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PELONI: A better choice for Netanyahu and the country would be for Lieberman to join with Netanyahu, but that too would leave the emerging coalition with one seat short of a govt.
What does strike an ironic mention is that in 2021 Bennet lied to his Right wing supporters about never joining Lapid and the Arabs, and now he is proposing to lie to his current Left wing supporters to join with Netanyahu. Yet he believes he is reestablishing himself with the Right as he demands that a party which has stood with the Right at all times should be scuttled from the emerging govt, even as doing so would leave Netanyahu dependent on at least one more vote from the Left to form a viable govt… This raises the question as to what the real proposal being discussed might be since this one does not add up. If Bennet is truly suggesting that Ben Gvir be set aside, he must be offering more than his own party or there would be no basis for the discussion.
Bennett could reverse his campaign pledge and join a Netanyahu-led government, but his demand to exclude Ben-Gvir threatens to derail the reported US-backed deal.
World Israel News | October 30, 2026
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Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett may be preparing to abandon his election campaign pledge never to serve under Benjamin Netanyahu, as President Donald Trump reportedly works behind the scenes to broker a coalition agreement following Israel’s inconclusive election.
Andrea Stricker | Oct 30, 2026
President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the U.S. – Saudi investment forum at the King Abdul Aziz International Conference Center, Tuesday, May 13, 2025, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Photo by The White House – Flikr, Public Domain, Wikipedia
Behind the scenes of U.S. midterm races, another campaign is quietly taking shape. Congress is poised to vote on the Trump administration’s proposed nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia, with both chambers expected to act during the week of Nov. 30. Democratic senators have introduced a joint resolution of disapproval to block the agreement during its required 90-day review period, and a companion House resolution, introduced on Sept. 14, is advancing as well.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump stand next to Chinese President Xi Jinping and Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. This is Xi’s second state visit to the U.S., first visit to the White House and second summit with the U.S. president in less than six months. Photo: Sarah Roderick-Fitch / The Center Square
Weeks before President Donald Trump is expected to make his second trip to China within the year, his administration is taking further steps to reel in Chinese influence and abuses.
The University of Michigan MSA’s own newsletters and board minutes show El-Sayed running recruitment and da’wah as outreach chair, then serving as staff writer and vice president of a chapter that planned a campaign for Tariq Ramadan and weighed a fundraiser for a Hamas-linked charity.
by Steven Emerson | IPT News | October 28, 2026
The only episode from his college years to make news this campaign is a single protest. In January 2007, the story goes, he was vice president of the University of Michigan’s Muslim Students’ Association when members walked out of a campus talk by three self-described former Islamic terrorists, and El-Sayed spoke at their counter-event. “We’ve done something good today,” he said, “and we need to keep that going in the future.”
PELONI: Avi Abelow provide a clear victory in the wake of the election fraud and the choices being preferred by the Left in opposing any chance of a unity govt. Such hypocritical clarity is the greatest teacher we can have at the moment, and its effect will resonate further into future elections.
Avi Abelow
Yes, amazing news.
Many people look at Israel’s political stalemate, where anti-Israel Arab parties won 19 seats and the left is actively trying to form a government with them, and ask, “What ‘amazing news’ is Avi talking about?”
PELONI: Fraud is an inherent value to the establishment, making any effort to expose or reform it as the only crime worth prosecuting.
The return to secured elections is the greatest test of survival before the West as it continues to fail meaningful reforms in the face of policies which invite and protect such anti Western practices as voting for eight people based only on unsupported verbal self identification. No other transaction would be so handled in such an intentionally unsecured basis, but that of course is the entire point of doing so…and the powerful will then prosecute those who challenge this supercilious approach to election security as is what is taking place with the prosecution of James O’Keefe and Cameron Higby.
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PELONI: Despite Golan’s suggestion that the support of the Arabs should be included in forming a govt, such a prospect would be toxic to any other party on the Left, and more importantly, they would face the consequences of such a toxic choice in the next election. So it becomes a test of wills, as is true in any struggle. Which is more likely to break early, the Right or the Left? While it is true that Bibi has the means of raising the future prospects of either Bennet or Eisenkot, the truth is that Bennet caries with him the Lapid baggage and his past betrayal of the Right while Eisenkot carries a series of poor judgements to qualify him before the Israeli public. So either of these men could benefit from joining Bibi. Meanwhile, Bibi has his own concerns in the form of his Haredi allies, most specifically that of the UTJ. While Bibi is bargaining with the opposition for an alliance, the issue of the Haredim lies large for both Bibi and his opponents, for if either side equivocates on this topic without actually forming a govt, the consequences will be catastrophic in the next election. Meanwhile, Washington is already positioning its own interests in having Bibi abandon his Right wing partners, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, in favor of a more Left dominant govt.
?? NETANYAHU'S GREATEST ADVANTAGE: HE CAN AFFORD TO WAIT—BUT CAN THE OPPOSITION?
Israel's election results have produced a fascinating political reality: Neither bloc has a majority, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have a significant strategic advantage.
With 53 seats… https://t.co/9w0iNvbrog
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) October 29, 2026
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PELONI: Take note of the following passage:
“Israel was established as the national homeland of the Jewish people, and protecting that identity is a fundamental responsibility of its political institutions, regardless of which bloc controls the government.”
If this paragraph were true, there would be no need to worry about the Arab vote, as they would only have Zionist parties for which they could vote, but that is sadly not the case. This fact contradicts the paragraph cited above. In fact, the real threat to Israel comes not from the Arabs voting for anti Zionists and Terrorists, but from the High Court which allows them to vote for anti Zionist and Terrorists. Israel is the realization of the Zionist endeavor, but for this to be maintained, so does its adherence to Zionist restrictions on the voting public, and this is honestly best understood to be irrelevant to whether we are speaking of Arabs or Jews. We are where we are, which is not a good place, but the problem is not Israel’s democratic institutions, but the lack of properly applying its Zionist character in operating its democratic institutions. Otherwise none of the Arab parties would exist, and no anti Zionist rival parties would be available for either the Arabs or their sycophantic Jewish allies to support.
In fact, democracy only works if it actually is working, and that is not what is happening in Israel today due to the elevation of the High Court’s non legal basis for making legal judgements. Until that changes, the Arabs will have a firm ally on the Left, and the Left will continue to leverage the freedom of Arabs to act as the Heckler’s veto so that their dwindling power base will be supported by the Arabs in turn as they are prepared to do today. Allowing the formation and promotion of Jew Hatred and the desolation of the Jewish Nation as an acceptable political option in the Jewish Nation can not be tolerated as a national value, yet it is nonetheless supported by the interventions of the High Court for just such an outcome despite Section 7A of Basic Law which provides for the disqualification of political parties which reject Israel’s existence as a Jewish and democratic state, inciting racism, or supporting armed struggle against Israel by an enemy state or terrorist organization as discussed below. Hence the problem which faces Israel and its Zionist character is that its Zionist character is being betrayed within the Jewish state by the High Court. Herein lies the real tragedy of this situation, and it remains a meaningful threat to the survival of the Jewish State and the Jewish People.
What happens when political parties that oppose the Jewish character of the state become indispensable to forming its government?
By Jordan Levy | World Israel News | October 29, 2026
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The biggest story of Israel’s election is not Benjamin Netanyahu’s political survival, Gadi Eisenkot’s performance, or even the possibility of another parliamentary deadlock.
It is the historic surge in the Arab vote.
PELONI: Unity is the answer to the question of how we might survive the maelstrom which faces us. Indeed, only a strong Israel can withstand the forces aligned against the Jewish People around the world, and a strong Israel requires a sense of unity which faced its many enemies in turn around the world since October 7.
In the months since the attacks, Israel has confronted not one enemy but many — in Gaza, on the northern border, and in the courts of public opinion abroad. Each front has demanded something different: resolve, endurance, clarity. And each has reinforced the same truth the pre-war years had obscured — that the state is not a collection of factions but a single body, and that its strength is measured not in weapons alone but in the cohesion of the people who wield them.
The wars wage onward, and so too does the need for unity — unity of purpose, of survival, and of destiny. Not the unity of agreement, which no nation achieves, but the unity of a people who have chosen, out of their own free will, to stand together against what would unmake them. That choice is what makes the state more than a territory, and the people more than a population. It is destiny in the truest sense: not what our enemies intend for us, but what we choose to become. And in doing so we will frustrate their objective to destroy us in this age as we have done in past ages.
Harry Liberman
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Is the Holocaust not lesson enough for the Jews in and out of the Jewish state ?
History will judge nations not by the noise of their internal debates, but by their resolve in the face of annihilation. Today, Israel is locked in a multi-front existential war, fighting a network of adversaries committed to its total destruction. In such an unprecedented hour of peril, the fundamental principle of nation-state self-defense demands a clear, unyielding truth: a country fighting for its survival requires absolute national solidarity and strong, uncompromising leadership.
Forum Calls on Michigan Officials to Stop Funding and Honoring These Institutions Until They Review What Is Preached There, and on Every State and Washington to Ask the Same Questions
MEF | Oct 29, 2026
For Immediate Release
PHILADELPHIA, October 29, 2026. Speakers at Michigan Islamist pulpits have told worshippers that they live “in America, in the house of Shaitan [Satan],” declared that “the fall of the great Satan has begun,” prayed that God take Netanyahu, “his soldiers, and his minions” and “kill them individually, leaving none of them,” foretold the “final annihilation of Jews,” and asked God to let them “live upon jihad” and “die upon martyrdom.” The Middle East Forum today published these statements, each with the institution’s own video, in Michigan’s Islamist Pulpits.
PELONI: The election returns stand with the Right bloc having 53 seats and Israel Beitenu having 7. So the shot at a Right wing govt with Liberman’s support is a no go, unless something minor changes giving either Liberman or the Right bloc one added seat. Failing this, the only outcome available to avoid elections or a minority Left-UTJ coalition would be to have Eisenkot join with Likud, but that would require them each to entirely betray much of the promises which they ran on. Should the Iran war breakout once again, as explained yesterday, Netanyahu’s call for a Zionist govt could give him what he needs to solidify a single vote from the Left Bloc to add to Lieberman.
Yossi Baum | X | Oct 28
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If the Jewish bloc and/or Lieberman gain seats, such that the Jewish bloc together with Lieberman have 61 seats, another option opens up for a right-wing government, in which Netanyahu would give Lieberman the premiership later in the term.
PELONI: As expected no easy choices exist for forming a govt.
Despite Likud’s first-place finish, the current coalition bloc has 53 seats, leaving it eight short of a parliamentary majority.
By Vered Weiss | World Israel News | Oct 29, 2026
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Likud, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, emerged as the largest party in elections for the 26th Knesset after counting of nearly 100% of the votes was completed Thursday evening, but neither of the two main political blocs secured the 61 seats needed to form a government on its own.
by Steven Emerson | IPT News |October 28, 2026
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Declassified FBI reports, interview records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and documents seized from a Hamas leader’s home place the MSA, ISNA, ICNA, the Muslim American Society and CAIR in the Muslim Brotherhood’s American network. El-Sayed has helped lead a chapter of one, spoken at the conventions of three, and praised and raised money for a fourth.
PELONI: UKLFI’s Natasha Hausdorff joins Wikipedia expert and editor, Alan Sohn to discuss how Wikipedia works and how it can be manipulated. He acknowledges that Wikipedia has the “trappings of a democratic process” but due to extremely low voter participation there exists an inherent vulnerability to regulatory capture by small groups which share a substantively singular perspective. In this respect decisions made by just a couple of arbitrators can control what millions of people read with no corresponding checks or balances. Sohn makes the point that on any given contentious topic the system is largely broken. Among the topics discussed here is the ADL‘s March 2025 report Editing for Hate, which identified at least 30 editors circumventing policies to push anti-Israel/anti-Semitic narratives. Sohn expressed that the greatest point of concern about what was highlighted in this report is that the practice of coordinated editing, “pushing others to be editing in a particular direction and supporting each other.” He notes that while there has been significant work done to correct these issues there is still a great deal of work yet to be done.
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PELONI: Rabbi Pesach Wolicki and Pastor Doug Reed discuss where things stand as we wait to see the outcome of the final count of votes in the Israeli election. Among the more curious indications that Wolicki draws from the election is that Trump’s endorsement of Netanyahu may have backfired causing the current political debacle.
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PELONI: One point bears addressing regarding RFK Jr’s praise for what he describes as the Golden Age of Islam. He describes this period as being marked by both tolerance and pluralism and further describes it as being cosmopolitan, but surely he goes too far in doing so. Indeed, if we are to believe the context of tolerance, pluralism and cosmopolitan to indicate anything equating to equality among various religions or peoples, such a description would clearly offer a poor depiction of many aspects of the Muslim world, both certainly in the present and most certainly in the past. Indeed, in the Muslim world, non Muslims faced various forms of discriminations which were specifically related to their being nonbelievers, and were designated as being Dhimmis, second class citizens of the Muslim world. While the Muslims were largely tolerant of these second class citizens, this tolerance existed within a system of religious hierarchy, in which Muslims occupied the apex and all others resided below them. Indeed, the Dhimmis were subject to paying the jizya tax, the amount of which varied considerably but which could represent a significant financial burden on the non Muslims. This tax was traditionally associated with the protection afforded to Dhimmis and their exemption from Muslim military obligations, but they still faced legal and social restrictions due to their Dhimmi status beyond the tax specified for them. Their legal testimony against Muslims was restricted, and they were generally prohibited from holding positions of religious or judicial authority over Muslims. Non Muslim men were forbidden to take Muslim brides, while Muslim men were free to marry Jewish or Christian women. There were also various restrictions placed on public expressions of non-Muslim faiths, including church bells, religious processions, and other public displays. In addition to this, there were various restrictions placed on non-Muslim religious dwellings as well as requirements for Jews and Christians to wear distinctive clothing, with yellow garments or identifying marks. Restrictions on public funeral ceremonies and other religious practices were also required in some jurisdictions.
So, when we discuss the Golden Age of Islam, I think describing Muslim-ruled societies as pluralistic and cosmopolitan requires a more nuanced if not more accurate description which acknowledges the restrictive second class status which existed for Dhimmis, even during the age known as the Golden Age of Islam. It is also important to acknowledge the history of military expansion and the development of doctrines of armed jihad which took place in this age. These realities complicate any idealized portrayal of the period as being defined by tolerance, coexistence, and intellectual achievement.
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UPDATE: Degel HaTorah Delays Coalition Decisions as Final Election Tally Concludes, so UTJ is still supporting the Right block while final votes are counted.
PELONI: No surprises here. There was never any expectation that UTJ would hold out with the Right Bloc particularly when there was no chance of obtaining the 61 seats to form a govt. Even if they had the ability of forming a govt with the Right, however, the High Court’s move to scuttle Netanyahu’s negotiations with the Haredi parties left them nowhere to go but with the Left who will likely give them the same deal as that offered by the Right Bloc, but with the acquiescence and support of the partisan ruling High Court. This being stated, as of now, Deri’s Shas Party is holding out with the Right.
United Torah Judaism is reportedly considering supporting Gadi Eisenkot in a minority government arrangement, signaling potential cracks in its alliance with Benjamin Netanyahu amid ongoing political gridlock.
WireIsrael | Oct 29, 2026
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Ultra-Orthodox party United Torah Judaism is reportedly weighing a potential political maneuver that could back Gadi Eisenkot for prime minister through a minority government supported from the outside, according to reports. Sources within the faction indicate that the long-standing alliance with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has run its course, prompting officials to explore alternative avenues for political influence amid a persistent parliamentary deadlock.
UPDATE: First Official Statement on Election Bribery Investigation at bottom
PELONI: See WireIsrael report at bottom regarding Qatari response as well as WIN report regarding Mossad potentially being brought into support the investigation.
By Pamela Geller |
While Jews have no say in elections in Muslim countries, let alone a political role, almost a million Israel Arab voters voted for United List+Raam, whose leaders praise Hamas. It’s unsustainable. It is, in fact, a horror. This tolerance when applied to evil is evil.
PELONI: And here we go…with only a week being offered to collect what evidence can be found in that time to support the suspected fraud, a serious question arises. Recall that the Central Election Committee determined that the Joint List and Ra’am Arab parties were ineligible to participate in this election, and that it was the High Court exercising its authority to make arbitrary rulings rather than legal judgements which determined that these parties would be included in this election. So if the High Court is presented with evidence of massive fraud committed by foreign and hostile nations, either in collaboration with or on part of the anti-Zionist Arab parties, will the High Court maintain its use of arbitrary rulings to ignore the fraud and validate the fraudulent election, or will it render the fraudulent election void? Furthermore, if the latter course is chosen, will the new election come to include the anti-Zionist parties on whose part massive fraud was committed, or will Israel finally be faced with a choice between Zionist and post Zionist parties? The implications of all of this has serious legal, judicial, political, and geopolitical considerations.
BOMBSHELL DECISION: Security officials investigating allegations that foreign actors, including in Qatar and Turkey, funneled money into Israel to boost Arab parties.
By David Rosenberg | World Israel News | Oct 29, 2026
Major-general rank awarding ceremony of David Zini and Nimrod Aloni, June 2023. By IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia
Israeli Supreme Court Deputy President Noam Sohlberg, who chairs the Central Elections Committee, on Wednesday instructed the Shin Bet security agency to investigate suspicions of foreign interference in Tuesday’s general election, amid reports that substantial sums of money were transferred from overseas to organizations working to increase voter turnout in Israel’s Arab communities.
