Peace becomes impossible when a public culture rewards the sacrifice of children more than the protection of their future.

Dr. Alex Grobman |   Aug 23, 2026

For years, Western leaders have insisted that Islam itself is not the enemy. After September 11, President George W. Bush declared that “Islam is peace” and that terrorists “represent evil and war.” President Barack Obama later told the Muslim world in Cairo that America and Islam “overlap” in principles of justice, progress, tolerance, and human dignity.

Both men were drawing an important distinction. A religion is not the same thing as the political culture that may develop around it, exploit it, or weaponize it.

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Peloni & David Fieldstone

Mark Levin’s Sunday show of August 23, 2026 – ** Re: Senator Ted Cruz’s (Ted) new book on Clarence Thomas (CT) * of SCOTUS. Ted said it had to be written for public consumption. ** After – 2 years more, CT will be longest sitting Justice on SCOTUS in its History – also one of the most brilliant in his occupation, as well as consequential.  The entire interview was with regard to CT and Ted’s Book including his interview with CT which lasted for 9 hours straight. They are good friends. Ted appeared before CT many times qua an attorney regarding many serious counts for the present & the future, in the pleadings + in person (sua sponte).

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Peloni:  Zeneb Riboua makes the case that the failures of Iran’s regime over the past several months has fashioned an IRGC sized casket in the form of Economic D-Day.

More than Isolation

Zineb Riboua | Aug 24, 2026

reasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced today the launch of Operation Economic Outcast, the next phase of the Trump administration’s campaign against Iran following Operation Epic Fury (the military dimension) and Economic Fury (Iran’s shadow-banking system and the commercial pipeline connecting Iranian oil to China, which is mainly constituted by shell companies and shadow-fleet vessels to independent teapot refineries).

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Israel has been putting up with repeated threats and active support of Arab Hamas butchers of its people originating from Turkey for decades.

Peloni:  This is the war which underlines setbacks on all of the other war fronts facing Israel today, and yet it still lacks a clear strategy.  This will be the greatest challenge facing the next govt, as it was so for the last govt which failed to address it.

All Israel News Staff | Published: August 24, 2026

Fleur Hassan-Nahoum.  Screengrab via Youtube

Israeli media commentator and former Jerusalem deputy mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum says Israel still lacks a serious communications strategy after almost three years of war with the Iranian-led Islamist axis.

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Peloni:  Take note of Iran’s threats against Pres. Trump’s son and posting a bounty him as well.  This is what comes from fighting barbarism.

Revelation comes after request by prime minister hopeful for security

J. Micah Hancock | All Israel News | Published: August 25, 2026

PM Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the reinterment ceremony for the remains of Shimon and Rivka Herzl, August 5, 2026.  Screengrab via Youtube

During a live broadcast on Channel 14, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that Iran tried to “murder, to assassinate” one of his sons.

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You have no idea how many GOP consultants and operatives I have spoken to who tell me they agree with my assessment that Republicans are pushing out terrible messaging by calling all of these radical candidates “socialists” instead of “jihadists and communists”.

Apparently…

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) August 24, 2026

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Peloni:  The conditional and delayed aspects of this declaration holds a very pregnant pause on yet one more very large and yet to be realized threat against Iran, but the threat to friend and foes of the US is now the greater prize in this current line being drawn in the sand by the US.  In fact, US allies such as Qatar among other would find themselves in the crosshairs of this Economic D-Day if it or when it were ever to materialize, in addition to such peer competitors as China.  So is this latest threat, as large and encompassing as it stands as stated, be understood to be more compelling to Iran than Trump’s multiple, and numerous, threats to rain down hell on them which came to very little when ignored by Iran over the last several months?  Notably, the Iranians appear to be taking this current threat from the US with more concern than previous warnings, but that is because the threat is not just focused on Iran alone.

The real question which remains to be seen is whether Trump truly enforce the policy of “With Us or Against US” which has at its core a much larger paradigm than just dealing Iran a devastating blow.

Jack McGeever Business Reporter | Daily Caller |  August 24, 2026

Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent. Screeenshot via Youtube.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent provided few specifics Monday during his highly-anticipated announcement about sanctions against Iran.

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AFSI says the new partnership will promote free videos and curriculum resources designed to counter misinformation about Zionism and Israel ahead of the new school year.

Americans For a Safe Israel has announced a new partnership with ZionismU aimed at expanding access to educational material about Zionism and countering what the organization describes as growing misinformation and hostility toward the Zionist movement since the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.

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Peloni:  The AstroTurf campaign supporting Jihadists in the West is as misled as the Western obsession with creating a Jihadist second Palestinian state out of the heartlands of Israel.  While the memes of chickens protesting on behalf of the fox in the henhouse seems innocent enough, the policies which might follow such untethered political campaigns as Gays for Gaza, if successful, could only secure misery, hardships and horror as their end goals.  It is a sad indictment of the failure of the West to secure their education and agencies against the willing intrigues being bought by foreign and enemy forces, and if continued to be left unchecked, these forces will oversee the fall of the West as well as its subjugation to Communist/Islamist forces.

by Rafael Medoff

Philadelphia was the site last weekend of a “Naked Bike Ride,” in which “protesters” rode their bicycles through the city stark naked.

What were they protesting? According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the participants painted their bodies with slogans about “immigrants, calling for a freed Palestine, and demanding enhanced bicycle safety measures.”

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Peloni:  Barrack should be fired so he can openly serve the real master whose views he promotes, and that is clearly not POTUS.

SCOOP:

Tom Barrack @USAMBTurkiye, the Ambassador to Turkey has been called back to Washington DC this week for “consultations”.

In State Department lingo, this is the term for having your ass handed to you by your boss @SecRubio.

This comes after Barrack sparked an… https://t.co/DJa9SC2n98

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) August 25, 2026

Peloni:  The question remains as to whether this 11th hour stay on the injunction interfering with the coming election will ultimately see Trump’s Executive Order overseeing mail in voting come into effect in the next 3 months.

By Andrew Rice | The Center Square | August 24, 2026

Supreme Court Building at dusk in Washington, D.C. Photo by Joe Ravi, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily allowed the Trump administration to maintain an order placing restrictions on mail-in voting.

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An unnamed senior US government official has pressured the families of victims of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terror invasion to drop a lawsuit against a prominent Palestinian-American businessman who is accused of allowing the terror group to use his properties, according to a court filing last month.

The businessman, Bashar Masri, denies all allegations of wrongdoing.

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Peloni:  EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas called on Israel to withdraw a tender for 1,234 homes in the E1 area between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim, saying the project threatens the prospects of a two-state solution by dividing the West Bank and isolating East Jerusalem. Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada, Norway and other governments have also criticized the plans.  Israeli officials rejected the pressure. Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar defended Jewish residency throughout the Land of Israel, while Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Israel would not accept foreign dictates and described E1 construction as a means of preventing a Palestinian state. The United States did not directly oppose the tender but reiterated its opposition to Israeli annexation of Judea and Samaria.  The tender is also facing an internal Israeli legal challenge from Peace Now, Ir Amim, Bimkom and Palestinian Bedouin residents, with the state ordered to respond by September 1.  While the US is not blocking the E1 project moving forward, the hurdle of the High Court still looms in the distance.  This remains the most concerning aspect of this pivotal project being realized.

EU demands Israel cancel planned construction near Jerusalem

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Tel Aviv Altlana Description: The ship Altlana catches fire off the coast of Tel Aviv. Wikipedia

The Altalena was a 1948 French arms ship destined to support the fledgling IDF under the orders of PM Ben Gurion, specifically under the command of Yitzak Rabin, due to the shipment having been arranged with Ben Gurion’s arch enemy, the Irgun’s Menachem Begin.  Presumably, Ben Gurion demanded Begin surrender the ship due to his fears of the Irgun   

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Americans For A Safe Israel Announces Landmark Partnership with ZionismU to Combat Misinformation and Expand Educational Reach 

ASFI | Aug 24, 2026

Since the tragic events of October 7, Zionism has been extremely misunderstood and has been under vicious attack online. In response to this unprecedented wave of digital hostility and misinformation, Americans For a Safe Israel-AFSI is proud to announce a new partnership with ZionismU (ZionismU.com), a Zionist education website. This collaboration aims to provide clear, accessible, and historically accurate resources to communities nationwide.

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Morton Klein | ZOA in the news | August 24, 2026

Israel was right to reject the latest 15-point plan. Not negotiate it away. Not soften it. Reject it. Israel has every right to decide what terms it will accept when its security and survival are at stake.

It is also about America’s credibility, President Donald Trump’s legacy and whether the United States still has the power to make agreements that mean something. Trump has made extraordinary and courageous decisions and we know this historic visionary president will continue to do so.

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By Hugh Fitzgerald | Aug 23, 2026

President Donald J. Trump, The White House, Public domain

A British journalist has delivered a scathing review of Trump’s policy toward Israel and Gaza: “Wise up, America!,” by Melanie Phillips, JNS, August 21, 2026:

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