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.
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.
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.
Peloni: Lies, lies and damned lies.
by Bassam Tawil • Gatestone Institute • July 23, 2025
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
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.
By
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.
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.
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.
Peloni: It is time to make this policy and not just simply a symbolic gesture. As Naomi Kahn recently indicated, we are at a tipping point in time on many issues, but on this issue in particular, it is vital that the results tip in the correct and just direction.
Leonard Grunstein
Hopefully, the Trump Administration will recognize Israel extending Israeli Law and civil administration for the benefit of Israelis living in Judea and Samaria. Indeed, how can anyone object to extending civil rights under Israeli Law to Israelis living in Judea and Samaria.I don’t use the term annexation because it belongs to Israel. The League of Nations and President Coolidge under the 1924 Anglo-American Convention approved by Senate (and therefore ‘the supreme Law of the Land’) legally recognized right of Jewish people to live and have sovereignty over all of Israel (then called Palestine), between Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea. https://www.amazon.com/Because-Its-Just-Right-Recognition-ebook/dp/B0C82R56PN
Image from X. [Resized]
By Sha’i ben-Tekoa | July 23, 2025
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism is well-intentioned but a cumbersome 37 words long.
I prefer my own three-word definition: “Antisemitism is… lying about Jews.” That is all one needs to explain this behavior of telling and believing in lies about Jews that often lead to homicidal violence against them.
Peloni: Smart move. They are going to lose in any event.
(By Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Pam Bondi, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia)
A major American city is changing its sanctuary policy amid escalating pressure from the Trump administration.
Image: Zohran Mamdani. Credit: Bingjiefu He via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
As Jews worry about the ascent of Zohran Kwame Mamdani and his monstrous ideas, we are reminded of our history. Mamdani is yet another example in the irrational rabid hatred of Jews, Judaism, and Jewish survival.
Peloni: And the number of Qatari allies among US power brokers continues to grow and grow…
Qatar supports terrorism around the world, hosts Hamas leaders in Doha, is deeply involved in human trafficking, and yet holds the position of Major Non Nato Ally with allies in key positions in Trump’s administration…
Someone please make sense of this.
UPDATE: Bill Bennett too…
Breaking: I just discovered that former U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett registered this month as a foreign agent for Qatar.
Per the new FARA filings, he’s being paid $30k per month for 7 months to, and I quote, “publicize the fact that Qatari higher education efforts do… pic.twitter.com/CyFCiLsB56
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) July 22, 2025
Peloni: Please share this. So while the US is constantly pushing Israel to send more and more aid to the acknowledged Hamas controlled population in Gaza, they are allowing the Syrians to institute a siege of the Israeli allied Druze by the US allied Turkish proxy forces in Syria under Jolani. Recalling the report of Amb. Barrak stating that there was no Plan B to Jolani’s full control of Syria, while suggesting that the minorities, such as the Druze, recognize they are better off under this Turkish proxy, Zell’s depiction of Jolani’s seige of the Druze becomes all the more disturbing to read.
Mark Zell, chairman and vice president of Republicans Overseas published the following on X:
I met today with a senior Israeli Druze leader and former IDF commander who is well informed about the current situation in Suweida — the principal Druze area in southern Syria. He reports:
1. There are about 800,000 Druze living in southern Syria.
Turkey’s Erdo?an and Israel’s Netanyahu Have Both Defensive and Offensive Motives to Fight in Syria
Daniel Pipes | MEF | July 22, 2025
How to understand the fighting in Syria between the central government in Damascus and its many foes, including Alawites, Kurds, Druze, and the Israel Defense Forces?
Peloni: Pursuing this now seems somewhat late. How much more powerful of a statement this would have been had this been the announcement made previously when it was announced that the Epstein case was being dropped. Reports on this topic don’t even make it clear if the negotiations with Maxwell are for public consumption alone, or if this is really the first contact between Bondi’s “exhaustive” investigation and this key actor in Epstein’s crimes.
Hudson Crozier | Daily Caller |
Photo by Federal Bureau of Prisons – NY Post, Public Domain, Wikipedia
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Tuesday that he expects to meet convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell “in the coming days” to discuss potential evidence in the case of her late partner, Jeffrey Epstein.
Peloni: Amb Barrak: “Strong nation states are a threat – especially Arab states are viewed as a threat to Israel,…I think all of the minority communities are smart enough to say, we’re better off together, centralized.”
Is Barrak intending this statement to include the Druze minority which just suffered being slaughtered by Jihadists, the same Jihadists which Jolani described as being “Syrian heroes”???
Meanwhile US citizens are among those being slaughtered by those Syrian heroes, “Folks I am going to save you the graphic and gruesome video of the murder the American Druze in Syria”
Doubling down on this policy of a centralized power under Jolani will not bode well for the future regional stability, any more than it has for the Druze community over this past week, so Plan B would seem to already be in place by the Jihadists on which Amb. Barrak is doubling down his suspport.
Truce in Syrian Druze areas holds, Bedouin civilians evacuate from Suwayda
Tom Barrack met with Ahmed al-Sharaa in Syria in May 2025. Photo by Ambassador Tom Barrack – X, Public Domain, Wikipedia)
Washington sees no alternative to continue working together with the Syrian government that is dominated by former members of Islamist terror groups, Tom Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria and Lebanon, said in Beirut on Monday.
