Louis Rene Beres | October 29, 20204

Signing of the Geneva Conventions in 1949. Credit: British Red Cross via Wikimedia Commons.

From the standpoint of international law, there is a basic legal distinction between jihadist terror violence and Israel’s no-choice response to such violence. Whether Israel is operating against Shi’ite Hezbollah in Lebanon or Sunni Hamas in Gaza, it always seeks legitimate military objectives with minimum civilian harm. Noncombatant harms can never be prevented altogether, especially when the perfidious enemy is hiding behind human shields, but Jerusalem is not motivated by mens rea, “criminal intent.”

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FDD | October 31, 2024

Latest Developments

Seven people across northern Israel were killed by Hezbollah rocket fire on October 31 amid ongoing discussions to halt the war between Israel and the Iran-backed terrorist organization in Lebanon. Five people were killed by a Hezbollah attack near Metula, while two more were killed near Haifa by a separate Hezbollah barrage fired later in the day.

The latest deadly attacks come as U.S. officials Brett McGurk and Amos Hochstein are set to travel to Israel to discuss ceasefires in both Lebanon and Gaza. Speaking for Hamas, Taher al-Nunu, a senior official, told media outlets that the Iran-backed terrorist organization “supports a permanent end to the war” and will reject outright any temporary ceasefire proposal.

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Knesset Member Avigdor Liberman calls for pre-emptive strike and ‘clear defeat’

All Israel News Staff | October 31, 2024

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards fire missiles in a desert near the city of Qom, southeast of Tehran, November 2, 2006,Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, Sept. 21, 2024. (Photo:REUTERS/Fars News, Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/ WANA/Handout via REUTERS)

Iran is considering launching a retaliatory response to Israel’s strike before the U.S. elections next Tuesday, Nov. 5, CNN reported on Wednesday afternoon.

The U.S. news site reported that a “high-ranking source” told them Israel’s recent strike on Iran will be met with a “definitive and painful” response.

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Cherie Zaslawsky

You know things are looking bad for Kameleon Harris when even the progressive Los Angeles Times declines to endorse her!

In fact, just last week, both Wayne Allyn Root and Paul Manafort compared this election to that of 1980 when Ronald Reagan trounced Jimmy Carter with a landslide victory. They predict Trump is about to have a similar landslide. American voters didn’t like inflation under President Carter, and like it no better under Biden and Harris, among other things.

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Peloni:  Of course, Clinton pursued his age old tactic of attacking the Right to empower the Left during this speech, while also coming to the inexplicable conclusion that Kamala must be the candidate of choice, but in so far as he goes in this clip, his commentary was quite accurate and well explained.

Peloni:  Must see video.  Ross and Peterson cover a great deal of ground in this conversation as they dissect the coerced Trans-epidemic being leveraged against children today.  They highlight statistics and explain the reality of this catastrophe which has left thousands of children scarred and brutalized to suit a social agenda.  Among other revelations, Ross shares a list of 12 children’s hospitals who are most complicity in promoting this barbarity on susceptible parents.

Peloni:  There is a point at which the quiet part is stated out loud, clarifying what was once controversial as being the new reality.

Sundance | October 31, 2024

? NEW: Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says there is a “NATIONWIDE ISSUE with Dominion Voter Access Terminals,” preventing voters from making certain selections.

Of course there is ?

According to her office, this “programming issue” CANNOT be fixed, and voters are… pic.twitter.com/O6HPChDMbK

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 30, 2024

Dominion voting access terminals were notorious in the 2020 election for demonstrable issues that led to compromises in the voting process. Unfortunately, those voting problems associated with Dominion appear to be carrying over into the 2024 election.

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So much to report that it had to be a thread…

Jenna Griswold just broke the 2024 Election in Colorado. Results are now 100% non-certifiable and anyone who says differently is lying.

"History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." – Marx pic.twitter.com/3YNFb8rQrZ

— Patrick Byrne (@PatrickByrne) October 30, 2024

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Kelleigh Nelson

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests. James Bovard

Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons. Mark Twain

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.  Will Rogers

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress, we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Davy Crockett

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Comparing Trump to Hitler? Can any rational person compare what Hitler did when he initiated the most disastrous war in history to what the former president accomplished during his four years in office?

Dr. Alex Grobman | Oct 28, 2024
Trump at event commemorating October 7REUTERS/Marco Bello

“Hitler’s ‘career’ was truly astonishing,” observed historian Ian Kershaw. He was “an absolute nobody” throughout the first half of his life. During the second half, he forced the world to wait in fear and trepidation for his every move. The devastation he caused in Europe was “unmatched even by Attila the Hun.”

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A Warning for American Citizens

MG Paul E Vallely, US Army (Ret)  Morning Intelligence Report

By Lee Smith[1], Guest Editorial | October 29.2024

The propaganda campaign labeling Donald Trump as an aspiring dictator determined to use the military and national security apparatus against his political opponents is designed not to affect the upcoming election but rather to shape the post-election environment. It is the central piece of a narrative that, by characterizing Trump as a tyrant (indeed likening him to Hitler), establishes the conditions for violence — not just another attempt on Trump’s life, but political violence on a massive scale intended to destabilize the country.

As I write in my forthcoming book Disappearing the President, Democratic Party research and media reports show that many senior party officials and operatives are preparing for the possibility of a Trump victory. Accordingly, planning is focused on undermining the incoming president with enough violence to rock his administration. Prominent post-election scenarios forecast such widespread rioting that the newly elected president would be compelled to invoke the Insurrection Act. With some senior military officials refusing to follow Trump’s orders, according to the scenarios, the U.S. Armed Forces would split, leaving America on the edge of the abyss.

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Peloni:  The challenge to the establishement’s ability to continue business as usual is what drew the ire from intelligence community, it is what brought about the impeachment charade in which the witnesses perjured themeselves, it is what brought about the election theft which was certified as legitimate, and it was what made it necessary for the challenge of the election fraud to be made illegitmate with a fabricated assault on the capital using paramilitary hacks who are likely the only ones who will never be charged for the Jan. 6 psyop.  So the question remains, what will they do next.

"Trillions in Eurasia!" – Mike Benz REVEALS The MOTIVE Behind NATO's War Over Russia's Resources@patrickbetdavid @MikeBenzCyber @TomEllsworth @VincentOshana @sostalksmoney pic.twitter.com/zx1WExCwA3

— PBD Podcast (@PBDsPodcast) October 29, 2024

Peloni:  This is a must read speech by Netanyahu.

A war of annihilation was imposed on us, and we are responding with a war of rebirth.

ANJULI PANDAVAR |

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the nation at the close of the High Holidays, on 27 October 2024, was a speech to pull what has been a fractured nation together, to give voice to all the pain, to acknowledge the sacrifices, and articulate the accomplishments. It gave love, strength, inspiration and determination. To everyone.

Honourable President of the State, Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal, Speaker of the Knesser, Amir Ohana, Acting President of the Supreme Court, Justice Isaac Amit, Minister of Defence, Yoav Gallant, Ministers and dozens of Members of Knesset, Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, The Head of Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, Commissioner of Police, Chief Commissioner Daniel Levy, Representatives of various memorial organisations, and esteemed guests, many who, on the advice of the President, I won’t list everyone, but above all, the families of the hostages, and my brothers and sisters of the bereaved families, relatives of our heroes, the fallen of the struggle.

My wife and I visited many families, and we stood in awe [of] those family members whose lives have changed in an instant, and will never return to what they were. We sometimes stood before the bravery of the fallen, before the resilience of the families, their endurance in indescribable suffering, in grief and in a void that cannot be described.

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See also:  Hillel Neuer on ABC Australia: “UNRWA is rotten to the core”

by Seth Mandel | Commentary | October 29, 2024

When 84-year-old Ditza Heiman was released from Hamas captivity and ready to tell her story, she revealed that she was held in Gaza for 53 days under the watchful eye of a teacher from the United Nations agency in Gaza, UNRWA.

In August, UNRWA director Philippe Lazzarini was confronted by Ayelet Samerano, whose son was killed on Oct. 7: “As you can see in the video that is online, on Oct. 7 an UNRWA employee entered Israel and actively participated in the massacre, brutally murdering and kidnapping my boy’s body, with a United Nations car, into Gaza.”

It gets tiring to rehearse the many such stories—the nine staffers fired by the agency for participating in the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, the hundreds of agency employees who Israel claims were moonlighting with one of Gaza’s terrorist groups, the discovery that the head of the UNRWA teachers union was also Hamas’s top official in Lebanon, the agency’s sharing of facilities with Hamas command centers, the rockets stored in UNRWA schools and the Hamas tunnels underneath them.

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Peloni: Smotrich is quite correct to both urge the expansion of Jewish settlements in J&S as well as in Gaza, while also promoting the incentivized voluntary emigration of citizens of Gaza.  Gaza must no longer be kept as the Judenrein fantasyland which doubles as a UN run terror training ground.

Religious Zionism party leader encourages Palestinians with ‘national ambitions’ to emigrate to Arab states

All Israel News Staff | October 28, 2024

Minister of Finance and head of the Religious Zionism Party Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, Oct. 28, 2024. (Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Sunday called for the expansion of Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), as well as a return to building Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip.

Smotrich made his comments while speaking at the Middle East Summit [called “Correct Middle East” in Hebrew], hosted by Israel365, an Orthodox Jewish organization focused on raising support for Israel among American Evangelical Christians.

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Peloni:  Iran can not be deterred.  They may change their tactics, choose alternate targets, or rely exclusively upon their proxies, but Iran’s entire political, religious and military systems, which extend far beyond Iran’s borders, will progress as Frantzman indicates below regardless of what Israel does.  Their raison d’etre is the annihilation of Israel, the Jews, and the West.  Their influence is now all across Europe and even within some of the most sensitive positions within the US govt.  Hence, by pursuing an agenda of deterring Iran, it should be understood that it is not been Iran who has not been  deterred, but Israel and the West.  This is why October 7 was understood to be a surprise, because Israel and the West accepted their deterrence policy as successful, and of course, in doing so, the deterrence which Iran had secured over Israel and the West gave rise to the notion that the unprovoked Iranian attack around Gaza was in any way a surprise.  The pursuit of deterrence must end, and with it, the toleration for the existential threat which remains undeterred from the regime in Iran which means to see October 7 events visited all across Israel and the West.

Almost certainly it will keep trying to target Israel with proxies

Seth J. Frantzman | October 28, 2024

An Israeli F-35 fighter jet (Getty Images)

Rabbi Jacob Herzog

November is the month of great wonders.

A new conspiracy against His Royal Highness Mohammed bin Salman will fail miserably. Behind it stands an evil current in America that follows a certain faction and not the American government.

The conspiracy against His Highness Mohammed bin Salman unfortunately involves a Gulf emirate. Bribes worth billions of dollars were paid to some weak souls.

Al-Yamamah Palace is steadfast and stable and has no loopholes. The money of the dreamy pretender will go down the drain and the Saudi rule is as firm as a generation.

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Both explanations for his misleading words in “The New York Times” remain deeply disturbing.

A view of neighborhoods in Ma’ale Adumim, near Jerusalem, on June 28, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Moshe Phillips | October 29, 2024

Steven Erlanger has been writing about Israel for The New York Times for nearly 30 years. How can it be that he still doesn’t know what the Oslo Accords say?

Even before he was hired by the Times, Erlanger was writing about the Middle East for The Boston Globe in the 1980s. In early 1996—a little more than two years after the signing of Oslo I on the White House lawn—he became the Times’ chief diplomatic correspondent in Washington, and wrote plenty about America’s Middle East policy.

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