Peloni:  Iran’s ballistic missile threat is too great to ignore, even as it was ignored in today’s meeting in Oman.  The US should respond to Iran’s sense of omnipotence by demonstrating that it is the US which has the ability to make demands in these negotiations, not Iran.

The answer may be simpler and more obvious than most of us have thought. It lies in Iran’s ballistic missile program.

Mudar Zahran | Am Thinker | February 6, 2026

Recently, the United States was expected to hold negotiations with Iran in the Gulf Sultanate of Oman. The Trump administration announced the cancellation of the said talks amid disagreements over Iran’s insistence that the negotiations remain strictly limited to its nuclear program, while Washington wanted to discuss a large array of issues. That disagreement alone raises the question: What issue is Tehran even more reluctant to discuss than its holiest of holy, its nuclear program?

The answer may be simpler and more obvious than most of us have thought. It lies in Iran’s ballistic missile program.

Read more…

Sinan Ciddi & William Doran | Feb 5, 2026

By kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

While Washington searches for ways to weaken Iran’s murderous rulers, our supposed NATO ally Turkey is working overtime to keep the mullahs alive — and in power.

Read more…

Peloni:  The failure to pursue a full accounting for what took place in the lead up to, and aftermath following, October 7 is a political albatross which will plague this govt and likely the next, til such an accounting has been completed.  Meanwhile, the Supreme Court’s efforts to control such an inquiry demonstrates the fact that even those out of power have a reason to control the narrative from such an inquiry.

This is the text of a speech given by MEMRI President and Founder Yigal Carmon in the Israeli Knesset on February 4, 2026.

Yigal Carmon | Memri | Feb 6, 2026

MEMRI’s Yigal Carmon. Screengrab via Youtube 

On the morning of Saturday, October 7, 2023, over 1,200 of our brothers and sisters were slaughtered by butchers from the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and their collaborators. Men, women, girls, boys, infants, the elderly, and young people at a music festival were murdered. They were butchered, shot, suffocated, burned alive, raped, and slaughtered in grotesque ways, and their limbs were hacked off. Children were murdered in front of their parents, and parents in front of their children. To all these victims – and to those who survived, wounded in body and soul – we owe an accounting.

Read more…

Roamnrab: Jewish New Yorkers-
WAKE UP! And Small the Coffee, before it’s too late.

Click Link To Read Article

Ousted NYC antisemitism czar: Mamdani replaced me because I’m a ‘proud Jew’ who doesn’t hate Israel

In my meandering imagination, I was a liberal, yearning to join the anti-ICE peaceful protest in Minneapolis…

Joan Swirsky | Am Thinker | February 6, 2026

Image via Public Domain Pictures.  Licensed by CC0 Public Domain.  Kennet Kjell Johansson Hultman has released this “Daydream Art Deco Girl 1910” image with permission in the public domain.

In my meandering imagination, I was a liberal, yearning to join the anti-ICE peaceful protest in Minneapolis and trying to figure out how I would let our government know how strenuously I object to their policy of deporting illegal aliens.

Read more…

Peloni

Iran refused any movement on the only topic on which Iran was willing to talk.  So the ‘negotiations’ would appear to have been more of an Iranian dictation to US. In the few hours which have passed since then, Iranian provocation have continued (see tweets below).  The Iranians have no interest in avoiding war – they are seeking a confrontation with the US.  Will this be the weekend in which their fantasies are fulfilled?

Iran FM spokesman Ismail Baghaei:

"Negotiations between Iran and the U.S. in Muscat were concluded with an agreement between the two sides to continue the talks.

The parties, while explaining their perspectives and demands, reached an understanding to make decisions regarding… pic.twitter.com/Ld4VnFSLYY

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) February 6, 2026

Read more…

Defense and trade agreements between Turkey and Arab nations reduce dependence on US

J. Micah Hancock | All Israel News | Published: February 6, 2026

Erdogan and MBS meet in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Youtube 

Peloni:  Details for the content of his full statement can be read in TOI’s report, with the expected anti-Bibi context as usual.

Prime Minister Netanyahu reveals to the public his answers to the State Comptroller’s questions as part of the examination of the events of October 7.

Video Loads Below Translation:

Read more…

Rabbi Pesach Wolick provides context around which today’s meetings with Iran has unfolded.

Video Loads Below

Read more…

When Islamists get good value for their money.

by Hugh Fitzgerald | Feb 5, 2026

Georgetown University.  Photo by Daderot – Self-photographed, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Qatar is that nasty little emirate on the Persian Gulf, owned by the Al-Thani family, that owes its hold on the world’s attention solely to the fact that it sits on the third largest reservoir of natural gas in the world. Culturally, it does not exist. Qatar has made hundreds of billions of dollars from this accident of geology, and some of those billions are used to corrupt institutions and individuals in the Western world, to make them susceptible to Qatar’s propaganda campaigns and to cause them to overlook Qatar’s role both as the chief financier of Hamas and as the place of luxurious refuge for the senior Hamas leadership.

Read more…

Video Loads Below

Read more…

Peloni

Video Loads Below Discussion

Harold Rhodes provides a contrasting perspective to the view put forward yesterday by Martin Sherman who called for sectioning Iran into its regional districts.  Rhodes makes it clear that any attempt to split Iran would be met with opposition by the Iranian people who identify themselves as Iranians more so than their relative ethnic identities.

Read more…

Peloni:  Not only is this true, but it is only possible because of US support for the Jihadi govt in Demascus while also overlooking the many recurring slaughters of minorities over the past year.

By Christine Douglass-Williams | Feb 4, 2026

A leopard cannot change its spots. Why would anyone think that Syria’s jihadist President Ahmed Al-Sharaa (aka Abu Mohammed al-Jolani) would suddenly transform into a civilized leader and protect the rights of religious minorities in Syria? A critical new mini-documentary tells the truth that’s being largely hidden from the world.

Read more…

Peloni:  The US should hold firm to its full list of demands from Iran as previously outlined.  This Obama-esque framework secures the Mullahs in Iran, while ignoring American, Western, and Israeli interesests.  Pursuing ‘Peace in Our Time” with Iran is not the solution to the problem with Iran – it is the reason there is a problem with Iran.  Either the Mullahs surrender to the full list of US demands or the US should follow thru on its long ago stated promise that the US is locked and loaded to deal with the threat from Iran.

BREAKING: Al Jazeera claims to have obtained the US-Iran deal framework proposed by Turkey, Qatar and Egypt:

1. Iran agrees to commit to zero uranium enrichment for 3 years, and then agrees to under 1.5% enrichment after that

2. Its stockpile of Highly Enriched Uranium would be…

— Faytuks Network (@FaytuksNetwork) February 5, 2026

Text:

Read more…

Peloni: It is inexplicable that Trump called on Israel to end the conflict quickly, beginning more than six months before he even won the 2024 US election, and yet today, he holds Israel in a state of frozen conflict with the promulgators of the October 7 slaughter simply to satisfy the demands of the Arab states who notoriously played the role of funding and facilitating that same October 7 slaughter.  This sword of Damocles needs to be ripped down from overhead of the IDF soldiers whose lives are placed under daily threat of being the next casualty in support of a fantastical peace process which was to have seen Hamas disarmed nearly 5 months ago.  This slow rolling and ongoing tragedy has to be ended.

Palestinian media report 20 killed in Israeli strikes following shooting incident

All Israel News Staff | Published: February 4, 2026

Screengrab via X

A reserve officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was seriously wounded by terrorist gunfire on Tuesday night on the Israeli side of the Yellow Line in the northern Gaza Strip, the military said on Wednesday morning.

Read more…

Read more…

Peloni:   Why would the US accept such open harassments.  Ignoring such piratical tactics only invites more significant attempts of piracy.  Noting this, it should be little wonder that Iran seized two tankers in recent hours, along with a million barrels of crude oil and the crew of the two vessels.  The US needs to ignore its pleading Arab partners and teach Iran a lesson, and that should be more than the loss of  a single drone threatening a US warship.

Iranian harassment of US ships prompts military reaction, increasing already-strained tensions between the two countries.

Read more…