Dear Friends,
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: Israel’s interests have always been formed around seeking bipartisan support among America’ political elites. Yet, over the years, the weaponization of every aspect of politics, society and culture by the American Left’s obsession with maintaining power has led to support for Israel being very much weaponized within the American political discourse, so much so that now even funding for Israeli defensive tools such as Iron Dome have become intolerable by the ever increasingly radical Left who hold increasingly greater control within the Democratic Party. The solution to the loss of bipartisan support, unfortunately, is not something which might be influenced by Israel, despite the rhetoric of Leftists that Israel controls everything. Instead, the only possible solution will come from within American society where the presence and toleration of radicals will has generated this political shift.
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New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Photo by nrkbeta – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ SXSW 2019, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon) has in the past declared her opposition to U.S. aid to Israel for defensive weapons. But now, at a moment of maximum peril for the embattled Jewish state, which is engaged in a six-front war, and with the Islamic Republic of Iran having launched more than 300 ballistic missiles at the Jewish state in just the last month, she has gone farther still. She told a meeting of the Democratic Socialists of America that she now opposes all aid to Israel, whether for defensive or offensive weapons. More on her latest display of a deep anti-Israel animus can be found here: “Ocasio-Cortez takes hard-line stance against all military aid to Israel,” by Max Rego, The Hill, April 2, 2026:
Jalal Tagreeb
In 1950, Egypt was an economic powerhouse by regional standards. With a GDP of approximately $56.8 billion, it dwarfed the newly born State of Israel, whose GDP stood at a mere $6.8 billion — barely two years after independence. Egypt held a lead of nearly five to one. Seven decades later, Israel’s GDP exceeds $500 billion, while Egypt — despite a population almost ten times larger — struggles with chronic debt, currency devaluation, and dependence on international bailouts.
As commentator Khaled Hassan described in a recent video, the story of how Egypt went from a dominant regional economy to a nation in perpetual financial crisis is one of the most consequential and underexamined economic tragedies of the modern era. To understand it, we must look sector by sector at what collapsed, why it collapsed, and how geopolitical decisions — many made in the name of ideology or nationalism — sealed Egypt’s fate for generations.
Peloni: Egypt continues to partner with US enemies. From Egyptian industry, to Egyptian defense infrastructure, to Egyptian energy sector, to Egyptian coordination with BRICS, Egypt has demonstrated a significant shift from its former position as an American ally…and yet US aid to Egypt goes unchanged…
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Peloni: So many owe such a debt to so few.
While walking down the streets of Israel, one is literally surrounded by heroes; modest and anonymous civilians who a moment earlier were on the front lines. Over the past 40 day war our heroes fought against the Islamic Republic of Iran and her proxy forces in the air, on the sea, and on the ground creating a new reality not only in the Middle East but no less for the United States and Europe. One of these many heroes who I personally know is a pilot who flew alongside his fellow pilots thousands of missions under operational conditions that are truly inspiring and unprecedented in modern combat aerial history. I wish to thank you and your comrades for your service, for your fearlessness and modest audacity to complete “mission impossible”. I also wish to thank the hundreds of thousands of ground forces that have been on the front lines for over the past two years and have paid the ultimate price and sacrifice.
Katrina Lantos Swett & Yigal Carmon | MEMRI | April 13, 2026
Image by AartlistDesign from Pixabay
Each year, Yom HaShoah – Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day – commemorates the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. As the last living witnesses to this history rapidly disappear, this day’s importance only increases: Last year there were some 220,000 Holocaust survivors worldwide; today there are about 196,600.
Israeli Heritage Minister calls for severing all diplomatic ties with Turkey after outburst by Erdogan
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Photo by kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued his sharp rhetoric against Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the past couple of days, comparing the prime minister to Hitler, and saying he is “blinded by blood and hatred.”
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Blast site where Khamenei and dozens of the Iranian leadership were eliminated. Screengrab via X
In a highly recommended article on Tablet, “Seven Myths About the Iran War,” Mike Doran argues that public debate over a potential conflict with Iran is shaped by a series of misleading assumptions that obscure the strategic realities of the situation. He shares a list of seven common myths which have formulated and perpetuated the opposition to tackling the threat from Iran:
Peloni: For the truth about ‘Setter Violence’, please see the recent comments on this topic raised by Tablet’s Liel Leibovitz, Gadi Taub and Naomi Kahn. See also Regavim’s report on Settler Violence which Israel’s own leadership seems to have ignored HERE.
by Gerald A. Honigman
I thought the editors at the Free Press were above this…
Firstly, I realize that no nation is perfect and events occur at times deserving of legitimate and fair criticism.
Having said this, however, The Free Press recently published an article by Haviv Rettig Gur which falls into the same anti-Zionist trap that’s been around since the sole, resurrected nation of Israel Reborn survived immediate attack by a half dozen Arab nations, supplied to the hilt with enormous quantities of military equipment left over from the Rommel Campaign by the Brits and others in North Africa during WWII…
There’s no good reason for any Jew who is pro-Israel to resist using the term to describe themselves.
Moshe Philips | April 13, 2026
A panorama of the United Nations General Assembly taken in October 2012. Photo by Spiff – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, WikipediaDuring Passover, a friend asked me to recommend one book that explains why someone should be a Zionist. The nuance of the question can easily be missed: There are many very good books I could recommend to someone who wants to understand Israeli history or to get advice on how to defend against lies about the Jewish state and people.
Peloni: This would be an important conversation to have.
Mudar Zahran
Image created via AI
Hello Haviv,
Interview me for the real deal on Jordan.
Col. (res.) Shay Shabtai | BESA | April 12, 2026
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,373, April 12, 2026
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: While it is still too early to evaluate the effects of Operation Epic Fury/Roaring Lion in terms of the internal situation in Iran, it can be argued that the operation was the tipping point that took Iran from a strong theocracy to a weak dictatorship. Within this framework, we can talk about the crumbling of the idea of ??the rule of the clerics, segmentation of the regime’s top echelon, the radicalization of its strategic approach towards the region, the increasing murderousness of the regime’s repression of the population, and the economic aid to the regime’s supporters at the expense of the general public – the last of which will move into a battle for survival resulting in less protest and more violence. Iran is a completely different country from the one we analyzed prior to the most recent conflict. It is now a country that contains both risks and opportunities that require a completely new situational assessment and planning.
Peloni: What needs to be recognized is that more than a century ago, a state was created for the Muslim inhabitants of the region of the unraveled Ottoman empire which was colloquially termed Palestine. That was what is today Jordan. Recognizing this fact as an actual fact, makes the creation of a second Palestinian state irrelevant, redundant, and illegal. This is where our focus should lie. Jordan is what Oslo claimed to create, and ignoring this reality is what led to the Intifada’s, to the Gaza Expulsion of Jews, and ultimately to October 7. It is not too late to realign reality with history, and in doing so, great advantages might be gained for both Jews and the psychopathic Arab neighbors who call themselves Palestinians.
“To recognize a Palestinian state in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre, the deadliest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, and the raging multi-front war launched that day by the criminal Islamic Regime in Iran and its genocidal proxies – would not simply be a diplomatic… https://t.co/scCnBTxw2P
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Governor Ron DeSantis, Office of Governor Ron DeSantis, Public domain
None of this should be remotely controversial. Every governor should be doing the same.
Peloni: It is hard to spin this event as anything other than a complete disaster for anyone who has any sense of connection or fondness for Europe. The defeat of the Orban govt will prove to be a decisive shift towards all out surrender by Europe to its Leftist-Islamist elements. For Israel in particular, this marks an important loss of a close and valued ally who support and leadership has proven to be pivotal on many occasions.
Andrew Korybko | Apr 13, 2026
Victor Orban delivers concession speech, April 12, 2026. Screengrab via Youtube.
Most Hungarians came to take his achievements for granted and won’t appreciate what they had until it’s gone.
The EU- and Ukrainian- backed Hungarian opposition just won a two-thirds supermajority in the latest parliamentary elections that ended Viktor Orban’s 16 years in office. His crushing defeat followed the EU earlier freezing €17 billion in allocated funds on rule of law pretexts, Russiagate conspiracy theories derived from wiretaps of Orban and his Foreign Minister, and Ukrainian energy blackmail as well as threats. Liberal-globalists like Ursula von der Leyen, Alex Soros, and Donald Tusk predictably celebrated.
Peloni: Netanyahu addresses Lebaon, the breakdown in Iranian negotiations, Trump’s blockade on the Gulf, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and how current events reflect upon what is spoken each year at Yad Vashem during that solemn event.
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Peloni: Only regime change has any chance of changing anything in Iran, and only under the combined efforts of America and Israel, led by the unique leadership of Trump and Netanyahu, will such a change possibly be effected in Iran. Let us hope that they are able to rid the world of this modern day Amalek.
The Regime’s program calls for ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel’, which are not vapid slogans, but religious imperatives.
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Islamabad Talks. Screengrab via Youtube
For over 47 Years, the terrorist Iranian Regime has, directly or through proxies, attacked the US and Israel.
