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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.
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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.
Pakistani Proposal: Iran Gets Cash in Return for IAEA Inspections That Apparently Exclude Strategic Pickaxe Mountain Facility
By Dr. Aaron Lerner | Israel Behind the News | October 22, 2026
While President Donald Trump has recently discussed the possibility of bombing Iran’s strategic underground Pickaxe Mountain facility near Natanz, a Pakistani-Qatari proposal reported today, 20 October, offers Iran financial relief involving $6 billion in frozen funds in exchange for inspections of nuclear facilities by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Why would citizens defend governments that abuse them?
Am Thinker | October 21, 2026
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Western governments have put themselves in mortal danger.
They are actively doing things that are destroying their countries:
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
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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.
