Peloni:  During a meeting with the Emir of Qatar, Trump gave some frank and revealing statements.  Highlights below.

This is a damning reproach of Israel and its handling of the war in Lebanon and Trump argues on behalf of Turkey’s puppet in Syria, Jolani, to be trusted with doing a better job in dealing with Hezbollah without “killing everyone”.  Here is one key excerpt from Trump:

“Without the United States there would be no Israel, without me, there would be no Israel … I’ve had a great relationship with BB, but now BB has to uh be more responsible with respect to Lebanon. Lebanon used to be a great country. It was a country where you had professors, doctors, lawyers.  The great intellect was in Lebanon. Now it’s just it’s terrible. I would say of all countries they’ve been treated the worst and they can’t defend themselves and they have Hezbollah which is a problem for them. So uh no I’m not happy with the way Israel has handled themselves with Lebanon and with Hezbollah.”

Additional highlights below with my Editorial remarks following.

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Is this Chinese takeover the new reality? Or, can a coordinated effort by the U.S. and its allies challenge China’s hegemony in the region?

Janet Levy | Am Thinker | June 16, 2026

Image by DrRandomFactor – This file was derived from: China prefectural-level divisions and administrative divisions (PRoC claim).png, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia

The Iran war and the fight for control of the Strait of Hormuz—through which vital oil cargo from Gulf countries feeds the global economy—is a reminder that America must not forget the South China Sea, another strategic region where China, a greater threat than Iran, has gained alarming control over many decades.

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Peloni:  Good synopsis on Bibi Press Conference

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By Pamela Geller | June 16, 2026

Mayor Mamdani explaining how Islam and Muhammad should inspire immigration. Screengrab via X

Jihadi Mayor Zohran Mamdani gutted legal protections for Jewish New Yorkers in his first hours in office, then his administration illegally buried the records that could expose why City Hall did it, who helped shape the decision, and how far its anti-Israel agenda now reaches, a new lawsuit alleges.

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Peloni:  The rising relationship with Somaliland is a formidable achievement.  It is troubling that Trump refused to support Israeli recognition of Somaliland.

All Israel News Staff | Published: June 16, 2026

Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi inaugurates his country’s embassy in Jerusalem, with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, June 15, 2026. (Photo: Somaliland Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi officially inaugurated his country’s embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, marking another milestone in the rapidly developing relationship between Israel and the self-declared East African republic.

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Peloni:  This is an important video.  Dr. David Wurmser and Prof. Fransisco Gil-White tackle the question of what is motivating Trump’s preference to pursue a deal with Iran rather than deal with the Iranian regime as if it were the fanatical Armageddonist regime which it is.  The answer to this question will inform us as to what Trump’s real goal might be in Iran, and how dark the future appears, both for the region and the world.

Peloni: Is Saudi Arabia earnestly allying itself with Turkey against Israel?  Recall that Turkey and SA are nations with diametrically opposed ideologies and are in fact regional rivals of one another.  While Turkey seeks to recreate the Ottoman Empire, which would include the conquest of Saudi Arabi, Saudi Arabia seeks to maintain its own national order.  This raises the question as to why MBS would support such a project as the revival of the Hejaz Railway, which would not only undermine Israel’s role in the region, but the independence of Saudi Arabia as well.  Is MBS so motivated to sideline Israeli regional prominence to bolster the threat against his own regime?  I don’t think so.

Ahmad Sharawi & Sinan Ciddi

A railway originally built by the Ottoman Empire to project power across the Arab world is receiving a second lease on life as Turkey launches its latest bid to become the Middle East’s logistics hub.

An agreement signed on June 10 by Turkey and Saudi Arabia aims at reviving the historic Hejaz Railway, establishing a new trade corridor linking the Gulf to Europe through Turkey, Syria, and Jordan. Yet the project’s realization is hardly imminent. Financial and security obstacles could still prevent the railway from ever materializing.

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Peloni:  The future of the Iranian people, the region and the world face the consequences of a nuclear armed Iran, and no deal has the ability to change this reality without changing the regime in Iran for which this consequence fuels their entire existence.

by Ahmed Charai  •  June 15, 2026 at 1:00 pm

Iran cannot be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon—not under this framework, not after sixty days, not in five years, not through ambiguity, delay, concealment, or the gradual normalization of violations. Pictured: Shahin (missile) Photo by Vahid Reza Alaei – farsnews.ir, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

• The real obstacle to peace has never been the Iranian nation. It is the regime that governs Iran against the will and aspirations of its own people—a regime that behaves less like a normal state than like a revolutionary-security cartel.

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Peloni:  Forcing the Jordanian govt to deal with its support for Islamists includes its support for providing the self celebratory perpetrator of the Sbarro bombing the means to live free with impunity as she inspires the butchery, savagery and destruction of her crimes to be replicated by others.  Please consider signing the petition to bring Tamimi to justice, and to begin the reign of Islamists in Jordan begin to be challenged.

By Jonathan Feldstein

Released Hamas Terrorist Ahlam Tamimi on Palestinian Public’s Delight at Suicide Bombings. Memri TV. Screengrab via Youtube

It’s encouraging that the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is persisting with legal efforts to deport Mohsen Mahdawi, who was arrested for undermining US foreign policy and government counter-antisemitism efforts with his pro-Hamas campus activism. If successful, he will be deported to Jordan.

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Peloni:  Many of the questions in the press conference reflected the opening of the political season for the coming election, but note too that the Bibi’s answers were frank and qualifying.  Most notably, Bibi makes it very clear that he is still unaware of the terms of the presumably now signed document.   He also references and respects the relationship with the US, and is careful to explain the nature of relationship is one that requires careful handling.  While making the election pitch that the manner in which he handled this relationship is reflected in the achievements which have taken place over this past term, it must be noted that Bibi stood up to Biden when he, along with the support of  others including Eisenkot and Gantz, when he took the bold step of seizing Rafah.  So too it must be reflected upon that the IDF today remains in Lebanon in a forward position and in full possession of Beaufort Castle and beyond the Litani.  A question remains in my mind if it is believable that Bibi could reasonably withstand the pressure from Trump in demanding he evacuate Lebanon, and yet, there the IDF remains.  Much will be determined if this buffer zone is abandoned once again as has happened in the past under US pressure.  Should the IDF maintain or expand this position in Lebanon, it is a credible question of whether this is being accomplished with Trump’s support or despite it.  Stated otherwise, is it reasonable that Bibi could openly defy Trump on this point, even as he could not do so at the end of the 12 Day War when Trump demanded and end to the war?

Please see translation of Q&A section following PM Netanyahu’s speech at bottom.  

Translation of the Q&A Session of PM Netanyahu Press Conference:

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Peloni:  Batya Ungar-Sargon joins Dave Rubin to discuss the role of Jews in America and how they came to be a commodity of the Democratic party, and why the Democratic party came to turn on them.

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Avi Abelow

I know this will surprise some people.

Many are angry. Many are disappointed. Many feel betrayed by reports of a Trump-Iran deal.

Me? I want to say thank you.
Thank you, President Trump.

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Peloni: It is interesting that Vance complains that Israel is reacting to reports on the news when it is Vance and the US administration which has kept the terms of the deal secret.  Also, while claiming that the US has all the cards, Vance fails to explain why he is offering Iran an even sweeter deal with front loading the lifting of the embargo.  The desperation being exhibited by Trump and Vance to advance this deal to negotiate a deal, at this specific time, is very clear, even as the unstated reason has yet to be revealed.

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Peloni: This video provides an important backdrop for the candidacy of Gadi Eisenkot.  From the tragedy surrounding the death of his sin and two nephews to his role in the IDF to his role on the Israeli War Cabinet to his challenge against Bennett to lead the anti-Bibi opposition.

I think more time should have been spent on teasing apart Eisenkot’s actions while he was on the War Cabinet. This should be his greatest selling point, but in fact I think it is actually his greatest liability.  His stern opposition to the Rafah campaign, in support of the US order of “Don’t” will be a difficult reality for him to overcome. Also I am surprised that there was no mention in this video about Eisenkot’s ambitious Aliyah reform plan.

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Peloni:  Additional concerns from an early poll:   Two years, out, Vance remains clear frontrunner for 2028 GOP primary

President Trump reportedly cracking down on opposition to the emerging Iran deal, and is threatening to fire any administration officials who refuse to back an interim agreement.

By World Israel News Staff | June 15, 2026

Photo by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – J. D. Vance, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

Vice President JD Vance has played a central role in shaping President Donald Trump’s increasingly critical view of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to an Israel Hayom report on tensions inside the White House over the emerging US-Iran agreement.

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By Hugh Fitzgerald | June 14, 2026

Anti-aircraft guns (Samavat 35mm Anti Aircraft Guns (Oerlikon 35mm)) guarding Natanz Nuclear Facility, Iran by Hamed Saber, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0

Hmm. What’s wrong with this picture? Trump keeps saying, and Vance dutifully echoes him, that a deal is “close” that will ensure that Iran surrenders all of its stockpile — some 140 kg. — of uranium that had been enriched to a just-below-weapons-grade of 60%. But surely, then, Iran shouldn’t be making it harder — perhaps impossibly harder — for that uranium to be retrievable.

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Peloni:  Israel is the model around which the Westphalian system of nation states will be revived or fail.  Only thru the the active support of national identity informed and enforced around a nation’s sovereign actions will the model of nation states survive.  Bravo to Yehudit Katsover & Nadia Matar whose efforts advocating these realities have led the state with a sense of vision and significance which must be harnessed and pursued in order to succeed in this endeavor.

Yehudit Katsover & Nadia Matar, co-chairs of the Sovereignty Movement | Ribonut.co.il | June 15, 2026

Israeli flag at Masada Public Domain. Wikipedia

At a time when the West is grappling with a crisis of identity and the rise of fundamentalist Islamism, Israel is doing more than defending itself—it stands on the front line of a broader struggle for freedom, identity and democracy.

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Peloni:  Rabbi Pesach Wolicki describes the important context about Iran’s manipulation which Washington seems oblivious regarding Iran’s having manufactured the crisis in Beirut which ultimately brought Trump to sweetened the deal for Iran.

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Peloni:  This was a very important clarification.  I am glad to see Netanyahu make this stand.  I only hope that he can hold up under US pressure in the coming days.  As we move closer to the new deadline for the signing of the deal which has theoretically already been adopted, the pressure for him to capitulate to Washington’s demands will likely increase.

National security minister: Israel is ‘grateful to Trump, but not a banana republic’

All Israel News Staff | Published: June 15, 2026

IDF soldiers operating in Southern Lebanon area, June 11, 2026 Photo: IDF

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. President Donald Trump that Israel is not bound by the Lebanon clause of the Iran deal, which would restrict Israel’s actions against the Hezbollah terrorist organization.

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