Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | September 12, 2025

*Iran was generally neutral-to-friendly toward the US until the 1951 rise to power of the pro-Soviet Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, who demoted the pro-US Shah to a marginalized ceremonial monarch. During the period 1953-1978, following the dismissal of Mosaddegh, and the restoration of the executive power of the Shah, Iran functioned as one of the US’ most trusted Cold War allies, a Major Non-NATO Ally of the US and “the American Policeman of the Gulf.” This strategic honeymoon was terminated by the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which transformed Iran into a clear and present threat to the US, the chief global epicenter of civil wars, anti-US terrorism, drug trafficking and money laundering in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, with a multitude of terror sleeper cells on US soil.

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Michael Ordman | VGNI |Sept 14, 2025

In the 14th Sep 25 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• An Israeli father, mother and two sons are in the same IDF unit in Gaza.
• An Israeli invention to stop bleeding wounds could save millions of lives.
• Israel honors some of its many friends in Africa and South America.
• Vegan “real” milk is being launched into Israeli supermarkets.
• Israeli companies are soaring in value.
• The US and NATO are buying more Israeli defense systems.
• More “golden” Israeli sports men and women.
• Beautiful views of the pre-New Year lunar eclipse from the Holy Land. 

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By Lawrence Martin
drlarry437@gmail.com

Essay based on information in:

http://www.lakesidepress.com/JewsWhoBlameIsrael.pdf

I was raised in a conservative Jewish household, married a Jewish woman, raised three Jewish girls, and now have five Jewish grandchildren. During a four-decade career in medicine, our family was active in the large Jewish community of Cleveland, which was (and remains) very pro-Israel. Yet during this period, if you had given me a quiz on the history of Israel or the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (IPC), I would have flunked. I was busy seeing patients, writing books on medical topics, teaching. It was only after retirement and three trips to Israel that I became knowledgeable about this history, and began to take note of the range of Jewish opinions about the long-standing IPC.

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Peloni:  Many interesting revelations/speculations in this discussion.

Peloni:  Qatar is and always has been an abject enemy of Israel.  They fund Hamas, protect their leadership, and promote terrorism around the globe.  But they also fund specifically anti-Western and anti-American themes as well, not the least of which include the antisemitic prospects on US colleges and the antisemitic protests which the Trump administration is trying to shut down.  It would be best if the US acknowledged these facts as real and acted upon them as Israel has done, rather than shielding Qatar from the consequences of its anti-Western.

After Doha strike, Qatar threatened revenge against the Israeli ‘enemy’

All Israel News Staff | Published: September 12, 2025

 Screengrab via Youtube

In an unprecedented strike, Israel tried to eliminate most of Hamas’s senior leadership as it convened in Doha, the capital of Qatar, on Sept. 9.

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Thoughts on the Passing Scene!

Andrew Benjamin | Sep 11, 2025

Incidentally, a man of considerably high accomplishment, Elon Musk who follows my work, just let it be known that in 1900 white people (aka, the melanin deprived being cancelled for the crime of having been born smart, accomplished, and good looking) constituted 36% of the global population.

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Peloni:  The indoctrination on a societal basis against the Jews in both Nazi Germany and the Islamonazi Arab states/organizations is certainly more than mere coincidence with the ability of the perpetrators of such barbarism as took place both during the Holocaust and on October 7.  Yet, recalling that thousands of Gazans willingly walked the distance from their homes to the somewhat distant Kibbutzim which surrounded Gaza, just so that they might take a role in sharing in that barbarism draws a significant distinction between these horrors which were separated by some 8 decades.  So too, does the fact that there is yet to be a single Righteous Gentile to be found among the Gazan community to compare to the many examples of heroism in the lands controlled and conquered by the Nazis.

by Rafael Medoff

What kind of human being is capable of walking up to another person—an innocent, defenseless, unarmed civilian—and, at close range, shooting him or her?

That question must be on the minds of many who are reading about the Palestinian Arab terrorist attack on bus passengers in Jerusalem this week. The killers were within a few feet of their victims. Read more…

Is anyone listening?

BARRY SHAW | Sep 12, 2025

The new form of European Jew hatred has reached Venice, the place highlighted in Shakespeare’s ultimate exercise in ancient Jewish blood libel, The Merchant of Venice.

The mayor of Venice has condemned the recent attack on American Orthodox Jewish tourists who were targeted by a group chanting “Free Palestine!” and then proceeded to slap them.

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Shoshana Bryen • JPC • September 10, 2025

There is still confusion about the ultimate result of Israel’s strike in Doha, which struck a meeting of Hamas leaders. Israeli government sources have said they are “not optimistic” about having decapitated the terror chiefs. Qatar and the allies it pays for are moaning about Israel’s “war crime.” Two things to note:

• Even if Hamas leaders survived, they are now aware that there is no safe haven. The rules have changed.
• If you didn’t wail about France’s strike in Mali that killed 16 people at a wedding, or the US strikes against Osama bin Laden and Qassem Soleimani, don’t start now. It is not a violation of international law to strike terrorists hiding in third countries – the third countries assumed the risk; Qatar rather publicly.

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By Christine Douglass-Williams | Sept 10, 2025

Israel’s attack on Qatari soil was indeed a shock to the world, but should it have been? Let’s first look at some reaction to Israel’s strike against senior Hamas leaders on Qatar’s soil, which is said to have killed five Hamas members but not its top leaders. The New York Times has wasted no time in an article that struck at the heart of America’s relationship with Israel, suggesting that America risks alienating Gulf “powers” over Israel’s actions. Once again, the leftist NYT prioritizes Islamic interests over American and Israel’s. “Israel’s Attack on Qatari Soil Leads Gulf Powers to Question U.S. Protection,” by Vivian Nereim, New York Times, September 10, 2025:

Qatar hosts the largest American military base in the Middle East, has bought billions of dollars worth of defense systems from the United States and recently gifted a luxury Boeing jet to President Trump.

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? MAJOR BREAKING: THEY CAUGHT the Charlie Kirk shooting suspect, President Trump reveals.

“I think, with a high degree of certainty, we HAVE HIM, in custody. Everyone did a great job.”

Get the chair ready. Execute.pic.twitter.com/vA25dXrP9C

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 12, 2025

Daniel Greenfield

The northeast face of Two World Trade Center (south tower) after being struck by plane in the south face. Image is a cropped version of File:UA Flight 175 hits WTC south tower 9-11 edit.jpeg).  Photo by Robert on Flickr – This image has been extracted from another file, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia [Cropped]

“In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate,” a terrorist declares on the Flight 93 cockpit recording. That’s followed by the sounds of the terrorists assaulting a passenger.

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By Victor Sharpe

Explosion following the plane impact into the South Tower (WTC 2). Photo by Robert Levine – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia

September 11, 2001, is etched within our collective memories, or should be, for those of us who remember that day of loss, courage, and confusion, for we look at a world yet again threatened by spiritual darkness.

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Palestinian surnames tell a story!
Al Masri: Egypt
Masarwah: Egypt
Horani: Horan, Syria
Hijazi: Hijaz, Saudi Arabia
Sorani: Tyre, Lebanon
Sidawi: Sidon, Lebanon
Tarabulsi: Tripoli, Lebanon
Karaki: Karak, Jordan
Zarqawi: Zarqa, Jordan
Fayummi: Fayum pic.twitter.com/HtilLz7FNm

— Hamas Atrocities (@HamasAtrocities) September 7, 2025

Peloni:  It is hard to forget the day when the policy of abandonment and betrayal known as the Disengagement was set in place in 2005, when Jews would force Jewish lands of Gaza to be made Judenrein.  It was like losing sight in one eye, or having the stability afforded by two legs ripped out from below, but in truth, the loss which penetrated the Jewish psyche that day was so much more pervasive, perfidious, and painful, because it was intended that this legacy of loss and betrayal would be cast down thru the ages in perpetuity, an ever present betrayal to be handed down from generation to generation.  Today, some twenty years after that betrayal began, we stand at a point of perhaps repairing what was broken, of making Gaza Jewish again, of breaking the sense of legitimacy which makes Jews pariahs in their own lands, of ending the policy of Judenrein territory with Jewish compliance in the Jewish state.  Is this the path which will be followed in the days of the Day After policy, or will the Day After simply be a new rehearsal of the abandonment and betrayal which began in August 2005…

Tom Gross

A Jewish woman weeps as Israeli soldiers surround the settlement of Neve Dekalim, in southern Gaza, on August 18, 2005, and prepare to move in. Even those Israelis who strongly backed the plan were greatly saddened to see Jews dragged from their homes. The leftist novelist David Grossman wrote in Ha’aretz: “These are days of mourning for all Israelis. We can mourn today for the passion, the pioneering spirit, the purposefulness that for years pulsed through Gush Katif and which will soon dissipate like smoke, and for the fabric of life there that will be shredded come tomorrow.”

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Avi Abelow

First of all, there’s no doubt Israel informed President Trump before the operation. With major U.S. military bases in Qatar, there’s simply no way Israel would have carried out a strike there without coordinating with the Trump administration.

Did the U.S. then inform Qatar? And if so, did Qatar tip off the Hamas leadership living in luxury in Doha? We don’t know. And frankly, we may never know.

But the fact that we even have to ask those questions should tell you everything about the dangerous double game Qatar plays in the region.

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Peloni:  The insanity and incompetence which guides such chaos will be unlikely to garner the support to bring this to a successful conclusion of disarming Hezbollah.

Hussain Abdul-Hussain | September 9, 2025

Lebanese Amb, Tom Barrack met with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa. Photo by Ambassador Tom Barrack – https://x.com/USAMBTurkiye/status/1926319250370605456/photo/1, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The Lebanese cabinet heard, on Friday, a presentation from Army Chief Rodolphe Haykal on a confidential plan to monopolize arms, as tasked by the government on August 5. The cabinet then issued a statement, and Information Minister Paul Morcos held a press conference. The vague responses left observers divided, with each side interpreting the outcome differently. Some saw progress toward disarming Hezbollah, while others accused the government of stalling in collusion with the pro-Iran militia. Supporters of Hezbollah and its ally, Amal, were left uncertain about whether to support or oppose the decision. This ambiguity has fueled confusion: Will Lebanon disarm Hezbollah, or not?

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By J.B. Shurk | Am Thinker | Sept 11, 2025

Lower Manhattan from Jersey City September 2020 panorama. Photo by King of Hearts – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

One of the nightmares that periodically jolt me awake is the image of an American jumping from the inferno-ravaged upper stories of New York’s World Trade Center into the dust-plumed streets below.  He is tormented and maybe praying and then gone.  More than anything else, that horror from 9/11 haunts me.

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by Rafael Medoff

 Thomas L. Friedman, foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times, claimed in a recent article that Israel’s actions in Gaza are “making it a pariah state.”

Like the shepherd boy in Aesop’s fable, Friedman has been crying wolf—warning that Israel will become “isolated in the world”—for 36 years now. Yet it still hasn’t come true.

Earlier this year, Friedman predicted that President Trump’s Jewish grandchildren “will be the first generation of Jewish children who will grow up in a world where the Jewish state is a pariah state.” A few weeks later, Friedman updated that soundbite, telling the “GZero” podcast that he fears his own grandchildren will grow up in his imaginary Israel-as-a-pariah world.

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Peloni:  Charlie Kirk was an important voice in highlighting the distinctions and conflicts between Islam and Western society.  Here is one of his recent discussions on a topic which he was quite accurate and quite consistent.