By Hugh Fitzgerald | Sept 19, 2025

PM Starmer welcomes Emir al Thani.  Screengrab via Youtube [Cropped]

Jonathan Speyer discusses meretricious Qatar, the chief supporter of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, that pretends to be a good-faith mediator between the terror group and Israel, here: “Playing arsonist and firefighter: How the West is falling for Qatar’s deadly game,” by Jonathan Spyer, The Jewish Chronicle, September 16, 2025:

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Peloni:  As Israel is faced with more than two-thirds of European states recognizing the fictitious second Arab Palestinian state, all while ignoring the fact that Jordan is the indisputable Arab Palestinian state, rocket factories are being constructed in Judea and Samaria.  Our enemies have no conscience, no legitimacy, and no honor.  They would pillory the victims of October 7 to satisfy an enemy contingent which they have imported into their own communities, and that contingent is conducting a quiet Jihad of Europe as they will continue into the US, already with bridgeheads being constructed around America.  Jihad is not compatible with Western society, and in fact, while a kinetic war is being brought against Israel, Israel at least has demonstrated the wherewithal to replace complacency with confrontation.  National identity is an important concept to misplace, and while Europe represents an important contingent of the Western world, their leadership has chosen to remain quiescent as their identity is coopted by this quiet Jihad, and the move to embrace a second Arab Palestinian state is simply the personification of this lost identity, leaving only the European public to demonstrate the pluck and perseverance which is needed to ward off the malfeasance and devastation facing them today.  Israel will survive this war, if only because they are fighting it, but Europe has already chosen to be defeated as they refuse to do the same and are instead supporting those who will one day be their conquerors.

FM Sa’ar warns: ‘Without security control over Judea & Samaria, state will be in danger’

All Israel News Staff | Published: September 19, 2025

Rockets and weapons seized from a Palestinian terror cell during a raid in Samaria, Sept. 19, 2025. (Photo: IDF)

In a highly concerning development for Israel’s security, Israel Defense Forces announced on Friday that it had arrested a terror cell in Samaria that attempted to launch a rocket at Israel and had manufactured dozens more, including two that were ready for immediate use.

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By Seth Frantzman | September 18, 2025

Soldiers with the IDF’s 98th Division complete training exercises in preparation for the start of the operation in Gaza City. (IDF)

Elements of three Israel Defense Forces (IDF) divisions began to expand operations into Gaza City on September 16, the Israeli military said. The ground offensive is part of Gideon’s Chariots II, the operational name of the assault on Gaza City.

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Peloni:  This is a very good synopsis of many facts and factors which led to the creation of the “Palestine” narrative.  (2min video)

Only when our leaders, political, military and rabbinic, name the enemy honestly can Israel chart a path to victory.

Avi Abelow | Sept 15, 2025

Screengrab of scene in Jerusalem of deadliest terror attack since October 7 via Youtube 

Last week, Israel experienced its deadliest terror attack since Oct. 7, 2023. Six Jewish lives were stolen in cold blood, this time by two terrorists from near Ramallah, just a stone’s throw from the internationally acclaimed Cramim Hotel and Israel’s Channel 12 news studio in Neve Ilan.

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Peloni:  The importance of being able to provide a high tech defensive layer at low costs can not be overstated.  Relevantly, this battlefield advantage will be one which Israel’s enemies and erstwhile allies will all be looking to both overcome and acquire.

Peloni:  Fascinating!

By Victor Sharpe

A hareidi man blowing a Shofar. Photo by Lilach Daniel – Flickr: [1], CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia

Here are two words that sound similar to the human ear but whose meanings are a universe apart.

Tekiah is the Hebrew word uttered in the synagogue to usher in the sound of the shofar – the ram’s horn – during the Jewish festival of Rosh Hashanah: the Jewish New Year.

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Peloni:  Mati Shashani provides a more positive perspective regarding the position of the US vis a vis Qatar as displayed in the days following the Israeli strike on the Hamas leadership in Qatar.  Whereas Mati prefers to interpret Rubio’s actions as evidence that Qatar is not an ally, and only a mediator, Rubio’s boss, Pres. Trump described Qatar plainly as not only an ally, but a “great ally”, one which doesn’t receive enough credit for its actions which he suggests they do a better job of portraying to the world.  The irony in this is so great that it strikes of satire, in which the Qatari govt’s massive influence peddling and Al Jazeera media empire are not doing enough to convince the world that this world wide terror supporting regime should be seen to be an American ally rather than as an agent injecting Muslim Brotherhood theology into the heart of the West so as to destroy it from within.  The distinction between the appropriateness of the US alliance with Qatar and Qatar’s anti-American activities is both glaring and costly in more ways than can reasonably be quantified…which is why America’s romance with Qatar should be ended.  As Daniel Greenfield recently, and accurately, penned, “[America] should not be in Qatar. And Qatar should not be in America.”

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | September 18, 2025

Shofar in Rosh Hashanah.  Photo by MinoZig – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

Based on ancient Jewish Sages
More on Jewish holidays: Smashwords, Amazon

The evening of September 22, 2025 will launch the Jewish New Year of 5786, underscoring family bonding, human fallibility, and the continuous evolution of one’s character and the benefits of renewal, judgment and reflection through:

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Peloni:  The time it has taken to deport Khalil demonstrates the state of open siege which the US is facing from within its very borders by its very political/judicial structures which were erected to prevent such outrages as have been evidenced in this battle to deport Khalil.

By Pamela Geller – on September 18, 2025

An immigration judge has just ordered Mahmoud Khalil, who led the vicious antisemitic riots at Columbia University, be deported to Syria or Algeria. Mahmoud Khalil is a Syrian national who was part of a group that assaulted police officers, assaulted a Barnard staffer, and violently took over the library.

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Peloni:  The world lost an inspirational leader, a gallant defender of freedom, and a voice of conviction.

From a new vantage point in Jerusalem, he wrote about the dangers facing Israel and the antisemitism of its enemies.

Moshe Phillips | Sept 15, 2025

Dr. Henry Abramson with Rabbi Berel Wein, at an event from 2016. Photo by Henry Abramson – henryabramson.com, Dr. Abramson gave permission to use on Wikipedia in a comment responding to @sirfluffythegreat420 from this video: Youtube. He states: “Please feel free to upload this one from 2016”, Copyrighted free use, Wikipedia

“The more I read and study Jewish history, the clearer it becomes that there is an Author and Planner, Who guides [the People of] Israel to its destiny.”

— Rabbi Berel Wein (October 1990)

Rabbi Berel Wein, a Chicago-born pulpit rabbi and rosh yeshivah, gained widespread recognition within the American Orthodox community for his landmark 1990 history, Triumph of Survival: The Story of the Jews in the Modern Era 1650-1990. He passed away, at the age of 91, on Aug. 16 in Jerusalem, the city he held so close to his heart.

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