Peloni:  Avi Abelow provides an important context to the Israeli strike on Syria to prevent Turkish expansion southwards towards Israel.  Israel established a Red Line regarding Turkey directly expanding and incorporating Syria.  Unlike the Red Lines established so often by others in the region, Netanyahu acted to demonstrate that there was in fact absolutely NO flexibility on this Red Line.  His comment warning Erdogan “Don’t” served to make this point even more clear, and not just to Turkey.  I am honestly impressed with the strength and earnestness with which Netanyahu responded in Syria, and as Abelow explains below, it gives me great hope for the future, as this is the model by which Israel must respond when its stated Red Lines are tested.  Erdogan knew full well what he was doing when he made plans to take over the base in Syria, but what he failed to appreciate is that October 7 changed everything, including how Israel might respond when being challenged on stated Red Lines.  The fact that Erdogan felt at ease in crossing that Red Line was in no small part due to the American effort by Amb. Tom Barrak and others to embolden Turkey and its Muslim Brotherhood chieftain Erdogan.  So a deconfliction mechanism will now be established to prevent similar challenges in the future.  It is concerning that such a mechanism was not already considered a necessity by Washington given the raising rhetorical threats coming from Turkey and increasing in tone and significance even in recent weeks.  I only hope that when the deconfliction mechanism is soon to be tested that someone more impartial to the advancement of Turkey in the region answers the phone in Washington or things could quickly spiral out of control.

Avi Abelow

Ambassador Tom Barrack and President Recep Erdogan. Image via AI

Israel just did something in Syria that represents one of the most positive and important changes in Israeli national-security policy since October 7.

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Peloni:  Is Trump’s real motivation in Iran really about seizing the Strait of Hormuz with the ultimate goal of forming a global technocracy rather than stopping Iran from becoming a nuclear power?

Patrick Woods | Technocracy News & Trends | Aug 17, 2026

Map of Strait of Hormuz. Image by Pascal – This image is a derivative work of [1]Lib.utexas from [2] Lib.utexas, which was created by the w:Central Intelligence Agency in 1980 and hence is PD-US-Gov, Public Domain, Wikipedia

On August 14, 2026, President Donald Trump stood in front of a law-enforcement crowd at the David S. Mack Center for Training and Intelligence in Garden City, Long Island. Trump told them that after “defeating Iran” he would declare the Strait of Hormuz a territory of the United States. Wait for it… The Strait of America?

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Peloni:  In the essay below Steve Kramer offers some important insights as to the education choices available to Jews in the Diaspora coming to Israel for their learning experiences.  Related to this, several years ago, Geoffrey Clarfield proposed the creation of a series of universities in the US by Bar Ilan so that Americans might gain insights from an education that they are otherwise unlikely to experience at a Zionist institution.  Notably, as Clarfield noted then, “Bar-Ilan University is the only Zionist university left in Israel” and that is probably more true today then it was then.  Another alternative already existing in America is that of Hillsdale College.  The Left has seized strings which control education in the West, and as the Left has taken on an altogether unhinged project imbuing Jew Hatred as normative and useful while also delegitimizing ever aspect of Western ideology and culture, parents have an important task in choosing the right environment for the molding of their children’s education.  Hence it is important that they consider available opportunities so as to provide the successive generations with the knowledge and identity which is predicated on Western values, which of course means Judeo-Christian values.  The choices are currently few, but with state financing to bring youths in America, Jews and Gentiles alike, or to bring a Zionist teaching to the broader West, we could easily increase the choices available in tutoring the future of the West towards a reasonable and responsible path.

by Steve Kramer

Photo by DrKenneth – Own work, CC BY 3.0, Link

Unsafe at MIT – A Chronicle of a Campus War on the Jews was written by Yossi Sheffi, professor of engineering at MIT, one of America’s most highly-ranked universities. After reading his account of MIT campus hostility towards Jewish students, especially after October 7, 2023 you will understand what college life is like today for many Jewish students. Sheffi groups his subjects as The Reckoning, The Fight, and The Fallout.

(https://www.amazon.com/Unsafe-MIT-Chronicle-Campus-Jews-ebook/dp/B0H4DSFMDT)

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Peloni:  Economic loopholes are closing as Iran’s trading partners are now to be targeted by US.  Iran is finally to be all on its own.

Despite presenting public face of calm, Iranian leadership concerned about renewal of anti-regime protests

J. Micah Hancock | All Israel News | Published: August 20, 2026

Click to Enlarge.  Screengrab via Social Media

U.S. President Donald Trump has pivoted to “economic warfare” against the Islamic Republic, announcing a new economic strategy targeting Iran, after the expiration of the Memorandum of Understanding earlier this week and amid stalled negotiations with the Iranian regime.

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Peloni:  This is a very important video.  The outmatching of Arab housing development in the North compared to that of Jews, combined with the paucity of Arab demographic expansion exposes the attempt to seize the Galilee by once again by rehashing an old strategy.

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Ahmad Sharawi

F1or the first time since March, Israeli jets struck deep inside Syria on August 18, targeting the Abu Duhur airbase in Idlib governorate, roughly 70 kilometers south of the Turkish border. According to official Syrian sources, Israel carried out eight strikes targeting the base’s runway and storage facilities.

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Paul Schnee:  I’m so infuriated and sickened by this article about Steven Spielberg funding anti-Semitic politicians, self-hating Jews and Jew-hating organizations.

The last paragraph states: “Steven Spielberg took the proceeds from a film about the murder of six million Jews and directed them to organizations that defend the enemies of the Jewish state. What can one say?”

Well, here’s something one can say: at the very least Spielberg is a verminous kapo.

Forty-four percent of American Jews view Mamdani favorably. That did not happen organically. It is due to the work of a progressive Jewish infrastructure funded by Diaspora liberal Jews. 

Ronn Torossian | Aug 17, 2026

Steven Spielberg speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Steven Spielberg, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link

Forty-four percent of American Jews view Zohran Mamdani favorably, according to an AP-NORC poll released in July 2026 – 1,022 Jewish adults nationwide, margin of error ±5 points. The mayor of New York City – a democratic socialist born in East Africa who ran on Palestinian Arab solidarity, endorsed by progressive Jewish organizations – helped gain office due to Jewish money.

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Norwegian conflict resolution organization held meetings with Hamas officials and was viewed by the terrorist group as a potential channel for influencing European policy, according to documents analyzed by NGO Monitor.

Screengrab via Youtube.

Internal Hamas documents analyzed by NGO Monitor describe a series of contacts between Hamas officials and the Norwegian Center for Conflict Resolution, known as NOREF, including meetings and discussions that Hamas reportedly hoped could help alter European policy toward the terrorist organization.

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Peloni:  Remember when the world was assured that “The 2020 election was the most secure in U.S. history.”

I always wondered how many people were assured by that statement as compared to how many people became all the more unnerved by how obviously false this statement was when it was first announced by the very organization which was responsible for securing that election and as the SCOTUS sat on its hands.  Not to mention the psyop which was later launched during January 6 to prevent any further inquiries into the most secure election in history.

To be honest, I expected details such as this to have been released long before the 2026 election after Trump returned to the White House, and yet the full details are not remotely done being released.

By Pamela Geller | August 19, 2026

The Commerce Department’s Census Bureau has released an analysis indicating that more than 24,000 noncitizens didn’t merely register to vote—they allegedly cast illegal ballots in the 2020 election.

And that may be only the beginning. More than 32 million additional voter records are expected to be analyzed in the coming weeks, potentially uncovering tens of thousands more illegal votes. Where those ballots were cast—in which swing states, congressional districts and razor-thin local races is critical. Even a fraction of that number could change the outcome of a close election.

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Peloni:  It looks like attacks on US in Europe is to be the latest cudgel that Iran uses to leverage against the return to war.  Will it work?  I don’t think so.

Regime preparing to resume ballistic missile strikes on Israel, in event of renewed hostilities

All Israel News Staff | Published: August 19, 2026

Image by Wildmavboy1229 – Own work, CC0, Link

Iran is weighing an attack on U.S. military facilities in Europe if President Donald Trump orders an escalation in military operations, the Financial Times reported.

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Al Bienenfeld

President Trump’s vision of Middle eastern policy is going down paths previously pursued by Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, both Bushes, and Obama in their administrations. The idea being to embrace an enemy, cater to them seeking their favor and ignore the concerns of allies.

In a February 2017 piece at Tower Magazine author Michael J. Totten opens with two observations.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Here’s the newest Gaza “deal” presented by President Trump via his appointed team…

https://tinyurl.com/yshf9shj

At the end of WWII and four years of fighting à genocidal Nazi regime in Germany and similar, but not quite as monstrous Imperial Japan, after firebombing the former and nuking the latter, and invading with ground forces to hunt out, seek and destroy the enemy military as much as possible, we didn’t “invite” representatives of the Waffen SS Stormtroopers or Gestapo to provide any “input” regarding terms of their unconditional surrender and such.

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Behnam Ben Taleblu

Iran firing missiles at Bahrain and Qatar over the weekend. Screengrab via Social Media.

Has Tehran built back better when it comes to its ballistic missile infrastructure? That is the question set to decide how effective Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion by the U.S. and Israel, respectively, have been against the Islamic Republic of Iran this spring.

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