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Very Positive Initial Early Voting Data – Also, Ground Reports and Election Issues 2024 Reader Feedback Thread  

Sundance | November 2, 2024

DATA: While it is not my intent to interpret the data too much, I must say the current status of the EARLY VOTE looks good; very good for President Trump.

? IN PERSON EARLY VOTE ? – More than 38 million U.S. voters have gone in-person to vote, according to the latest data from the University of Florida’s Election Lab. Four years ago, that number was just over 35 million.  Main Point: 2024 “In Person” early voting has already exceeded the 2020 result.

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November 4, 2024 | 12:10 am | 1 Comment »

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What does a month of data tell us about Hezbollah attacks?  

A month into the IDF’s ground operation in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah is weakened but still very deadly.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | NOVEMBER 3, 2024

HEZBOLLAH OPERATIVES salute during the funeral of comrades killed in an Israeli strike, in Shehabiya, south Lebanon, April 17.  (photo credit: AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)

Israel began its ground operation against Hezbollah on October 1. This means that the entire month of October reflects a month of war on the ground in Lebanon. At the same time, Hezbollah has sought to carry out daily attacks on Israel using rockets and drones.

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November 3, 2024 | 2:28 pm | Comments »

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U.S. ramps up pressure on Israel to address Gaza crisis ahead of deadline  

Peloni:  Forcing Israel to bear the responsibility of the Gazan civilians rests as a stark reminder that neither Israeli & Pal lives have any value to the American power brokers whose policy has lead to the war being lengthened, Israel’s prosecution of the war being stunted, and the remaining Hamas contingents being strengthened.  It is as if the US has a need to cripple Israel’s war effort, and in fact, there can be no other possible interpretation.  No doubt, the impending deadline has played no small part in the decision regarding the recent advance into Jabalia, which might have been better served by an extended delay while further weakening the Hamas operatives who have so far refused to surrender.

Barak Ravid | AXIOS | November 1, 2024

People search the rubble for missing persons at the site of an Israeli strike a day earlier in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip on Oct. 30, 2024. Photo: -/AFP via Getty Images

The Biden administration is ratcheting up pressure on the Israeli government to meet a set of demands from the U.S. to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Why it matters: If Israel fails to fully implement the U.S. demands by Nov. 13, the U.S. could suspend its military assistance to Israel — a step the Biden administration has avoided so far but is gaining more support inside the State Department, according to a U.S. official.

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November 3, 2024 | 10:42 am | 1 Comment »

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Making America sane again  

We the people, can change the future that progressive politicians are leading us towards and make America sane again.

The White House  iStock

With Election Day just around the corner, and as voters have already begun to cast their ballots in the tens of millions, Main St. USA will make its voice heard loud and clear. That voice will resonate everywhere, and the message will be clear to all:

We the American people, are sick and tired of the progressive garbage. Over the past four years America has become unrecognizable, all in the name of “equality”, “diversity”, and “inclusion”. These progressive terms are at the heart of the transformation of American society into a race and gender-obsessed, pro-genocidal wasteland. The American public and those who will be casting their votes will not only decide who wins the Presidential election, but will vote for the candidate who promises to bring back sanity to public discourse,common sense values and principles, and end the tyranny of progressives. As a result of this pervasive expectation, Donald Trump is going to be the next President and will end the chaos of the past four years.

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November 3, 2024 | 8:32 am | Comments »

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The US Election and the American-Israel Jewish Divide  

Peloni:  There is no equitable basis for American Jews to support Kamala.  Recall that just as Israel’s attackers are being financed and protected by Washington, Kamala’s elitist-controlled Washington, so too are the promulgators of antisemitic assaults on American Jews all across the US.  And yet, the age old adage of the American Jews being more tightly tied to the Democratic party than to their own right arm remains in effect, even if it is less so today than ever before.  While the lack of clarity in making such a choice raises many questions, it spells out a clear divide between American and Israeli Jews which Shaw describes quite well.

American Jews, take heed! Israelis, right and left, overwhelmingly think Trump is the better president when it comes to Israel’s needs.

Kamala Harris   Photo: Reuters

The assessment of the Jewish vote ahead of the US Elections is disturbing.

According to polls, the majority of American Jews will be voting for Harris, which, according to the preferences of an Israeli majority, would be very bad for Israel.

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November 3, 2024 | 8:22 am | 1 Comment »

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Forging a National Security Agenda: An Open Letter to the President-Elect  

Peloni:  Great advice for presidents and leaders of every age and every country.

By Lani Kass |

At noon on January 20, 2025, you will place your left hand on the Bible, raise your right hand, and “solemnly swear to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same.” The Constitution sets out, clearly and unambiguously, the priorities on which you must focus: “establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity”—IN THAT ORDER.

Between now and Inauguration Day, you’ll be inundated with policy proposals, issue papers, and all manner of advice. Each will attempt to tell you WHAT to think and what to do, reflecting a variety of parochial and, often, conflicting agendas. This open letter, in contrast, offers a framework for HOW to think and HOW to act. It reflects the conviction that it’s high time to focus on character, values, and strategic coherence. It urges you to develop a clear intellectual roadmap for discharging the solemn responsibility of providing for America’s security and prosperity.

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November 3, 2024 | 1:35 am | 1 Comment »

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Almaala: The biggest strategic step in Jordan will begin  

Abedalelah Almaala tweeted the following: 

In a few days, the biggest strategic step in Jordan will begin, that King Abdullah II will step down from power and abdicate to his heir, Prince Hussein. The fifth Hashemite monarchy of the new King Hussein II will begin with the resignation speech of King Abdullah II in the coming days. Yesterday, the new Jordanian Senate convened urgently and the oath was taken, and it is a constitutional violation that the oath must be sworn after King Abdullah II’s speech at the opening of the new Jordanian National Assembly.

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November 3, 2024 | 12:40 am | 7 Comments »

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Deception 6: The Time Immemorial Deception  

Peloni:  Here is the 6th installment of Joseph Shellim’s 12 Deceptions, an excerpt from his important work, Philistine-To-Palestine.  We are posting one Deception each week, and here the links to the previous installments:

Deception 1: The Name Deception

Deception 2: The Balfour Deception

Deception 3: The White Paper Deception

Deception 4: The Jordan Deception

Deception 5: The ‘West-Bank’ Deception

Joseph Shellim

Are Palestinians Native to Palestine? 
Can two opposing people claim a ‘time immemorial’ nativity in the same land? Yes, but not at the  same time. To claim any such ancient nativity both party’s claims require evidencing, otherwise one is  a deception. Here, even belief and majority rule is insufficient as both are open to error and corruption.  A time immemorial premise can refer only to what evidential history says, and this can only be  measured via validated writings and archaeological imprints or an empirical means other than belief.

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November 3, 2024 | 12:30 am | 1 Comment »

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Rabbi Herzog: The surprise phase has begun. You will see what you never dreamed of.  

Rabbi Jacob Herzog | October 29, 2024

The surprise phase has begun. You will see what you never dreamed of.

Jordan’s surprise first. Wait for a press statement from the King of Jordan, it will be a big shock. After that, a televised press statement from the official spokesman for the Jordanian army. Don’t try to guess or speculate. You will never know what is coming because it is completely unexpected.

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November 3, 2024 | 12:20 am | Comments »

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Rumors of ceasefires: Should Israel accept being stopped in place for a 60-day halt?  

Is it time to stop moving, or time for Israel’s strategic intrerests to invest in maxiumum movement, especially in Lebanon?

J.E. Dyer, a retired Naval Intelligence officer, blogs as The Optimistic ConservativeOctober 31, 2021

This will be posted in rough-and ready form rather than polished up to a shine, because it’s time to have The Talk.  The predicates are two sources of information and thought from the last few days; one a summary of the state of affairs by historian Benny Morris at Quillette, the other, news on a new proposal for a ceasefire in Lebanon.

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November 2, 2024 | 9:59 am | 1 Comment »

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Is This U.S. Official Behind the Israel-Iran Leaks? | FP LIVE  

Peloni:  The source of the leaked intelligence should be seen as a feature rather than a bug in Washington’s policy staffing.  Indeed, the refusal of Washington to respond to reports of Tabatabai’s connections to Iran while she held such a clearly sensitive position in the Pentagon, must be considered in light of Washington’s attempt to maintain Malley in his position following a significant intelligence leak from Malley who brought Tabatabai into the govt to begin with.  With this in mind, it should be further appreciated that the questionable appointments to sensitive positions by such Iranian allied personalities such as Tabatabai and Malley are representative of the broader Washington employment roster, and as such, the leak could have come from any of the Iranian allied actors working within the anti-Israel corridors of Washington.  In fact, it would have been quite foolish for someone with Tabatabai’s notoriety to conduct the leak, as there are no doubt any number of less obvious candidates which might have been the source.

November 2, 2024 | 9:28 am | Comments »

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A Harris victory means a fourth Obama term  

Peloni:  Obama’s policy was predicated on the notion that the US had more to gain from its enemies than it did from its ally in Israel.  Notably, this policy was unsupportable, inexplicable, and simply inaccurate.  It was also the only aspect of Obama’s foreign policy where perceived enemies were valued as greater than allies.  This is why tensions with both Russia and China have exacerbated in the same period in which tensions with Iran were moderated.  While there existed opportunities of negotiation with other adversaries, there has never been any such opportunity with Iran, whose entire regime is predicated upon the subjugation of the West and the annihilation of Israel and world Jewry.

Remembering what that means: Obama refused to recognize that Israel’s leaders might have a better grasp of the situation than he did. He also thought it wrong that they would prioritize their nation’s security. Op-ed.

Obama and BidenOfficial White House Photo by Pete Souza.

“A Harris Victory Means a Fourth Obama Term,” proclaimed an editorial in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), and “her foreign policy aides are on board for appeasing Iran and putting restraints on Israel.”

This is far from surprising, yet is instructive to examine how Obama viewed the Middle East and Iran.

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November 2, 2024 | 8:01 am | 2 Comments »

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Kamala’s Nazis  

She’s complicit not with dead Nazis, but with live ones dedicated to killing Jews today.

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I don’t understand how we got so toxic and just so divided and so bitter,” Barack Obama wondered at a Kamala rally in Wisconsin.

A day later the Kamala campaign began accusing Trump of being Hitler.

As October surprises go, a Democrat accusing a Republican of being Hitler is as surprising as pint size witches and ghosts showing up on your doorstep on October 31. Ever since FDR accused Wendel Wilkie of using “Hitler tactics” back during the 1940 election, calling your opponent Hitler has been a rite of passage since even before Joe Biden was born.

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November 2, 2024 | 2:21 am | Comments »

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Israel’s Good News Newsletter to 27th Oct 24  

In the 27th Oct 24 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

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November 2, 2024 | 2:10 am | Comments »

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Election already in the bag??  

Peloni:  The overconfidence would seem to be bipartisan in nature, even as the Dems would seem to lack a legitimate reason for their sense of certain victory…any legitimate reason…

November 2, 2024 | 2:01 am | 4 Comments »

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Dear Jews, we have failed miserably at teaching generations one of the most important lessons of the Holocaust  

Peloni:  It seems impossible to contemplate that any Jew would vote for Kamala whose donors are specifically responsible for the financial support of the antisemitic rallies across the US, and which are left unopposed by the Kamala-Biden regime in Washington.  This reality seems rather relavant to Kamala’s desire to preserve Hamas and Hezbollah, even as Israel literally has brought these den’s of antisemitic iniquity to their knees.  The lack of self respect, self interest, and indeed self preservation demonstrated by American Jews in supporting the enemies of Jews in the US, around the world, and in the Jewish Homeland, provides antisemites, on both the Right and the Left, with a great opportunity to demonize, threaten, and assault Jews without consequence.  I hope the polls indicating the trends of continued Jewish nihilism in the US are unfounded, but then again, as Diane explains below, there is a great deal of history indicating that this trend is not terribly surprising, even as it remains terribly dangerous.

Diane Bederman | Nov. 1, 2024

Dear Jews, we have failed miserably at teaching generations one of the most important lessons of the Holocaust.

Somewhere along the way, we forgot to teach our children that a Jew is a Jew is a Jew. From time immemorial, there have been all kinds of Jews. Especially after the Enlightenment when Napoleon gave Jews their freedom from the ghettos. He declared France the homeland of the Jews, after it became obvious he could not establish their national home in Palestine.  He was one of the people most responsible for their transition from enduring medieval restrictions inside ghettos to becoming citizens of modern nation states.

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November 2, 2024 | 12:30 am | 1 Comment »

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