Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | July 8, 2026

inFOCUS Magazine, Summer 2026

Israeli Air Force members wait for F-35I Adirs to launch for a Red Flag-Nellis 23-2 mission at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, March 16, 2023. Photo by Airman 1st Class Trevor Bell – Dvidshub.net, Public Domain, Wikipedia

In the arena of US alliances, no relationship delivers the outsized return for the American taxpayer as does the US-Israel partnership.

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Peloni:  Additional reporting below Pamela Geller’s report.

US Bombing Iran

By Pamela Geller | July 7, 2026

US responds to Iranian attacks on shipping in Strait of Hormuz, July 7, 2026. Screengrab via Youtube

U.S. Central Command forces have begun launching a series of powerful strikes against Iran to impose heavy costs for targeting and attacking commercial shipping crewed by innocent civilians in an international waterway. The U.S. strikes are in response to Iranian attacks on three commercial vessels that were transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s demonstrated aggression was unwarranted, dangerous, and a clear violation of the ceasefire.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Harry S. Truman holding the Chicago Daily Tribune with the erroneous headline, “Dewey Defeats Truman”, at Union Station in St. Louis, Missouri, on November 4, 1948, after winning the 1948 United States presidential election. Photo by Byron H. Rollins – Originally distributed by the Associated Press and published in numerous newspapers on November 5, 1948., Public Domain, Wikipedia

https://nypost.com/2026/07/06/world-news/iran-fires-missiles-at-commercial-ships-in-strait-of-hormuz/

The latest news above showcasing the surviving Iranian mullahs’s bravado is beyond depressing…

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Update: Im Tirtu:  Officials in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan are being forced to consider the restoration of full diplomatic relations with Israel (which were downgraded by Jordan after October 7) following the expiration of Israel’s 2021 agreement to double its 50 million cubic meter annual water commitments to the Hashemite Kingdom, according to a Kan News report.

Israel still supplies the initial 50 million annual cubic meters of water to Jordan mandated in their 1994 peace agreement, with Energy Minister Eli Cohen holding steadfast against renewing the 2021 doubling of water provisions until full diplomatic relations are restored.

All Israel News Staff | Published: July 7, 2026

Mujib Dam and reservoir at the head of Wadi Mujib, Jordan. (Photo: Daniel Case/Wikimedia Commons)

Israel and Jordan are at odds over a longstanding water-sharing agreement, with Jerusalem signaling it intends to reduce water exports to its eastern neighbor unless diplomatic relations improve – a dispute that is testing one of Israel’s most important regional partnerships.

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Peloni:  Actually, those responsible for the weaponizing of psychopathy under the tuteledge of UNWRA are guilty of War Crimes, great slaughters, and the psychological abuse of generations of children while significantly profitting from these miseries, tortures and savageries. Such high crimes committed at the societal level should warrant a sentence of death, not prison.

Those who took $1 billion a year from Western taxpayers to poison the minds of Palestinian children need to be held accountable. Someone needs to go to prison. https://t.co/hVFm445oof

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 7, 2026

By Michel Benchimol

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Foreign Minister Anita Anand. Photo bBy The White House – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia [Cropped]

An Open Letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney and Foreign Minister Anita Anand

Prime Minister Carney. Minister Anand.

I accuse you.

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By Moshe Phillips

Ali Khamenei’s Funeral.  Screengrab via Youtube

The spotlight on the funeral events for Iran’s late leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran has exposed some of the most rabid anti-American and anti-Israel extremists for what they truly are.

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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

“Public Domain: WWII: Atom Bomb, Nagasaki, August 1945 (HD-SN-99-02901 DOD/NARA)” by pingnews.com is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0.

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.

Spoiler below:

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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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https://newsletter.amitsegal.net/p/its-noon-in-israel-turkey-ascending

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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