PELONI:  Diana West provides an vital analysis of Sec. of State Marco Rubio’s recent speech extolling the mandate inherited by the Western World from its Athenian heritage.

We stand at the crossroads of history.  The Western world is under a state of seige by the combined ranks of globalism in the fusion of Jihadism and Marxism, both from without and from within the structures of Western power and authority.  Indeed, the rise of Jew Hatred around the world should be understood to be a challenge to the Western world to either renew its embrace of the Hebraic teachings which underpinned first the American Republic and later the wider Western World, or severing all connection with the very example which brought the American Founding Fathers to draw from, embrace, and emulate the Torah traditions embodied within the Ancient Hebrew Commonwealth.  As the globalist seek to short circuit the influence of the Judeo Christian values via an alignment with the principles of Jihadists and totalitarians, it seems remarkably disconcerting that in an pivotal policy speech directed specifically at the revival of Western culture not a single mention was made of the duality of Western foundation being that between Athens and Jerusalem, but rather as being that of Athens alone.  The profound omission of  any mention of the foundational component from Jerusalem of faith and revelation as providing any influence on the reason and philosophy stemming from Athens belies a very serious philosophical breach of the very meaning and context of Rubio’s call for a revival of the Western World.

Diana West | Oct 12, 2026

Sec. of State Marco Rubio speaking at the Acropolis. Screengrab via Youtube.

I am wondering when someone will point out that the Secretary of State, with multiple cameras recording his Major Address on “The West,” with the Parthenon and Acropolis lit up like a real sound stage behind him, made an error.

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PELONI:  Will Saudi Arabia accept Israeli support in its war with Yemen?  Doubtful despite Trump’s claims.  Rabbi Pesach Wolicki explores this and more of the history of the debacle in Yemen and the new move by Egypt to support Saudi Arabia as the Mecca Agreement is petering out.

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UPDATE:  PM Netanyahu responds to Pres. Trump’s endorsement

PELONI:  See Trump’s endorsement at the bottom.

Janet Levy:  A Partial List of What Needs to Happen

Recognize Judea and Samaria as ancient Jewish lands and Israel’s rights under international law.  We can’t “annex” land that is ours.

Stop holding Israel back from vigorously pursuing its “7-Front” War.  Israelis are on the frontlines of the fight to destroy western civilization and the ONLY country seriously fighting the global jihad.

Act against Communist China for supplying intelligence and weapons to Iran, the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas.  (China indirectly supplied Iran with nuclear weaponry through the AQ Khan network and North Korea).

Free the Iranian people with regime change FINALLY!  (Do NOT bring in the murderous MEK)!

Stop the personal billion dollar business deals with the Muslim Brotherhood countries of Turkey and Qatar.

Stop Al-Jolani/Al-Sharaa’s murdering of minorities.

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“If Israel has the wrong Leader, which would be anyone other than Bibi, America will have to do this work ourselves, and I am not inclined to do so,” Trump said.

By World Israel News Staff |World Israel News | Oct 18, 2026

President Trump and PM Netanyahu at the Israel Museum. Jerusalem May 23, 2017. By U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv – President Trump at the Israel Museum. Jerusalem May 23, 2017 President Trump at the Israel Museum. Jerusalem May 23, 2017, CC BY 2.0, Link

President Donald Trump issued a full-throated endorsement of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, throwing his support behind the Israeli leader just nine days before Israelis head to the polls.

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Michael Ordman | VGNI | Oct 18, 2026

In the 18th Oct 2026 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• Incredible resilience of brave, wounded Israeli soldiers.
• Israeli therapy breakthroughs for cancer, schizophrenia, epilepsy, hearing loss, and more.
• Many Israeli companies exhibit at air show in Morocco.
• First the Israeli cherry tomato, now the “all-year-round, seedless” tomato.
• Nearly half the world’s investment into cybersecurity went to Israel.
• Even without FlyDubai, Israel rules the skies.
• Israeli women windsurfers rule the waves.
• Miracles at 30,000 feet. 

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PELONI:  The desperation of the Peace Processors to stave off the final death throws of their precious Two State Solution ideology has them making outright false statements to support outright illegal economic war on Israel while being coordinated with a wave of fake reports of Jewish Violence to inspire their efforts and frenzy their Jew Hating supporters.  All of this is due to the refusal of Israel to publicly and officially declare that the Oslo framework is finally dead.  The reticence of doing so of course is tied to the realty that such a declaration must be coincident with some new policy to replace the Oslo framework.  Well, Min. Itamar Ben-Gvir has put forward just such a plan which involves the facilitating voluntary Arab migration, thus rising the spontaneous campaign by the Peace Processors to push their TSS agenda forward.  Herein lies the motivation of Miliband and the Burnham govt to make such sweeping and outrageous efforts to push their ideology forward with the help of the one solution paradigm exclusively pursued by the Peace Processors who try to maintain a vigilance of ignoring the fact that the Two State Solution was employed by Perfidious Albion a century ago with the creation out of whole cloth of the Emirate of Transjordan which is today the Kingdom of Jordan, which coincidentally stands on land which was initially intended for the Jewish Homeland later to become the state of Israel.

Amb. David Friedman stated a decade ago that if Israel would not declare the fate of how to deal with the situation in Judea and Samaria, some other malefactor might rise to do so for them.  It should come as no surprise that the British govt, specifically this Corbyn inspired govt, is doing exactly that.  It is vital for the Israeli govt to finally declare Oslo is dead, and to support their own vision for what comes next.  This focus must be a prime aspect of the activities next govt, making the choice and character of that govt pivotal.

Introduced by the new Burnham Government.

Barry Shaw | The View from Israel | Oct 17, 2026

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In August 2026, Ed Miliband was selected by the new British Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, to be his new Foreign Minister and, immediately, Miliband went to war against Israel.

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PELONI: Well, it seems the “Settler Violence” campaign has now drawn the efforts of a French Communist Mayor amid the mounting effort to create an overwhelming basis on which to condemn the Israeli settlers.  Unsurprisingly, both the IDF and President Isaac Herzog played their role in immediately issuing their judgement and condemnation without taking the time for the facts of the situation to be reviewed and certified.  Happily, PM Netanyahu took the correct path to recognize that none of this passes the smell test and insisted that the “public and responsible journalists to demand verifiable evidence, to reject unfounded rumors and to refuse to turn unproven accusations into a collective indictment against the Jewish residents in Judea and Samaria.”  

Israel is a nation built on laws.  It is incumbent upon the leaders of the nation to base such judgements as were drawn by Herzog and the IDF on facts.  Criminal behavior can not be condoned, but it must be established as to who the actual criminal if not terrorist actually are before rendering such judgements.  Noting the recent sharp uptick in violence against Jews in Judea and Samaria as I reported recently, it would seem logical enough to proceed on a path of caution before rendering judgement.  The presence of a French Communist Mayor without authorization alone should have steadied the voices of the IDF and the Israeli President until the full reality of the situation was made clear.  Of course, this was not what took place, and it only adds to a series of events for which Jews are condemned for actions taken by or inspired by actual Arab provocateurs.

See the report by Elisha Yared at the bottom for further details and perspective.

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See more:  France erupts: rioters torch city hall, attack police as half a million protest

PELONI:  In betraying its people by actively supporting the unprecedented migration of millions of unvetted Muslims to what was once known as the “Eldest Daughter of the Church” (fille aînée de l’Église), the entire stability of the nation of France has been cast asunder.  The quiet Jihad is actively pursuing the fall and replacement of the old Christian nations of Europe.  Is this honestly to be believed to be mere coincidence with an activated mob of over half a million protestors?  I would argue not.  Jihad has but one goal and that is the planned overthrow of the infidel West.  Europe is under siege with France at the forefront.. and America will follow this example if the Jihadis are not removed.

Paris rioters ransack local synagogue amid growing unrest initially sparked by anger over education spending, but which has since led to widespread acts of violence and vandalism.

By World Israel News Staff | World Israel News | October 18, 2026

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A synagogue in Paris was vandalized during widespread rioting across France over the weekend, prompting warnings from Jewish organizations as violent unrest left hundreds of police officers injured, businesses looted and public buildings set ablaze.

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PELONI:  Another brilliant and important analysis by Victor Satya.

The lessons of the failed peace plans over the years should be for Israel to pursue victory, not peace.  By creating the conditions of peace, peace may or may not follow in turn, but until such foundations for peace are established, the effect of having achieved victory over its adversaries will leave Israel in a position to survive until these possibilities present themselves.  Victory, not peace, is how to build the Iron Wall which Jabotinsky spoke about a century ago, a wall not to hide behind, but to emphasize to our enemies that we are here to stay, that our land is OUR OWN, and that while peace is desirable, it can not be achieved at any sacrifice to our own security, survival or identity.

So, seek victory, support the Iron Wall, and defeat our enemies – in time such efforts will bear the seeds of peace at the expense of our enemies constantly being fed the notion that if only they would remain defiant that everything they desire will be surrendered to them as one concession at a time til we are left utterly defenseless against their desires to effect a final October 7.  If peace is possible, it can not be based on Western ambitions, but on Middle East realities, and as Satya explains below,

“[Israel] needs to stop being governed by the fear of what the world will say. Because if the price of being loved is the steady surrender of everything that makes Israel worth defending, then the price is too high.”

Territory surrendered. Sovereignty compromised. Concessions made. And the condemnations keep coming.

Victor Satya | October 17, 2026

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Israel has spent much of its modern history looking over its shoulder to see whether the world approves of what it is doing. Is Washington pleased? Is Brussels offended? Will the United Nations pass another resolution? Will The New York Times approve? Will the Europeans understand? Will the international community finally recognize that Israel is a democracy, that it wants peace, that it has made concessions, that it has behaved itself?

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PELONI:  I simply could not agree more.  Hamas must be eviscerated with extreme predjudice – root, stem and leaf, leaving nothing behind.

See also: Uri Kurlianchik‘s reflections on the lessons to be learned from the life of Vivian Silver

Cookie Schwaeber-Issan | All Israel News | October 16, 2026

October 7 Collage by Hnuden – Own work, CC0, Wikipedia

On that fateful morning of October 7, 2023, an estimated 6,000 terrorists are believed to have infiltrated Israel, for the purpose of brutally slaughtering innocent Israelis, who had yet to open their eyes and welcome the welcome Shabbat.

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A Muslim cleric draws an inspiring lesson from Islamic history.

by Robert Spencer | Oct 17, 2026

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When Jews and Christians look back into history and tell stories of their saints and heroes, they generally speak of people who held to the faith under immense pressure, even unto death. Or people who were extraordinarily generous and magnanimous. Or people who spoke a courageous and inspiring word that rallied the faithful and a crucial time. In Islamic tradition, however, as is so often the case, the situation is different.

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PELONI:  These NGOs should be banned from Israel.  As things exist today, they only serve to undermine the security of the nation which should not tolerated.

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PELONI: Avi Abelow speaks with Amanda Milius (director and producer of The Plot Against The President) and Jonathan Keeperman (founder of Passage Publishing) at NATCOM 2026 about the growing divide between the American Right, especially among the young, and the traditional support for Israel among conservatives.  They offer a sense of urgency about the need for this to be addressed immediately with some suggestions and Abelow offers some important insights of his own on this topic.  Please share this widely.

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PELONI: It was a big mistake for Netanyahu to challenge Obama with the statement that “We are Jews in Judea” without also stating that the self describe “Palestinian” Muslims already have a state in Jordan, the original two states for two peoples, and that both it and Israel are tied to the same basis under international law, something which should not be ignored when such Jew Haters as Obama try to steal yet more of our land to the same purpose.

Indeed, the discussion about stolen land should be resolved to at least include if not center upon not just Israel’s historical, ancestral, biblical, and indigenous rights to the land of Israel, but upon the importance of the League of Nations, the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine and the pivotal relevance of the San Remo Declaration.  These certify our right to the land as being binding under international law, which should receive a greater focus of any debate over stolen lands.  As I have stated previously:

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PELONI:  The growing use of AI is expanding the reach of the Jew Hatred propaganda promoted in it by its reliance upon such poisoned wells of “knowledge” as Wikipedia and Al Jazeera.  The longer these perversions of truth persists to inform the relative AI platforms, the greater will be the effect of fanning the flames of Jew Hatred around the world.

All Israel News Staff | Published: October 16, 2026

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Wikipedia’s anti-Israel bias remains largely unchanged more than a year after the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) exposed alleged coordinated efforts to distort its coverage of Israel, Gaza and the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack, according to a new report by the ADL’s Center for Technology and Society (CTS).

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PELONI:  Netanyahu delivers direct message to al-Jolani in a phone call…While this report represents something of a new meaning of the phrase “direct negotiations”, it could prove useful going forward as Jolani’s subordinating ties to the expansionist hungry Erdogan may well lead to another phone call at some point in the future.

PM reportedly gave Syria nine hours before striking in Damascus

Hanan Lischinsky | All Israel News | Published: October 16, 2026

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that he spoke with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on the phone in the summer of 2025 before ordering the IDF to conduct airstrikes in Damascus to stop the slaughter of Druze in southern Syria.

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PELONI:  As Rabbi Pesach Wolicki explains, with many victories yet to be secured there have been so many victories over the past three years that it is hard to describe them as being less than miraculous.  We live in an age of miracles, and yet we must not be content with what has thus far been achieved.  The remaking of the Middle East and the modern world in front of us, so let us see that the age of miracles is not yet at an end.

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