Peloni:  The most elevated authority of US legal jurisprudence certifies the most elicit gambit obviating election integrity and instead secures election fraud as legitimate.  This is how a president was selected from his basement campaign headquarters while suffering from dementia.

By Andrew Rice | The Center Square | June 29, 2026

“Supreme Court” by Missy Caulk, CC BY-SA 2.0

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision on Monday, ruled that states can accept and count mail-in ballots received after the federal Election Day.

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Peloni:  The deal to negotiate a deal has no chance of brokering any deal.  What it does make absolutely certain, however, is that the Mullahs and the IRGC will be significantly more wealthy when the deal falls apart, and more capable of responding militarily to the US when this eventually does occur.  The only advantage gained in lieu of this geopolitical debacle is time, political convenience, and hopefully only a delay before the final battle ends the charade of America returning to resurrect its policy of weakness at the feet of the Ayatollahs.

by Amir Taheri•  Gatestone Institute  •  June 28, 2026

The solution to the “Iran problem” isn’t money; it is good governance. And that requires a change of regime beyond what Trump pretends has already happened. Pictured:Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Screengrab via Youtube

• The solution to the “Iran problem” isn’t money; it is good governance. And that requires a change of regime beyond what Trump pretends has already happened.

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One of Israel’s finest soldiers fell rescuing hostages just as America turned 200.

Moshe Phillips

Yonatan Netanyahu. Screengrab via Youtube

July 1976 was supposed to be a year of celebration as America marked 200 years of independence beneath exploding fireworks and waving flags. But while the world watched the bicentennial festivities, Israeli commandos were preparing for a midnight raid on Entebbe Airport in Uganda. They were on a hostage rescue mission led by Yonatan (“Yoni”) Netanyahu, who would not survive the rescue that he made legendary.

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Peloni:  We Jews have many rights to the land of Israel.  Indigenous rights, ancestral rights, historical rights and Biblical rights among others, but the only basis which we can expect others to acknowledge entirely without debate is our legal rights to the land, which secures our rights in common recognition to the basis on which other nation states have been founded.  And of course, as Dr. Alex Grobman explains so well, this is why our enemies work so hard to ignore the importance of what was achieved at San Remo.  The obvious question arises as to why we ourselves do not make this point more often, at the diplomatic and international level?  Indeed, when was the last time we heard this pivotal element of history and international law referenced on the world stage by PM Netanyahu or is ministers?  To be certain, we have heard it referenced By Min. Ben Gvir, and yet, his portfolio is restrained to a diminished control over the internal policing of the state.   Hence, such ignorance of reality, truth, history and law is not just the fault of our enemies, but of ourselves for not standing on this firm foundation on which the recognition of the reconstitution, and thereby our other rights, to the land of Israel was secured more than a century ago.  It has been long enough.  This is the battle which we need to fight, and routinely referencing the victory won at San Remo is how we can actually win it.

At San Remo in 1920, the Arabs were not dispossessed of a state in Palestine. There was none. They were granted multiple states across the region. The Jews, by contrast, were allocated one small territory-their historic homeland. Historical review.

Dr. Alex Grobman | Jun 26, 2026

By Unknown author – eipa.eu.com, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The claim that the United States created Israel overlooks the foundational legal and diplomatic history of the modern Middle East, which was actually shaped by the global community through European powers. In April 1920, in the aftermath of World War I, the victorious Allied powers-Britain, France, Italy, and Japan-met in San Remo, Italy, to redraw the map of the collapsed Ottoman Empire.

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Peloni:  Regional stability will benefit whenever Iranian colonialism is diminished without replacing it by some other colonialist enterprise such as that of Turkey.  By eliminating Iran’s control over Southern Lebanon, it isolates Iran’s control there while still preventing Turkish control from moving in, something which was sadly not possible with regards to what took place in Syria which still lacks stability due to Turkey’s Islamist puppet Jolani ruling there.  While what is taking shape in Southern Lebanon is NOT peace, it is an improved model of coordination between Israel and Lebanon, so long as Israel is not once again forced to withdraw.

Anwar Gargash, the diplomatic advisor to the President of the UAE, said he sees the framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel as a step to restoring Lebanon’s sovereignty.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | JUNE 29, 2026

President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi. Photo by kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

On June 25, a day before the US, Lebanon, and Israel announced a trilateral agreement, United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan met Asaad al-Shaibani, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian Arab Republic.

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Peloni:  Will we see an about face in Trump’s policy in the fall as Yossi Baum indicates?  Time will tell.

Yossi Baum

Announcement of Lebanese Peace Deal. Screengrab via Youtube

*  That, as your faithful servant has been writing incessantly, there is a hidden aspect to Trump’s approach toward Israel in recent weeks.

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Peloni:  Meanwhile, Turkey uses its close association with Israel’s Azerbaijani ally to request reconsideration of the recognition of Armenian Genocide.  The full Knesset vote is still pending, so we will see what comes from this request, but the govt has the means to pass this measure without any support from the opposition, which will be hard pressed to vote against it in any event.  The farce of ignoring the ethnic cleansing, which is a better description than genocide, of Armenians and Greeks by the Turks is too comical to ignore.  There was once a geopolitical basis for doing so in the past, but recent events have changed the context for maintaining the charade of ignorance about the events which took place over the course of a decade against these minority populations, more than a century ago.

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By Jalal Tagreeb

Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister, State of Israel. Photo by Chatham House – Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister, State of Israel, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia

When historians assess the turbulent period between 2023 and 2026, they will inevitably grapple with Mr Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial yet consequential premiership during one of the Middle East’s most volatile chapters. As someone who grew up in Jordan, who witnessed my own grandfather’s generation struggle against colonial powers only to watch subsequent Arab leadership squander opportunities for genuine progress, and their complete defeat, I approach Mr Netanyahu’s strategic doctrine with the skepticism of experience and the honesty that comes from having abandoned ideological certainties. My journey from defending political Islam in debates I ultimately lost to embracing non Islamic rationalism has taught me that geopolitical realities matter more than rhetorical postures.

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Peloni:  Reports that this was a purge of Iranian aligned Islamists.

The Green Zone includes Baghdad’s parliament building, various government institutions, and embassies, with many politicians also having residences in the area.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | JUNE 28, 2026

Tanks and heavy armored vehicles active in locking down the Green Zone in Bagdad while gunfire is clearly audible.  Screengrab via X

Iraqi security forces carried out raids overnight in Baghdad’s storied “Green Zone” in the heart of the capital. Videos showed armored vehicles and members of the elite Iraq Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) carrying out the raids.

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Avi Abelow

IDF soldiers and a tank operate in southern Lebanon on March 21, 2026. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON’S UNIT)

I won’t pretend to be happy with the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire framework brokered by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

My concern is straightforward.

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By: Yigal Carmon | MEMRI | June 26, 2026

Lebanese Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief General Rodolphe Haykal visited the army headquarters in Rawalpindi and met with Pakistan Army chief General Asim Munir (right).  Image via MEMRI.org

“By helping Iran take a firm stance in opposition to Israel, Pakistan has not only played a fundamental role in preventing a nearly certain war from breaking out among Muslim countries but has also played a historic role on the diplomatic front by further highlighting the existing gap between the United States and Israel,” wrote Roznama Islam, an Urdu-language Pakistani daily as General Rodolphe Haykal, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, visited the army headquarters in Rawalpindi on June 9, 2026.

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Peloni:  We live in an age in which information is more easily weaponized than munitions, and in the war of words, we are losing.  David Bedein of the Center for Near East Policy Research explains some of the battlefields on which  this war is currently being lost, and how to change the dynamics so that victory on these battlefronts might also be achieved.

Israel faces not only military threats but also an increasingly sophisticated campaign of delegitimization that demands a far stronger response.

By: David Bedein | TheJ.ca | June 28, 2026

Israeli Flag. “Israel National Flag” by momo, CC BY 2.0

Israel today faces a war on multiple fronts. While much attention is understandably focused on military threats, another battle is being waged every day in the media, in academia, in international institutions, and on social media platforms around the world.

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By Anthony Blair | NYP  | June 28, 2026

Iranian Airborne Cruise Missile (By Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia)

Iran has “no choice” but to develop a nuclear bomb, a media outlet linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said — the latest threat to the peace deal.

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | June 28, 2026

Iran’s then Supreme Leader, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, prepares to award a medal to the late General Amir Ali Hajizadeh (L), then commander of the Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in the presence of the senior IRGC leadership, in Tehran on October 6, 2024. (Image source: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)

*A regime that merely changes tactics under pressure – and is not forced into foundational restructuring – is not reformed, but temporarily constrained. A durable reform away from the Ayatollah’s Islamic Republic requires more than a leadership turnover.

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Peloni:  This is a very important article, and it is very revealing to the truth behind the deep disconnect which exists between Trump’s description of Iran’s “non radical” leadership and its unmistakably radical behavior, which has never even paused.  Iran is not deterred.  They are not beaten.  And they are not begging for a deal.  Instead, they feel that they are in control, and that the US is being defeated.  In fact, the Iranians are reading from the same script which Trump keeps referencing, where Iran is diminished and cooperating because they need a way out of their current crisis with America, only the Iranians see America in the position of weakness, frustrated by Iranian resolve, and in need of a way out of its current crisis with Iran.  Not only has this emboldened the Iranians to act more aggressively, but it has simultaneously reassured them that their ideology, and their steadfast devotion to it, has brought them a great victory in which America is caving to Iran.  Instead of praising the Iranian leadership as being smart, non-radical, and cooperative, Trump should use these ceasefire violations to eliminate Vahidi.

By Robert Spencer | June 27, 202

Ahmad Vahidi. Photo by Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

And their next objective, after their smashing success against Trump, is this: “We now need to make the Americans understand that Israel is the evil force in the Middle East. That is our goal.”

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Peloni:  Like trying to train a rabid dog to sit, the MOU has always been destined to fail.

Tehran claims sovereignty over Hormuz, threatens ships using unauthorized routes

All Israel News Staff | Published: June 28, 2026

U.S. forces and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) continue to trade blows and accusations of ceasefire violations over the weekend, as transit through the Strait of Hormuz remains a sticking point.

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Peloni:  US Strikes respond to continued Iranian agression with Trump asserting that “There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started. ” See Trump’s Truth Social Post Below Fox News Report below.

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Peloni: Security cameras to replace the presence of an armed force in a secured buffer zone.  I am old enough to recall the failures of such technical safeguards on October 7.   Am I the only one who sees a problem with what does appear to be the manner in which the campaign in Lebanon will be rendered the latest rendition of mowing the grass in Lebanon?

CAMERAS AND DEEP SURVEILLANCE ARE THE KEY

Jafaj.net | June 27, 2026

Photo by Matthew Henry on Unsplash

Summary: A senior Lebanese official with close connections to the Lebanese Prime Minister’s Office has told JAFAJ that Israeli withdrawals from Shiite villages and towns in southern Lebanon will take place under the recently signed Israel-Lebanon peace framework, but only under an extensive and highly advanced surveillance system. According to the source, cameras and other surveillance equipment will be installed throughout southern Lebanon, including Hezbollah strongholds and other sensitive areas such as the southern district of Beirut. The source said this was one of Israel’s key conditions and that implementation will be overseen through the U.S.-backed Military Coordination Group for Lebanon.

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