By Hugh Fitzgerald | July 9, 2025

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After Israel’s twelve-day war with Iran, the Iranians — humiliated by the amount of information the Israelis had acquired about their country that allowed them to assassinate leading military men and nuclear scientists, and to attack nuclear sites that had been kept top secret, such as the facility at Parchin, the Iranians began to flail about. In a fury, they rounded up hundreds of those they called Israeli spies, but there is reason to believe that their hysteria misled them, and the real spies are still methodically plying their trade inside Iran, while those picked up, the Iranians to their chagrin will discover, turn out to be innocent after all.

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Peloni:  The degree of silence from the US over Iran’s missile program is deafening, and highly misguided.

by Eric R. Mandel | July 5, 2025

Shahin missiles.  (Photo by Vahid Reza Alaei – Farsnews.ir, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia)

Did you know that 10,000 ballistic missiles — each carrying one to two tons of explosives — could cause as much, or even more, devastation than a Hiroshima-style atomic bomb?

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Peloni:  These attacks on Jews and Jewish property is becoming more and more routine in Australia…and elsewhere.

By Robert Spencer | July 9, 2025

All over the world, violent attacks on Jews are proliferating, and the perpetrators persist in thinking they occupy the moral high ground.

“Man charged with setting fire to Melbourne synagogue as police probe terror motive,” Times of Israel, July 6, 2025:

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Peloni:  It is scandalous that Israel continues to be restrained from victory in this war while being forced to feed, fuel and thereby fund the butchers of October 7 who should have long ago been eliminated.  As Avi explains, madness is guiding Israeli along a policy of pulling punches and needlessly sacrificing more and more IDF soldiers on the same ground previously won and previously evacuated.

Peloni:  Immediately before watching the Carlson interview with Iran’s president, people should rewatch his interview with Sen. Ted Cruz, or watch the near decade old interview which Carlson had with John Bolton.  Hard questions were seemingly the entire point of Carlson’s interviews with Bolton and Cruz, with the latter interview being just a few weeks old.  Yet in the time since then, he seems to have lost his appetite for hard question in an interview which lacks any commentary or questioning over the Iranian govt’s many atrocities against Israelis, Iranians and particularly Americans.  Shame on Tucker Carlson…again.

By Janet Levy | Am Thinker | July 9, 2025

Few people—even diligent media followers—are likely to speak knowledgably about the Bank of International Settlements (BIS). Yet, hidden in plain sight in a 20-story tower (with four more stories below ground level) in Basel, the BIS influences the leaders of the world’s top central banks and controls the global economy. Moreover, it cannot be questioned or held accountable for any of its actions. In his 2013 book Tower of Basel, Adam LeBor, a former reporter for The Economist and author of thoroughly researched works such as Hitler’s Secret Bankers, The Last Days of Budapest, and City of Oranges, analyzes the bank’s history to explain how it gained unlimited power.

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Peloni:  Michael Snyder examines what can only be described as incompetence at the minimum, and suspected complicity at the worse, which will forever surround the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein case.  As the promise of “all will be revealed” wass meekly replaced with the proposed guarantee that there was nothing relevant to discuss, with the routine attempt to bury this change of concept regarding Epstein, his co-conspirators, the evidence of his guilt and his already divulged connection to the intelligence world, as this drastic change of narrative was made over the July 4 holiday.  Indeed, if the claim that celebrated notoriety of the Epstein case was just a fiction, a solemn and thorough disclosure of the facts needed to be produced to the public in such a way as to merit the value already assessed to the charges by both Trump administration officials such as AG Bondi, as well as by the American public in general.  Notably, Trump voiced some reluctance about declassifying the Epstein files about a year ago, but Bondi in particular provided a foreboding commentary regarding the importance of the Epstein revelations, already having turned the re-release of previously revealed documents into a media circus.  Promises made deserve to be kept, and when expectations fail to materialize, it heightens, rather than eliminates, the need to highlight the change of narrative, and more importantly, a full, rather than dismissive, explanation for why those changes took place.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Reports have surfaced in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere that a significant number of Hebron’s most prominent sheikhs have proposed to leave the blood soaked Fatah’s PLO/Palestinian Authority and join the Abraham Accords in Judaea and Samaria.

The latter were not renamed “West Bank” until Transjordan illegally snatched the lands west of the Jordan River after invading a nascent Israel in May 1948. Question: Was Yehoshua/Jesus born in Bethlehem of Judaea or Bethlehem of the “West Bank?” Check out the New Testament’s Gospels for an answer.

Hamas was created in 1987, and its raison d’etre’s charter calls for the total obliteration of the sole, minuscule, resurrected nation of the Jewish People, which emerged on about 14% of the original April 25, 1920 Mandate of Palestine after what is now Jordan was gifted with almost 80 % of the total area in 1922.

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Peloni:  The incident of Trump, the most pro-Israel and greatest friend the Jews have ever had in the White House to date, using an well known antisemtic trope, calls to mind the recent article by Jonathan Feldstein, Elon Musk, the Holocaust, and Antisemitism, in which he explains that situations such as Trump’s Shylock comment offer an important “learning opportunity and something from which positive things could come out”.

by Rafael Medoff

Italian actor Franco Branciaroli as Shylock.  (Photo by ArezzoTV, CC BY 3.0, Wikipedia)

President Donald Trump says he did not know that the term “Shylock” has antisemitic connotations, when he used it in a recent comment about unscrupulous bankers. Then-Vice President Joe Biden said essentially the same thing when he called predatory bankers “Shylocks” back in 2014. Should we believe them? Does it matter?

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Netanyahu and Trump still pursuing options for voluntary migration from Gaza

All Israel News Staff | Published: July 8, 2025

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump met for dinner at the White House Monday evening amid efforts to secure a hostage-ceasefire deal in Gaza and attempts by Washington to resume talks with Iran following the Israeli and U.S. strikes on nuclear sites in the Islamic Republic.

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Massive overnight operation targets Iranian-backed threats after continued missile and drone attacks on Israel.

Israfan | July 7, 2025

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Peloni:  And while Dr. Moore is being persecuted, not a single pharmacist is being charged who withheld prescribed medical treatments such as, but not limited to, ivermectin from needy patients.  Not a single person has been charged in the attempt to manipulate research to indicate hydroxychloroquine was dangerous to patients suffering from Covid.  Not a single person is being charged following the documented effort to deceive the entire world of the obvious lab leak nature of Covid origin.

Senseless policies proscribing innocuous and efficacious medicine while weaponizing and perverting scientific research led to upside down policies where men such as Dr. Moore sit in the dock facing what would be tantamount to a life sentence, while men such as Collins and Fauci roam free, with their wealth intact and their freedom unhampered.  This should serve as a grotesque commentary on both the judicial and medical standards of America in the age of Covid.  Dr. Moore should go free, and instead of charging him with conspiracy and malfeasance, he should be placed in a position of authority where he would be able to abandon the the felonious policies which threaten him with a fate he does not deserve.  The courage and resolve of men such as Dr. Moore should be harnessed to lead the future, rather than being shackled for serving the oath of ‘Do No Harm’.

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Rabbi Jacob Y. Herzog | June 21, 2025

Your Excellency President El-Sisi,
Today I will explain to your people everything that has happened since you took power.

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And the Script for Confrontation Is Already Being Written

Khaled Hassan, The Grand Strategy,  July 7,2025

Picture this. You’re the president of a nation on the brink. Decades of decay have hollowed out your country. The economy? A carcass picked clean. Healthcare and education? Crumbling faster than cheap plaster. For ten long years, you’ve peddled the same promise to your weary people: “Hold fast. Prosperity is just months away.” A gleaming future, you swore. A standard of living they could scarcely imagine.

Fast forward to 2025. The dream’s a nightmare.

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