by Guy Millière  • Gatestone • October 10, 2024

TNetanyahu meets with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on July 25, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images)

• “[Hamas leader Yahya] Sinwar wants everyone to be a martyr—except for him.” Now he appears to want to have discussions again on the condition that the Israelis will not try to kill him during the negotiations on a deal. — David Greenfield, CEO and executive director of Met Council, August 28, 2024.
• When Israelis clamor for the release of their hostages, they are, unfortunately, just letting Hamas know what a valuable bargaining chip it has – so the price goes up. For Hamas, if the families of the hostages succeed in getting Netanyahu pushed out of office, so much the better: he will likely be replaced by a “peace” coalition who will grant massive concessions to Hamas and allow it to stay in power.

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T. Belman. Amir says that Israel’s goal is to destroy Hezbollah rather than the limited goal of returning Israelis to their homes. This is similar to our goal of destroying Hamas in Gaza.

He also said that we are now readying for war with Iran. He said we are in a race for time to destroy the nuclear facilities. But he didn’t say that we are going to bomb them. Instead he mentioned Regme change.

T. Belman. I hated the interviewer but loved Barkat’s clarity.  He said that our goal is to dismantal and get rid of Hezbollah just as our goal is to dismantal and get rid of Hamas.

He said he differed with Smotrich who wanted to keep Gaza. Birkat said he wanted another Dubai in Gaza living in peace with Israel. In this, I’m with Smotrich.

Peloni:  This story has now come full circle, from Qa’ani being with Nasrallah’s replacement when they were bombed by Israel, to him being alive and reported to soon be receiving an honorary award from Khomeni at some point in the future, and now that he is under house arrest and suffering a heart attack while being questioned about collaboration with Israel.

Iranian Sources are now claiming that Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, the Commander of the Quds Force under the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG), was not Killed by an Israeli Airstrike in Beirut and is Alive in Tehran; though he has reportedly been placed on House Arrest… pic.twitter.com/7fmFPLok6m

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) October 10, 2024

“When we saw a swarm of rockets, we understood this was the beginning” 

The founder of the IDSF movement, Amir Avivi, had predicted the impending war in 2022. Now, a year in, he already has an eye on the future and speaks about how victory will look, about the hostages in Gaza, about a solution to the polarization of society, and about Israel after the war. “I’m optimistic. We have wonderful days ahead.” A special interview.

Brigadier General (res.) Amir Avivi |  October 9, 2024

A year and a half before October 7, officers of the IDSF movement sat in the living room of Amir Avivi, the movement’s founder and CEO. They understood that something was afoot and that they must warn the security services about what was liable to happen. At the meeting, they discussed a “strategic, tectonic, global, and regional change” that we were experiencing and that would lead, in their view, to immense escalation. “When we connected the dots, we understood that we were heading for war,” Avivi recalls.

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Peloni:  Note that the resistance facing Israeli troops is being reported as being lighter than expected in Lebanon.  Also, in an interview earlier in the day, Gen. Avivi estimates that Hezbollah has only 20% of their missiles left.  On the heels of this, Hezbollah is calling for a ceasefire.  It is time for Lebanon to rise up and retake their nation as Bibi stated.

In this clash between politicians and jurists, between woke moralism and real morality, lies a question with global historical implications.

Gadi Taub | October 10, 2024

Shiri Bibas and her sons Ariel, 4, and baby, Kfir, were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023.

Of all the images of Israelis being taken hostage on Oct. 7, 2023, the most heartbreaking is that of Shiri Bibas holding her two red-headed toddlers, her face contorted in horror, as if the camera had frozen the very instant when she realized that there is no human feeling in her barbaric captors to appeal to.

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Peloni:  A remarkably inspiring speech exhibiting the wit, charm, friendship, and values of the True North, Strong and Free.  In fact, it has been too long since Canada was represented by leadership which exhibited these traits.  Consequently, it will be an important moment to see Canada represented once more by a man bearing such qualities when Poilievre retakes the Premiership and rescues the Canadian people from the unyoked tyranny which has been too long in power.

T. Belman: According to this briefing, If Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear facilities, there is a chance i will set off a nuclear explosion. As a result of this opinion and others that say the same thing, I am no longer advocating that Israel should attack these facilities.

Instead Israel should go for regime change. That means she should go after the Mullahs and the IRGC and the oil fields.

When the regime falls, the nuclear facilities can be safely dismantled.

The political correspondent of Israel's Channel 14, @Tamir114, reports that Israel significantly toughened its position on a ceasefire in Lebanon.

Before Israel decapitated Hezbollah, it was willing to compromise by accepting a very partial implementation of UN Security Council… https://t.co/QI2cofQEOe

— Mike (@Doranimated) October 9, 2024

T. Belman. Little do they know that what they hope for is already underway. Mudar Zahran will shortly the be President of the Republic of Jordan (perhaps to be renamed Palestine). As such he will be the leader of a nation of 8 million Palestinians. MBS has already indicated that he will work closely with Mudar Zahar and will see Jordan as the Palestinian State. In addition, MBS has agreed to create a ME-NATO which includes Israel. There goal is to include Syria and Lebanon. This is all set out in,

The US wants Israel dead, or at least a puppet,  and why the Jordan Option will ensure Israel’s Salvation

The are also wrong about Iran. Israel must destroy her nuclear capability and liberate the Iranians who are held hostage. The regime must fall. Israel will, in my opinion, attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and do what damage to them that she can. I am sure when Trump is inaugurated one of the first things he will do, will be to give bunker buster bombs to Israel to enable her to finish the job.

And they are wrong about MBZ. He is part of the problem and not the solution.

Finally, Hezbollah must be expelled from Lebanon. They cannot be permitted to remain there just as Iran will be expelled from Syria.

I have written to Omri Ceren who is a friend of mine and currently an advisor to Sen Cruz to share this information with him and Sen Graham.

T. Belman. I think he is wrong to suggest that the US is constrained by legal technicalities.  By not interfering they are adding to the pressure on Israel to end the war in Gaza. They do so even at great expense to the world for the cost of shipping abound Africa.

God forbid they upset Iran.

By Col (Res.) Dr. Raphael G. Bouchnik-Chen, BESA       October 9, 2024

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2, 308, October 9, 2024

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: It appears that the Western powers do not intend to exceed the parameters they have set for themselves in terms of military activity against Houthi rebel strongholds. Alarmingly, the West would prefer to be enslaved to the formula according to which only treatment of root causes – i.e, the cessation of the war in Gaza – will result in the cessation of the Houthis’ violent disruption of security in international shipping lanes. This serves the interests of the Houthis’ state sponsor and terrorist enabler, Iran, and ensures the continuation of the Houthi threat to international shipping and to Israel.

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By Malcolm Dash

The challenges Israel is currently grappling with are no less significant, and possibly even more daunting, than those faced by the nascent state of Israel in 1948. The nation clearly understands the existential peril that Israel faces. And Prime Minister Netanyahu’s keen understanding of the nation’s readiness to make sacrifices is aiding him in effectively addressing the country’s grave crises.

At long last, the Prime Minister has assumed control over the strategic objectives of the war. The plans he unveiled involve taking decisive action to eliminate Hamas’s hold on power, both militarily and politically. To destroy Hezbollah’s leadership, disarm them and remove them from southern Lebanon. And most crucially, to incapacitate Iran, the central figure behind multiple terrorist proxies, eradicating it as a source of existential danger to the Jewish state. Netanyahu has repeatedly stressed the gravity of the nuclear threat from Iran. The current public sentiment in Israel heavily leans towards endorsing a military operation against Iran’s nuclear installations.

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Peloni:  The intent of US aid in the current context is to manipulate Israel into maintaining the defense of its borders as missiles rain down on them rather than eliminating the threat which exists on the other side of those borders.  Israel must continue to ignore this imposed limitation on their sovereignty and defend itself with offensive means as it has been doing over the past year.  Of course, this war could be resolved in a much shorter time frame and with far fewer casualties on all sides if the US acted as Israel’s ally rather than that of Iran’s, but for this we will have to await the return of good governance in the US with a favorable outcome in the US next month.

Barry Shaw • JPC • October 7, 2024

(Photo: Lisa Ferdinando/ Pentagon)

The latest military aid deal from the Biden-Harris Administration to Israel.

Fine statements were made by the UN Administration over the recently announced $5.2B military aid package to Israel.

Although announced as an increase to the previous $3.3B package, this new package is strongly restricted to defensive items such as missile defense, not affirmative weaponry.

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Peloni:  The moment to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities has been long overlooked.  The time to fulfill this deficit in rational policy is now.  In the past, Bibi has been outmaneuvered and overruled by his political allies and opponents alike in coordination with American pressure, but the tides have shifted and the moment is ripe for Bibi to carry out the strike which should have been pursued at his insistence nearly 15 years ago.  The opportunity to secure Israel’s future must not be ignored again.

Big test: Will Netanyahu strike Iran against Biden’s wishes?

Joel C. Rosenberg | All Israel News | Published: October 6, 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a discussion and vote on the inclusion of MK Gideon Saar as a minister in the government at the Knesset plenum hall in Jerusalem, Sept. 30, 2024. (Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

WASHINGTON, DC — One year after the horrific invasion of Israel by Hamas from Gaza, and missile launches from Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israelis’ fury at Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu is being replaced – at least among some on the right – by newfound respect and support.

Why?

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Israel defending itself may save Western Civilization, despite the west’s disposition to whither.

By Mordechai Ben-Menachem,  7 October 2024;

On 7 October 2023, Hamas unleashed a well-planned and coordinated attack, launching 4,300 rockets in a day to divert Israel’s defence establishment from a multi-pronged ground assault on Israeli territory, with a resultant massacre of over 1,200 Israeli and international civilians; in addition to military personnel killed, including rape of women and slaughter of children, directed by Iran.

Most of these women and children were then subsequently butchered.

On 7 October 2024, Hamas fired 4 rockets, all intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome.  While 4 rockets is already 4 too many, the contrast displays the shift in the Gaza ‘section’ of this war, over the past year.

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Tierney’s Real News | October 4, 2024

By now, most of America knows that Hurricane Helene was devastating, has killed many Americans in the SE United States (and more bodies are still missing) and that the Obama-Biden-Harris regime, and FEMA, took several days to respond to the disaster and are slow-walking any help.

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Peloni: Bryen provides an important look back on vital lessons learned too late, and the consequences of those nations who still stand as poor students of history and who are still struggling to grasp the reality in which they live.  As Israel has turned the corner this past year and is facing reality as needed, it is still being restrained by the US as it fails to do the same.  Until Washington realigns its perspective with that of Israel, it will continue to rachet up the Israeli butcher’s bill, delay Israel’s victory, and render what victory is achieve as somewhat less permanent than otherwise might have been achieved.

Shoshana Bryen • JPC • October 7, 2024

(Photo: U.S. State Department)

Israel is a Western country, not immune to the Western post-Cold War belief that differences could be negotiated and diplomacy could prevail. Russia had collapsed without a shot; China had not yet risen. The “peace dividend” was a thing — Israel wanted to believe; Israel was wrong.

The Hamas “pogrom” of October 7, 2023, was not the beginning of the war and it was not the “escalation” of the war. It was the continuation of Arab-Iranian wars against Israel and the United States that began decades ago. (The first Palestine Liberation Organization summer camps teaching children to hate and kill were exposed by Life Magazine in 1970, years before the Iranian revolution.)

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Rabbi Jacob Herzog released the following statement:

Today’s information:

My dear Egyptian, did you know that President Sisi’s family owns a bank? Of course, it’s all from his modest salary.

Another Rabaa in Jordan. The new leader will feed the Muslim Brotherhood to the K9s.

Jordan. The movie has finished filming. It will soon be released in cinemas, and you will watch it in full. The title of the movie is “The End of a Kingdom.”

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