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In times like these, clear, factual, and courageous voices for Israel are more important than ever. The mission of Israpundit has always been to share truth, defend Israel against misinformation, and give readers a place to find clarity and conviction.
Harry Liberman
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Election Outlook
The mayoral race has tightened into an absolute dead heat right before the final vote. While Chow initially held a commanding lead, recent tracking from polling firms like Mainstreet Research and Liaison Strategiesshows challenger Brad Bradford capturing momentum, with both candidates polling within the margin of error at roughly 47% to 49% among decided voters. [1, 2, 3, 4]
The criteria itself, from one of the thousands of docs I scraped. https://t.co/JdkF75OYcK
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) October 20, 2026
Peloni
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The detention of Brad Lander, the former New York City comptroller and Democratic nominee for New York’s 10th Congressional District, during an olive harvest near Nahalin has become the latest flashpoint in the international obsession over the Jewish heartlands of Judea and Samaria.
Harry Liberman
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The modern West is sleepwalking into its own liquidation, driven by a toxic combination of media malpractice, historical amnesia, and elite betrayal. From the safe confines of their ivory towers, a ruling class cheers on the controlled demolition of Judeo-Christian civilization, entirely blind to the reality that the forces they coddle intend to consume them next. If Charles Martel—who famously halted the Umayyad advance at the Battle of Tours in 732—could look down at France today, he would see a continent surrendering without a fight, lulled to sleep by a relentless diet of corporate media propaganda.
PELONI: This is a powerful, perceptive, and important must read article.
The claim of Netanyahu being warned of the October 7 Slaughter are entirely unserious. What is clear, and should be the point of the conversation is that not only Netanyahu, but his opposition as well played a role in masking and ignoring what was the road to October 7. The condemnation of Netanyahu alone is a sham political shell game intended to hand the control of Israel’s governing authority to what Daniel Greenfield correctly describes as the Leftist shadow govt.
Of all the insights offered in this is the following consequence of buying into the deceptions of the Left:
“Electing Hamas out of outrage over a Hamas attack would appear to be quite backwards.”
The real story behind the media lies.
Daniel Greenfield | Oct 19, 2026
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Ahead of Israel’s election, media stories have proliferated claiming that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been warned ahead of time about the Oct 7 attacks. But are they actually true?
Steven Shamrak | The Shamrak Report
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Palestinian terrorists targeted Israeli Jews in Judea and Samaria at least 6,343 times in 2024, leaving 27 Israelis dead and more than 300 wounded, but world focuses on ‘settler violence’, which has become a major tool in the international campaign against Israel.
Adam Milstein | Oct 1, 2026
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For too long, Western democracies have treated radical Muslims, or Islamists, as a physical security problem rather than a political and ideological one. We devote enormous resources to stopping terrorist attacks while paying far less attention to how Islamists use our own civic infrastructure to grow, organize, and influence public life, eroding our values and undermining our way of life from within.
by Gerald A. Honigman
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A rare, courageous voice of reason these days with the cojones to take on Israel ànd the Jewish People’s existential enemies and throw their lying, twisting, venomous hatred right back into the hypocrites of the world (and the Hamas butchers’ useful idiot sycophants’) faces…
PELONI: Arlene Kushner provides her opening analysis on some of the candidates running with a few fair but scathing comments on some of those running.
Arlene Kushner | October 20, 2026
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It has felt interminable: This campaign heading us toward the election of the 26th Knesset on October 27. (Voting has already commenced for those citizens who are outside of Israel on behalf of the state: primarily those serving in diplomatic roles, as well as those serving in various military or security positions.)
A Jerusalem Center analysis says the IRGC profits from trafficking and uses children in its proxy wars, and urges new U.S. sanctions.
Israfan | Oct 20, 2026
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Iran and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps exploit women, children, undocumented migrants and refugees to finance and support the regime’s proxy wars across the region, according to an analysis by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs reported by The Jerusalem Post. The center published the analysis last week. It says these trafficking networks generate revenue that helps sustain Iran’s military operations.
PELONI: How many times does the same question have to be asked of the same people who give the same answer before we can all simply accept that the Iranian regime means what it says even if those representing the West would prefer to pretend otherwise. In fact, I don’t believe there is any intention among the Iranians to otherwise, and the Americans I believe are simply waiting for the midterms to be over to solidify their plans one way or the other.
Tehran rules out transfer of its enriched uranium stockpile to any other country, while also placing preconditions on further negotiations with the US.
By World Israel News Staff | World Israel News | Oct 21, 2026
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Iran will not transfer any of its enriched uranium abroad or resume negotiations with the United States until Washington meets Tehran’s conditions, senior Iranian officials declared Tuesday during talks with Pakistan’s army chief, who is attempting to mediate an agreement between the two countries.
PELONI: Was Bibi’s acquiescence in Gaza what Trump was leveraging his support for Bibi’s reelection or was it something else? It is reasonable to believe that the transactional nature of Trump’s presidency would include his support for Bibi’s election bid, and there has been a clear point of tension emanating from Trump towards Bibi for some time now. While we are still waiting for the first gun to be collected since Kushner announced that things would go very quickly, the prospect of the 15 Point Plan being made operational in the post election period has always remained a concern as no further activity on the Gaza front has occurred.
Trump’s 20 Point Plan was a bad plan from the outset. It is impossible to be implemented without some form of significant force being applied toward Hamas, and such force will only come from Israel. This is why the plan has been held in limbo over the past year with not actual real progress in the past year. The only advancement of this plan would require Israel’s destruction of Hamas or a complete betrayal of Trump’s 20 Point Plan, something which Jared Kushner tried to implement in recent months.
Board of Peace hopes to see progress in Gaza reconstruction following elections
J. Micah Hancock | All Israel News | Published: October 20, 2026
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to advance partial reconstruction in the Gaza Strip in exchange for “complete and total endorsement” by U.S. President Donald Trump, Channel 13 reports.
PELONI: The move to create an actual coherent organization focusing on space operations is a very important move. The future of man and war lies in the stars.
All Israel News | Published: October 20, 2026
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is preparing to establish a new Space Brigade under its Planning Directorate, with the unit expected to become operational by early 2027 as Israel seeks to expand its military space capabilities.
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PM Netnayahu sat down for a one on one conversation on Channel 14.
Summary of highlights listed below video:
PELONI: Harry Liberman provides a superb response to Obama and his maliciously false depiction of Israel. Bravo!
Harry Liberman
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Welcome to the Era of Israel’s Sovereign Might and Historical Reckoning
The architecture of modern international law was not carved into stone by impartial deities; it was drafted in the drawing rooms of history’s victors. For centuries, the world’s great colonial empires expanded through conquest, drew arbitrary lines across maps, and displaced populations across continents. Once their hegemony was secured, these same nations established a legal and linguistic framework designed to freeze history in place—legitimizing their own vast gains as “immutable facts” while reserving the right to lecture the rest of the world on territorial integrity.
Islamic immunity is behind both
Bob Goldberg | Oct 18, 2026
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Editor’s note: This article has been updated to clarify that the provocation and Hilltop attack where a photojournalist was beaten took place on two different days)
This week, Bernard Baudoux, the long-serving Communist mayor of Aulnoye-Aymeries, became the face of the West’s allegiance to Palestinians for reasons he was too clueless to anticipate. Baudoux is well known in France and internationally for his explicit support of the Palestinian cause and his critique of Israeli government policy in the occupied West Bank. After he and a delegation of European diplomats were allegedly assaulted by masked Israeli settlers while participating in an olive harvest in the West Bank town of Taybeh, Baudoux said:
PELONI: The necessity for Israel to ignore stated, presumed or even sincere intentions by its neighbors portrays the reality which exists in the Middle East dividing survival from defeat. As Netanyahu explained in his recent speech on the new National Strategy:
“If you want to survive, prepare for war. If you want to prevent war, prepare for war. If you want to prevent your enemies from striking you, strike them as necessary.”
by Pierre Rehov • Gatestone Institute • October 18, 2026 at 5:00 am
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