Must Liberty Be Sacrificed to Achieve AI Dominance  

The Data Center Debate in Three Contrasting Views

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Data center infrastructure in the United States. By DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Public Domain, WikipediaData center infrastructure in the United States. By DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Public Domain, Wikipedia

In addition to the two articles below by Daniel Greenfield and Jefferey Tucker, take to heart the arguments presented by Janet Levy in her recent article.  Greenfield’s concluding comment, particularly the second half, bears highlighting because it really captures the key point in this debate: “AI is not a threat, except in the wrong hands, people looking to control us are the real threat.

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September 18, 2026 | 9:24 am | Comments »

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THE FOUNDERS: How Christianity and Islam Appropriated Judaism  

Harry Liberman

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If you look strictly at recorded modern data of non-war terrorist incidents over the last 50 years where a religious title or slogan was actively used by the perpetrator to execute an attack, the documented death toll stands between 250,000 and 300,000 people globally.

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September 18, 2026 | 8:38 am | Comments »

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October 7: A Deliberate Strategic Plan?  

PELONI:   The questions are known, and so long as the answers are ignored simple deductions will be drawn with or without a good basis.  While many complain that Bibi is at fault for the inquiries going unpursued, there have been two inquiries undertaken already with Bibi’s full compliance.  The reason that these inquiries were not completed and released to the public is due to orders from the military and the judiciary.  In the wake of the Sde Teiman affair in which the Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi who spread a blood libel againt the IDF, we are left to ponder as suggested below by Alexander Maistrovoy that “this was not merely an intelligence failure, but a calculated plot orchestrated by factions within the country’s own military and intelligence establishment.”  The corrosive effect of such conclusions makes the need all the more immediate for a careful, detailed and full investigation of the October 7 attack to be implemented with the interests and inquiries of all parties being included.  This is what the national camp has been pursuing, but it is so far blocked with the support of the opposition parties, placing this topic squarely on the ballot in October’s election.

For more on this topic, please read Avi Abelow’s recent report.

Alexander Maistrovoy | TOI Blogs | Sept 17, 2026

Pictured: Hamas gunmen capturing civilian hostages from Kibbutz Beéri on October 7 2023. Photo by Bodycam footage: No human authorship - WSJ, Public Domain, WikipediaPictured: Hamas gunmen capturing civilian hostages from Kibbutz Beéri on October 7 2023. Photo by Bodycam footage: No human authorship – WSJ, Public Domain, Wikipedia

On July 26, Dr. Avi Perry published an article titled ?”Was Haniyeh the double-agent behind October 7?”. Dr. Perry presents a convincing argument suggesting that ?Ismail Haniyeh may have acted as a double agent, successfully misleading Israeli intelligence regarding Hamas’s true strategic intentions. It is very possible that he is right.

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September 18, 2026 | 6:37 am | Comments »

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Twenty-Five Years After 9/11, the Ideology That Struck Us Is Winning  

By Adam Milstein | Sept

September 11 attacks in New York City: View of the World Trade Center and the Statue of Liberty.  Photo by National Park Service - Public Domain, LinkSeptember 11 attacks in New York City: View of the World Trade Center and the Statue of Liberty.  Photo by National Park Service – Public Domain, Link

Twenty-Five Years After 9/11, the Ideology That Struck Us Is Winning

On October 12, 2000, radical Islamist suicide bombers attacked the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen, killing 17 American sailors and wounding another 37. The Navy destroyer nearly sank.

A year later, twenty-five years ago, America woke up to a nightmare on our soil: nineteen terrorists, driven by the same radical Islamist ideology, had hijacked four airplanes and murdered nearly 3,000 people and injured another 6,000.

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Israel expands domestic ammunition production as uncertainty grows over US bomb supply  

Peloni: It is telling that the top Democrat in the US House of Representatives was forced to once again promote an antisemitic blood libel as the basis of his opposition to the latest arms sales to Israel.  As VP Vance is promoting his own libels against Israel, albeit he does so while suggesting Israel still has some value to the US, and Vance’s admittedly close friend Tucker Carlson continues to support noxious libels against Israel, it is important that Israel adopt a greater sense of independence from the US regarding its armaments.  In doing so, it will actually make the alliance between these two nations stronger, more vibrant, more reliable and more equitable.

All Israel News Staff | All Israel News | Published: September 17, 2026

27th Adir F35 arrival at Nevatim, August 2020. Photo by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem - DSC_0863SM, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9419461427th Adir F35 arrival at Nevatim, August 2020. Photo by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem – DSC_0863SM, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia

Israel is expanding its ability to field domestically produced precision munitions as Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Lockheed Martin accelerate the integration of Rafael’s SPICE 1000 precision-guided weapon onto Israel’s F-35 fighter jets.

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Saudi Arabia increasingly threatened by Houthis’ advance  

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | Sept 16, 2026

satellite image shows smoke rising from the Saudi Aramco distribution centre after suffering Houthi attack.  Screengrab via Youtube.Satellite image shows smoke rising from the Saudi Aramco distribution centre after suffering Houthi attack. Screengrab via Youtube.

A Houthi drone was destroyed before entering Mecca’s airspace around sunset on Tuesday, Saudi Arabia reported. It was the latest attack by the Iranian-backed Houthis against Saudi Arabia and indicates their intention to continue escalating the situation.

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September 17, 2026 | 8:52 pm | Comments »

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Kahled Hassan: Israel and Jews are being deceived again.  

PELONI:  No one is more cognizant of the value import and meaning of having leverage during negotiations than is Saudi Arabia.  They literally used their leverage over the US to force the US to hide from the role their citizens and govt played in the largest terror attack in US history, and that secret was kept from being released for over 20yrs.  So when Khaled Hassan insists that the US and Israel use their leverage over Saudi military incompetence to force them to concede to normalization with Israel, it is because he knows that the Saudis would do at least this if their roles were reversed.

It is time for the Saudis to step out of their cloistered position of hedging their bets and actually make a commitment.  To borrow Trump’s dogmatic approach to Operation Economic Outcast, Israel should insist that the Saudis demonstrate that they are either with Israel or they are against her.  While all such arrangements must be accepted with a guarded approach to their fulfillment, it is time for MBS to be stripped of the ability to play all parties against one another with ease.

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September 17, 2026 | 7:27 pm | Comments »

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Yizkor: An Opportunity To Remember Our Heroes   

By Moshe Phillips

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This Yom Kippur  thousands of mourners will remember at Yizkor their loved ones who were murdered during the Hamas-led October 7 terrorist invasion of southern Israel and in the last three years of war.

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A century of British hostility  

PELONI:  Dr. Mike L. Wise provides an important review of the history of Britain as regards to its growing hostile connection to the land and people of Israel over the past century.  To this I would only add the 1950 plot by Britain to destroy Israel ‘s military capabilities with the aim of ultimately reoccupying Jewish lands from which they had left (been chased) less than a decade before.  More on this later.

Britain did not recognize Israel until 1950, two years after its founding, and was among the last Western democracies to do so. Part of a pattern. 

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British politicians across party lines have increasingly adopted the language and framing of Palestinian Arab advocacy organizations. The UK Foreign Office has long advised British companies not to trade with Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria (aka the ‘West Bank’), falsely calling them “illegal under international law.” These proposals have not yet become law, but they represent the strongest push toward a ‘West Bank’ boycott in UK political history. Britain has aligned with EU policy requiring special labeling for products made in ‘West Bank’ settlements. Up to Miliband’s announcement, Britain had not announced a full boycott of Israel or the ‘West Bank’. But it has taken multiple steps that function as partial boycotts, especially discouraging trade with settlements, reviewing arms exports, supporting ‘settlement’-specific import bans and enabling local BDS-style actions

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September 17, 2026 | 4:53 pm | 3 Comments »

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DISTURBING: JD Vance Just Said the QUIET PART Out Loud!  

PELONI:  Rabbi Pesach Wolicki brings receipts demonstrating what I stated yesterday, that “America has never made US policy subservient to Israel.”  The world must come to accept that while everyone is trying to have Vance part ways with his friend Tucker Carlson, that the truth is that Vance’s world view includes the antisemitic trope that the Jews control the US.  While many will argue that this is simply based on an ignorance of the truth, it remains to be a recurring theme that Vance has pronounced on many occasions now.  So, even if Vance were to say the magic words of “Tucker has gone too far,”  as Obama finally did with Reverend Wright, the truth is that Vance, while speaking for himself, supports an ideology which is both antisemitic and anti-Western, and most notably, this anti-Western aspect of his world view is not in the context of placing America first, but instead it is in the context of supporting a change in the values which underpin the American experiment.  Both the purpose and effect of espousing, endorsing and promoting Jew Hatred is the undoing of democratic norms.  Jew Hatred is being applied against the Jewish community in order to collapse democratic practices.

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‘Slow and meticulous’: Israeli soldiers refute ‘NAZA’ film’s claims about AI-powered targeting decisions in Gaza  

NAZA tries to paint the entire concept of collateral damage as dehumanizing

Hanan Lischinsky | All Israel News | Published: September 16, 2026

Days after the documentary “NAZA” won an award and a 25-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival, public debate in Israel continues to be dominated by the horrific, yet unsubstantiated claims made by the movie’s Israeli directors, Yuval Avraham and Rachel Szor.

While politicians spent the past few days competing in their criticism of Avraham and Szor and calling for various punishments, detailed refutations of the film’s claims by Israeli soldiers and international military experts have received comparatively less coverage.

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September 17, 2026 | 12:27 pm | 1 Comment »

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A blaring warning to Jews living in Europe, Canada, and even in the USA  

Peloni:   History is sending a warning, speaking to us in the headlines which dominate the world’s media even as that same media is playing the pivotal role in trying to ignore the warning being conveyed.  The Jews of the world, both in Israel and throughout the world are under attack, but the actual target is the Western world and its liberal democracies.

A blistering, unequivocal warning must be delivered to the global Jewish community: anti-Zionism is not a legitimate political stance; it is the modern manifestation of anti-Semitism. 

Harry Liberman

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The world is actively resorting to age-old blood libels, updating classical anti-Jewish tropes to fit contemporary geopolitical narratives. The viral resurgence of conspiratorial scapegoating observed today is not an isolated assault on Jewish theology; it is a systematic, weaponized campaign. History demonstrates that anti-Semitism operates as a political solvent designed to erode the moral clarity, internal trust, and shared values binding free societies together. In this global theater, the targeting of Jewish people and the Jewish state is an ideological proxy war. 

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59 Jewish Organizations Declare: ‘Zionism Is Part Of Jewish Identity’  

Jewish communal organizations from around the world have endorsed the J50 Declaration, asserting that demanding Jews renounce Zionism as a condition of acceptance constitutes antisemitism.

By: TheJ.ca Staff | TheJ.ca | Sept 6, 2026

Fifty-nine Jewish organizations and communal bodies from around the world have endorsed a declaration affirming Zionism as part of Jewish identity and arguing that demands for Jews to renounce Zionism as a condition of acceptance can constitute antisemitism.

The J50 Declaration on Zionism and Antisemitism brings together Jewish organizations and communities spanning Europe, North America, South America, Australia and South Africa in a coordinated statement addressing the relationship between contemporary antizionism and antisemitism.

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Conrad Black: The moral bankruptcy of Carney’s Israel sanctions  

Canada has joined with 11 other western countries in purporting to abandon the importation of anything coming from areas of the Judea and Samaria.

By Conrad Black | Israel Behind the News | September 14, 2026

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It is dismal and unsurprising that Canada has joined with 11 other western countries in purporting to abandon the importation of anything coming from areas of the West Bank of the Jordan River that have recently been encroached upon by Israeli settlers. It is embarrassing that any of these countries would at this critical point In the Middle East join in such a futile gesture. The announcement was accompanied by a pompous reassertion of the ambition of these 12 countries to assist in a two-state solution to the Palestinian question. (The other states are Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.)

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UN must take action and replace UNRWA  

Peloni:  The UN is complicit in the savagery of October 7, and much of the terror which has rippled across the Middle East for decades.  This is not a bug in the system, but rather this is the purpose of their role in the region.

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Never Forget?  

Peloni:  On how to deal with the threat of Quiet Jihad in the West see HERE and HERE.

What good are all our 9/11 memorial services if we allow sharia law to take over our country?

Eileen F. Toplansky | Am Thinker | September 16, 2026

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Many ardently claim that we shall never forget the heinous murders of 9-11.  But in fact, we need to constantly remember the goal of jihadists and actively repel their evil.

The mastermind of 9/11 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed designed the September 11 attacks. He told Dr. James Mitchell they did not need another massive Islamic attack to conquer us. They would use our civil liberties, our openness, and our hunger to honor other cultures — he called them gifts from Allah. The practical path for Islam to impose Sharia was immigration and outbreeding.

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Iran’s Proxy Just Woke Up The Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia!  

PELONI: What is really happening behind the headlines in Yemen, the Bab el-Mandeb, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Lebanon? Dr. David Wurmser joins Rabbi Pesach Wolicki to examine the strategic decisions which have led Saudi Arabia to its current predicament, the changing role of Turkey, Israel’s interests in the Bab el-Mandeb, the future of the Abraham Accords, growing pressure on Iran, and the shifting aspects of the Lebanon front.

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Rome and the West: A slow demise and a horrific suicide  

What ideas define the intellectual and spiritual state of the West today? Only one: Marxist mutations in their most repulsive and absurd forms. And the West opened its doors to fundamentalist Islam, represented by the Muslim Brotherhood and its patrons, most notably Qatar and Turkey.

Alexander Maistrovoy |   Sep 14, 2026

It is common today to compare the spiritual and political collapse of the West to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Undoubtedly, both processes share several common features in terms of their scale and dramatic nature, yet the comparison is extremely far-fetched. In reality, the collapse of Western civilization is far more terrifying and grim than the fall of Rome.

If the fall of ancient Rome can be likened to the slow dying of an infirm, chronically ill, and jaded old man, then the demise of the modern West is more akin to the irrational suicide of a person in the prime of life, possessing every advantage.

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September 16, 2026 | 8:45 pm | 1 Comment »

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