The REAL reason Anthony Fauci refused to answer any of the Senate’s questions… and why the doctor may be headed for indictment: ALAN DERSHOWITZ  

Peloni:  It is a long tradition in the US Congress to hear the sad refrain repeated, “We are going to get to the bottom of this…”, only to see over and over again that little to nothing is achieved before Congress adjourns and each Congressman goes out to fund raise off of their calls for justice while seemingly never actually achieving it.  Is that we are looking at in the Fauci hearings?  If so, what alternatives might we find to offset the conclusion that nothing will ultimately be done after seven years without a single prosecution being pursued related to the Covid scams.

Alan Dershowitz offers an interesting potential of actually changing this long denial of justice, but it comes at the cost of setting free the most recognizable character associated with Covid.  The alternative to this would require seeking something actionable in the hours following Fauci’s immunity deal, or attempting to challenge a presidential pardon… So, considering all of this, what actually should be done?

 

Alan Dershowitz | Jul 30, 2026

Anthony Fauci pleads the Fifth Amendment during Congressional hearing. Screengrab via YoutubeAnthony Fauci pleads the Fifth Amendment during Congressional hearing. Screengrab via Youtube

Dr. Anthony Fauci not only had the right to plead the Fifth Amendment before a congressional committee, he was probably right to do so.

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The Abnormal Normalization  

Victor Satya | Jul 26, 2026

The Middle East has many traditions.

There is the tradition of insisting Israel is the Middle East’s biggest problem.
There is the tradition of condemning Israel on Monday.
There is the tradition of buying Israeli technology on Tuesday.

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Hamas expected to announce Gaza disarmament  

UPDATE:  IDF will not be withdrawing from the Yellow Line until both Hamas is disarmed and the Gaza Strip is entirely demilitarized.

Peloni:  An important development is emerging in which Hamas is reportedly going to agree to disarm, turning its arms over to the Pal technocratic govt under the Trump 20 point plan as described in UN Security Council Resolution 2803.  As I have noted before, this plan has as its most paramount conclusion the creation of a second Palestinian state, complete with ultimately being ruled by the American equity known as the Palestinian Authority, even as this diabolical entity is still failing to even successfully pretend any reforms are taking place – of course, terrorists will be predictable like that.  In any event, the plan comes on the heals of the US taking over the management of tunnel deconstruction in Gaza due to financial constraints in the Israeli budget as well as a long-term plan to complete this project.  The US will be managing and implementing the project as well as funding it.  While it is intended that this will prevent Hamas from having access to their underground terror hideouts across Gaza it remains notable that even as the existing tunnels will be filled by this US initiative, it fails to address the reality that Gaza is one large beach, making it nearly impossible to prevent further tunnels from being constructed in the easily managed sandy foundation, given the appropriate funding and materials.  So, even if we presume that all of Hamas’ old tunnel systems have been identified and that they will all be filled and sealed, this does not address the relevance of potential new tunnels being built, either under the governance of the technocratic Pal govt or its replacement PA govt in the future.  And so, the Trump plan for a second Pal state continues.

Suggestion:  Since the Trump 20 Point Plan is still being amended, interpreted and rewritten, let us move forward with allowing the Gazans to leave Gaza, TODAY!  There is no good faith based argument in which the people living in Gaza should be linked to the land as if they were modern day serfs whose real purpose is being weaponized against Jews.  Let them go, and help them leave, as was done for millions of others suffering in war zones over not only the past 3 years, but as is per normal throughout history.   There are 22 Arab countries all of which would be better suited to harboring the Gazans if for no other reason than that nearly none of them have any Jews living within easy access.

by  Ariel Kahana and Shachar Kleiman  | Israel Hayom | July 30, 2026

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https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/07/30/hamas-expected-to-announce-gaza-disarmament/

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Iran Bombs Jordan, But it is Still Israel Who Jordan Sees as its Enemy  

Peloni:  The absurd nature of being attacked by Iran while still calling America and Israel as its enemy offers a snapshot into the mindset of the Islamist ideology on which the Jordanian leadership stands.  This is why it is so important for the Trump designation of the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates to be fully implemented, in Jordan, across the region, and most obviously within the American homeland as well.  This ideology is not compatible with US interests any more than it is with Israeli interests.  Jordan is a hotbed of Islamist radicals which need to be defunded, even as the king has attempted to protect these allies by pushing them to simply change their name in a familiar strategy to avoid the consequences of the Brotherhood Ban.  Trump’s Muslim Brotherhood Ban has an important role to play in stabilizing the region, but it needs to be air tight in its application for it to have any substantive effect at all.  What Avi Abelow explains below is correct, the letter calling for the removal of US forces from Jordan is a warning, and one which the US and Israel both need to be mindful as to import of the message being broadcasted.

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Footage of an attack on Jordan by Iran released earlier today. Screengrab via XFootage of an attack on Jordan by Iran released earlier today. Screengrab via X

As Iran escalates its attacks on American military bases in Jordan, one might expect the Jordanian public to rally behind the U.S. forces helping defend their country.

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PM Netanyahu Meets with Sen. John Fetterman  

Peloni:  It is an overstatement to say that PM Netanyahu met with the entire local opposition when he sat with Sen. John Fetterman, but it is not much of an overstatement.

Prime Minister Netanyahu to Senator John Fetterman: “We are proud that you are our friend”

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‘Third Worldism’ is America’s Greatest Threat  

Peloni: This is an important concept to grasp.  Please read carefully.

When Marxism became tribal, it also became genocidal.

by | July 27, 2026

Marxism isn’t a political or economic theory: it’s a conspiracy theory. As an understanding of human relations, it’s childish, but it’s an incredibly effective conspiracy theory because it offers a universally applicable framework for fostering resentments and weaponizing grievances.

Despite the fears of conservatives and the hopes of leftists, Marxism had only a limited impact on the European workers it had been designed to sway and appealed far more to the children of the bourgeoisie who had developed it and ached for the destruction of their way of life, it had its most devastating impacts in non-western societies and among non-westerners in the West.

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Israel’s Next Churchill  

The leader history now demands.

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By Unknown, dedicated to the Bettmann Archive - https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/while-2-000-pickets-assembled-outside-the-waldorf-astoria-news-photo/514704436, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=141805605By Unknown, dedicated to the Bettmann Archive – Getty Images, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Not surprisingly, Israelis and Americans are facing crucial Fall elections. In the United States citizens will vote for Congress and the Senate. Conservatives fear that the Democrats may take both houses. If they do, then they will try to impeach President Trump and they will do everything possible to weaken the alliance with that other Biblically inspired exceptional democracy, Israel.

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July 30, 2026 | 1:34 am | 1 Comment »

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Palestinian terror, not ‘settler violence,’ threatens Israel’s security in Judea & Samaria, say IDF veterans  

Peloni:  Todah Rabah Gen. Erez Winter!  Once again, for those who are caught facing a challenge on behalf of the ‘Settler Violence’ narrative, please refer to the 125 page report by Regavim which clearly articulates that the claim of widespread settler violence in Judea and Samaria is a fabricated smear designed to delegitimize the Jewish presence in the territory and the State of Israel.  Most relevantly, this false narrative is being weaponized to support the return of the Two State Solution, ie the creation of a second Palestinian state.  Nothing is more relevant and useful in fighting this narrative war than the facts and details shared in Regavim’s report which is accurately titled, **“False Flags and Real Agendas: Settler Violence – A Modern Blood Libel”**.  For easy reference the link for this document will permanently be available at the top Left Column of Israpundit.org.

Israel’s security situation better than could be expected, argues retired general

Hanan Lischinsky| All Israel News | Published: July 29, 2026

Brigadier General (Res.) Erez Winner, IDSF Chairman, penned a letter in response to an open letter to US Pres. Trump form a number of Two State Solution advocates, former security officials, who are advocating for a crackdown on the mythical 'Settler Violence'. Screengrab via Youtube.Brigadier General (Res.) Erez Winner, IDSF Chairman, penned a letter in response to an open letter to US Pres. Trump form a number of Two State Solution advocates, former security officials, who are advocating for a crackdown on the mythical ‘Settler Violence’. Screengrab via Youtube.

With Israel approaching the three-year mark in the campaign sometimes dubbed the “seven-front war,” security leadership and experts are increasingly divided over how to evaluate Israel’s actions and the country’s overall security outlook.

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Israel to Respond to Hezbollah Drone Strike  

Peloni:  Attacks on US forces in Jordan, US assets in Egypt, and on Israeli forces in South Lebanon.  The temporary holding patter in which Trump is currently circling as he attempts to remake the international security structure of the region and the world is having a consequence.  These incidental attacks are substantive in nature, and the threats being made in the same moment are not even as distant from the US, nor even from the US President as Iran has recently made clear.   The time to deal with these matters has long past being urgent, as was made evident when Trump was forced to abandon his Qatari plane amid threats on his own person at the Istanbul NATO Summit.  So we are all holding for this waiting pattern to be at an end.  The initial timeline was to see it thru August, so perhaps we are close to seeing an end of what Trump himself today described as being “our turn to hit them”.  Notably, Israel is being held in the same state of pause between responses, and like as not, it is Israel’s turn to hit back as well… and the Iranian Rial continues to plummet to a negative infinity…

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Is there going to be any accountability??  

Peloni:  It has been six and a half years, and we are just now at a point that Anthony Fauci has lawyered up so as to escape having to explain the contradictory aspects of what he said and did publicly with what he said and did according to his own privately recorded personal diary.  So, is there going to be any accountability?  Is it really true that some crimes are just too big to prosecute, not in spite of it causing the death and illness of countless people, but because it caused the death and illness of countless people?  Sadly, it would appear that the answer to the former question is no and the answer to the latter is yes.

See article on Fauci possibly being held in contempt of Congress at the bottom.

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WARNING!! October 7, 2.0 in the Making?  

Peloni:  Do not forget to add to what Sha’i ben-Tekoa states below the importance of members of Fatah being involved in October 7 1.0

by Sha’i ben-Tekoa

Hamas soldier storming Alumim in southern Israel during October 7 Massacre. Photo by CCTV footage: No human authorship - I24, Public Domain, WikipediaHamas soldier storming Alumim in southern Israel during October 7 Massacre. Photo by CCTV footage: No human authorship – I24, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Thanks to Israel’s Enlightened Left in 1993, who designed the disastrous Oslo Peace fiasco, one provision included welcoming into the country some 40,000 antisemites with blood on their hands, some of them Arab Christians but mostly barbaric Muslim terrorists of the Fatah cult-gang, and provided them with guns and ammunition in a massive experiment in behavior modification. Israel’s deep thinkers of the Left thought these criminals would become civilized officers-of-the-peace among their own and committed to peace with Israel.

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US-Saudi joint strikes on Iran-backed militias are a milestone in cooperation  

Peloni:  The paramilitary groups in Iraq must be dismantled.  They serve as a critical base of operations from which Iran can strike across the region as demonstrated by the recent attacks which initiated the response described below.  When or if this is accomplished, it would serve as a serious setback to Iranian power projection in the region, while also freeing its continued threats across Iraq as well.  So the message that needs to be sent to Iran is that their power base in Iraq is at an end, but again, for this to take place, the US-Saudi air attack in Iraq will need a ground force to achieve this aim, and America is still one ground army short of having a ground army with which to support its interests in the region.  It is noteworthy to recall, of course, that Iran has been steadily pummeling the Kurdish paramilitary groups in Iraq since the war began in February, so might this be a moment in which Trump drops his antagonism towards the Kurds to at least eliminate Iran’s continued leverage and power base in Iraq?  Unfortunately, Trump’s deference to Turkey will likely still act as a decisive factor in the answer to this question being ‘no’.

US CENTCOM said that American forces and “the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces conducted precision strikes in Iraq, July 28, against Iran-aligned terrorists that the IRGC directed to attack US forces.”

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | 

US Central Command said overnight that US and Saudi forces had struck Iran-backed terrorists in Iraq. The Iranian-backed militias in Iraq had been targeting Saudi Arabia over the last several days from July 26 to July 28.

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July 29, 2026 | 5:02 pm | 2 Comments »

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Israel and Jews in the hot seat  

by Steve Kramer 

Photo courtesy of the author.

Not for the first time, Israel is the favorite punching bag for left-wingers and the far right. We remember how good it was to be Jewish in the aftermath of WW2. It turns out that it was an aberration. Before the war antagonism against Jews was at a high point, with Americans of German descent at the forefront, especially the German American Bund. On the radio in those pre-television days there were anti-Jewish propagandists like  Father Coughlin, who broadcasted antisemitic commentary. See NOTE below.

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Gen. Amir Avivi: Israel To Finish Off Iran’s Regime In ‘devastating strike’  

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In an interview with Rabbi Pesach Wolicki, Brig. Gen. Amir Avivi explains that Israel and the United States remain strategically aligned in their fundamental objective of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, developing long-range missiles, and continuing to build its network of regional proxies. While acknowledging differences do exist—particularly regarding the U.S. focus on reopening the Strait of Hormuz to stabilize global energy markets—he notes that these differences do not alter the shared long-term goals between the two allied nations.

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July 29, 2026 | 3:41 pm | 1 Comment »

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Natasha Hausdorff on Karim Khan’s removal and its impact on Netanyahu, the ICC & Israel  

Peloni:  The one lesson that should be drawn from the corruption surrounding Khan and the manner in which he came to weaponize the ICC against Israel, well beyond its jurisdiction, is that this organization is beyond any effort of reform or any expectation of justice.  It needs to be defunded, dismantled and those nations foolish enough to still be members of the Rome Statute need to withdraw from it.

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In this discussion, UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) Legal Director Natasha Hausdorff explores:

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Netanyahu wraps up ‘excellent’ meeting with Trump, hails ‘full cooperation, mutual support’  

White House meeting conducted without press briefing as both leaders head to Lindsey Graham’s funeral

All Israel News Staff | Published: July 29, 2026

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after joint press conference announcing the U.S. peace plan for Gaza, Monday, September 29, 2025, in the State Dining Room of the White House. Photo by The White House – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Tuesday for the first time since the start of the Iran war, and amid uncertainty regarding a possible diplomatic resolution to the conflict.

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Hunt the Archer, Not the Arrow  

Peloni:  This is an important article.  One thing of note is whether it is reasonable to believe that the US military would allow its stores of critical missile interceptors to run low and then to allow this information to enter the public view?

American missile defense is winning every engagement and losing the war. The remedy is an offensive campaign against Iran’s launchers

Gregg Roman | MEF | July 28, 2026

The Middle East Forum released a report, “The Magazine War: Regional Missile Defense Against Iran.” The essay below presents its central argument. The full report is available online.

American and allied air defenses have performed impressively in the war with Iran. Batteries in Israel and across the Gulf have intercepted most of the ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones that Tehran has launched at them. Yet this tactical success conceals a strategic dead end. Last week, after 13 consecutive nights of American strikes, Washington suspended its escalation. It did so not because Iran relented or diplomacy advanced, but because the interceptors are running short. The defender, not the attacker, approached exhaustion first.

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July 29, 2026 | 2:18 pm | 2 Comments »

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