Coalition partners and opposition condemn National Security Minister Ben Gvir’s statements on holy site policy. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office quickly distanced itself from the controversy, asserting unequivocally saying, “There is no change to the Temple Mount status quo.”

By  ILH Staff | 08-26-2024

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visits Al-Aqsa compound also known to Jews as the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem’s Old City August 13, 2024 | Photo: Reuters

Israel’s political landscape was rocked on Monday as National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir asserted that a policy shift now permits Jewish prayer at the Temple Mount/Al-Aqsa compound, one of the most contentious sites in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His controversial remarks, which included proposing the construction of a synagogue at the location, ignited a firestorm of criticism from both coalition allies and opposition figures, who cautioned about potential diplomatic fallout and security risks.

Ben-Gvir made the comments in a Monday morning interview on Army Radio, where he claimed a change in Temple Mount policy now allows Jewish prayer at the site. Ben-Gvir went further, stating, “I would establish a synagogue there.”

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Biden told delegates at the DNC: “Those protesters out in the street, they have a point.” Oh, really?

Ronn Torossian | August 27, 2024

Pro-Hamas protest in the USA

As pro-Hamas demonstrators burnt American and Israeli flags, called for Israel’s destruction and a global intifada President Biden told delegates at the DNC: “Those protesters out in the street, they have a point. A lot of innocent people are being killed on both sides.”

The people wearing Hamas headbands, waving Hezbollah flags, and screaming “intifada” have a point according to the President of the United States. That includes those people praising Hamas and calling for the destruction of Israel from the river to the sea.

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Peloni:  Please Watch This Video.  Bobby Kennedy has been a strong friend to Israel, and this clip demonstrates this reality.  This was from 8 months ago, but the entire 25 min. debate is still relevant today.  This is what support for Israel should look like on both sides of the aisle.

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Robert Kennedy Jr. on Israel:

**RFK JR.:** What I'm saying is that Hxmas is a criminal enterprise. Sure. Yes. And when you talk about solutions for the Palestinian people, the truth is, the Palestinian people are arguably the most pampered by international aid… pic.twitter.com/Rf7PDR2Ozk

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) August 26, 2024

The full 25min clip from which this was taken begins HERE

Peloni: An important briefing from Avivi in which he calls on Israel to make a full scale attack, agreeing with the sentiment that the preemptive attack two days ago did not go far enough.

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Jewish Groups Take Matters Into Own Hands To Ensure Campus Safety

Jennifer Nuelle  | Daily Caller | August 23, 2024

(Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Hillel International and Secure Community Network announced on Thursday that they have launched a campaign to ensure safety on college campuses for Jewish students amid concerns about anti-Israel protests.

The two groups are working to protect Jewish students through their campaign “Operation SecureOurCampuses” by broadening resources, including assessing Jewish campus facilities and working with law enforcement, according to a press release obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Anti-Israel protests took place across college campuses last school year, with many Jewish students and organizations feeling threatened by some of the protesters’ actions.

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Seth J. Frantzman | August 26, 2024

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) expanded their push into the outskirts of Deir al-Balah, a key city in central Gaza. The operation is one of several that the IDF is undertaking in Gaza as it continues to confront various Hamas threats and attacks by other terror groups.

For example, on August 25, Hamas launched a rocket aimed at the Israeli city of Rishon LeTsiyon, one of several recent attempts by the group to use long-range rockets to threaten central Israel. Improvised explosive devices have also taken a toll on IDF forces in several areas in recent weeks, killing and wounding soldiers.

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By Michel Ordman, VGNI

In the 25th Aug 24 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• Israeli saved hundreds on Oct 7, now gives new skills to ex-soldiers .
• Israelis give cancer–killing cells a new lease of life.
• Israeli support for bereaved Golan Druze.
• Israel is ranked fourth in the world for AI advancement.
• No wonder Israelis are happy – we have an app for that.
• Massive project to deliver Israeli renewable energy to the US.
• More archaeological evidence of ancient Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel.

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Peloni:  It is so refreshing to read something so resoundingly rational and intelligent.  End the hostage talks so that the hostages might finally be brought home, not thru capitulation which will save a bare fraction of them, but thru decisive victory.

Shoshana Bryen | Daily Caller | August 25, 2024

Screen Capture/PBS NewsHour

Not the hostages! Forget the so-called “hostage talks,” which are simply a mechanism for stretching out the war and increasing pressure on Israel. They are a sign of American desperation for a political victory. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, according to Egyptian sources, aims to “persuade both Hamas and Israel to embrace the American proposal without adding complications.”

Aside from the repugnant equation of “both” Hamas and Israel, “complications” are what are known as “war goals.” Israel had three at the outset: to secure the borders and the people of Israel; to uproot the Hamas military and governing capability in Gaza; and to get the hostages back. (RELATED: Israel Recovers Bodies Of Six Hostages From Gaza)

How is Israel doing?

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Peloni: Mike Benz set a fire on the feckless Republican led Congress, as they continue to fail forward whil protesting how someday, someone will get something done, and proceed to do nothing.  A very important topic  which can be grasped in the first half of this video.

I will be the bad guy & say what needs to be said, even if that upsets some people I like.

If the House Foreign Affairs Cmte does not wake from its coma as the US State Dept it oversees pushes global government censorship outcomes, this critical committee needs a new chairman. pic.twitter.com/yP0B2Igwi4

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) August 25, 2024

Peloni:  Let us be clear, lines have been drawn and no one should be deceived as to which side the Obama/Biden/Harris cabal stands.  The Iranian Alignment in the US is real, and will be irrevocable should Harris win.

More than 24 hours later, and Kamala Harris has yet to utter a word about the Hezbollah attack.

Not. A. Word. https://t.co/jp7e4OhKkX

— David Shor (@DYShor) August 26, 2024

Daniel Greenfield | August 26, 2024

On Friday evening, a Kennedy joined Trump on stage in Glendale, Arizona. The first major Trump rally after the DNC convention featured RFK Jr as an answer to the Republicans who had come out for Kamala at the showcase event for her political campaign. The Kamala campaign had enlisted a former Pence aide, Stephanie Grisham, a former discredited press secretary, and former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, while Trump brought out Camelot on stage. But what happened at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale went beyond a matchup of names.

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Peloni:  Winning the election will only be the beginning of the battle against the Deep State.

They’ll Do What They Want

By Robert Spencer | August 26, 2024

AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

If he is reelected this November, will Donald Trump manage to drain the swamp this time? The swamp-dwellers are saying no.

Ever since he began his first run for president, Trump has famously vowed to drain the swamp, that is, clear out the far-left bureaucracy in Washington that bears so much responsibility for the leftward drift of the nation over the last decade and a half.

In his inaugural address on Jan. 20, 2017, Trump announced:

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RFK Jr tells Shannon Bream that President Trump is preparing to make a series of announcements that other Democrats are about to join his campaign. The Unity Party to defeat the Democrat oligarchs is underway. ?????? pic.twitter.com/xmJx6aazB2

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 25, 2024

Peloni:  It would take a certain form of insanity for Ukraine to attack a nuclear power plant which, if successful, would render the water flowing into Ukraine toxic.  This scenario would make more sense if those who made the decision to authorize the attack were in fact not concerned with the outcome of a successful attack, but that would mean the authorization came from some group other than Ukraine, which would hardly require a leap of logic to guess who that might be.  In any event, the use of one or four bombs to attack the plant seems obviously intended to be more of a threat than a serious undertaking, so perhaps the attack on the nuclear plant was intended to divert Russian assets away from the Ukrainians as they continue their raid…perphaps.

The Kursk Nuclear Power Plant was attacked, but how is mysterious

Stephen Bryen | Weapons & Strategy | August 23, 2024

Concrete for the first Kursk 2 reactor is being poured in 2018

Ukraine has tried to attack the Kursk nuclear power plant reinforcing a theory that the Kursk offensive was aimed at creating significant havoc by either capturing or wrecking the Kursk NPP.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported a single suicide drone attack on the plant.  Russian President Vladimir Putin said that “The enemy tried to strike the Nuclear Power Plant … and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been informed, and they have promised to visit and send specialists to assess the situation.” The head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, said he plans to visit the plant during the week of August 26th.

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Peloni:  This is a very important article.  Dr. Wurmser is one of the most clear sighted authorities on the evolving situation in Israel, and as Wurmser details, the situation has evolved to Israel’s benefit over the past months.   Israel has significant issues to remedy at each of its borders, and tending to the control of the border in Gaza is what cemented its victory in the South.  It needs to close this chapter and focus its efforts on the borders in the North as well as in J&S.

And let us not overlook the Egyptian border as well.  Recall that the industrial sized tunnels which emerged into Gaza came from Egypt, and the supplies which were shipped through that vast causeway originated from Iran.  Sisi has hedged his bets with the anti-Israel and anti-US camps, but a bit too strongly in the direction of the Iranian camp, and it is to satisfy this relationship with Iran which Sisi has demonstrated the temerity to demand Egypt maintain control over the Philadelphi corridor.  And it is only the pro-Iran camp seated in the US power structure which might find any logic in supporting such an inexplicable solution to the obvious problem which was originated from Sisi having control of Philadelphi in the first place.

David Wurmser |  August 23, 2024

In the summer of 2002, I was sent as a US diplomat to assess and correct the damage done by our negotiating team at the end of the 2000 Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference. In 2000, the overarching goal within our diplomatic corps was to reach a deal with the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to expand NPT membership reach universality. So central had this goal become that it became a fixation to the point where the original mission of the NPT was obscured. The  non-Aligned Movement believed self-imposed pressure was so great among Western diplomats to achieve such universality that they could be blackmailed and seduced into shifting the nature of the treaty from its original purpose of controlling nuclear technologies to responsible actors who could use it for peaceful purposes to become instead a disarmament treaty focused on disarming Western nuclear weapons arsenals, undermine Israel, and to establish a goal as well as to eliminate Western structures of missile defense. The vehicle of this attempt was to forward an unrealistic list of demands – which eventually became known as the Thirteen Points under Article VI of the NPT.

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