Elections 2026 24 hours before Israeli polls open: Eisenkot strives to become largest party, Netanyahu launches last-minute blitz  

PELONI:  This report covers an important telling of the last minute strategies between the parties, but I still challenge that the preference to ignore what I see as the likely more accurate polling as reported on Channel 14 will lead to the same post election surprises as was found to be remarkable by one and all in 2022, all but Channel 14 of course whose polling did establish that Bibi would win the election prior to the election.  Time will tell of course.

All Israel News Staff | Published: October 26, 2026

The day before Israel’s Tuesday elections, party campaigns went into overdrive in a last-ditch effort to persuade undecided voters and maximize turnout among their respective bases.

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October 26, 2026 | 4:28 pm | Comments »

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Carpenter ‘Good Guy With a Gun’ Stops School Shooting  

PELONI:  An armed public can prevent disasters from occurring, or prevent a serious disaster from becoming even more tragic.  Stay armed, stay trained, stay alert, and provide the security that your family and community need until the authorities are able to arrive.  In Jordan, a recent terror attack on a Christian funeral procession at a Greek Orthodox Church saw a delay of some 45 minutes for the authorities to arrive.  In that time one armed citizen could have provided a meaningful deterrence to the slaughter that ensued.  Recall the slaughter at Bondi Beach with this same reference in mind.  An armed public provides a serious deterrence to a successful terror attack, no matter the location or nation in which such terror attacks take place.  Of course, totalitarian govts fail to appreciate the strength inherent in allowing the public to be armed.

“I told myself this is probably the last thing that I’m ever going to do.”

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According to the gun control lobby, there’s no possible way an armed civilian can possibly stop a mass shooting. It’s best just to wait for the police who will then form a cordon and arrest any parents who try to save their children, and after having lunch, and checking the news on their phones, and making sure all the kids are dead, finally get off their asses, put on all their DHS grant SWAT gear and go in.

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October 26, 2026 | 4:26 pm | Comments »

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Hamas nearly canceled October 7 invasion – report  

Secret Hamas document reportedly raised the possibility of canceling the planned October 7 invasion months before October 7, 2023.

By World Israel News Staff | World Israel News | Oct 26, 2026

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A newly publicized Hamas document suggests that senior leaders of the terrorist organization discussed canceling their planned assault on Israel months before the October 7, 2023, massacre if Israel met certain conditions concerning the Al-Aqsa Mosque and jailed Palestinian terrorists.

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October 26, 2026 | 4:15 pm | Comments »

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Israel’s Next Election May Change Its Leader, But Will It Change How the World Sees Israel?  

PELONI:  Pay attention to the words of our detractors.  They care not what party or leader controls our state.  The very existence of the Jewish state, it will be treated as the Jew among the states with double standard and deligitimization based on nothing more relevcant than that Jew Hatred is at the root of all of it.

The demonization of Israeli leaders reveals a hostility not to Netanyahu, but to Israel’s existence.

By | Honest Reporting | October 26, 2026

Israelis will vote on Tuesday for a new Prime Minister for the first time since October 7th. The final polls show Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party ahead of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud, with neither able to reach a majority on its own.

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October 26, 2026 | 3:11 pm | 1 Comment »

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Pollard: If the world won’t disarm Hamas, Israel must annex Gaza  

PELONI:  Pollard reveals many important measures which exist at the core of making Israel a self reliant and independent nation, but the reality is that for these measures to be adopted it will come at a serious cost to Israel.  The sanctions war raised against Israel from Europe need only gain the tolerance of this would be significantly increased if America were to weigh in on such an economic war against Israel, something which was tested under the Biden administration.

So while Pollard’s recipe for independence is accurately described, he is missing the very element which would allow Israel to act with the impunity against the will of foreign nations, allies and enemies alike, and that element requires some out of the box thinking which Bibi only recently addressed with the call for creating a sanctions free economy, which we will no doubt come to hear more about in the coming months if Bibi is reelected in tomorrows election.

With no credible international commitment to forcibly disarm Hamas, Israel must annex Gaza rather than rely on temporary military control or unenforceable security guarantees.

By Jonathan Pollard | World Israel News | Oct 25, 2026

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The question of “the day after” in Gaza has moved from theoretical debate to unavoidable reality, forced by a stark admission from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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October 26, 2026 | 12:53 am | 2 Comments »

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Abdulrahman El-Sayed is no John F. Kennedy  

El-Sayed’s issues are manifold. The problem is not his faith; it’s his policy positions and record. 

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I had the privilege of seeing then US Senator John F. Kennedy ob”m, when he was successfully running to become the President of the United States, in 1960, on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, NY.

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October 25, 2026 | 11:44 pm | Comments »

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Genocide and The Asymmetry of Intent: Why Killing Efficiency and Ideology Expose the Real Genocidal Threat  

Harry Libeman

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Under the 1948 Genocide Convention, the ultimate legal threshold for the “crime of crimes” rests on a singular concept: intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a protected group. In modern discourse, critics often look strictly at the raw asymmetry of casualties in the Middle East to level accusations of genocide against Israel. Yet, an objective analysis of military capability, population demographics, and explicit founding doctrines reveals that a group’s ambitions—paired with the arithmetic of violence—tell a completely different story.

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October 25, 2026 | 9:22 pm | 1 Comment »

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Texas: Head of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America advocates for jihad, calls for stoning of adulterers  

By | October 23, 2026

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What did anyone expect? The answer to that is obvious: numerous non-Muslims, abjectly ignorant of the texts and teachings of Islam, think that Islam preaches peace and tolerance, because they’ve been taught that it’s “Islamophobic” to suggest otherwise. They will be shocked beyond measure when they discover that Salah Al-Sawy represents the broad Islamic mainstream, as they’ve been thoroughly indoctrinated to believe that the likes of him is only a “tiny minority of extremists.” It is not true, and was never true.

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October 25, 2026 | 8:43 pm | Comments »

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From Israel: The Issues as We Approach Countdown!  

PELONI:  As previously promised, Arlene Kushner returns to share her further insights on the election topics at stake in Tuesday’s coming election.

Arlene Kushner | October 25, 2026

PM Netanyahu casts vote on Nov. 1, 2022. Screengrab via Youtube.PM Netanyahu casts vote on Nov. 1, 2022. Screengrab via Youtube.

My intention here is to examine the primary issues in the election.

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October 25, 2026 | 8:23 pm | 2 Comments »

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US withdraws from Iraq, leaving it at Iran’s mercy  

PELONI:  I have made this point before.  America left Iraq based on a time table rather than based on Iraq being able to demonstrate its ability to prove itself competent to rule itself, which it has since demonstrated the opposite.  The consequence of this leaves the region less stable and American interests less secure, all to the advantage of America’s Iranian antagonists in the region and Iran’s masters in China.

Five years after the chaotic withdrawal from Kabul, US forces have completed their pullout from Iraq, leaving the country vulnerable to Iran-backed Shiite militias. Washington’s attempt to export democracy has failed, the Kurds have once again been abandoned, and Jerusalem fears a growing threat from the east. 

by  Prof. Eyal Zisser | October 25, 2026

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Exactly five years after American forces made their desperate escape from Afghanistan, leaving the country in the hands of the Taliban, Iraq’s turn came at the end of last month.

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October 25, 2026 | 8:15 pm | Comments »

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A Masterpiece of Bureaucratic Fiction The UN’s Accusation Against Israel  

By the UN’s logic, fighting back against an enemy sworn to your total annihilation is the real crime. The aggressor gets a sympathy card; the survivor gets a war crimes indictment.

Victor Satya | TOI Blogs | Oct 24, 2026

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Accusing a country of genocide used to require solid evidence and proof of intent. These days, apparently, a UN letterhead and a few hundred pages of legal jargon can get you there. Today, apparently, it requires nothing more than a United Nations letterhead, an army of self-righteous bureaucrats, an inexhaustible supply of legalistic window-dressing, and the comfortable certainty that the global press will enthusiastically mistake institutional prejudice for judicial gospel.

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October 25, 2026 | 7:39 pm | 1 Comment »

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Trump advisers see better chance to pursue Mideast agenda if Netanyahu loses  

PELONI:  As I noted yesterday, it would be more useful for Washington’s Peace Processor elites to have a more compliant Israeli leadership in Jerusalem.  Recall that this was true under Biden as Eisenkot acted to support Biden’s policy of “Don’t!” in opposition to Netanyahu’s determined resolve to seize Rafah, something which the Trump administration is still trying to reverse with its proposed 20 Point Plan re-envisioned as the 15 Point Road Map, which ignores the inevitability of Israel’s barest of security demands be sacrificed to support Washington’s diplomatic expediency.  While Trump’s endorsement of Netanyahu could not have been more forceful and complete, it is clear that those surrounding Trump have other interests in mind, and Vance literally gave voice to this fact upon what appeared to be a sincere, spontaneous and startling effort to contrast his sentiments with Trump’s endorsement.  While Trump remains the best friend Israel has ever had in the White House, he has surrounded himself with allies and confidants whose policy focus provides a high contrast with what would be in Israel’s interest, and whose comments have been highly critical of Israel.  Not least of these include Witkoff, Kushner, and most certainly Barrack, and of course Tucker Carlson’s friend, VP Vance, who stands one heartbeat, and potentially one election, away from the US presidency.

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October 25, 2026 | 2:18 pm | 8 Comments »

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Iraq believes Israel may have struck militia weapons supplied by Iran – report  

PELONI:  Focusing on limiting the capabilities of its adversaries and potenTial adveraries is Israel’s new policy.

The report concluded that the strikes suggest the start of a new round of conflict. This seems sensational because the alleged incident took place in mid-to-early October.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN |Oct 26, 2026

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Iraq believes that Israel was behind recent strikes on two sites where Iran-backed militias had stockpiled “Chinese-made shoulder-fired air defense systems” sourced from Tehran, sources told London-based Arabic international newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat on Saturday.

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October 25, 2026 | 12:51 pm | 1 Comment »

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Letters By Pablo Nankin:Barack Obama, Abdul El-Sayed, and Jewish Concerns  

PELONI:  The evil of Jew Hatred is rising across the globe, but nowhere is it more surprisingly growing than in the United States where Jews have historically experienced the equitable acceptance and support in what is commonly referred to as the Golden Age of Jewry in the Diaspora.  Notably, as is also often noted, the Jews represent the canary in the coalmine of society, presenting an early marker for societies in which judicial, legal and societal norms are failing.  Will the tide of Jew Hatred ultimately overwhelm America or will this come to be seen one of America’s great victories as it leads the West back to the practice of Judeo Christian values in the coming years?  Time will certainly tell, but as Pablo Nankin, MD, explains below in his current and past letters, elections have consequences.  Note also that the echoes of poor choices have a rippling effect across time, as we are continuing to see the challenging after effects of Obama having been elected nearly twenty years ago with the impossible support of far too many Jewish votes.

By Pablo Nankin, M.D.

The controversy surrounding Barack Obama’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, in 2008 raised serious questions about judgment and associations. Wright made inflammatory statements and praised Louis Farrakhan, whose antisemitic views are well documented. Obama later condemned Farrakhan’s antisemitism and distanced himself from Wright.

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October 25, 2026 | 12:20 pm | Comments »

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Israel’s Good News Newsletter to 25th Oct 26  

Michael Ordman | VGNI | Oct 25, 2026

In the 25th Oct 2026 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

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America’s Indispensable Ally: Israel  

PELONI:  The force multiplying leverage which Israel represents for America is evident in the attacks which have fomented against the alliance by America’s enemies as well as from the American Left and the faux Right podcasters.  America is stronger with the US-Israel alliance, but the narrative war against this alliance is raising an import inflection point.  Will the alliance endure the coordinated onslaught of those seeking to weaken America, or will the alliance prove to be resilient against the efforts to weaken America?  The answer to this question will be riddled out in the coming and future elections in America, but the basis for the alliance remains to be an “non-substitutable niche” as Ambassador Yoram Ettinger explains below.

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | October 24, 2026

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*In September 2026, Israel’s intelligence provided a real-time warning, which foiled an Iranian-engineered terrorist plot against England’s Fairford Royal Air Force base, that serves as a forward-operating base for US heavy bombers and combat aircraft. The Israeli tip-off led to the arrest of the terrorists before they could inflict severe casualties and target US aircraft.

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Huckabee questions Board of Peace’s ability to implement Gaza plan  

PELONI:  The Gaza plan is not implementable without Israeli surrender to Hamas, and such a conclusion to the October 7 Massacre is not only unthinkable, but it would simultaneously represent coming destruction of Israel.

Huckabee warned that replacing military personnel with civilians could create difficulties in direct coordination with the Israeli military.

By Vered Weiss | World Israel News | Oct 23, 2026

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee raised concerns about whether the Board of Peace has the personnel and resources needed to implement key elements of the Gaza peace plan, including efforts to disarm Hamas and rebuild the Gaza Strip, according to a diplomatic cable reported by Politico.

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October 25, 2026 | 5:41 am | Comments »

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