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Mudar Zahran
Watch the full interview here: https://t.co/x7GeSDE9Po
IRAN: WHAT DOES “VICTORY” LOOK LIKE FOR TRUMP?
??Let’s get straight to the point. Trump is NOT trying to repeat the disaster of George W. Bush in Iraq. Back then, they didn’t just remove Saddam Hussein, they dismantled the… pic.twitter.com/RxC1FIIJuZ— Mudar Adnan Zahran ??? ????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) April 14, 2026
* Let’s get straight to the point. Trump is NOT trying to repeat the disaster of George W. Bush in Iraq. Back then, they didn’t just remove Saddam Hussein, they dismantled the entire state. Police gone. Health system gone. Government bodies wiped out. The result? Total collapse and chaos. In my view, that wasn’t a mistake. That was a controlled demolition. And it led to a never-ending war that cost U.S. taxpayers TRILLIONS, money that flowed straight into companies like Halliburton and others tied to people like Dick Cheney. That’s not even hidden.
Peloni: The Lebanese govt is a fake peace partner. They have no agency, and no enforcement capacity for anything they might commit to agreeing upon. Meanwhile, it appears that the same disregard for this fact which has infected Washington has come to make Netanyahu’s govt complicit in this shell game of accountability where agreements are made which will only serve to hamper Israel’s freedom of action, embolden and strengthen Hezbollah over time, and make believe that the Lebanese govt is acting independently when they failed to even enforce the removal of the Iranian ambassador from his current position in their country. This peace negotiating gambit is not just foolish, it is dangerous. Netanyahu should have refused to enter into such a ruse at making peace with a fake peace partner. No good can possibly come from this denial of reality by all sides so as to safeguard Trump’s Iran negotiations which are themselves a further breakdown in critical reasoning.
Israeli envoy Leiter: ‘Lebanese made it very clear that they will no longer be occupied by Hezbollah’
| Published: April 15, 2026
The Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors to the U.S. met in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, in the first high-level meeting between representatives of the two governments since 1993.
The meeting, described by both sides as a preliminary step toward formal negotiations, was hosted at the State Department by Secretary Marco Rubio, Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz, and U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa.
Peloni: The truth is that the long standing and perpetually shameful nature of the United Nations is both beyond doubt and beyond repair. It needs to be shuttered and its leadership should, themselves, be prosecuted for supporting crimes against humanity.
By Geller Report Staff |
United Nations General Assembly. Photo by Mojnsen – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia
The mass murdering, human rights violating, and terrorist state of Iran just secured seats on a number of influential UN bodies. UN bodies that help shape policy on human rights, women’s rights, disarmament and counterterrorism. This outrageous decision was made possible because of the support of weak and morally bankrupt Western governments.
Peloni: This freeze is largely symbolic and will basically affect training exercises between Israel and Italy. It is interesting that Meloni continues to bleat the phrase ‘Israel has a right to exist’, even as she continues to object to Israel’s right to do more than exist with its population shuttered in bomb shelters hiding from falling munitions aimed at its population, literally on an daily to hourly basis. In fact, it has been a long saga watching Meloni shape-shift from the independent spirit which marked her candidacy sour into the near universal prattle of European leadership which has come to kneel at the boot of the Muslim insurgency which she has still failed to rectify within her own nation. Europe has fallen, and it is due to the complicity of weak and wayward leaders such as Meloni who engage in double speak, double standards and moral duplicity. Shame on you Georgia!
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Yossi Baum | X | April 13, 2026
Translated by Peloni
The Grand Mufti of Palestine received by Hitler. Photo by Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1987-004-09A / Heinrich Hoffmann / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Wikipedia
*Must Read*: The Jerusalem Mufti, Al-Husseini, the “father of Palestinian ideology,” personally worked toward the murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews (not to say: millions) in the Holocaust.
Kelleigh Nelson
My conception was at that time, if this thing is successful, we will bring this war to a close. I just couldn’t see how any nation could stand up to the power of the atom as portrayed to me at that particular time. I think in the intervening years, that I have arrived at the same conclusion because by ending the war, we would save lives. That was my idea. Save lives, not destroy them. And over the years, I have gotten numerous letters from foreign nationals, as well as Americans, who had been ready to make an invasion with the same basic statement: what you did probably saved my life. Major General Paul Tibbets
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who prepared the attack against America, but viewed it as a potential disaster. (Yamamoto, who studied at Harvard and lived in the US, knew the immense industrial power and character of America and felt that a surprise attack that enraged the public would lead to Japan’s defeat.)
Israel has done more to prevent civilian casualties in war than any military in history… [they are] the gold standard. — John Spencer, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point.
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
| Published: April 13, 2026
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.”
Peloni
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.
