A veteran photojournalist provides his insights into the work of Motaz Azaiza, and how the direction in which he pointed his camera shaped the news.

By David Katz | HonestReporting | September 24, 2026

Motaz Azaiza. Screengrab via Youtube.

As a veteran professional photojournalist, I have spent much of the past three years looking at photographs from Gaza — Who took them, where they stood, what they put in the foreground, what appeared behind the subject, what was cropped out, what the caption told us, where the picture went next.

With his remarks in a September 3 Arabic-language podcast interview, Motaz Azaiza has now added another question: What never left the camera?

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PELONI:  Lt. Col. Sarit Zehavi (IDF, Res.) provides personal testimony completely exposing the libels behind the Naza fiction.

What the Filmmakers Deliberately Missed

By Sarit Zehavi | Behind the News in Israel | September 18, 2026

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The creators of the recent documentary dealing with the topic of “Naza” (a Hebrew military acronym for Nezek Agavi – collateral damage) did not have to work too hard to discover the truth.

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VICTOR SHARPE: Norway’s odious ban on Jews

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In a revealing article by Jeff Ballabon, Norway’s Ban on Jews, he highlights Norway’s proposed law banning certain commercial activity involving Israeli settlements in Judea, Samaria, and parts of Jerusalem as being directed not at the State of Israel but at the private lives and livelihoods of Jews living in the affected areas. Emphasizing that violations could carry criminal penalties, including imprisonment, and notes that the measure effectively seeks to prevent Norwegians from doing business with Jews because of where they live.

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Avi Abelow | Meta

Milei embraces Netanyahu after arriving in Israel, April 2026. By Oficina del Presidente de la Nación Argentina – Oficina del Presidente de la Nación, CC BY 4.0, Link

Argentina’s President Javier Milei, one of the world’s most passionate supporters of Israel, the Jewish people and the Torah, just said something extraordinary about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that every Israeli should hear.

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PELONI:  The Red-Green alliance is very real, and it is growing in both power, representation, and influence as it threatens the entire framework on which the Western world has been built.  With this in mind, voting should be understood to be far more of an onus than simply a privilege.  It is a solemn duty in as much as bearing a weapon on the field of battle.  The enemies of the West are rising within the West, and the only way to defeat them is thru the use of the simple but powerful tool known as a ballot.  Base on how this simple piece of paper is handled, the tide of the future across the entire Western world will be determined.  So, treat this duty with the solemnity and responsibility which you might do if it meant that the life, prosperity and survival of your family and loved ones was actually on the ballot, because in fact they are.

Many of the Democrats running this year aren’t the usual squishy socialists we’re used to. They are people who hate Americans, the U.S., and the Constitution.

Robin M. Itzler | Am Thinker | September 24, 2026

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Voters need to know that there are crazy people throughout the United States who are representing the Democrat Party in the 2026 midterms.

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Arlene Kushner | September 24, 2026

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As I have indicated on numerous occasions, there is always concern about an increased risk of terror attacks during the holiday season. Would that we had no reason to be concerned!

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PELONI:  Mike Doran joins Gadi Taub this week to talk about the friction among the Left Bloc leaders, the ongoing struggle over Judea & Samaria, US strategy with Iran, and China’s advantage in renewable energy.  See topic timestamps below.

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PELONI:  Weaponizing Jew Hatred to solve personal or political problems by way of deflection is an old and cynical tactic which both highlights and promotes Jew Hatred among the populace.  Its use is now being employed across the US from those as politically experienced as US VP Vance to songwriters who have never engaged in pollical commentary before.  The moral cowardice which accompanies this tactic contrasts with the moral courage of those who helped guide the Western world towards a better future.  All the same, the normalization of such moral cowardice is having its own effect on the Western world, but it is not a better tomorrow that is being built upon such shiftless opportunism being exemplified in either powerful or influential leaders as these.

By Moshe Phillips

Ed Sheeran.By Drew de F Fawkes – Ed Sheeran, V Festival 2014, Chelmsford, CC BY 2.0, Link

Ed Sheeran’s recent remarks at his Philadelphia concert—where he broke his self-professed political silence to address Israel’s fight to eliminate the Hamas terrorists in Gaza—revealed a fundamental misunderstanding of Israel’s strategic and moral imperatives. Delivering what was clearly a prepared statement while attempting to pass it off as an off-the-cuff moment of reflection, Sheeran instead weaponized a deeply flawed narrative.

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PELONI:  The corrosive move by the Left to play the role of the disloyal opposition has weakened the nation advancing divisions within the nation which not only left Israel weakened but has been shown to have unsurprisingly strengthened and motivated our enemies with devastating results.  Despite this fact, like an old dog unable to learn new tricks, the Left continues to focus its efforts on rendering Netanyahu as the leader of the national camp as being too toxic a personality with which to engage.  The ramifications of this tactic being successful will continue to devastate the nation and to strengthen the successors of Sinwar.  For this and many other reasons, let us hope their efforts fail so profoundly that the disloyal opposition comes to reflect upon a path that is at least marginally less disloyal.

Ultimately it represents a willingness to denigrate and diminish Israel itself

Douglas Altabef | Sep 22, 2026

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We are currently immersed in a season of heightened awareness. In the run up to Yom Kippur we focused on those aspects of ourselves that were in need of correction and represented our deviation from the path of goodness and righteousness.

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The least connection that Jordan has to its origin as being included in the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine is the baseless kingship of the Hashemites, whose only connection to the lands today known as Jordan is through the Hashemites having originally been picked to serve as British satraps so as to conserve British assets of blood and treasure. Indeed, the Hashemites did not so much as even conquer the lands which they eventually were awarded to rule in Britain’s place. They literally simply showed up and were gifted 78% of the lands under the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, and it is a vital truth that is seldom noted that the initial Emirate of Transjordan, which was created out of thin air by the British, was maintained under British rule authorized exclusively by the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. Hence, Jordan is not only Palestine; it is, in fact, the overwhelming majority of Palestine. However, the Hashemites themselves were actually Arabian’s.

Let’s be honest. Jordan is Palestine.

Barry Shaw | The View from Israel | Sep 23, 2026

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Speaking at the podium of the United Nations on 22 September 2026 was the biggest hypocrite in the Middle East.

King Abdullah of Jordan.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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