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Fourteen years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center named me a hate group of one. The honor wasn’t mine alone, I shared it with a sign outside a bar and a brand of gun oil.
What was behind the SPLC’s sloppy hate group designation of one man, a bar sign and other random items was its obsession with manufacturing a constant rise in ‘hate groups.’
Peloni: This won’t help Israel and it won’t help Lebanon, because this extended ceasefire won’t eradicate Hezbollah from Lebanon, and it won’t remove Iranian control from Hezbollah. It may allow Trump time enough to force a hudna on Iran, but without regime change in Iran, Lebanon will never be free of Hezbollah, and Israel will never have peace on her northern border.
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Donald Trump speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia
Marc Thiessen, fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush, penned an important article for the Wall Street Journal in which he explains that the current U.S.–Iran standoff is at a critical breaking point. Instead of ceding further concessions to Iran, Thiessen explains that Trump should instead adopt an escalation strategy if Iran refuses to agree to U.S. terms.
Mojtaba Khamenei. By Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia
Far too much attention has been given to President Donald Trump’s strategy in the current conflict, and far too little to that of the Islamic Republic.
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This is an important article. As the US-Israeli campaign against Iran has exposed its terrorist regime as a paper tiger, Iran’s handlers in China were exposed as having limited control over the radicals within its regional proxy. The result of this limited control came in the form of China’s inability to protect the regional Sunni nations from Iranian attacks, even though these Arab nations had previously moved closer to China as a hedge against their relationship with the US. This failure has come to expose China as something of a paper superpower unable to even control its dominance over its Iranian ally. Consequently, China’s failure in this moment has seen significant diplomatic shifts towards the real superpower in the world, the United States, with very recently significant agreements from Indonesia and the Philippines with the US, moving them into America’s camp in the Great Game being played between China and the US. Recall the import of Indonesia vis a vis the Straits of Malacca which control the transit of maritime traffic approaching China, and the clarity of a US security coup becomes quite clear. These geopolitical shifts will act as the wind at Trump’s back as he is soon to meet Pres. Xi in just a couple of weeks as Xi’s remaining Middle East ally of Iran is facing economic and potentially regime collapse.
Zineb Riboua | Apr 21, 2026
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) general secretary Xi Jinping addresses Chinese and foreign journalists at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Oct 23, 2022. Photo by Chinese News Agency, CC BY 3.0, Wikipedia
On Monday, China’s Xi Jinping let the mask slip.
After weeks remaining largely absent from the diplomatic picture as the US conducted Operation Epic Fury against Iran, Xi called Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman to publicly urge a peaceful reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Peloni: Barry Shaw of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies talks with Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch about the importance and relevance of the Death Penalty for Terrorism Law.
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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | April 22, 2026
The Venezuela Precedent?
*A Venezuela type of regime change – whereby a second tier official/commander assumes power – would be impractical and self destructive in Iran, which has been ruled since February 1979 by the non-transactional, ideological Ayatollah regime, religiously-dedicated to bring “The Oppressive Great American Satan” to submission. All facets of the Ayatollah regime have been driven by a 1400-year-old fanatic and apocalyptic Twelver Shiite ideology, which transcends financial, diplomatic, political, military and greed considerations.
Peloni: As we are once again hearing talk about Iran preferring to hand its enriched uranium to a third party such as Russia, it should occur that they are simply trying to return to the failed JPCOA agreement of 2015 while pretending that we don’t know where this story might end, when in fact, we have been down this road once before. Iran must be made to relinquish its enriched uranium, or the responsible parties must go in and seize it. As Pres. Trump has noted many times, Iran can not be allowed to become a nuclear armed nation, and by playing this game of charades
A. Savyon, Yigal Carmon | MEMRI | April 20, 2026
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According to the Wall Street Journal, in the Oman-mediated U.S.-Iran talks in Geneva today, February 17, 2026, Iranian officials signaled that they “might offer to pause uranium enrichment for up to three years” – that is, until the end of President Trump’s term of office – and that they might be willing to remove “some” of their enriched uranium stockpiles out of Iran to another country.
| All Israel News | Published: April 23, 2026
Carine Bassili (Photo courtesy)
Born and raised in Lebanon, Carine Bassili grew to love Israel and is currently banned from her homeland. She has written several songs of peace in recent years and spoke with ALL ISRAEL NEWS about the latest political developments between her country and Israel.
The world keeps asking Israel to apologize for existing. The data has a different answer.
Ronn Torossian | Apr. 23, 2026
Photo by Benjamin Istanbuli on Unsplash
Ze’ev Jabotinsky wrote in 1923 that the Jew is a prince, regardless of circumstances—that Jewish dignity does not depend on the world’s recognition and that Jewish sovereignty does not require the world’s permission. A century later, the State of Israel proves his point.
Although nearly eight decades have passed since that war in 1948, there is still much to learn from it, not only as a glorious and heroic chapter in the history of the Jewish people and the State of Israel, but also, and above all, as a source of lessons and insights worth remembering and revisiting, which remain relevant today.
Prof. Eyal Zisser | April 19, 2026
David Ben-Gurion (First Prime Minister of Israel) publicly pronouncing the Declaration of the State of Israel, May 14 1948. Photo by Rudi Weissenstein – Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Public Domain, Wikipedia
The 78th Independence Day, which Israel marks this week, is a good opportunity to return to our roots, to the foundations and sources, and above all to the starting point of our journey: the War of Independence, which broke out following the declaration of statehood on the fifth of Iyar, 5708. It was a fateful war, a war for survival, and our victory in it secured Israel’s future for many years.
Janatan Sayeh | April 22, 2026
A port view of the reflagged Kuwaiti supertanker GAS KING underway. Photo by Department of Defense. American Forces Information Service. Defense Visual Information Center. 1994 -Public Domain, Wikipedia
After Donald Trump announced an extension of the US ceasefire with Iran on April 21, Tehran refused to take an official position on the state of the ceasefire, denied it had agreed to any extension, and signaled it would not reenter talks while the US naval blockade of Iranian ports remains in place.
Peloni: Make sure to share this video below with family and friends where Rabbi Pesach Wolicki describes the real motive behind the effort to denigrate President Trump’s opposition to Iran and to whitewash Rep. Elise Stephanik’s opposition to systemic university antisemitism. Media stunts to such as the one described below is neither inconsequential, nor is it arbitrary. The effort to preserve Iran as a nidus of the never ending conflict in the Middle East remains a focus of the MSM elites, and their Leftist/Communist/Islamist allies. The distraction provided by the media opposition are quite purposeful, and unfortunately potentially effective in changing the context and messaging about facts which should be easily agreed upon: Iran must not be allowed to be a nuclear terrorist nation, and institutionalized University antisemitism must be ended.
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Arlene Kushner | April 22, 2026
As I write, I am approaching the closure of Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel Independence Day).
This is a day that merits great celebration. Incredibly, we are both 78 years young and 3,000 years old.
That festivities have been somewhat muted because of the war that still hangs over us diminishes the importance of this day not a whit.
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Peloni: All that Clifford May describes here is true, but the reality remains that while Israel is actively moving against Hezbollah, Lebanon is actively providing cover for Hezbollah. It is a hard truth to face, but Lebanon has become quite complacent acting as a nationwide Stockholm Syndrome victim in providing Hezbollah the political support it requires to exist in Lebanon while opposing Israeli actions to eradicate the Iranian terrorist faction, even from the Israeli-Lebanese border. Meanwhile Trump is trying to arrange a meeting between Aoun and Netanyahu, despite Aoun having refused to even talk with his Israeli counterpart on the phone. So long as the Iranian regime remains in Tehran, this negotiation serves no purpose whatsoever. So, while May suggests that Israel may be Lebanon’s only hope, the reality is that seeing the fall of the Iranian regime is Lebanon’s only hope, short of Lebanon finding a way to thread the needle in evicting Hezbollah from continuing to occupy their country.
Hezbollah is not just Israel’s enemy
Clifford D. May | April 22, 20226
This headline from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation last week was typical: “Trump announces Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, but major disputes remain.”
That framing misses a basic truth: Ceasefires don’t resolve conflicts. Though they can lead to productive negotiations, they are more often used by both sides to prepare for the kinetic battles that lie ahead.
And that’s a good thing.
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JD Vance was supposed to be heading to Pakistan today to resume negotiations with the leaders of the Islamic Republic, but as of this writing on Tuesday afternoon, the whole thing is off, at least for now.
Peloni: This was a political bombshell in the US. We are witnessing the fall of the American Left’s most successful political attack group which has been responsible for organizing the delegitimization of American conservative groups and leaders over the past decades, as testified to by Pamela Geller below. It is a welcome new reality to see that the long held unimpeachable SPLC will no longer be available to play this pivotal role for the Dems, as they are being indicted for the funding of the very terror groups it was presumably formulated towards countering. Notably, their position of being held above the law was likely pivotal to their ability, if not the motivation, of their funding/organizing the very Hate groups which gave the SPLC a basis for its own continued funding and fundraising. Daylight being cast upon such long established pillars of ‘trust’ within the American political system will have important political implications even if this is not reproduced with other such groups, and hopefully, the investigations will not end with the SPLC.
‘Paid Extremist Leaders’ in Shocking Fraud Case, Funded The Hate, 11 Federal Charges Including Money Laundering
By Pamela Geller |
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is one of the Left’s premier, well-heeled, and most dishonest and ruthless attack dogs.
The ‘work’ of the hate group SPLC is to smear, defame and libel anyone who effectively counters the far-left/Islamic agenda. It relentlessly smears legitimate conservative individuals and groups by labeling them as purveyors of “hate” and lumping them in with the likes of the KKK and neo-Nazis (who they were paying.)
Peloni: If the ingredients for radicalism were known, a cure might be possible…til then…
I can’t figure out what ingredient inhabits a rabid, America-hating leftist. What is the recipe?
Am Thinker | April 22, 2026
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My daughter Karen became enthralled with the Food Network decades ago, but it took me until the past few years to be equally hooked.
Jafaj.net | April 21, 2026
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