What the “Voice of Gaza” Chose Not to Tell the World  

In a wide-ranging interview lasting more than three hours with the Arabic-language podcast Taqarob, photographer Motaz Azaiza discussed his work in Gaza and what went on behind the scenes of local media coverage. His admissions about self-censorship, Hamas repression and the withholding of footage from October 7 challenge his image as the “perfect correspondent” and raise questions about the ethics of Western media.

Simone Rodan-Benzaquen 

Motaz Azaiza,“the voice of Gazans”.  Screengrab via Youtube.

On January 24, 2024, the day after he left Gaza, Franceinfo quoted an activist’s description of Motaz Azaiza as “the voice of Gazans.” A few months later, Time named him one of the world’s hundred most influential people. His photographs had shown the destruction, the wounded, the families left with nothing.

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September 24, 2026 | 11:40 am | Comments »

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Victory: Michelle Bachelet’s Bid to Lead U.N. Is Defeated  

PELONI:  Well done UN Watch!

UN Watch | Sept 20, 2026

Michelle Bachelet announces her withdrawal from consideration as the next UN Secretary-General.  Screengrab via Youtube.

Michelle Bachelet has withdrawn her bid to become the next United Nations secretary-general after a crushing defeat in the Security Council’s third straw poll, where she received just one “encourage” vote against 11 “discourage” votes and three expressions of “no opinion.”

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September 24, 2026 | 10:35 am | 1 Comment »

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The Long Shadow: Britain’s Cold Feet on the Jews, 1921 and 1955  

A buried chapter

By Jalal Tagreeb

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In November 2022, historian and strategist Edward Luttwak published a piece in Tablet titled “The Failed British Double-Cross of Israel.” Drawing on declassified British General Staff files, Luttwak laid out two episodes from the mid-1950s that rarely make it into the standard narrative of Britain’s post-Mandate relationship with Israel.

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September 24, 2026 | 9:44 am | Comments »

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What Really Caused Lieberman to Move from the Right to the Left?  

PELONI: Must read review of Liberman’s career moves by Yossi Baum.

Note Gen. Amir Avivi’s comment on Lieberman’s proposal:

Wow, and I thought maybe it was just an unfortunate slip of the tongue, but no! This is Lieberman’s worldview. In my view, this policy of the Knesset allowing a Jordanian army to control significant areas within Israel would pose an existential threat to the State of Israel. This is a full-on left-wing policy. The truth is frightening!

Yossi Baum | Sept 23, 2026

Avigdor Lieberman reveals his concept of hawkish diplomacy.  Screengrab via X.

Everything They Didn’t Tell Us: What Really Caused Lieberman to Move from the Right to the Left?

Books upon books could be written about Lieberman. But let’s focus on the basics. Pay attention to this:

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September 24, 2026 | 8:43 am | Comments »

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Israeli President Herzog just pardoned a young man by the name of Elor Azaria, and everyone needs to remember his name.  

Avi Abelow | Meta

This is not merely an old story finally reaching its conclusion. It is another wake-up call before the coming elections.

Elor Azaria.  Screengrab via Youtube.

I have served in the IDF for more than 30 years. For decades, our soldiers have operated under rules of engagement so restrictive that many soldiers on duty fear the military prosecutor more than the jihadi terrorists standing in front of them.

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September 24, 2026 | 2:01 am | Comments »

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Wake up from your illusions!  

Mudar Zahran

It is rich to hear Jordan’s kinglet, whose family illegally occupies 78 percent of Mandatory Palestine and heads an apartheid regime that treats Palestinians as SLAVES warn the world that Israel is “a regional threat.”

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September 23, 2026 | 11:51 pm | Comments »

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IDF orders drastic measures to raise Judea & Samaria security after terrorist severely wounds Israeli soldier  

PELONI: Where is the outcry over these deliberate acts of terrorism by the Americans who were so ready to denounce ‘settler violence’ that Ambassador Huckabee described an innocent Israeli as some form of terrorist.  Well, here are real terrorists, with real victims, but they do not fit the geopolitical narrative of the Muslim Palestinian victim being murdered by Jewish terrorists.

To this point, Rubio’s statement was quite revealing, even as it was far from surprising.  Unfortunately for everyone involved, the truth is that in Judea and Samaria there are in fact terrorists there, but they are Muslim terrorists.  Also, there are victims there, but they are Jewish victims.  Until these realties are understood, accepted, and acted upon, the butchery in Judea and Samaria which is against the Jews living there, will continue.  Have we not wasted enough time and blood pretending that the Arabs in Judea and Samaria want peace or that they don’t simply want the Jews of Israel dead?

See Laura Loomer’s comments below article.

Rubio: Trump says that West Bank crisis is the ‘last thing this region needs’

Hanan Lischinsky | All Israel News | Published: September 23, 2026

Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S. Dr. Michael Leiter. Screengrab via YoutubeIsrael’s Ambassador to the U.S. Dr. Michael Leiter. Screengrab via Youtube

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will deploy the headquarters of the 98th Division to reinforce the Judea and Samaria sector, in a bid to improve security after another soldier was seriously wounded in a terror attack on Wednesday.

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September 23, 2026 | 11:50 pm | Comments »

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A fictional meeting between two anti – Zionist Jews : Benjamin Freedman and Avi Lewis  

Harry Liberman

Benjamin Freedman was an American businessman who was born Jewish but converted to Roman Catholicism later in life. He became a prominent anti-Zionist activist and spent much of his later life producing literature and giving speeches that attacked Zionism and Jewish organizations.Freedman (October 4, 1890 – May 1984) was a Holocaust denier, and vocal anti-Zionist. Born in a Jewish family, he converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism.

https://dovaryeh.wordpress.com/essays-and-excursions/anti-semitism-2/benjamin-freedman-a-jew-hating-jew/

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September 23, 2026 | 11:48 pm | 1 Comment »

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US-Israel Cooperation: High-Value, Low-Cost, Low-Footprint Team  

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative | September 23, 2026

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*Israel’s distinction as the most high-value, low-cost, low (US) footprint, battle-tested, technologically-advanced and unconditional American ally – substantially more significant than the NATO countries, South Korea, Japan and Australia – is underscored by the F-35 combat aircraft program.

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September 23, 2026 | 11:37 pm | Comments »

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The Muslim Brotherhood Still Controls Jordan’s Rebranded Ummah Party  

PELONI:  As I noted yesterday, the charade of banning the Muslim Brotherhood continues…  When will terrorism come to be considered too toxic for Western complicity?

Ahmad Sharawi 

Muslim Brotherhood Flag. Image created via AI.Image created via AI.

The political wing of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) elected a new leader over the weekend. The Ummah Party elected Muath al-Khawaldeh as secretary general at its seventh general conference, defeating Ahmad al-Qatawneh in a closely contested race.

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September 23, 2026 | 10:25 pm | Comments »

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Why Iran’s Path to Freedom Is Closer Than the West Thinks  

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For decades, the ruling apparatus in Tehran has relied on two foundational lies to maintain its grip on power: first, that the Iranian opposition is fragmented and planless; second, that no viable structure exists inside the country to manage a transition. Today, as the Islamic Republic enters its most precarious era of institutional decay, both myths are crumbling.

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September 23, 2026 | 10:09 pm | Comments »

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‘Occupied territory,’ ‘ethnic cleansing,’ ‘genocidal mindset’ – Harsh criticism of Israel at UN General Assembly  

PELONI:  Abdullah returns to gross incitement against Israel, which he seems rarely ever stop.  Recall that his words were condemning Israel for violating Al Aqsa was the eliciting factor of the May 2021 War with Hamas which saw Israeli Arabs join in coordinating pogroms against the Israeli people.  Note further that he and his wife began a new blood libel campaign just three days before October 7, and have added their voices to the claims that first there were no such rapes on that tragic day, and later changed their rhetoric towards supporting rationales based on their blood libels against Israel.  The peace treaty with Jordan prohibits such incitement [see Article 4(3)(b)–(c), Article 4(5), and especially Article 11(1)(a)–(c) of the Peace Treaty with Jordan], but then again, as is true of treaties with Arabs, a treaty is just a piece of paper which protects the Arabs til such time as they might be able to strike with overwhelming force.

Recall that Abdelsalam al-Majali, the former Jordanian Prime Minister who signed the 1994 peace treaty with Israel, stated in an August 2018 interview that if Jordan ever gained the military power to do so, it would take Haifa by force rather than refrain due to the existing agreement.  Of course, Jordan has no such ability to do so, and instead they add their voice in support of the propaganda which is used by others to do so.  

Hence, while Israel is held to uphold treaties and international agreements, no such requirement is made for Arab nations to do the same.  This double standard must be ended.

As to the Palestinians, NO BODY cares about them.  Not the Jordanian king, not the Turkish PM, not the Europeans, particularly not the malicious British, and not even the Americans.  If any of these govts had the slightest interest in the care and well being of the people who claim ancestry to those who lived under the British Mandatory power last century, the world would stop focusing on why Israel must create for them a SECOND country to call their own, and would instead focus on the fact that they already have a state, one which is ruled over by the Arabian dissident Hashemite family who live in dread of giving the Muslim Palestinian descendants any voice in ruling the country in which Abdullah himself holds them in a state of forced subjugation, capture and poverty.  To this end he uses the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood to guide the Palestinians towards the weaponization of inherent Jew Hatred in the Islamic religion to focus the Palestinians toward looking on Israel as their greatest enemy so as to distract them from seeing Abdullah as the real benefactor of the bedevilment in which they live.  The same use of stoking Jew Hatred in France, England and Canada is being used to keep the Jew Hating public focused on anything that does not relate to the failing state of governance of their respective governments.  This opportunistic Jew Hatred is not a new theme for the Jewish people, and in fact it is a very old pattern of abuse which we have seen rise in nearly every age to beat our people to distract and entertain the wider population.

J. Micah Hancock | All Israel News | Published: September 23, 2026

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The opening of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City on Tuesday marked a return to form for several world leaders as they took to the podium to criticize Israel.

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September 23, 2026 | 6:15 pm | 2 Comments »

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REPORT: Egypt building underground military complexes in Sinai  

LINDA GOUDSMIT: What people need to accept is that there is no peace with Islam––not for the last 1400 years or for the next 1400 years. Islam is a binary, supremacist, expansionist, socio-political replacement ideology with a religious wing. Its sole unifying and doctrinal purpose is to establish a worldwide Islamic caliphate no matter how long it takes. Period––everything else is details. There are no peace deals to be made with Islamic doctrine and/or Islamic countries. Every ill-advised land-for-peace deal that Israel has ever made was a mistake. Why?

Because land-for-peace is part of the long-range strategic march toward an Islamic caliphate. Every “deal” with Islamic countries is founded on the twin tactics of taqiyya (lying in the service of Islam) and hudna (a strategic pause, armistice, truce designed to give a weakened Islam time to regroup, resupply, and reattack). Egypt building underground military complexes being built in the Sinai is simply its latest example. As long as President Trump and his self-interested negotiators, Kushner & Witkoff, continue making “deals,” the Islamic countries will continue their taqiyya/hudna response while they laugh at the naivete, greed, and ignorance of President Trump’s negotiators and the president’s ludicrous Board of Peace.

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September 23, 2026 | 5:52 pm | 2 Comments »

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Trump sidesteps Israel at UN while Jordan, Turkey go on the attack  

David Brody | All Israel News | Published: September 23, 2026

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U.S. President Donald Trump came to the United Nations on Tuesday with plenty to say about the Middle East, but surprisingly little to say directly about Israel. During a nearly 40-minute address to the UN General Assembly, Trump mentioned Israel just once and never mentioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by name.

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September 23, 2026 | 12:50 pm | 1 Comment »

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Europe inadvertently admits the truth : Israel the Jewish State is Held to the Highest Standards of Any Country in the World  

Why Israel the Jewish State is Held to the Highest Standards of Any Country in the World:  Because This is the Oldest Hatred in World History

Harry Liberman

The contemporary international legal order displays a persistent double standard that applies hyper-critical scrutiny to Israel’s defensive operations while mitigating or ignoring the actions of autocratic regimes and Western powers. This dynamic was highlighted during a 2014 exchange where journalist Caroline Glick debated European diplomats who defended disparate standards for Israel compared to neighboring states.  Jerusalem Post.

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September 23, 2026 | 12:24 am | Comments »

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GOP lawmakers push to designate CAIR as a foreign terrorist organization  

Peloni:  I honestly can’t grasp why the issue of CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood have not been addressed by Trump’s administration.  What is apparent is the preference by the administration to focus on the Muslim Brotherhood oversees while ignoring the normal routine by which the Muslim Brotherhood in the region has historically evaded scrutiny following declarations such as that made in Trump’s EO, ie by simply changing their name and logos.  While it was previously believed that the greater threat of the Muslim Brotherhood was centered in the Middle East, that is easily no longer true.   The focus must be centered in America where the organization exploits influence on a massive scale, and thereby influences the very political infrastructure which should be scrutinizing and targeting the expansion of Islamist ideology in America.  There is a great deal of political support in America to secure the American nation from such Islamist influences as these, making the silence coming from Washington on this point all the more relevant.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at the shipbuilding ceremony for the Arctic Defense facility in Galveston while Republican Gov. Greg Abbott listens, June 1, 2026. Photo: Bethany Blankley / For The Center Square

Several key Congressional Republicans are urging the Trump administration to consider designating the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a group that promotes Muslim rights, as a foreign terrorist organization, with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz calling for an FTO designation last week. 

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September 22, 2026 | 6:35 pm | 1 Comment »

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The Moslem Brotherhood’s US Election Infiltration – Challenges and Solutions  

Jonathan Feldstein

Muslim Brotherhood Flag. Phaoto: Public Domain, Wikimedia CommonsMuslim Brotherhood Flag. Photo: Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

This is part two of a two-part series.  See Part 1 HERE

If civilization jihad has a map inside the United States, Jim Hanson pointed to ground zero in local government, and the Islaist infiltration of American elections in general. Dearborn and Hamtramck, Michigan, he said, function as Moslem enclaves whose city halls are run overwhelmingly by Islamists even when the population is not uniformly Moslem. The “suburbs” of these Islamist strongholds include Paterson, New Jersey, Minnesota with Ilhan Omar, and of course New York City with an Islamist mayor.

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September 22, 2026 | 6:18 pm | Comments »

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