Peloni: MK Amit HaLevy, who is on the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, provides the reality of costs which have been paid in accepting the current plan. It is difficult to ignore the importance of rescuing the hostages, but the reality is that they were not rescued. They were bought, and at an incredibly difficult price.
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Peloni: See Laura Loomer’s Tweet at the bottome
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Today at Masjid At-Taqwa, I had the pleasure of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century. I was also joined by CM @dr_yusefsalaam of Harlem. A beautiful Jummah. pic.twitter.com/4kcN4CGlUk
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) October 18, 2025
Zohran Mamdani shares photos from a Jummah prayer at NYPD designated terrorism organization, Masjid At-Taqwa, and his “pleasure” meeting with terror supporter Imam Siraj Wahhaj—the Bed-Stuy community leader since 1981, who was named as unindicted coconspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
by Gerald A. Honigman
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak privately in the Vermeil Room before a dinner, Monday, July 7, 2025, at the White House. (Photo by The White House – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia)
Question: What is the only nation and people throughout modern history which have repeatedly been denied victory over not just their enemies, but genocidal, maniacal ones at that?
Peloni: Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the American equity terrorist group, better known as the PA, rises to the occasion of spouting recriminations against the recent acts of savagery by Hamas, acts which provide the very depiction by which the Abbas’ Fatah maintained control power in the PA. The hypocricy and the stupidity of having one terrorist charge another terrorist with “heinous crimes” isn’t even the real story to be told, as the real criminality is not that one international terrorist organization envies the success and support garnered by a rival international terrorist organization, but that either of these terrorist organizations are receiving any support by anyone in the international community. The crimes being committed against the Gazan people are the least offensive of the long retinue of slaughters which Hamas has made and which the PA has endorsed, but all of the acts of terror, slaughter and field executions have been underwritten by the West and their persistent adoption of these terrorists as being worthy of Western funding in any form at all. They should all have bounties placed upon their heads while being chased to the ends of the earth. Instead, as is true of Al Jolani in Syria, they are given the recognition and gravitas of having legitimate authority in their respective dens of iniquity, a shameful policy course which should be abandoned in preference of empowering non-terrorists instead of pretending that terrorists are capable of reform or worthy of support.
Meet PA’s Hypocrite-in-Charge.
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Mahmoud Abbas. Photo by Valter Campanato/Agência Brasil – Memoria.ebc.com.br , CC BY 3.0 br, Wikipedia
Hamas has been rounding up and executing members of the Gazan clans opposed to the terror group, without any trials. Now Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, has condemned it for this practice. More on the PA’s latest anathema directed at Hamas can be found here: “‘Heinous crimes’: PA condemns Hamas for reported executions in Gaza,” by Liran Haroni, Jerusalem Post, October
Peloni: Solutions fail to present themselves as culminating circumstances which facilitated the problem in question are preferred to making hard choices which would lead to something other than repeating the same failed policy of old. Democracies are particularly inclined towards avoiding hard choices due to the resulting electoral costs. Yet, as hard choices are avoided in preference to compromises on issues relevant to sovereignty and security, it leads to cataclysms such as was experienced on October 7, and this should have been a lesson learned too recent to have been ignored so completely.
By Robin M. Itzler | Am Thinker | Oct 15, 2025
There are some things we can predict: the sun will rise in the east, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom will make idiotic statements, and Hamas (Gazans) or other terrorists will try to break the ceasefire once they get back all their murderous thugs.
In the days immediately following President Donald Trump’s historic announcement regarding a Middle East peace plan, the world applauded. Suddenly, the global community saw celebratory dancing in the streets of Israel and Gaza and ignorantly assumed both sides were celebrating peace.
By Amil Imani | Geller Report |
Lightning cracks across America’s political skyline as Qatar’s sophisticated lobbying machine deploys over $250 million since 2016 to burrow into conservative media and influencers, aiming to fracture GOP unity on foreign policy and erode support for Israel’s security. This isn’t mere diplomacy; it’s a calculated surge, with Doha’s agents shifting more than 50% of their media outreach post-Trump’s 2024 victory to right-wing outlets like Fox News and the New York Post, pitching stories that glorify Qatar as a “peacemaker” while downplaying its ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Avi Abelow
What the world just watched over the last two years is not some random flare-up of violence. And this ceasefire deal? It’s not peace. Not even close. It’s a pause in a war that has never ended. A war that started long before Hamas. Long before the PLO. Long before there was ever a “Palestinian cause.” This is the same war that the Arab Muslim countries launched against Israel back in 1948. It is the 77th year of a war to destroy the one and only Jewish state of Israel, continuing a 1,400+ year Islamic jihad ideology.
Peloni: Will New York really come to be captured by the Islamo-Communist fusion?
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Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York won’t be that bad, right?
After all, he won’t be able to do everything that he wants to do. This is still America, and a full-on commie like this guy will encounter all kinds of roadblocks.
Won’t he?
Has Israel ever known real peace? Are the appeasers working for War or Peace?
Book of Jeremiah, chapter 6, verses 10 – 14:
“To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken; behold the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord. I am weary of holding it in: …for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, says the Lord. From the least of them to the greatest of them everyone is greedy for gain; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely. They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people, superficially saying Peace, peace when there is no peace.”
Have we been so beaten up by the antagonism of most of the world, including, rather importantly, media, education, and young people, that we are getting confused about the line between peace and war? Has Israel ever known real peace? Are the appeasers working for War or Peace?
Peloni: This is a much better response to the savagery ongoing in Gaza. In fact, this sort of heavy handed demonstration of Hamas’ return to power should have been anticipated and threats such as the one stated by Trump below should have been made explicitly clear to Hamas, if not in the deal struck, at least upon hearing the first reports of the butchery going on there. Importantly, the lack of such an explicit threat being included in the deal, or even after the slaughter began, serves very well to inform us that the concern for the Gazan people was never actually the focus which had been pretended by many over the past two years. The Gazans are, always have been, and perhaps always will be, understood to be a tool leveraged against Israel by those who feign an interest in the people of Gaza. This is why 1.5 million people have unconscionably been left trapped inside an urban war zone by the international community, with no access to flee the battlezone. In this way, Israel was left to answer for collateral casualties while also being handicapped with the needs of what is clearly an enemy civilian population, while the real interest in protecting the Gazans was coldly ignored by their so called supporters.
Hamas forces clashed with armed clans, filmed themselves executing civilians
Donald Trump speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C.. By Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia
After initially signaling his approval for Hamas’ bloody crackdown against its internal opponents, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened the terror group with renewed violence if it didn’t stop.
Peloni: Gen. Avivi explains that the recent discussions in Washington as being a form of the modern day equivalent of the Feb. 1945 Yalta Conference, where the fate of the future world was negotiated and where the New World Order which followed WWII was decided. He indicates that the importance of these negotiations are what brought the various Arab and Muslim nations to the table, and that Israel will likely being signing peace agreements in the coming years as a result of the understandings reached during this Yalta-like negotiated vision for the future.
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Peloni: In this essay, Cherie provides an important and balanced critique of Trump’s efforts to court favor with Jihadists.
Cherie Zaslawsky | Oct 16, 2025
Donald Trump speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia
Just when you think Trump has messed up bigly, he surprises you with an unexpected
Peloni: In this essay, Joan offers us an important insight into the rational behind Trump’s efforts to enter into the world of the Jihadists so as to be able to actually communicate clearly with them, and thereby negotiate in their own world, as it were, while also leveraging the most influential aspect of negotiating with a Jihadist, namely that they will be defeated and thereby humiliated should (or when) they betray any agreements struck with the US. To this point, perhaps this was the very real purpose of Israel making a limited strike in Doha in the first place.
By Joan Swirsky | Am Thinker | Oct 17, 2025
Some of the most astute writers and commentators who have weighed in on the Israel-Hamas ceasefire/hostage release/end of war issue that is on every media outlet’s front burner today and for the last few weeks is dead wrong about what they say is the foolish, dangerous, misguided, cave-to-the-terrorists, endanger Israel, empower-our-enemies choice that President Donald Trump and his negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have made in this delicate process.
by Gerald A. Honigman
As a doctoral student decades ago, in the ‘70’s, I became very interested in the struggle of scores of millions of non-Arab peoples whose plight and cause had been virtually ignored by most of the rest of the world.
While delving into the situation peoples like Egypt’s true indigenous inhabitants, the Copts, and the Levant’s Druse were facing, the primary focus of my research was on the long-oppressed Amazigh/Kabyle “Berbers” of North Africa and the Kurds of the Middle East, whose population was mainly spread across Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
Peloni: Oren makes an important point about the need to remind the world the important role played by Haj Amin al-Husseini’s leadership while opposing the establishment of the Jewish Homeland and later the Jewish State.
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Jubilation it was on Monday, when 20 live hostages – the last of the living hostages – were released by Hamas, between 8 and 11 AM, in accordance with Trump’s plan.
Janet Levy: Although I disagree with the author’s somewhat optimistic view of the viability of using clan architecture as an alternative to Hamas, I’ve highlighted key points of importance in his article.
Key points:
– American approval for Hamas to conduct Gaza security operations contradicts the so-called “peace plan” and guarantees its rebuilding.
– Hamas has endured despite military setbacks, maintaining 10-15% of its rockets, keeping its leadership in Doha, and preserving its military command structure. It has increased its reserves by 15,000 fighters and is planning for quick reconstitution.
– Clashes in some neighborhoods show that Hamas is removing other options to maintain its power.
– The security vacuum mentioned by Trump results from Hamas’s totalitarian control, which has prevented the development of alternatives.
The author sees some hope in clan administrative capabilities, which could boost economic activity, improve infrastructure, and create different social dynamics. Critics warn that empowering clans might lead to the formation of hostile fiefdoms.
– The Israeli military must stay in control throughout the transition period.
– The Palestinian Authority has proven itself completely unable to address Gaza’s urgent security needs.
– The technocratic committee described in Trump’s plan lacks enforcement power.
– Israeli military operations against Hamas must continue despite the restrictions of the American-orchestrated “ceasefire.” The terrorist group must remain legitimate military targets regardless of American statements about temporary approval.
Gregg Roman | MEF | October 15, 2025
25th anniversary of Hamas celebrated in Gaza. By Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia
The October 13, 2025, announcement that Hamas has received American approval to conduct security operations in Gaza represents a catastrophic strategic error that undermines the long-term objective of excising the terrorist organization from Gaza’s governance. President Trump’s statement that “we gave them approval for a period of time” to address lawlessness fundamentally contradicts his own 20-point peace plan’s core principle: Hamas must have no role—direct, indirect, or in any form—in Gaza’s future governance. While the remaining 19 points of the framework continue to be negotiated and implemented, this premature legitimization of Hamas’s security role virtually guarantees its complete reconstitution.
Peloni: The people of Gaza are and always have been a tool in the hands of Hamas and their international allies, supporters, and enablers. Indeed, the people of Gaza, like the people in the PA controlled territories have been weaponized over the decades to demonize, delegitimize and kill Jews. It is a whole of society objective, one which fails to address the developed barbarism which attacks Israel, and which is today overseeing the meaningless butchery of the local Gazan population. It is this institutionalized and ignored psychopathy, rather than economic deficiencies, which should be understood to be the greater concern in Gaza, in the PA, in Jordan and across the Arabian and Muslim states… Yet, long silences and faux diversions to this barbarism are all that are offered as remedies to dealing with the root of this butchery, as it is the tolerance of savagery which will prevent any peace from being long achieved. Failing to deal with the institutionalized radicalism in the society and religious centers in Gaza and elswere only serves to perpetuate war, which of course, can hardly be believed to be by accident again and again over the years.
Peloni: A very important lesson from a very related moral and strategic surrender.
The failure to decapitate the leadership of Hamas when the opportunity presented itself is one of modern Israel’s most devastating missed chances.
Moshe Phillips | October 16, 2025
Photo by Flickr – Flickr, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia
Hamas was founded in the late 1980s, and by 1992, during Yitzhak Rabin’s time as Israel’s prime minister, it had already become a major Islamic terrorist organization. It had shown a clear penchant for violence, including murder and kidnapping. Rabin initially took decisive steps to consign Hamas to the dustbin of history.
