Hate against Israel takes many forms, including in the legacy media. Now, a heated confrontation inside CBS News is shining a light on a broader debate: Has mainstream media coverage of Israel been unfair and is CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss trying to change that?
PELONI: When evaluating economic conditions as a basis for deciding whom to vote for, Americans should consider not only today’s gasoline prices but also the broader circumstances under which those prices occur. The average price of gasoline in the United States is currently $4.34 per gallon, compared with $3.67 during Biden’s final year in office. However, the latter figure came during peacetime, when the United States was actively supporting Iran’s growing dominance in the Middle East and withholding previously purchased military supplies from Israel in an effort to prevent Israeli dominance in the region. Thus, while gasoline was slightly cheaper under Biden, the broader economic, national-security, and foreign-policy consequences of his administration must also be weighed so as to remind people of the real costs of voting for Democrats back into office. Notably, the Democratic candidate choices being considered today are reaching for ever far more radical policies than those what took place under Biden.
So, while the contest with Biden was decided in favor of Trump, and in part this was fashioned around the issue of economics in addition to national security and preservation of personal liberties, the question that stands before America in the coming election is whether their decision to depose the chaotic rule of the Democrats, including their voluntary economic model, was a valid choice. Notably, the Democratic economic policy was deliberately harmful to America without providing any benefit in terms of making Americans more secure, and their other policies reinforced the deliberate endeavor to make America Weaker Than Ever. So, was the defeat of the Democrats in 2024 something Americans really want to reverse? To be certain, we will know the answer to this question in a few weeks.
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Mark Levin opens his Sunday show by explaining that the focus in the upcoming US midterm election must be about far more than economics. Drawing on the inspirations of Thomas Paine and Patrick Henry, he challenges Americans to rise to the moment and to defend the liberty, constitutional principles, and founding values inherited from the nation’s founders.
Harry Liberman
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Imagine a father who locks his children outside in the front yard during a Category 5 hurricane while he retreats into a custom-built, reinforced concrete storm cellar in the backyard. In any civilized nation, society would not debate the nuance of his parenting.
We must reclaim our Judaism, our Zionism, our pro-Israelism and carry it high on our shoulders, brilliantly into the future.
Sarah N. Stern
Oct. 7 was a gut-wrenching day in Israel. By now, practically every Israeli adult has witnessed the magnitude of the crime and how it has left a gigantic scar on this tiny nation, reeling from one war after another.
Families have been shattered. In one provocative scene in the 2024 film “Pogrom(s)” by Pierre Rehov, viewers recognize what that day actually was: a modern-day glimpse of the Holocaust. Men and women shot randomly, and in groups. A little boy screaming at a Hamas terrorist, “You murdered my sister!” he cries.
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The death toll from the Houthis’ weekend attacks on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport has risen to over 15, including one American — and Iran’s Yemeni partner shows no signs of stopping its assaults.
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | October 14, 2026
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*Assessing the current negotiation with the Ayatollah regime, the US should draw lessons from the 48-year-negotiation cycles since 1978, which have benefitted the Ayatollah regime, catapulting it from a 2nd rate geo-strategic power to a 1st rate power. The negotiation option expedited the transformation of Iran from “The American Policeman of the Gulf” to a chief epicenter of anti-US terrorism, wars, drug trafficking and money laundering, from a Persian Gulf footprint to a rogue global footprint, extending throughout the Middle East, to Central Asia, East and North Africa, Latin America and on US soil.
And will likely continue to be.
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Hamam al-Hammami, the Omani co-pilot who recently tried to crash a plane full of Israelis in a jihad suicide mission, apparently gained much of his understanding of Islam from a mosque in Melbourne, Australia. And that mosque, like so many others all over non-Muslim countries, receives public money from officials who fondly assume that it is packed full of “moderates” who teach the benign, cuddly, warm, peaceful, tolerant Islam that they assume exists. Despite this revelation of willful ignorance and blindness to the nature and magnitude on the part of the officials who are supposed to be protecting their people, that funding will almost certainly continue.
PELONI: Regavim’s Naomi Kahn joins Rabbi Pesach Wolicki to explore the Settler Violence Libel.
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PELONI: Iranian attacks have now changed to striking ships further from their shores and at a more rapid pace so as to maintain insurance rates, which in turn will keep gas prices elevated despite the increased oil shipments out of the gulf. There is not and never was a solution to the gas puzzle that does not include regime change in Iran, and the economic model has little chance of succeeding without it being coordinated with military support, if not also a popular uprising.
This is the backdrop with only two weeks before Israeli elections and three weeks before US elections, and Trump is once again rattling the saber in anticipation of one more threat to deal with the Iranian menace. Role-playing the part of Lucy with the infamous pulled football one more time provides trump with the means of potentially surprising the Iranians that his threats are more material than bluster. Notably, if the saber rattling morphs into something more material, the Iranians are likely not the only ones who will be surprised. Time will tell…
Netanyahu and Trump reportedly discussed renewed military strikes against Iran ahead of the elections, with Trump urging Israel to prepare for a possible operation without committing U.S. support.
By Vered Weiss | World Israel News | Oct 13, 2026
President Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Monday, July 7, 2025, at the South Portico of the White House.(Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed a possible new joint U.S.-Israeli military operation against Iran with President Donald Trump, citing concerns over renewed Iranian nuclear activity, N12 reported Tuesday.
By Pamela Geller |
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These things don’t just happen. They are made to happen.
Victor Mezhinsky
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On November 3 this year American people will be going to the election polls. Whether one is “political” or not, the results of every election affect everybody’s life without exceptions. Elected officials and passed Propositions control our laws, social and business regulations, our security, prices of gasoline and groceries, taxes, our education at schools and universities, funds to pay for government financial assistance to many Americans.
Trump about possible new fighting: ‘We’re going to see’
| All Israel News | Published: October 13, 2026
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Against the background of numerous reports in recent weeks suggesting all parties are preparing for the possibility of new fighting between Israel and the U.S. against the Iranian regime, U.S. President Donald Trump wouldn’t rule out military action on Monday.
Janet Levy: This looks like submission, the synonym of Islam
Diana West | Oct 12, 2026
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I am wondering when someone will point out that the Secretary of State, with multiple cameras recording his Major Address on “The West,” with the Parthenon and Acropolis lit up like a real sound stage behind him, made an error.
PELONI: Listen to what the Left is planning for the West. They aren’t being subtle about their devotion to radicalized transformations of the West, far from it actually.
Paul Schnee: Highly alarming
by Guy Millière • Gatestone Institute • October 13, 2026 at 6:00 am
The founder and leader of France Unbowed, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is a Trotskyist who, already in his youth, embraced the concept of “permanent revolution”. Over the years he has made no secret of his desire for a radical transformation of France. He supports the Islamization of the country and advocates a “great replacement” of the native French population with a new demographic from the Muslim world that would constitute what he calls the “new France.” Pictures: Mélenchon speaks at a campaign rally. Screengrab via Youtube.
PELONI: It is interesting that Metallica has been at the forefront of the music industry for the past few decades and they have made a point of consistently focusing their commentary on their music rather than allowing their popularity to be pirated towards supporting political ventures such as has been done with many other music icons such as Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. So it should surprise no one that they would not only not allow their venues to be manipulated to support the River to the Sea crowd, but that they would actually make a statement that their music would not be transformed into a similar vehicle for political divisions as is becoming popular with others.
Metallica’s James Hetfield rejects political preaching at concerts. Here’s why the band’s history of defying the Israel boycott makes it even better.
By David Lange | Honest Reporting | October 13, 2026
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With the likes of rapper Macklemore and country singer Zach Bryan making the news in recent weeks due to their Free Palestining, it’s refreshing to see a major musician taking a decidedly different approach.
And not just any musician.
We’re talking about James Hetfield, frontman of Metallica, one of the most popular and successful bands in the world – and arguably the biggest heavy metal band of all time.
During a concert at the Sphere in Las Vegas on October 10, Hetfield made it abundantly clear that fans attending Metallica concerts shouldn’t expect political lectures, virtue signaling, or attempts to tell them what to think.
Just good old-fashioned love, energy, and heavy music.
But not before taking a swipe at those so-called “entertainers” who apparently believe their audiences paid good money to hear their political opinions.
Metallica also has a history in Israel, having played here three times: in 1993, 1999, and 2010. That last show, at Ramat Gan Stadium on May 22, 2010, came at a time when Israel haters were pressing them to skip Israel. Metallica played anyway.
Perhaps the “Free Palestine” entertainers should take a lesson from Metallica.
Nothing Else Matters – except the music.
David Lange is a highly respected Middle East commentator and Israel advocate with over two decades experience in the field. A former law graduate, oil industry professional and hi-tech manager, David transitioned full time into Israel advocacy when he founded Israellycool Israel Advocacy (RA) in 2020. His focus is on a more proactive approach to countering online hate and disinformation.
PELONI: A fun night for all as candidates from the various Israeli parties debate who might be best capable of leading Israel to a future which does not see its enemies preserved or its allies misled.
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Harry Liberman
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History provides a grim ledger of empires that attempted to manage their internal mortality by projecting their guilt onto their Jewish populations—only to accelerate their own demise.
PELONI: This was a profoundly disturbing story, highlighting not only the fact that the enemy is inside the wire, but also what the consequences of such a fact might hold.
By | October 11, 2026
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Jihad poisoning plots are not new. Al-Qaeda has long considered the contamination of food as a jihad mass murder tactic. And in 2017, the Islamic State called on Muslims to poison food in Western supermarkets
PELONI: This is a very important undertaking by the Hudson Institute’s Mike Doran. Jew Hatred is being used to undermine Western society, Western values and Western alliances. Piggy-backing on the prevalent undercurrents of Jew Hatred which already exists within Western society, Western adversaries are finding themselves at an ever increasing advantage as they use the most ancient and yet most baseless of prejudices in the West to unravel the most relevant aspects of the West. Focusing on how this is being achieved and working towards ending it would be a very great advantage in the war for the survival of the Western world.
Antisemitism is traditionally understood as bigotry against the Jewish community.
But it is also being used as a tool by America’s enemies to undermine American confidence in the US-led alliance system. China, Russia, and Iran are all pushing antisemitic messages to drive a wedge between the US and Israel.
Hudson’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East is launching a new initiative to identify and document how antisemitism is being weaponized to advance the goals of America’s foreign adversaries.
Learn more about the project: https://t.co/4yBKuHkwve
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@Ludo_Hood— Hudson Institute (@HudsonInstitute) October 7, 2026
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