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Peloni:  Keep this in mind.  What is taking place under the guise of an MOU is in fact the re-establishment of the Obama-Era Regional Strategy.  This relates to the empowerment of Iran, diminishing America, while constraining Israel.  Vance is leaving Iran in a position of dominance in the region based on their unfettered access to selling oil along with the fungible funds from Vance’s arranging for a $300 billion dollar gift to a terror state which has its terror proxies and missile development program still in place, even if he actually affects the promises of Iran abandoning its nuclear aims, which is not remotely likely.

What is more is that Vance promised that Iran would receive nothing for bad behavior, but instead he has rewarded them with a mechanism of manipulation in the De-confliction cell as a reward for Iran walking away for the talks, on top of the lifting of sanctions for nothing prior to the talks.  Following thru on Trump’s own bluster about unconditional surrender thru negotiations, Vance is using hyperbole to substitute for enforced verification.  Lipstick on this pig still shows it to be a bad deal, bad for Israel, bad for America, bad for the West, but very very good for Iran.

By Amil Imani | June 22, 2026

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The Vice President of the United States operates as the chief life insurance underwriter for the world’s most lethal theocracy. Through the Versailles Memorandum of Understanding and a massive three-hundred-billion-dollar economic rescue package, JD Vance actively disarms the State of Israel, legitimizes the Ayatollah, and abandons millions of oppressed Iranian citizens.

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Peloni:  The Strait of Malacca remains the critical waterway to China, and any threat to this pipeline which circumvents the import of the Malacca waterway represents an existential threat to China, and they will act accordingly.  As we have seen in Gaza, in Iran, and in Lebanon, the use of human shields is becoming more and more routine among bad actors.  As China has taken to join the list of bad actors employing this Medieval practice of hostage taking to force the protection over this vital pipeline, the question remains how Trump will respond to this outrage.

Daniel Swift | June 22, 2026

By Pixar – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia [Text Translated]

The Strait of Hormuz isn’t China’s only chokepoint. The Strait of Malacca may be more strategically vital — and on June 12, Beijing arrested an American scholar to protect its access to it.

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Israeli troops discover underground base used for producing & launching drones

All Israel News Staff | Published: June 21, 2026

Hezbollah missiles found in the tunnel (Photo: IDF)

Israel’s defense minister, Israel Katz, affirmed on Sunday that Israeli troops in southern Lebanon have the freedom to respond to the constant attacks against them by Hezbollah.

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Vice President JD Vance has had a terrible, horrible, no good very bad week. The only admin official defending the President’s MOU, the VP gaslit, sneered, prevaricated, and straight up lied to our faces. If this was a dry run for 2028, it was at least very clarifying. pic.twitter.com/lPjC6308RW

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) June 21, 2026

Peloni:  So, let us see if we can grasp  what is taking shape here.  Qatar and Pakistan, two countries which do not recognize Israel, and which more than recognize Iran, are being tasked with the authority to control a deconfliction mechanism between Israel and Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah.  Take special care to note that in this document, when it states that “the parties agreed on the creation of a de-confliction cell,”  none of the parties referenced here were either Israel or Lebanon.  So in fact, the decisions governing the freedom of action over Israel is being arranged between the US, which claims Israel is using excessive tactics and ‘killing everyone’, and three other nations, none of which recognize Israel as a legitimate nation state, and one of which is at war with Israel, and all of which finance terrorism in the region.  The duplicity being leveraged against Israel in this scheme is so evident that a child could grasp it.  Meanwhile, as Iran and its friends in Qatar and Pakistan are managing a deconfliction mechanism over Israel’s freedom of action, every time an ‘incident’ arises, Iran will close the Strait, delays will ensue, yet the flow of oil from Iran to China’s Teapot refineries will continue.  Any chance someone might actually alert Vance as to the obvious ruse he is supporting here?

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The first session of high level talks under the framework of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding have concluded in Burgenstock, Switzerland, with the participation of representatives from the Islamic Republic of Iran, the United States of America, and the two mediating parties, the State of Qatar and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

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Peloni:  Bibi is finally responding to Trump’s terrible assertion that the IDF is reckless with regards to civilian casualties in Lebanon.  For every five terrorists killed there is a single Lebanese civilian casualty.  Never before in recorded history has such care been taken to limit civilian casualties as have been secured by the IDF, and this record has not come at a zero cost to the members of the IDF.  In fact, it is outrageous that such lengths are demanded of the Israeli people in the midst of a defensive war, but the record is clear that these outrageous efforts are taken, and the beneficiaries of doing so are the Lebanese people while those carrying the costs of this burden are the Israeli people.  I am most grateful to Bibi for making this point, addressing the blood libels being raised, not even by our allies, but especially by our allies.  This truth should encourage Trump to acknowledge the bravery, heroics, and care which the IDF acts on Lebanese soil.  Lebanon has never been Israel’s enemy, even as its leadership and military act to safeguard the vile Hezbollah whose tight control holds the Lebanese with an iron Iranian grip.  This reality needs to end, and President Trump should support Israel’s efforts to end it, and to recognize that NO OTHER NATION can or will do what the IDF has done.

“We changed Israel’s security doctrine. We initiate, we attack, we surprise, and we attack those enemies that seek our destruction, that seek to kill us. We attack them before they have a chance to do so… We kill them first.”

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Peloni:  For all those who have let me know that I don’t understand the plan, Joan Swirsky gives us a breakdown of what we might be missing and why we might all be DEAD WRONG!  I think it is important to consider the possibility that the wide consensus to the contrary is actually in error. Time will tell of course, and to be honest, I really hope I am going to be counted among the many who are proven wrong as Joan explains.  We will see.

By Joan Swirsky

President Donald J. Trump participates in a bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. Photo by The White House, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Many years ago, my daughter Karen saw the movie “Grease” 20 times! By the fifth time, she could recite every line, even every lyric from every song.

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‘You close it and you won’t have a country’ – Trump threatens to strike Iran if IRGC closes Hormuz

All Israel News Staff | Published: June 21, 202

Preliminary meetings before talks begin in Switzerland.  Screengrab via X

The Israel-Hezbollah conflict is reportedly at the head of the agenda as representatives from the United States, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Qatar, and Pakistan meet for the first of several rounds of negotiations in Switzerland. aimed at ending the conflict.

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Peloni:  Excellent analysis by Dan Proft who is joined by FDD’s Hussain Abdul-Hussain who counter’s Trump assessment that Jolani would do a better job than the IDF.  As Abdul-Hussain explains, Syrian intervention would cause the growing public animosity against Iran and Hezbollah to evaporate as support would unify Lebanese popular support around Hezbollah in opposition to Jolani’s forces, while also acknowledging that there is NO basis to support the conclusion that Syria’s forces could do better when facing Hezbollah.   He also addresses the decline in Christian majority in Lebanon which is now a Christian minority, while the US has used Lebanon as a bargaining chip traded to stronger nations in the region without the slightest concern or consideration for the minorities within Lebanon.

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Peloni:  The assets under the control of the Muslim Brotherhood Qatari govt are vast and as we have seen with just the case of Senator Menendez, those assets are well disposed to gain the support of Washington’s leadership, but across Europe as well.  Notably, there was no mention of Qatar’s role in the Menedez bribary trial, even as it was Qatari gold with which he had been bribed, which exposes the greater truth and real threat which lies before the West as its political class as welll as its media oversight are well under the control of Qatar and other Islamist elements.

By: Tufail Ahmad | MEMRI.org | June 18,2026

Photo by Chris Yang on Unsplash

According to reports by Associated Press and Fox News, the Qatari Al Thani ruling family hired a former CIA official, Kevin Chalker, and his company, Global Research Associates, to spy on U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Tom Cotton (R-AR), as well as Representative Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) and former Representative Ed Royce (R-CA) who had chaired the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

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Peloni:  A remarkably well explained statement harkening both the convictions of congratulations and reproach which are both necessary and difficult to describe in the same moment, as it relates the wisdom and clarity with which Trump has acted in the past with the inexplicable choices he has made in recent days.  Of course, it is not too late to choose a better course, to right the wrongs which are now taking shape under a misguided MOU, and reverse the unveiling disaster into an unbelievable victory, as it has always been true that Trump holds all the cards, but he has to choose to play these cards rather than folding before the Iranian menace to allow such a victory to be realized.  So we shall see what comes from all of this, but for my own thoughts, I still conclude that this war is far from over, despite Trump’s best efforts to end it currently at all costs.

You could have been the greatest president of all, but you failed. Mr. President. You missed the opportunity. Instead, unless you change course against the advice of your vice president and envoy, you will be remembered forever as the president who brought about the humiliation of great America and gravely damaged its strategic power and its leading status in the world, writes Israeli Journalist Danny Zaken.

By BareNakedIslam | June 20, 2026

Danny (Daniel) Zaken. Photo by Yoel Knoll, ­ IDF Radio spokesperson, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia

Israel Hayom (h/t Amil I) Mr. President. My name is Danny (Daniel) Zaken, and I am a proud Israeli citizen who has worked in journalism and covered developments in the region and around the world, including our country’s relations with the great US, for many years.

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By Janatan Sayeh | June 19, 2026

Mojtaba Khamenei. By Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

On June 18, the Islamic Republic’s new supreme leader, , who succeeded his father, issued a statement on the recent memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran. Khamenei confirmed that an agreement had been signed, claimed the United States pursued it “out of desperation,” and reiterated that his regime would not accept “excessive demands” in future negotiations.

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