What Einat Wilf Still Does Not Understand About the Jihad Against Israel  

Peloni:  It would seem important for someone looking for the creation of a second Muslim Palestinian state and for “Arab and Palestinian acceptance of Zionism” to look to both recognizing the first Muslim Palestinian state and to embrace the likes of Mudar Zahran who has long voiced his full embrace, not merely acceptance, of Zionism.  Doing so would solve many problems which can only be exponentially exacerbated by trying to screw another Two-State Solution peg into a Zionist hole, while hoping against all reason that this would lead to something other than the rejuvenation of Jihadi hopes of destroying Israel once again.  The path to any measure of peace lies exclusively thru recognizing Jordan as the Muslim Palestinian state, as it was cut from eastern Palestine exclusively for this purpose, and requiring Jordan to recognize the former Jordanian citizens as its own citizens, something for which Zahran has been advocating for a very very long time.

A delusional left-wing Israeli and peace activist.

by | Dec 24, 2025

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Einat Wilf was a left-wing Israeli and peace activist who once thought the Palestinian Authority could be a “partner for peace,” but has now awakened. More on Einat Wilf can be found here: “Dr. Einat Wilf: ‘We lied to ourselves about the Palestinians,’” by Sherry Makover-Balikov, Jerusalem Post, December 13, 2025:

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December 25, 2025 | 5:37 pm | 11 Comments »

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Saudi message to Israel: Intervention in Syria pushes normalization further away  

Peloni:  It is interesting that the message being conveyed here by MBS is that for Israel to gain normalization with Riyadh, it must suffer the permanent presence of a genocidal threat in Judea and Samaria as well as one in the north without complaint.  At some point it must come to be recognized that stability in the region must include those security features which include rather than exclude Israel, and this would be the point on which normalization with SA should indicate.  Indeed, failing to appreciate and endorse such things which secures Israel’s borders, something which MBS appears too timid to accept, only belies a phantom quality upon which the basis of any normalization deal might be struck.  The entire point of normalization is that Israel should be accepted as a nation among its neighbors.  Hence, requiring Israel to permit a fomenting threat to rise from within Syria provides a poor representation of what normalization actually means to the Saudi king.  Israel must do as it needs to secure the north, regardless of the managed attempts by the US or the Saudi’s to require her to accept the menacing threat of Jolani’s well demonstrated genocidal cohorts.

President Donald Trump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and President of Syria Ahmed al-Sharaa.  Photo by White House - Karoline Leavitt in X, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=165213251President Donald Trump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and President of Syria Ahmed al-Sharaa. Photo by White House – Karoline Leavitt in X, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Saudi Arabia is one of three countries backing the new government in Damascus, led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, alongside Turkey and Qatar. In recent months, the Saudis have already conveyed angry messages to the United States over Israel’s actions, and it appears they are now beginning to use the issue as leverage in normalization talks between Riyadh and Jerusalem.

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December 25, 2025 | 4:58 pm | 4 Comments »

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Who was General Mohammed Al-Haddad, killed in Libya plane crash? – explainer  

Peloni:  The crash of a plane carrying Libya’s Army Chief of Staff, Ground Forces Chief, Head of Military Manufacturing, and Adviser to the Chief of Staff seems highly suspicious.  Were Turkish demands in Libya too well refused by Gen. Al-Haddad?  

Lt. Gen. Mohammed Al-Haddad, Libya’s Army Chief, was killed in a plane crash in Turkey on December 23. His death marks a significant loss for the Libyan military and its efforts toward unity.

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The Libyan army’s chief of staff, Lt.-Gen. Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, was killed in a plane crash in Turkey on Tuesday. He was there for discussions along with a team from Libya
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December 25, 2025 | 4:35 pm | 2 Comments »

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Everything Is Permitted in the Land of Insanity  

Peloni:  So well stated.

by Ari Bussel

Alexander (Aleksander) Bar-Yehuda was a Hungarian Jewish poet. Fifty-five years ago he signed his book Shirat Yisrael (“The Poetry of Israel”), which was published in Tel Aviv in 1962.

Shaul Kanzler, the translator into Hebrew, wrote in the introduction about the poet:

“He is one of many whom the storm of history hurled, with violent force, into a new–old homeland. Yet the warm beating of his heart was not stilled, and his courage of spirit and the delicacy of his soul alike burst forth from within him and gave expression to his new experiences, to his freedom— that of a Jewish man who can say aloud what lies in his heart.”

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December 25, 2025 | 3:51 pm | Comments »

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Regional panel – speakers from the Middle East  

Peloni:  Israeli Author Tom Wegner setup a panel discussion on peaceful coexistence in the Middle East between the Abrahamic faiths.  Mudar Zahran arrived about half way thru the video and challenged the group with some important statements, many of which are described below.

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Key points raised by Mudar Zahran in the second half of this conversation:

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December 24, 2025 | 11:40 pm | 1 Comment »

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Palestinian Authority’s School Curriculum Amplifies Terrorism  

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | December 23, 2025

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*The perpetrators of the October 7, 2023 horrific terrorism were graduates of the Palestinian Authority school curriculum, which is also implemented in Gaza.  It was established by Mahmoud Abbas at the end of 1993 (as a follow up to the Oslo Accord). In 2025, it was updated by the Palestinian Ministry of Education.

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December 24, 2025 | 10:36 pm | 1 Comment »

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Beware the Fifth Column  

Peloni:  It is important to grasp that the first pogroms ever conducted in Israel upto that point were launched during the 2021 War of Riots and Rockets, but only after Hamas began their rocket attacks.  Furthermore, both the Riots and the Rockets of that war came subsequently to the libels launched against Israel by king Abdullah of Jordan, in which he claimed that Israel was violating the sanctity of the Al Aqsa mosque – something which is strictly prohibited by the Israeli Jordanian peace treaty, and just one of many Jordanian violations of that piece of paper.

Hence, the eliciting move which led to the activation of the fifth column within Israel in 2021 came first from the incitement of Abdullah and then in coordination with the Hamas’ rocket attacks.  This threat of the Fifth Column of Jihadis in Israel can not be ignored, but it should be understood that the greater threat is in its coordinated actions which would support an outside attack, rather than on its own.  Hamas must be destroyed, and the illegal possession of weapons within Israel must be eliminated.  These are not mutually exclusive goals, but rather, they are complimentary in securing the safety and security of Israel.

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Israel Must Wake Up: The Fifth Column Has Already Shown Itself — And It Will Rise Again

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December 24, 2025 | 10:00 pm | 4 Comments »

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DOJ hammers Fulton County over 315,000 ghost votes  

Peloni:  Fourteen months ago, Joan Swirsky noted that Voter Fraud: The Only Issue That Matters in 2024.  She was right.  It is good to see that the DOJ is moving towards the objective of providing full transparency and accountability of an election which is now 5yrs old, but the reality is that this should have been pursued in the early months of Trump’s second term.  Imani notes that this is the “first step in a 2026 campaign to clean the slate”, but why was this campaign to clean the slate not begun in the early months of 2025.  Election integrity should be a fundamental right which should be pursued without a political basis, and preferably not specifically at the height of a political season, right?

By Amil Imani | Am Thinker | Dec 23, 2025

Image: Harmeet Dhillon.  Credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The time for “polite inquiries” is officially over.  For five years, the bureaucratic fortress of Fulton County, Georgia has stonewalled every attempt to look under the hood of the 2020 election.  They hid behind state seals, played legal shell games with ballot locations, and treated public record requests like personal insults.  But as of December 2025, the game has changed.  The Department of Justice (DOJ), now acting as a legal strike force under the Trump administration, has launched a federal offensive that is sending shockwaves through the Georgia political establishment.

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December 24, 2025 | 6:41 pm | 2 Comments »

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We have Experienced the Greatest Miracles that We Have Seen in Centuries  

Peloni:  Watch as this breathtaking video of only 13 minutes by Rabbi Uri Pilichowski as he describes the events of the last two years.  As we have each been hard wired to study the rolling events of the past two years, noting every victory, every casualty, every surprise and every response, the toll has been overwhelming, mentally fatiguing and emotionally wrenching.  Yet, what history will tell of our age is exactly as Rabbi Pilichowksi has described with the exceptional insight that he offers us.  As the world closed in against us, as our enemies mounted campaign after campaign to destroy us, we have survived, and that survival has been achieved in the most extraordinary and exceptional of fashions, the detailed means of which we are each intimately familiar, but which our descendants and those of our enemies will be better able to recognize from a distance of time and relevance as is needed for history of a single truth:  It was a miracle to which we are too close to easily grasp!

Am Israel Chai!


Many thanks to my friend David Nussbaum and his kind cousin for sharing this!

December 24, 2025 | 4:11 pm | Comments »

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October 7 must not be rewarded with a terrorist state  

Peloni:  There will be no second Palestinian state.  Not ever.

Anti-Semitic hate speech and terrorism must be punished. When world leaders call for immediate Palestinian Arab statehood in the aftermath of October 7, they send a chilling message: that terrorism works.

October 7 Collage by Hnuden – Own work, CC0, Wikipedia

Last August, Netanyahu publicly accused Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of betraying Israel over Australia’s intention to recognize a Palestinian Arab state. Today, Albanese rejected Netanyahu’s assertion that Canberra’s recognition of Palestinian Arab statehood contributed to the deadly antisemitic terror attack in Sydney’s Bondi area.

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December 24, 2025 | 3:38 pm | 1 Comment »

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Netanyahu seeks to broaden scope of Oct 7 inquiry to Oslo Accords & Gaza disengagement – report  

Peloni:  The scope of the October 7 inquiry grows ever more interesting.

Opposition accuses gov’t of trying to obscure responsibility for Oct 7 invasion by highlighting past failures

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, U.S. president Bill Clinton, and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat. Photo by Vince Musi / The White House - gpo.gov - Archived here. Site with better credit info here., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7273344Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, U.S. president Bill Clinton, and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat. Photo by Vince Musi / The White House – gpo.gov – Archived here. Site with better credit info here., Public Domain, Wikipedia

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday defended his government’s plans to establish a “National Commission of Inquiry,” rather than a state-level commission, amid withering criticism from the opposition and the justice system.

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December 24, 2025 | 10:54 am | 1 Comment »

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Turkey’s F 35 Nightmare DEAL  

Peloni:  Rabbi Pesach Wolicki speaks with Amb. Yoram Ettinger about the potential of Turkey gaining access to the F35 program.  Importantly, Ettinger explains that the point which must be made clear in Washington is that the sale of F35s will seriously diminish US interests in the region by granting the Muslim Brotherhood led Turkey access to the intelligence gathering, stealth capabilities, and fighter capacity of the F35s, much of which was secured by Israel’s role in the refining and saving the F35 from failure, which is where it was headed prior to the advances which Israel developed for the program.

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December 24, 2025 | 9:56 am | 7 Comments »

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US Amb. Huckabee assures continued support for Israel as VP Vance refuses to denounce anti-Israel Republicans  

Peloni:  Vance tries to gaslight the rising tide of Jew Hatred in the US on both the Right and the Left as being “real backlash to a consensus view in American foreign policy”.  America needs a champion which will enforce the laws of the land, but to do so, it requires a person of character and integrity which can recognize when the laws are being breached and who can exercise the moral stamina to counter those breaches.  Antisemitism is growing at a record pace in America, but the vice president only sees it as a basis on which to promote his own foreign policy agenda.  This is a very dangerous standard to support.  With Rubio recently announcing he would not run against Vance, and both Erica Kirk and Tucker Carlson have endorsed Vance for a 2028 election run, making both Vance’s moral cowardice and his political maniupulation on the topic of antisemitism all the more relevant and troubling.

Vance rejects ‘purity tests’, says all who ‘love America’ should be part of movement

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Amid the ongoing clashes over support for Israel that have been roiling the Republican Party these last few weeks, U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee affirmed that his support for Israel remains based on faith, while Vice President JD Vance again declined to confront rising anti-Israel sentiment in the party.

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December 23, 2025 | 8:56 pm | 4 Comments »

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‘Forget it’: PM Netanyahu slams ‘fantasies of re-establishing empires’ in message to Turkey after summit with Greece and Cyprus  

Peloni:  Trump’s misguided policy of strengthening and emboldening Turkey is having regional and global effects.

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Region is ‘tested by aggression, terrorism and instability’, says Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers joint statements with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Cypriot President Nikos ChristodoulidesIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers joint statements with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides.  Screengrab via Youtube

The leaders of Israel, Greece and Cyprus affirmed their friendship and cooperation, particularly in “security, defense and military matters,” sending a thinly veiled message to Turkey following the most recent tripartite summit in Jerusalem on Monday.

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December 23, 2025 | 8:31 pm | Comments »

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Gunfights in northern Syria show tensions remain between Sharaa, Kurdish forces  

Renewed clashes between Damascus forces and Kurdish units in Aleppo underscore how fragile efforts to integrate the SDF into Syria’s new security framework remain, despite ceasefire agreements.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | DECEMBER 23, 2025

A major gun battle developed in Aleppo between law enforcement of the government in Damascus and local security forces of two Kurdish neighborhoods.

This is not the first time that there have been clashes in Aleppo in these areas. However, this battle quickly threatened to escalate until a ceasefire was announced.

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December 23, 2025 | 8:21 pm | Comments »

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Histadrut Leader Bar-David Suspended Another 90 Days Amid Expanding Corruption Probe  

Court cites risk of obstruction as labor federation head remains barred from post until March 2026.

Israfan | Dec 23, 2025

The Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court on Monday extended for another 90 days the suspension of Arnon Bar-David, chairman of Israel’s powerful Histadrut labor federation, amid a widening corruption investigation.

Judge Dorit Saban-Noy ruled in favor of state prosecutors, citing strong evidence and ongoing risks of obstruction if Bar-David resumes his role while the case remains in its early investigative stages. The extension keeps Bar-David from any involvement with Histadrut institutions until at least late March 2026.

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