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In times like these, clear, factual, and courageous voices for Israel are more important than ever. The mission of Israpundit has always been to share truth, defend Israel against misinformation, and give readers a place to find clarity and conviction.
Peloni: This is an important discussion between Chris Cuomo, Israeli Special Ops veteran Aaron Cohen, former CIA Special Agent Tracy Walder, and former political prisoner and NYU International Affairs Prof.
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Over the past decade, Iraq’s government has empowered Iranian-backed militias, which in turn used Iraqi territory to carry out hundreds of attacks during the war.
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN |
Iranian missile attack on Kurdish forces in Erbil Iraq. Screengrab via Youtube.
Many countries in the region are breathing a sigh of relief following the ceasefire between the US and Iran, as the Middle East was plunged into a war that most of them did not want.
Peloni: Rabbi Pesach Wolicki talks with Dr. David Wurmser about the strategic situation in Iraq, Lebanon, and the broader war involving Iran, in which Wurmser explains that many common assumptions about these conflicts are fundamentally flawed.
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Arabs’ illegal planting on Jewish farms is a microcosm of their strategy to encroach on all of Judea and Samaria.
Im Tirtzu – Planting Hope: 100 Trees at Avichai Farm. Screengrab via Youtube
Sometimes seemingly small actions bespeak a world of larger intentions.
by Gerald A. Honigman
David Ben-Gurion (First Prime Minister of Israel) publicly pronouncing the Declaration of the State of Israel, May 14 1948, Tel Aviv, Israe. Photo by Rudi Weissenstein – Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Public Domain, Wikipedia
The following interesting post appeared on Facebook, and I felt compelled to respond and add my own insights as well afterwards.
So, please begin by reviewing what the author has written in this first link, along with my initial response…
Peloni: Iran’s opportunity to free itself from its chains of oppression by the Mullahs and the IRGC is something which only the Iranian people can achieve. With proper conditions and international support, the people can choose their path forward, all of which I hope to see as being more than an empty promise in the coming days, weeks or months.
By | April 10, 2026
By Elke Wetzig (User:Elya) – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia
Analyst Zvika Klein thinks regime change will come to Iran only after the hot war is over, and it will be a task for the Iranian people alone to undertake, as they yet again go out into the streets to protest against a regime that is now a shadow of its former self.
Peloni: I continue to be disappointed in Trump’s response to Carlson and his ilk, making it a personal contest rather than one of clearer distinction, which it is. Trump vs Carlson is not about personalities, it isn’t about intelligence, and it isn’t about popular support. Instead, it is a contest between good and evil. Trump is fighting antisemitism in the US while Carlson and his friends are supporting it, normalizing it, and weaponizing it. Trump is simultaneously risking his political capital to end the rule of an expansionist death cult intent upon becoming a nuclear power with the means to achieve this goal in the very near future, while Carlson is working diligently to utilize his large viewership in America to make sure that this nightmare scenario comes true.
Peloni: As if on queue, Pakistan demonstrates for the world that their role in being chosen as the intermediary for peace talks has nothing to do with seeking peace. Pakistan is not remotely a fair arbiter for peace. As I have noted previously, they were chosen for their connection to China so as to convey Chinese influence over the Iranians to end the war before China loses all access to gulf oil, which is a real possibility should Iran persist in the war and its threats to target regional energy targets further. Note the Force majeure already declared on Chinese contracts for LNG exports by Qatar after having suffered significant damage by Iran’s attacks, something which would be further expanded if the US followed thru on its threats to target Iran’s economic system.
DM Asif calls Israel ‘evil and a curse for humanity’ and the ‘true and eternal enemy’ of Muslim world
| Published: April 10, 2026
Israeli leaders slammed an antisemitic post on ? by Pakistan’s defense minister on Thursday, just hours before his government was due to host talks aimed at a permanent ceasefire between Israel, the United States, and the Iranian regime.
Peloni: Was the rescue mission a cover story for a failed op on the Ishfahan nuclear site? Interesting supposition.
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Peloni: It will be difficult for Iran to end this war on Trump’s terms, and it will be impossible for Trump to end them on Iran’s terms. So there is a deep disconnect at play between these two adversaries, which is why Washington is using a Chinese affiliated Pakistani intermediary in the negotiations. Pakistan will place as much pressure on Iran as possible using the influence of Iran’s highly valued customer/patron in Beijing. In fact, it is difficult for psychopaths to deal with reality, so using the Chinese to motivate the Iranians to come to terms with the US was an important gambit, even as the outcome of this ‘negotiation’ continues to clearly remain tenuous at best.
Avi Abelow | Israel Unwired | April 9, 2026
Everyone is asking the same questions right now…So Is there a ceasefire now or not? What is going on? Is the war over? Who won???
We were all bracing to end the Passover holiday and hear the news about bringing down the Islamic regime of Iran, as President Trump threatened.
Instead we ended the holiday hearing Trump talking about a two-week ceasefire and that “all the military objectives have already been achieved”.
Arlene Kushner | April 9, 2026
Trump. Gage Skidmore via Flickr, Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0. Wikipedia
In my last posting – https://arlenefromisrael.info/because-we-must-is-why/ – I had praised President Trump highly because he was politically astute enough to recognize the dangers of Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, and responsible enough to pull the US out of that deal and reimpose sanctions on Iran.
Who could have imagined that, less than a week later, I would find it necessary to take a very different tone.
Peloni: In an important article, foreign policy analyst and expert on US-Israeli relations, Mitchel Bard explains that Israel faces a significant strategic dilemma in dealing with Hezbollah in Lebanon for which no good options exist. The continued threat posed by a heavily armed Hezbollah, but potential strategies such as containment, escalation, or reoccupation all carry significant risks.
Reoccupation of southern Lebanon could result in pushing Hezbollah north of the Litani River, but it would not eliminate the threat of Hezbollah’s long-range missile capabilities, nor would it prevent it from rebuilding north of the Litani. Previously, Israel has relied upon deterrence and limited strikes, but this failed, as Hezbollah continued to strengthen and prepared for a large-scale attack similar to Hamas’s October 7 assault.
Peloni: Perfectly stated.
Weakness in the face of evil isn’t peace. It’s serving evil.
by
“And they breaking of My people easily, saying, “Peace, peace,” but there is no peace,” Jeremiah 6:14
Everyone who is anyone is calling for peace. The calls for peace, Pope Leo’s ‘Vigil for Peace’ and the protests of peace might have been of more use when Iran had been conducting a Jihad against us for 47 years, killing over 1,000 Americans, kidnapping, torturing and holding others hostages, firing rockets, plotting assassinations and doing other rather ‘un-peaceful’ things.
Peloni: When we look back at this moment from the distance of the future, we will see that great risks were taken in this war, and that great victories were certainly achieved. Yet, if the coming days see the entrenched evil regime in Iran to maintain control over that powerful and important nation, it is impossible to argue that a grave mistake of incalculable degree loomed large over all the victories of this war.
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Barry Shaw | The View from Israel | Apr 07, 2026
Anti-Hamas Militia, Popular Forces in Gaza. Screengrab via Youtube
According to reports from April 7, 2026, an anti-Hamas militia in Gaza, commonly referred to as the Popular Forces or Popular Resistance Militia and backed by Israel, claimed to have eliminated Musa Al-Aidi, a commander of Hamas’s Sahem Unit.
Jafaj | April 8, 2026
Restock. Relocate. Reactivate. And now—take inventory.
In a prior JaFaJ piece, I compared Iran’s behavior to The Mouse That Roared: a movie from the 60’s where a structurally weaker actor (Mouse) initiating conflict not to win outright, but to manipulate the outcome. The analogy holds—not just as metaphor, but as a framework.
We are not watching peace unfold. We are watching a controlled pause—an operational reset by a constrained power optimizing for leverage – an international game of cat and mouse.
Peloni: The Chinese blink in pushing its Iranian pawn towards negotiating was an incredible development. It demonstrates China’s vulnerability which was being manipulated by Trump’s threat to trigger sending the entire Middle East energy sector back to the stone age. Given China’s role in securing Iran’s support in the ceasefire, it will be interesting to see how far the Iranians will go to prevent reigniting the war. As of now, the ceasefire is said to be shaky, but will Iran ignore China and withdraw from the ceasefire? It doesn’t seem likely. If this conclusion proves correct, Iran would have abandoned its Hezbollah proxy to comply which China’s push to strike a deal with the US, as the main focus of the IAF is no longer set largely on Iran. These are important developments, while we are still waiting for some inkling into what the Iran-US deal might actually be, given Trump’s announcement that the official form of the Iranian 10 Point Plan is not what is currently being discussed by the media.
Andrew Korybko | Apr 08, 2026
Iranian strike in Omani oil infrastructure prior to ceasefire. Screengrab via Youtube
The sequence that Trump threatened if no deal was reached before the expiry of his deadline would have cut China off from half of the oil that it imported by sea last year and likely set Afro-Eurasia aflame in resource wars for the indefinite future that would have derailed China’s superpower rise.
Peloni: Trump refuses to release the details of what is being negotiated after referencing the Iranian 10 Point Plan, which is a surrender plan for the Us, and then he complains that there is a great deal of disinformation being discussed. Perhaps the lack of clarity on this topic was necessary for Trump’s negotiations to move forward, but it is also this which has caused the wellspring o what Trump describes as uninformed disinformation being spread throughout the media. So, for the moment, we don’t know what we don’t know, even as we are being told that it is somehow related, in one form or another, to a plan put forward calling for America to all but capitulate to Iran on nearly ever topic. For the full report by Mark Stone about his talk with Pres. Trump see HERE. For more on Trump’s comment, see HERE.
What’s going on in the US-Iran negotiations? Bottom line, we don’t know. Listen to the clip below from @Stone_SkyNews, Mark Stone, the US Correspondent for Sky News. Here’s a little background.
Iran published a list of ten maximalist demands. Trump then posted on Truth… pic.twitter.com/93wpXc9MoR
— Mike (@Doranimated) April 8, 2026
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