FDD | July15, 2025

Latest Developments

• Strikes Intended to Prevent Rebuilding of Radwan Force: Israel bombed several facilities belonging to Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force in the Beqaa region of Lebanon to prevent the force’s “reconstitution,” the IDF reported. The targeted sites included facilities used by the commando units to train in “weapons use and combat tactics,” along with weapons depots. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that the strikes sent a “clear message to both Hezbollah, which is plotting to rebuild Radwan Force’s raiding capabilities against Israel,” and the Lebanese government of Israel’s determination to “respond with maximum force” to “thwart any threat.”

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UN Jew-hatred exposed.

By Pamela Geller | July 16, 2025

UN Watch: a watershed moment of accountability for those carrying out the UN’s institutionalized bias against the Jewish state.  “This week, the dominoes are falling,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch. “First, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the historic decision to sanction Francesca Albanese, the UN’s pro-Hamas rapporteur, in wake of a massive campaign led by UN Watch. Now the architects of the UN’s anti-Israel inquisition are fleeing the ship. The tide is turning” (UN Watch).

The UN is a terrorist organization that has abandoned the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and adopted the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights (sharia law). More on the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (CDHRI).

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Who really had the power to protect Epstein across three states?

Daniel Greenfield | July 17, 2025

Photo by Ralph Alswang, White House photographer – https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/clinton-epstein-maxwell/, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The first time Jeffrey Epstein was locked up, it was in a private wing of the Palm Beach Stockade with unlocked doors and a ‘work release program’ (even though sex offenders were barred from participating in work release programs) that allowed him to keep an office outside the prison, then ‘work’ from his beachfront home, hire Sheriff’s Deputies as his private security, have them refer to him as a “client” and all the records of his visitors, who reportedly included minors used for sex, were then destroyed as part of a “routine purge”.

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Seven ministerial posts will be vacated by Shas

All Israel News Staff | Published: July 16, 2025

Meeting for the Council of Torah Sages of the Shas Party. (Photo by Zman9318 – Own work, CC0, Wikipedia)

In a surprising move, the Shas party announced its ministers would resign from the government, but the party would not leave the coalition, amid the ongoing row over a new IDF draft law and sanctions for Haredi draft dodgers.

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Peloni:  The disconnect between Trump and his base regarding the importance of transparency on this topic breaks with Trump’s heretofore uncanny ability to grasp the sensitivities expressed by his base.  Doubling down amid public criticisms, along with Allen Dershowitz acknowledging that the files do exist, have only served to widen dissent in his base over this controversy.  The political consequences for this will only grow greater as the mid terms approach, to the benefit of the Never Trumpers and their Democratic allies.

Reagan Reese  | Daily Caller | July 16, 2025

President Donald Trump compared the “Jeffrey Epstein Hoax” to Russiagate in a lengthy Truth Social post Wednesday, blasting his “past” supporters for buying it.

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Peloni:  FDD’s Jonathan Schanzer explains the objection of having a terrorist regime acting as a good faith objective partner in negotiations which include one of their sponsored terrorist groups.  Noting the bipartisan aspect of US govts employing the Qataris as if they were trustworthy, he further notes the close ties between Qatar and many people in Trump’s govt, and calls for an end to Qatar’s Major Non-Nato Ally status.

The Myth and the Truth.

BARRY SHAW

Back in 2008, a British vicar banned the Christmas carol “O Little Town of Bethlehem” from his services following his pilgrimage to the West Bank city.

The Rev. Stephen Coulter said the carol’s lyrics don’t reflect the reality in Bethlehem, attacked Israel’s actions in the West Bank, primarily the security wall and the roadblocks telling the British newspaper The Times that he was “shocked at how the Arab-Israeli conflict that has raged around the West Bank town has decimated its population, wrecked its economy and hit tourism.”

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Linda Goudsmit | July 16, 2025

Let’s be clear about the term non-governmental organization. According to Wikipedia:

A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a typically nonprofit organization that operates partially independent of government control, though an NGO may get a significant percentage, or even all of its funding from government sources. NGOs often focus on humanitarian or social issues but can also include clubs and associations offering services to members. Some NGOs, like the World Economic Forum, may also act as lobby groups for corporations. Unlike international organizations (IOs), which directly interact with sovereign states and governments, NGOs are independent from them.

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Peloni: Pursuing a split vote in NCY against Mamdani is the pathway towards a Mamdani victory. While my sympathies lie with Sliwa, only a single candidate can afford to be on the ballot on election day. The question is whether the interests of Sliwa, Adams and cuomo can be managed in such a way as to meet this challenge, or if they will collectively act as co-spoilers to their rivals and thereby make a Marxist Islamist mayor over the Big Apple. The preference of significant distinctions between opposition groups is what has kept the Mullahs in power in Iran over the past many decades. Such an outcome can not be allowed to take place in NYC.

BREAKING NEWS:
CURTIS SLIWA MAKES MAJOR UPSWING IN LATEST MAYORAL POLL. pic.twitter.com/UPD2cPpAlS

— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) July 16, 2025

Peloni:  Important context for the gathering storm in Syria.  Meanwhile, PM Netanyahu is asking the Israeli Druze to stay out of Syria while he is employing the IDF, Air Force and other assets in dealing with the situation.

BREAKING: Israel passed a message to Al-Julani via Egyptian mediation: ‘Your regime will fall within hours unless you cease the massacre against the Druze and withdraw.”

— Jonathan Hessen (@JonathanHessen) July 15, 2025

Peloni:  Labelling the Muslim Brotherhood as a Terror Organization should have been done years ago.

By Pamela Geller | Geller Report |July 15, 2025

Let’s see if the Democrat party of jihad will stand in the way. Again.

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A reflection on the false narratives.

by Hugh Fitzgerald | July 16, 2025

In the article “How the West got the Israel-Iran war so wrong,” by Adam Slonim, Times of Israel, July 1, 2025, Adam Slonim applies Aristotelian rhetoric to analyze the false narratives being spread about Israel’s campaign to defend itself against those — Hamas, Iran — who would destroy it

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Peloni:  The path to victory lies not thru negotiations, but thru the completion of the war.  What Gaza needs it the declaration of Unconditional Surrender, no partial deals and no caveats, with the only choice left to the barbarians of October 7 to be for them to surrender today or die tomorrow.  Erecting an iron wall policy to support such iron wall rhetoric as declared in this interview is the way to break the spirit of the enemy, leaving them no hope of prolonging their lives, and no value in capturing more hostages.  Only the certitude of Hamas’ imminent destruction, and nothing less, will achieve the plan of  Victory! Victory! Victory! The way to do this is to enact a sincere policy of Unconditional Surrender, and stop surrendering victories to these butchers.

Just the facts. Watch >> pic.twitter.com/jcxrJlgyg5

— Benjamin Netanyahu – ?????? ?????? (@netanyahu) July 14, 2025

Peloni:  Is Pollard’s speculation of American involvement in securing this disaster correct?

Peloni:  Cheryl nails it: https://twitter.com/CherylWroteIt/status/1945120742804193720

Peloni

Nothing to see here folks, just former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak hanging out at Epstein’s NYC apartment all masked up. https://t.co/RMiXou628a pic.twitter.com/UOd6NM6hxS

— Christopher Helali (@ChrisHelali) July 14, 2025

Naturally, in the pursuit of honest reporting, the intrepid investigators, who take their queues from the Tucker Carlson’s suggestion that Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad agent, find themselves asking the pertinent question, if Epstein was Mossad, what evidence can we squirrel together to demonstrate this fact.

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Peloni:  This was an important conversation between Yishai and Gen. Avivi over the relevance of the hostages being present in Gaza.