Peloni:  Defeating Hamas is the response which should be made to Hamas’ further attempts to delay or negotiate.

Former US President demands total defeat of Hamas as mediator talks show renewed momentum.

Israfan | August 19, 2025

Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

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Peloni:  Much of the West have left this Hezbollah Trojan Horse unaddressed, as it stands well inside the wire of Western borders, influencing Western citizens.

By Emanuele Ottolenghi | August 19, 2025

An announcement from the Centro Islamico Imam al Mahdi do Dialogo Brasil (CIADB) (São Paulo) of a commemoration event for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and all “martyrs of the Resistance” on the day of Nasrallah’s funeral. The center is run by an Al Mustafa clergyman.

Last July, Israel’s ambassador to Argentina gave an interview to Latin America’s leading news platform, Infobae, where he named Edgardo Ruben (aka Suhail) Assad, Abdallah Cerrilla, and Abdul Karim Paz, three Argentinian-born and Iran-trained Shi’a clerics, as part of an Iran terror network. The network has links to Sheikh Mohsen Rabbani, one of the masterminds of the 1992 bombing of Israel’s embassy in Buenos Aires and the 1994 bombing of the AMIA, the Buenos Aires Jewish cultural center.

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Peloni:  As Sec. Rubio has recently stated that banning the Muslim Brotherhood is in process, President Trump should include CAIR in this ban.

By Robert Spencer | Aug 19, 2025

#ICYMI: Former CAIR Florida Director Hassan Shibly: The Only Excuse Muslims Have for Living in the West Is to Change These Countries for the Better – Our Number One Priority Should Be Dawah; I’m Sure MEMRI Will Blast a Clip of Me Saying This pic.twitter.com/JAl2o00EbM

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) August 17, 2025

Yet while Muslim organizations make concerted efforts to convert non-Muslims to Islam, not a single church or any non-Muslim entity has any program to equip its people to deal with this challenge. Apparently to have such a counter-dawah program would be “Islamophobic.”

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Israeli PM sets ultimatums for both countries to combat antisemitism

All Israel News Staff | Published: August 20, 2025

Photo by Hudson Institute – Benjamin Netanyahu Receives Hudson’s Herman Kahn Award, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went on a diplomatic offensive on Tuesday, sending harshly worded letters to the leaders of France and Australia after both countries had recently sharply criticized Israel and vowed to recognize a Palestinian state.

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Peloni:  The false conception which infiltrated the October 6 mindset was a devastating and debilitating blow to Israel, but it was not the first time this took place, and it was in fact intended that such a false mindset would never cripple the nation again, as it also did back in 1973.  Unfortunately, faith with this commitment failed the nation on October 7.  There must be a vigilance which maintains faith with the future commitment that such a false perception will never again be manipulate against the good of the nation.

There is an unmistakable sense that lessons so painfully earned in the past must be heeded with humility now.

Sarah N. Stern | Aug 18, 2025

Israeli chief of staff in a meeting in Northern Command, during Yom Kippur War.  By IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia

It’s time to acknowledge that in its 77-year history, Israel has made some critically painful mistakes.

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FREE, FREE, PALESTINE IS THE NEW “HEIL HITLER!” If you don’t agree, view the evidence here. CONTENT WARNING: ADULTS ONLY!

Andrew Benjamin | Aug 19, 2025

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EXHIBIT 1 – This is what the Global Media will not release.

It is not about October 7th. It is what HAMAS is doing in Gaza to Palestinians.

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Peloni:  The big news out of the Washington Summit was the topic of US Security Guarantees for Ukraine.  While specifics are yet to be clarified publicly as to what the US commitment entails, Trump was able to gain support among the Europeans and Zelensky to move forward with meeting with Putin next week..

Peloni:  Of course, Einav Avizemer is correct, in so far as her analysis goes, but I think it is important to recognize that the Palestinian Arabs actually are victims, as they have been weaponized with an ideology which has made their suffering the instrument by which Israel has been consistently and routinely abused by its enemies.  The source of this victimization was the combination of their own leadership in connection with the support from both the Western and Sunni Arab govts.  Indeed, the suffering of the Palestinian Arabs supported the cause of those who have held in place the primacy of the Palestinian Arabs over Israel, even as it was the former who were responsible for innumerable terror attacks on the latter, yet it was always Israel who was required to compromise, their integrity, their security, and their honor.  The Sunni Arabs consistently provide support for this racket as the West funds it and the Palestinians Arab leadership responds accordingly, and thru it all, the real victims in this crime of the past century have been the Jews whose blood has filled the streets of Israel, and the Palestinian Arabs whose suffering was consistently and systematically manipulated as an excuse to support such a vision as was finally realized on October 7.  The ingrained psychopathic hatred of Jews is palpable and real among the Palestinian Arabs and it is the true victimization of the Palestinian Arabs which should gain public attention, as it will literally take generations of careful governance to train it out of them even after their society is restructured to achieve such an outcome.  Yet, this truth, and the culpability of this victimization of the Palestinian Arabs by the West, by the Sunni Arabs and by the Palestinian Arab leadership continues to be ignored, by the West, the Sunni Arabs, and the Palestinian Arabs, all.

Hms doesn’t need force to get through
They just feed your worldview back to you. pic.twitter.com/33PXFAREVo

— Einav Avizemer | ???? ?????? (@EinavAvizemer) August 5, 2025

Peloni:  The return of good governance requires a return of the consent of the governed, something which is obviously defeated by a lack of election integrity in tight coordination with the accountability and transparency which made the American Republic the standard which drew so many nations around the world to emulate this standard in one way or another since the Republic’s founding nearly two and half centuries ago.  Hence, while there were many issues which required Trump’s attention upon his return, the issue of addressing the lack of representation in what should be understood to be systemic fraud in the American electoral system should be understood to be of preeminent importance, as it restores the will of the people to its proper footing in the US.  So the importance of the announcement of the coming Executive Order to address this issue can not be overstated.

By Pamela Geller | August 18, 2025

(Photo by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia)

President Trump to sign executive order to help eliminate mail-in ballots and voting machines before the 2026 midterm elections, calling them inaccurate, expensive, and fraudulent, and will be replacing them with watermarked paper ballots to be counted on Election Night.

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Peloni:  Let us hope that the focus will remain on defeating the Jihadists and rescuing the hostages as best is possible while doing so.  This should have been the policy for the past two years.  Not withstanding the challenges which kept this policy from being implemented in the past, there should be no distractions, no delays, and no reconsiderations.  Focus on winning the war, as quickly as possible, and move onto managing the implementation of Trump’s Gaza emigration plan.

By Steve Kramer

(Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead) – Trump White House Archive, Public Domain, Wikipedia

I recently received a note from a long-term, close buddy: “I wish your country could stop trying to take over gazaville and get over its Napoleonic complex and try reasonable compromise.” Some of you may have the same wish.

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By Gerald A. Honigman

This is especially true for a nation outgunned and outmanned by hundreds of millions of enemies rejecting its very right to exist, and who actively try to end that existence.

I’m referring to that 9-15 mile wide, by 1949 UN-imposed Auschwitz/armistice lines sardine can size nation, Israel, which requires a magnifying glass to locate on  a world globe.

Those lines were drawn up after Israel was immediately attacked in May 1948 by a half dozen Arab armies, including one led by Sir John Bagot Glubb and other  British officers in the Arab Legion of Transjordan, all equipped with huge quantities of allied weaponry left after the Rommel Campaign and other operations in North Africa.

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By Kelleigh Nelson

Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidt’s, and the invasion was halted. Steven Spielberg

And if we are honest, we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and the terrorists who want Israel wiped out. The Israelis were told to give up land for peace; they gave up the land, but got no peace.  J.D. Hayworth

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Peloni:  Al Julani was given an important opportunity to demonstrate that he had the power and conviction to end the sectarian violence in Syria which has plagued and defined that nation for many decades.  He failed to do so, and when his own forces defied him, he issued vague warnings that violators will be held accountable, rather than providing public displays of such accountability.  Now he is threatening Israel, no doubt to solidify his nation’s long standing sense of opposition to the Jewish state, and placing even greater pressure on those minorities which Israel has offered its support.  Syria needs to recognize the rights of its minorities, focusing upon ending the violence against these groups, not challenging their Israeli neighbors who are in fact extending support to some of these Syrian minorities while they have been attacked with impudence and barbarism under the fledgling and failing leadership of Al Julani.

Peloni:  There is an important and accurate assessment of Ukraine’s problems made by a former commander of Azov at about 37 min mark.  These facts will have an effect on whatever success does or does not come from the Alaska Summit.  Ukraine can not win, even if it will not agree to end the war.

Israeli Navy Responds to Repeated Attacks by Striking Houthi-controlled Power Plant in Yemen

FDD | August 17, 2025

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Israel Strikes Sana’a: The Israeli Navy conducted a long-distance strike against the Houthi-controlled Haziz power station near the Yemeni capital of Sana’a on August 17, responding to “repeated attacks by the Houthi terror regime against the State of Israel and its citizens.” Local media reported large explosions that knocked generators out of service. The Iran-backed Houthis have launched at least seven unanswered ballistic missiles and seven drones against Israel since the last time the IDF struck Houthi targets on July 21.

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Peloni:  Not just Democrats…the entire Washington establishment supports this war continuing.

By Pamela Geller – on August 18, 2025

President Donald J. Trump welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska, August 15, 2025 (By Benjamin D Applebaum – This image was released by the United States Department of Defense with the ID 250815-D-LS763-1028 (next).This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. Public Domain, Wikipedia)

The party of war is apoplectic over the prospect of peace between Russia and Ukraine. The meeting was preliminary and productive, but it is soon to assess how formative it will be for an end to the war that Trump is pushing for. Roger Kimball: Trump said that he would rank their discussion as very good—”10 out of 10,” he said. He and Putin came to an agreement about a lot of issues. Some issues remained.

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