Mark Levin | X | June 17, 2026

“Mark Levin” by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0

I start from the proposition that this is among the worst places to have a reasoned and substantive discussion. It is one of the most uncivil places in our civil society. Not because of the platform itself, but because unbridled freedom, without some basic guide rails, attracts the good, the bad, and the ugly from all corners of the world, where the bad and the ugly are able to predominate. It’s a form of hit-and-run anarchy. It’s more French Revolution than American Revolution. From a governing perspective, that is why our Framers established a republic and not a pure democracy.

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Destiny is left unfulfilled so long as we are without our Holy Temple. That is why we “break the glass” with those gathered around the “chuppah.”

Moshe Phillips | June 16, 2026

“Rick Breaks a Glass” by Jennifer Morrow, CC BY 2.0

The HuffPost website recently featured a young Jewish writer explaining what she wanted for her wedding: “I want Jewish traditions involved. I want the whole tradition-filled party—a chuppah, the breaking of the glass, and being lifted up in chairs while loved ones dance the hora around me. ‘My Big Fat Jewish Wedding,’ if you will.”

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Peloni:  How we arrived where we are, and concerns about where we are going.

Arlene Kushner | June 16, 2026

President Donald J. Trump meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Jan. 27, 2020. By The White House from Washington, DC – President Trump Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Public Domain, Wikipedia

We cannot in all honesty say we did not realize this could happen. Donald Trump’s propensity for making “deals” is well known.

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Peloni:  Participation with and promotion of evil are not neutral acts.  They are in fact a choice, and like all choices, they bear both consequences for and revelations about the men who make these choices.

The gravest moral hazard is not the man who knows he is doing wrong. It is the man who has constructed a story in which what he is doing is something else.

Ronn Torossian | Jun 16, 2026

Edward Bernays – widely called the father of modern public relations and Sigmund Freud’s nephew, the most prominent Jewish figure in the American PR industry of his generation – published a book in 1923 called Crystallizing Public Opinion. It was the first serious theoretical treatment of mass persuasion as a discipline.

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Paul Schnee:  The damage that Israel and the United States did to the Islamist terror regime was undone by an agreement that rewards Tehran and vindicates former President Barack Obama.

Jonathan S. Tobin | Published: Jun 16, 2026

Donald Trump speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

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Peloni:  An attempted attack on the American homeland during a public celebration of the President’s birthday at the President’s residence and during a public event. This story has been well overshadowed, but it is yet another attempt on Pres. Trump’s life.

Is this Chinese takeover the new reality? Or, can a coordinated effort by the U.S. and its allies challenge China’s hegemony in the region?

Janet Levy | Am Thinker | June 16, 2026

Image by DrRandomFactor – This file was derived from: China prefectural-level divisions and administrative divisions (PRoC claim).png, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia

The Iran war and the fight for control of the Strait of Hormuz—through which vital oil cargo from Gulf countries feeds the global economy—is a reminder that America must not forget the South China Sea, another strategic region where China, a greater threat than Iran, has gained alarming control over many decades.

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Peloni:  Good synopsis on Bibi Press Conference

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By Pamela Geller | June 16, 2026

Mayor Mamdani explaining how Islam and Muhammad should inspire immigration. Screengrab via X

Jihadi Mayor Zohran Mamdani gutted legal protections for Jewish New Yorkers in his first hours in office, then his administration illegally buried the records that could expose why City Hall did it, who helped shape the decision, and how far its anti-Israel agenda now reaches, a new lawsuit alleges.

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Peloni:  The rising relationship with Somaliland is a formidable achievement.  It is troubling that Trump refused to support Israeli recognition of Somaliland.

All Israel News Staff | Published: June 16, 2026

Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi inaugurates his country’s embassy in Jerusalem, with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, June 15, 2026. (Photo: Somaliland Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi officially inaugurated his country’s embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, marking another milestone in the rapidly developing relationship between Israel and the self-declared East African republic.

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Peloni:  This is an important video.  Dr. David Wurmser and Prof. Fransisco Gil-White tackle the question of what is motivating Trump’s preference to pursue a deal with Iran rather than deal with the Iranian regime as if it were the fanatical Armageddonist regime which it is.  The answer to this question will inform us as to what Trump’s real goal might be in Iran, and how dark the future appears, both for the region and the world.

Peloni: Is Saudi Arabia earnestly allying itself with Turkey against Israel?  Recall that Turkey and SA are nations with diametrically opposed ideologies and are in fact regional rivals of one another.  While Turkey seeks to recreate the Ottoman Empire, which would include the conquest of Saudi Arabi, Saudi Arabia seeks to maintain its own national order.  This raises the question as to why MBS would support such a project as the revival of the Hejaz Railway, which would not only undermine Israel’s role in the region, but the independence of Saudi Arabia as well.  Is MBS so motivated to sideline Israeli regional prominence to bolster the threat against his own regime?  I don’t think so.

Ahmad Sharawi & Sinan Ciddi

A railway originally built by the Ottoman Empire to project power across the Arab world is receiving a second lease on life as Turkey launches its latest bid to become the Middle East’s logistics hub.

An agreement signed on June 10 by Turkey and Saudi Arabia aims at reviving the historic Hejaz Railway, establishing a new trade corridor linking the Gulf to Europe through Turkey, Syria, and Jordan. Yet the project’s realization is hardly imminent. Financial and security obstacles could still prevent the railway from ever materializing.

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Peloni:  The future of the Iranian people, the region and the world face the consequences of a nuclear armed Iran, and no deal has the ability to change this reality without changing the regime in Iran for which this consequence fuels their entire existence.

by Ahmed Charai  •  June 15, 2026 at 1:00 pm

Iran cannot be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon—not under this framework, not after sixty days, not in five years, not through ambiguity, delay, concealment, or the gradual normalization of violations. Pictured: Shahin (missile) Photo by Vahid Reza Alaei – farsnews.ir, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

• The real obstacle to peace has never been the Iranian nation. It is the regime that governs Iran against the will and aspirations of its own people—a regime that behaves less like a normal state than like a revolutionary-security cartel.

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Peloni:  Forcing the Jordanian govt to deal with its support for Islamists includes its support for providing the self celebratory perpetrator of the Sbarro bombing the means to live free with impunity as she inspires the butchery, savagery and destruction of her crimes to be replicated by others.  Please consider signing the petition to bring Tamimi to justice, and to begin the reign of Islamists in Jordan begin to be challenged.

By Jonathan Feldstein

Released Hamas Terrorist Ahlam Tamimi on Palestinian Public’s Delight at Suicide Bombings. Memri TV. Screengrab via Youtube

It’s encouraging that the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is persisting with legal efforts to deport Mohsen Mahdawi, who was arrested for undermining US foreign policy and government counter-antisemitism efforts with his pro-Hamas campus activism. If successful, he will be deported to Jordan.

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Peloni:  Many of the questions in the press conference reflected the opening of the political season for the coming election, but note too that the Bibi’s answers were frank and qualifying.  Most notably, Bibi makes it very clear that he is still unaware of the terms of the presumably now signed document.   He also references and respects the relationship with the US, and is careful to explain the nature of relationship is one that requires careful handling.  While making the election pitch that the manner in which he handled this relationship is reflected in the achievements which have taken place over this past term, it must be noted that Bibi stood up to Biden when he, along with the support of  others including Eisenkot and Gantz, when he took the bold step of seizing Rafah.  So too it must be reflected upon that the IDF today remains in Lebanon in a forward position and in full possession of Beaufort Castle and beyond the Litani.  A question remains in my mind if it is believable that Bibi could reasonably withstand the pressure from Trump in demanding he evacuate Lebanon, and yet, there the IDF remains.  Much will be determined if this buffer zone is abandoned once again as has happened in the past under US pressure.  Should the IDF maintain or expand this position in Lebanon, it is a credible question of whether this is being accomplished with Trump’s support or despite it.  Stated otherwise, is it reasonable that Bibi could openly defy Trump on this point, even as he could not do so at the end of the 12 Day War when Trump demanded and end to the war?

Please see translation of Q&A section following PM Netanyahu’s speech at bottom.  

Translation of the Q&A Session of PM Netanyahu Press Conference:

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