by Linda Goudsmit | October 20, 2025
What is terrorism? The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition defines terrorism for us.
terrorism /t?r??-r?z??m/
noun
1. The use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.
2. The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation.
Peloni: The warning made by Prof. Zisser was made about 8yrs ago by then Amb. David Friedman. A solution must be chose by Israel or it will be imposed on her by her enemies and allies. Importantly, the Jordan Option is not considered by Prof. Zisser, and it is a far better option than any of those which he does put forward. It is supported by international law, by history and would lead to a far better outcome than the proposition of either empowering a terror enclave on Israeli land or empowering the Jew hating Pal community with the power of expanding the influence of anti-Zionist voting faction in Israel.
If we don’t resolve the conflict, others will – whether terrorists will resume their attacks, or President Trump and the international community will impose a plan for a Palestinian state.
Prof. Eyal Zisser | 10-19-2025
Donald Trump speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia
With the release of all our hostages and the return of our fallen – a process that we all hope will be completed soon – the war launched against us by the terrorist organization Hamas on October 7, 2023, will come to an end.
Peloni: Mike Doran and Gadi Taub discuss Trump’s peace plan and whether Israel won the war. Neither of them argue that Israel should have taken the war to completion. Gadi believes that the plan is actually intended to put Hamas in control, and leave them with the burden of actually governing in the wasteland they now control. Mike disagrees on this point and suggests that Trump is adopting a position halfway between the Arabs and Israel so as to become a better arbiter in the peacemaking process. Mike argues further that the crux of the problem for Israel is that taking the war to completion would be very costly for Israel in casualties, and that after having defeated Hamas, they would ultimately withdraw from Gaza, as has always been Netanyahu’s stated intention, following which some Hamas-like entity would rise up in Gaza and there would be no benefit for Israel having won the war. As Gadi notes, neither of them see this as a rosy conclusion to the war.
They also discuss Trump’s visit to the Knesset and the booing of Netanyahu at Hostage Square.
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And It Proves He Still Doesn’t Understand Who the Real Enemy Is
Avi Abelow
The moment the White House Gaza deal was sold as a “historic peace breakthrough,” I feared the worst, not because I oppose diplomacy, but because I know how our enemies exploit Western weakness. Now, just days into Trump’s Gaza “deal,” those fears are being confirmed. The plan, championed by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, is already costing Israeli lives and empowering the same terror states that financed October 7th.
Peloni: I am shocked by the notion that Israel could launch an attack on Qatar without the US being aware of it, and in fact, I do not believe this is possible. Recall that Centcom monitors the region in coordination with Israel. Hence, the part of the American tale presented by Witkoff/Kushner does not pass either the laugh test nor the logic test.
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I had several thoughts in understanding what’s going on here, but at the end of the day it seems that the correct possibility is that Witkoff and Kushner are lying here. And here’s why:
Michael Goodman | VGNI | October 19, 2025
In the 19th Oct 25 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
Peloni: There is little reason to talk with the Mullahs. The mutually exclusive positions which exist between that of the mullahs and the West relative to Iran’s pursuit of further enrichment could not be made more clear. It only remains to see to what degree the West has the resolve to enforce their opposition to Iran’s nuclear program.
By Janatan Sayeh | October 18, 2025
Mahmoud Reza Aghamiri, the president of Iran’s Shahid Beheshti University and one of the Islamic Republic’s prominent nuclear scientists, offered a rare glimpse into Tehran’s calculus behind weaponization.
During an October 16 interview, he stated that the regime “has the capability and capacity to build a nuclear bomb” and added that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s religious declaration [against nuclear weapons] can change.” When asked whether Iranian officials and nuclear scientists had ever considered building a nuclear weapon, he replied, “Certainly,” explaining that the idea had crossed the minds of all scientists.
Peloni: Witkoff and Kushner share their sense of betrayal by Israel as they describe how essential they estimate Qatar to be to peace in the Middle East. There is an important historical corollary to their inexplicable attempt to pursue peace by over valuing relationships of those who have little interest in actually achieving peace. Ted Belman, obm, described something very similar to the overselling of America’s relationship with KSA during the early 2000’s in his important essay, “Saudi Arabia and the Peace Process”. In this essay, Ted recalls how America was manipulated by their dependency on the Saudis to upend US Mideast policy. The result was not peace, but rather the 2005 Expulsion of Jews from Gaza, which ultimately lead to the 2023 October 7 Massacre. The relevant section in this essay is shared below along with my further comments.
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Peloni: Khaled Hassan provides an important description of the danger which the Muslim Brotherhood poses to the West. Not to be missed video.
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NYC is experiencing a sex crime wave. Mamdani will make it worse.
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Photo by Bingjiefu He – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia
There have been over 1,600 rapes, 2,000 sexual assaults with penetration and over 4,300 sex crimes as part of a staggering wave of assaults so far this year in New York City.
Peloni: The same lack of clairvoyance among Trump’s peace processors, who were apparently surprised by Hamas’ return to the practice of Jihadi values of slaughter and public executions, will provide poor guidance in establishing a board of peace or its attempt to bring peace to Gaza or the region. This insanity is due to the folly of pretending that the lack of peace in the region is due to a lack of economic potential, rather than the presence of Jihadi tribal values which are endemic in both the social and religious establishments of Gaza and the region, and neither of these real sources of Jihadism are recognized or addressed in the 20Point plan.
In essence, for Hamas, terror is a form of sacred violence oriented toward the “sacrifice” of enemies and martyrs.
Prof. Louis Rene Beres | Oct 18, 2025
Hamas 25th Anniversary celebration. Photo by Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia
The problem is straightforward. President Donald Trump’s 20-Point plan for peace is drawn from verifiably false premises. Even now, in the midst of steadily escalating Hamas violations, supporters of the agreement refuse to understand the core motivators of Palestinian Arab terrorism.
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President Trump sits down for an exclusive, in-depth interview with Maria Bartiromo @MariaBartiromo
10/19/25.
PART ONE (PART TWO…in the comments below) ?? pic.twitter.com/RMLkdzn2l6— MAGA Kitty (@SaveUSAKitty) October 19, 2025
Peloni: For more on this see HERE
This is not the first example of such tactics. Recall when Ezra Levant was arrested for attending a pro Hamas rally. Being Jewish is a crime in Jihadi culture… but so too is being Christian. First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people…
We are supposed to be a ‘free speech’ tolerant country. I believe someone was questioned because by wearing his Star of David necklace he could have antagonised ‘free Palestine’ demonstrators. Enough of this nonsense. pic.twitter.com/4FI05us4Uv
— Susan Hall AM (@Councillorsuzie) October 18, 2025
Peloni:The strategy of arms delivery by drone carrier pigeons presents both an existential crisis and a significant escalation in Egypt’s violation of the peace, taking Israel and Egypt ever closer to a point of potential conflict. Egypt must be made to demilitarize the Sinai and end its continued military shipments to Hamas.
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Peloni: Hamas should never have been given the freedom or ability to retake control of the landbase which they hold. They should never have been ignored as they conducted public executions, no matter who they were murdering. And they should never have been given the freedom to challenge the US with impunity and without consequences. Point #17 provides for Hamas stalling, delaying or rejecting their obligation to both disarm and to free all the hostages. If they are unwilling or uncapable, and it doesn’t matter which, of fulfilling their stated obligations, their is no agreement, only a one sided surrender. While Trump has returned to evoking threats, such words hold no power over Hamas. The relationships and sense of power in the Middle East are each determined, not by words, but by actions. It is time to return to action, and leave such actions to speak the threats which Trump would prefer to utter instead.
Avi Abelow
Following Trump’s Gaza peace deal, many people believe there’s calm in Gaza right now. That there’s a ceasefire. That maybe, just maybe, the Gaza nightmare is ending.
I wish that were true.
However, the truth is that we have right now isn’t peace. It isn’t even de-escalation. It’s a tactical pause, and our Islamonaz*I enemies, Qatar, Turkey, Egypt, Hamas and Iran, are using it exactly how terrorists always do: to rearm, regroup, to one day strike again.
Throughout the Arab, and most of the Muslim world, the territory between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea has been called Palestine, while the name, Israel, is blotted out.
The so-called Palestinian Authority displays a wall map behind the desk of its terrorist leader, Mahmoud Abbas, shows the State of Israel in its entirety but falsely named Palestine.
Peloni: Will Trump’s demonstration using B-52s preclude the need of actually going to war? Probably not.
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Peloni: Do recall that the greater US interest remains with China, and it is in this context that everything taking place today must be understood. India remains a key element in what comes next, and yet India is resistant to giving up its preferred status as an non-aligned nation.
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