by Hugh Fitzgerald | July 25, 2025

IDF in Rafah, May 2024 (Photo by IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia)

Much of the world’s media has chosen to report on Israel’s intention to enlarge the city of Rafah so that it can accommodate another 600,000 Gazans (the total population of Gaza is 2.2 million), as if what was being planned by those endlessly wicked Israelis was an internment camp or, worse still, a “concentration camp.” That is not what is planned, but everyone seems determined to mislead, in order to blacken Israel’s image in the world even more than has already been accomplished. More on this latest example of misreporting can be found here: “Media’s Grotesque Holocaust Dog Whistle: ‘Internment Camp’ Lie Built on Retracted Reuters Claim,” by Rachel O’Donoghue, HonestReporting, July 10, 2025:

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Peloni: These threats should be taken seriously, as those who made them surely do.  Failing to act accordingly as Clare indicates will only demonstrate weakness on part of the US, emboldening the Iranians all the more to act on these threats.

What the U.S. needs to do about it.

by Clare M. Lopez | July 24, 2024

Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi.  (Photo by Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia)

Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi declared a fatwa against President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on June 29. A fatwa is a religious decree on a matter of Islamic law that is issued by a senior Islamic jurist.

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Peloni:  Mike Doran and Gadi Taub begin their conversation by detailing the fake news surrounding the antisemitic claim of famine in Gaza which is being promoted by both the Israeli press as well as the international press.  During this, Mike makes the important observation that this is due to a failure in leadership around the world, and that even Pres. Trump has failed to focus upon the fact that Hamas needs to be destroyed and that there is no famine in Gaza.  Following this, they discuss the role being played withing the IDF, notably by Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, raising the aim of rescuing the hostages above that of achieving victory.  They also address the controversy over the need of Israel to occupy Gaza whenever the war actually ends.  Beginning around 28 min. mark, Mike provides an important perspective challenging Israel’s policy of protecting the Druze as it has Israel opposing policies pursued by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the US, while also working towards the benefit of Iran, thus questioning both Israel’s wisdom and ability to deal with the consequences of doing so.

Amy Mek | X | July 23, 2025

? ALERT TEXAS ?

Just ONE day after an Islamic terrorist murdered 14 Americans in New Orleans — and with reports linking him to the same radical mosque network as Imam Furqan Sayed — Houston officials invited Sayed to deliver an Islamic prayer at a county government meeting.… pic.twitter.com/SQURqFtxhz

— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) July 24, 2025

Just ONE day after an Islamic terrorist murdered 14 Americans in New Orleans — and with reports linking him to the same radical mosque network as Imam Furqan Sayed — Houston officials invited Sayed to deliver an Islamic prayer at a county government meeting.

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Peloni:  This is a very important article.  

October 7, 2023, Was Not a Failure of Intelligence. It Was a Failure of Imagination

Gregg Roman | MEF | July 24, 2025

Flag of Israel in the Western Wall.  (Photo by Hynek Moravec – Self-photographed, CC BY 2.5, Wikipedia)

The wire was cut. The sirens were silent. Then the world broke.

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Peloni:  Western support should be leveraged against Jolani’s ability to ban the Islamist radicals in Syria, which of course belies the reality that Jolani’s govt is overwhelmed with Islamist radicals whom he chose.  It should be no surprise what we are currently seeing in Syria.

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | July 24, 2025

Ahmed al-Sharaa Liberation Speech at Damascus Mosque. (Photo by Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic – Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic, Public Domain, Wikipedia)

*Is Syria’s Abu Muhammad al-Julani (Ahmed al-Sharaa) a terrorist in a Western suit, dissimulating Western policy makers, who are frustrated by the well-documented Middle East reality of 1,400-year-old ideology and religion-driven intra-Muslim and intra-Arab wars and terrorism, and are eager to replace it with a speculative alternate reality of money-driven peaceful coexistence, undermining Western interests?  Or, is he a reformed terrorist, an ideologue-turned-pragmatist, who is attempting to stabilize the highly fragmented Syria, and advance domestic and regional peaceful coexistence, advancing Western interests?

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Peloni:  A very encouraging report.

Daniel Greenfield | July 24, 2025

People waving USA, Israel, and MAGA Country flags in New York City.  (Photo by Nadav Spiegelman – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia)

In New York State, Jews have the highest favorable opinion of President Trump. Jews support Trump more than any other religious group, more than Catholics and Protestants, upstate voters, and more than white voters in general.

Jews are the only identity group in the state with whom Trump isn’t underwater even at the same time as Sen. Schumer polls worse among Jews than among Catholics or Protestants.

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Peloni:  The Overton window in Israel has shifted once and for all, and the fact that this vote was held, and overwhelmingly supported from both the Right and the Left, demonstrates the rejection of the long ago self defeating policies of the Two State Solution, something which would have been impossible, both politically and geopolitically, just two years ago.

Avi Abelow

HISTORIC UPDATE – GREAT NEWS!!!

Yesterday, July 23rd, 2025, will be remembered as a turning point in Jewish history, 57 years late, but finally happening.

With a resounding 71–13 majority, and support from both coalition and opposition, the Israeli Knesset passed a powerful declaration calling on the government to officially apply Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, our biblical heartland.

This isn’t just a symbolic vote. This is a strategic declaration by the Israeli Parliament, rooted in history, drenched in Jewish blood and prayer, and moved forward by leaders who understand the moment we are in, a moment where destiny demands action.

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Peloni:  This was a very in depth discussion with David Wurmser about the war with Iran and the mentality and convictions which have drawn Iran to where it is and its inability to be intimidated by demonstrations of Western power.  The entire video is well worth hearing, but the last twenty minutes beginning around 49min mark is particularly revealing.  Wurmser describes how the pro Iran supporters such as Carlson and Bannon limited Trump’s ability to support Israel’s attempt to finalize the war with a decapitating blow, but that his efforts to avoid such a scenario could only be met with disappointment due to Iran’s uninhibited need to see the West destroyed, indicating that regime change is the only viable solution to preventing a nuclear Iran.

Peloni:  An important and discerning conversation with Edwin Black who provides important context and descriptions to the threat which Iran holds in its damaged nuclear program.  Explaining that regime change in Iran is the only path which will lead to regional security/stability, he explains that it remains to be seen if regime change will take place.

Peloni: The pursuit of saving the hostages damages the war aim of victory, and has kept Israel from claiming victory for nearly two years now.  While it might be difficult to accept, the manner best suited towards gaining greater numbers of hostages released would be to end the negotiations and focus on the aim of victory, leaving the onus of making greater concessions towards a hostage deal with Hamas.  Doing otherwise only strengthens Hamas’ resolve and makes the hostages too valuable to gain their release in total as Douglas describes below.

The price for the release of a terrorist serving multiple life sentences needs to be the return of all Israeli hostages, alive and dead, at one time.

Douglas Altabef | July 24, 2025

By IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia, [Cropped]

In its never-ending revisions to the conditions for any kind of hostage release, Hamas has now added the release of Israeli prisoner Marwan Barghouti, a convicted Palestinian terrorist who is serving multiple life sentences. He is a veritable pillar of Hamas lore and terror.

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UPDATE: Witness testimony of an Orthodox Christian on that flight:
https://x.com/Osint613/status/1948475644972507603>

Also from Min. Chikli: Reality surpasses all imagination. There are growing indications that Iván Chirivella – a captain at @vueling  Airlines who reportedly trained two of the 9/11 hijackers, including Mohamed Atta – may have been the pilot who ordered the removal of the Jewish children from the flight between Valencia and Paris.

Peloni:  The work product of the successful Jew Hate campaign being pushed across the mainstream media.

by Gary Leff | View from the Wing | July 23, 2025

Crew Declares Israel ‘Terrorist State,’ Summons Police To Drag 50 Jewish Kids Off Flight For Singing In Hebrew, Violently Arrest Camp Director

Peloni:  Removing Jews from Jewish history must surely be one of the most perverse goals of antisemites.  Stealing our history, weaponizing it against us.  Such maliciousness must not go unremarked or unchallenged.  Please share this widely.

Largest Teachers' Union in United States Erases Jews From the Holocausthttps://t.co/FQA0Dk22Lc

— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) July 23, 2025

John Spencer | Jul 23, 2025

(Photo by Jaber Jehad Badwan – Jaber Jehad Badwan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia)

In his New York Times op-ed titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It,” Omer Bartov accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. As a professor of genocide studies, he should know better. Genocide is not defined by a few comments taken out of context, by estimates of casualties or destruction, or by how war looks in headlines or on social media. It is defined by specific intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group in whole or in part. That is a high legal bar. Bartov did not meet it. He did not even try.

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Peloni:  Lies, lies and damned lies.

by Bassam Tawil  •  Gatestone Institute  •  July 23, 2025

• There is no evidence… that Jews were behind the alleged arson.

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Peloni:  It is interesting to see much of what was once already released long ago being treated as all new material, it will be interesting to see how these new revelations are handled, noting that crimes ignored are not criminal at all.  Prosecutions and convictions of those in the intel community and media, along with those in the DOJ and political realm will demonstrate that justice has returned to Washington, and nothing less than this will do.

Update:  DNI Gabbard referring Obama for criminal prosecution.  Such an outcome does seem remote given the latitude which SCOTUS offers POTUS, but time will tell if this is more than showboating

Jason Cohen | Daily Caller |  July 23, 2025

Legacy media’s biggest players — NBC News, The New York Times (NYT) and others — appear to be in full damage control mode over the “Russiagate” revelations Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard unveiled Friday.

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By Christine Douglass-Williams | July 22, 2025

Image by Unknown author – static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2025/05/Gaza-Humanitarian-Foundation-Memo.pdf, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Israel cannot possibly stop the war until it is certain of its survival. What sane person wouldn’t want the war in Gaza to end? That includes Israel. The problem is that no one is saying how it can end, while guaranteeing Israel’s safety.

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Peloni:  Exactly so.

The Arabs consider all the territory west of the Jordan to be the goal of “free Palestine,” and they openly declare this. Israel must declare its ownership of the land promised in the Bible.

Alex Maistrovoy | Jul 23, 2025

Whenever and under whatever circumstances the war in the Gaza Strip ends, it must end with an Israeli victory. And victory in this case is not the destruction in the territory of the strip, not the extermination of the leaders of Hamas, and not the return of hostages. Victory is the annexation of part of the land in the Gaza Strip by the Jewish state.

This statement is due to a few factors.

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