Sebastien: Rabbi Pesach Woliki’s analysis of the ICC perfectly describes today’s Israeli Supreme Court. Watch to end.

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Is this a bad or a good thing? And who is behind the initiative? Some are against the idea of flying in to vote and leaving again, some are afraid there is only one type of voter being helped to fly in to vote.

Ronn Torossian | Aug 21, 2026

PM Netanyahu casts vote on Nov. 1, 2022. Screengrab via Youtube.

An American nonprofit founded in 2023 has raised, according to its founder, at least $35 million from donors. Their identities remain unknown, according to an investigation published by The Olam based on IRS Form 990 filings. The organization, the America Israel Democracy Coalition, says it is now deploying that money to fly up to 70,000 Israeli citizens living abroad back to Israel for the October 27 election.

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All Israel News Staff | Published: August 21, 2026

France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany on Thursday jointly condemned the Israeli government’s plans to advance construction in the E1 area of Judea and Samaria, internationally known as the West Bank.

“The decision by the Israeli government to publish bid offers for construction projects within the framework of the E1 settlers’ project is unacceptable,” the four European powers said in a joint statement. The condemnation came after Israel announced plans to market the first 1,400 of 3,412 planned housing units in the Samaria.

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Peloni:  Ron East provides an important and very well documented resource depicting the rise of Jew Hatred across Canada which of course carries with it an important question about how criminal Hate Crimes against the Jews might be judged in Canada.   Indeed, we are at a point where it will be determined if there will indeed be two forms of justice pursued in Canada, with the dividing line resting with Jews on one side, and their Gentile neighbors on the other.  Has the mark of equality before the law in the Great North been mislaid amid the burgeoning campaign of Jew Hatred gripping the world, and Canada in particular, or will we see justice executed according a fair weighing of the evidence described, even as the chanting mobs sing out their manufactured songs of blood libels against the Jewish people.  Of course, the answer to the question “will justice be done?” will have a bearing to both the Canadian Jews as well as their Gentile neighbors, as the Jews are only the canary in the coal mine, and the loss of institutionalized justice, and this is true for both Canada and for the Western World in general.

In just three weeks, Canada has seen suspected arson, attacks on Jewish institutions, antisemitic chants, arrests, hate-propaga nda prosecutions and disturbing new evidence about Jewish life on university campuses. The question is no longer whether Canada has an antisemitism problem. It is whether governments and institutions are prepared to confront it.

Ron East | TheJ.ca | August 22, 2026

The first three weeks of August should put to rest any lingering argument over whether antisemitism in Canada is merely a collection of isolated incidents.

Since August 1, a kosher restaurant in Montréal has been destroyed in a suspected arson. A Saskatoon synagogue was targeted during Shabbat services. An Israeli cultural pavilion at Edmonton’s Heritage Festival faced a frightening incident involving a knife. An Israeli soccer player was subjected to antisemitic abuse during a Major League Soccer match in Montréal.

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Peloni:  Natasha Hausdorff interview’s Aish’s Rabbi Daniel Rowe while discussing the relatedness of Jewish teachings forming the basis of international law and modern values and how these relate to antisemitism today.  

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Peloni:  FDD’s Cliff May provides a clear overview of what is currently known about the situation regarding Trump’s Economic D-Day policy with Iran.  If Sec. of Treasury Scott Bessent’s depiction of this policy is accurate, it will leave the US in a position of sanctioning any friend or foe willing to offer Iran any outlet of sanction relief.  Closing all economic loopholes acting as lifelines to Iran is indeed something that has never been pursued before, but real actions must follow the significant rhetoric being raised by Bessent and Trump for this policy to have the effect we are being told it will have.  Details on this policy will be released on Monday, and of course, the Devil lies in the details as the saying goes, so we will see.

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Peloni: Amb. Tom Barrack raises a rather revealing window into his vision of the Middle East when he argues “How is it going to go away if you don’t have Hezbollah and Iran involved?”  The simple answer to this puzzle is that the solution to Iranian control over Lebanon can not be solved in Lebanon, but instead must be riddle out in Iran.  Indeed, Hezbollah and Iran are not at the table in Lebanon because they have no right to be at the table.  They are a terrorist proxy and a state sponsor of terror, respectively, and that is the only basis of legitimacy which either of these organizations hold over Lebanon.  Despite this being true, Barrack calls for these unrelated parties to play a decisive role in deciding the fate of Lebanon, when the better solution would be to eliminate the influence which  these non-Lebanese players have in deciding Lebanon’s future.  Notably, Lebanon today stands as a vassal state of Iran, and so long as Iran is ruled by the IRGC and the Mullahs, Lebanon will be controlled by Iran, yet the solution to this quandary is not to validate Lebanon as Iran’s legitimate colonial possession, but rather to eliminate the regime in Tehran which simultaneously holds dominion over both the peoples of Iran and Yemen, while funding proxy wars across the Middle East and promoting a terror cascade across Europe and North America.  Indeed, instead of surrendering to Iran that which decisive roles over lands which are not Iranian, the Iranian regime, which is today threatening American positions and allies in Europe after having made war on America’s positions and allies in the Middle East, must be brought to a state of collapse, not containment, and certainly not expansion, the latter being what would follow from offering Iran any role of negotiating for its control in Lebanon.  

Happy Barrack is finally saying his thinking out loud: He was Prez Trump’s channel to Hezbollah, through Berri, when Trump said a few times that “we talked to Hezbollah.”

Barrack wanted Islam Abad channel and agreement to prevail at the expense of the elected Lebanese… https://t.co/TbQr9c0C9c

— Hussain Abdul-Hussain (@hahussain) August 21, 2026

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Will Selber | FDD’s Long Journal | August 21, 2026

Jessica Bowie allegedly taking photographs near the New York State Capitol in preparation for a terrorist attack. (FBI/DOJ)

Arlene Kushner | August 21, 2026

Khalil al-Hayya in 2022. Photo by Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

This past Sunday, Jared Kushner, Trump’s trusted advisor and son-in-law, met in Egypt with Khalil al-Hayya (pictured), the Hamas political bureau chief replacing Sinwar. Jared was accompanied by Nickolay Mladenov and Tony Blair, of the Board of Peace, as well as diplomats from Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey (all identified as “mediator” states).

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Peloni:  Rabbi Pesach Wolicki discusses the returning remains of Yehuda Katz after 44 years being held by terrorists.  Wolicki also discusses the devasting battle in which Katz and Zachary Baumel and Zvi Feldman were all taken captive, as well as how this all relates to Wolicki himself when he first made Aliyah to Israel.

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Peloni:  Regardless of MBS’ refusal to join the Abraham Accords, this is how peace might be achieved.  The great failure of those who are so interested in chasing peace is that they are looking for instant gratification on a subject which will take generations to actually support.  As I have noted before, maintaining security preparations and military capabilities far beyond that of the neighboring feifdoms is how the visage of peace might be achieved, but changing the long held stance of weaponizing education is how the outlook of the people might change to that visage in a substantive way.  So, Bravo to the Prince of Arabia, and may he sometime find the strength to pursue the peace which today he is creating an actual foundation on which to see such a peace be erected upon.  Even in the absence of peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia, this change within the Kingdom will see many positive outcomes in the region far more likely.  But first the Saudis need to find the means by which to set aside their proclivity for supporting Muslim Brotherhood objectives outside their borders.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | Aug 20, 2026

The official portrait of His Royal Highness Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, issued by the Saudi Press Agency, Saudi Press Agency (Saudi Press Agency), Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

It seems that the Saudis have rewritten their textbooks to squeeze out every last drop of antisemitism. I don’t know why the Saudis are doing this, though I will speculate below on possible reasons. I’m sure the religious establishment is furious with Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, the onlie begetter of this change, but in Saudi Arabia, MbS calls the shots, and this good news deserves to be disseminated. More on this change can be found here: “Saudi Arabia Removes Virtually All Antisemitism From School Curricula, New Report Finds,” by Dion J. Pierre, Algemeiner, August 17, 2026:

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Peloni:  Is it America’s Muslim Brotherhood allies which blind them to the truth about the faux narrative of “Settler Violence”, or is it an excuse to renew the Two State Solution?

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Peloni:  The answer to this question will determine a great deal about Trump’s success in the region, not just in Iran.

By: Yigal Carmon | MEMRI | Aug 20, 2026

On August 19, 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump wrote on TruthSocial:

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Peloni: This should have been the policy pursued since the outset of the war, and of the subsequent period of negotiations over the past several months.

? BREAKING: Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent just DROPPED this chilling line on Iran

“WE ARE GOING TO COLLAPSE THIS REGIME.” ?

“This is going to be the greatest coordinated economic isolation in the HISTORY OF THE WORLD.”

“You are with us or against us. You want this m*rderous… pic.twitter.com/Q0Tmvq67mG

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 20, 2026

John Spencer | Aug 20, 2026

Nobody outside a small circle in the U.S. government knows the size of America’s missile stockpiles. The numbers are classified for a reason. Anyone claiming to know the exact totals is either using leaked classified information, inventing a number from incomplete public data and analysis, such as comparing every missile launched to two interceptors, or dismissing every statement from the Trump administration as false. None of that is a sound basis for military analysis. I hate the potential for leaking operational secrets the most. It doesn’t “speak truth to power.” It hands adversaries information that can put American service members at risk.

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Peloni:  Prof. Francisco Gil-White interviews Sovereignty Movement’s Nadia Matar, and this is an interview you won’t want to miss.

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