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By Norma Zager
Now, Iran speaks loudly and clearly that it will destroy Israel, the Jewish people and America. The world’s reaction to this bit of news? #whatakidder
Twitter comments by Iran boasting about victories over the foolish countries of the world got me thinking. What if Adolf Hitler could have tweeted his thoughts after his conference with then British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at Munich?
The battle at Deir Yassin was turned into a fabricated “massacre,” helping launch a strategy of demonization that is still used against Israel today. Opinion.
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There is an old political instinct: never let a good crisis go to waste. In the Arab-Israeli conflict, a parallel rule has often proved just as useful: never let a military defeat go to waste when it can be repackaged as a Jewish atrocity.
Paul Schnee: This is alarming and suicidal. Just as in Europe, we have imported a parallel society that will NEVER integrate. We have imported war.
RAIR Foundation USA | Apr 15, 2026
Screengrab via X
by Gerald A. Honigman
Recently, The Hill published an AP report about “Settler” violence against Arabs in “the occupied West Bank”…
Firstly, there is absolutely no historical doubt that the land in question is the 4,000 year old, soundly corroborated ancestral Jewish homeland in Judaea and Samaria which was not renamed “West Bank” until some four millennia afterwards in the first half of the 20th century C.E..
Peloni: The breaking event here is that Israel and Lebanon have met directly, to appease the Americans, all while ignoring the fact that the Lebanese govt has no capacity to deliver anything they might agree to do, even to the point of controlling its own armed forces, even as the US continues to cover the costs of these armed forces. So the big news is that this meeting has no material relevance beyond giving cover to the pressure that America is applying to the Netanyahu govt to purposefully end the war prematurely, with the obvious caveat that Hezbollah will be pulled from the jaws of destruction so as to appease their Iranian masters in Tehran. This rationale for this celebrated ‘peace negotiation’ is terribly flawed, and the celebration is quite inappropriate. If the proposed ceasefire goes forward, the only thing which might be honestly stated is that Evil won…again.
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by Pierre Rehov • April 15, 2026
The issue is no longer whether the regime in Tehran is under strain — it clearly is — but whether Washington is preparing, consciously or not, to replace a brutal clerical dictatorship with a brutal military one. Pictured: Iran’s then Supreme Leader, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, prepares to award a medal to the late General Amir Ali Hajizadeh (L), then commander of the Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in the presence of the senior IRGC leadership, in Tehran on October 6, 2024. (Image source: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)
Peloni: This event spelled the coming end of Hezbollah, raising the question of why the West and the Americans are once again racing to save these terrorists from annihilation.
By | April 14, 2026
The IDF on Friday revealed the details behind the largest strike in Lebanon since the start of Operation Roaring Lion. That strike took place on Wednesday, April 8, and within ten minutes at least 180 Hezbollah terrorists were eliminated, in near-simultaneous strikes on the Dahiyeh neighborhood in southern Beirut, on the Bekaa Valley, and on the area between the Litani River and the Lebanese border with Israel. More on this achievement can be found here: “IDF delivers massive blow: 180+ Hezbollah terrorists eliminated in one minute,” Israel National News, April 10, 2026
Peloni
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. Ben Gvir – Own work, CC0, Wikipedia
A growing legal and political confrontation in Israel has been centered on efforts to remove National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from office, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forcefully opposing such moves while the High Court of Justice weigh the issue.
Arlene Kushner | April 14, 2026
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I write this on Tuesday evening as Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day) draws to an end here in Israel.
I had planned to watch the official ceremony on-line last night, as I always do. The core of the ceremony is the lighting of torches by six survivors, for the six million Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis. Each is accompanied by a relative.
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Imagine that Hamas had won on Oct 7 and the victims were Christians. That’s what happened in Algeria. Islamist and Marxist terrorists during the Algerian War waged a ruthless campaign against the non-Muslim population. Including Jews.
The atrocities by Muslim terrorists included the slitting of women’s throats and babies being murdered by having their heads smashed against walls. The massacres climaxed in the Oran Massacre in which De Gaulle’s corrupt regime refused to protect Christians and Jews from the Muslim mob.
Mudar Zahran
Watch the full interview here: https://t.co/x7GeSDE9Po
IRAN: WHAT DOES “VICTORY” LOOK LIKE FOR TRUMP?
??Let’s get straight to the point. Trump is NOT trying to repeat the disaster of George W. Bush in Iraq. Back then, they didn’t just remove Saddam Hussein, they dismantled the… pic.twitter.com/RxC1FIIJuZ— Mudar Adnan Zahran ??? ????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) April 14, 2026
* Let’s get straight to the point. Trump is NOT trying to repeat the disaster of George W. Bush in Iraq. Back then, they didn’t just remove Saddam Hussein, they dismantled the entire state. Police gone. Health system gone. Government bodies wiped out. The result? Total collapse and chaos. In my view, that wasn’t a mistake. That was a controlled demolition. And it led to a never-ending war that cost U.S. taxpayers TRILLIONS, money that flowed straight into companies like Halliburton and others tied to people like Dick Cheney. That’s not even hidden.
Peloni: The Lebanese govt is a fake peace partner. They have no agency, and no enforcement capacity for anything they might commit to agreeing upon. Meanwhile, it appears that the same disregard for this fact which has infected Washington has come to make Netanyahu’s govt complicit in this shell game of accountability where agreements are made which will only serve to hamper Israel’s freedom of action, embolden and strengthen Hezbollah over time, and make believe that the Lebanese govt is acting independently when they failed to even enforce the removal of the Iranian ambassador from his current position in their country. This peace negotiating gambit is not just foolish, it is dangerous. Netanyahu should have refused to enter into such a ruse at making peace with a fake peace partner. No good can possibly come from this denial of reality by all sides so as to safeguard Trump’s Iran negotiations which are themselves a further breakdown in critical reasoning.
Israeli envoy Leiter: ‘Lebanese made it very clear that they will no longer be occupied by Hezbollah’
| Published: April 15, 2026
The Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors to the U.S. met in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, in the first high-level meeting between representatives of the two governments since 1993.
The meeting, described by both sides as a preliminary step toward formal negotiations, was hosted at the State Department by Secretary Marco Rubio, Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz, and U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa.
Update: UN Human Rights Council: experts calling for all member states to end arms transfers going to Israel.
Peloni: The truth is that the long standing and perpetually shameful nature of the United Nations is both beyond doubt and beyond repair. It needs to be shuttered and its leadership should, themselves, be prosecuted for supporting crimes against humanity.
By Geller Report Staff |
United Nations General Assembly. Photo by Mojnsen – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia
The mass murdering, human rights violating, and terrorist state of Iran just secured seats on a number of influential UN bodies. UN bodies that help shape policy on human rights, women’s rights, disarmament and counterterrorism. This outrageous decision was made possible because of the support of weak and morally bankrupt Western governments.
Peloni: This freeze is largely symbolic and will basically affect training exercises between Israel and Italy. It is interesting that Meloni continues to bleat the phrase ‘Israel has a right to exist’, even as she continues to object to Israel’s right to do more than exist with its population shuttered in bomb shelters hiding from falling munitions aimed at its population, literally on an daily to hourly basis. In fact, it has been a long saga watching Meloni shape-shift from the independent spirit which marked her candidacy sour into the near universal prattle of European leadership which has come to kneel at the boot of the Muslim insurgency which she has still failed to rectify within her own nation. Europe has fallen, and it is due to the complicity of weak and wayward leaders such as Meloni who engage in double speak, double standards and moral duplicity. Shame on you Georgia!
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Yossi Baum | X | April 13, 2026
Translated by Peloni
The Grand Mufti of Palestine received by Hitler. Photo by Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1987-004-09A / Heinrich Hoffmann / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Wikipedia
*Must Read*: The Jerusalem Mufti, Al-Husseini, the “father of Palestinian ideology,” personally worked toward the murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews (not to say: millions) in the Holocaust.
Kelleigh Nelson
My conception was at that time, if this thing is successful, we will bring this war to a close. I just couldn’t see how any nation could stand up to the power of the atom as portrayed to me at that particular time. I think in the intervening years, that I have arrived at the same conclusion because by ending the war, we would save lives. That was my idea. Save lives, not destroy them. And over the years, I have gotten numerous letters from foreign nationals, as well as Americans, who had been ready to make an invasion with the same basic statement: what you did probably saved my life. Major General Paul Tibbets
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who prepared the attack against America, but viewed it as a potential disaster. (Yamamoto, who studied at Harvard and lived in the US, knew the immense industrial power and character of America and felt that a surprise attack that enraged the public would lead to Japan’s defeat.)
Israel has done more to prevent civilian casualties in war than any military in history… [they are] the gold standard. — John Spencer, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point.
