Peloni:  It is malicious subterfuge which sends supplies and aid to the terrorist Hamas in the guise of being humanitarian aid, particularly in the wake of Hamas having once again stymied the efforts of ongoing negotiations.  The greatest aid which might be afforded to the Gazans is for a quick and decisive victory by Israel over Hamas.  While the Gazan people are complicit in their own captured status under Hamas, as well as in the crimes of October 7, this war needs an end, and ending this war requires ending the transfer of international aid being sent to Hamas.

FDD | July 25, 2025

A U.S. Army rigger checks the parachute setup of humanitarian aid bundles loaded on a U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Hercules in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility March 15, 2024. The bundles are destined for airdrop over Gaza to civilians in need. The U.S. joint operation incorporates a series of inspections to ensure pallets are prepared and dropped as safely as possible. (Photo from U.S. Air Force AFCENT by Senior Airman Lauren Jacoby – This image was released by the United States Air Force with the ID 240314-F-LJ715-1302 (next). This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing. ??????? ? ????? ? Bahaso Jambi ? Deutsch ? Deutsch (Sie-Form) ? English ? español ? euskara ? ????? ? français ? italiano ? ??? ? ??? ? ?????????? ? ?????? ? Plattdüütsch ? Nederlands ? polski ? ???? ? português ? ??????? ? slovenš?ina ? svenska ? Türkçe ? ?????????? ? ???? ? ???? ? +/? Public Domain, Wikipedia)

Latest Developments

• Aid Drops to Resume: Jordan and the United Arab Emirates are reportedly set to resume humanitarian air drops into Gaza in coordination with the IDF. In 2024, the U.S. military, in coordination with Jordan, Egypt, and France, dropped tens of thousands of meals into northern Gaza, though malfunctions in the aid packages’ attached parachutes caused at least five Palestinian deaths.

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By Recognizing a Palestinian State, the French President Unleashes Cascading Conflict

Michael Rubin | MEF | July 25, 2025

Photo by Amos Ben Gershom / Government Press Office of Israel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia

On July 24, 2025, French President Emmanuel Macron, facing growing political opposition at home and with his wife signaling looming divorce, decided to change the conversation to the Middle East. Taking to social media, he tweeted the surprise announcement that he would recognize Palestinian independence when he visits New York in September for the United Nations General Assembly. “Consistent with its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognize the State of Palestine,” he wrote.

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No consequences.

by Daniel Greenfield | July 2025

Photo by MarcelX42 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

Life is not only stranger, but much more horrifying than fiction. For example, the woman who signed off on all of the terrible, dubious and illegible visa applications from the 9/11 hijackers went on working for the State Department with no consequences. And the pilot who trained Mohammed Atta and joked about flying a plane into a building with them, was forced to leave the U.S. and got a job flying planes in Spain.

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Peloni:  A sad indictment of Western world which has failed the test of both moral clarity and critical thinking, in an age in which such substantive failures could prove to be cataclysmically fatal.

Barry Shaw | Israel Institute for Strategic Studies

A pro-Palestine rally in Brooklyn, New York, on October 28, 2023.  (Photo by ishmael daro from New York – A pro-Palestine rally in Brooklyn, New York, on October 28, 2023., CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia)

Today the West, led by flaccid Europeans, chooses to sanction Israel, the only liberal democracy in the Middle East, an Israel that is the target of radical Islam in its various forms including a Palestinian terror death cult.

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By Pamela Geller | July 25, 2025

Special envoy Steve Witkoff finally gets it. Someone brief Witkoff on the Islamic war tactic of ‘hudna.’

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Steve Kramer | TOI Blogs | July 19, 2025

Hezbollah decimated by exploding pager and walkie talkies.  (Screengrab via Youtube)

It’s better to be feared than to be loved, if you are a small state in the Middle East. In Israel’s neighborhood, one can add hated, because that’s what the Jews have faced for at least 100 years. You can also add respect, because Israel is respected as a formidable military power. Today, Israel is hated by some, respected by others, and feared by its enemies.

Peloni:  Hussain is exactly correct in describing how the US should have dealt with, and should be dealing with, Jolani to gain US support. Focus on the first half of the interview for these comments.

Peloni:  Sec. Rubio and Pres. Trump should prioritize the extradition of Ahlam Tamimi.  The region is in flux and the Jordanians receive the largest aid package in world history from the US.  The US should not ask for Tamimi’s extradition, they should demand it, today.

By Pamela Geller | July 22, 2025

Trump administration pulls US back out of UNESCO, citing its inclusion of the fictitious ‘State of Palestine’ and support for ‘woke’ causes. This is the way!

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by Hugh Fitzgerald | July 25, 2025

IDF in Rafah, May 2024 (Photo by IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia)

Much of the world’s media has chosen to report on Israel’s intention to enlarge the city of Rafah so that it can accommodate another 600,000 Gazans (the total population of Gaza is 2.2 million), as if what was being planned by those endlessly wicked Israelis was an internment camp or, worse still, a “concentration camp.” That is not what is planned, but everyone seems determined to mislead, in order to blacken Israel’s image in the world even more than has already been accomplished. More on this latest example of misreporting can be found here: “Media’s Grotesque Holocaust Dog Whistle: ‘Internment Camp’ Lie Built on Retracted Reuters Claim,” by Rachel O’Donoghue, HonestReporting, July 10, 2025:

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Peloni: These threats should be taken seriously, as those who made them surely do.  Failing to act accordingly as Clare indicates will only demonstrate weakness on part of the US, emboldening the Iranians all the more to act on these threats.

What the U.S. needs to do about it.

by Clare M. Lopez | July 24, 2024

Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi.  (Photo by Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia)

Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi declared a fatwa against President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on June 29. A fatwa is a religious decree on a matter of Islamic law that is issued by a senior Islamic jurist.

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Peloni:  Mike Doran and Gadi Taub begin their conversation by detailing the fake news surrounding the antisemitic claim of famine in Gaza which is being promoted by both the Israeli press as well as the international press.  During this, Mike makes the important observation that this is due to a failure in leadership around the world, and that even Pres. Trump has failed to focus upon the fact that Hamas needs to be destroyed and that there is no famine in Gaza.  Following this, they discuss the role being played withing the IDF, notably by Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, raising the aim of rescuing the hostages above that of achieving victory.  They also address the controversy over the need of Israel to occupy Gaza whenever the war actually ends.  Beginning around 28 min. mark, Mike provides an important perspective challenging Israel’s policy of protecting the Druze as it has Israel opposing policies pursued by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the US, while also working towards the benefit of Iran, thus questioning both Israel’s wisdom and ability to deal with the consequences of doing so.

Amy Mek | X | July 23, 2025

? ALERT TEXAS ?

Just ONE day after an Islamic terrorist murdered 14 Americans in New Orleans — and with reports linking him to the same radical mosque network as Imam Furqan Sayed — Houston officials invited Sayed to deliver an Islamic prayer at a county government meeting.… pic.twitter.com/SQURqFtxhz

— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) July 24, 2025

Just ONE day after an Islamic terrorist murdered 14 Americans in New Orleans — and with reports linking him to the same radical mosque network as Imam Furqan Sayed — Houston officials invited Sayed to deliver an Islamic prayer at a county government meeting.

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Peloni:  This is a very important article.  

October 7, 2023, Was Not a Failure of Intelligence. It Was a Failure of Imagination

Gregg Roman | MEF | July 24, 2025

Flag of Israel in the Western Wall.  (Photo by Hynek Moravec – Self-photographed, CC BY 2.5, Wikipedia)

The wire was cut. The sirens were silent. Then the world broke.

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Peloni:  Western support should be leveraged against Jolani’s ability to ban the Islamist radicals in Syria, which of course belies the reality that Jolani’s govt is overwhelmed with Islamist radicals whom he chose.  It should be no surprise what we are currently seeing in Syria.

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | July 24, 2025

Ahmed al-Sharaa Liberation Speech at Damascus Mosque. (Photo by Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic – Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic, Public Domain, Wikipedia)

*Is Syria’s Abu Muhammad al-Julani (Ahmed al-Sharaa) a terrorist in a Western suit, dissimulating Western policy makers, who are frustrated by the well-documented Middle East reality of 1,400-year-old ideology and religion-driven intra-Muslim and intra-Arab wars and terrorism, and are eager to replace it with a speculative alternate reality of money-driven peaceful coexistence, undermining Western interests?  Or, is he a reformed terrorist, an ideologue-turned-pragmatist, who is attempting to stabilize the highly fragmented Syria, and advance domestic and regional peaceful coexistence, advancing Western interests?

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Peloni:  A very encouraging report.

Daniel Greenfield | July 24, 2025

People waving USA, Israel, and MAGA Country flags in New York City.  (Photo by Nadav Spiegelman – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia)

In New York State, Jews have the highest favorable opinion of President Trump. Jews support Trump more than any other religious group, more than Catholics and Protestants, upstate voters, and more than white voters in general.

Jews are the only identity group in the state with whom Trump isn’t underwater even at the same time as Sen. Schumer polls worse among Jews than among Catholics or Protestants.

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Peloni:  The Overton window in Israel has shifted once and for all, and the fact that this vote was held, and overwhelmingly supported from both the Right and the Left, demonstrates the rejection of the long ago self defeating policies of the Two State Solution, something which would have been impossible, both politically and geopolitically, just two years ago.

Avi Abelow

HISTORIC UPDATE – GREAT NEWS!!!

Yesterday, July 23rd, 2025, will be remembered as a turning point in Jewish history, 57 years late, but finally happening.

With a resounding 71–13 majority, and support from both coalition and opposition, the Israeli Knesset passed a powerful declaration calling on the government to officially apply Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, our biblical heartland.

This isn’t just a symbolic vote. This is a strategic declaration by the Israeli Parliament, rooted in history, drenched in Jewish blood and prayer, and moved forward by leaders who understand the moment we are in, a moment where destiny demands action.

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