by Bassam Tawil  •  Gatestone Institute  •  August 28, 2025 at 5:00 am

As the US and other Western countries continue to rely on Qatar to broker a ceasefire-hostage deal to end the war in the Gaza Strip, senior Qatari journalists affiliated with the Qatar’s state-run media continue to praise the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas, and are even calling for Hamas to kidnap more Israelis. (Photo by j o s h o – originally posted to Flickr as Al Jazeera Offices, Kuala Lumpur, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia)

• As the US and other Western countries continue to rely on Qatar to broker a ceasefire-hostage deal to end the war in the Gaza Strip, senior Qatari journalists affiliated with the Qatar’s state-run media continue to praise the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas, and are even calling for Hamas to kidnap more Israelis.

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Israeli foreign minister reaffirms rejection of Palestinian sovereignty following meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Israfan | Aug 28, 2025

Secretary Marco Rubio meets with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar in Jerusalem, Israel, February 16, 2025. (Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett Flickr/, Public Domain, Wikipedia)

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Peloni:  This is long overdue, and even as the E3 has finally triggered the Snapback, it is being done with the most obvious effort to give Iran every chance to evade the consequences which it has earned years ago.  Peace thru strength, if applied properly, can be a strong deterrant to bad actors, but such fecklessness as demonstrated by the E3 as they have tolerated and supported the interests of the rogue Iranian state is the very opposite of what has been needed to deter Iran, which is why they are still not deterred even with the announcement of the Snapback mechanism being triggered.

FDD | Aug 29, 2025

Secretary Marco Rubio participates in a meeting with E3 Foreign Ministers – France Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Germany’s Political Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Günter Sautter at the Quai D’Orsay in Paris, France, April 17, 2025. (U.S. Department of State Photo by  Freddie Everett – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia)

Latest Developments

• ‘Snapback’ Process Initiated: The United Kingdom, France, and Germany — collectively known as the E3 — triggered the “snapback” mechanism on August 28 to begin the process of reimposing harsh UN sanctions against Iran over its “significant non-performance” of its nuclear commitments. The trio came to the decision a few days ahead of the deadline to initiate the process after efforts to negotiate with Iran failed and the Islamic Republic continued to block International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors from its nuclear facilities. The “snapback” mechanism enshrined in UN Security Council Resolution 2231 — which endorsed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal — would freeze Iranian assets abroad, halt arms deals, and penalize Iran’s ballistic missile development.

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Lebanon welcomes extension while Israel praises end of mandate

All Israel News Staff | Published: August 29, 2025

By UNIFIL – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5KLKksGOCc – View/save archived versions on archive.org and archive.today, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The United Nations Security Council decided to extend the mandate of the UNIFIL peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon for one year for a “final time,” before ordering its orderly withdrawal in 2027.

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Emily Kopp Investigative Reporter | Daily Caller | August 28, 2025

By Michael Vadon – Donald Trump Sr at Citizens United Freedom Summit in Greenville South Carolina May 2015 by Michael Vadon, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to continue creating novel pandemic viruses in apparent defiance of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump calling for a crackdown on the research, according to three government sources involved with the process, who were granted anonymity to avoid government reprisals.

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By Kelleigh Nelson

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the right which God has given them cannot be enslaved.  It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.  Benjamin Franklin

Whenever a civilization begins to die morally or spiritually, then there begin to appear vultures. That is the mission of Communism in the world. Communism is the scavenger of a decaying civilization. Bishop Fulton Sheen

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. – James Madison, Speech at the Constitutional Convention, July 11, 1787. 

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Peloni:  As I have stated previously:  “Fake famines and fake genocides in Gaza earned instantaneous support and outrage from across the West, while real famines and real genocides are ignored by these same sources of outrage.  There is a foul sickness in the West which supports such nonsense charges against Israel, while ignoring the ongoing slaughter across Africa.  It is called antisemitism, the old hatred, which must be understood to stand uniquely apart from other forms of hatred, as clearly depicted by the cruel use of selective rage against Israel for a given charge of atrocities, even when it is obviously false from the outset.

Focus of international outrage must be made to deal with real atrocities, and in the process save what remains of the Christian communities across Africa which have been abandoned to suffer the cruel fate, which is only imagined in Gaza to suit an antisemitic agenda.” 

Michael Derfler

Famine declareed in South Sudan over one year ago.  Screengrab via Youtube

I. Introduction

Human suffering should command moral clarity. Famine, war, and displacement ought to provoke a universal outcry, regardless of geography, politics, or identity. Yet in today’s international discourse, outrage is applied unevenly—most vocally when one country, Israel, is involved. This essay explores the famine declared in Gaza in 2025 and contrasts it with the far more extensive but largely ignored hunger catastrophe in Sudan, among other countries. It argues that the disproportionate response toward Israel reflects not just political double standards, but often the repackaging of centuries-old antisemitic patterns into the language of human rights and humanitarianism.

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Peloni:  It is time to take the gloves off and bring the real debate before the public.  Change the preference of hasbara into something more substantially useful in both defensive and offensive responses and anticipations of the fantasies leveraged by our enemies.  Having the means to win an argument requires that we make the argument as clear, quick and vocal as possible, as Joan explains below, and of course, it is an important asset to have the truth to back these arguments up, which we clearly do.

By Joan Swirsky | Am Thinker |  Aug 28, 2025

Image: Thijs Paanakker via Flickr, CC BY 2.0.

Before I make my case, can we all agree that Jews are smart?  Yes, we have our share of dumb, dense dolts, but when it comes to objective, empirical, irrefutable evidence of intellectual accomplishments, there is really no arguing with the smart — and often brilliant — label.

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Peloni:  Dr. Mike Doran of the Hudson Institute, Brig. Gen. (ret) Yossi Kupperwasser of JISS and Dr. Nir Boms of Tel Aviv University discuss the constraints and choices regarding the war in Yemen as well as the war in Gaza.

UN Resolution 242 does not expressly reference any “right of return” at all, let alone an absolute one. Indeed, 242 did not even mention so-called “Palestinians” or use the term “West Bank”

Leonard Grunstein | Aug 27, 2025

It is hard to fathom France’s irresponsible behavior. Besides the proposal for illegal unilateral recognition of a so-called “Palestinian state” (as detailed in, Munich Betrayal 2.0-Perfidious appeasement will fail yet again), Yigal Carmon of Memri posted on X that the document France submitted for the UN General Assembly in September, which was published by the French Foreign Ministry on July 29, 2025, expressly provides, in paragraph 39, for an “affirmation of the right of return”.

Ofer Bronstein, Special Envoy of the President of France, responded to Carmon’s post on X and stated that it was an error, which France would be correcting, by providing instead that “The parties will negotiate among themselves on a solution to the refugee issue”. He also thanked Carmon for his understanding and his justified concern. Carmon thanked Bronstein in a reply post on X and asked to be sent the new version in the official government publication when it comes out.

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Peloni:  Mordechai Kedar discusses the state of his emirates plan while lamenting that the Israeli govt has been too busy over the past 50 days while dealing with Gaza, Syria, Netanyahu’s trials, etc to change the official Israeli policy regarding Hebron at the time of the recording.   Interestingly, since this recording was released, Min. Barkat, who has been working most closely with the emirates plan, announced the following:

Israel intends to break up the Palestinian Authority, extend sovereignty across Judea and Samaria, and pursue an “Emirates-style” framework for Palestinian cities.

Andrew Benjamin | Aug 26, 2025
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ON PATRIOTISM:

“Human beings, in their settled condition, are animated by oikophilia: the love of the oikos, which means not only the home but the people contained in it, and the surrounding settlements that endow that home with lasting contours and an enduring smile.”
? Roger Scruton, How to Be a Conservative

I REPEAT: “Love of the people contained in it!”

This sentiment separates a conservative from the “tolerant” left that hate the land, its founding, its culture, language, religions, currency, literature, art, history and legacy, and its people! The left hates you, hates period. Hate is their nature.

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by Gerald A. Honigman 

Peloni:   The humanitarian situation in Gaza only exists because of Egypt.  Indeed, not only is Egypt responsible for blocking Gazans from seeking refuge in Egypt and elsewhere, Egypt is responsible for facilitating the massive arms transfers to Gaza which actually made the October 7 slaughter, and the war which followed, possible.   Furthermore, Egypt maintains that not only should the Gazans wanting to leave Gaza be denied the right to do so during this war, but they should be permanently enslaved to remain tied to the land of Gaza as if they were serfs of the Middle Ages.  This mendacity masked as support for the Gazans, is in fact motivated by a determination to keep the Gazans trapped in their current situation where they might continued to be weaponized against Israel in the hopes that their enforced tragedy will continue to result in more dead Jews, which is of course both an accurate and intentional consequence of enforcing the permanently indentured status of the Gazans to the land of Gaza.

Egypt remains absent from any serious discussion of solutions on any humanitarian issues seen in the Gaza Strip.

John Spencer | Aug 25, 2025

Image via AI

Last week the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification system declared famine conditions in parts of northern Gaza. The declaration altered normal IPC standards by relying on projections rather than verified evidence such as daily death counts from malnutrition or updated reporting on hunger mortality.

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Mike Benz | X

Not letting up on this. The State Dept has the chance to do something world historic, making USAID Files publicly available the same way ODNI is doing with the JFK Files and Russiagate Files. We need this immediately, and there has to be a sense of urgency.

Not letting up on this. The State Dept has the chance to do something world historic, making USAID Files publicly available the same way ODNI is doing with the JFK Files and Russiagate Files. We need this immediately, and there has to be a sense of urgency. pic.twitter.com/0GpQNU62L9

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) August 24, 2025

Victor Sharpe

Hamas member and former Gaza minister Fathi Hamad.  Screengrab via Youtube [Cropped]

Straight from one of their own top leaders, Fathi Hammad — a Senior Hamas official — who proudly boasted:

– “We have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly. We desire death like you desire life.”

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Peloni: An explosive interview.  Many important topics are covered in this interview, including recognition of the Armenian genocide, Trump being able to have stopped Oct. 7 attack if he were in the White house, Israel’s lack of control over the US, and Israel’s need to control her own destiny, and much more.