Peloni:  Highly recommended article.  Dr. Nussbaum provides an important discussion of the various missteps surrounding the responses to the ever increasing anti-Zionist/antisemitic campaign taking place around the world today.  He also provides a strategic format by which misdirection and delayed responses might be best addressed in a unified fashion.

Focusing on “hatred-inspiring and genocide-justifying fabrications” repeatedly and uniformly across different organizations fighting anti-Zionism and antisemitism will ensure that this most strategic set of responses will be expressed repeatedly.

Dr. David Nussbaum | Aug 19, 2025

Francesco Hayez (1791-1882) Destruction of the jewish temple in Jerusalem.Origin: acquired in 1868 by a donation of his author.(cat. 756)Gallerie dell’Accademia.  Image from Rawpixel.  Original public domain image from Wikimedia Commons

At least since the destruction of the Second Holy Temple in Jerusalem in the year 70, CE, Jews have been beset with divisiveness that has compromised the potential to achieve the lofty spiritual goals envisioned by its prophets and increased Jewish physical vulnerability to external enemies and their kinetic threats. Consequently, especially in times of external attacks, appeals emanate from many distinct camps within the Jewish people calling for Unity. Jews are consciously aware of the perils presented by their succumbing to their enemies’ strategic efforts to “Divide and Conquer” them, piece by piece.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, Catholic Archdiocese for Military Affairs, and Chaplin Jerzy Rzasowski read from scripture during a Catholic Mass service on Christmas day Dec. 25, 2022, in Poznan, Poland.  (By U.S. Army 107MPAD by Spc. Anthony Sanchez – This image was released by the United States Army with the ID 221225-A-LC019-1095 (next), Public Domain, Wikipedia)

A good friend recently brought to my mind recent comments by American Archbishop Timothy Broglio regarding the tragic Hamas butcher-sired war in Gaza which he neglected to mention anything about the few remaining kidnapped Jewish hostages who were not already slaughtered in captivity.

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Peloni:  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.

Daniel Greenfield | Aug 20, 2025 Image by Michael Kolesidis – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

Beginning with the Obama administration, Muslims murdered over 125,000 Christians in Nigeria. This revelation in the latest report from the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law documents a Christian genocide that has been taking place in Africa, enabled by Barack Obama and the State Department, and carried out with the complicity of the media.

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Peloni:  The pursuit of US classified documents continues.  The interesting point about the charge of classified documentation is that it specifically prevents public scrutiny over the specifics of the relevant charges.  This legal charade was used to weaponize the law against Trump and others during Biden’s presidency, and the exposure of this fact has now poisoned the very real need to keep sensitive documents inside the proper chain of command.

Wallace White Defense Reporter | Daily Caller | August 22, 2025

Amb. John Bolton.  Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – John Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has raided the home of former National Security Advisor John Bolton as part of a national security investigation, the New York Post reported Friday.

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Peloni: Reports from Israel Hayom indicate that there may be a peace deal between Syria and Israel with US involvment signed  in September during the meeting of the UN General Assembly on September 25.

Trump reportedly wants ‘stable Syria at peace with itself and its neighbors, including Israel’

All Israel News Staff | Published: August 20, 2025

Photo by Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic – Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic, Public Domain, Wikipedia

In a rare face-to-face meeting, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani and Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer on Tuesday discussed de-escalating the tensions between their countries and the possibility of reinstating the 1974 ceasefire agreement.

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By Victor Sharpe | August 22, 2025

Samson Carries away the Gates of Gaza (Jud. 16:1-13).  Painting by Gustave Doré – Doré’s English Bible, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The nearly four-thousand-year-old association of Jewish life in Gaza is little remembered or known in today’s world. Of course, those who have read the Hebrew Bible know of the Biblical story of Samson being blinded by the now extinct Philistines and how he brought down the temple to their gods in Gaza. But very few others have any idea of the deep Jewish history in the following millennia. In the Second millennium BCE, Gaza served as an administrative city and residence of the Egyptian governor of Canaan. The Bible tells us that the Jewish patriarch, Isaac, dug wells in Gerar, an ancient site between Beer Sheba and Gaza, and in the 13th century BCE the Philistines or Caphorites (Cretans) annihilated the Avite inhabitants of Gaza and made the city the largest of their five centers.

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Peloni:  This is very unfortunate.

Stephen Bryen | Weapons & Strategy | Aug 21, 2025

Image via Youtube [Cropped]

The Trump administration made a massive political blunder on August 20th in its pursuit of a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. The blunder centered on a “virtual” meeting led by NATO.

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Iranian leaders fear only strength and the credible willingness to use it

by Harold Rhode  •  Gatestone Institute  •  August 21, 2025

Iranian media caricatured John Kerry and President Barack Obama during the nuclear talks a decade ago. Kerry’s broken leg was exaggerated with larger crutches, symbolizing weakness. Obama’s skin was darkened to highlight “defects” as the U.S. gave in. The Iranian message: America submits, Iran dictates. Pictured: Kerry, then Secretary of State, shakes hands with then Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Vienna, Austria, on July 14, 2014. (Image source: US State Department)

• Iranian leaders have mastered the art of patience, procrastination, and opportunism, waiting for the right moment to strike.

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Arlene Kushner | Aug 20, 2025

Uriel Even Sapir

We are now in late August, and a good number of the young people here in Israel – among them some of my grandkids – will begin their year of study next week, which means this is their last free week of summer. A good time, then, for me to be with them. Yesterday was an excellent day with a museum focus.

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Peloni:  The war against the Jews is being extended to strike at the heart of support for Israel and the Jews among Christian Zionists.  From Tucker Carlson’s referencing Israel over 800 times across only 6 weeks of interviews, to the Paper of Record promoting fake famines, to the use of religious iconography to attach to a religious significance, the Christian Zionists are being manipulated, much as was Amb. Huckabee, to condemn the only bastion of safety and security for Christians in the entire Middle East Region.

Ben Poser & Timothy L. Jackson, Ph.D. | White Rose Magazine | Aug 18, 2025

Since Israel’s latest war began, Hamas and the global forces of anti-Semitism have engaged in a three-pronged propaganda campaign to cripple the Jews and Israel: (1) fool gullible leftists into supporting the victims of “genocide”; (2) rally Muslims throughout the West to terrorize Jews while pressuring supine governments; and (3) encourage Christians to withdraw their support for Zionism.

While many secularists have long ago discarded any sympathy for Jews or Israel—partly thanks to disinformation from the KGB in the last century and from the legacy media today—Hamas’s propagandists and their allies at The New York Times are well aware that the last major bastion of Western philo-Semitism is Christian Zionism. Therefore, they have embarked on a campaign to convince Christians that the Jews are the aggressors—even the persecutors of Christians themselves—in the cause of breaking the Christian-Jewish alliance.

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Peloni:  Amb. Yoram Ettinger provides explanation of US reliance upon Israel, more so, with fare more success, than any other of America’s world allies, for its intelligence sharing, counterterrorism, homeland security, testing & development of military technology, as well as its strategic positioning within the Middle East.  He also explains that recognition of a New Palestinian Arab State would undermine US national security interests.

Joseph Shellim

Peloni:  So long as the hostages are to be treated like a priceless asset, Hamas will move to increase the number of hostages it holds.  This is bad news for the IDF forces on the front lines as well as in outposts inside Gaza.  As Israel has been anxious to pay such steep prices for the hostages, it has made the revival of Jew Hunting profitable beyond imagining.  This was always an unfortunate but predictable outcome to the ‘negotiations’ at almost any price for even a small number of hostages.

US Ambassador to Turkey and Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack is creating a mess in the Middle East, seemingly unaware of the repercussions. Working with the Lebanese government, he crafted a five-page plan outlining steps for Lebanon to disarm the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah and reciprocal actions for Israel. The fatal flaw? Barrack failed to consult Israel before committing it to this Lebanese-American proposal, expecting the Jewish state to adhere to a plan it never reviewed. This, Barrack believes, is diplomacy. It is not.

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by Sha’i ben-Tekoa

One major change in Israel since October 7, 2023 is that sovereignty has become a respectable policy. No sober Israeli Jew, Druze, Christian can any longer promote the insane idea of turning Judea and Samaria over to the “Palestinians.”

But if not, who should be sovereign there? Who will be the law in what antisemites call the “West Bank”?

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FEATURING Iranian AMIR PARS who sees through them all…and afterward: Observations on the Passing Scene

NEWSER JUST CAME IN WITH A HEADLINE:

HARDLY ANYONE BUYS THE WORLD’S ‘SMARTEST’ PHONES

No, it’s not the iPhone – not even close!

Not to be outfoxed, FORBES, the financial source, commits by upping the bet:

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Peloni: Great interview!

?A MUST WATCH interview by @triggerpod of @netanyahu and, as always, the brilliant @KonstantinKisin pic.twitter.com/xQk7Z4Gp0a

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) August 20, 2025