The U.S. must pursue deep-sea mining so that the American economy—and our defense equipment and fighter jets—are no longer dependent on our biggest rival.
Our F-35 fighter jets are the most advanced and lethal multirole stealth aircraft in the world. However, their avionics, actuators, and radar systems depend on our biggest rival—China, the world’s largest producer of rare-earth elements, without which none of those systems, nor many others vital to the economy, could be built.
Peloni: As the Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy has come to focus upon burden sharing among its allies and partners, it becomes critical to properly vet those allies and partners as being reliably supportive of US interests. The fact that Turkey violated its support of its alliances with Washington and the West is what drew Trump’s ire when Erdogan first took possesion of the Russian S-400. Simply parting with the possession of this weapon system can not be the basis of restoring faith in Turkey as a reliable or dependable partner. Its vocal abuses and threats to well established US partners demonstrates that Turkey is not worthy of any level of trust which might be placed in it divesting itself of the Russian war system. So, why is Trump placing so much Trust in Turkey? And why should Trump’s partners and allies do the same?
Sinan Ciddi | July 10, 2026
President Trump departed the NATO Summit in Ankara without announcing Turkey’s reinstatement in the F-35 program, a major disappointment to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
This omission is significant because it highlights the broader strategic issue at stake.
Peloni: Are these the sort of reforms regarding Pay For Slay that the Board of Peace was looking for in the PA before once again empowering that terror organization with the means to weaponize their Jew Hatred against the Israeli people? Peace can not be forced between parties who are openly hostile, and the terrorist sourcing of the American equity in the PA should then clearly be a Red Line to any hope of achieving peace, as is clearly demonstrated here. Oslo placed these terrorists in a position of power over their constituency without any interest in how that would actually isolate and eliminate the voices of any Arabs who actually might have been interested in seeking peace with Israel. As the Board of Peace is leaving Hamas armed in Gaza, and is once again turning to its terror equity in the ‘reformed’ PA for leadership qualities which no self respecting terrorist could muster, this same crime is being committed against the Israeli people, using the crime of once again empowering terrorists to silence any possible hopes of peace which might exist in the Gazan population. American Peace Processors should divest themselves of doing the same thing over and over again, while pretending it is different. It isn’t different, and in many ways it is worse, because they should know better after playing this game so many times in the past with the singular outcome of dismal failure which cost the lives of far too many.
The Israeli withdrawal from two “pilot zones” in southern Lebanon is set to begin in the coming days, The Times of Israel (TOI) reported on Thursday, as the next round of negotiations between Lebanon and Israel is set to be held in Rome next week.
Rahm Emanuel, March 26, 2015. Screengrab via Youtube
Former Barack Hussein Obama’s (the most blatantly anti-Israel President in history, with Jimmy Carter a close second) chief of staff and Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel, is contemplating a White House run à few years from now. See below…
Peloni: Not for the first time, Rahm Emanuel plays the part of the Court Jew to his progressive allies, spouting lies, demeaning the Jewish state, while attempting to dissemble the raison d’etre on which the Jewish state was founded, namely providing the Jewish people with the means and capabilities of choosing their own destiny as a sovereign people. Instead, Emanuel would have the Jewish state subordinate its own sovereign judgements to support the nihilistic values of the Democratic Party, which itself has adopted entirely Jew Hating positions among other bizarre and deviant policies. Shame on Rahm Emanuel for failing both his nation of American and simultaneously the Jewish people as well, but then again, as I noted above, we have seen his craven want of courage, independence and good judgement play out before. Bipartisan support for Israel was not something that was bought at the price of Israel sacrificing its own interests as Emanuel would require. Instead, bipartisan support for Israel is something that came from a broad consensus of Americans, voicing their support for a strong, proud, independent and viable Jewish state. The fact that the Democratic Party has entirely wiped itself free of any connection to either its past values or its support for Jews or the Jewish state can not possibly gain the support of Israel, and if it did, it would only serve to further degrade both the reason that Americans support Israel, as well as any hope that Israel might help influence the Democrats into regaining any semblance of their former selves. Indeed, instead of Israel subordinating its values to support the new Democratic party which has gained the support of Rahm Emanuel, the new Democratic party should subordinate its wokish, nihilistic, demagoguery to the values which inspire the Israeli people, because these are the values on which the American nation was founded, which brought America to become the pinnacle of success which led the world to follow her example, and which is the only means by which America might rise to that level of greatness again. Indeed, Making America Great is not a Republican virtue, but unfortunately, only the Republicans have the sense to want to see their nation succeed and prosper, and in so doing, their support for the plucky Jewish state remains firmly in place.
Rahm Emanuel, taking a phone call. Photo by Tim – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia
The now irrelevant Obama has been means to get into the 2028 Presidential race. How does he make waves and get publicity? By attacking the Jewish state. Sick.
The elaborate state funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was designed to project continuity and strength. But beneath the carefully choreographed images, questions remain about who now holds power inside Iran.
2023 Hezbollah drill in Aaramta. Photo by Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia
The Israel Defense Forces recently uncovered a fortress-like underground complex beneath the streets of southern Lebanon containing eight tons of explosives, fifty drones capable of flying 150 miles, and facilities designed to house hundreds of terrorists. Hidden from view for years, it functioned as a subterranean drone airport where Hezbollah pilots prepared attacks against Israel. It was a carefully engineered center of terror constructed directly beneath civilian communities.
THE BIGGEST ENEMY OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE ISN’T ISRAEL – IT’S JORDAN’S HASHEMITE REGIME
?? For decades, the Hashemite regime has enforced a systematic policy of discrimination against Jordanians of Palestinian descent—targeting their businesses, shutting them out of government… pic.twitter.com/9ozzzXEaDB
For decades, the Hashemite regime has enforced a systematic policy of discrimination against Jordanians of Palestinian descent—targeting their businesses, shutting them out of government jobs and higher education, and denying them equal opportunities.
Author’s note: This is from my novel about Israel during the Second Intifada and about a professor writing a controversial book claiming a Second Shoah is underway, when his daughter gets injured in a terrorist attack at a Jerusalem restaurant. The professor contemplates the significance of 9/11 and whether the world will learn anything at all from it.
Peloni; Rabbi Pesach Wolicki suggests that regime change may be closer than we think. So is it? The unscripted president may offer some insights on this possibility.
Peloni: Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, Turkey expert at the Moshe Dayan Center, explains the importance which Turkey represents to Europe, Russia, Ukraine and the US.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji. Screengrab via Youtube
NYC Mayor Mamdani’s perfectly matched soul mate, Rama Duwaji, will be co-hosting a spiritual retreat for Muslim women in Corsica, France, dedicated to “Mary in the Qur’an.” She skipped America’s 250th anniversary celebration on July 4, 2026 to organize this event…
Peloni: Dr. Martin Sherman provided an in-depth assessment of Israel’s geostrategic vulnerabilities, addressing multifront threats emanating from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, and the Houthi forces in Yemen.
Israelis returned to an all-too-familiar reality yesterday: receiving warnings that Iran might once again start firing missiles at Israel, and that we may need to be ready to run back to bomb shelters.
Peloni: This is an important video. Rabbi Pesach Wolicki addresses the likely conclusion that Mojtaba Khameini is dead, what should be concluded from US regional partners paying homage to the former Ayahtollah Khameini, the rising threat and its relevance of Turkey, and the failing relevance of the MOU. Of particular note is Wolicki’s comments on Turkey which begin at about the 15min. mark. As I have noted previously, Erdogan will not gain access to the F-35, but the threat he poses is still significant, though not entirely unchecked at this point even within the halls of power in Turkey, something which the Hoover Institute’s Mike Doran has noted previously.
Reform Movement President, Rick Jacobs, speaks for radical American Ashkenazis, not the entire Jewish People. He sits on the board of the New Israel Fund and on the rabbinic cabinet of J Street, both antagonistic to the Jewish State.
Ronn Torossian | July 8, 22026
Reform Movement President, Rick Jacobs. Screengrab via Youtube.
Reform Movement President, Rick Jacobs, came to Israel this week to tell Israelis what’s wrong with Israel. The leader of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) warned on Ynet that Knesset legislation is pushing American Jews away, that bipartisan support for Israel is fraying, that restoring it may be “enormous, perhaps impossible.” Jacobs is right that bipartisan support is fraying, and he could have added that Reform Movement support for the Jewish state has always been ambivalent.
Peloni: Mike Doran and Gadi Taub are back together again on Israel Update to take a closer look at the building constitutional crisis in Israel, and they also address whose predictions on the MOU proved more accurate.
Peloni: The strikes from Iran and on Iran have continued thru the day. Will the emboldened Iranians break Trump’s efforts to save them from themselves, even thru the summer? It looks like that might be the case, but we will see.
Reports of explosions in Lavan Island, Iran.
— ME24 – Middle East 24 (@MiddleEast_24) July 8, 2026
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Rahm Emanuel, taking a phone call. Photo by Tim – 
Reform Movement President, Rick Jacobs. Screengrab via Youtube.
