political events are cancelled for the day and Hebron has been placed on lockdown, questions are being raised about the possibility of an AFP reporter being notified about the terror attack beforehand. See tweets below the article for more, including Min. Ben-Gvir’s comments.
Also, take note of the comparison between the lack of any serious interest in the Western press in this actual terror attack contrasted with the full press corps attention gained by the faux reports of Settler Violence.
Likud party cancels election events scheduled for Friday after attack
Hanan Lischinsky | All Israel News | Oct 23, 2026
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Five Israeli were wounded, including two who are in critical condition, after two terrorists opened fire at a checkpoint on Judea Junction near the Palestinian-controlled city of Hebron on Friday morning.
PELONI: The very notion that national leaders are disappointed by a terrorist regime failing to implement democratic and anti-terror reforms doesn’t pass the laugh test. NO ONE could argue that the efforts to reward the terrorist PA with the gifts of international recognition was acted upon in good faith, and even today, as Israel is facing illegal sanctions from the UK and elsewhere, where are the similar attempts by these terror seduced nations to apply similar standards of economic war on Abbas who is the real terrorist who has and continues to block any measure of peace in the region. It is not that the Peace Processors can not figure out how peace might be achieved, as if the art of conflict resolution is so mysteriously avoided by them that they routinely and repeatedly reward the party acting in bad faith and who is actively and unrepentantly violent, but that they also routinely and regularly penalize and critique the party which acts in good faith. The region is more unstable specifically due to the efforts of the Peace Processors, and that includes the role being played by Britain and its malefactor allies whose only interest is to pursue the long anticipated establishment of the means by which Israel might be destroyed. Well, we live in a new age. Despite the best efforts of these malicious states and their Peace Processing acolytes, there will be no creation of a second Muslim Palestinian state. Jordan is the Muslim portion of Palestine, and that alone is as much as will ever be parted from the lands which were originally intended for the Jewish people under the League of Nations for the Mandate of Palestine.
Analysis: Palestinian statehood recognition was predicated on Abbas holding elections. Another delay shows that countries were scammed.
By Michael Starr | Honest Reporting | October 22, 2026
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The geo-political folly of states that recognized a Palestinian state was put on display last week when the Palestinian Authority (PA) delayed elections and demonstrated why the commitments made in exchange for statehood were worthless. Western countries were fooled into giving diplomatic prizes to the Palestinians for free, and effectively damaged prospects for peace by failing to establish expectations of the PA as preconditions.
PELONI: As we move into the final turn of events leading upto the pivotal next election, it can be difficult in determining for whom to vote. It might, however, be useful to look at whom not to vote for as the more revealing aspect of that decision process. To this end Dr. Martin Sherman offers us an insightful review of the more prominent spoilers of what I am hopeful to see as an important victory for the Right bloc next Tuesday.
By MARTIN SHERMAN
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With the October 27th election approaching with disconcerting speed, the decision of whom to vote for is becoming increasingly persistent in the public consciousness.
The classroom becomes an instrument for advancing political causes rather than a place where those causes are freely examined and debated.
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin | Oct 22, 2026
A UC Merced professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies is calling for the “dezionization” of the University of California, explicitly comparing his project to the “denazification” of postwar Germany.
In an extraordinary essay published this week on the UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council’s Substack, with the Council itself sharing the byline, Council member Sean Malloy proposes severing university relationships with organizations that support Jewish students, including Hillel, rejecting donations from foundations and individuals that support Israel and restricting individual faculty research with Israeli-linked entities. He also calls for establishing a new “University Committee on Dezionization,” independent of UC’s administration and Regents that is empowered to implement changes. Indeed, Malloy questions whether university leaders he considers complicit in Zionism should be allowed to continue governing UC, declaring that “a major overhaul of the governance of the UC system” is “part of the point.”
On October 15, Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah confirmed that the vehicle carrying hundreds of kilograms of explosives, seized on October 5 at the Dahr al-Baidar checkpoint, belonged to Hezbollah (see the attached video). According to Fadlallah, immediately after the vehicle was… pic.twitter.com/ZDx1IkfAwU
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Suspension and Debarment Give HHS the Tools to Ensure These Groups Never Receive Another Taxpayer Dollar
News from the Middle East Forum | MEF | October 20, 2026
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Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) and eight House Republicans called on Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to expand his department’s investigation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to other terror-linked grant recipients. The representatives’ October 13 letter is based on the Middle East Forum’s (MEF) July 2026 landmark report, “Health and Human Services Hidden Handouts,” which identified almost $80 million in grants to extremist groups.
PELONI: Some endorsements are meaningless, and this would be the case with Vance endorsing Netanyahu. Yet the manner in which he went out of his way to address the issue of not endorsing him on the very same day that Trump endosred Netanyahu with the most effervessant of praise only served to distinguish the great void which lies between Trump and Vance, rather than having any recrimination or comment being placed on Netanyahu. I noted this once before, but we should continue to appreciate and emphasize the importance of exactly what Vance is telling us about himself with his continued campaign of distance that he prefers to place between Israel and himself. To be clear, he need not to have endorsed Netanyahu to not have earned what Fox and Friends correctly described as an owned error. Well done JD.
The vice president defended his refusal to endorse Netanyahu on the grounds that he would not back a foreign leader – just months after he publicly campaigned on behalf of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán.
By World Israel News Staff | World Israel News | October 22, 2026
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US Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday that he would never again endorse candidates in foreign elections, reaffirming his refusal to support Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reelection bid despite President Donald Trump’s public endorsement of the Israeli leader.
PELONI: Beware of Terrorists asking for every greater capabilities while still maintaining policies which fund the slaughter of Jews simply because they are Jews. Not only should Abbas not be given command of a greater armed force than he already has, but he should be tried for crimes against the Israeli people for subsidizing the terror war waged against it for decades. Furthermore the terror army which now lies at the beckoned command of Abbas should itself be defanged, stripped of its arms, and disbanded. There is no good excuse for the preservation of terrorists in power nor for their armed forces to be tolerated, much less increased.
By Moshe Phillips
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While the international media recently distracted itself with the spectacle of PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas having to appear on video to address the UN General Assembly after America denied his visa, a call to war was hiding in plain sight. When Abbas blames Israel for his decision to postpone elections each time since 2010, in reality it is simply business as usual for a Palestinian Arab leadership terrified of the prospect of its own people voting it out of power while it is simultaneously consumed by corruption. Observers fixated on Abbas’s pre-recorded speech and the again delayed elections, and missed his pledge to wage perpetual war against Israel.
PELONI: “This is not violence, it is a campaign” — No more honest words could be spoken about this. Rather than reacting to the manufactured nonsense which even influences our allies, stories such as that of David and Rachel Stern. Take note that this is exactly what is described in the report by Regavim on False Flags and Real Agendas: Settler Violence – A Modern Blood Libel” which is available at the top right column of Israpundit.
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Prime Minister’s Office spokesman Doron Spielman dispelled claims of rampant Jewish settler violence in Judea and Samaria, presenting real testimony from Israelis who are routinely attacked by Palestinian terrorists.
Sinan Ciddi | Oct 22, 2026
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At the beginning of this year, the speaker of eastern Libya’s parliament described a proposed maritime border deal with Turkey as “built on illegality.” However, on October 20, the same parliament unanimously approved the agreement. The agreement violates Greece’s internationally recognized maritime rights, opens the way for Turkish drilling in contested waters, and raises the prospect for armed conflict between Turkey and Greece.
UPDATE: Federal investigators say Ilhan Omar is not congresswoman’s birth name…See Report at bottom
PELONI: Not that I know of??? Really?
Nicole Silverio | Capitol Hill Reporter| Daily Caller | Oct 22, 2026
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Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar stated Wednesday that she did not believe her ex-husband was her brother.
Peloni
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Rabbi Pesach Wolicki explores the relationship between the Houthis and the Iraqi PMF forces, both of which are acting in concert or in cooperation with Iran.
PELONI: Netanyahu provides some important revelations, on the election, on Gazan, on Trump, and on Iran.
Netanyahu said he instructed the IDF and Mossad to overthrow Iran’s regime, denied reports that Trump had blocked a planned Israeli strike, and warned that Israel’s military campaign against Tehran and its regional allies remains unfinished.
By World Israel News Staff October 22, 2026
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that he had instructed the IDF and Mossad to pursue the overthrow of Iran’s ruling regime, warning that Tehran’s renewed nuclear ambitions pose an existential threat to Israel and declaring that the country’s military campaign against its enemies remains unfinished.
