Peloni:  The October 6 mentality lingers…

Qatar is poised to make a comeback in Gaza. On July 10, Israeli media reported that Israel “tentatively agreed” to allow Qatar to help fund Gaza’s reconstruction once a future ceasefire comes into effect. Qatar’s participation in postwar reconstruction reportedly came at Hamas’s request, but Israeli negotiators stipulated that Qatar should not be the sole donor. If true, the emerging ceasefire would see Qatar reprise its role as Gaza’s benefactor, returning to an arrangement that enabled Hamas to strike in the first place.

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Peloni:  While complaints of both Americans and world leaders have argued against the US being the world’s policeman, the Trump Doctrine has called for regional partners who have the capacity and aligned ideology to promote US interests without US involvement.  This was clearly the role played by Israel in the 12 Day War, even ending that war as declared by the US, and even dropping its final attack regardless of the yet to be met timed deadline due to Trump’s public demand that they do so.  Israel has been likewise playing a similar role with Yemen, having taken over the attacks on the Houthis after attacking internatioinal shipping and is now seeking to assemble an international coalition to end the Houthi menace, much as Mike Doran informed us in a recent podcast that Israel would be doing so.  This is the Trump Doctrine in action. 

FDD | July 11, 2025

Latest Developments

• Israel Seeks Coalition: Israel is reportedly seeking to build a coalition of U.S. and partner forces to launch renewed strikes against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen after the terrorist organization’s attacks intensified in recent weeks. According to reports on July 10, Jerusalem believes that the Houthi threat “can no longer remain solely an Israeli problem” and that “a renewal of American attacks and the formation of a coalition including additional countries” is necessary to put an end to the Red Sea terrorism. Israel last launched strikes against the Houthis on July 7, striking the Houthi-controlled ports of Hodeidah, Ras Issa, and Al-Salif, as well as the Ras Kanatib power station north of Hodeidah.

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Peloni:  This is a very concerning report.  Mamdani alone has a base motivated to turn out to vote for him, and his opposition is splitting what might be the only chance to defeat him.  While Len Grunstein was correct in calling for a fusion candidate to face Mamdani, it will take one candidate, not four, and one which has at least some public appeal to match and defeat that of Mamdani.  New York City stands upon the precipice of even greater destruction in this race.

By Daniel Greenfield | July 8, 2025

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46% of New Yorkers would never vote for Mamdani, or the other candidates…

I know it’s fashionable in certain circles to sneer or cheer that a Muslim Communist is the Dem nominee for Mayor of New York City, but if you remember 9/11 or the BLM riots, you know that what happens in big cities doesn’t stay in them.

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Peloni:  See Report of Bongino possibly to quit over Epstein mishandling by Bondi at the bottom.

Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi addressed the missing minute in Jeffrey Epstein’s jailhouse footage at a Trump Cabinet meeting Tuesday, sparking renewed scrutiny from MAGA.

Bondi fielded several questions from a reporter regarding the memo’s release, Epstein’s possible ties to intelligence and missing footage from the jailhouse video. (RELATED: Dershowitz Claims He Saw Full Epstein Client List While Defending Himself In Giuffre Case)

“Your memo released yesterday on Jeffrey Epstein left some lingering mysteries. One of the biggest ones is whether he ever worked for an American or foreign intelligence agency.”

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Peloni:  Geopolitical expert, Dr. Daniela Giulia Traub, describes the basis on which the Middle East is being retooled in such a way as to include Israel rather than against it.  In pursuit of a shift away from an old alliance system which isolated and attacked Israel, a new paradigm is being structured such that oil based economies are transitioning into knowledge based economy.  Traub offers an important context for this ultimate goal, explaining that nations such as Syria, Egypt and Jordan have been obstacles to such a visionary move, and nations such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia, in an on again/off again approach (based on political/geopolitical concerns) are reshaping these problematic, smaller Sunni states, by these moderate Sunni nations making key investments in vital economic elements within these smaller, problematic states. 

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Peloni:  There was a time when democracy represented rule by consent of the people, but now it is increasingly accepted as being the fiat of some fop in black robes.

by Drieu Godefridi  •  Gatestone Institute  •  July 8, 2025

In the West, it is not the executive that threatens the separation of powers. It is faceless judges lacking democratic legitimacy who legislate on the pretext of judging. The torrents of universal rules and requirements deriving from articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (e.g. privacy, dignity), and the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (pictured) are probably the worst modern example of tyrannical judicial imperialism.  (Photo by Adrian Grycuk – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl, Wikipedia)

• In the West, it is not the executive that threatens the separation of powers. It is faceless judges lacking democratic legitimacy who legislate on the pretext of judging…. [T]his judicial imperialism… [has] become a judicial tyranny….

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Arlene Kushner | July 10, 2025

We Israelis are dealing with an exceedingly difficult and complex time. We speak of the matzav, “the situation”, as we struggle to understand how we came to this place that feels never-ending. We are driven by a need to know what is currently transpiring and then, what we can likely expect ahead.

Take, by way of example, the assessment of how much damage the US attack did to the Iranian nuclear sites. Estimates vary so greatly that the head spins; you might end up accepting the estimate from the source you find most reliable, or perhaps you accept what you find most comforting. (Israeli intelligence says the damage was considerable.)

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$60 Billion Down the Nile: Funding Egypt’s Pivot to China & Institutional Jew-Hatred

Khaled Hassan | The Grand Strategy | Jul 10, 2025

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For decades, American policymakers have treated Egypt as a linchpin of Middle Eastern stability, funnelling over $60 billion in military aid since the 1979 Camp David Accords. This largesse—averaging $1.3 billion annually—was predicated on Cairo’s role as a moderating force and guardian of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. Yet beneath the diplomatic facade lies a strategic catastrophe: the United States is bankrolling a regime whose military and national security apparatus are institutionally antisemitic, actively undermine Israeli security, US interests in the region and fuel regional instability—and, most recently, while pivoting to America’s adversaries.

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Peloni:  Both terrorists have been reported to be members of the Palestinian Police, an American equity.  Indeed, these well trained enforcers of Pal society intended to walk into a supermarket where they would have had an unfettered access to untold numbers of victims.  In fact, it was only due to the by chance presence of armed civilian and off duty soldier, and a locked door, thank G_d, that such an event did not take place.  While the terrorists being Pal Police comes as no surprise, and only adds to the list of literally dozens of Pal Police who have preceded these two in committing terror attacks, it reinforces the reality that this reservoir of terror, which is financed, trained, and armed by Israel’s American ally, must be disbanded, its arms must be stacked, and an alternate option must be pursued in place of further supporting this den of miscreant savages.

Netanyahu says, ‘Terror will not raise its head in Judea and Samaria’

All Israel News Staff | Published: July 10, 2025

A 22-year-old man was killed in a terror attack at the Gush Eitzion junction in Judea, south of Jerusalem, on Thursday which involved two Palestinian terrorists who attempted to enter a supermarket and attack customers.

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Peloni:  Video in Hebrew with Translation below.  Netanyahu remains defiant that though there are preconditions following the two months ceasefire, by diplomacy if possible, and by war if necessary, four demands will be met: “Hamas must disarm, Gaza must be demilitarized, and Hamas can no longer have any governing or military capabilities.”

?JUST IN: Prime Minister Netanyahu in a video: “Negotiations to end the war will begin at the beginning of the ceasefire. If, after 60 days, there is no disarmament and dismantling of Hams, we will return to fighting.” pic.twitter.com/dtKbos0ImZ

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) July 10, 2025

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Peloni:  In this episode, Gadi Taub and Mike Doran explore the completely changed nature of the relationship between Israel and the US, as Trump and Netanyahu have forged a far more integral coordination between these two allies in just a few months.  Begin watching at about 30min, just after Caroline Glick makes a surprise appearance with news that a deal is very likely to be formed in the coming days.  Among other things they discuss the risk benefit nature of such a deal.  They also look more critically at the Hebron emirates proposal, in which Mike notes that this is a power play between clans by borrowing Israeli power, while Gadi notes the very real risks involved in such a gambit.  Notably they agree that it is more of a statement of the need for a changed paradigm from the old Oslo dependency, as Mudar Zahran suggested in recent days.  They y also talk about Gadi’s recent article on the faux claims of ‘Settler Violence’.   Also don’t miss the dumbest take of the day where he addresses the very real appeal within Trump’s base to shed military adventurism in preference of the America First perspective, something which Candace Owens and her Jew Hating allies are harnessing for their own ends, but only by perverting the truth that the coordination between Israel and the US provides America with the ability to seemlessly achieve the America First reality which Trump and his base want to pursue.

Peloni:  Highly recommended article!  Jonathan Tobin presents perhaps the most comprehensive response to the Western pro Hamas psychopaths which question the right and reason for Israel to choose security over terror, and safety over existential threats.  The insanity of the Western liberals who have chosen to champion the barbarians over civilized norms provides little reason to seek their approval, and every reason for Israel to secure herself into the future.

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By Christine Douglass-Williams | July 9, 2025

President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence participate in an expanded bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, in the Oval Office of the White House. (By The White House from Washington, DC – President Trump Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Public Domain, Wikipedia)

Netanyahu is correct in saying that any future Palestinian state would be a platform to destroy Israel. “From the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea is the eternal chant of the Palestinians, who are mostly descended from Ottoman South Syrians, many left wandering after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Israel’s Arab neighbors and Arab nationalists in the Palestinian region resisted the formation of a tiny Jewish state in 1948 in even a tiny portion of the enormous region that had long ago been conquered by the sword via jihad. They formed the Palestinian National Charter, with treacherous wording to justify the annihilation of the Jewish state as an Islamic religious mission:

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by Amin Sharifi  |  Gatestone Institute  | July 9, 2025

Iran’s suspension of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is not a turning point. It is business as usual. Tehran’s decades-long strategy — deny, delay, deceive — continues, and the West still refuses to call it for what it is: a slow-motion march toward nuclear capability. Pictured: HE Mr. Reza Najafi, Resident Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the IAEA, chats with IAEA Spokesperson Fredrik Dahl at the IAEA 1762nd Board of Governors meeting held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 9 June 2025 (Photo by IAEA Imagebank – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia)

• Iran’s suspension of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is not a turning point. It is business as usual. Tehran’s decades-long strategy — deny, delay, deceive — continues, and the West still refuses to call it for what it is: a slow-motion march toward nuclear capability…. It has never stopped.

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Peloni:  To be honest, I wrongly expected the bromance between Trump and Musk to fall apart much sooner than it did, but I was correct in expecting the zero sum nature consequences of the world’s greatest break-up.  As Musk continues to run off the rails, his threat of raising a spoiler event, in the form of a third party so similar to MAGA that it is indistinguishable, provides a real potential of revitalizing the far more destructive and far more radical part of Washington’s Uniparty which was just unseated in the last election.

Who’s right?

by Robert Spencer | July 10, 2025

Image by Mike Goad – Flickr, CC0, Wikipedia

When President Donald Trump was asked on Monday about what he thought of Elon Musk’s new plan to launch a third party, he was characteristically forthright: “I think it’s ridiculous to start a third party,” Trump said. “We have a tremendous success with the Republican Party. The Democrats have lost their way, but it’s always been a two-party system, and I think starting a third party just adds to confusion. It really seems to have been developed for two parties. Third parties have never worked. So he can have fun with it, but I think it’s ridiculous.”

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