PELONI:  In his provocative essay, Victor Satya asks a question that should unsettle anyone who looks at history as an unrelated book of past events: What would Jewish civilization have become had it been allowed the ordinary luxury of simply existing?

Reflecting on the documentary Civilization and the Jews by Abba Eban, Satya considers the counterfactual possibilities and in doing so, reframes the reflection of the Holocaust from it representing Jews as being not merely a people who survived that slaughter, but a people whose survival came at a cost which was paid by the entire modern world, in ideas we never received, in possibilities never inherited, due to the lives that were both lost and their successive generations which were ended before even being conceived.

Victor Satya

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What would the Jews have become had history been a little kinder to them?

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PELONI:  How long before Iran’s strategy of outlasting America’s efforts  begins to backfire?  Does the US possess the political will to sustain this strategy indefinitely? While Tehran tries to convince Americans that confronting the Islamic Republic is too costly, Washington is pursuing a far more consequential objective: systematically weakening the economic, military, and regional foundations of the regime’s power. Drawing on a Cold War precedent, Zineb Riboa examines the strategy of “strategic asphyxiation” and why its long-term consequences could reshape the Middle East. Notably, for this to be a successful strategy, it requires American resolve to outlast the radical ideology of the Iranian ideologues.  The countering point of this argument is to consider the reality that the resolve of the Iranian ideologues is being strengthened merely by the fact that they have survived the might of both the US and Israeli offenses, and the repeated US attempts to encourage Iran to negotiate while remaining reluctant to deploy significant military action has only served to support the Iranian resolve that they are winning.

Pressure by a thousand cuts

Zineb Riboua | Oct 12, 2026

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head of the U.S. midterm elections, one might have expected President Donald Trump to lower the temperature with Iran. Instead, Washington has continued applying economic and military pressure while Tehran has concentrated on convincing Americans that the confrontation is costing the United States more than Iran.

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PELONI: Critical analysis and an understanding of the relevant facts is how good choices are made, from personal relationships to sound business investments to political choices.  The creation of fake news was based on an effort to influence the availability of relevant facts and fake polls were created to help prevent the use of critical analysis of those facts with a siege of defeatist claims that the election is already lost, even before the first ballot is cast. In fact, there is never a good choice to not vote, as it is the only action you take today which might determine the full safety and security of your future.  As I often say, people should vote as if their life and the lives and fortunes of their loved ones would be determined by their vote, because this is absolutely the case.  So, ignore the polls, no matter what they say, base your vote on the principles which have secured your ability to actually play an active role in your political future, and then vote as if your life depends upon it.

Many polls are designed to make Republicans feel there is no reason to vote. Do not fall for the left’s propaganda attack via polls.

Robin M. Itzler | Am Thinker | October 14, 2026

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Don’t believe the polls! Many are designed to make Republicans feel there is no reason to vote.

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PELONI:  Well, isn’t this an interesting turn of events.  Once convicted, it raises the question of whether Omar might have some evidence to share with the authorities to prevent her from being returned to Somalia or if she should be making reservations for a new home in her home of origin with the multimillions of US dollars she has curiously amassed in just a few short years… unless of course those are confiscated due to being the consequence of one of the various forms of fraud which are being investigated currently.

By Pamela Geller | October 15, 2026

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She lied to obtain citizenship so she should face denaturalization proceedings and, if citizenship is revoked and the law permits, deportation. Citizenship fraud is no technicality. Public office should never shield anyone from the consequences of obtaining citizenship under false pretenses.

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Wake up! It may aleady be too late.

Barry Shaw | The View from Israel | Oct 13, 2026

Images of the slaughter raised against Israel over the past decades in its battle with Islamist ideology. The major attacks include here are the 1972 Lod Airport massacre, the 1978 Coastal Road massacre, the suicide bombings of 2001–2003, rocket attacks on Israeli cities, and the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led massacre.  Image created via AI.**

In much of my research and reports I concentrate on the deterioration of the English-speaking parts of a once great Western civilization.

A self-imposed destruction.

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PELONI:  Many believed that CBS had changed under the new management of Bari Weis, and in fact many things have changed, but the specific attempt to libel Jews living on state lands as weaponizing the herding of sheep to steal Arab lands as was the message in a recent CBS 60 Minute report demonstrates that Weiss’ efforts have yet to turn 60 Minutes from a propaganda tool into honest journalistic source of news.  I have often wondered why anyone would go on 60 Minutes due to their long cherished practices of news management.  After seeing this distortion on what is taking place in Area B I am still wondering.

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PELONI:  Our past is etched into the very land we walk upon and by the hands of nonother than our own forefathers, and the record of this revelation lies entrusted by time to the ground on which footfall drop with each step we take.  Reflecting upon this fact, I am often reminded of the passage by Yeats which states : “Tread softly because you tread on my dreams,” but in Israel such dreams are fashioned around our very connection to the land, held safe in perpetuity by the debris of millennia, surviving disasters, wars and cataclysms.  Hence, the majority threat which they face is not that someone might tread not too harshly, but that the land should be cast into the hands of our enemies who have seen fit to destroy the record of our history rather than to treat it with the care and consideration which such artifacts demand upon their discovery.

Israeli archaeologists uncover a 300-meter section of an ancient water system dating to the Hasmonean period, revealing how engineers transported spring water over 21 kilometers using gravity alone.

By: TheJ.ca Staff | TheJ.ca| October 15, 2026

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Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a remarkable 300-meter section of an ancient aqueduct that supplied water to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount about 2,000 years ago, revealing an extraordinary feat of Jewish engineering from the Hasmonean period.

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PELONI:  Fascinating analysis.  I still believe that if any operational opportunity were available to Netanyahu to finish the job in Iran, under nearly any circumstances, he would exercise them.  There has been much talk about an October surprise over the past several months, and, well, it is now October.  So will the surprise we have been waiting to see be a renewal of decimating war in Iran, or will it be the continuation of the futile calls for negotiations amid a simple economic squeeze with no response to the attacks on international shipping.  This is the Middle East, so equivocating is not recognized as a point of strength by anyone, even if it might be the chosen path amid a difficult election season.

With Israel’s election just weeks away, Netanyahu may be facing his final shot at eliminating the Iranian threat he has spent three decades warning against.

By Jordan Levy | World Israel News | October 15, 2026

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For nearly three decades, Benjamin Netanyahu has been telling anyone who would listen that Israel’s wars with Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations are ultimately branches of a much larger struggle.

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Sebastien Zorn:  Gadi Taub spells it out and Mike Doran provides the satire. Brilliant.

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David Brody | All Israel News | Published: October 14, 2026

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Hate against Israel takes many forms, including in the legacy media. Now, a heated confrontation inside CBS News is shining a light on a broader debate: Has mainstream media coverage of Israel been unfair and is CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss trying to change that?

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PELONI:  When evaluating economic conditions as a basis for deciding whom to vote for, Americans should consider not only today’s gasoline prices but also the broader circumstances under which those prices occur. The average price of gasoline in the United States is currently $4.34 per gallon, compared with $3.67 during Biden’s final year in office. However, the latter figure came during peacetime, when the United States was actively supporting Iran’s growing dominance in the Middle East and withholding previously purchased military supplies from Israel in an effort to prevent Israeli dominance in the region. Thus, while gasoline was slightly cheaper under Biden, the broader economic, national-security, and foreign-policy consequences of his administration must also be weighed so as to remind people of the real costs of voting for Democrats back into office. Notably, the Democratic candidate choices being considered today are reaching for ever far more radical policies than those what took place under Biden.

So, while the contest with Biden was decided in favor of Trump, and in part this was fashioned around the issue of economics in addition to national security and preservation of personal liberties, the question that stands before America in the coming election is whether their decision to depose the chaotic rule of the Democrats, including their voluntary economic model, was a valid choice. Notably, the Democratic economic policy was deliberately harmful to America without providing any benefit in terms of making Americans more secure, and their other policies reinforced the deliberate endeavor to make America Weaker Than Ever. So, was the defeat of the Democrats in 2024 something Americans really want to reverse? To be certain, we will know the answer to this question in a few weeks.

Peloni & David Fieldstone

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Mark Levin opens his Sunday show by explaining that the focus in the upcoming US midterm election must be about far more than economics. Drawing on the inspirations of Thomas Paine and Patrick Henry, he challenges Americans to rise to the moment and to defend the liberty, constitutional principles, and founding values inherited from the nation’s founders.

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Harry Liberman

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Imagine a father who locks his children outside in the front yard during a Category 5 hurricane while he retreats into a custom-built, reinforced concrete storm cellar in the backyard. In any civilized nation, society would not debate the nuance of his parenting.

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We must reclaim our Judaism, our Zionism, our pro-Israelism and carry it high on our shoulders, brilliantly into the future.

Sarah N. Stern

Oct. 7 was a gut-wrenching day in Israel. By now, practically every Israeli adult has witnessed the magnitude of the crime and how it has left a gigantic scar on this tiny nation, reeling from one war after another.

Families have been shattered. In one provocative scene in the 2024 film “Pogrom(s)” by Pierre Rehov, viewers recognize what that day actually was: a modern-day glimpse of the Holocaust. Men and women shot randomly, and in groups. A little boy screaming at a Hamas terrorist, “You murdered my sister!” he cries.

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Bridget Toomey & Behnam Ben Taleblu

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The death toll from the Houthis’ weekend attacks on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport has risen to over 15, including one American — and Iran’s Yemeni partner shows no signs of stopping its assaults.

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | October 14, 2026

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*Assessing the current negotiation with the Ayatollah regime, the US should draw lessons from the 48-year-negotiation cycles since 1978, which have benefitted the Ayatollah regime, catapulting it from a 2^nd rate geo-strategic power to a 1^st rate power.  The negotiation option expedited the transformation of Iran from “The American Policeman of the Gulf” to a chief epicenter of anti-US terrorism, wars, drug trafficking and money laundering, from a Persian Gulf footprint to a rogue global footprint, extending throughout the Middle East, to Central Asia, East and North Africa, Latin America and on US soil.

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And will likely continue to be.

by Robert Spencer | Oct 14, 2026

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Hamam al-Hammami, the Omani co-pilot who recently tried to crash a plane full of Israelis in a jihad suicide mission, apparently gained much of his understanding of Islam from a mosque in Melbourne, Australia. And that mosque, like so many others all over non-Muslim countries, receives public money from officials who fondly assume that it is packed full of “moderates” who teach the benign, cuddly, warm, peaceful, tolerant Islam that they assume exists. Despite this revelation of willful ignorance and blindness to the nature and magnitude on the part of the officials who are supposed to be protecting their people, that funding will almost certainly continue.

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PELONI:  Regavim’s Naomi Kahn joins Rabbi Pesach Wolicki to explore the Settler Violence Libel.

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