By Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE  |   October 8, 2024

Palestinian Arabs celebrate Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel and pose, flashing the “V for victory” sign, with a piece of a downed Iranian missile that they moved to the town square of Dura (near Hebron), on October 1, 2024. (Photo by Hazem Bader/AFP via Getty Images)

• Palestinians have a custom of celebrating in the streets every time Israel is attacked or a Jew is murdered by terrorists.
• It is hard, if not impossible, to find one senior Palestinian official who is willing to criticize his own people for celebrating terrorist attacks. It is also hard, if not impossible, to find one senior Palestinian official who is willing to condemn the October 7 atrocities and massacres against Israelis. Palestinian leaders have good reason not to speak out: they are afraid of being killed by their own people.
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Peloni:  Highly recommended video.  Schanzer provides a clear and orderly list of options for Israel’s response to Iran.  Very sensible and rational approach.

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By Patricia McCarthy | AM Thinker | Oct 8, 2024

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“A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial:  that is when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.”  –George Orwell

The Democrats have always relied on lies, especially when it comes to their campaigns for political office.

When Hillary Clinton was running for what she deemed her rightful place in the White House, she paid for the many, many lies that kicked off the Russia hoax and led to the endless persecution via lawfare of practically everyone in Trump’s inner circle.

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By Joan Swirsky | News with Views| October 11, 2024

“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”

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Peloni:  Highly recommended review of the Levant, current and past events.

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This is just the beginning.

by Daniel Greenfield | October 11, 2024

The 2024 election may be in the foreground, but in the background, the Biden-Harris administration is moving its ‘Revenge’ plan for Israel forward.

Like its Obama predecessor, becoming a lame-duck administration frees Biden-Harris personnel to live out their dreams of going after Israel in the remaining months. Even assuming Kamala takes power, there will be a shift of personnel. And if she doesn’t succeed in seizing power, the frenzy to do as much damage before a new administration begins reversing its anti-Israel policies will be that much more urgent.

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By Robert Spencer | October 10, 2024

Send them a few hundred million more, Joe! That will solve everything!

“EXCLUSIVE: US Soldiers Trapped in Israel on Oct 7 Narrowly Escaped Being Taken Captive by Hamas,” by Jennifer Van Laar, RedState, October 8, 2024:

Forty U.S. Army soldiers who were in Israel as the advance team for what they thought was a routine training exercise last October 7 suddenly found themselves in the middle of a war, unarmed, and being forced to beg reluctant Pentagon officials to send an Air Force plane to extract them.

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Peloni:  Nothing sells like success, and it would appear that China is possibly anticipating an Israeli victory as it now specifically addresses Israel’s security concerns while foregoing its previous condemnations of the Jewish State.

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China's foreign ministry spokesperson declares that "the reasonable security concerns of Israel also need to be paid attention to." The Bloomberg reporter at the press briefing did a double-take and asked for clarification, and the spokesperson repeated…

— David P. Goldman (@davidpgoldman) October 9, 2024

Is a longtime Kamala friend part of a Hamas family?

by Daniel Greenfield | October 10, 2024

“I say this as someone who’s known her since 1997: She’s trying,” Hala Hijazi assured a panel at an anti-Israel DNC event that once she was president, Kamala would crack down on Israel.

Hijazi, a Jordanian immigrant who has roots in Gaza, is close to Kamala and they both came up through the ranks together. The Muslim official and fundraiser had worked as a special assistant to former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown whom she described as a “mentor”.

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Peloni:  It must be recalled that Europe, not America, will feel the greater effects of the NATO overreach in Ukraine.  The faux threat from Russia on the eve of the Ukraine war was always avoidable, even after the war began, yet the very real slaughter which came as a result of NATO pursuing its bad faith negotiations crafted in the guise of the Minsk Accords will have longstanding implications for the NATO members, with its American member now being even less charmed with its oversized role in the alliance and thus likely leaving its European members with a very real potential of facing any real threat in the future on their own.

No negotiations, no peace, but what about NATO?

Stephen Bryen | Weapons & Strategy | Oct 08, 2024

Kamala Harris

Presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris says she will not talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin without Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.

Ukraine’s war, which is NATO’s war, is going badly. NATO’s future is in doubt.

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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

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“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.