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PELONI: With the votes not yet counted, Washington pressure to remove the Right wing from a Right wing govt has already begun. Note further the manufactured libel of “Settler Violence” is being used as a basis of Washington’s pressure, but as this report explains, the real purpose is to make Washington’s efforts with its Arab partners easier without a Right wing govt.
Take note also that as I emphasized months ago, the election results would be far more generous to the National camp than the anti-National camp election polls which were greatly distorted towards the Left as per usual.
US sources claim the President Trump hopes Israel’s next government excludes two senior rightist ministers, amid concerns that claims of “settler violence” could be hurting his regional objectives.
By David Rosenberg | World Israel News | October 28, 2026
By Hudson Institute – Benjamin Netanyahu Receives Hudson’s Herman Kahn Award, CC BY 2.0, Link
President Donald Trump wants Israel’s next government to exclude National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, according to American sources who spoke with Walla News, despite his public endorsement of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of Tuesday’s Knesset election.
PELONI: Take note that there is no reference to forming a Broad Unity Govt in Netanyahu’s speech, but he does call for the uniting of the “Zionist Jewish Majority”. Is this a reference to the Right Bloc alone, or the inclusion of the Left as well. I think it will be the latter, rather than just the former.
“The Zionist Jewish majority must join forces, they must unite for the sake of the future of Israel.”
Here is the Netanyahu’s full speech of 2026 elections he just gave 14 minutes ago
Speech is dubbed to English https://t.co/3UkjhzP70j
— Furkan Gözükara (@FurkanGozukara) October 28, 2026
PELONI: Exit Poll Upset — In another miraculous turn of events, it seems that Avigdor Lieberman’s party has failed to pass the minimum threshold and has thus burned every vote cast for him.
The potential failure of Israel Beitenu to pass the threshold leaves the Right bloc with the numbers needed to form a government but the question remains if this can actually be accomplished. It is highly ironic that Lieberman’s poor showing in this election is what might offer his former allies on the Right the means by which to remain in power. Yet the irony extends beyond this, as the only reason that Liberman fell below the threshold was due to the historic Arab vote, which means that the Left’s attempt to motivate a strong Arab vote to support their defeat of the national camp resulted in burning Lieberman’s vote bloc and providing the national camp with a majority and a possibility of forming a new Right wing govt.
Time will tell, of course, if this is actually what happens.
If Channel 14’s projection proves accurate, Netanyahu would have enough seats to form a government with his existing right-wing and religious partners.
By World Israel News Staff | World Israel News | Oct 27, 2026
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Voting in Israel’s national election came to an end at 10 p.m. Tuesday, with sharply conflicting exit polls offering dramatically different pictures of the country’s political future and one updated projection giving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enough seats to form a majority government.
PELONI: See the various exit poll results below. The full election results are expected on Thursday or Friday with preliminary numbers tomorrow [before votes from armed forces added].
[Channel 14 subsequently updated its exit poll data, announcing Lieberman’s Israel Beitenu party is projected to fail to cross the threshold, allowing Netanyahu the means of gaining 62 seats.]
??? ISRAELI ELECTION CHANNEL 14 EXIT POLL:
Likud: 30
Yashar: 19
Beyachad: 11
Joint List: 10
Shas: 9
Democrats: 9
Religious Zionism: 7
Otzma Yehudit: 7
Ra'am: 7
UTJ: 7
Yisrael Beitenu: 4 pic.twitter.com/D7Avg6nR5k— C14 News | EN (@c14english) October 27, 2026
PELONI: Channel twelve shows Netanyahu with more votes than Eisenkot , but Eisenkot having a larger block.
Channel 12 shows lacude, with 24 seats, Yashar with 22, but i24 news reports that Likud has 27 to 20 seats. Meanwhile, channel 14 exit polls show Netanyahu having 60 seats just one seat short of being able to form a government.
Now we have to wait for election returns to see how accurate any of these numbers are. Recall that in 2022, the Right block brought in 64 seats, but they were only expected to have as many as sixty two seats by channel Channel 14’s polling.
PELONI: Israel is not America and this is self evident in many ways, but the election rigging in the US has produced a worrying trend around the world and as I reported earlier today, the pay for votes scheme among the Arab population shows how even the most rigorous election systems can be outmaneuvered. To this point, Rabbi Pesach Wolicki takes a deep dive into how the Israeli election works, and some distinctions between it and the practices in America.
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PELONI: Must read article by Michel Benchimol exploring the effects of internal divisions while facing existential threats while also emphasizing the importance which unity will play towards Israel’s survival.
Three Thousand Years of Jewish History, the Dangers of Division, and the Fight for Israel’s Survival
Michel Benchimol
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I am often asked whether I believe Israel will survive.
My answer is that Israel’s greatest existential threat may come not from the enemies surrounding its borders, but from divisions among Jews themselves, both inside Israel and throughout the diaspora.
Mudar Zahran
Jordanian King Abdullah II receives Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at Al Husseiniya Palace, Amman, Jordan, July 24, 2019. (Photo: Royal Hashemite Court)
King Abdullah II’s message has arrived: “Jordanian Christians have been placed at the mercy of terrorists… and the massacre at the church in Hamoud village in Karak Governorate, Jordan, which claimed the lives of 9 unarmed civilians, is nothing but a miniature model of the killings and massacres against Christians in Jordan, in the event that procedures to change the regime in Jordan begin and King Abdullah II is dethroned.”
Radical “Agency” [Torah] Against Unparalleled Trauma: The Architecture of Progress
Harry Liberman
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The global debate surrounding international development is frequently obscured by emotional rhetoric and political correctness. When analyzing why certain nations achieve rapid, sustainable economic growth while others remain trapped in cycles of poverty and foreign aid dependency, a stark reality emerges. Natural resources, geography, and financial handouts are entirely secondary to a nation’s underlying institutional culture and foundational values.
PELONI: This would be quite a shift, but still, even one third of American Jews voting for Democrats would seem to stretch credulity.
By | Oct 27, 2026
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I’ve been the loudest voice saying that the Jewish vote is more conservative than we realize and that we’re being misled by the lack of legitimate polling. But people will always pick up the latest J Street/JDCA poll by leftist Democrats claiming that 78% of Jews vote Democrat and run with it because it fits their prejudices.
See also: Watchdogs Report Election Tech Failure Just Hours Before Israel Votes
Three suspects arrested in alleged vote-buying scheme for the Islamist United Arab List, prompting Prime Minister Netanyahu to demand investigation during high-stakes election.
By World Israel News Staff | World Israel News | Oct 27, 2026
Israeli police arrested three suspects in the Negev on Tuesday morning on suspicion of attempting to buy votes for the Islamist United Arab List (Ra’am) party, after discovering envelopes containing cash alongside the party’s election ballots, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to demand an investigation.
PELONI: Like a fist, Israelis must unite with a forward looking vision for a better, safer and more prosperous tomorrow. While differences persist among the nation’s various factions, the most unsettling aspect of Israeli society over the last 5 years has been the effort to actually grow divisions into insurrection, something which ultimately motivated the assault on the Gaza envelop and triggering the war which began soon afterwards. In the twilight which breached the end of the slaughter and the beginning of the resulting war, Israelis found a strength which stretched beyond the inciting rhetoric and which saw the nation as a whole act as one to face its enemies one by one. While the conclusion of these wars are still before us, the need for that sense of unity, the oneness of purpose and the quiet resolve of a nation which will not be defeated are required now more than ever. Only thru unity while rejecting the calls for divisions will Israel push thru the serious dilemmas which still face it today, from challenges coming from both allies and enemies.
Avi Abelow | Israel Unwired | Oct 27, 2026
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Today is Election Day and we are so blessed to have our own country with elections!
And before the votes are counted, I want to highlight an important issue.
A Knesset committee previously heard that hundreds of smuggling attempts occurred along the border in 2025.
By World Israel News Staff | World Israel News | Oct 27, 2026
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An Egyptian national illegally crossed into Israel through the Negev desert early Tuesday morning before being apprehended by an Israeli military patrol, the IDF said.
Iranian president: ‘Region is witnessing acts of violence and atrocities by Israel with American support’
All Israel News Staff | Published: October 26, 2026
Senior officials from Mecca Pact members Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan traveled to Tehran on Monday for a highly unusual meeting amid rising tensions and reports that the U.S. and Israel are preparing to resume strikes against the Iranian regime.
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The meeting also came as the Iranian-backed Houthi terror group continued attacking civilian infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, including in the capital, Riyadh.
Janet Levy: Ed Dowd, author, seasoned Wall Street guru, and former portfolio manager who oversaw $14 billion at BlackRock, envisions a future in which digital financial controls apply to all citizens.
Remember when PayPal refused to process payments for nutritional supplements like Quercetin and NAC during COVID? Remember when they canceled any payments for firearms? He’s talking about THAT level of spending control.
Dowd believes a rogue attack will threaten the fiat currency system (cash you can spend anonymously, however you choose) and replace it with digital, programmable money that controls what you buy and how much. This is supposed to bring about the “You will have nothing, and you will be happy” world the World Economic Forum promises in its New World Order, which rations energy, water, beef, etc., and encourages eating bugs.
U.S. military also preparing for 90-day grid down event. This has the earmarks of a false flag attack all over it.
Leo Hohmann | October 26, 2026
Former BlackRock portfolio manager Ed Dowd predicts a rogue AI cyberattack will be used as a pretext to roll out some form of crypto-based digital currency to replace the paper dollar system. This would give globalist power elites unprecedented control over the financial transactions of every human being on the planet, including Americans.
PELONI: Bill Ackman provides a very troubling call to have Netanyahu set aside his Right bloc partners so as to regain “credibility” and American support. This presupposes that the loss of credibility and of American support has actually been substantially based on Israeli actions rather than on the campaign of Jew Hatred which saw Astroturf parades supporting the Hamas attacks on October 7 form on the streets across the world within 24 hours of the attack. More than this, the Democratic party has sold out to embracing and promoting Jew Hating candidates in their party who actually promote the normalization of terror groups who have actual American blood on their hands, while the efforts of Tucker Carlson and others to promote Jew Hatred on the Right support an equally alarming embrace of America’s enemies including Iran and Qatar. Meanwhile the rejection of the Two State Solution and Israel’s refusal to surrender to Hamas and Iran have been the formative bases on which Israel’s “credibility” with the international community, and the Arab states, has been challenged.
Meanwhile what is true about the international effort to delegitimize Ben Gvir and Smotrich is that they represent an intolerance for what is known as the Old Conceptzia which has over the years adopted the premise that hostile actors should be tolerated both inside and outside Israel’s borders so as to appease US, European and Arab state interlocutors who are determined to pursue the creation of a second Muslim Palestinians State (Jordan was the original Muslim Palestinian state). In fact, this is the publicly stated reason voiced by MBS for why he will not normalize relations with Israel.
Removing Ben Gvir and Smotrich from Netanyahu’s govt would change none of this and it would leave either the Left in power or a Netanyahu led govt which was dependent upon the Left which would at best be dysfunctional if not openly accepting of American demands of surrendering to Hamas and the renewal of the Two State nightmares.
Israel needs a strong independent nation, capable of resisting foreign pressure, something that Netanyahu recently referenced, rather than a return to the Old Conceptzia which was based in no small part on appeasing Israel’s erstwhile allies and enemies alike.
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PELONI: Sound advice from Avi Abelow: “We must all vote for either Netanyahu, Smotrich or Ben-Gvir”
Avi Abelow | Israel Unwired | October 26, 2026
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For decades, right-wing Israelis complained that we voted right but received policies shaped by the left.
Harry Liberman
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Drawing a sharp line in the sand, Milei announced that Argentina is abandoning historical neutrality to unequivocally align itself with the West, the United States, and Israel, modeling a future based entirely on free enterprise, private property, and limited government. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
