POWER SHIFT: One year after Oct 7, Netanyahu’s polls and power are rising because Israelis want to win, not surrender  

Peloni:  The moment to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities has been long overlooked.  The time to fulfill this deficit in rational policy is now.  In the past, Bibi has been outmaneuvered and overruled by his political allies and opponents alike in coordination with American pressure, but the tides have shifted and the moment is ripe for Bibi to carry out the strike which should have been pursued at his insistence nearly 15 years ago.  The opportunity to secure Israel’s future must not be ignored again.

Big test: Will Netanyahu strike Iran against Biden’s wishes?

Joel C. Rosenberg | All Israel News | Published: October 6, 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a discussion and vote on the inclusion of MK Gideon Saar as a minister in the government at the Knesset plenum hall in Jerusalem, Sept. 30, 2024. (Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

WASHINGTON, DC — One year after the horrific invasion of Israel by Hamas from Gaza, and missile launches from Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israelis’ fury at Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu is being replaced – at least among some on the right – by newfound respect and support.

Why?

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October 10, 2024 | 12:05 am | 3 Comments »

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The Middle East Long–War  

Israel defending itself may save Western Civilization, despite the west’s disposition to whither.

By Mordechai Ben-Menachem,  7 October 2024;

On 7 October 2023, Hamas unleashed a well-planned and coordinated attack, launching 4,300 rockets in a day to divert Israel’s defence establishment from a multi-pronged ground assault on Israeli territory, with a resultant massacre of over 1,200 Israeli and international civilians; in addition to military personnel killed, including rape of women and slaughter of children, directed by Iran.

Most of these women and children were then subsequently butchered.

On 7 October 2024, Hamas fired 4 rockets, all intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome.  While 4 rockets is already 4 too many, the contrast displays the shift in the Gaza ‘section’ of this war, over the past year.

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The Reckoning  

Peloni: Bryen provides an important look back on vital lessons learned too late, and the consequences of those nations who still stand as poor students of history and who are still struggling to grasp the reality in which they live.  As Israel has turned the corner this past year and is facing reality as needed, it is still being restrained by the US as it fails to do the same.  Until Washington realigns its perspective with that of Israel, it will continue to rachet up the Israeli butcher’s bill, delay Israel’s victory, and render what victory is achieve as somewhat less permanent than otherwise might have been achieved.

Shoshana Bryen JPC

(Photo: U.S. State Department)

Israel is a Western country, not immune to the Western post-Cold War belief that differences could be negotiated and diplomacy could prevail. Russia had collapsed without a shot; China had not yet risen. The “peace dividend” was a thing — Israel wanted to believe; Israel was wrong.

The Hamas “pogrom” of October 7, 2023, was not the beginning of the war and it was not the “escalation” of the war. It was the continuation of Arab-Iranian wars against Israel and the United States that began decades ago. (The first Palestine Liberation Organization summer camps teaching children to hate and kill were exposed by Life Magazine in 1970, years before the Iranian revolution.)

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October 9, 2024 | 12:40 am | 5 Comments »

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Rabbi Herzog Today’s Information 10/8  

Rabbi Jacob Herzog released the following statement:

Today’s information:

My dear Egyptian, did you know that President Sisi’s family owns a bank? Of course, it’s all from his modest salary.

Another Rabaa in Jordan. The new leader will feed the Muslim Brotherhood to the K9s.

Jordan. The movie has finished filming. It will soon be released in cinemas, and you will watch it in full. The title of the movie is “The End of a Kingdom.”

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October 9, 2024 | 12:35 am | 1 Comment »

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Israel is the future of the Middle East  

T. Belman. This is the reality that MBS is embracing and why he is supporting  a ME-NATO

Abysmal demographics and tribal traditions mean the Muslim world will fall while a more modern Israel rises

by Spengler; August 15, 2024


Image: YouTube Screengrab.

United Nations’ demographers project that, by the end of this century, Turkey’s labor force will fall by half and Iran’s will fall by two-fifths while Israel’s will double.

Turkish women in 2023 were estimated to have an average of just 1.5 children over their lifetime, half of Israel’s total fertility rate of 3 children per woman. The World Bank puts Iran’s  2022 fertility rate at 1.7.

Improbable as it may seem, the core scenario according to present trends will make Israel the economic center of the Middle East sometime toward the end of the century.

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A New Order in the Middle East After Nasrallah’s Elimination?  

Nasrallah’s Elimination, Plus Damage to Hezbollah’s Leadership and Operational Capabilities, Marks a Potential Turning Point in the Middle East

Yossi Kupperwasser | MEF | October 7, 2024

At the strategic level, Hassan Nasrallah’s elimination and the series of other actions represent the ultimate expression of the change in the war’s trend.  Shutterstock

The elimination of Hassan Nasrallah, coupled with the damage to Hezbollah’s leadership structure and operational capabilities, marks a potential turning point in the Middle East. The IDF’s ground operation in southern Lebanon, the second attack in Yemen, and Israel’s success in withstanding two massive Iranian missile attacks demonstrate Israel’s brilliant intelligence and operational achievements. These events shake the entire Middle East and create potential for fundamental change. The nature and intensity of this change will depend significantly on Israel’s actions, as well as on United States and Iranian policies.

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October 9, 2024 | 12:15 am | 1 Comment »

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October 7, 2023 deprecating self-destructive Western screensavers  

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | October 7, 2024, bit.ly/3BtliBu

Sympathizing with a screensaver mentality amounts to ceding reality to an imaginary, pleasant, sometimes hallucinating alternate reality. The October 7 horrific Islamic terrorism possesses the potential of moving the mouse, hitting a key and disparaging a screensaver-like self-defeating Western policy.

For example:

1. The October 7 massacre – which was guided and financed largely by Iran’s Ayatollahs, who have also guided Hezbollah’s and the Houthis’ offensive against Israel, the US and other Western countries – should have removed the screensaver mentality of the diplomatic option toward Iran’s Ayatollahs for the following reasons:

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October 9, 2024 | 12:10 am | 1 Comment »

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Biden Protects Iran’s Nuclear Program  

After Tuesday’s missile attack, he is already telling Israel the targets it can’t hit in self-defense.

WSJ, OPINION Oct. 2, 2024 5:57 pm

The day after U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called for a diplomatic solution between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the U.N. General Assembly to “set the record straight” regarding some speakers’ “lies and slanders.”

Well, that was fast. Iran fired 181 ballistic missiles on Israel Tuesday, and a day later President Biden was already telling Israel what it shouldn’t do in response. Asked Wednesday if he’d support an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the President said “The answer is no.”

He also hauled in the leaders of the G-7 democracies to add to the pre-emptive pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We will be discussing with the Israelis what they are going to do. All seven of us agree that they have a right to respond but they should respond in proportion,” he told reporters after a G-7 conference call. “We are giving them advice. I will talk to Bibi relatively soon.”

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October 9, 2024 | 12:05 am | 1 Comment »

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Trump visits the tomb of Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson  

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October 8, 2024 | 1:58 am | 1 Comment »

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HELENE DEATH TOLL RISES in NC and TN and military finally given orders to help  

Kelleigh Nelson 

Evil beyond belief.  I just can’t get over how vile these people are!  I can’t get my mind around the situation and understand why G-d hasn’t smote them.  

Calling and working toward the death of 4 billion “useless eaters” with orchestrated “disasters,” adulterating and destroying the food supply, using biological and chemical weapons, destroying life-saving energy supplies, encouraging lawlessness, engaging in nonsensical and deadly wars – PURPOSELY HURTING human beings made in G-d’s image.

The Helene, East Palestine, Lahaina tragedies have brought this into such sharp relief.  

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October 8, 2024 | 1:08 am | 2 Comments »

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The Oct 7 War: One Year Later  

What really happened then and what is really happening now.

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On Oct 7, 2023, thousands of Hamas terrorists invaded Israel. Their mission was to wipe out the Jewish population in the nearby towns, secure them and use them as forward operating bases for the next phase of the war. While the atrocities they committed in that initial assault, entire families burned alive in their homes, women raped and kidnapped, and babies killed, made it look like a terrorist attack on a large scale, Oct 7 had not been meant as a hit and run operation.

Hamas had risked too much and put too many men in the field for it to be anything other than an invasion. Its plans to continue advancing into Israel appear unrealistic only out of context.

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October 8, 2024 | 12:26 am | 4 Comments »

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US Leveraging Backing and Military Aid to Limit Israeli Response  

Peloni:  Just say NO!  Israel faces an existential threat, to which the US is offering to help Israel, but only if Israel agrees to maintain that existential threat to grow ever more exitential into the future.  The answer must be NO, and for the US to even suggest such a proposal makes clear with whom their true regional alliance lies.

October 8, 2024 | 12:10 am | 1 Comment »

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The War against America and Israel  

By David Horowitz | Am Thinker | October 3, 2024

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In a formal introduction of his newly chosen Cabinet, President Biden proudly declared: “This is the first [time] in American history that the cabinet looks like America.”  Scrutinizing the actual appointments and not just the sex, skin color, and ethnic origins of the Biden team reveals a group that may look like America but doesn’t think like America.  In fact, it is a team whose outlook is transparently anti-American.

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October 8, 2024 | 12:06 am | Comments »

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