The Wolf at the Door, The Safe Room, and the Building Code  

Peloni:  Highly recommended article.  Following his  and his wife’s visit to Kibutzim which were attacked on October 7, 2023, Dr. Robert Malone offers some insightful reflections on the importance of an armed population, the success which even unarmed courage can obtain, and the realities of life which face Israelis on a daily basis while still facing imminent tragedy with only one of these assets readily available to them due to egregious governmental restrictions and an enemy willing and able to exploit these facts as the terrorist allied world media remains almost exclusively supportive of perverting the truths which Malone correctly describes.

Notes from the Israeli frontier, part one

Dr. Robert W. Malone | Aug 01, 2026

Israeli building code has required a reinforced concrete room in every new residence since 1992. It is called a mamad. Steel door, blast shutter, filtered air, poured walls. Americans pay extra for this and call it a storm shelter. Israelis get it standard, the way we get a smoke detector in the hallway.

The mamad was designed for rockets. Rockets give you fifteen seconds, and then the danger passes. Nothing in that threat model calls for a lock or a barricade on the inside, so most units have neither. The handle is held by hand, or it is not held at all.

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Why I Support The Massive Migrant Breach to Spain  

Peloni: Hananya Naftali provides a brilliant demonstration of the obtuse bias required to support the arguments being made with regards to the rights of terrorism, the support of the Two State Solution, and the deligitimization of the Jews in the Jewish state.

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August 1, 2026 | 5:30 pm | 3 Comments »

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Mamdani’s New York stands as a stark warning of America’s possible dystopian future  

The Marxist ideology animating NY’s new administration is just the opening act of inversion. The truly self-destructive attribute of the new New York is its galloping jihadism and anti-Israel hatred.

By DOUGLAS ALTABEF | 

Mayor Mamdani. Screengrab via YoutubeMayor Mamdani. Screengrab via Youtube

For many native New Yorkers like myself, the City (as we always refer to New York) has become unrecognizable – not because of the look of the place, but because of the feel of the place. What was the celebrated melting pot, crossroads, and great amalgam of humanity has become a vitriolic, ideological, and resentful place.

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August 1, 2026 | 5:25 pm | 1 Comment »

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U.S. Targets Iran’s Hormuz Extortion but Leaves Foreign Financial Enablers Untouched  

Peloni:  Closing the sanction loopholes will not only hasten the economic collapse of Iran, but will simultaneously diminish Washington’s enemies abroad.

Max Meizlish & Janatan Saye | July 31, 2026

United States Department of the Treasury on the Building, Washington DC.  Photo by MohitSingh – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia

Tehran faced two rounds of new U.S. sanctions in as many days.

On July 29 and July 30, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued back-to-back sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic’s extortion operation in the Strait of Hormuz, as well as entities supporting the regime’s drone procurement and personnel transfers.

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US and Israel Coordinate Potential Escalation: Fresh Iran Attacks Imminent  

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President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after joint press conference announcing the U.S. peace plan for Gaza, Monday, September 29, 2025, in the State Dining Room of the White House. Photo by The White House - Flickr, Public Domain, WikipediaPresident Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after joint press conference announcing the U.S. peace plan for Gaza, Monday, September 29, 2025, in the State Dining Room of the White House. Photo by The White House – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The Wall Street Journal and CBS News on Friday reported that Pres. Trump has ordered the US military to prepare for a fresh attack on Iran which could begin as as soon as this weekend. The primary objective of this military campaign is stated to force Tehran to surrender and agree to US terms in ongoing ceasefire negotiations.  While ignoring the fact that forcing Iran to surrender is defeated by allowing them the offramp of agreeing to return to ceasefire negotiations, Trump has issued the order to prepare, sources indicate he has not yet given the final execution order to initiate the offensive. The operation is expected to last several days, with discussions held about concluding before global financial markets open on Monday to mitigate economic fallout.

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Jack Keane: NO ONE Is Prepared for Trump’s Next Move in Iran  

Peloni:  Rabbi Pesach Wolicki reviews an important interview with Gen. Jack Keane, and explains that Washington is on the wrong track, which is why its efforts to achieve any of its stated goals continue to be met with disappointment.  Using the important reflection which comes from Iran hitting everyone in the region, while awkwardly maintaining a hands-off approach to Israel, provides the US with the example of how to approach the war with success, ie with a resolve of targeting the foundations on which the Iranian regime is dependent, rather than with a resolve limited to striking the regime’s military capacities.  It falls back to the concept of unconditional surrender being the underlying strategy rather than a sometimes employed campaign slogan.  Iran has demonstrated that it is fully committed to winning this war.  So has Israel.  Only when Washington changes its course to match these levels of commitment in this war might the victory being sought by  Washington, which has thus far remained elusory, become a real possibility.  So, has Trump’s strategy turned the page as Gen. Keane and Rabbi Wolicki explain he needs to do, or is he still posturing only to achieve added leverage in negotiations, as has been Trump’s chosen course thus far?

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As Iran batters the Gulf states, Trump’s course is beyond clear  

Peloni:  As the US is positioning itself to pivot to Asia, its stated position is to rely more heavily on allies capable of not only defending themselves, but promoting US interests on America’s behalf.   So far, there has been scant evidence that Trump’s Gulf allies, for all the deference and promotion he has allowed them, has any intention of filling the role described above.  In fact, the Saudi participation in the recent strike in Iraq was notably accompanied by the accompanied statement from Riyadh indicating that MBS is still calling for an end to the war, much as explained by Hussain Abdul-Hussain below.  In fact, of all of Trump’s allies, only Israel has demonstrated both the will and capacity to succinctly work with Washington to achieve the objectives of pursuing joint interests, and for Trump’s pursuit of an Asia pivot, this void of support which only Israel has filled in any meaningful way, is a demonstration of Washington’s other global allies showing greater deference for Chinese interests, which leave Washington trapped in the Middle East, than US interests.  Of course, the compliment to recognizing this is whether we really want the Gulf states asserting themselves beyond their borders…

By Hussain Abdul-Hussain | NYP | Published July 30, 2026

President Trump joined GCC Leaders Summit "family photo" in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Screengrab via Youtube.President Trump joined GCC Leaders Summit “family photo” in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 14, 2025. Screengrab via Youtube.

President Donald Trump says he has “plenty of time” for talks with Iran.

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Trump’s Hamas Deal Announcement? Don’t Panic. It Won’t Happen.  

Avi Abelow

Trump speaks at the Board of Peace. Source: Wikipedia CommonsTrump speaks at the Board of Peace. Source: Wikipedia Commons

President Trump has once again announced what sounds like a historic breakthrough. This time, it is a sweeping agreement to disarm Hamas, establish a new Palestinian government in Gaza, withdraw the IDF after implementation, and replace Israeli forces with an international stabilization force and a new Palestinian police force.

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August 1, 2026 | 2:45 pm | 1 Comment »

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Will Democrats Stand Up To Their Party’s Anti-Israel Bigotry?  

Peloni:  Alan Dershowitz raises the question about Democrats standing up to the bigotry in their party.  In doing so, notes that both Sen. Fetterman and Rep. Gottheimer stand as important symbols declaring that bigotry has no place in the Democratic party, even as bigotry currently is dominating the Democratic party.  What is important in noting this, however, is not just the reality of the Democrats having plunged like so many sea lions off the cliffs of insanity, but the stark symbols by which these two men represent, offering their party a light in the darkness when its members come to grasp the consequences for having so badly betrayed not only the pro-Jewish roots from which their party was based, but also the consequences of succumbing to an electoral strategy which only holds local rather than national support.  Indeed, Mamdani is not the face of America, and America is not the plaything of the far Left, making its near absolute control over the Democratic party a disaster for the national ambitions of the party in the coming years.  Unlike the Making America Great movement across the US, which aspires to support the goals of returning America to its roots, the return of good governance and the recognition of America’s identity as an acknowledged and important asset, the Democrats have by and large chosen to advocate for terrorism, empowering the worst aspects of human societies, the opposition for which the modern Democratic party was originally structured.  Fetterman and Gottheimer maintain this original credo of their party, and the values which many of their fellow Democrats are themselves too craven to publicly support.  Yet, after a period of being left in the political wilderness on the national stage for a number of years, the Democrats will ultimately reflect and change course.  Afterall, the pursuit of power is what drove the Left to morph into its current Far Left iteration, and likely that same desire is all that might one day bring a sense of sanity back to the Democratic party, assuming it actually survives its attempts to emulate the many sea lions in their eager pursuit of folly. 

Alan Dershowitz | July 30, 2026

Sen. John Fetterman campaigning at a Steel Workers Union Event in Septemer 2022. Screenshot via Youtube.Sen. John Fetterman campaigning event in Septemer 2022. Screenshot via Youtube.

There is no good reason – in logic, history, philosophy – for the left, especially the hard left, to so vehemently oppose Israel and Zionism, its national liberation movement. Being anti-Israel has become a litmus test for today’s left. It hasn’t always been that way. When the nation-state of the Jewish people was first recognized by the United Nations in 1947, left-wing countries, individuals, and even the Communist Party rallied to its support.

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The Truth Behind Israel’s “Anyone But Bibi” Camp  

Peloni:  Why might victory on the Right be tied to Netanyahu’s success in the coming election?  This is a question which TOV Channel’s Ruchi Avital tries to explain as she discusses many truths about Isreali politics, Israeli leadership and just a bit about Israeli media with Prof. Francisco Gil-White.

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Congress Created a Special Court to Deport Terrorists in 1996. It Just Got Its First Case  

30 years overdue.

by | July 31, 2026

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Insane, but true.

The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, a flawed but fairly sensible piece of legislation, put into places measures like the ability to classify foreign terrorist groups and ban funding to them, as well as keeping terrorists out of America, and it also created the U.S. Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC).

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July 31, 2026 | 6:23 pm | 1 Comment »

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70,000 Armed Men Are Just 22 Kilometers Away  

Peloni:  IDSF’s Lt. Col. Maurice Hirsch offers an important look at how a terror army has grown under the auspices of the Fatah led Palestinian Authority, and now stands at being six times larger than anything agreed upon under Oslo.  Hirsch goes on to discuss his recently released report which examines whether the PA, in combination with the Palestine Liberation Organization’s long-standing statutory policy of employing terrorist prisoners and terrorists, along with the pay for slay policies, facilitated Hamas’s ability plan and implement the October 7, 2023 massacre.  Hirsch’s full report can be found HERE which can alternatively be found on the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs website.

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Quantum Computing Is The Next Technological Horizon  

Nations are already racing for supremacy in quantum computing—where will the U.S. place?

Janet Levy | Am Thinker | July 31, 2026

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The ENIAC, built by the University of Pennsylvania in 1946 and used to calculate the parameters for America’s first hydrogen bomb, weighed 30 tons, performed 5,000 additions per second, and consumed 200 kilowatts. Today, cellphones are millions of times faster and use 1–5 watts. Quantum computing, still in its early stages, promises similar scaling within a few decades.

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Spain Invaded By Tens of Thousands of Muslim Migrants, Running Amok Looting Stores, Home Invading  

Peloni: Conquest by consent…  If Old Europe could see what a mess their descendants have made of things…

By |

Thousands of migrants storming the Spanish coastline. Screengrab via XThousands of migrants storming the Spanish coastline. Screengrab via X

Somewhere between thousands and tens of thousands of Muslims broke through the border at the Spanish city of Ceuta, an enclave city next to Morocco, and the border remains open.

Huge crowds of illegal migrants are running amok in Ceuta, looting stores and breaking into the homes of local people.

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How Jewish progressives embrace Jew-haters  

Until they can acknowledge their own culpability and suspend their cognitive dissonance, Jewish progressives will remain lost in the weeds of their dogmatic swamp. 

I recently wrote a column discussing how liberal American Jews are feeling alienated from a progressive political establishment and Democratic Party that have become increasingly anti-Israel and antisemitic. A few days after publication, the results of a survey were reported showing that 44 percent of Jews polled (presumably liberal) held favorable views of New York socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani – despite his history of inflammatory rhetoric concerning Jews and Israel and the dramatic increase in antisemitic incidents in the city since his inauguration (including a recent stabbing by an assailant shouting “Allahu Akbar”)!

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Or, as my “Anyu” said: “Fight.”  

Peloni:  A very meaningful argument by Prof. Jeffrey Lax on the importance of Jews appearing on Piers Morgan’s show to counter the insane characters that appear on that show spouting the rankest form of antisemitism available today.  He also explains why he would likewise accept an invitation from Tucker Carlson, “in a heartbeat” as he states, even as he sees Carlson as being clearly antisemitic whereas he explains that Morgan is not.  The punchline in this commentary is offered by Lax’s lovely holocaust-survivor grandmother, of Blessed Memory, from an interview from thirty years ago, so be sure to watch the video last.

Prof. Jeffrey Lax

This post gets very personal, in a way that is rare for me on X. So I hope you will take a few moments to read it and to watch the very short video clip from my Holocaust-survivor grandmother which has informed many of the things I say below and my approach to ALWAYS speak out when I am given the opportunity to make sure that never again MEANS never again.

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