Peloni:  As the Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy has come to focus upon burden sharing among its allies and partners, it becomes critical to properly vet those allies and partners as being reliably supportive of US interests.  The fact that Turkey violated its support of its alliances with Washington and the West is what drew Trump’s ire when Erdogan first took possesion of the Russian S-400.  Simply parting with the possession of this weapon system can not be the basis of restoring faith in Turkey as a reliable or dependable partner.  Its vocal abuses and threats to well established US partners demonstrates that Turkey is not worthy of any level of trust which might be placed in it divesting itself of the Russian war system.  So, why is Trump placing so much Trust in Turkey?  And why should Trump’s partners and allies do the same?

Sinan Ciddi | July 10, 2026

President Trump departed the NATO Summit in Ankara without announcing Turkey’s reinstatement in the F-35 program, a major disappointment to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

This omission is significant because it highlights the broader strategic issue at stake.

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Peloni:  Are these the sort of reforms regarding Pay For Slay that the Board of Peace was looking for in the PA before once again empowering that terror organization with the means to weaponize their Jew Hatred against the Israeli people?  Peace can not be forced between parties who are openly hostile, and the terrorist sourcing of the American equity in the PA should then clearly be a Red Line to any hope of achieving peace, as is clearly demonstrated here.  Oslo placed these terrorists in a position of power over their constituency without any interest in how that would actually isolate and eliminate the voices of any Arabs who actually  might have been interested in seeking peace with Israel.  As the Board of Peace is leaving Hamas armed in Gaza, and is once again turning to its terror equity in the ‘reformed’ PA for leadership qualities which no self respecting terrorist could muster, this same crime is being committed against the Israeli people, using the crime of once again empowering terrorists to silence any possible hopes of peace which might exist in the Gazan population.  American Peace Processors should divest themselves of doing the same thing over and over again, while pretending it is different.   It isn’t different, and in many ways it is worse, because they should know better after playing this game so many times in the past with the singular outcome of dismal failure which cost the lives of far too many.

By Robert Spencer | July 10, 2026

Parade of Palestinian Mujahideen, Hadi Mohammad, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

The Palestinian Authority pays people to murder Israelis, and the international community stands by and says “the ‘Palestinians’ need more aid.”

“Martyrs’ families receiving double Pay-for-Slay allowances,” Palestinian Media Watch, July 7, 2026:

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US CENTCOM is ‘coordinating with both countries to move forward’

Hanan Lischinsky | All Israel News | Published: July 10, 2026

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The Israeli withdrawal from two “pilot zones” in southern Lebanon is set to begin in the coming days, The Times of Israel (TOI) reported on Thursday, as the next round of negotiations between Lebanon and Israel is set to be held in Rome next week.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Rahm Emanuel, March 26, 2015. Screengrab via Youtube

Former Barack Hussein Obama’s (the most blatantly anti-Israel President in history, with Jimmy Carter a close second) chief of staff and Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel, is contemplating a White House run à few years from now. See below…

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Peloni:  Not for the first time, Rahm Emanuel plays the part of the Court Jew to his progressive allies, spouting lies, demeaning the Jewish state, while attempting to dissemble the raison d’etre on which the Jewish state was founded, namely providing the Jewish people with the means and capabilities of choosing their own destiny as a sovereign people.  Instead, Emanuel would have the Jewish state subordinate its own sovereign judgements to support the nihilistic values of the Democratic Party, which itself has adopted entirely Jew Hating positions among other bizarre and deviant policies.  Shame on Rahm Emanuel for failing both his nation of American and simultaneously the Jewish people as well, but then again, as I noted above, we have seen his craven want of courage, independence and good judgement play out before.  Bipartisan support for Israel was not something that was bought at the price of Israel sacrificing its own interests as Emanuel would require.  Instead, bipartisan support for Israel is something that came from a broad consensus of Americans, voicing their support for a strong, proud, independent and viable Jewish state.  The fact that the Democratic Party has entirely wiped itself free of any connection to either its past values or its support for Jews or the Jewish state can not possibly gain the support of Israel, and if it did, it would only serve to further degrade both the reason that Americans support Israel, as well as any hope that Israel might help influence the Democrats into regaining any semblance of their former selves.  Indeed, instead of Israel subordinating its values to support the new Democratic party which has gained the support of Rahm Emanuel, the new Democratic party should subordinate its wokish, nihilistic, demagoguery to the values which inspire the Israeli people, because these are the values on which the American nation was founded, which brought America to become the pinnacle of success which led the world to follow her example, and which is the only means by which America might rise to that level of greatness again.  Indeed, Making America Great is not a Republican virtue, but unfortunately, only the Republicans have the sense to want to see their nation succeed and prosper, and in so doing, their support for the plucky Jewish state remains firmly in place.

By Geller Report Staff | July 9, 2026

Rahm Emanuel, taking a phone call. Photo by Tim – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia

The now irrelevant Obama has been means to get into the 2028 Presidential race. How does he make waves and get publicity? By attacking the Jewish state. Sick.

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Zineb Riboua | RFE/RL | July 8, 2026

Zineb Riboua. Screengrab via Youtube.

The elaborate state funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was designed to project continuity and strength. But beneath the carefully choreographed images, questions remain about who now holds power inside Iran.

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Arlene Bridges Samuels | CBN Israel | July 3, 2026

2023 Hezbollah drill in Aaramta. Photo by Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

The Israel Defense Forces recently uncovered a fortress-like underground complex beneath the streets of southern Lebanon containing eight tons of explosives, fifty drones capable of flying 150 miles, and facilities designed to house hundreds of terrorists. Hidden from view for years, it functioned as a subterranean drone airport where Hezbollah pilots prepared attacks against Israel. It was a carefully engineered center of terror constructed directly beneath civilian communities.

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Mudar Zahran

THE BIGGEST ENEMY OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE ISN’T ISRAEL – IT’S JORDAN’S HASHEMITE REGIME

?? For decades, the Hashemite regime has enforced a systematic policy of discrimination against Jordanians of Palestinian descent—targeting their businesses, shutting them out of government… pic.twitter.com/9ozzzXEaDB

— Mudar Adnan Zahran ??? ????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) July 9, 2026

 For decades, the Hashemite regime has enforced a systematic policy of discrimination against Jordanians of Palestinian descent—targeting their businesses, shutting them out of government jobs and higher education, and denying them equal opportunities.

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Excerpted from the novel, The Second Catastrophe:  A Novel About a Book and its Author (Mantua Books, 2003)

By Howard Rotberg

Author’s note: This is from my novel about Israel during the Second Intifada and about a professor writing a controversial book claiming a Second Shoah is underway, when his daughter gets injured in a terrorist attack at a Jerusalem restaurant. The professor contemplates the significance of 9/11 and whether the world will learn anything at all from it.

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Peloni;  Rabbi Pesach Wolicki suggests that regime change may be closer than we think.  So is it?  The unscripted president may offer some insights on this possibility.

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Peloni:  Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, Turkey expert at the Moshe Dayan Center, explains the importance which Turkey represents to Europe, Russia, Ukraine and the US.  

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by Gerald A. Honigman

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji. Screengrab via Youtube

NYC Mayor Mamdani’s perfectly matched soul mate, Rama Duwaji, will be co-hosting a spiritual retreat for Muslim women in Corsica, France, dedicated to “Mary in the Qur’an.” She skipped America’s 250th anniversary celebration on July 4, 2026 to organize this event…

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Peloni:  Dr. Martin Sherman provided an in-depth assessment of Israel’s geostrategic vulnerabilities, addressing multifront threats emanating from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, and the Houthi forces in Yemen.

Avi Abelow | Meta

Israelis returned to an all-too-familiar reality yesterday: receiving warnings that Iran might once again start firing missiles at Israel, and that we may need to be ready to run back to bomb shelters.

So far, in that regard, nothing has changed.

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Peloni:  This is an important video.  Rabbi Pesach Wolicki addresses the likely conclusion that Mojtaba Khameini is dead, what should be concluded from US regional partners paying homage to the former Ayahtollah Khameini, the rising threat and its relevance of Turkey, and the failing relevance of the MOU.  Of particular note is Wolicki’s comments on Turkey which begin at about the 15min. mark.  As I have noted previously, Erdogan will not gain access to the F-35, but the threat he poses is still significant, though not entirely unchecked at this point even within the halls of power in Turkey, something which the Hoover Institute’s Mike Doran has noted previously.

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Reform Movement President, Rick Jacobs, speaks for radical American Ashkenazis, not the entire Jewish People. He sits on the board of the New Israel Fund and on the rabbinic cabinet of J Street, both antagonistic to the Jewish State.

Ronn Torossian | July 8, 22026

Reform Movement President, Rick Jacobs. Screengrab via Youtube.

Reform Movement President, Rick Jacobs, came to Israel this week to tell Israelis what’s wrong with Israel. The leader of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) warned on Ynet that Knesset legislation is pushing American Jews away, that bipartisan support for Israel is fraying, that restoring it may be “enormous, perhaps impossible.” Jacobs is right that bipartisan support is fraying, and he could have added that Reform Movement support for the Jewish state has always been ambivalent.

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Peloni:  Mike Doran and Gadi Taub are back together again on Israel Update to take a closer look at the building constitutional crisis in Israel, and they also address whose predictions on the MOU proved more accurate.

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Peloni:  The strikes from Iran and on Iran have continued thru the day.  Will the emboldened Iranians break Trump’s efforts to save them from themselves, even thru the summer?   It looks like that might be the case, but we will see.

Reports of explosions in Lavan Island, Iran.

— ME24 – Middle East 24 (@MiddleEast_24) July 8, 2026

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Peloni:  The loss of the Altalena and all of its arms, as well as the future potential of additional secret shipments from France under Operation Bid, was a devastating and heartbreaking cost of the War of Independence.  Recalling the role which Yitzak Rabin played in that battle, targeting the men on the Altalena, demonstrates the scourge which remains the greatest threat to Israel’s survival to this day.  Notably, the massive arms supply still on the Altalena at the time of its sinking could have turned the tide in retaking the Old Jewish Quarter.  Ben Gurion’s ambition, as fulfilled by Rabin’s calumny, unfortunately sank all hope of forcing Abdullah’s British-led, British-armed, British-funded, and British-officered Arab Legion from its illegal seizure of lands which are still today waiting to be fully recognized using Israeli law.  The entire nature of the conflict in the region changed because of the Sinat Hinam which instead demanded the instantaneous surrender of the priceless means by which our heritage could have been secured and fully recognized in 1948, instead of being rescued in 1967 only to be qualified as disputed lands ever since.  This was the terrible price paid to secure the ambitions and poor judgements of men in power such as Ben Gurion and that butcher Rabin, and if not for the wisdom and selfless regard of Menachem Begin, this price would have been far greater.  Nonetheless, we remain as  the greatest threat to our people, our nation and our survival with modern day equivalents to the struggle which led to the loss of the Altalena, as well as the challenge to the stabilization of the Jewish State under the control of the Jewish people.

“Sinat hinam,” baseless hatred, was the cause of the destruction of the Second Temple, and remains our great vulnerability and challenge.

Douglas Altabef | July 7, 2026

Tel Aviv Altlana Description: The ship Altlana catches fire off the coast of Tel Aviv. Wikipedia

One of the most searing, frightening but ultimately instructive events in the creation of the nascent State of Israel was the attempted landing, leading to the attack and the sinking of the Altalena beginning on June 20, 1948. The ship was carrying weaponry that was going to be used by Revisionist Irgun forces as well as the newly configured IDF.

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