Arlene Kushner | September 30, 2026
Binyamin region.org
I write during the intermediate days – chol hamoed – of Sukkot. Mindful of the gladness this holiday brings us, and the commandments to be joyful, I will focus here primarily on good news.
Moshe Phillips
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Derek Caney’s report “Ed Sheeran expresses sympathy for both Jews and Palestinians at first tour stop since Macklemore was dropped” (online, Sept. 21) misses the point. That Sheeran “expressed sympathy for ‘centuries of Jewish pain’ while” talking about Gaza is not as important as the fact that this episode revealed Sheeran’s fundamental misunderstanding of Israel’s strategic and moral imperatives. Delivering what was clearly a prepared statement while attempting to pass it off as an off-the-cuff moment of reflection, Sheeran instead weaponized a deeply flawed anti-Jewish, anti-Israel narrative.
Harry Liberman
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BRITAIN AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF COMPLICITY:
One of the most significant and documented flaws in the international legal order: asymmetric justice, where powerful nations use geopolitical leverage and media dominance to insulate themselves from accountability. Historically, global powers have effectively exempted themselves from the consequences of international law, and the media has frequently played a role in minimizing or burying state-sponsored atrocities.
PELONI: When evil speaks, it is important that you listen and react.
Nan Jacques Zilberdik | Pal Watch |
Palestinian Authority Chairman Abbas’ advisor, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, endorses Hamas’ Oct. 7 atrocities and launch of war against Israel as “legal resistance, Jihad, and self-defense.” Al-Habbash has no problem with the massacre, the torture, the rape, the burning alive, and the murder of over 1,200 Israelis. That is all “a legal right” and “a sacred duty” because it is “resistance” to Israel. The only problem with Oct. 7 was the disastrous outcome for the Gazan population, which Al-Habbash calls “a sin:”
By Jalal Tagreeb
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The podcast hosted by Dexter Van Zile for Focus on Western Islamism features scholar Tim Warr. In this discussion, Warr outlines how the events of October 7, 2023, completely dismantled the conventional assumptions surrounding Western interfaith dialogue. The broad systemic failure to confront radical ideology stems from structural blind spots, historical concessions, and institutional dynamics within religious and political spaces.
PELONI: How is this self-regulation different from agency capture, beyond eliminating the need of any ruse of having independent oversight removed entirely.
I understand the need to prevent China’s dominance in AI, but recall the concern for us all should be focused on verifying more than trusting those who are developing this world dominating technology, and self-regulation would seem to achieve the exact opposite of this.
| Technocracy News |
Never in my career have I seen any President showcase the leadership of a single industry over and over, in this case, Artificial Intelligence. Trump has emerged as Technocrat-in-Chief, promoting the Arch-Technocrats’ agenda to spread AI throughout society, including in government and to blanket the nation with humongous data centers. None of this adds up today, but in due time we will see the end of the matter. In short, they are racing for the finish line to capture all humanity. – Patrick Wood, Editor.
President Donald Trump headlines an AI summit to unveil America.gov, signing an executive order joined by members of his cabinet. Photo: Sarah Roderick-Fitch / The Center Square
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he signed a “morally binding” artificial intelligence document with tech leaders following a luncheon at the White House, as calls for a development slowdown have reached a fever pitch.
PELONI: Living in the age of Lions, we see the strength, tenacity and resolve embeded within the people, something which became overwhelmingly evident following October 7, is once again affirmed by the actions of those heroes who saved themselves and untold others from being the latest reciept added to the long list sketched onto butcher bill of terror. Todah la’el !
By Pamela Geller |
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A near catastrophe unfolded aboard a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv when a violent cockpit confrontation reportedly sent the aircraft plunging thousands of feet over Saudi Arabia.
AMCHA APPLAUDS MOVE TO PROTECT STUDENTS
Campus antisemitism watchdog says veto protects rules designed to prevent harassment, intimidation and disruption from denying students equal access to campus life
AMCHA INITIATIVE | Sept 29, 2026
Foster City, CA, September 29, 2026 – AMCHA Initiative today commends California Gov. Gavin Newsom for vetoing AB 2551, legislation sponsored by the California Faculty Association (CFA) that AMCHA warned could undermine enforcement of campus protections adopted amid the post-Oct. 7 antisemitism crisis on California campuses.
PELONI: Terror in midair averted by the courageous response by passengers seize control from a suspected terrorist.
Passengers fought and subdued one pilot after he stabbed the other pilot, attempted to crash plane
| Published: September 30, 2026
Flydubai Boeing 737-800 (A6-FDN) seen at Dubai International Airport. By Mohammadreza Farhadi Aref – Airliners.net, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link
After a plane en route to Tel Aviv from Dubai sent an emergency signal before landing in Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk, Israel is treating the incident as a suspected terror attack, while working on bringing the around 180 passengers home in an air force plane.
PELONI: Yes, the IRGC is being crippled economically, and its allies in Iran and China are not able to stop this, but will economic collapse be enough to bring down the Iranian regime? Think about the situation in Iran with the metaphor of the frog sitting in a pot of boiling water in mind. Without a direct shock to their security system, ie attacking their leadership and/or their security infrastructure within the IRGC and Basij, I anticipate that this regime will remain fixed in place. So, yes, the Operation Economic Outcast is working, but will it be enough on its own to bring down the IRGC regime? I doubt it. Perhaps Trump is waiting til after the midterm to add this key kinetic aspect to his economic war, but if he doesn’t do so, is it likely the IRGC regime will collapse? Well, time will tell…
By Pamela Geller |
It takes courage to stay the course.
President Trump has done this country and the world an immeasurable good in going after the world’s largest state sponsor of terror.
The idea that it will cost us the House or Senate is either patently untrue or America is truly lost.
UN Watch | Sept 2026
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GOOD NEWS: Following a sustained diplomatic and media campaign by UN Watch, an unprecedented coalition of 45 countries pulled out of the UN’s 25th anniversary commemoration of the Durban Conference, a notorious event tainted by antisemitism and the demonization of Israel.
Michel Benchimol
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In Toronto, we have a municipal election approaching.
The principal contest is between Olivia Chow and Brad Bradford — two candidates offering voters distinctly different approaches to governing this city.
Kelleigh Nelson
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You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.
Margaret Atwood
PELONI: The question of, Mr. President, how many of your own people were murdered by your own forces??, is not unlike the question of how many times you beat your wife, the Iranian president remains unphased as he reiterates that he did apologize for the slaughter…
Recall that this is the presumed “moderate”, which of course simply means that he plans to destroy you later rather than today.
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Rafael Medoff
Two tiny islands near Nova Scotia and Maine are back in the spotlight, after largely disappearing from public view for more than eighty years.
PELONI: A must read article by Geoffrey Clarfield who provides a very insightful examination of the rising trend toward tyranny among very disparate regimes and political movements.
Geoffrey Clarfield
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All great tyrants and conquerors have been monotonously alike. – C.S. Lewis
In order to explain Canada’s recent and dramatic tilt towards tyranny under Canada’s first unelected parliamentary majority (they ‘persuaded’ already elected Conservative MPs to defect) one must first go back in time and ask why Fascist Japan and Nazi Germany were such close allies before and during WWII?
PELONI: Is America so willing to return its safety, security and economics to the untethered control of the Islamist-Leftist cabal from which it so recently regained its freedom, and which has only become far more untethered than ever before since loosing power two years ago? It is said that economics always decides the next election. “It’s what is jingling in your pocket that wins your vote…” Well, if this were true, there would be little chance that Americans would so willingly place themselves in the hands of those who purposefully focused economic hardship on the American people under the last administration. I share Pamela Geller’s disgust with modern polling, but if in the end as they prove prophetic, the economic hardships which are now leading the world’s only Superpower towards such a self destructive elective choice will see that choice result in the economic and electoral destruction for generations to come. So, yes, I agree, I don’t believe the polls cited below, because I believe that the American people are far more likely to choose a course which will secure their future, which was the basis behind the motto above which indicates that economics alone will decide the next election. Of course, time will tell if this is so…
By Pamela Geller |
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I have little faith in pollsters for obvious reasons. As a rule, they are politically biased and wrong. But if there is an inkling of truth to these polls, then country is already cooked. Done. The Democrats offer terror, communism, politcal violence and subjugation. There is no contest in this war of ideas – freedom versus slavery.
