The Case of Beverly Hills

by Ari Bussel

2025 Israeli Film Festival. Screengrab via Youtube [Cropped]

In preparation of the Israeli Film Festival (Feb 4-19, 2026), the mythological organizer was looking for an infusion of capital.  Many of the sponsors have not been as generous as before.

Realizing that now is more important than ever to stand up publicly and state “ISRAEL IS STILL HERE,” I urged support of the Film Festival, despite the fatigue, the many other causes that vye for money, and predominantly the hesitancy of being “too vocal” or “too visible” two year into the October 7th War.

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Peloni:  With the return of the final hostage from Gaza, we must hold firm to the second and third War Aim set forth for the conclusion of the war in Gaza.  These include the elimination of the governing and military capabilities of Hamas, and ensuring that there will be no further security threats from Gaza.  From recent reports and Kushner’s Davos speech, it is evident that these two latter war aims are not the intended pursuit of the American as they intend to actually maintain Hamas in Gaza, provide them with political status and even the capabilities to enter a future ‘policing’ force, while resetting the the too many times to count failed two state solution into yet a new version of its many formerly failing iterations.  As if all the threats troubling Israel over the years could be solved with just a press of some magic reset button, the peace processors are peace processing the region back towards a new war using similar rhetoric and ignoring similar realities that conquest, not peace, is all that is desired from both Hamas and the PA.  The American refusal to accept this reality denotes a critical failure in the Trump administration which is more and more committed to this project while ignoring all stated benchmarks demanded of the Arabs, Hamas and the PA.  Recall Ted Belman’s Israel Should Declare Three Nos:

There is no diplomatic solutionIsrael should declare three nos; no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state.

This rather than ‘peace in our time’ should be the focus upon which Israel and her allies should make a stand.  Anything else, including Kushner’s stated ‘No Plan B’, is simply the latest attempt to supplement arrogance and ignorance in place of strategy and security.  Meanwhile, Jordan remains ignored as the designated state for the Arabs of Mandatory Palestine.  Recognizing Jordan as Palestine respect history, international law, demographics and the fetishistic need to focus on the plight of the Muslim Palestinians alone, while ignoring the Kurds among many other far more relevant actual peoples who have actually been denied the homeland of their forefathers, something which is only pretended with the Muslim Palestinians.

Americans For A Safe Israel

NEW YORK – Following the recovery of Staff Sergeant Major Ran Gvili’s remains 843 days after the Hamas-led invasion of Israel, a leading pro-Israel organization has declared that the time has come to put an end to all talk about Palestinian statehood. Americans for a Safe Israel (AFSI) has stated that one thing that must be learned from October 7 is that no Palestinian Arab state can be allowed to be created anywhere alongside Israel.

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Peloni:  The joy over the return of Ran is overwhelming, but the focus must still be maintained upon the fact that there are still two remaining aims of the war yet to be fulfilled, both of which are being challenged by efforts of the US to advance yet a new ‘peace’.

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Michael Ordman | VGNI | Jan 25, 2025

In the 25th Jan 26 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• Israeli-invented portable fridge saves lives on the battlefield.
• Israelis have proved that positive thinking makes vaccines more effective.
• Golan Heights Druze used to support Syria but now fight for Israel.
• Israel is powering ahead with investment in its energy resources.
• More huge purchases of Israeli technology in the USA and Europe.
• The world’s oldest working journalist celebrated his 102nd birthday.

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By Sha’i ben-Tekoa

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a global leadership summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025. Photo by Daniel Torok – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia

When President Trump a half-decade ago tasked his son-in-law to design a two-state solution that would be the “Deal of the Century,” since I knew nothing of Jared Kushner, I wanted to know of his experience of Israel, the Arab world and Islam, academic, practical.

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The Iranian regime wants to return to the trajectory that existed on the eve of October 7, a course designed to advance its plan to bring about Israel’s collapse. Even if the stars have not yet aligned for a decisive blow, Donald Trump wants to strike Iran and, if possible, also rid the world of the regime that rules it. In the meantime, fingers should be crossed for the protesters, and preparations made for what lies ahead.

by  Prof. Eyal Zisser | Jan 25, 2026

Iranian protestors.  Screengrab via Youtube [Cropped] 

On July 14, 1789, the day the storming of the Bastille marked the beginning of the French Revolution, King Louis XVI summed up the day’s events in his diary with two words: “Nothing.” He meant that the hunting expedition he had gone on had been unsuccessful. He did not know that within a few short years he would lose his throne, and his head.

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Peloni:  Just a few hours after this article was posted, news arrived that Ran Gvili’s body has been retrieved by the IDF and is being returned to his family.  The first of three war aims have thus been met, with two more to go.

Arlene Kushner | Jan 26, 2026

Staff Sergeant Ran Gvili. Screengrab via Youtube 

Here we are, post-Davos. Trump has announced the beginning of the second phase of his peace plan.

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Peloni: The threat from the Eastern border with Jordan continues to represent a growing concern.  It is ironic that the reason why Israel has tolerated the Hashemites for so long despite their routine calls for violence against Israel is due to their keeping the Eastern border secure.  With rising threats and attacks coming from that border, Israel is constructing a new wall to replace the once claimed security presented by the Hashemites and is now reactivating the old outpost system in anticipation of further need of support than just a physical wall, demonstrating the failing relevance for the Hashemites even among its strongest supporters.  It is time to push Jordan to accept its role as the state carved from the eastern portion of the Palestine mandate, to accept that it is the state provided to the Arabs of Mandatory Palestine, and to be recognized as the solution to the Two State Solutioneers who are so desperate to support the Muslim Palestinians that they are willing to carve Israel in two while ignoring the state created from what was Eastern Mandatory Palestine, ie Jordan.  History speaks clearly of the fact that Jordan is Palestine, that the fantasy of the Two State Solution paradigm was always maliciously constructed to ignore this, and we can no longer claim any rationale in ignoring these facts.

All Israel News Staff | Published: January 25, 2026

A fortified position along the Jordanian border which dates back to the 1967 Six-Day War. (Photo: IDF)

The Israeli military has begun upgrading and fortifying old outposts and bunkers along Israel’s border with Jordan.

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Peloni:  Anarchy is the tool of the anti Western mindset which is intent upon bringing the West down.  Those who celebrate and defend those sentiments are either maliciously motivateed or are filling a void created by some other form of malady which fills their lives.  Either way, they are a threat to society, and they should be isolated from society so as to prevent tragedies such as the one which befell Renee Good in acting out her passionately illegal attempt to strike out against civilizational order.  The West is under attack, and the focus should be placed upon stabilizing society, not celebrating those who are trying to bring it down.

The Renée Goods of the world need a reality check.

By Joan Swirsky | Am Thinker | January 25, 2026

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Here’s a challenge.  Ask your neighbor, ask your best friend, ask the guy standing next to you at the deli counter, ask as many relatives as possible, ask any real estate agent in the world this question: What is the number-one thing all people in the world do when they decide to move into an apartment or condo or co-op or house?

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Peloni:  What possible benefit might be gained by outsourcing Jewish control over Jewish destiny.  The raison d’tre of the Zionist movement and the Jewish state has been to empower the Jewish people with both the ability and obligation to seek out their own fate, to protect their own without the need of cowering beneath the overlordship of foreign powers and foreign leaderships.  Israel must lead, with the grace of the sovereignty which distinguishes the Israel from the Pale.  To the degree to which we are not sovereign in Israel, we have betrayed ourselves to whims and fantasies of others, and we have a long history demonstrating the tragic consequences of pursuing such a fate as this.

Yehudit Katsover & Nadia Matar, co-chairs of the Sovereignty Movement | Ribonut.co.il | |   Jan 25, 2026

Israeli flag. Image created using AI.

Ahead of tonight’s Cabinet meeting, the Co-Chairs of the Sovereignty Movement wish to warn of the emerging political trends in the international arena, which may return the State of Israel to the days of the Mandate and severely undermine its sovereignty.

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Paul Schnee: This video will take about 25 minutes to watch but it is worth every minute particularly the clip from the debate in which Shabbos Kerstenbaum eviscerates his opponent with regard to the amount of lobbying performed in America by Jewish advocacy groups and Israel as opposed to other groups and countries.

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Let’s not allow agenda-driven political theology to divide us.

Leonard Grunstein | Jan 24, 2025

Ambassador Mike Huckabee Speaks at the Shabtai Shavit World Summit on Counterterrorism on September 18, 2025. By U.S. Embassy Jerusalem – Flickr, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

Kudos to Mike Huckabee, U.S. ambassador to Israel: a genuine man of faith, an authentic patriot, a true friend of Israel—and a mensch to boot.

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Peloni:  The overlap between Left and Right is centered around the weaponization and promotion of Jew Hatred.  To this end they each enact alliances with the Islamists, alliances which we must identify and confront regardless of the political affiliations.  Notably, in the globalization of the war on the Jews which erupted alongside the October 7 Massacre, the dominance of attacks against the world’s Jewry has been sourced to the far-Left and their Islamist allies, but there is no reason to think that the far Right will not come to play a role in this latest war against the Jews, as appears to be evident in the attack on the historic Synagogue in Mississippi.

by Rafael Medoff

Amb. Deborah Lipstadt.  Photo by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia

Soon after last week’s attack on a synagogue in Mississippi, Prof. Deborah Lipstadt, the former U.S. envoy for combating antisemitism, suggested there might be a link between the arson and the “Globalize the Intifada” campaign mounted by Hamas supporters around the world.

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Peloni: Consider the reality that, as you listen to Hillel Neuer’s polemic against the silence supporting the Mullahs in Iran that the death tolls are rising with current reports of upto 20-40,000 dead Iranian protestors now being shared outside the deafening silence from the media, from the celebrities, and from the ‘peace’ activists.

I said to UNHRC: “We ask the U.N., the media, celebrities, campus activists: why are you silent? The answer is uncomfortable but clear. The Iran protest movement shatters a cherished narrative. A people rising against Islamist tyranny does not fit the ideology—so it is ignored.” pic.twitter.com/HkBm0EnqWY

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 25, 2026

by Majid Rafizadeh  •  Gatestone Institute  •  January 24, 2026 at 5:00 am

Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei Gives the Order of conquest to Brigadier General Ali Fadavi and four other commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard who arrest American soldiers who attacked the Iranian borders in the Persian Gulf. By Khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

• For decades, Iranian leaders grew accustomed to Western caution, diplomatic hedging, and carefully measured statements designed to avoid escalation. They learned that repression at home would provoke criticism but rarely consequences. They learned that terrorism abroad would be condemned but tolerated. They learned that nuclear deception would lead to negotiations, not punishment.

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Peloni:  Daniel Mael interviews two survivors from the October 7 attack on Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Gon Soussana and Rona Epstein.  In watching this, please note the reality that Rona addresses at the end in wanting to return home while acknowledging the impossibility of feeling safe doing so as long as Hamas continues to exist.  Yet this is what the very situation which the Kushner plan for Gaza entails.  I agree with Gon that the IDF is the people’s army, that the land must be defended and that the people must trust that this will be the case, but even acknowledging this, we must resist the American preference to preserve the October 7 savages in any way, much less to keep them armed, potentially becoming future security members or political leaders of the Day After fantasyland which is being unveiled in Gaza in place of any form of sanity, justice or security.  HAMAS MUST BE DESTROYED!  Trump once recognized this fact as true.  Whether he still does is not relevant to the fact that only the IDF can and will protect Israel, and Bibi must not compromise on this vital point of having fought the war these past two years.. 

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Peloni:  Mansour Abbas has sold himself as being a role model for the Arab community in Israel over the years, and yet a fair reading of many of his comments as well as the charter of his Ra’am party certainly provides a distinctly less favorable perspective on this Israeli Muslim Brotherhood affiliate.  There is an important context which must be grasped when dealing with the Arab community. History of the region lacks any form of agreement between the Arabs and their Jewish neighbors, leaving the understanding of a just outcome as being highly divergent between the two groups due to this fact.  Consequently, as Abbas’ Raam party and Abbas in particular have been granted an aura of ‘moderation’ as he speaks about peace and moderation in connection with his Arab neighbors, but the reality is that these words have a fundamentally different context for Abbas and his party than what these terms really mean.

Perhaps someday, the Arabs may come to have an honest appreciation of what the history of the region really is, but until  such an honest awakening takes root, people such as Abbas will use their endorsement of peace with the Jews to pursue ulterior objectives which are altogether misrepresented when publicly endorsing terms of moderation.  As elections are coming, and Abbas is currently calling for Jews to join his party(!), we must all be aware of the reality of what both Abbas and his party honestly represent and the moderation they portend for the Jews in the Jewish state.  Importantly, as Abbas once came to play the ‘moderate’ Arab kingmaker in forming the Bennett-Lapid led govt, he hopes to play a similar role in the coming months.  Perhaps this will be less possible with a fair understanding of the ‘moderation’ which Abbas has in mind as many on the Left like to describes himself to be.

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