A Man for One Season and the Anti-Scapegoat  

Leonard Grunstein | May 3, 2025

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Live every day like it’s your last is a popular saying. The Talmud[i] makes a similar statement, but its concept of living life to the fullest is more sobering. The focus is on being mindful about the opportunities for repentance. This is because each day may be the last opportunity to repent and even on that last day, by repenting, a person can earn eternal life.

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October 1, 2025 | 4:39 pm | Comments »

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Amid embargoes, how independent can Israel’s defense industry be?  

Peloni:  Ho Spartan can Israel become?  Does it have the means to be entirely independent?  Certainly not while boasting of the successes it is achieving on the battlefield using American armaments, but this should not inspire a focused effort to make the next generation of Israeli armaments entirely centered around a domestic and dominating Israeli defense industry.  To be certain, there is no greater supporter of Israel than American defense contractors, other than the American Evangelicals, but if Israel is to become independent of needing American consent for its own defenses, the shift towards a domestically arms industry, which is independent of foreign weapon systems as possible, must be made.

Analysts agree with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel could become more self-sufficient, but there are clear limits to the push.

Netanyahu speaks before UN General Assembly September 26, 2025. Image via Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDGAKgSOqK4Netanyahu speaks before UN General Assembly September 26, 2025. Image via Youtube 

Facing foreign arms embargoes, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently called for Israel to become far more self-reliant on homegrown defense products, describing his vision of the Middle Eastern power as a “super Sparta.”

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October 1, 2025 | 2:10 pm | 1 Comment »

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The New Syrian Regime’s Dilemma  

Tom Barrack met with Ahmed al-Sharaa. Photo by Ambassador Tom Barrack - https://x.com/USAMBTurkiye/status/1926319250370605456/photo/1, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=166135210Tom Barrack met with Ahmed al-Sharaa. Photo by Ambassador Tom Barrack – X, Public Domain, Wikipedia

On September 24, Syrian President Ahmad al-Shara’a addressed the UN General Assembly in New York, where he is still on the UN sanctions list for his leadership of an al-Qa’ida affiliate (though he is likely to be de-listed soon). The transformation of al-Shara’a from wanted terrorist into respected statesman has taken place with remarkable speed. Few would have expected a man who celebrated the events of October 7 to enter into negotiations with Israel on a bilateral security agreement.

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October 1, 2025 | 1:23 pm | Comments »

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Should Israel fear UN resolutions?  

Peloni:  It is important to grasp that all nations work from a standard of self interest.  This would be true even if all nations were actually some form of practicing democracy, and in fact, the nations which have recently come to the support of the terror regime in Gaza were all democratic nations, and that they now stand on the same side of this issue with Russia, Iran and China.

Many nations cast their votes not on the basis of what is right or wrong, or what is just or unjust, but according to their narrow interests.

Moshe Phillips

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The U.N. General Assembly voted this month to endorse a scheme that French Ambassador Jérôme Bonnafont said “lays out a single roadmap to deliver the two-state solution.”
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October 1, 2025 | 9:11 am | 1 Comment »

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Two Tweets Describe 20 Pt Plan As US arbitration between the Saudi-French New York Declaration and Netanyahu’s Day-After doctrine  

Peloni:  This is a very important set of tweets by two very well informed and preceptive analysts, David Wurmser and Dan Linnaeus.  They propose that Trump is arbitrating between all parties, while placing important pressure on Hamas from its closest allies in Turkey and Qatar, but leaves the Israeli hard right position on sovereignty out in the cold.  Please read and comment.

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September 30, 2025 | 6:23 pm | 2 Comments »

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Charlie Kirk did not criticize Bibi about “free speech” like @RealCandaceO claimed.  

Peloni:  Charlie Kirk’s letter to PM Netanyahu is fully released demonstrating not only Kirk’s reverence and love of Israel, but his sense of incongruity about the lack of a robust and effective public diplomacy campaign with regards to the younger generations.

September 30, 2025 | 4:01 pm | 1 Comment »

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A Review of Middle East Policy and Forcing the Israeli Prime Minister to Unfairly Eat Crow at the Trump White House…  

by Gerald A. Honigman 

I had initially meant to focus in this analysis upon a historical evolution of President Trump’s Middle East policy, especially as it has impacted upon an increasingly besieged and beleaguered 9-15 mile wide Israel.

Having been intimately involved in the study of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for over half century at higher academic, professional, and personal levels, I’ve become a somewhat seasoned and astute observer of this strategically important region of the world…

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September 30, 2025 | 2:49 pm | 1 Comment »

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‘Did the Emir of Qatar apologize for Oct 7?’: Israeli politicians criticize Netanyahu’s apology to Qatari PM  

Peloni:  The immorality and tragedy of ceding the moral high ground to a  sponsor of terror,  financers of antisemitic protests, and the safehaven of terrorists can not be overstated.  Make no mistake, Netanyahu had nothing for which to apologize other than for having missed the targeted Hamas leaders in Doha.  Indeed, it was not Israeli missiles which caused the death of the Qatari national, but  rather, it was the presence of the Hamas leadership in Doha which brought those missiles down upon Doha.  The masterminds of the October 7 slaughter should not be gifted protection from their planned acts of barbarism, and certainly not from the Israeli govt.  This is not just unseemly, as it is the most disgusting betrayal of the lives which were erased on that fateful day, and no ally would insist on such an act, nor could any benefit balance the shame of the Israeli premiere humbling himself before the Qatari masters.  In the Middle East, such weakness will earn no respect, but rather it portends the promise of even greater and more viscious tragedies in the future.

Coalition and opposition politicians slam Netanyahu for apologizing to ‘Israel’s enemy’

Israeli politicians reacted strongly to the news that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had personally apologized to Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed Al Thani for the attack in Doha earlier this month, which targeted Hamas leaders.

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September 30, 2025 | 2:41 pm | 3 Comments »

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🚨 OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT TRUMP 🚨  

Peloni:  Tony Blair is like the bad penny that just keeps on coming back, and this time, he is to play the role of coordinating the choice of leadership which should temporarily fill the shoes which will ultimately be worn by the insidious PA, err, insidious ‘reformed’ PA, whatever that might mean to Tony Blair and the board he will be sitting on…

Amy Mek | X | Sept 30 2025

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OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT TRUMP

BREAKING: You just announced a plan to create a “Board of Peace”, one that you would head, including none other than former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

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September 30, 2025 | 8:25 am | 3 Comments »

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INTO THE FRAY: Fabricating Genocide?  

By MARTIN SHERMAN

Netanyahu speaks before UN General Assembly September 26, 2025. Image via Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDGAKgSOqK4Netanyahu speaks before UN General Assembly September 26, 2025. Image via Youtube 

The truth has been turned on its head. Hamas, a genocidal terrorist organization whose charter calls for the murder of all Jews on the planet, this genocidal organization is given a pass.

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September 30, 2025 | 8:12 am | Comments »

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I know we are going to have sovereignty over Judea and Samaria  

Avi Abelow

Regardless of what happens with the Trump-Netanyahu meeting, I know we are going to win this war with total victory.

And I know we are going to have sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, and Gaza, and the tribal lands of Dan & Naftali in what is today known as Southern Lebanon, and in the tribal lands of Menashe in what is today known as Southern Syria.

How do I know this? Because I’m a realist.

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September 30, 2025 | 5:42 am | 1 Comment »

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Trump’s Twenty Point Plan  

Peloni:  Read these details carefully and note that there are many things left unaddressed and many issues which have been addressed but are problematic.  For example:

No mention of disbanding or barring UNRWA, while eagerly handing aid back to the UN to funnel into Gaza immediately.  Israel withdrawing from lands won in a defensive war, and no meaningful resettlement plan as the savages who took part on October 7 are awarded the right of return to Gaza even if they choose to first leave while awaiting their fiefdom to be rebuilt for them. Additionally, the massive spending project in Gaza will either cement the Gazans in place or draw them back after they leave, all while the ultimate goal is to place the strip under the guiding hand of a ‘reformed’ terrorist organization which has perverted peace towards slaughter since it renamed itself as the Palestinian Authority and became the American equity which America seems to simply refuse to cast aside, no matter how vile these reprobates demonstrate themselves to be.

This entire process can only be described as victory using the Alinsky manner of retooling language towards alternate meanings while obscuring reality from the masses.  Will Hamas save us from this by rejecting it?

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September 30, 2025 | 3:46 am | Comments »

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Mark Levin: Free Speech, Antisemitism, & Political Violence  

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Saturday Sept 27 show: Mark discusses the conflicting aspects of violence and free speech and how they are being manipulated and employed in the current political enviornment.  He continues on this topic as he talks with Brandon Tatum, a former Arizona Police Officer.  Tatum also discusses his recent visit to Jerusalem.  At the end of the show, Mark talks with Douglas Murray about the Trump’s important speech before the UNGA and the rise of rabid antisemitism in the US.

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September 29, 2025 | 6:20 pm | Comments »

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Abbas Is No “World Leader”  

By Moshe Phillips

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Mahmoud Abbas was elected to a single four-year term as chairman of the Palestinian Authority well over 20 years ago. Several journalists at ABC News, in their reports on Abbas’s speech (given via video to the UN General Assembly on September 25), referred to him as a “world leader” and otherwise skewed their coverage of the man who has been chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) since Yasser Arafat died in 2004.

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September 29, 2025 | 5:46 pm | Comments »

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Open Letter to Jeffrey D. Sachs On Gaza, Hamas  

By Oded J.K. Faran and Walter E. Block | September 12, 2025

Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs
University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development
Columbia University

Dear Professor Sachs:

We are grateful for the publication of your highly critical open letter to H.E. Gideon Sa’ar, Foreign Minister of Israel, in response to his speech at the United Nations Security Council on August 5, 2025. Your letter was succinct, passionate, and clearly heartfelt. However, we believe it to be profoundly mistaken. We now wish to share our reflections on your essay, just as you did with Minister Sa’ar’s speech.

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September 29, 2025 | 2:33 pm | 2 Comments »

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What Were Those 274 FBI Agents Doing at The Capitol on Jan. 6?  

Peloni:  It does seem to be impossible to grasp why the documentary evidence exposing the Jan 6 psyop as a psyop has still not been made public.

Likely framing Trump for “insurrection,” of course.

by | Sept 29, 2025

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It has been blazingly obvious that the Jan. 6 “insurrection,” which the left has used for over four years now to try to portray Trump as a dangerous would-be dictator and his supporters as violent fascists, was a set-up ever since the videos began circulating of police holding open the Capitol doors as the supposed “insurrectionists” strolled leisurely in. Now, however, it is even clearer that the whole Jan. 6 “insurrection” was an attempt to frame Trump for allegedly trying to overthrow the government, which, if it had worked, would have kept him from running for president again: it has now come to light that 274 undercover FBI agents were in the crowd on that day.

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September 29, 2025 | 2:00 pm | 2 Comments »

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Trump: ‘I’m not allowing Israel to annex the West Bank’  

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In the same manner that some in the MAGA camp have been arguing that Israel does not own America, America likewise does not own Israel. Israel is a sovereign nation which is doing what it needs to do in order to survive the jihad. It isn’t only about Hamas. It is about the entire jihad against the state of Israel. Both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are committed to Israel’s destruction, and both groups are quite active in Judea and Samaria (also known as the West Bank). Brigadier General Amir Avivi, founder and chairman of the Israel Defense And Security Forum, has warned that many released “murderous terrorists” who make their way to Judea and Samaria establish militias. Avivi has stated in February that once the “hostage deal” was over, “it will require significant military pressure on the terror infrastructure in both Judea and Samaria, as well as Gaza…I trust our soldiers to do whatever is needed to secure a decisive win.”

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September 29, 2025 | 1:47 pm | 6 Comments »

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