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PELONI: The concept of a Zionist Block is already materializing, adding Liberman’s weight to that of Bibi and the Right Bloc in opposing the establishment of Left’s union with the supporters of October 7. The focus on responsible governance must dominate over all other concerns, particularly which are of such a petty nature as succeeding prioritizing personality politics ovethe good of the nation. Is there any defense which might be made to suggest that opposing Netanyahu represents the greater good of the nation at the expense of having the nation governed by terror supporters and apologists who make light or celebrate the actions of Hamas. The utter destruction of Hamas must be just one of many such ultimate objectives of the next government and there can be no option to including the supporters of Hamas in such a government for any price at all. By even considering such a possibility exposes the Left at the pinnacle of its irresponsible nature, and Liberman, despite his years of obstructing the formation of any govt at great costs to the nation, must earn our great praise for joining Bibi in simply saying NO! to such a Faustian bargain with the supporters of terror. Bravo Liberman!
Neither the Change bloc nor the Netanyahu bloc won the 61 seats required for an outright Knesset majority in last Tuesday’s election.
By Vered Weiss, World Israel News | Oct 31, 2026
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Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Liberman said Saturday that his party would refuse to join a coalition that includes Arab parties, complicating efforts by the Change bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot to form a government after neither bloc secured an outright 61-seat Knesset majority in last Tuesday’s vote.
Stephen Bryen | Weapons & Stategy | Oct 31, 2026
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The Pentagon is starting to understand that the current arsenal of traditional and precision weapons is far too small to fight any prolonged war longer than a few days. The exhaustion of key weapons such as Patriot and Himars missiles, shortages of 155mm ammunition, and lack of replacement radars and missile launch platforms, is illustration enough of the problem. The failure to protect US and allies bases adequately against a second-tier threat such as Iran, illustrates that current-day solutions don’t work.
PELONI: More on this later.
??? BALLOT SHOCK: DATA ESTIMATES ONLY 1 OUT OF 14 ARAB VOTERS WENT OFF THE HAMAS / MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD RESERVATION
Reported Israeli Arab turnout of approximately 76.5%–80.3% of an estimated 1.159 million eligible Arab voters living in Israel, implies roughly 887,000–931,000 Arab… pic.twitter.com/o4ATDR4wSA
— C14 News | EN (@c14english) October 29, 2026
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PELONI: Breaking the monolith of debate on the Left…
Channel 12 hosts Haim Etgar and Maayan Adam clashed on air over integrating Arab parties into coalitions, debating Zionism, loyalty, and political exclusion.
WireIsrael | Oct 31, 2026
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A heated on-air dispute erupted between television hosts Haim Etgar and Maayan Adam during a Channel 12 broadcast, focusing on the inclusion of Arab political parties in future governing coalitions. The clash highlighted deep divisions over the boundaries of political partnership and representation in Israel.
The rage and hatred encouraged by Obama’s words and expressed during demonstrations will not stop with the Jews and will slowly take form against all non-Muslims.
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With midterm elections just around the corner, the sudden outbreak of extreme violence and demonstrations in France and Italy by Muslim immigrants, pro Hamas, and pro-Palestinian Arab supporters under the guise of students demanding “change in the educational system” is no coincidence. While the streets of Paris and Milano burn to the ground, former President Barack Obama, also not coincidentally, spoke in Dublin Ireland to his hundreds of millions of social media followers about how Israel “stole the lands of the Palestinians” thereby appropriating the anti-Israel and anti-Jew Islamist demonstrators that have violently demonstrated not only against Israel but against Jews and Jewish supporters of the State of Israel.
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It’s pretty simple. Either Rep. Ilhan Omar committed bigamy with a gay man who may be her brother… or she committed immigration fraud.
There’s really no third answer here.
From a 2021 “Palestine Freedom Rally” to a 2026 lake-house fundraiser, the people closest to El-Sayed’s political career include an activist who wrote that Palestinians “have a right to resist with arms,” a CAIR leader who preached about “the Jews,” and a streamer who said America “deserved 9/11.”
by Steven Emerson | IPT News | October 28, 2026
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The weekend after he launched his campaign for the U.S. Senate on April 17, 2025, Abdul El-Sayed was scheduled to give the keynote address at a conference for Muslim teenagers in metro Detroit. The Michigan Muslim Youth Council called its 2025 gathering “The War Within: Preserving Islamic Identity.”
PELONI: The Astroturf expansion of the wave of Islamized terror spreading across Europe exposes the combined consequences of Europe’s policies of failed integration, parallel societies, and political reluctance to confront uncomfortable realities. While France, Sweden, and Belgium struggle with successive waves of violence, Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni has chosen a different approach: stricter immigration enforcement, tougher penalties for rioting, greater scrutiny of foreign-funded religious institutions, and a renewed insistence that everyone living in Italy abide by Italian law. Milan’s peaceful second weekend of demonstrations reveals that decisive action can resort in restoring public order, even as the long-term outcome, even for Italy, remains anything but certain. The challenge facing Italy is the challenge which stands before the entire West – can the West defend its national identity while maintaining democratic freedoms and the rule of law. Order requires the exercise of authority, which must be enforced with even greater effect when insurrections and wanton violence is used to diminish civil order and the expression of normalized liberties. France, Sweden and Belgium all failed this test as if by inexplicable acts of surrender from the outset. Italy chose a wiser path, and its citizens are safer and more secure for the clarity of Italy’s response to the disorder and mayhem which extended from failed policies for which Italy too is guilty of advancing. Yet, will Italy have the strength of purpose to leverage its identity over these damaging policies beyond maintaining order? Will Meloni respond the threat rising against Europe by reversing these policies to obviate the need for such rigorous law enforcement activities?
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IPT recordings and transcripts of more than a dozen events from 2017 to 2020 show El-Sayed personally soliciting donations for CAIR, praising its work, and telling Rep. Ilhan Omar that her objection to repeated demands that Muslim officials condemn Hamas and al-Qaeda was “entirely correct.” Speakers on the same programs accused “the Jewish Federation” of funding neo-Nazis and refused to condemn terrorism “as a Muslim.”
by Steven Emerson | IPT News | October 28, 2026
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On the night of October 20, 2018, about ten weeks after he finished second in Michigan’s Democratic primary for governor, Abdul El-Sayed stood before the national banquet of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Arlington, Virginia, and thanked his hosts.
How an Ancient Iraqi Textile Became a Symbol of Historic Erasure
Harry Liberman
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History is an uncompromising record of facts, but in the modern geopolitical arena, it is frequently hijacked by propaganda. Perhaps no single object embodies this distortion more than the black-and-white keffiyeh. Promoted globally today as an indigenous symbol of Palestinian identity, the scarf’s modern political narrative is built upon a profound rewriting of history. In truth, the garment’s authentic roots trace back to ancient Mesopotamian fishing networks, while its modern weaponization was forged through a direct lineage of 20th-century Nazi collaboration, Soviet disinformation, and the violent ethnic cleansing of the Middle East’s truest indigenous population: the Jewish people.
The DSA’s actual support base is almost as weak as its platforms are hollow, and anti-Zionism is a plaster to cover up the rot.
By David Christopher Kaufman | Honest Reporting | October 29, 2026
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The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — the political home of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), and a host of millennial up-and-comers — claims to be focused on “the multicultural working-class,” but make no mistake — Israel and Zionism are what motivate them most. Despite the party’s initial support for Zionism during its founding four decades ago, the DSA’s more recent ascent is a direct response to Israel’s war in Gaza and America’s role in providing arms and intelligence to Jerusalem.
Andrew Benjamin | Oct 29, 2026
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PELONI: A better choice for Netanyahu and the country would be for Lieberman to join with Netanyahu, but that too would leave the emerging coalition with one seat short of a govt.
What does strike an ironic mention is that in 2021 Bennet lied to his Right wing supporters about never joining Lapid and the Arabs, and now he is proposing to lie to his current Left wing supporters to join with Netanyahu. Yet he believes he is reestablishing himself with the Right as he demands that a party which has stood with the Right at all times should be scuttled from the emerging govt, even as doing so would leave Netanyahu dependent on at least one more vote from the Left to form a viable govt… This raises the question as to what the real proposal being discussed might be since this one does not add up. If Bennet is truly suggesting that Ben Gvir be set aside, he must be offering more than his own party or there would be no basis for the discussion.
Bennett could reverse his campaign pledge and join a Netanyahu-led government, but his demand to exclude Ben-Gvir threatens to derail the reported US-backed deal.
World Israel News | October 30, 2026
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Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett may be preparing to abandon his election campaign pledge never to serve under Benjamin Netanyahu, as President Donald Trump reportedly works behind the scenes to broker a coalition agreement following Israel’s inconclusive election.
Andrea Stricker | Oct 30, 2026
President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the U.S. – Saudi investment forum at the King Abdul Aziz International Conference Center, Tuesday, May 13, 2025, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Photo by The White House – Flikr, Public Domain, Wikipedia
Behind the scenes of U.S. midterm races, another campaign is quietly taking shape. Congress is poised to vote on the Trump administration’s proposed nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia, with both chambers expected to act during the week of Nov. 30. Democratic senators have introduced a joint resolution of disapproval to block the agreement during its required 90-day review period, and a companion House resolution, introduced on Sept. 14, is advancing as well.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump stand next to Chinese President Xi Jinping and Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. This is Xi’s second state visit to the U.S., first visit to the White House and second summit with the U.S. president in less than six months. Photo: Sarah Roderick-Fitch / The Center Square
Weeks before President Donald Trump is expected to make his second trip to China within the year, his administration is taking further steps to reel in Chinese influence and abuses.
The University of Michigan MSA’s own newsletters and board minutes show El-Sayed running recruitment and da’wah as outreach chair, then serving as staff writer and vice president of a chapter that planned a campaign for Tariq Ramadan and weighed a fundraiser for a Hamas-linked charity.
by Steven Emerson | IPT News | October 28, 2026
The only episode from his college years to make news this campaign is a single protest. In January 2007, the story goes, he was vice president of the University of Michigan’s Muslim Students’ Association when members walked out of a campus talk by three self-described former Islamic terrorists, and El-Sayed spoke at their counter-event. “We’ve done something good today,” he said, “and we need to keep that going in the future.”
