AG Baharav-Miara opposes gov’t’s plans to establish ‘political’ commission of inquiry into Oct 7 failures  

Peloni:  The question arises as to whom the Israeli public are more comfortable with conducting an investigation of the October 7 failures:  the bureaucrats over whom the public have no control or leverage, or the politicians who are chosen by the public.  Implications and interests abound among each, but only the politicians will pay a direct price if they are perceived to be obfuscating rather then revealing what took place.  Additionally, the politicians alone were chosen by the public in the first place.

Coalition accuses A-G of politically-motivated opposition to the bill

Baharav-Miara in swearing-in ceremony of Judge Yitzchak Amit as President of the Supreme Court of Israel. Photo bBy Maayan Toaf - Spokesperson unit of the President of Israel - -SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=162561904Baharav-Miara in swearing-in ceremony of Judge Yitzchak Amit as President of the Supreme Court of Israel. Photo by Maayan Toaf – Spokesperson unit of the President of Israel – -SA 3.0, Wikipedia

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara once again expressed her opposition to the government’s plans on Sunday, this time, excoriating the coalition for bills aiming to establish a commission of inquiry into the failings leading to the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas massacre, and to close down Army Radio.

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December 22, 2025 | 4:11 pm | 5 Comments »

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Iran Missile Threat Demands Offensive Strategy  

Peloni:  It is important to recognize that with elections coming, both in the US and in Israel, that there are two divergent perspectives which will need to be managed.  In the US, Trump is trying to sell the story that there is peace in the Middle East, that the threat from Iran has been neutralized and that Hamas and Hezbollah can be negotiated into disarming.  Of course, none of this is true.  Meanwhile in Israel, Bibi has to assure the country that the strategies of old, mowing the grass and supporting terror enclaves, is at a thing of the past.  The mutually exclusive nature of the political needs of these two leaders will become more difficult to bridge as the Fall of 2026 approaches, making it fairly clear that any action which is not taken in the very near future will be delayed til at least this time next year.

Former Navy Commander Warns That Waiting Behind the Border Is No Longer an Option for Israel.

Israfan | Dec 22, 2025

The threat from Iran is not just theoretical it’s immediate, dangerous, and growing. That was the blunt warning from retired Vice Admiral Eliezer “Chayni” Marom, former commander of the Israel Navy, during a recent radio interview. His message to Israel’s defense establishment was clear: the country must adopt a new security doctrine that emphasizes preemptive strikes and robust active defense, or risk devastating consequences.

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December 22, 2025 | 3:41 pm | 1 Comment »

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Some Thoughts About The Emerging Alliance of Greece, Cyprus, and Israel in Response to the Increasing Threat of Hamas and ISIS-supporting Islamist Turkey…  

by Gerald A. Honigman

An alliance which has been taking shape for many years now seems to be ready to emerge unabashedly on the world stage…

“Israel, Greece, Cyprus to hold summit”

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And here’s some of the reasons why this development is so important…

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December 22, 2025 | 9:52 am | 1 Comment »

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IDF to arm 10,000 reservists in major shift following Oct 7 attack  

Peloni:  This is very very good news.  It was an ignorant policy denying security forces ready access to arms by which to defend themselves and the community.  I look forward with baited anticipation to see this number grow from 10,000 to more than ten times this number.   A well armed, well trained, well disciplined public is how the public can act to protect themselves, their loved ones, their community and the nation.

Israeli reserve soldiers practice at the shooting range. (Photo: IDF) Israeli reserve soldiers practice at the shooting range. (Photo: IDF)

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will arm 10,000 reservist soldiers with long rifles, a policy shift driven by lessons learned from the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, surprise attack on southern Israeli communities near the Gaza border. Several areas were left without protection for hours, and in some cases, local emergency squads lacked access to weapons.

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December 22, 2025 | 9:22 am | 2 Comments »

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Netanyahu Must Go? Accountability Without Scapegoating: The Netanyahu Question  

By Oded Faran and Walter E. Block

Netanyahu speaks before UN General Assembly. Image via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDGAKgSOqK4Netanyahu speaks before UN General Assembly. Image via Wikipedia

In an April 2024 New York Times column, Bret Stephens articulated what many consider the correct approach to Israel’s existential war:

“Israel must destroy Hamas as a military and political force in the territory while minimizing harm to civilians… It must, by diplomacy or force, push Hezbollah back from Lebanon’s southern border, so that 60,000 Israelis can return safely to their homes in the north. It must take the battle directly… to Hamas’s and Hezbollah’s patrons, whether in Syria, Qatar or Iran.”

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December 21, 2025 | 11:36 pm | 5 Comments »

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Israel, Greece, and Cyprus Will Collaborate on a Rapid-Response Force  

Peloni: Herein lies the consequences of the failed US Turkey policy which has come to embolden an already too emboldened Erdogan as he looks to fulfill his nation’s long held hopes of rebuilding the long lost empire of the Ottomans.

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Flags of Israel, Greece and Cyprus. Image via AIFlags of Israel, Greece and Cyprus. Image via AI

Israel, Greece, and Cyprus share a common enemy, Turkey, that has been projecting its power in the eastern Mediterranean by establishing military outposts in Syria. Turkey has also made large claims about the extent of its own territorial waters, no doubt hoping there is oil and gas under them.

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‘The Victims Are Sold in Catalogs Like Property’: The Persecution of Christians, October 2025  

Peloni:  The silence surrounding the butchery of Christians described in this latest report on the plight of Christians in Africa continues to evade the world’s interest, just as it should be monopolized over the continued fake news being promoted to demonize Israel.

by Raymond Ibrahim  •  Gatestone Institute  •  December 21, 2025

  • The assaults resulted in the beheading of 30 Christians, widespread arson, and the destruction of at least five churches and 100 homes. Many other Christians — including women and their daughters — were herded away. — Daily Express, Ocotber 8 2025, Mozambique.
  • [S]ince Boko Haram’s terrorist insurgency began in 2009, jihadist groups have torched and destroyed 19,100 churches, averaging nearly 100 each month. In that time, 125,009 Christians were slaughtered, as well as “60,000 Liberal Muslims… unless urgent action is taken, within the next 50 years Christianity in Nigeria is set to disappear.” — International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, August 10, 2o25, Nigeria.

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December 21, 2025 | 11:12 pm | 1 Comment »

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Our love is greater than their hate  

Diane Bederman

By Anatoly Demanov - Own work- Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89250313By Anatoly Demanov – Own work- Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

Our love is greater than their hate.

That is the sign I received after Oct 7-from a Jewish organization.

This was their response to the barbaric attack by civilian Muslims on Jews who had provided work and healthcare to them in the name of peace and love.

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December 21, 2025 | 4:59 pm | 1 Comment »

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DNI Gabbard warns of Islamization ongoing in US  

Peloni: This marks the first indication of the Trump administration’s intention to deal with the rising threat of Islamization in the US.  It is well overdue after months of calls for action to be taken regarding such Islamization campaigns taking place in TX, FL, MI and elsewhere in the US, not to mention the election of the Islamist allied mayor of NYC.  It will be interesting to see how Trump deals with the moral and practical conflicts which exist in any attempt to create carveouts for the Islamists ideology in Qatar and Turkey will  any calls to deal the rising threat of Islamization in the US today.  The two policies are mutually exclusive and directly relatable.

More specific to Gabbard herself, it is important to watch her speech here and recall that she has been almost uniquely wrong on the issue of Islamists going back to her opposition of blocking the JCPOA, her advocacy of the Islamist project of the creating a second Muslim Palestinian state, and her co-sponsoring a bill which legitimized the anti-Israel BDS campaign.  While she is today the head of the US intelligence services, at the time of her gross incompetence listed above, which was a very abbreviated list of her misguided preference for Islamist causes, she held security clearances which should have informed her well enough then to be stating what she is saying today.

December 21, 2025 | 4:54 pm | 6 Comments »

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Canada: Three Muslims charged for hunting women and Jews on Toronto streets as part of Islamic State jihad plot  

Peloni:  The barbarians are inside the gate.

By | Dec 21, 2025

It was not, as National Post describes it, a “hate” plot. The primary motivation wasn’t hate. The primary motivation was seeking to please Allah and gain pleasure in the process, through the sexual use of infidel women that Allah calls for in the Qur’an (see 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, and 70:30). The National Post is simply continuing the intense willful ignorance of the Western political and media establishment regarding the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat.

“Three men accused of hunting women and Jews on Toronto streets as part of hate plot,” by Adrian Humphreys, National Post, December 19, 2025:

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December 21, 2025 | 2:51 pm | 5 Comments »

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The Bondi massacre is a reminder to the Jewish people and to the world  

Even in Australia, the government expelled Iran’s ambassador last August, arguing that Tehran was behind the wave of antisemitism that has swept the country.

by  Prof. Eyal Zisser | Dec 21, 2025

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The massacre of Jewish revelers who gathered to celebrate Hanukkah in Bondi beach in Sydney, Australia, is yet another link in a long chain of attacks against Jews driven by hatred of Israel, hatred of the Jewish people and, in its updated and more sophisticated form, hatred of the State of Israel, the nation-state of the Jewish people.

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December 21, 2025 | 2:45 pm | 1 Comment »

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WAR UPDATE. REALITY CHECK  

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Forces of the 401st Special Operations Command and the Givati ??Brigade, as part of the operation, achieved operational control of the Rafah Crossing on the Gaza side, east of Rafah, May 2024. Photo by IDF Spokesperson's Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=148132891Forces of the 401st Special Operations Command and the Givati ??Brigade, as part of the operation, achieved operational control of the Rafah Crossing on the Gaza side, east of Rafah, May 2024. Photo by IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia

Let’s be clear: we are still at war, attacking terrorists almost every day in Gaza and Lebanon.

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December 21, 2025 | 8:58 am | 6 Comments »

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Beyond the U.S.-Israel MOU: The Case for a Strategic Partnership Agreement  

Peloni:  The US-Israeli partnership has been an important asset to both nations over the years, culminating in the seamless joint attack on Iran this year.  Importantly, however, there are reasons why this relationship has taken on a nature which distinguishes a lack of equal respect by the US for Israel, upon whom it has used Israel’s partnership and dependency with the US to manipulate the Jewish state against its own interests.   The below proposal makes mention of the potential of including Israel in a similar arrangement with Riyadh.  There is a problem here, and that problem is that the more integrated or integral Israel becomes to the US, the less freedom of action she can have in determining and pursuing her own national interests.  The complications would be even more difficult in such a marshal relationship with a nation such as Saudi Arabia whose national interest rides on Israel agreeing to the creation of an existential threat in the form of a second Palestinian state.  As I have noted before, many things with SA become easier if Riyadh would accept that the second Palestinian state would be understood to in fact be the original Muslim Palestinian state of Jordan.  This however would not erase the dilemma of Israel’s dependency on either the US or SA, something which recent and past events have demonstrated a need for Israel to extricate herself from being manipulated against her own interests.

Bradley Bowman | Dec 19, 2025

27th Adir F35 arrival at Nevatim, August 2020. Photo by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem - DSC_0863SM, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9419461427th Adir F35 arrival at Nevatim, August 2020. Photo by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem – DSC_0863SM, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia

In one’s personal life and in the life of a nation, it is good to have friends. It is even better to have capable and motivated friends, especially when one confronts increasingly formidable enemies who cooperate with one another. The Trump administration may publish its new National Defense Strategy soon, and its lines of effort will include “increasing burden-sharing with U.S. allies” and “supercharging the U.S. defense industrial base,” according to a December 6 speech by Secretary Pete Hegseth previewing the strategy.

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December 20, 2025 | 7:34 pm | 1 Comment »

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Operation Narnia – Israel’s secret plan to eliminate Iran’s nuclear weapons program  

Peloni:  Some believe that Netanyahu’s trip to Washinton represents a redo on Operation Narnia.  The problem with this premise is that Trump has already certified that the nuclear threat from Iranian has been neutralized and that he has achieved peace in the Middle East, and most importantly, he is taking responsibility for the midterm elections.  So take this into consideration when considering that we are potentially on the road to Narnia a second time.

Reports of a rift between PM Netanyahu and President Trump mask preparations for Israeli campaign

President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence participate in an expanded bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, in the Oval Office of the White House. (By The White House from Washington, DC - President Trump Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86370136) President Donald J. Trump meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, in the Oval Office of the White House. (By The White House from Washington, DC – President Trump Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Public Domain, Wikipedia)

A Washington Post report stated that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump began planning their joint strikes on Iranian nuclear sites during Netanyahu’s February visit to the White House.

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December 20, 2025 | 6:41 pm | 2 Comments »

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Tucker Carlson: “Attacking Millions of Americans Because They’re Muslims, It’s Disgusting.”  

Peloni:  This is an important article.  The distinction being made here is based on the issue of the inclusivity in the West of an ideology which advocates for the colonization and conquest of the West.   Please note that the argument which Tucker Carlson is making on behalf of Islamists is the same argument made by his fellow Leftists, while the argument being made by Daniel Greenfield (and Charlie Kirk) is the same argument made by Carlson less than a decade ago.

Charlie Kirk: “Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.”

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By Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America - Tucker Carlson & Charlie Kirk, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75599597 Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Tucker Carlson & Charlie Kirk, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

Charlie Kirk was a brave warrior who was never afraid to challenge the Muslim persecution of Christians. One of his tweets that outraged leftists was that, “Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.”

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December 20, 2025 | 4:12 pm | 5 Comments »

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