Peloni: CNN’s Dana Bash reports on Trump’s possible choice of Iran’s next leader. After Bash questioned if it might be another Ayatolla or religious leader, Trump indicated he had no problem with religious leaders so long as they are “fari, and just, do a great job, treat the United States and Israel well, and treat the other countries in the Middle East…” He also addressed the issue on gas prices, and noted that Cuba will soon fall as well.
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Peloni: In fact, the way to prevent wars is not to pretend that when war is made upon you, some other avenue might be available. The Mullahs in Iran have been waging war on America, and the West, not just Israel, since they first came to power. The full list of attacks on America, American military, and American citizenry is long and should be understood to be one of the great constants in the world of geopolitics over the past five decades. When war is made upon you, there honestly can be but one response, and that is to face the challenge directly and openly. This was the great failure of American diplomacy over the past many decades, or at least one of them to be certain. As Daniel Greenfield explains so well below, appeasement doesn’t work.
No one wants another war, but Biden proved appeasement doesn’t work.
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Joe Biden explaining that the JCPOA is “a good deal”. Sept 3, 2015. Screengrab via Youtube
Few Americans want another war. We’re tired of wars. Especially wars in the Middle East. Unfortunately the Islamic terrorists who have been killing us for 50 years aren’t tired.
Arlene Kushner | March 5, 2026
Purim celebrated in a bomb shelter. Screengrab via Youtube
Yesterday (Wednesday) was Shushan Purim here in Jerusalem, where I live. It is celebrated a day later than “regular” Purim because Jerusalem was a walled city.
Peloni: In a recent article in Tablet Magazine titled, “Who Wants This War?”, Lee Smith argues that the current war with Iran should be understood as the culmination of a long strategic shift in U.S. rather than a sudden or impulsive conflict. Accordingly, the war represents a reversal of decades of failed Western policies which have and emboldened the Iranian regime while also allowing it to expand the reach of its power across the Middle East, threatening both Israel and Sunni nations alike.
Smith traces the roots of the conflict to several earlier decisions, including Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, the restoration of maximal economic pressure, as well as the 2020 killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force. These steps represented the beginning of a gradual process of weakening the Iranian Mullah’s regime, including its control over its regional network of militias.
HAMAS CONTROLLING HALF OF GAZA SHOULD PROVE TO HIM WHAT ANYTHING LESS THAN UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER MEANS.
Peloni
Pres. Trump released the statement that he will be pursuing “no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER”. It is an important undertaking to make such a statement, as it gives the enemy regime no hope of survival, and its members no hope of maintaining their grip on power.
Peloni: As the brilliant philosopher and author, Yoram Hazony, recently noted, there has never been a Purim such as we have recently had. The death of the modern day Haman alongside traditional celebrations being held underground, if at all, mark these distinctions as we can only hope and pray to see modern day miracles continue to be revealed in our favor in the coming reshaping of the region.
by Steve Kramer
Tapestry showing the story of Ahasuerus and Esther. The tapestry was donated by Adolf von Wylich in 1574. It was made in Wesel. By Ad Mesken© Ad Meskens – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia
The story of Purim in the Scroll of Ester takes place about 2,400 years ago. At that time the Persian Empire was the greatest empire in the world, comprising 127 provinces from India to Europe and Africa. It was ruled by the Persian Emperor, Xerxes the Great, aka King Ahasuerus. Ahasuerus holds a significant place in Jewish history because of his role in the Purim story. Queen Ester’s entrapment of the evil Haman, the king’s prime minister, was a dangerous but necessary act to save the Jews from destruction. The king rewards the queen by allowing his Jewish subjects to defeat their enemies who had been preparing to slaughter them. The villain of the story is Haman, who ends up being hanged along with his 10 sons. Queen Ester and her cousin Mordechai are the heroes of Purim.
Iran reportedly picks a brutal hardliner as the new supreme leader.
Mojtaba Khamenei. By Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia
The first attempt the surviving rulers of the Islamic Republic of Iran made to replace their fallen supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, didn’t quite go as planned. Fox News reported Tuesday that “Israeli forces struck an Iranian Supreme Council gathering on Tuesday as the group was meeting to choose a successor to the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.” According to Fox News’ Trey Yingst, “They just targeted the meeting in Tehran where what’s left of the leadership was gathering to choose a new Supreme Leader.”
The American forces will carry out a major assassination in Iran soon, and in an unconventional manner… Big names are nominated to join Qassem Soleimani at the bottom of hell…
The curse of shedding our children’s blood in Syria, Gaza, Yemen, and Ahwaz has come back to haunt…
— Mudar Adnan Zahran ??? ????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) March 6, 2026
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An Indictment
By Gregg Roman | MEF |March 5, 2026
Tucker Carlson. Screengrab via Youtube
“Tucker has lost his way,” President Trump told ABC News on March 5. “He’s not MAGA. MAGA is saving our country. MAGA is making our country great again. MAGA is America first, and Tucker is none of those things. And Tucker is really not smart enough to understand that.”
| Published: March 5, 2026
21:12 – Iran’s FM: No plans to close Hormuz Straits, regime doesn’t ask for negotiations
Speaking to NBS News, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the regime is not asking for negotiations with U.S. but also doesn’t plan to close the Strait of Hormuz for now, contradicting statements by the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).
Peloni: THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!! This statement has been long overdue, but Trump has finally laid down a line on which he stands on one side and Carlson stands far on the other. Quite relevant to Trump’s statement, Prof. Jeffrey Lax released a statement a few hours prior to Trump’s interview, in which Lax lists many of the key players whose support for Carlson came from remaining silent or standing by him or fully endorsing Carlson’s antisemitic babble. Trump has now spoken up. It is time for the rest of these enablers of Carlson’s campaign of Jew Hatred to do the same.
Peloni: Joan Swirskey‘s rotting fruit analogy is so well deserved by Carlson and his ilk. It is a sad and terrible reality that the hatred of Jews being promoted by the fake Right Carlson, Owens, Kelly etc, contrasts sharply with great favor which the American Founding Fathers held for the Jewish people. While the American Left have cast off these ties to the past, it was the American Right, ie the conservative MAGA movement, which saw its past as something worth savoring and restoring, which again contrasts sharply with the Jew Hatred inherent in so much of the Fake Right’s rhetoric, giving rise to the fact that these pro-Islamist, Iran-supporting, Jew haters have far more in common with Obama and his ilk than with Trump’s philosemitic MAGA movement. Hence the truth is not so much that the fruit is rotten, but that it is laced with the same toxic focus inherent in what should be understood to divide the American Left from the American Right. Indeed, the rotting fruit in Joan’s analogy represents the Obama-lyte faction which should be cut out of Trump’s party, very much like you would cast aside a rotting apple to define the limit of what is acceptable to a conservative pallet. Or so I would suggest.
Plus what they will teach us about those who are still with us.
Am Thinker | March 5, 2026
Photo by form PxHere
When I was growing up in New Haven, Conn., my parents subscribed not only to our local newspaper — The New Haven Register, still extant — but also to The New York Times and the now defunct (since 1966) New York Herald Tribune. I think I was about eight or nine years old when I was idly flipping through the Times and came across the obituary section. From that very moment, I was hooked.
Peloni: This is an important interview with Haviv Rettig Gur. The war in Iran is integral to Trump’s China policy. Failing to grasp this point oversimplifies the current war, and it will lead to serious misled conclusions. Gur’s analogy to America fighting on a world chessboard while Israel fights on a regional chessboard is an important context to grasp. These two tightly aligned nations have their own priorities based on their regional vs global perspectives, and it also provides some distinctions between what each of these nations seek as their respective ultimate goals.
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Iranian Kurdish parties form a historic coalition to coordinate efforts and safeguard Kurdish interests amid regional unrest.
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | MARCH 5, 2026
Kurdish Peshmerga forces engaging militants in Iraq. Screengrab via Youtube
Paul Schnee: In the report posted below Governor Gavin Newsom likened Israel to an apartheid state. Other than pandering to the woke militia of leftocrats in the Democrat Party it is difficult to understand why he would use the most easily refutable accusation against Israel to discredit America’s greatest ally and only democracy in the Middle East.
It’s almost as if he has never read anything about Israel or walked around wearing a blindfold when he visited there a week after October 7th. 2023. If he had removed his blindfold, he couldn’t have helped noticing that Israel’s two million Arab Palestinian citizens enjoy full civil liberties including free speech, Habeas Corpus and freedom of religion. Many serve in the IDF, in the judiciary, the police and as members of the Israeli parliament.
By Ari Bussel
Translation by Peloni
The owner of the Five Stones Winery, Ilan Hasson, was last week in Los Angeles to promote and taste his wines. In the picture (right) in a wine total which is in Pico
Once there were very few wineries in Israel. They predate the modern state of Israel. One can see the remains of holding tanks and wineries in Rehovot and Rishon Le-Zion, Zichron Yaakov and elsewhere, children playing among the well-kept remains. Among the well-known ones (in terms of name recognition, not necessarily quality, and in no particular order): Carmel Mizrahi in Rishon LeZion and Zichron Yaakov, Binyamina Winery at the foot (south) of the Carmel Mountains, Barkan Wineries on the way from Rehovot via Mazkeret Batya and Hulda to Jerusalem, and others. Not very many, and wines about which one would not be writing home or buying at the airport as a souvenir
Peloni: Amid the ongoing war which will change the face of the Middle East, the Israeli Deep State continues its war of control at the cost of unity, fair governance and any sense of equitability, all of which is most appreciably relevant amid the ongoing war. This is a proper setting for MAG Ofir to intervene and, unlike his predecessor’s notorious intervention in the Yemeni Fields Affair, to end what should be understood by all to be a contemptible, destabilizing and unjust policy. In this regard, Ofir should act immediately as it not only stands as a moral imperative, but it simultaneously represents a very real threat to the very men and women who stand on the front line of the nation’s battles across all its many battle fronts.
May G_d Bless, Preserve and Protect the Courageous and Honorable Men and Women of the IDF!
Combat Doctrine – Temporary | X | Mar 4, 2026
Translated by Peloni
Major (res.) Dov Yudkin, a reserve company commander, brother of Captain Israel Yudkin, of blessed memory [killed in the northern Gaza Strip on May 22, 2024, while serving in the Kfir Brigade]. Screengrab via Youtube.
A shocking post by Major Dov Yudkin
Please read every word:
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