Peloni:  Iran is doing that Iran thing again.  No surprises as this should have been expected by everyone.  The question remains as to how Trump will respond.  So we will see.

Valerie Locke | Israel365 | July 6, 2026

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Satellite imagery reviewed by a Washington nuclear watchdog shows continued construction at Iran’s most secretive nuclear site even as Tehran sits across the table from American negotiators, raising the question of whether the regime is preparing a hedge against the very diplomacy it claims to be pursuing in good faith.

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Peloni:  The war continues, even as we are being told that negotiations are proceeding.  The end of the war will only come from a surrender by the US or by Iran, so we will see what comes next, but I don’t anticipate the US surrendering, and Iran will not allow such a surrender to be ambiguous or inconsequential.  This is why I have been stating that this war is not over, and so far events have not changed my view in stating this, and in fact, the Iranian burial of their previous leadership has only made this conclusion all the more likely.

IRGC warns ships to use route closer to Iranian coast

Peloni:  One way or another, let us hope so.

Yossi Baum | X | July 6, 2026

President Donald Trump meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after a dinner with NATO Summit leaders at the Huis ten Bosch Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (By The White House – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia

I see concerns in the feed about the warming of relations between Trump and Erdogan, supposedly, the upcoming sale of F-35s to Turkey.

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by Rafael Medoff

Dame Sarah Mullally. Photo by Roger Harris – https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Members/4696/Portrait?cropType=ThreeTwoGallery: Members.parliament.uk, CC BY 3.0, Wikipedia

Why would England’s most important Christian religious leader embrace supporters of a terrorist group that slaughtered seventeen American Christians?

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by Susan Rosenbluth | TJV | July 6, 2026

UK Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis. Photo by Foreign and Commonwealth Office – Commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia

Americans For A Safe Israel (AFSI) expressed its strong support for UK Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis following his recent statements at the Religion Media Festival in London. AFSI is calling on American lawmakers to follow the Chief Rabbi’s lead and pass legislation that makes chanting “death to the IDF” a criminal offense in the United States.

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Peloni:  I am old enough to recall President Trump describing Qatar as having “historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”  In fact, it was less than ten years ago when Trump began to shift his revulsion for the Muslim Brotherhood terror entity of Qatar, and it can hardly be said to be because Qatar has become less inclined to either manipulate American society against America values, nor could it be said to be because this terror enclave became less supportive of terrorism.  The consequences of Qatar being raised to significant status by American elites, is not making America safer, nor is it making the Middle East more stable, which draws some of Trump’s strongest supporters to question why he might have chosen to so closely align with Qatar.

Arlene Kushner | July 6, 2026

Trump’s New “Air Force One” First Flight – VC-25B Bridge (Boeing 747-8 Jet Qatar Gifted). Screengrab via Youtube

I was born and grew up in America; I raised my three children there. My aliyah 25 years ago was not motivated by a rejection of America. I was not running from… Rather, I was running to…

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Paul Schnee:  What is Trump thinking? Turkey, led by an Islamic supremacist, should not even be a member of NATO. Under no circumstances should it ever get its grubby Jew-hating hands on F-35s.

Next to Iran, Turkey is Israel’s greatest enemy. A cursory analysis of Turkey’s official statements reveals it is, at best, a perfidious ally of America and the West.

Our ambassador there, Tom Barrack, is a prime example of why large donors should not be rewarded for their financial support by being appointed to positions for which they are entirely unsuited.

If someone from Lockheed Martin or the current administration were to pass on secret information about our F-35s to the Turks they would be charged with treason. It’s difficult to distinguish that from what the president and Tom Barrack are currently intending to do to. 

Amit Segal | July 7, 2026

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Peloni:  Trump’s 20 Point Plan which was to bring about ‘Peace in Our Time’, and which was adopted into UN Security Council Resolution 2803, has always been nothing more than a device by the war in Gaza would be ended without the destruction of Hamas, and to subsequently create a second Palestinian state.   This was clear enough when, like clockwork, all demands for Hamas to be disarm were ignored as if this fact was not a clear violation of Resolution 2803, even though they were to be disarmed within 36hrs, which was last October.  The latest push towards goals is being hidden in the skulldugery of claims of Hamas ‘turning’ over the governance to the technocratic govt in Gaza.  Don’t be fooled by this ruse, as Rabbi Pesach Wolicki explains in this very important video.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

A wonderful source of reliable information, Aish.com (Aish Ha Torah…the awesome fire/passion of the Torah), recently published a very timely, welcome article detailing the support Israel and the Jewish People are receiving from other indigenous peoples at a time when larger countries are either reverting back to their old millennial religiously inspired prejudices against Jews and now their nation as well (in both Christian and Muslim lands), or are simply jumping onto the hate Israel bandwagon due to ignorance. See it here…

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Recent developments should sound a warning bell within the national camp. If indeed Trump’s points-based plan is advancing apace, the time remaining to shape a different reality is rapidly shrinking. 

Yehudit Katsover & Nadia Matar, co-chairs of the Sovereignty Movement | Ribonut.co.il | July 7, 2026

Trump speaks at the Board of Peace. Source: Wikipedia Commons

President Trump’s 20-point plan to end the war in Gaza is not remaining on paper. As time passes, it is becoming clear that it is advancing step by step.

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Peloni:  The Democrats took their Jewish constituency for granted because their Jewish constituency took themselves for granted.  The Jewish Democrats act as if they have no agency of their own, that they are incapable of supporting candidates that do not have the Democratic seal of approval, and consistently act to support the Democratic Party, even as that political organization espouses antisemitic candidates and political movements such as BLM.  It is a sad reflection on the fact that the American republic has provided Jews with the greatest source of freedom, allowing them the ability to influence their own fate in America by supporting candidates which would in turn support them.  Yet, as is true of all things in any democratic form of govt, the ability to act responsibly in choosing proper leadership is better described as a responsibility.  As Daniel Greenfield explains below, even as the Democratic Jewish community has acted as a captured enclave of the Democratic party, it is not too late to change things, but it might be added that it might actually be almost too late if theses Democratic Jewish voters do not respond to the growing threat being raised against them in the very party to which they maintain a stalwart fidelity in supporting, even against their own interest.

by Daniel Greenfield| July 7, 2026

Dariazila Avila Chevalier in New York who attended a celebration of Oct 7 after the attacks won the Democratic primary against the five-term incumbent Adriano Espaillat. Screengrab via Youtube

The nomination of open Hamas supporters by the Democratic Party has led to another round of American Jewish liberals bemoaning their abandonment by the party and the movement despite that time they marched with MLK.

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Peloni:  It is time to make Gaza Israeli again.  It was so for millenia, and only recently used as the den of savages from which the October 7 slaughter was launched.  Wars have consequences, and the return of Israeli lands to Israel should be the least gained from the mountain of suffering which came from the war which was launched against Israel by Hamas.

By Sha’i ben-Tekoa

Forces of the 401st Special Operations Command and the Givati Brigade, as part of the operation, achieved operational control of the Rafah Crossing on the Gaza side, east of Rafah, May 2024. Photo by IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia

In 1982, the IDF invaded Lebanon to drive the PLO away from the border and did, forcing them to retreat into Beirut where the war continued until U.S. diplomat Phillip Habib was able to arrange a ceasefire and even got the PLO to evacuate the country.

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Peloni:  How might we find the means by which to defeat the imbalanced historic distortions waged against the Jewish people when imbalanced historic distortions are being pre-programmed into the modern public by the public source of intelligence which is used to fact check reality on a real-time basis? Similarly to having an international body in the UN acting as an unbiased arbiter in the international arena is undermined by its systemically antisemitic bias, having Jew Hatred hard wired into the basic understandings of Artificial Intelligence provides a new arena on which Israel, and Jews in general will have a new never ending battle against ignorance and disinformation which bakes our delegitimization, demonization and double-standards into the minds of the general public.  As is true with the antisemitic United Nations, the bias programming in AI has the means to warp malicious predjudices against us on a host of venues even beyond the interplay of public opinion as explained below.

By: Fern Sidman | TJV | July 6, 2026

“Artificial Intelligence – Resembling Human Brain” by deepak pal, CC BY-SA 2.0

A groundbreaking new study has revealed a deeply troubling phenomenon at the intersection of technology and prejudice: artificial intelligence systems, widely regarded as impartial arbiters of information, may in fact be perpetuating centuries-old antisemitic tropes in subtle yet consequential ways. As reported and analyzed by The Times of Israel, researchers have found that large language models, including some of the most advanced and widely deployed systems in the world, appear to replicate long-standing cultural stereotypes about Jews, even when those identifiers are deliberately removed.

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Peloni:  Mark Levin has been one of the most stalwart advocates of reason and honesty over the past several years relating to the Middle East, and he has maintained a constant position amid changing US policies which ignore him and shifts in public criticisms meant to silence him. Mark has become a focus of poised resolve to understand what is right and to champion that position despite all forces which might rise against him for doing so, be they friend or foe, foreign or domestic, politicians or simply fake-right podcasters.  It has been in inspiration to see so much courage in an age in which personal opportunism has been the wind which catches too many sails.  Cookie Schwaeber-Issan really captures all that might be said on Mark’s frank and honest battle to guide and critique US policy, and I heartedly congratulate and thank her for doing so.

Cookie Schwaeber-Issan | All Israel News | July 6, 2026

Mark Levin. Screengrab

Which is worse for Israel – an Iran takeover or a US takeover?While the question may sound absurd, on its face, both scenarios, involving a takeover of Israel by the U.S. or Iran, equally result in an existential threat to the Jewish homeland.

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Peloni:  Why is it that politics makes men so stupid? The ranks of the Bibists and the Never Netanyahu crowd are each responsible for denying the truth about the longest serving premiere in Israel’s history, and the most accomplished public servant in modern democracies.  This is not to hail Netanyahu as some form of saint, which he is not, but none the less these are simple facts.  It is also true that Netanyahu has been conflicted by a need to reform the judicial norms which have seriously damaged Israel, both internally and externally, and yet this issue, which was a major theme in the last election, has yet to be slightly achieved.  This too is a fact.  These facts do not conflict with one another, but the two camps which divide the nation around the personality of its highest civil servant after service of too many years to count, are incapable of reconciling these and MANY other attributes of Netanyahu’s long reign as PM.  The reason is that politics make men stupid.  It makes them ignore simple realities so that political choices might seem more obvious than perhaps they are.   The cost is that the divisions between these two camps have exposed the nation to ridicule, divisions, external manipulations and foreign attacks, both figuratively and literally, in an age which the safety and security of every Israeli in the country is at threat.  Among the facts ignored in supporting the dichotomous ideologies about Netanyahu is that we still do not know the full scope of what happened on October 7, why the Gaza border was not only completely exposed to attack but was also ignored for most of the first day while individual warriors and trapped civilians were denied any support from what we have seen to be the greatest integrated military and intelligence institutions in the world.  Until such time as the insanity which prefers to weaponize selective facts as the full truth to accomplish a political outcome is set aside, we will never be capable of either learning or grasping the truth about that fatal, unforgiveable failure which made the October 7 slaughter so successful… and therefore, it is easily not inconceivable that it could all happen again.  Let the truth be told though all the sacred cows fall, and political agendas be damned!

Avi Abelow | Meta

Hamas gunmen capturing civilian hostages from Kibbutz Beéri on October 7 2023. Photo by Bodycam footage: No human authorship – WSJ, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Do you know that while the mainstream media tells us to blame the government for the lack of an October 7 investigation, two active investigations were actually taking place, only to be deliberately stopped by elements within the military and the justice system?

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Peloni:  When we look on as Iran persists in its need to seize the Strait of Hormuz as its own, we must question what is really taking place here?  What is the real reason that Iran is attempting to overturn the norms of the High Seas in what is likely to be a no win scenario for them.  Of course, it is reasonable to suggest that the Iranians are set upon a path of complete insanity so as to achieve its ideological achievement of calling forth the long sought rising of the Mahdi, but this conclusion is rendered illogical, as such a rationale would have precluded the crazy Iranians from being present at the negotiating table at all.  So, no, it is not their ideology which brought them to open a new revenue stream using open piracy.  Instead, the fixed resolve to keep the Strait as their own personal piggy bank cries out to the world that the economically isolated Iranian Islamic Republic is short of the most basic commodity of revenue.  No matter how the negotiations go, Iran is signaling that it NEEDS stronger revenue streams than their special blend of oil might afford them in the post war period.  Why might that be?  While Iran was fighting a war with America and Israel, China sought out an alternate source of energy which they ironically found in the US, and they bought a good bit of it in anticipation of Iran doing something stupid.  The consequence of this is that China is not in a great hurry to buy massive amounts from Iran, whose energy is now full priced rather than being priced quite low when it faced US sanctions.  Unfortunately for Iran, its old buyer, China, and its potential new buyers in Asia, are both waiting to see what comes from the current negotiations, but even if Iran wins back its old buyer and new buyers in the post-negotiation period, assuming that war is avoided (unlikely IMO), Iran will be competing on the open market for any sales it does receive, and recalling that very few refineries can handle the crude oil sailing out of Kharg Island, the best case scenarios do not provide Iran with as strong a revenue stream as they might anticipate needing to maintain their ranks and to return Iran to its former state of, well, what it was before the war.  Meanwhile the malcontents within the Iranian public are still malcontented, making Iran’s need of stabilizing its long decrepit economy all the more important.  So Iran needs a new revenue stream beyond the sale of its energy products, which is why it is obsessed with nationalizing the international causeway of the Strait of Hormuz as its solution to financing its way back towards stability.

Iranian officials threaten US, western nations over military presence in Hormuz

All Israel News Staff | Published: July 5, 2026

Tanker being guided thru Strait of Hormuz. Screengrab via Youtube

Iran’s ambassador to China reaffirmed that his country plans to charge transit fees for vessels traversing the Strait of Hormuz after the end of the 60-day period defined by the Memorandum of Understanding.

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The main information on the Houthi movements comes from Al-Ain news in the UAE, which has good security sources in Yemen.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | JULY 5, 2026

Houthi Missiles. Screengrab via Youtube