Peloni:  Bibi must hold to declaring sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.  He should do this both because of the Europeans declaration of a Palestinian state and in spite of it.  He should do so because of Trump’s longstanding support of Israel and in spite of his declaration that it will not happen.  He should do so because it needed to have been done decades ago and in spite of the fact that it was not done before October 7.  Sovereignty is a measure of a nation’s independence, and if Israel is not both free and capable of making such a basic choice on its own, it becomes no more than a Galut state of Jews.  With respect, and with determination, Israel must make its stand on this point and not surrender.  No matter the cost, Israel will survive doing so, whereas capitulation to Trump, regional threats, and European connivances, will spell its certain destruction.

Trump says he wants Gaza War ‘over with’, expresses optimism that deal can be reached

All Israel News Staff | Published: September 26, 2025

Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

Amid speculations over Israel’s possible response to a wave of “Palestine” recognitions, U.S. President Donald Trump declared Thursday that he wouldn’t allow Israel to annex Judea and Samaria, internationally known as the West Bank.

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By Hugh Fitzgerald | Sept 25, 2025

UNRWA school, southern end of Derekh Ha’ophel,Jerusalem.  Photo By rusticus80 –Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

UNRWA staff in Gazan schools, both teachers and principals, include thousands of active members of Hamas. Hamas terrorists hide themselves and their weapons in UNRWA schools without any complaint from UNRWA itself. UNRWA teachers turn classes, no matter what the subject, into occasions for brainwashing students to hate the Jews and to encourage them to pledge themselves to commit violence against the hated Israelis. More on UNRWA and Hamas, joined at the hip, can. be found in the new report by the watchdog group UN Watch here: “UNRWA ignored Hamas ties in schools, fostering terrorism – UN Watch report,” by Mathilda Heller, Jerusalem Post, September 22, 2025:

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Peloni:  May their memories be a blessing, and may their example inspire such leadership into the future.

By Moshe Phillips

Aron Bielski.  Photo by Bielski Family – ushmm.org, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Aron Bielski passed away just before Rosh Hashanah. With his death, the last of the heroic Bielski brothers — who led the partisans, rescued Jews, and fought the Nazis — is gone. He was 98 when he died.

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In a sharp rebuke, Netanyahu accuses Tucker Carlson of defending hostile forces and distorting history.

Israfan | Sept 25, 2025

Tucker Carlson speaking with attendees at the 2021 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.  Photo by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Tucker Carlson, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia\

A firestorm erupted this week when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forcefully rejected claims made by former U.S. commentator Tucker Carlson that Israel “controls the United States.”

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Avi Abelow

Today Jews around the world are commemorating the Fast of Gedaliah, a day that commemorates the tragic assassination of a Jewish leader and the collapse of Jewish sovereignty following the destruction of the First Temple. While we fast to remember, we must also open our eyes to the powerful contrast unfolding today in our ancestral homeland.

Yes, the world is once again aligning against us. More and more Western countries are recognizing a so-called “State of Palestine,” literally rewarding genocidal terror without even demanding the release of our hostages. Not a word. Not a condition. Just blind support for genocidal murderers. This isn’t diplomacy, it’s the global normalization of Jew-hatred, dressed in suits and resolutions.

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Peloni:  The problem arises from the fact that Netanyahu has consistently and repeatedly asserted his disinterest in governing Gaza.  If reports are to be believed, which is still in question in some minds, Netanyahu’s opposition to this fact was reaffirmed to Trump when the Blair/Kushner efforts first began.  Since Israel will not govern Gaza, it requires some offshoring of this awesome responsibility, and the simple truth is that there is no other power or group who should be trusted with safeguarding Israel’s interest in the Strip, not even the Abraham Accord partners who have defied Israel’s right to have entered this war in the first place.  While these partners have an interest in quelling the radicals in their own backyard, doing so effectively in Israel’s backyard will only protect Israel, while complicating matters for any Sunni member state of the AA.  If Israel is to survive into perpetuity, it requires that Israel secure the strip herself, and not allow any third party, and certainly not the corrupt, terror complicit PA, take control over Gaza.  The costs of assuming this responsibility should reasonably be understood to not be immaterial, but these costs will ultimately give Israel the security and assurance of what will come to be in the Gaza Strip.  Failing to do the heavy lifting involved in governing Gaza will sooner or later come to shoot Israel in the proverbial foot, once again.  So it is back to mowing the grass, or doing what is needed to remove the roots.  Everything else is simply charades.

Paul Schnee | Sept 25, 2025

This plan guarantees the continuation of the conflict in the not-too-distant future. It is not a peace plan. It is merely an armistice that allows Hamas to survive and its monstrous leadership to go unpunished nor does it impose any cost upon Egypt, a country that receives $1.5 billion in economic aid from the United States every year, for supplying Hamas with weapons through the sophisticated tunnels discovered by the IDF at Rafah. The plan demonstrates that terrorism works.

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | September 25, 2025

Firing Iranian Qadr Missile from a truck launcher in Velayat-90 Naval Exercise.By Mohammad Sadegh Heydari – http://www.ypa.ir/media/k2/galleries/360/08.jpg, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

*As far as Iran’s Ayatollah regime is concerned – notwithstanding US statements, and independent of Israel’s existence – the war against “the infidel” West, “The Great American Satan” and the “apostate” Sunnis is not over!

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Peloni

In a recent IMPACT-se report, following the review of 294 Jordanian text books, Jordan has been seen to once again have fallen well short of UNESCO’s standards of peace and tolerance in education.  This comes following reforms in the Jordanian education system which oversaw the replacement and revisions of existing texts due to their content.  Notably this most recent report includes evidence of deterioration despite the reported reforms.  Here are just some of the findings described in the INPACT-se report:

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