Peloni: Dr. Mike Doran of the Hudson Institute, Brig. Gen. (ret) Yossi Kupperwasser of JISS and Dr. Nir Boms of Tel Aviv University discuss the constraints and choices regarding the war in Yemen as well as the war in Gaza.
UN Resolution 242 does not expressly reference any “right of return” at all, let alone an absolute one. Indeed, 242 did not even mention so-called “Palestinians” or use the term “West Bank”
It is hard to fathom France’s irresponsible behavior. Besides the proposal for illegal unilateral recognition of a so-called “Palestinian state” (as detailed in, Munich Betrayal 2.0-Perfidious appeasement will fail yet again), Yigal Carmon of Memri posted on X that the document France submitted for the UN General Assembly in September, which was published by the French Foreign Ministry on July 29, 2025, expressly provides, in paragraph 39, for an “affirmation of the right of return”.
Ofer Bronstein, Special Envoy of the President of France, responded to Carmon’s post on X and stated that it was an error, which France would be correcting, by providing instead that “The parties will negotiate among themselves on a solution to the refugee issue”. He also thanked Carmon for his understanding and his justified concern. Carmon thanked Bronstein in a reply post on X and asked to be sent the new version in the official government publication when it comes out.
Arlene Kushner | August 26, 2025
Israel is coping within an unstable situation. (Ask me what else is new.) It is hardly surprising then that plans and policies shift.
The Security Cabinet had approved a major operation in Gaza City, which has just begun. Some 60,000 reserve soldiers have been called up for this operation and are scheduled to report for duty beginning on September 2. Already, there were reports two days ago that Israeli tanks had advanced into the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City.
Peloni: Mordechai Kedar discusses the state of his emirates plan while lamenting that the Israeli govt has been too busy over the past 50 days while dealing with Gaza, Syria, Netanyahu’s trials, etc to change the official Israeli policy regarding Hebron at the time of the recording. Interestingly, since this recording was released, Min. Barkat, who has been working most closely with the emirates plan, announced the following:
Israel intends to break up the Palestinian Authority, extend sovereignty across Judea and Samaria, and pursue an “Emirates-style” framework for Palestinian cities.
Andrew Benjamin | Aug 26, 2025
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ON PATRIOTISM:
“Human beings, in their settled condition, are animated by oikophilia: the love of the oikos, which means not only the home but the people contained in it, and the surrounding settlements that endow that home with lasting contours and an enduring smile.”
? Roger Scruton, How to Be a Conservative
I REPEAT: “Love of the people contained in it!”
This sentiment separates a conservative from the “tolerant” left that hate the land, its founding, its culture, language, religions, currency, literature, art, history and legacy, and its people! The left hates you, hates period. Hate is their nature.
by Gerald A. Honigman
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Peloni: Here lies the statement which should have been put forward when Israel declared the decades long deadlock on expanding the E1 settlement plan. Indeed, Israel’s rights to its ancestral lands is based on religious, historic and ancestral ties to the land, all of which may be seen to be deeply personal and terribly powerful arguments among us Jews, but the only argument which should be expected to gain support from the world at large is the basis upon which the world came to endorse the reconstitution of our ancient state on the lands of our ancestors, as deeded in international law and described here in this article. Indeed, the extension of the E1 settlement plan was not simply a pragmatic move to block the insidious Two State Solution, although, if this were the only basis to doing so it would have been an important step to take, but instead, it was an act which was entirely consistent with the acknowledgement of our rights to our lands as agreed upon in international law.
| All Israel News | August 25, 2025
Panoramic view of Ma’ale Adumim – in the background, Mount Scopus. By Ron Almog from Herzliya , Israel – Ma’ale Adumim, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia
The recent announcement by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to advance the long-stalled E1 settlement plan has, predictably, drawn criticism from various corners of the international community. Yet, lost in the reflexive condemnations is a sober assessment of the solid legal foundations underpinning Israel’s sovereignty over the heartland of its ancient homeland—Judea and Samaria. The strategic E1 corridor, connecting Jerusalem to Ma’ale Adumim, is more than a geopolitical flashpoint; it is a test case for the world’s willingness to acknowledge the established principles of international law that affirm Israel’s rightful claim to this land.
Peloni: The humanitarian situation in Gaza only exists because of Egypt. Indeed, not only is Egypt responsible for blocking Gazans from seeking refuge in Egypt and elsewhere, Egypt is responsible for facilitating the massive arms transfers to Gaza which actually made the October 7 slaughter, and the war which followed, possible. Furthermore, Egypt maintains that not only should the Gazans wanting to leave Gaza be denied the right to do so during this war, but they should be permanently enslaved to remain tied to the land of Gaza as if they were serfs of the Middle Ages. This mendacity masked as support for the Gazans, is in fact motivated by a determination to keep the Gazans trapped in their current situation where they might continued to be weaponized against Israel in the hopes that their enforced tragedy will continue to result in more dead Jews, which is of course both an accurate and intentional consequence of enforcing the permanently indentured status of the Gazans to the land of Gaza.
Egypt remains absent from any serious discussion of solutions on any humanitarian issues seen in the Gaza Strip.
John Spencer | Aug 25, 2025
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Last week the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification system declared famine conditions in parts of northern Gaza. The declaration altered normal IPC standards by relying on projections rather than verified evidence such as daily death counts from malnutrition or updated reporting on hunger mortality.
Mike Benz | X
Not letting up on this. The State Dept has the chance to do something world historic, making USAID Files publicly available the same way ODNI is doing with the JFK Files and Russiagate Files. We need this immediately, and there has to be a sense of urgency.
Not letting up on this. The State Dept has the chance to do something world historic, making USAID Files publicly available the same way ODNI is doing with the JFK Files and Russiagate Files. We need this immediately, and there has to be a sense of urgency. pic.twitter.com/0GpQNU62L9
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) August 24, 2025
Victor Sharpe
Hamas member and former Gaza minister Fathi Hamad. Screengrab via Youtube [Cropped]
Straight from one of their own top leaders, Fathi Hammad — a Senior Hamas official — who proudly boasted:
– “We have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly. We desire death like you desire life.”
Peloni: An explosive interview. Many important topics are covered in this interview, including recognition of the Armenian genocide, Trump being able to have stopped Oct. 7 attack if he were in the White house, Israel’s lack of control over the US, and Israel’s need to control her own destiny, and much more.
Peloni: This war was not brought by Israel, but brough upon her, and this was accomplished in a manner so vile and barbarous that only the most ill-guided or intrinsically evil could even pretend to defend it. It demonstrated the fact that Israel can no longer afford to be saddled with existential threats mounting on her borders or within them. And so, war has been made to save the Jewish State from becoming the ground upon which another Holocaust might be perpetrated. There is no guilt to be argued in doing so, and there can be no shame in this pursuit. While the loss of innocents is always a tragedy, that tragedy is neither the product of Israeli actions or Israeli intentions, even presuming that the presumed innocents are actually as presumed. Both the battle and the battlefield have been constructed by Israel’s enemies, and this fact is the context which is being ignored, by one and all in this moment.
By Sha’i ben-Tekoa
On Monday, the IDF targeted rabid, undomesticated jackasses in human form sheltering among non-combatants inside a hospital built to serve the maniacs of October 7 as a base, as even from inside the building they tried to kill uniformed Jews who never intentionally kill unarmed enemy people.
There are more hospitals per capita in Gaza than in Israel, which is almost four times greater in population, a population famous for world-class medical care. And the reason for this is simple. The Muslim Brothers who hide behind the veil of Hamas built these hospitals as bases for themselves in the correct belief that Jews do not attack hospitals. First, they are terror bases, and only secondarily function as hospitals.
by Nils A. Haug • Gatestone Institute • August 26, 2025
“The hate of the Jews is the most ancient and continuous hate in human history, and you can dress it up any way you want…. It is basically exactly what it has always been — the Jewish people brought morality to the world thousands of years ago and some people are still mad about it.” — Safra Catz, CEO of the US technology giant Oracle. Pictured: Safra Catz, OPN Central, Oracle Partner Network Keynote, Marriott Marquis (By Oracle PR/Hartmann Studios – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia)
by Rafael Medoff
Many Palestinian Arab children attend summer camps, too. But their experiences are rather different.
Peloni: This was always the truth. All who deny this are either willfully complicit or woefully ignorant. Either way, they are aligned against us.
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Diane Weber Bederman | Aug 25, 2025
Here we are, a few decades of “mea culpa” following the Holocaust-oh, this will never happen again – oops-it is. It isn’t the Nazis or the white supremacists this time, although they are participating: Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson – it’s the Muslims. And unlike Germany with 40 million people, there are 2 billion Muslims. How the world cheers them on, including leaders from the West – Canada, France, Great Britain, Australia. The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has celebrated the Western countries for their decisions. But there is one exception. One leader, and he is hated by so many. That leader:
Donald J Trump: President of the United States of America.
Peloni: There are no coincidences.
Avi Abelow
Hamas terrorists killed inside a hospital in Gaza, and once again “journalists” were killed there as well. What a coincidence. And Israel is the one being shamed in the media!
Here’s a thought: if the international community truly cares about the people of Gaza, why not direct pressure toward Hamas? Demand they surrender and release the hostages. That might be a constructive step toward ending this war—something worth considering for those advocating diplomacy.
And now we’re hearing the same tired voices from senior Israeli officials calling to stop the war?
Peloni: By forcing non-combatants to remain in a war zone, is it not Israel who is responsible for these deaths, even if they were truly non-combatants?
By Eytan2009 – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=161268763 [Cropped]
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir on Monday ordered an urgent probe after 20 people were reportedly killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Younis in Gaza.
