By Eeyore on November 13, 2026

Yesterday Microsoft had a world wide outage of its Exchange email servers, Teams and other MS products for over 12 hours.

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PELONI:  This is a must read article by Diana West.  A long view of how to hijack a momentous opportunity of national reform, only to see it corrupted and crippled from within due to establishment personnel carveouts, both in the Reagan and Trump administrations, and how this resulting tale of chaos and limited successes bears on the personality and political positioning of VP JD Vance.

Take note that this essay was written previous to Trump having publicly sidelined Vance from the Iran file, making the West’s analogy all the more significant as Regan took no similar role in openly challenging his establishment coalition partnership in the final leg of his second term.   Presuming that there is a growing rift between Trump and Vance, and that it is material in nature, it provides a potential for a war for the American Right between Trump’s largely Evangelical MAGA base and Vance’s Groyper-Carlson-Qatari alignment.  Is there a potential for Vance to win such a dogfight?  Not without support from the Islamists aligned Democrats with whom he might arguably be challenged to have more than a little in common.

Diana West | Diana W | Nov 12, 2026

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Historian Richard C. Thornton called Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-election in the largest electoral landslide in American history in many ways a “pyrrhic victory.” In the GOP-controlled Senate, Republicans lost two seats, narrowing their margin to 53-47. Despite Republicans picking up 16 seats in the House, the Democrats maintained a 71-seat-lead, 253-182.

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PELONI:  There is an important lesson to be learned from this for the entire Western world, and the consequences of failing to grasp this lesson will mean the West will ultimately be overcome by the infiltrations of the Jihadists who are already residing in their ranks and now leadership as well.

The question is what Ra’am is prepared to reject, beyond the immediate demands of a coalition negotiation.

By Amine Ayoub, Middle East Forum | World Israel News | Nov 13, 2026

Mansour Abbas is reportedly prepared to recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization. But the most revealing part of the story is not the label. It is the price attached to it.

The Ra’am chairman has agreed in principle to meet a condition set by Gadi Eisenkot’s political bloc, while demanding that the bloc demonstrate its commitment to a genuine partnership with him.

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Avi Abelow | Meta 

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Something extraordinary is happening in America. President Trump just said out loud what America desperately needed to hear. Finally!

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PELONI:  Ollie provides an overview of what appears to be clear growing division between Trump and Vance.  Some might argue otherwise, but I see little opportunity to describe the exchanges since the Midterm elections as anything else.

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“I think Tucker Carlson is part of a small cohort of people trying to make a new American majority premised on Left wing economic populism and Right wing social populism… it is like a mid 20th Century mid European, Right wing Socialist movement…but you have to partition off the Evangelicals from the American Right…by making the American Right oppose Israel…”

Over the last several months, I've been warning that Tucker Carlson isn't merely a grifter—he’s an operative building a new political project centered around right-wing social policy and left-wing economic policy.

Tonight, Tucker is going live to announce “a new path forward”… pic.twitter.com/zz4ABpp4If

— Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) August 5, 2026

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Harry Liberman

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What New York’s Jewish Community Has Yet to Learn from  their most valuable and interesting Jewish History

History rarely repeats itself word for word, yet its rhythms are unmistakable to those willing to listen. For more than a century, New York City has stood as a beacon of Jewish safety, cultural flourishing, and civic integration.

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PELONI:  Schumer the “Palestinian” fails to meet the standard of his “Palestinian” allies who he did support as they prefer a No-Jew policy for their leadership choices.  Let this be a lesson to all as-a-Jew Jews who are selling their people out for political, social, or economic security.  Had Schumer actually acted as a Shomer in shouting down the rising tide of Jew Hatred in his own caucus, not only would he still have his own good name, been a role model for his own people and others in choosing right from wrong, but he might have actually made a difference which did not betray the interest of his own people and his own society in deference to those who would gladly see them all slaughtered, both in Israel, but in America as well.

Shame on you Schumer!  You have truly earned your true moniker which Trump correctly dubbed you with, and which should mark you and your fellow as-a-Jew Jews for all time.

59% of Democratic voters said they want “someone else” to lead Senate Democrats versus 22% who prefer Schumer, according to a poll commissioned last month by a progressive PAC.

By Joseph Strauss, JTA | World Israel News | Nov 13, 2026

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The clock may be running on Chuck Schumer, the most senior Jewish elected official in U.S. history, as Democrats flipped at least seven Senate seats in midterm elections last week.

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PELONI:  Sec. of State Rubio and Sec. of War Hegseth are reported to have also moved to reside on military bases due to the threats to American Leaders.  Also N12 reports that IRGC claim of hitting an American radar in Bahrain. This would explain why Trump put an end to negotiations with Iran. To this Trump has also acknowledged that if the regime in Iran remains in place at the end of his term it would be a defeat.  While it remains difficult to follow Trump’s intentionally erradic positions, it is easy enough to see that this war will not end in a frozen conflict, and Iran has no intention of allowing any possible claim to a faux victory, even if that were Trump’s preference.   I think the war will resume, likely sooner rather than later, and that it will include elements to support regime change in Iran by one means or another.  Time will tell if this is true, but it is not only the only reasonable outlook to the sacrifices Trump has made to get this far, and is supported by his recent actions, but it is also the only outcome the Iranians will allow Trump as they threaten US forces, attack its neighbors and remains a genuine threat to the American homeland.

The Iranian plot against the U.S. Treasury Secretary is but the latest example of the threat posed by the Islamic Republic to the U.S. and Western Europe.

By Chaim Lax | Honest Reporting | November 12, 2026

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PELONI:  There can be only one reason that Jews are selectively chosen to be stripped of the means of self defense in an age in which Jew Hatred is on an exponential rise and crimes against Jews is on a similarly skyrocketing trajectory.

Eric Baxter | X 

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Amid a nationwide rise in antisemitic violence, Maryland’s Montgomery County has banned synagogues from defending themselves with armed security consistent with their faith. Becket and @NCLAlegal have teamed up to stop this blatant violation of the First and Second Amendments.

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This is the 2020 election, exactly like it, repeating identical statistical anomalies designed to engineer an artificial realignment.

Amil Imani | Am Thinker | November 12, 2026

When an election produces outcomes that run completely counter to historical precedent, polling baselines, and raw mathematical probability, the dispute ceases to be a conventional political debate and transforms into an indictment of the process itself. The case asserting that this midterm was systematically subverted rests upon four primary pillars: statistical impossibility, software and algorithmic manipulation, unauthorized cyber penetration, and administrative chain-of-custody collapse.

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PELONI:  So, as Vance was pursuing direct talks with Iran after arguing that the war was the reason his party lost the recent election, Trump countered by ordering Vance to focus on domestic issues of corruption and crime, which notably should include the election theft which seized control of America’s electoral process on behalf of the Islamists while Vance was himself busy trying to preserve the Iranians from an all out American assault.  What is most informative about this is that even in the wake of the election disaster which Vance has clearly asserted was due to an over emphasis on foreign policy, Vance’s first objective was to try return to focusing on the Iranian war as if he were completely ignorant of this being what he himself claimed to have cost the Republicans the midterms.  Indeed, if Vance were truly sincere in his belief that the Iran war was the cause of the election loss, it would seem natural for the Vice President to pivot towards dealing with the state of the economy or the stolen election, something which Trump at least had the sense to instruct Vance to do.  The war is not over, because the IRGC is still in control.  Til the latter is ended, the former will persist, and at least to this point and at this time, the distinction between Trump and Vance is like day and night.

President Donald Trump orders Vice President JD Vance to focus his efforts on fighting corruption instead of conducting negotiations with Tehran.

By David Rosenberg | World Israel News | Nov 12, 2026

President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance in the Situation Room of the White House, Saturday, June 21, 2025. Photo by The White House – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia

President Donald Trump orders Vice President JD Vance to focus his efforts on fighting corruption instead of conducting negotiations with Tehran.

By David Rosenberg | World Israel News | Nov 12, 2026

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has instructed Vice President JD Vance to focus his attention on alleged widespread corruption in Democratic-led cities and states, while declaring that the United States no longer needs to reach an agreement with Iran.

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PELONI:  The scurrilous attempt to blacken the name of Menachem Begin with a gross comparison to the Arafat whose legacy of mass murder of innocents and the arbitrary use of violence betrays the true nature of the faux peace agreement which Arafat purposefully failed to fulfill as he instead oversaw the terror wars, not peace, to achieve his true objective of destroying the state of Israel and all of its Jewish inhabitants.  Between these two historical figures, there was only one real terrorist and one true freedom fighter, and if the J Street limb of the Democrat party can not discern which was which, as Moshe Phillips explains below, their namesake, the Democrat party in Israel comprises the only Jews who would fail to do so in Israel.

Menachem Begin was a freedom fighter, Arafat was a murderous terrorist – how could they be conflated by a former Israeli diplomat? 

Moshe Phillips | Nov 12, 2026

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Mere days after the Israeli election, in a TV program on i24NEWS called Meeting of Extremes, host Naveh Dromi interviewed former Labor Party Knesset Member Colette Avital and asked whether she agreed with the assertion that Yasser Arafat was a terrorist.

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PELONI:  There is a dueling interest which exists today between the forces which call for a unity govt and those who call for a new election.  The former is focused on the need to form some govt with which to coordinate with Trump before the Democrats are seated in the US Congress in January.  The latter are focused on the fact that the will of the Israeli electorate has been fouled with foreign and domestic election tampering among the anti Zionist Arab parties.  The daunting reality for those calling for the formation of a govt from the elicit election results is that Eisenkot can take as long as six weeks to form a govt, meaning that the window of opportunity which exists before the Democrats take power in the US Congress will likely be very close at hand when Eisenkot finishes his attempts to form a govt, which might well come to naught.  In any event, it is crucial for any democracy which values its democratic basis to ensure the will of the people is what chooses their representative government, and failing to do so is the quickest way to see tyranny and arbitrary rule rise up in its place.  So it would be best for all to see the election redone, to secure an accurate and credible mandate from the people of Israel, and to forego the use of such contaminated election results which ignore the will of the people instead.

Avi Abelow | Meta | Nov 12, 2026

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You simply cannot make up the absolute insanity unfolding in Israeli politics right now. The good news??? The political left is literally digging its own grave!

After three years of war, enormous sacrifice, and an election that left neither political bloc with a governing majority, Israel has an obvious option, that a majority of the people want: a broad national unity government.

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In a conversation focused on the implications of the November 2026 midterm elections, Diana West and Audrey Russo describe what they see as the failures of the Republican Party and the conservative movement in both recognizing and confronting the changes taking place in the United States [Audio Link at Bottom].

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PELONI:  Assuming the report of a shouting match between Trump and Bibi is true, it occurs to me that the timing of the argument arose just prior to the US moving forward with its announcement related to deploying the first of its International Stabilization Force in Gaza, which, for both political and geopolitical considerations, would warrant a vigorous discussion.  So, was the argument between these two world leaders related to the topic of Iran, or was it possibly concerning the dispute over what to do in Gaza?

President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu reportedly clashed over the weekend in a heated phone call over the conflict with Iran.

By David Rosenberg | World Israel News | Nov 12, 2026

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu review the U.S. peace plan for Gaza with Jared Kushner, Monday, September 29, 2025. Photo by The White House – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump reportedly engaged in a heated telephone confrontation over the future of the war against Iran, as disagreements grow between the two leaders over whether to resume large-scale military operations against Tehran.

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PELONI:  Meanwhile Jewish expulsions across Arabia are left unaddressed by the NYT, even as this would seem to be a point of relevance to their libelous claims against Israel for Arabs choosing to leave their homes.  I wrote the following many years ago, and I think it is quite relevant to the continued libels of the NYT on this subject:

“Related to this post-war policy of homogenization of nations, the Jewish expulsion from Arab nations should be called to mind. These expulsions evicted nearly a million Jews, dispossessing them of their home, property cumulatively in excess of 4X’s the size of Israel’s current borders, and at a loss of $15 trillion dollars in personal assets. This policy of Arab homogenization was most notably relevant in the Old City of Jerusalem where the Jordanian conquerors displaced the long standing residents, again, exclusively due to their Jewish heritage. Hence the double standard of policies pursuing homogenized state residents to remove the societal cleft has a much closer, and dare I say a much more relevant, model in pre- and post-’48 War Arabia, than even those to be found in Europe post-WW2 Europe.” 

The Times’ embarrassing bias on display once again.

by Hugh Fitzgerald | Nov 12, 2026

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The New York Times, like the BBC, displays its anti-Israel animus whenever it reports on the Jewish state. The latest outrage can be found here: “Incorrect Times,” by Omri Tubi, CAMERA, October 23, 2026:

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PELONI:  FDD’s Edmund Fitton Brown joins Misgav Institute’s Daily Briefs with Laura Cellier to discuss the state of the Iran war, the Houthi war with Saudi Arabia including Iran’s regional strategy, proposals being pushed by recently selected el Sayed as US Senator, potential US disengagement in the Middle East, among other issues.  See Highlights below

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