PELONI:  A fascinating, if haunting, reflection from Dr. David Wurmser on his experiences on September 11 and the hours and days which followed.  Don’t miss the concluding paragraphs in which he relates the circumstances of Roman history’s Varian Disaster in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest to the events which surrounded September 11.

David Wurmser | Center for Security Policy | September 17, 2026

United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center complex in New York City during the September 11 attacks. By UA_Flight_175: Flickr user TheMachineStops (Robert J. Fisch) derivative work: upstateNYer, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link

My reflections on the attacks of 9/11 begin with conveying the shock and trauma of that horrible day.  One cannot understand with the distance of today how the attack on 9/11 immediately represented a profound strike to the very fiber of American society, a very shock to the idea of normalcy, and a pervasive administering of a sense of imminent threat. It also strangely soon bored in how alone we the United States, were as a nation. We moved toward responding as a sovereign country, but  within a short time, it apparent how much of the rest of the world was reacting with genuine sympathy, but even more with the concern that the world in which they had and in which they still lived should resist the change which was inevitable from this attack.

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PELONI:  Netanyahu needs the support of the Haredi parties.  This is true today as it was true thirty years ago during Netanyahu’s first term as PM.

Shlomo Filber | X | Sept 18, 2026

PM Netanyahu speaks in the Knesset. Photo by Itzhak Harari / Knesset Archives, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

Likud is not going down!

“By all measures,” as they like to say in medicine, it is getting stronger.

Both the phenomenon of “returning home” and the undecided voters who are returning to support [it].

So why do “all the polls” insist on claiming that despite the right-wing bloc getting stronger, Likud is actually going down?

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PELONI:  MBS is still looking for a way to have his cake and eat it at the same time.  Well, while he is prevaricating, the reality taking form around him is weakening his hand rather than strengthening it.  A man of vision, capability, and charisma, will MBS survive this crisis alone, or will some third party rise to the occasion and save the kingdom from destruction.

Targeted by Iraqi militias and pressured by Houthi advances, Riyadh must restore deterrence on two fronts as critical infrastructure comes under renewed threat from Iranian proxies.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | SEPTEMBER 21, 2026

President Donald Trump participates in a coffee ceremony with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Al Saud at the Royal Court Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. Photo by The White House – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia

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by Eeyore| Vlad Tepes | September 20, 2026

Sons of Jacob Synagogue, Belleville Ontario. By Robert Taylor from Stirling, ON, Canada – Sons of Jacob Synagogue, Belleville Ontario_1601, CC BY 2.0, Link

Looking at the cautious information first. This is the right move. Too many of these events become destroyed in the public consciousness by a combination of disinformation and of course, the withholding of real information by authorities when the attacker is of the left, (trans etc) or Muslim. Our suspicion is it is to let people’s blood cool before announcing anything factual in order to prevent rational action or criticism of policies that create these events as a consequence.

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PELONI:  Mark Levin makes the case for ignoring the speed at which AI is being rolled out while also questioning the voices which are advocating for legislation, regulation or delays.  Yet, the role to be played by those Silicon Valley leaders who will control AI in the US would suggest that there is a basis for concern.  As Mark noted in a previous episode, those who control AI will control the future, so without adding any guardrails by which to control those AI companies which will be managing the future requires a great deal of trust.  So the question inevitably is not about Sen. Bernie Sanders or about Sen. Josh Hawley, but about the Silicon Valley tycoons and to what degree trusting them with the future of the world might be warranted.  I always consider Mark’s arguments because they are grounded in clarity and good judgement.  Yet, when contemplating the potential of the future of the world being left in the hands of the Silicon Valley tycoons, I have to argue that such a potential makes little sense to me.

Pelon & David Fieldstone

Mark Levin’s Sunday Sept 20 Show

Mark Levin (ML) made an opening speech as to the benefits of A1, which he related – he had spent the last while in studying its benefits for humanity – including without any restriction – medical progress, reduction in costs for everything, lower work times, a better quality of life, etc. which he read from experts’ postings re same. He was a messenger & not an expert by education or practice. However, he understood the core and thrusts basics, and their type of assets and consequences.

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PELONI:  The arguments about the need for AI dominance in the US consistently evades the need to address those who will be in control of the AI in the US.  Recalling that those who control the AI infrastructure in the US will control the future seems as much of discussion as the need to maintain US dominance in this vital field over China.

Newsmax Wires | Newmax | Sept 15 2026

Gordon G. Chang at Global Taiwan Institute 2017. By Chen-fang Tina Chung, Voice of America (VOA) – http://www.voachinese.com/a/trump-taiwan-policy-20170215/3726257.html, Public Domain, Link

China remains behind the United States in the race to dominate artificial intelligence, and Washington cannot afford to slow development as Beijing works to close the gap, China expert Gordon Chang told Newsmax on Tuesday.

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PELONI:   An economic crisis alone will not bring Iran to its knees.  It will take support from the Iranian people, and an opportunity of regime chaos and vulnerability which will only come from further strikes on the regime of a significant nature rather than the tit for tat limited strikes which Washington has taken to prefer in the aftermath of their unilateral call for negotiations last April.

Analyst to AIN: Regime is in a fight for its life and won’t give up so easily

Nicole Jansezian | All Israel News | Published: September 20, 2026

Iranian protestors in January 2026.  Screengrab via Youtube [Cropped]

The impact of the war and renewed sanctions imposed by America and other nations on the Islamic Republic are taking a dire toll on Iran’s economy, which appears to be nosediving at an accelerated pace.

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by Pierre Rehov  •  Gatestone Insitute  •  September 20, 2026

For over 20 years, the governments of Turkish President (and former Prime Minister) Recep Tayyip Erdogan have functioned as Hamas’s principal political protectors. Days after the October 7, 2023 massacre, he told his parliamentary group that Hamas is “a group of mujahideen defending their lands.” Pictured: Erdogan meets with Hamas Leadership in Istanbul, April 20, 2024. Screengrab via Youtube

• Every peace agreement rests on an assumption that the powers charged with enforcing it want it enforced.

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PELONI:  Prof. Francisco Gi-White provides an important context for the conflict in the following video.  In it he argues that the Israelis need to through out the Arab terrorists who he contends are the bosses in the Arab sectors of Judea and Samaria and Gaza, following which he also argues that Israel should take over the duty of dealing with the psychological harms which have victimized the Arab subjects in these territories.  In this latter point, I argue that it would be better for the Arabs, better for the Israelis, and better for the stability of the region to simply let these psychotic Arabs leave, open the doors which are being held shut by the surrounding Arab nations as well as the US and the Europeans.  Israel does not have a responsibility to solve the inherent problems of Arab societies, even in J&S and Gaza, where any attempt to deal with the psychosis of the population will be met with further animosity among the falsely named pro-Palestinian advocates, none of whom give a tinker’s dam for the psychotic victims in Gaza or J&S.  They are a tool to be used towards the destruction of Israel, and so long as they are able to play such a part, they will likely play that part and their advocates around the world will support them towards this end, because the anhelation of the Jews of Israel is the focus of the project to create a second Palestinian state, and that is the motif for the psychotic Arabs and their supporters around the world as well.  So let them go, help them leave, and prove that peace can be achieved by simply opening the border rather than playing the impossible role of solving the problems of  Jew Hatred which is inherent and weaponized in Arab societies around the world, not just in Israel.

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PELONI:  Eric Metaxas joins Yair Pinto to describes his book, Revolution – Birth of the Greatest Nation, and in doing so he shares the surprise which struck him during his research when he came to understand that the Americans looked back to the model of the Israelites in throwing off Pharoah’s yoke of tyranny as they were striving to throw off the yoke of tyranny of the British Crown.   From here the discussion turns to the US-Israeli alliance and the ‘aid’, in which he argues that Israel and America are brothers.  The better explanation I would suggest is that the US and Israel each benefit from the alliance and the US investment in Israel’s defenses, and that the US has particularly gained an exponential return on that defense.

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PELONI:  In the wake of political indecision, the Hilltop Youth provide a clear and effective deterrence to illegal land grabs by the Arabs in Judea and Samaria, while also using them at times as a geopolitical crutch to answer the Arabist catcalls of “Settler Violence” from allied nations, not least of which includes the US.  So when Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar share their sense of regret in the commentary written below, this is the basis on which that apology is based.

Yehudit Katsover & Nadia Matar, co-chairs of the Sovereignty Movement | Ribonut.co.il | Sept 21, 2026

Judean hills. Photo by Inbal & Nir from Arad, Israel – Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipdia

We are sorry that we let you stand alone,
that we allow you to be made the scapegoat,
while attempts are made to push you- and with you, the entire right-wing camp-
from the ideological cliff into the depths of lies and injustice.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Response To Rapper ‘Mid East Expert’ Macklemore’s ‘Free Palestine’ Chant
New English Review [1]

and…

Macklemore’s Illiteracy Tour: The Sanitization of Colonial Conquest
Israpundit.org [2]

The two opening links need to be studied carefully.

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PELONI: Why is Washington moving so slowly, imperceptivity so, against the Muslim Brotherhood, even in the Middle East?  Designations of Specially Designated Global Terrorists and Foreign Terrorist Organization have no value if these entities can simply morph towards a new version based on an altered label.

Jafaj | 2026-09-20

JAFAJ Intelligence Assessment

The Jordanian regime claims to have outlawed the Brotherhood while allowing its political, media, financial, and charitable infrastructure to operate and expand

The Jordanian government continues to protect and enable the Muslim Brotherhood despite the United States’ designation of the movement’s Jordanian branch as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity.

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Avi Abelow

Click Image to Enlarge. Image created via AI.

My heart aches. Screaming to the heavens.

A few hours ago, while I was out on patrol in the Judean Hills, we were told to be on heightened alert.

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PELONI:  As Andrew Benjamin explains, the psyops being promoted behind AI is all about control.  This makes it essential to know who might be behind the psyops being used to promote and/or derail AI  development as if no guardrails might be needed to direct or contain the control of the awesome power of AI going into the future.

Evaluate patterns, you can predict the future. Pattern-recognition drives predictive technology, including AI, military strategy & Global Markets. Lastly, Shock & Awe: AI for the WOKE & the REICH!

Andrew Benjamin | Sep 20, 2026

PATTERN RECOGNITION? Try this. Did you “get” the pattern?

THE NEXT PRIMARY RULE: FOLLOW THE TREND!

These are principles of prediction. There are others of course.

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Peloni:  Prof. Francisco Gil-White joins Prof. Amihud Amir, Chairman of Professors for a Strong Israel, and among other matters, they discuss how many deaths have come from all the claims of ‘Settler Violence’… The answer is, by itself, quite revealing.

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