Free speech is not an absolute right; it comes with responsibility.

Moshe Phillips | Aug 12, 2025

A major free-speech organization made headlines this month for its advocacy on behalf of two students—Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk—claiming that their anti-Israel speech is being unfairly targeted. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) frames this as a fight for free speech, but it misses a crucial point: Not all speech should be protected, especially when it is aimed at generating violence.

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Peloni:  Welll said Madeline!  Avi and Jonathan are 100% correct that Israel needs to take responsibility for and ownership of Gaza.  Outsourcing its control of these Jewish lands was what led to October 7, and Bibi’s move to turn it over to some third party will only result in a return to the October 6 mentality, defying the tragedy which was the direct consequence to such a mentality.

Madeline Brooks

What’s more important, rescuing remaining hostages, or protecting living Jews in Israel? Jonathan goes for the latter, pointing out that the three months or so it would take to find and rescue the starving hostages would be futile. They would die in that time anyway since the videos show them so close to death even now.  Sounds heartless, but at least it is a move towards strategic thinking.

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Peloni:  Natasha Hausdorff is simply priceless!  Brilliant, articulate and undaunting!

Peloni:  The brilliant Prof. Fenton, whose expertise and leadership was so useful in distinguishing fact from fantasy while investigating the Covid scam, shares with us, among other matters, the important move by which the Medical Freedom Movement was teased towards supporting the malicious and incompetent narratives which condemned Israel for the war which was launched.  The effect of the willingness to be misled within the Medical Freedom Movement is still to this day having an effect, as the application of critical thinking is exclusively employed to delegitimize Israel, regardless of distinguishing facts which are too routinely ignored by many when such facts fails to support the Pro-Hamas narrative.

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Peloni:  I recall a podcaster some years ago who breathed the words, “I have been wanting to say this for a long time”, and followed those telling words with a long litany of antisemitic ramblings ending with the conclusion that Jews were the real Nazis.  In fact, such closet antisemites have been granted a sense of comfort in this new antisemitic war which has been breaking lose in recent years, most acutely since October 7.  As Seth Mandel explains in this excellent essay, those who accept such obviously false sources as sources worth citing are in fact simply acting out the part of that podcaster I mentioned above as she mouthed the words, “I have been wanting to say this for a long time”.  Their purpose is not considerate, nor deductive, but is instead complicit and malicious in nature.  It is simply that simple.

by Seth Mandel | COMMENTARY | Aug 12, 2025

In the spring of 1945, Italy’s most famous newspaper editor was gunned down, mere days before a controversial Austrian newspaper owner and artist died by gunshot at point-blank range.

I suppose there are better ways to describe the deaths of Mussolini and Hitler, but in the year 2025 this would likely be the more common path media would take.

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OBSERVATIONS, MUSINGS AND RANTS ON THE PASSING SCENE…the Islamic Chronicles continue – and a DISCLOSURE below; one this writer is hardly embarrassed about.

The Kenyan however will be! But then he is beyond shame.

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“Truth defends itself. We don’t protect it, we proclaim it. And everything false will fall under its weight.” – Dan Burwami – SUBSTACK

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Peloni: Excellent description of the full context of the information war which is being mounted against Israel.

The Associated Press, the New York Times, the Daily Express and many others remove truth-telling from their pages in favour of a place in the Information War that juggles truth and lies. 

Howard Rotberg | Aug 14, 2025

I am a specialist in ideologies, culture and values. I have written 5 books including several on how certain ideological agendas have contaminated journalism and higher education – so that truth is no longer the foundation of justice.

In my first book, The Second Catastrophe: A Novel About a Book and its Author, a Canadian professor learns the hard way how Leftist and Islamist values conflict with traditional norms of Canadian fairness,

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Peloni:  The important revelations of DNI Gabbard have certainly raised her credibility with many, but to this I would only raise the question why the US intelligence agencies, who raw intelligence is filtered thru Gabbard and her office, required two near septuagenarian diplomats to travel to Gaza before the US could ascertain that there was no famine taking place in Gaza, and that the only systematic starvation there is among the Israel’s being held as human chits and chattel.  Indeed, while the release of the Deep State revelations continue in the US, why is it that US intelligence was incapable of drawing these conclusions without having to risk Trump’s Mideast Envoy and Israeli Ambassador to the possible harms of entering a war zone?  Could it be related to Gabbard’s consistently poor judgement which I previously related, or to other details of Gabbard’s background related by Kelleigh Nelson?  Or is it something else which caused yet another intelligence failure coming from US intelligence, this time under Gabbard’s watch?

By J.B. Shurk | Am Thinker | Aug 13, 2025

Photo by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Tulsi Gabbard, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard’s declassification of communications and reports that implicate Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, senior officials from the Obama administration, and former heads of the Intelligence Community in a conspiracy to frame President Trump with the Russia Collusion Hoax is nothing less than earth-shattering.

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Peloni:  Now follow this declaration with action.

Controversial E1 plan has been announced, and then withdrawn, several times

All Israel News Staff | Published: August 14, 2025

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced on Wednesday evening that he would approve the E1 plan, which calls for the construction of over 3,000 housing units in Ma’aleh Adumim, located east of Jerusalem.

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Peloni:  There is no deal which can be made with those whose entire existence, whose entire society, and whose only salvation, is based on your destruction.  Indeed, pretending that victory can be negotiated with such barbarians as Israel faces is in fact no more rational or equitable than the suggestion that paying Hamas would keep them from attacking which led to the folly of October 7.  They don’t want life, they don’t want delays, and they don’t want cash.  They simply want us dead.  It is time that a choice is made which disengages their ability to achieve their goals, and that is to pursue the nonnegotiable end of total victory over all of Gaza, now.

by Sha’i ben-Tekoa | August 13, 2025

Photo by Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

For almost two years now, Muslims in Gaza have tortured Jews, the males have been beaten up just for fun; the girls, women and boys repeatedly raped.

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by Gerald A. Honigman 

I recently read a disturbing article in the Greek Reporter which prompted this response from me…

https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/13/pro-palestinian-protest-greece-volos-israeli-tourists/

It was just the latest of numerous nasty examples of Greek displays of utter disrespect and hatred towards the Jewish People and their beleaguered nation.
Greece too often sides with deliberate butchers of infants who claim Jews have no historic claims to the land of Israel.

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Sovereignty refers to the defined right of nations, the ‘ownership’ of their territories and national interests.

By Victor Sharpe

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A nation is referred to as ‘sovereign’ in terms of its independent identity and rights. Sovereign rights are exercised within national territories.

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Stephen Bryen | Weapons & Strategy | August 13, 2025

Europe Needs to Rethink Support for Zelensky

Zelensky’s maximalist position, supported by the UK, France and Germany, is at odds with public opinion in Ukraine. A new, dramatic Gallup Poll makes clear that Zelensky and his hardline clique don’t represent what Ukrainians want.

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Peloni:  Mike Doran talks with Dr. Mordechai Kedar about the current situation in Gaza and the path forward with Judea and Samaria, as well as Gaza.  Focus on the video beginning at the 26min mark, where they discuss the Emirates Plan, and how it provides is actually directed against the fulfillment of Arab national interests.  One point which is not addressed here is how the Emirates plan might be distinguished from the Village Leagues, a plan which was put in place some 40yrs ago, in which the leaders of the relative Arab communities came to be portrayed as Israeli stooges.  Also, how would the clans deal with the anti-Israel sentiments cemented in the Arab communities, which is the result of tolerating radical elements in Arab society and in the Arab educational system.  If these radical elements are not purged from the clans at the outset, they will inevitably provide the foundation for the Emirates Plan failing along the same guidelines which crippled the Village Leagues plan.  Do recall that the aspirations of Palestinian statehood are simply the active pretext of seeing the destruction of the Jewish State and subjugation and slaughter of the Jews.  This is true for the PA as it is true for Hamas, and this is the focus of the Iranians.  So eliminating the radicals from the clans who would continue to push for this ultimate goal of destroying Israel should be an important element within the implementation of any plan going forward.

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President Donald Trump’s team just gave China’s rulers the technology they need to beat us in the artificial intelligence race. If he doesn’t reverse this decision, it may be remembered as the moment when America surrendered the technological advantage needed to bring manufacturing home and keep our nation secure.

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Madeline Brooks: Look, the first village Mohammed attacked in Arabia after getting the Koran was Jewish. Jumping ahead many years and many attacks, Avi Abelow reminds us of the 1929 massacre in Hebron, before Israel was a state, the latest excuse.

Surrendering Gaza to any kind of Arab rule is one more invitation for a massacre.

Peloni:  The true victims of intentional starvation in Gaza are the Israelis held hostage by Hamas, and flooding Gaza with food will only serve to continue fattening the already too well fed Hamas and their allies.

FDD | August 12, 2025

Latest Developments

• Harrowing Details of Captivity: Israel will send a new health ministry report to the president of the Red Cross revealing the physical and mental damage suffered by 12 freed hostages previously held by Hamas in Gaza. The report, published on August 12, detailed “patterns of abuse, medical neglect, and subhuman conditions that constitute torture,” warning that there are “serious concerns that the abductees who are still being held captive are in immediate danger.” The report’s purpose was to demonstrate “to international health organizations such as the Red Cross and to countries and authorities around the world” that “the conduct of the Hamas terrorist organization clearly and deliberately violates international law.”

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