Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” |August 6, 2025

Does the US extend to Israel an annual foreign aid of $3.8bn, or does the US make an annual $3.8bn investment in Israel, which yields to the US a Return-on-Investment that exceeds – exponentially – the annual investment?

*The US’ power projection – in the Middle East and in the face of Russia and China – has been substantially upgraded by Israel’s battle-proven military and technological capabilities and its surging posture of deterrence. Unlike NATO, South Korea and Japan, Israel has bolstered the US’ regional and global strategic posture without US bases/troops. Israel has done it due to its stability, effectiveness and reliability (irrespective of Left or Right government); and, its pro-active military action against anti-US Islamic terrorism. Israel has contributed to the US defense and economy by acting as a cost-effective battle-tested laboratory for US defense and aerospace industries, which has contributed mega billions of dollars to the saving in research and development costs – and increased exports – of advanced US military systems (combat aircraft, etc.), and sharing innovative battle tactics with the US Armed Forces.

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Peloni:  Fake news which didn’t even pass the test of being believable in the first place.  And yet, so many have leant credence to this fable.

Claims raise questions regarding journalistic independence in Gaza

All Israel News Staff | Published: August 6, 2025

(Photo: Screenshot)

Amidst the international outrage that followed the publication of malnourished children in Gaza, which were later revealed to be suffering from congenital diseases, and the widespread use of photos showing Gaza civilians scrambling for aid, in apparent distress while waiting to receive food, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung alleges that some of those photos were staged by a Hamas-affiliated photographer.

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Peloni:  It was very encouraging to see this change.  Despite the propaganda launched against Israel, the only institutional, systematic discrimination against the freedom of worship in Israel has been implemented against the Jew.  It is, accordingly, very welcome to see that this long held practice of discrimination is at least being partially withdrawn.  Very well done, Min. Ben Gvir!

By Hugh Fitzgerald | August 4, 2025

Photo by Guy Butavia – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia

Though Israel has been demonized by so much of the world, within that general demonization special hate has been reserved for two people, now members of the cabinet, who are inevitably described as “far right” and “lunatics” — Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. The former has just done something that the Arabs, and the world media taking its cue from them, describe as an appalling violation of previous agreements and a deliberate attempt to stir up even more trouble with the Palestinian Arabs. They are referring to Ben-Gvir’s visit, along with his supporters, to the holiest site in Judaism, the Temple Mount, on one of the holiest of Jewish holidays, Tisha b’Av, where the Jews proceeded to sing and dance and, horribile dictu, to openly pray.

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Peloni: IDSF Head of Research  Or Yissachar and Amb. Yoram Ettinger discuss the reoccupation of Gaza, reitterinating that there is no choice but to move forward with this operation.  In doing so, Amb. Ettinger raises the key point that Israel can not off-shore its responsibility of securing Gaza to Europe, the Sunni Arabs or the US.  Gaza must be maintained and overseen by Israeli forces alone.

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Kobi Michael & Yossi Kuperwasser | INSS  | August 4, 2025

Insight No. 2020

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by Linda Goudsmit | August 5, 2025

Screengrab via Epic Times [Cropped]

Gen Z, loosely defined as Americans born between 1997 and 2012, is the first generation to grow up with full access to the Internet from pre-school onward. They are America’s digital natives and use the Internet constantly and consistently to interact socially. The seeming anonymity of the Internet has created a medium of over-sharing private information on social media, where young people’s emotional vulnerabilities are exploited by avaricious online sexual predators. The connections between social media, pornography, pedophilia, and societal collapse are positively chilling.

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Peloni:  The little discussed history of Albania during WWII is an important oversight.  At the beginning of the war, there were somewhere between 200-600 Jews living in Albania, but at the war’s end there were some 2,000.   Even after the Germans occupied Albania and demanded the list of Jews in the country, locals refused to comply and fake documents were provided to the Jews.

Visar Malaj | January 24, 2024

Holocaust memorial in Tirana, Albabua with inscriptions in Hebrew, English and Albanian.  (Photo by Bdx – Own work, CC0, Wikipedia)

Background

As a recipient of the EHRI-Conny Kristel fellowship, I spent a short research period at the Fondazione Centro Di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea (CDEC) in Milan, Italy. CDEC is an independent research institute for the study of the history and culture of Jews in Italy, with particular reference to contemporary Italy and the Nazi-fascist period. The CDEC Foundation is broadly recognized as the main institute in Italy for the history and documentation of the Shoah.² The time I spent at CDEC was fundamental for my research, which is focused on the fate of native and foreign Jews in Albania during the Holocaust. CDEC contains a significant number of documents, books, and other materials, directly and indirectly connected to the experiences of Jews in Albania before and throughout World War II (WWII).

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Peloni:  Daniel hits the nail on the head here.  The Left are trying to turn MAGA on its head.

There’s no ‘civil war’ within MAGA over Israel. There’s only leftist infiltration.

By Daniel Greenfield | August 5, 2025

President Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Monday, July 7, 2025, at the South Portico of the White House.(Photo by The White House – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikiepdia)

The media has taken to claiming that there’s a “civil war” within MAGA over Israel. In reality, 78% of Republicans supported Israel’s strikes on Iran and 71% support its war on Hamas. The “civil war” was manufactured by media hacks, hoping conservatives will adopt their support for Islamic terrorists, and social media influencers who are in the pay of Islamic interests.

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Peloni:  Maj. Gen Hacohen provides the context of  the constraints under which Israel faces in conquering Gaza, and yet he reaffirms that victory will be gained.

It is vital to recognize that these constraints exist so that an appropriate strategy can be developed to achieve victory.  In any event, however, Israel must take control of Gaza, there is just no other choice.  This is what is understood when describing Gaza as an existential threat

For Syria, Qatar’s money is power.

On July 31, the Qatar Fund for Development announced plans to fund a surge of natural gas deliveries to Syria. Deliveries began on August 2. The gas, which is flowing from Azerbaijan to a power station in Aleppo via Turkey, is expected to boost Syria’s power-generating capacity by 400 megawatts. That means hours more electricity every day for more than 5 million people.

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Why Hillel Fuld Is right, and why it’s time we stop hiding behind feel-good illusions. Hillel Fuld is not spreading fear. He is sounding the alarm that far too many Jews refuse to hear.

Avi Abelow | Aug 5, 2025

Let me be very clear: I love Chabad. I have deep respect the Rebbe zts”l and deeply appreciate the generations of shlichim who continue to inspire, educate, and awaken Jewish souls around the world.

But I must push back, firmly, on Rabbi Anchelle Perl’s recent critique of Hillel Fuld’s viral post warning about the rising tsunami of Jew-hating antisemitism and the existential threats facing the Jewish people in the West today.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Peloni:  Should it not have been easy enough for the administration to have defended their decision to include the relevant language in the funding guidelines as being relevant to the exponential rise of antisemitic attacks and open support of antisemitism on both the Right and the Left in the US?  In fact, it was a missed opportunity for the administration to call out the historic Jew Hatred in both the country as well as within Trump’s own base as being both un-American and unacceptable.  Relevantly, the longer the Trump administration ignores the growing embrace of antisemitism by those who claim to control his base, the more difficult it will be to prove them wrong.

Melissa O’Rourke Reporter | Daily Caller | August 04, 2025

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding guidelines indicated that cities and states boycotting Israeli companies would be ineligible for federal disaster preparedness aid, but the Trump administration subsequently removed that specific language from the rules on Monday.

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Peloni: Judicial reform is what people voted for in the last election, and as I have noted previously, if it is not passed by this govt, it will be what people vote for in the next govt.  The longer this long overdue reform is ignored, the more terrible will be its effect on the Israeli people, and the more obvious will become the fact that this reform is neither arbitrary nor radical, but both responsible and necessary to the nation’s survival.

AG accuses government of seeking legal advisor who will unconditionally approve every decision

All Israel News Staff | Published: August 5, 2025

Israeli attorney general Gali Baharav-Miara meets with Pres. Isaac Herzog in 2022.  Photo by Amos Ben Gershom / Government Press Office of Israel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia

Following months of conflict between the coalition government and the attorney general, on Monday night, the Israeli Cabinet unanimously approved the dismissal of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara.

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Peloni: This is an important article, arguing for the positions being adopted in Judea & Samaria by the US Republicans to be promoted by Israel among their Democratic counterparts, thus restoring the bipartisan nature of support for Israel while maintaining the gains currently being supported by the Republicans.  Israel’s long term future alliance with America requires a bipartisan base, and as the Democrats have taken to largely repositioning themselves towards anti-American, and thereby anti-Israel, policies, it will be important for Israeli activists to try to revive the bipartisan nature of the relationship between Israel and the US as much as possible, by interacting with candidates who have not entirely moved towards the Islamist wing of the party.

Today, America’s conservatives stand beside us, urging the same resolve. It is an invitation Israel should embrace with confidence.

By JPOST EDITORIAL | AUGUST 5, 2025

Photo by Office of Speaker Mike Johnson – X.com, Public Domain, Wikipedia

US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s decision to stand in the Samaria city of Ariel on Monday and declare that “Judea and Samaria… must remain an integral part” of Israel was far more than a private photo op. It marked the clearest sign yet that today’s Republican leadership is steadily erasing the Green Line from United States policy toward the Jewish state. Read more…

Peloni:  Gadi Taub provides a very thorough and extensive look at the Netanyahu trials as he exposes the impossibility of ignoring the rule of law being perverted towards lawfare tactics, as well as the lack of any regard for justice in a regime which claims the judicial supremacy.  In their quest to manipulate and unseat Netanyahu, the entire charade of legal abuse and judicial malpractice has exposed itself as being no more than the squandering of power among those ideological quarters which have increasingly been rejected by the Israeli electorate.

Part II of Israeli documentary ‘The Trial’ lays bare the unfolding list of loony fabrications at the heart of the legal offensive against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

by Gadi Taub | July 29, 2025

Binyamin Netanyahu in court during his corruption trial, prior to his third testimony day, seems to be talking with his attorney, Amit Hadad, with his back to the camera. (Photo by Oren Persico, The Seventh Eye – Was sent to me attached to an email, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia)

The trial of Benjamin Netanyahu began in Jerusalem District Court over five years ago, on May 24, 2020. Since that date, Israel has become a different country, one scarred by terror attacks and international condemnation and also boasting stunning military victories. Meanwhile, judges and researchers have cast serious doubt on the evidentiary basis for all four charges against the prime minister, only one of which has of yet been dismissed and none proved in court.

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Peloni:  A powerful 1-hour documentary which follows the lives of several families as they face the challenges of living thru October 7, and the aftermath which followed.

Peloni:  The plight of the hostages was always made more dire by placing them as the primary focus of the war and thus increasing their value among the savage Hamas.  Now, Zamir needs to carry out the will of the govt or be replaced.

Netanyahu reportedly convinced Hamas will not agree to another hostage deal

All Israel News Staff | Published: August 5, 2025

Photo by Hudson Institute – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to order the military to start a new operation aiming to fully conquer the Gaza Strip, despite objections from the Israel Defense Forces’ brass, Israeli media reported on Tuesday.

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