TOC Ready Room 27 October 2025: Two pings (Aircraft carrier to counterdrug fight off Venezuela; Geopol rhetoric versus actual results)  

Peloni:  A very important high level review of recent events in which US policy aligns actions  in the Caribbean with policy shifts in the Middle East.

What’s wrong and right with the world of national security and power rhetoric.

J.E. Dyer, a retired Naval Intelligence officer, blogs as The Optimistic ConservativeOct 27, 2025

Feature image: U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Felix Garza Jr. (Via Wikimedia Commons)Feature image: U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Felix Garza Jr. (Via Wikimedia Commons)

These will be a pair of Ready Room notes on the headline topics.  More people with each passing month seem to be catching up with the OODA loop of current events (while others like the Carlson/Owens fold are pegged on bizarre takes that have nowhere to go). And so much is always happening that it’s not a good use of time to try to write at length about most of it.

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October 29, 2025 | 2:09 am | Comments »

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Smotrich Accuses Saudi Arabia of Denying Jewish Heritage  

Peloni:  In the wake of Smotrich’s diplomatically injurious camel statement about Saudi Arabia, he followed up with an important criticism regarding Saudi Arabia’s reported demands for normalization.  While normalization between Jerusalem and Riyadh will benefit the future of Israel, it is simultaneously required for the fulfilment of MBS future vision for Saudi Arabia as well.  Like all relationships, the pursuit of normalized relations with KSA requires diligence, hard work, but most essentially, mutual respect.  In this regard, the point about mutual respect, Smotrich’s camel comment was egregiously poorly chosen, but so too were the demands which are reported to include the creation of a new Palestinian state by KSA.  Importantly, what Smotrich should be stating, as well as Bibi and the entire Right wing govt and many among the opposition as well, is that there is already a Palestinian State, that it was envisioned by the British, ripped from the intended Jewish homeland in the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine in the form of what is now described as the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, but is in fact the Palestinian state which MBS demands to be created by re-shorning even more from the Jewish people than the 78% on which Jordan already sits.  Where are the Israeli statesmen who can accept this fact?  Where is the Israeli commentary to remind the world that Jordan is Arab Palestine, and that the Palestinians already occupy a majority in that nation and are responsible for the economy, such as it is, of that wretched realm, which is held by a line of foreign potentates to satisfy the colonialists who are now supporting Riyadh’s call for creating yet a second Arab Palestinian state. Jordan is the Forgotten Palestinian State.  Let us remind the world of this fact.

Israeli finance minister doubles down on criticism amid tensions over normalization conditions.

Israfan | October 28, 2025

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich reignited tensions with Saudi Arabia on Monday, accusing the kingdom of denying Jewish heritage and tradition during a press conference at the Knesset. The comments came amid growing controversy over Riyadh’s reported preconditions for normalizing ties with Israel.

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October 28, 2025 | 5:25 pm | 3 Comments »

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Trump Admin Undermining Allies for Enemies  

Peloni: An important two-tweet, two-article thread.

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October 28, 2025 | 1:14 pm | 2 Comments »

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Keep US aid and wartime replenishment off Israel’s 2026 base budget  

Finance Minister Smotrich’s 2026 defense budget must exclude US aid and wartime replenishment to ensure readiness against future threats.

Jacob Nagel

Finance Minister Smotrich has stated lately that the 2026 defense budget will be about 100 billion ILS. That is much less than the actual 2025 budget, which reflected high wartime costs and implementation of the “Nagel Committee” recommendations, including an agreement between the Finance and Defense ministries on the funding sources. It is also much higher than the pre-war planned budget, and very close to the budget the “Nagel Committee” recommended for 2026 (96 billion ILS) – but that is before one gets into the details.

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October 28, 2025 | 10:20 am | Comments »

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Globalists trying by all means to sabotage peace and reignite war,  

Mudar Zahran | X

* Ali Baba, the “king” of little Jordan, uses the BBC channel to attack the historic Gaza ceasefire agreement brokered by President Trump, while Senator Lindsey Graham endorses his foolish narrative. The globalists are living in a state of despair and confusion, trying by all means to sabotage peace and reignite war, and Graham has chosen to parrot the lies of that little king instead of facing the truth.

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October 28, 2025 | 9:39 am | 1 Comment »

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Mahmoud Abbas‘s “temporary” replacement. A profile of Hussein al-Sheikh  

Peloni:  The fact of the PA being an American equity, having been funded, armed, and trained by the US, places an ever greater importance upon this choice of Abu Mazen’s heir apparent.  While Al Sheikh’s record is not that of a peacemaker, it should be further recalled that the PA is not a peace partner, that Mazen is a financial facilitator of every successful terror attack in Israel which renders dead Jews, and that the destruction of Israel is not the known intention of the PA and always was.

Same character. Different suit.

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman meets with Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary General Hussein al-Sheikh at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 4, 2022. [Photo by U.S. Department of State from United States - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=123789366]Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman meets with Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary General Hussein al-Sheikh at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 4, 2022. [Photo by U.S. Department of State from United States – Public Domain, Wikipedia]

According to the Palestinian Basic Law, in the event of incapacity due to illness or death, the PA president is supposed to be replaced by the speaker of the Legislative Council.

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October 28, 2025 | 8:55 am | Comments »

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Qatar’s Calculated Bet on the Islamic Republic  

Peloni:  Qatar has not been acting in America’s interest, nor in the interest of peace.  The Western fixation with portraying this iniquitous ally of Iran as an American ally or partner gives deference to something other than the facts which should be providing the West greater clarity than it is seemingly capable of demonstrating.

Saeed Ghasseminejad | Oct 27, 2025

Ali Khamenei. Photo by Khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=141074394Ali Khamenei. Photo by Khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

Qatar’s wealth and prestige are built on the incompetence of the rulers of Iran’s Islamic Republic. As long as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his gang of fools are in charge in Tehran, Doha needn’t worry about competition for its vast liquid natural gas (LNG) empire, nor for its role as duplicitous interlocutor between the West and the most radical parts of the Islamic world.

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October 28, 2025 | 2:31 am | Comments »

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178 House Democrats did the unthinkable by siding against Jewish families  

They weren’t just making a policy statement, but endorsing a future where no Jews would live in Judea and Samaria—a future of erasure.

Moshe Phillips | Oct 27, 2025

US Capitol at night. Photo by Diliff - Self-published work by Diliff, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=558744US Capitol at night. Photo by Diliff – Self-published work by Diliff, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Jewish families have been banned from living in Saudi Arabia for decades. Is this the model that Democratic House leaders now support for Judea and Samaria?

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October 28, 2025 | 2:25 am | 5 Comments »

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Mamdani’s Aunt’s Crocodile Tears  

Peloni: Update: After getting CALLED OUT for blatantly LYING about the victimization of his aunt, Commie Mamdani is now DESPERATELY trying to BACK TRACK.

Roamrab:  *SPREAD THIS, FAR AND WIDE*-
To ALL your Contacts- ESPECIALLY THOSE LIVING IN THE FIVE BOROUGHS!

THIS IS THE *”INTEGRITY”* of the *”POPULIST,”* Communist-Islamist *”DECEIVING MANIPULATOR”* Who is being *”PROPT-UP”* to become the Mayor of the Most Important City in The Whole World!

*G-D FORBID!*

Mamdani’s hijabbed aunt who feared going out in NYC after 9/11 doesn’t wear hijab, lived in Tanzania 2000-2003

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October 28, 2025 | 12:02 am | Comments »

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Mark Levin: Tariffs, Mamdani and Gaza the Collapse of the Democratic Party  

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Saturday’s October 25 Mark Levin Show

On Saturday’s show, Mark uses his opening segment to explain the crisis with healthcare in America.  He begins by explaining how the program was fist setup, and how it was later expanded under Covid, as well as the systematic failure of the program to make healthcare more affordable, which was its primary selling point when the program was first adopted.  In fact, quality of care has been driven down as affordability has been driven up, while government subsidies have skyrocketed over the years.

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October 27, 2025 | 5:26 pm | Comments »

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The Momentum in War, President Trump, Sovereignty, & Forcing Israel to Relinquish this Important Military Advantage Redux…  

by Gerald A. Honigman

I’ve been following reports in the media regarding what has transpired in Hamas-ruled Gaza since President Trump forced Israel to accept a much flawed ceasefire “deal.”

Any serious observer of the MidEast and Hamas understands that Hamas, whose charter calls for total obliteration of Israel and Jews everywhere, never intended to live up to most of its end of what Arabs call a “hudna,” a temporary cessation of fighting  to regroup, rearm, and live to fight another day to achieve victory—especially over kafir infidels

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October 27, 2025 | 3:39 pm | 4 Comments »

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As Trump’s 48 hour deadline nears, Israel lets Hamas operative cross truce line to search for hostage remains  

Peloni:  Will this be similar to the threat of all hell breaking loose which did not materialize following the failure to return the hostages on day one of the Trump administration?  or will it be more akin to the deadline given to Iran which saw the beginning of the 12 Day War?

Israeli official says ‘we will take action’ if Hamas doesn’t return hostage remains

The Israeli government allowed a Hamas representative to accompany Red Cross workers past the Yellow Line in a search for hostage remains, Israeli media reported Sunday night.

Channel 12 News cited an anonymous government source who said that the Red Cross, along with Hamas representatives, were operating inside the Yellow Line, in areas under IDF control. The source noted that this happened with the agreement of the Israeli government.

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October 27, 2025 | 1:15 pm | Comments »

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The hidden danger in Trump’s ceasefire deal  

Despite Trump’s own skepticism about Palestinian governance capacity, the agreement conceals pressure mechanisms that could force Israel to accept a corrupt, terror-sponsoring entity on its borders – repeating the catastrophic Oslo experiment that transformed Palestinian territories into incubators for extremism rather than partners for peace.

by  Prof. Eyal Zisser | 10-26-2025

The ceasefire arrangement that President Donald Trump imposed on Israel and Hamas produced a genuine, significant accomplishment – the immediate release of all our hostages and recovery of our fallen, which should hopefully conclude within days. This constitutes the initial and simplest phase of an agreement that Hamas attempted to breach even at this stage, and only substantial American pressure – particularly on Israel – prevented us from abandoning the arrangement.

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October 27, 2025 | 8:19 am | Comments »

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Are Jihadists exploiting ‘intersectionality’ to fool you?  

Peloni:  An important article in which Dr. Wise explains that the focus of Jihad is aimed at conquest of Western society from within, and that they are pursuing this goal while gaining the aid of the very people who would be among the first victims to fall prey to the successful Jihadist conquest of the West, namely, those who comprise the intersectionality framework among the modern progressive movement.  By educating and informing these useful idiots of their complicity in their own destruction, the West might find valued allies in defeating the current Jihadist campaign being leveraged against Western society.

Israel must expose Jihadist exploitation of “intersectionality.” Rather than arguing about false accusations against Israel, it should explain to the West that global Jihadist and global intifada partners in the intersectionality movements seek total victory over Western civilization.

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The time for Israel’s defending its actions against false accusations has ended. Israel and global Jewry face not merely a regional conflict with Iran/Hamas/Palestinian Arabs, but a sophisticated global campaign that exploits Western progressive movements through t/he manipulation of intersectionality.

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October 27, 2025 | 5:11 am | 7 Comments »

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AN ATTACK 1500 YEARS IN THE MAKING  

An exclusive interview with Dr. Rafael Medoff about his new book, The Road to October 7, published by the Jewish Publication Society & University of Nebraska Press.

Q: What do you mean when you say that there was a very long road leading to the attack of October 7?

Medoff: The horror of October 7 can’t be separated from the centuries of anti-Jewish violence that preceded it. The Hamas killers and gang-rapists were following closely in the footsteps of those who have been torturing and murdering Jews around the world since medieval times. There are obvious similarities in their methods, ideology, and the hate-filled education on which the killers were reared.

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October 27, 2025 | 12:46 am | Comments »

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Israel’s Qatar Strike: A Question of Accountability, Not Mediation  

Peloni:  Excelent analysis!

By Jacob Kohn & Walter E. Block

Israeli Attack on Qatar. Photo via Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmRsgEq4v9g [Resized]Israeli Attack on Qatar. Screengrab via Youtube  [Resized]

Israel’s recent targeted strike against Hamas leaders in Qatar has ignited predictable international criticism, but the condemnation misses a fundamental question: Why were internationally recognized terrorists operating freely under Qatari protection in the first place?

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October 27, 2025 | 12:34 am | Comments »

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Gaza’s Biggest Secret EXPOSED…  

Mudar Zahran | X

Gaza’s Biggest Secret EXPOSED…

Why is Gaza the most strategic piece of land in the Middle East? Why did the West let Hamas run it for years—and what’s behind the new push to kick Hamas out of Gaza for good?

This is the untold story that stretches from Gaza’s underground tunnels to the power halls of Washington… and it reveals a growing threat that could soon reach America’s doorstep

October 27, 2025 | 12:30 am | Comments »

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Message to all the progressive Jews of the world!  

Peloni:  This is a very important video.  Indigena Magenta recalls the report made by Gary Wexler, The Inside Story of How Palestinians Took Over the World, in describing how Israel’s enemies executed plans to capture the minds of the youth of the West, most specifically those of America, as Israel foolishly failed to respond to this assault.  In this video, Indigena highlights the role being played by Progressive Jews towards their own destruction.

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October 26, 2025 | 8:32 pm | 1 Comment »

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