PELONI:  To Captain Smit Machchhar and all who acted to save the passengers and crew of Flight FZ1073, it said that to save a single life is to save the world, and thru your spontaneous courage and combined heroics, you saved the lives of 173 people on board that flight, as well as those who would have perished on the ground in any target which the terrorist might have chosen to strike as well.  But more than this, you saved the world from facing a calamity so terrible that it would have certainly changed the world in both great and small, but terrible, ways.  Beyond this, you provided a model of action and resolve from which the world might likewise learn to act in its own protection with a resolve to both preserve and to thrive thru these difficult years  and to face the need to fight Islamic terrorism as if it were the death-knell for all who fail to do so, which of course it is.

John Spencer | October 1 , 2026

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As more information comes out about the attempted hijacking and crashing of Flydubai flight FZ1073, we have to have a real conversation about heroes and terrorists. It was awe-inspiring heroism and courage that were displayed during the attempt to hijack flight FZ1073 traveling from Dubai to Tel Aviv, Israel. We should celebrate the courage of those who fought to save that plane and demand that leaders of nations and Muslim communities show the courage to condemn and confront Islamist terrorism and the radicalization that encourages it.

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PELONI: Judicial election interference should be reserved to support the stability and welfare of the nation rather than to support the stability and welfare of those who support terror.  Until Judicial Reform is achieved in Israel, the opposite of this simple challenge will be all that might be afforded from a judiciary which is preoccupied with maintaining the status quo rather than enforcing actual laws and legal standards.  I said this 5 years ago, if the current govt will not secure Judicial Reform, the support for doing so will only grow ever stronger as the need for it is both self evident and material damage to the nation and the people are all  that will be maintained without it.  This was true then, and it remains true to this today.

Jonathan Feldstein 

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Israel is one hearing away from doing something it has never done. On Thursday the Supreme Court unanimously told Balad party chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh that a majority of the nine justices would uphold his disqualification from the October 27 election, and urged him to withdraw by Friday. The fact that the Supreme Court justices issued a unanimous decision is remarkable in a country that rarely sees eye to eye on anything. It is made all the more remarkable that the unanimous decision included the Israeli Arab justice as well, whose very presence on the court belies accusations of apartheid and discrimination.

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PELONI:  While looking on at Iraq celebrating the final departure of the Americans as a mark of a return of their own soverignty, we must appreciate the reality in which Iraq is basking in its newly status as being a handover of sovereignty over Iraq from America to Iran, rather than from America to Iraq.  Indeed, as America was all that stood between Iran and its unfettered control of Iraq, America leaving Iraq would seem to suggest that the influence of Iran’s paramilitary groups will make Iran dance to Iran’s tune.  More than this, given the weakened state of Iran at the moment, this move by the US will strengthen Iran’s regional influence, even as the Iraqis celebrate what is coming.  In this moment, recall the great enmity which exists between the Iraqi Kurds and the Iranian IRGC, noted by the fact of a thousand missiles which have struck the Kurdish areas over the past six months as the Kurds made no move against Iran.  So, should we anticipate the rise of a Kurdish-Iranian contest in the coming weeks, or simply a further slaugher of the Kurds as they are now to fend for themselves in a rising tide of Iranian influence in an Iraq devoid of American forces to provide a decent soource of detterence against Iran’s IRGC.

Baghdad asked the US to return. Now, in a kind of “no good deed goes unpunished” manner, Iraq is celebrating the US leaving after asking the US for help.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | Sept 30, 2026

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PELONI:  Why is Trump allowing this economic war against Israel to move forward unopposed with barely even a comment beyond his statement suggesting he would be looking into what is causing it.   It has been nearly a month now since Britain announced the beginning salvo in this unwarranted and illegal economic war against Israel, and Trump’s failure to intervene calls to mind the legal motto of silence indicating consent, as he himself intercede in this illicit war being waged against Israel by the UK and its allies.  America has a role to play in leading the world, as both the worlds’ military and economic superpower, but instead has remained silent, even as US companies have been exposed among the economic casualties of this war waged against Israel…

Ben Cohen 

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International opprobrium towards the presence of Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, commonly known as the West Bank, is discernibly shifting from rhetorical condemnation to economic and legal warfare.

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Moshe Phillips

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Derek Caney’s report “Ed Sheeran expresses sympathy for both Jews and Palestinians at first tour stop since Macklemore was dropped” (online, Sept. 21) misses the point. That Sheeran “expressed sympathy for ‘centuries of Jewish pain’ while” talking about Gaza is not as important as the fact that this episode revealed Sheeran’s fundamental misunderstanding of Israel’s strategic and moral imperatives. Delivering what was clearly a prepared statement while attempting to pass it off as an off-the-cuff moment of reflection, Sheeran instead weaponized a deeply flawed anti-Jewish, anti-Israel narrative.

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PELONI:  When evil speaks, it is important that you  listen and react.

Nan Jacques Zilberdik | Pal Watch | Sept 29

• Abbas’ advisor endorses Hamas’ atrocities on Oct. 7
• Palestinian academic stresses right to terror against Israel – resistance “by all means”

Palestinian Authority Chairman Abbas’ advisor, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, endorses Hamas’ Oct. 7 atrocities and launch of war against Israel as “legal resistance, Jihad, and self-defense.” Al-Habbash has no problem with the massacre, the torture, the rape, the burning alive, and the murder of over 1,200 Israelis. That is all “a legal right” and “a sacred duty” because it is “resistance” to Israel. The only problem with Oct. 7 was the disastrous outcome for the Gazan population, which Al-Habbash calls “a sin:”

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PELONI:  How is this self-regulation different from agency capture, beyond eliminating the need of any ruse of having independent oversight removed entirely.

I understand the need to prevent China’s dominance in AI, but recall the concern for us all should be focused on verifying more than trusting those who are developing this world dominating technology, and self-regulation would seem to achieve the exact opposite of this.

Samantha Subin via CNBC | Technocracy News | September 29, 2026

Never in my career have I seen any President showcase the leadership of a single industry over and over, in this case, Artificial Intelligence. Trump has emerged as Technocrat-in-Chief, promoting the Arch-Technocrats’ agenda to spread AI throughout society, including in government and to blanket the nation with humongous data centers. None of this adds up today, but in due time we will see the end of the matter. In short, they are racing for the finish line to capture all humanity. – Patrick Wood, Editor.

President Donald Trump headlines an AI summit to unveil America.gov, signing an executive order joined by members of his cabinet. Photo: Sarah Roderick-Fitch / The Center Square

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he signed a “morally binding” artificial intelligence document with tech leaders following a luncheon at the White House, as calls for a development slowdown have reached a fever pitch.

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PELONI:  Living in the age of Lions, we see the strength, tenacity and resolve embeded within the people, something which became overwhelmingly evident following October 7, is once again affirmed by the actions of those heroes who saved themselves and untold others from being the latest reciept added to the long list sketched onto butcher bill of terror.  Todah la’el !

By Pamela Geller | September 30, 2026

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A near catastrophe unfolded aboard a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv when a violent cockpit confrontation reportedly sent the aircraft plunging thousands of feet over Saudi Arabia.

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