Mark Dubowitz tweeted the following:

Warning: Biden-Harris administration about to launch an economic warfare campaign against Israel. On February 1st, they issued Executive Order 14115, establishing first-ever U.S. sanctions program explicitly targeting an ally. They intend a major escalation in the lame duck.

“This dynamic may explain why the Biden administration created a sanctions regime against Israel. The rapidly expanding blacklist—against any Israeli deemed an obstacle to peace—may be the most dangerous innovation in U.S.-Israel policy. Harris staffer Ilan Goldenberg reportedly played an enthusiastic role in developing the sanctions. He’s now her Jewish outreach director.” [LINK]

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Peloni:  Making the case so well in just two minutes

Why the Israelis prefer Trump over Harris! pic.twitter.com/9gf626KhXh

— Einav Avizemer (@EinavAvizemer) November 3, 2024

Joan Swirsky | Sep 25, 2024

When individuals kill themselves, we look for answers in their DNA, their environments, their personal reactions to feelings of impotent rage, rejection, disappointment, heartbreak, and mental illness.

But how to explain group suicide?  There are numerous examples, going back to 206 B.C., and these relatively recent cases:

• In 1943, in the final phase of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, many of the Jewish fighters besieged in the “bunker” at Mi?a 18 committed mass suicide by ingesting poison rather than surrender to the Nazis.
• In 1945, about 1,000 residents of Demmin, Germany, committed mass suicide after the Red Army had sacked the town.

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Rabbi Jacob Herzog

The King of #Jordan has decided to step down from power and does not want to pass on the throne to his son. The King has informed America and Israel of his decision. Everything you see now is just arranging details since last September. This matter is not easy and won’t happen overnight, and Jordan is practically on the brink.

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By Janet Levy | Am Thinker | November 3, 2024

Sundance | November 2, 2024

DATA: While it is not my intent to interpret the data too much, I must say the current status of the EARLY VOTE looks good; very good for President Trump.

? IN PERSON EARLY VOTE ? – More than 38 million U.S. voters have gone in-person to vote, according to the latest data from the University of Florida’s Election Lab. Four years ago, that number was just over 35 million.  Main Point: 2024 “In Person” early voting has already exceeded the 2020 result.

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A month into the IDF’s ground operation in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah is weakened but still very deadly.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | NOVEMBER 3, 2024

HEZBOLLAH OPERATIVES salute during the funeral of comrades killed in an Israeli strike, in Shehabiya, south Lebanon, April 17.  (photo credit: AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)

Israel began its ground operation against Hezbollah on October 1. This means that the entire month of October reflects a month of war on the ground in Lebanon. At the same time, Hezbollah has sought to carry out daily attacks on Israel using rockets and drones.

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Peloni:  Forcing Israel to bear the responsibility of the Gazan civilians rests as a stark reminder that neither Israeli & Pal lives have any value to the American power brokers whose policy has lead to the war being lengthened, Israel’s prosecution of the war being stunted, and the remaining Hamas contingents being strengthened.  It is as if the US has a need to cripple Israel’s war effort, and in fact, there can be no other possible interpretation.  No doubt, the impending deadline has played no small part in the decision regarding the recent advance into Jabalia, which might have been better served by an extended delay while further weakening the Hamas operatives who have so far refused to surrender.

People search the rubble for missing persons at the site of an Israeli strike a day earlier in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip on Oct. 30, 2024. Photo: -/AFP via Getty Images

We the people, can change the future that progressive politicians are leading us towards and make America sane again.

Ron Jager | Oct 30, 2024

The White House  iStock

With Election Day just around the corner, and as voters have already begun to cast their ballots in the tens of millions, Main St. USA will make its voice heard loud and clear. That voice will resonate everywhere, and the message will be clear to all:

We the American people, are sick and tired of the progressive garbage. Over the past four years America has become unrecognizable, all in the name of “equality”, “diversity”, and “inclusion”. These progressive terms are at the heart of the transformation of American society into a race and gender-obsessed, pro-genocidal wasteland. The American public and those who will be casting their votes will not only decide who wins the Presidential election, but will vote for the candidate who promises to bring back sanity to public discourse,common sense values and principles, and end the tyranny of progressives. As a result of this pervasive expectation, Donald Trump is going to be the next President and will end the chaos of the past four years.

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Peloni:  There is no equitable basis for American Jews to support Kamala.  Recall that just as Israel’s attackers are being financed and protected by Washington, Kamala’s elitist-controlled Washington, so too are the promulgators of antisemitic assaults on American Jews all across the US.  And yet, the age old adage of the American Jews being more tightly tied to the Democratic party than to their own right arm remains in effect, even if it is less so today than ever before.  While the lack of clarity in making such a choice raises many questions, it spells out a clear divide between American and Israeli Jews which Shaw describes quite well.

American Jews, take heed! Israelis, right and left, overwhelmingly think Trump is the better president when it comes to Israel’s needs.

Barry Shaw | Nov 2, 2024

Kamala Harris   Photo: Reuters

The assessment of the Jewish vote ahead of the US Elections is disturbing.

According to polls, the majority of American Jews will be voting for Harris, which, according to the preferences of an Israeli majority, would be very bad for Israel.

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Peloni:  Great advice for presidents and leaders of every age and every country.

By Lani Kass | November 01, 2024

At noon on January 20, 2025, you will place your left hand on the Bible, raise your right hand, and “solemnly swear to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same.” The Constitution sets out, clearly and unambiguously, the priorities on which you must focus: “establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity”—IN THAT ORDER.

Between now and Inauguration Day, you’ll be inundated with policy proposals, issue papers, and all manner of advice. Each will attempt to tell you WHAT to think and what to do, reflecting a variety of parochial and, often, conflicting agendas. This open letter, in contrast, offers a framework for HOW to think and HOW to act. It reflects the conviction that it’s high time to focus on character, values, and strategic coherence. It urges you to develop a clear intellectual roadmap for discharging the solemn responsibility of providing for America’s security and prosperity.

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In a few days, the biggest strategic step in Jordan will begin, that King Abdullah II will step down from power and abdicate to his heir, Prince Hussein. The fifth Hashemite monarchy of the new King Hussein II will begin with the resignation speech of King Abdullah II in the coming days. Yesterday, the new Jordanian Senate convened urgently and the oath was taken, and it is a constitutional violation that the oath must be sworn after King Abdullah II’s speech at the opening of the new Jordanian National Assembly.

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Peloni:  Here is the 6th installment of Joseph Shellim’s 12 Deceptions, an excerpt from his important work, “Philistine-To-Palestine”.  We are posting one Deception each week, and here the links to the previous installments:

Deception 1: The Name Deception

Deception 2: The Balfour Deception

Deception 3: The White Paper Deception

Deception 4: The Jordan Deception

Deception 5: The ‘West-Bank’ Deception

Joseph Shellim

Are Palestinians Native to Palestine? 
Can two opposing people claim a ‘time immemorial’ nativity in the same land? Yes, but not at the  same time. To claim any such ancient nativity both party’s claims require evidencing, otherwise one is  a deception. Here, even belief and majority rule is insufficient as both are open to error and corruption.  A time immemorial premise can refer only to what evidential history says, and this can only be  measured via validated writings and archaeological imprints or an empirical means other than belief.

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Rabbi Jacob Herzog | October 29, 2024

The surprise phase has begun. You will see what you never dreamed of.

Jordan’s surprise first. Wait for a press statement from the King of Jordan, it will be a big shock. After that, a televised press statement from the official spokesman for the Jordanian army. Don’t try to guess or speculate. You will never know what is coming because it is completely unexpected.

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Is it time to stop moving, or time for Israel’s strategic intrerests to invest in maxiumum movement, especially in Lebanon?

J.E. Dyer, a retired Naval Intelligence officer, blogs as The Optimistic Conservative, October 31, 2021

This will be posted in rough-and ready form rather than polished up to a shine, because it’s time to have The Talk.  The predicates are two sources of information and thought from the last few days; one a summary of the state of affairs by historian Benny Morris at Quillette, the other, news on a new proposal for a ceasefire in Lebanon.

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Peloni:  The source of the leaked intelligence should be seen as a feature rather than a bug in Washington’s policy staffing.  Indeed, the refusal of Washington to respond to reports of Tabatabai’s connections to Iran while she held such a clearly sensitive position in the Pentagon, must be considered in light of Washington’s attempt to maintain Malley in his position following a significant intelligence leak from Malley who brought Tabatabai into the govt to begin with.  With this in mind, it should be further appreciated that the questionable appointments to sensitive positions by such Iranian allied personalities such as Tabatabai and Malley are representative of the broader Washington employment roster, and as such, the leak could have come from any of the Iranian allied actors working within the anti-Israel corridors of Washington.  In fact, it would have been quite foolish for someone with Tabatabai’s notoriety to conduct the leak, as there are no doubt any number of less obvious candidates which might have been the source.

Peloni:  Obama’s policy was predicated on the notion that the US had more to gain from its enemies than it did from its ally in Israel.  Notably, this policy was unsupportable, inexplicable, and simply inaccurate.  It was also the only aspect of Obama’s foreign policy where perceived enemies were valued as greater than allies.  This is why tensions with both Russia and China have exacerbated in the same period in which tensions with Iran were moderated.  While there existed opportunities of negotiation with other adversaries, there has never been any such opportunity with Iran, whose entire regime is predicated upon the subjugation of the West and the annihilation of Israel and world Jewry.

Remembering what that means: Obama refused to recognize that Israel’s leaders might have a better grasp of the situation than he did. He also thought it wrong that they would prioritize their nation’s security. Op-ed.

Dr. Alex Grobman | Nov 1, 2024

Obama and BidenOfficial White House Photo by Pete Souza.

“A Harris Victory Means a Fourth Obama Term,” proclaimed an editorial in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), and “her foreign policy aides are on board for appeasing Iran and putting restraints on Israel.”

This is far from surprising, yet is instructive to examine how Obama viewed the Middle East and Iran.

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