by Robert Williams  •  Gatestone Institute • October 22, 2024 at 5:00 am

The world’s political elites apparently cannot forgive Israel for seeking to defend itself, and rid the world of terrorists working to destroy both America and Western civilization. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has lamented Israel’s continued successful attempts at destroying one of Iran’s proxy armies. When Israel took out Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, one of the world’s most dangerous arch-terrorists, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres could barely hold back his disappointment. Pictured: Borrell (L) and Guterres at the UN headquarters in New York, September 18, 2022. (Photo by Craig Ruttle/Pool/Getty Images)

• [T]he West’s political “elites” condemned Israel for defending itself by targeting Hezbollah’s leadership.
• There was no mention of international law for Hezbollah’s unprovoked, year-long attacks: bombardments of missiles and attack drones every day at a country smaller than New Jersey.

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Peloni:  The Lebanese have no interest in achieving their own emancipation from Hezbollah.  They will wait for Israel or some other nation to do this for them, but they will not do so themselves.

The Iranian-backed group has deep popular roots, and its degradation or elimination will have to rest equally on military defeat coupled with political and social pressure

Peloni:  Kamala is a presidential candidate that never won a single primary, and whose candidacy didn’t garner a single vote.  She didn’t earn her position as the Democratic Presidential nominee any more than she earned it to be the VP, as she was one of the first contenders in 2020 to drop out of the race, not having one a single primary in that election either.  The consequence of her candidacy-by-appointment is that she is completely inarticulate and incapable of actually discussing her own policies even with light touch interviews.  Her latest interviews with Fox News and now a CNN Town Hall have only highlighted incapacity to answer questions, earning the description of “word salad” responses by critics on both the Left and Right. It is as if both she and her campaign were just going thru the motions, knowing that the election had already been won…

Peloni:  US foreign policy has been on the wrong foot for the past more than 20yrs, and the eventuality of a world power lacking the means to defend itself or its allies is the sad consequence of such military misadventures as Iraq, Libya and Serbia…and of course Ukraine.  Indeed, instead of making Russia an ally, the US placed the world on a path of war, even as the US knowingly lacked the means to quench the many fires which were anticipated to arise as a result of this war policy.  While impossibly expensive war systems have been made in small quantities in the West, the Russians have pursued a policy of thrift, producing far less expensive hardware at scale.  The result of this insanity is that as the Russians have now been placed on the defensive, with their home territory invaded by a grifting US proxy in Ukraine, all of NATO now sits on the precipice of reality in which each NATO member state is anxiously awaiting to see if Russia might act with more or less civility towards them than they, the democratic powers of the world, acted towards Russia.  In fact, Putin is not isolated from his people in recognizing the war hungry strategy which dominated the West since the Russians de-Sovietized themselves, as the Russian people are well aware of the Russian animus which has fed the bipartisan pro-war parties all across NATO.  This insanity will either end with the adoption of a pan-European security apparatus which includes Russia, or it will end very badly for all sides.  And all the while, China is benefiting from every day and every dollar spent in the West to push and keep Russia within the Chinese sphere of influence.  Such utter folly.

Stephen Bryen | Weapons & Strategy |Oct 23, 2024

Caracal Air Assault Vehicle

The German Kiel Institute has published a disturbing, but accurate report on German and European defense.  The report suggests that the overall picture for Germany, Europe and the United States, is grim. The bottom line is that despite all the NATO war talk, NATO (including the United States) is not ready for any conflict with Russia. It also suggests that the pricing of defense equipment is making defense companies rich, but not helping the overall cause of security.

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Peloni:  The Free World is forcing the Gazans to remain in Gaza, even against the will of the Gazans themselves.  Facilitated emigration is a humane, reasonable, and equitable approach to removing the Gazans with their psychopathic Jew-Hatred to some other land in which they would not have the opportunities to act on that psychopathy as they have while living in arms reach of the Jews of Israel.  Indeed, the international community, having funded and organized the toxic Jew Hatred within the Pals thru UNWRA, they refuse to allow any consideration of  permitting the Gazans to emigrate, even to avoid them being used as human shields during war.  Of course, the only interest which the international community has with regards to the Gazans is, in fact, to see that they continue to be weaponized against the people of Israel.

Yair Lapid, leader of the opposition, condemned the conference as a sign that the “Ben Gvir” faction has taken control of the Likud party

i24NEWS | October 21, 2024

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on the Temple Mount, August 13, 2024Haim Goldberg/Flash 90

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir ignited a firestorm of criticism during a conference focused on Jewish settlements in Gaza, held on October 21, 2024.

In his remarks, Ben Gvir suggested that if desired, Israel could renew settlement efforts in Gaza, specifically mentioning the possibility of rebuilding former communities such as Kfar Darom and Netzarim.

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Peloni:  Of course, as the US is one of the greatest funders the terrorist ridden UNWRA, it would be quite inconsistent should they not try to block this bill.  It is not a mistake that the US is funding the radicalization of the Pals by UNWRA.  It is quite simply US policy.  With the single exception of the Trump administration, the purposeful and unadulterated endoctrination of Jihadi ideology among the Pals is in fact the entire raison d’être behind the creation,  continuation, and expansion of UNWRA…which is of course why it must be banned regardless of what this or any other American administration wants.

Israeli lawmakers described a frantic diplomatic blitz by US, European officials to stop a Knesset vote next week

All Israel News Staff | Published: October 22, 2024

Activists protest against United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) outside their offices in Jerusalem, March 20, 2024. (Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The Biden administration has been exerting massive pressure on Israeli lawmakers in recent days, demanding they stop the ‘UNRWA ban’ legislation planned for next week.

On Monday, Israel Hayom reported that U.S. officials, such as Ambassador Jack Lew, urged Israeli coalition and opposition party heads not to provide their support for the bills.

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Garland Favarito tweeted the following:

“WHY would anyone want to conduct a cybersecurity “exercise” on Election Day?”

The Homeland Security community of vendors, contractors and government agencies is coming for a large critical infrastructure conference that includes a “tabletop” cybersecurity threat exercise on Election Day in Atlanta, the capitol of one of the most hotly contested battleground states in America. It is reminiscent of the NORAD federal agency conducting aero defense exercises while we were attacked on 9/11. The exercise sponsored by the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association International (AFCEA), begs for specific answers to a variety of serious questions:

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Focusing on false timelines instead of victory plays to America’s counterproductive prescriptions for Israel, especially now that Israel is finally turning the tide of war in its favor.

By ERIC R. MANDEL | OCTOBER 20, 2024

President Isaac Herzog meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Tel Aviv, in May. The Biden administration is focusing on false timelines instead of long-term victories, especially now that Israel is turning the tide of war in its favor, the writer argues.  (photo credit: TOMER APPELBAUM/FLASH90)

The US and Israel are considering how today’s wars can lead to a more stable tomorrow.

One of the most detrimental decisions that American foreign policy strategists make regarding the Middle East is to begin their policy discussions by prioritizing how to exit and wind up kinetic actions before we delineate our goals and define victory.

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The homes of senior Iranian officials have been added to the possible targets of Israel's imminent retaliatory attack, Israel's Channel 14 reported citing multiple sources, in reaction to a Hezbollah attack on the residence of Israeli PM @Netanyahu.
According to Channel 14, a… pic.twitter.com/JrptSuNSeT

— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) October 21, 2024

Peloni:  Pennsylvania was a must win for Kamala, and base upon the results of Quantum computing, it looks like she is going to win it handily, even while the Republicans are somewhere between pretending and honestly blind as to what is coming.

This was always the problem with the notion that Republicans should simply join the ballot harvesting game and out do the Democrats at their own game.  Indeed, the folly in this premise is that ballot harvesting is the Democrats’ game, and they have the expertise in this legitimized game of cheating.  When the Republican claims of potential victory finally catch up with the reality that they have lost Pennsylvania, how much campaign cash will have passed thru and to the hands of the relevant players, and regardless of every excuse which might be mustered, it appears pretty certain that Kamala will not be stopped in Pennsylvania.

Numbers do not lie. Republican grifters do. Total collapse of the numbers for GOP in Pennsylvania

Omega4America | Oct 23, 2024

The StopBogusBallots team, led by Peter Bernegger is not only tracking every BS ballot cast in Pennsylvania, it is tracking every ballot.

No good news here for the Trumpsters!

As of 10/18 at 8:00 AM, the Democrats had 1,017,055 ballots approved to be mailed out.

The Republicans – 502,805

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Rabbi Jacob Herzog tweeted the following:

This is what will happen in Lebanon during the next four years. Save this tweet, take a picture of it, and remember it.

The war will continue and will not stop. We want the rapid bleeding of Hezbollah.

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Peloni:  Will the Dems lose the Blue Wall again?  Well, it looks like they will hold Pennsylvania pretty handily.

There’s No Time Left To Stop It

Mary Rooke  | Daily Caller | October 22, 2024

Photo by Andy Manis/Getty Images 

Democrats are waking up to the nightmare that the 2024 election is not trending well for Vice President Kamala Harris.

While there are different avenues for both presidential candidates to win enough Electoral College votes to take the White House, Harris must win the three states that make up the “blue wall:” Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. These states, also known as the “Rust Belt,” flipped to Trump in 2016 but went blue in 2020 with President Joe Biden and are still Harris’ best chance of winning in 2024.

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This isn’t the first time that the United States has tried to stop the success of the Israel Defense Forces. It happened in 1973, too.

Moshe Phillips | October 22, 2024

U.S. President Richard Nixon, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 1, 1973. Credit: Oliver F. Atkins Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Right on cue, as soon as Israel began striking at Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, the Biden administration and the government of France rushed to demand a “ceasefire.”

And where did those demands for a ceasefire lead? Hezbollah became emboldened. This past Shabbat during the Sukkot holiday, Hezbollah succeeded in using a drone to attack the Caesarea private residence of the Netanyahu family. The attack cracked glass in a bedroom window.

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Peloni:  Simple facts which should be revisited more often than they are which is nearly never.

Dan Linnaeus tweeted the following:

Israel’s consistent position is that when Jordan illegally annexed Judea and Samaria between 1948 and 1950, the United Nations failed to protect Israel’s claims established under the San Remo Resolution (1920) and Israel’s Declaration of Independence (1948).

The San Remo Resolution of 1920, part of the post-World War I settlement incorporated the Balfour Declaration of 1917, mandating that the British oversee the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” within the British Mandate for Palestine. This was formally adopted by the League of Nations in 1922—the post-Ottoman framework under which the Balfour Declaration and the San Remo Resolution were to be implemented.

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Peloni:  Trump’s campaign moves in NY and CA demonstrate a great deal of confidence in the campaign.  He has once again presented a strong campaign, and these moves into Democratic strongholds will help shore up Republican victories down ballot.

By Andrea Widburg | Am Thinker | October 22, 2024

Image: X screen grab.

Yesterday, Donald Trump joined Fox News host Lawrence Jones at a Bronx barbershop. Trump, a Queens native who spent a lot of time on construction sites, was clearly at home among these guys in a way that Kamala and Walz never could be. (JD Vance would be at home there, too.) There was no fakery. Trump may be a billionaire, but these are his people—and because Trump is real, he understood the pain the barber’s hyper-inflated energy bills are causing him. That pain and Trump’s recognition explains why he’s campaigning in New York, a place that ought to be a no-win for a Republican.

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Peloni:  The delivery of aid into Gaza must become rigorously controlled by Israel, just as the remaining Hamas guerrillas are eliminated.  These are each outstanding requirements by which control over Gaza will be achieved.

By John Spencer |  October 22, 2024

Video grab of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in an arm chair before he was killed. The Israeli military has shared a clip of Sinwar’s last moments. AP

Last week, in a surprising chance contact, Israeli forces eliminated the leader of Hamas and the mastermind of the October 7 massacre, Yayha Sinwar. Like the death of Osama bin Laden 10 years after 9-11, Sinwar’s death gives strategic closure to many people in Israel; Sinwar was the mastermind and commander of the deadliest massacre against Jews since the Holocaust, and the atrocities of October 7 caused deep psychological trauma for Jews, along with a loss of personal security that will be felt for a long time. The closure Sinwar’s death provides Israeli’s population is important for their moving forward and healing as a nation.

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Barbara Diamond | October 21, 2024

The news of the past few days in Israel has been explosive. The almost accidental killing of Yahwa Sinwar has been greeted around the world with massive relief. The head of the Hamas serpent has been severed. The rest of its body is left twisting in the wind. That is not to say that Israel’s war with Hamas is over… but it has decimated the leadership, leaving small armed cells which are being rooted-out along with the weapons which remain in Hamas hands. We will know when the work is completed…quite simply, when the rockets from Hamas cease.

The massive leak of top-secret Israeli -shared information from the Pentagon has thrown a wrench into US-Israel relations. In a world of digital hacking, those who have sought to do damage to Israel’s plan to attack Iran can claim that Iran stole the information, rather than someone within the U.S. Military chain of command or the White House, leaking what had been shared. An internal investigation as to “who is at fault” will no doubt be a complete cover-up as previous investigations have been when they embarrass the powers-that-be.

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Stay on target.

J.E. Dyer, a retired Naval Intelligence officer, blogs as The Optimistic Conservative, October 20, 2024

In the aftermath of Yahya Sinwar’s death, it’s easy to get distracted by both the incessant deluge of new events and the erroneous but common assumption that “ending the war” is now about getting the remaining hostages back.

In the interest, precisely, of not being thus distracted, I want to keep this brief and start not with a summary from the last 24 hours, absorbing though its details may be, but with a direct statement of priorities for the immediate future.

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