Dear Friends,
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.
UPDATE: Benny Gantz withdraws from the election race.
PELONI: October 7 changed everything, and among the aspects of Israeli society involved in that change, Netanyahu is today offering the public an opportunity to fully grasp the long range of Netanyahu’s strategic posture for the future, making it a pivotal point on which the coming election will hinge. Notably, Eisenkot and his Leftist colleagues can weigh in on this strategy with their own support or opposition, but the reason that Eisenkot has not voiced a clear message on what would be changed in Israel’s policies from that of Netanyahu was not a point of error but intentional omission. That omission is today being brought into full light with this disclosure by Netanyahu. I encourage everyone to read the full transcript below. The video was 45 minutes long, so the transcript is not short, but it is well worth being scrutinized.
Prime minister warns of ‘tragedy for generations’ if opposition wins election
J. Micah Hancock | All Israel News | Published: October 19, 2026
Image via Youtube. Hebrew Video Loads below AIN Article with Translation at the Bottom.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented his new national security doctrine on Sunday, in his first in-person press conference with Israeli media since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack.
Hamas proposed planting explosives around displaced-person camps and detonating them as Israeli troops approached.
By World Israel News Staff | World Israel News | Oct 19, 2026
An internal Hamas document detailing plans to plant explosives near camps for displaced Palestinians in Gaza. (IDF)
The IDF on Monday revealed an internal Hamas document showing that the terror group considered planting explosive devices around camps housing displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, despite acknowledging the danger the plan posed to civilians.
PELONI: The Jihadist movement is not exclusively targeting Israel. Instead it has its sights set on subjugating the entire Western world. The means of this conquest has alternative two tracts, one from Shia Iran and the other from their Sunni cousins. As the Shia tract has been seriously subdued, though not yet vanquished, it is important to recognize that the Muslim Brotherhood and its many associates across the globe represent a sizeable threat, even as many in the West see them as a form of salvation from Western decline when in fact they are the opposite of this. Jihad is now marching across Europe on the back of the migration throngs motivated by the same chants which were claimed to represent Palestinian nationalism when in fact, these chants represent nothing more substantive than simply Jihad. Today that Jihad is marching in Paris and Europe…and America is next.
The Palestinian flag has evolved from a symbol of armed struggle into a universal banner of protest, reflecting a broader assault on Western civilization.
By Ben M. Freeman | Honest Reporting | October 19, 2026
Click Image to Enlarge. Image created via AI.
Since September, French pupils have blockaded hundreds of schools over teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and crumbling buildings. On 17 October, some 550,000 people marched across France against the rising cost of living. In Paris, a car was set alight and a Chanel boutique was looted. On paper, this is a story about wages and classrooms. It is not.
In Belfast, Obama repeated a dishonest, mendacious, and vile charge while concealing the evidence needed to judge it – because that evidence would refute it. Opinion.
Click Image to Enlarge. Image created via AI.
Former US president Barack Obama’s reported statement in Belfast on October 13 that Jews “took land off people” lends his authority to a false and malicious charge long directed against Israel. The accusation invites listeners to regard the Jewish national home as property seized by intruders. The historical record presents a very different account of a people’s return to its homeland and the international recognition of that return.[1]
Click Image to Enlarge. Image created via AI.
Palestinian Authority schoolchildren are taught to “Free Palestine” and have it replace all of Israel, while Israel is to have no right to exist within any borders and must be destroyed.
AUTOCRATIC APOLOGIA: THE INVERSION OF TRUTH AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF OBSESSION
Harry Liberman
Before Adolf Hitler was a dictator, he was an unheralded propaganda speaker experimenting with the volatile emotions of Munich’s beer halls. His path from obscurity to nationwide fame did not rely on a brilliant political manifesto; rather, it was engineered by systematically weaponizing antisemitism to manipulate a traumatized, post-war public. By framing the Jewish minority as a singular, all-encompassing enemy, he discovered a dark but highly effective formula for political fame, leveraging a theatrical feedback loop of calculated interruptions, frenzied applause, and aggressive slogans that turned localized economic grievances into a national tragedy. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Peloni
Video Loads Below
Dr. David Wurmser joins Rabbi Pesch Wolicki and among the topics discussed is that regional conflicts are dependent upon more than just military capabilities as they are also influenced by political will, national sovereignty, and effective strategic alliances.
by Robert Williams• Gatestone Institute • October 19, 2026 at 5:00 am
Jared Kushner had the Abraham Accords. What will Massad Boulos (Senior Advisor to the President for Arab and African Affairs) leave behind? The photograph should document a victory — not substitute for one. Pictured: Trump and Massad Boulos during a campaign event in 2024. Screengrab via Youtube.
PELONI: The Peace Processors were relying heavily on an election in the PA to establish that ‘reforms’ had been implemented in the well corrupted, ever incompetent, and thoroughly duplicitous Fatah leadership, but even under considerable pressure from the Americans, Abu Mazen demonstrated once again that he has no choice but to disappoint the best efforts of the Peace Processors. It will be interesting to see how this is internalized by Washington. Regarding the survey results which Barry Shaw discusses below, it seems impossible for the Pals to find any non-terrorist to support in their still delayed (read as cancelled til further notice) elections. While the survey findings suggest that negotiations are preferred by a plurality, their preferred choice of leadership would seem to suggest something else. Indeed, has there not been enough negotiations with terrorists?
Barry Shaw | The View from Israel | Oct 18, 2026
Image created via AI.
Three months after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced elections, the vote has been postponed once again, deepening questions over the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority.
Any Egyptian military backing for Saudi Arabia could mark a major escalation in the wider Iran war, which has threatened global energy supplies and sent oil prices soaring.
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN
Click Image to Enlarge. Image created via AI.
Egypt’s parliament is holding sessions to discuss authorizing the deployment of forces to support Saudi Arabia against the Houthis. The parliament has apparently been called in to discuss this in order to show that the government has a broad mandate. If such a mandate is not achieved, then the government can point to parliament as a reason for its hesitancy.
Paul Amar is a former Director of Information at i24, and now acts as a commentator and editorialist in France on CNews and RCJ (Radio Judaïque de Paris)
*?? WATCH: France’s Riots — Paul Amar Says Jewish-Owned Shops Were Targeted in Marseille*
French journalist Paul Amar, discussing the October 17 unrest in France, says Jewish-owned businesses were singled out on a street in Marseille:
“They came prepared. They had the addresses of town halls. They had addresses of Jewish shop owners.
In a street in Marseille, all businesses owned by Jews were set on fire. Businesses run by Muslims weren’t.”
— (((IsraelMatzav))) (@IsraelMatzav) October 18, 2026
Peloni & David Fieldstone
Image via Rumble. Video Loads Below
On Mark’s Sunday, October 17 show, he spent nearly the entire show interviewing Bibi Netanyahu on a host of topics.
From Genocide to Al Sayyed, from Trump to the Iran war, and from US-Israel alliance to foreign influence campaigns, Netanyahu offers keen insights which should not be missed.
Here are a few highlights and key quotes from that interview as well as the interview itself:
Could this be The End of America ?
Harry Liberman
Click Image to Enlarge. Image created via AI.
To test an idea using the scientific model, an innovator treats their concept as a hypothesis and their market entry as a controlled experiment.
PELONI: Diana West provides an vital analysis of Sec. of State Marco Rubio’s recent speech extolling the mandate inherited by the Western World from its Athenian heritage.
We stand at the crossroads of history. The Western world is under a state of seige by the combined ranks of globalism in the fusion of Jihadism and Marxism, both from without and from within the structures of Western power and authority. Indeed, the rise of Jew Hatred around the world should be understood to be a challenge to the Western world to either renew its embrace of the Hebraic teachings which underpinned first the American Republic and later the wider Western World, or severing all connection with the very example which brought the American Founding Fathers to draw from, embrace, and emulate the Torah traditions embodied within the Ancient Hebrew Commonwealth. As the globalist seek to short circuit the influence of the Judeo Christian values via an alignment with the principles of Jihadists and totalitarians, it seems remarkably disconcerting that in an pivotal policy speech directed specifically at the revival of Western culture not a single mention was made of the duality of Western foundation being that between Athens and Jerusalem, but rather as being that of Athens alone. The profound omission of any mention of the foundational component from Jerusalem of faith and revelation as providing any influence on the reason and philosophy stemming from Athens belies a very serious philosophical breach of the very meaning and context of Rubio’s call for a revival of the Western World.
Diana West | Oct 12, 2026
Sec. of State Marco Rubio speaking at the Acropolis. Screengrab via Youtube.
I am wondering when someone will point out that the Secretary of State, with multiple cameras recording his Major Address on “The West,” with the Parthenon and Acropolis lit up like a real sound stage behind him, made an error.
PELONI: Will Saudi Arabia accept Israeli support in its war with Yemen? Doubtful despite Trump’s claims. Rabbi Pesach Wolicki explores this and more of the history of the debacle in Yemen and the new move by Egypt to support Saudi Arabia as the Mecca Agreement is petering out.
Video Loads Below
UPDATE: PM Netanyahu responds to Pres. Trump’s endorsement
PELONI: See Trump’s endorsement at the bottom.
Janet Levy: A Partial List of What Needs to Happen
Recognize Judea and Samaria as ancient Jewish lands and Israel’s rights under international law. We can’t “annex” land that is ours.
Stop holding Israel back from vigorously pursuing its “7-Front” War. Israelis are on the frontlines of the fight to destroy western civilization and the ONLY country seriously fighting the global jihad.
Act against Communist China for supplying intelligence and weapons to Iran, the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas. (China indirectly supplied Iran with nuclear weaponry through the AQ Khan network and North Korea).
Free the Iranian people with regime change FINALLY! (Do NOT bring in the murderous MEK)!
Stop the personal billion dollar business deals with the Muslim Brotherhood countries of Turkey and Qatar.
Stop Al-Jolani/Al-Sharaa’s murdering of minorities.
Of course, there’s more…
“If Israel has the wrong Leader, which would be anyone other than Bibi, America will have to do this work ourselves, and I am not inclined to do so,” Trump said.
By World Israel News Staff |World Israel News | Oct 18, 2026
President Trump and PM Netanyahu at the Israel Museum. Jerusalem May 23, 2017. By U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv – President Trump at the Israel Museum. Jerusalem May 23, 2017 President Trump at the Israel Museum. Jerusalem May 23, 2017, CC BY 2.0, Link
President Donald Trump issued a full-throated endorsement of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, throwing his support behind the Israeli leader just nine days before Israelis head to the polls.
Michael Ordman | VGNI | Oct 18, 2026
In the 18th Oct 2026 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
PELONI: The desperation of the Peace Processors to stave off the final death throws of their precious Two State Solution ideology has them making outright false statements to support outright illegal economic war on Israel while being coordinated with a wave of fake reports of Jewish Violence to inspire their efforts and frenzy their Jew Hating supporters. All of this is due to the refusal of Israel to publicly and officially declare that the Oslo framework is finally dead. The reticence of doing so of course is tied to the realty that such a declaration must be coincident with some new policy to replace the Oslo framework. Well, Min. Itamar Ben-Gvir has put forward just such a plan which involves the facilitating voluntary Arab migration, thus rising the spontaneous campaign by the Peace Processors to push their TSS agenda forward. Herein lies the motivation of Miliband and the Burnham govt to make such sweeping and outrageous efforts to push their ideology forward with the help of the one solution paradigm exclusively pursued by the Peace Processors who try to maintain a vigilance of ignoring the fact that the Two State Solution was employed by Perfidious Albion a century ago with the creation out of whole cloth of the Emirate of Transjordan which is today the Kingdom of Jordan, which coincidentally stands on land which was initially intended for the Jewish Homeland later to become the state of Israel.
Amb. David Friedman stated a decade ago that if Israel would not declare the fate of how to deal with the situation in Judea and Samaria, some other malefactor might rise to do so for them. It should come as no surprise that the British govt, specifically this Corbyn inspired govt, is doing exactly that. It is vital for the Israeli govt to finally declare Oslo is dead, and to support their own vision for what comes next. This focus must be a prime aspect of the activities next govt, making the choice and character of that govt pivotal.
Introduced by the new Burnham Government.
Barry Shaw | The View from Israel | Oct 17, 2026
Click Image to Enlarge. Image created via AI.
In August 2026, Ed Miliband was selected by the new British Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, to be his new Foreign Minister and, immediately, Miliband went to war against Israel.
