by Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser | jstribune.com | February 2026

The debate over Iran has long revolved around tactics: sanctions or engagement, containment or deterrence, military strikes or diplomatic agreements. These discussions, while important, obscure a more fundamental reality. The challenge posed by Iran is not merely about enrichment levels, missile ranges, or proxy networks. It is about the nature of the regime itself.

The Islamic Republic is not simply a difficult negotiating partner. It is a revolutionary regime whose identity is inseparable from confrontation — externally against Israel, the United States, and regional governments; internally against its own citizens.

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Peloni:  A joint venture of Israeli and Iranian coordination towards victory with US support in the current crisis can remedy the the failure to allow Israel to have pursued the same last summer.  Importantly, the Iranian people are now primed to bring their support to bear against the Iranian regime and to win the freedom which they so well have earned.

Strategy in the Middle East emanates not from Western concepts or culture, but from a mastery of manipulation, even irrespective of balance of power.

David Wurmser | Feb 25, 2026

Israeli Air Force F-15I Ra’am warplanes. Photo by IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia

U.S. President Donald Trump has done much to stabilize the Middle East and support Israel, but as during the Iran-Israel 12-day war in June 2025, it is imperative that Israel should once again do this operation as much alone as it can. Not only should it initiate and go first, but it must also remain the heavy-lifter and guide this through.

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Peloni:  Simple math raises questions about US support for Israel.

Francisco Gil-White | MOR | Feb 25, 2026

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If you didn’t read Part 1 yet, you may do so here:

https://franciscogilwhite.substack.com/p/tucker-carlson-qatar-and-does-the-us-support-israel-or-jihad

• Even with generous assumptions for counting weapons transfers to Israel, and restrictive assumptions for weapons transfers to Israel’s enemies, the latter are still getting six times more US weapons than Israel, in dollar terms.

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Peloni: In any battle, it really does come down to understanding that those who have the greatest sense of investment and commitment will be best prepared to persevere in the end.  Damages will be done, of course, and casualties will accrue on each side, but in any contest, one side has a sense of moral and personal commitment which out matches, and ultimately defeats, the other.  I am reminded of something Meir Kahane wrote when he cautioned that those who don’t have the sense of victory in what they are doing should actually stay home, or to expand on Joan’s brilliant metaphor, they should simply sit out this game.

Joan Swirsky | AM Thinker | February 25, 2026

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Did you ever go to Yankee Stadium?  I’ve been there dozens of times and have always felt thrilled and celebratory when they’ve won, especially in the years when Mariano Rivera was closing and Jorge Posada was catching.  I even wore my Posada jersey when I knew he would be in the lineup.

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Peloni: Israel has an important commonality to India, which has no history of being motivated by instinctive hatred of Jews.  These two democratic ethnically identified nations each stand under constant threat of attack from Islamic regimes, and have long established defense, trade and technology ties.  Look forward to this trip strengthening these ties and expanding them as well.

Turkey’s expanding partnerships across the Middle East signal a strategic shift that could reshape regional power balances.

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A powerful symbol of friendship and strategic partnership unfolded at Ben-Gurion Airport as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi touched down in Israel for an official visit that promises to deepen ties between the two democracies.

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Peloni:  Without educational reform, there can be no peace because education is a major, but not the only, source of incitement against the Jews in the cradle to the grave effort to demonize and deligitimize the Jewish people.

Veteran Journalist Calls For Clarity On Incitement, Recognition Of Israel, And Reform Of Palestinian Curriculum Following U.S.-Convened Talks.

By: Ron East | The J.Ca | February 23, 2026

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A U.S. government–convened Peace Council meeting held on February 19, 2026, has left significant questions unanswered regarding Palestinian Authority policy, education, and long-term commitments to peace with Israel, according to veteran journalist David Bedein, who has covered Middle East diplomacy for more than four decades.

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Trump reiterates policy of ‘peace through strength’, says ‘hopefully we won’t have to use it’

All Israel News Staff | Published: February 25, 2026

Trump speaks while giving the 2026 State of the Nation. Screengrab via Youtube

U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to outline a justification for potential military action against Iran during his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, presenting Tehran’s actions as a mounting threat to American interests and regional stability.

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Peloni:  Pay close attention to the last 10 minutes.

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Peloni:  Trump is the expert showman, demonstrating the power and import of being able to communicate with people beyond using just mere words.

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Peloni: Meir Weinstein & Meir Jolovitz discuss how Israel was successful in losing two wars in Gaza simultaneously.  To ask the question of whether Israel should take over Gaza is to answer it.

Gaza is an integral part of Jewish lands, and has been so for thousands of years and this fact was confirmed by Gaza being included in the lands recognized under the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine as the reconstitution of the Jewish State.  The great betrayal of the 2005 Expulsion of Jews from Gaza continues to be illegal, untenable, and ill advised.  This great tragedy of the modern age must be avenged in the form of re-integrating this land into the Jewish state, not providing it as a gift to a cabal of international interests which will have no right to the land and no interest in providing any security for Israel while occupying this lost limb of the Jewish State.  Bring Gaza home to the people whose graves were forcibly ripped from the ground, rebuild the cities and towns which were leveled, and expel the terror from Gaza once and for all.  So yes,  Israel should take over Gaza.

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Peloni:  Wherein lies the interest for America to have allies which are focused on the destruction and conquest of America?

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: US-Israel Initiative” | February 24, 2026

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* While the United Arab Emirates uprooted all anti-Jewish and anti-Israel elements from its school curriculum, the Friday mosque sermons, and its official media – replacing them with pro-Jewish and pro-Israel elements – Qatar has sustained its anti-“infidel”, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish and anti-Israel school curriculum, consistent with its Friday incitement mosque sermons and controlled media.

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Peloni:  Recognize the barbarians which are looking to conquer the world

Analysis of a Dangerous Madman

by Pierre Rehov | Feb 18, 2026

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Kurdish Soldiers Qameshli, Syria. Photo by Yan Boechat/VOA – Voice of America, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Well, The Donald’s done did it, and I was truly hoping I’d be proven wrong, and that he would not repeat what President George H. W. Bush shamefully committed against America’s most loyal allies in the Middle East (besides Israel) during the first Gulf war in 1990-1991.

After a ceasefire went into effect, he ordered General “Stormin’ Norman” Schwarzkopf to merely stand down and watch as thousands of Kurds were ruthlessly massacred by Saddam’s Arab forces.

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Peloni:  A very important peer-reviewed article by Ophir et al reveals devastating evidence of significant cardiac damage following the vaccination rollout for Covid 19 beginning in December 19, 2020. As noted by Ophir et al, the recently released (September 17, 2025) data set by Israel’s largest health organization, which serves more than half the country, we knew of an early warning of “a large number of myocarditis and pericarditis cases in young individuals” on February 28, 2021.  Despite the potentially devastating consequences resulting from the use of a vaccine on the general public, it took six months before any published peer-reviewed literature on this topic, all of which characterized the cardiac events following vaccination to be being the mild, transient and rare.  This current study includes, for the first time, the 279,300 adverse events reports which were never processed as the Covid vaccines were being administered, and therefore were also not considered in the research claiming that the cardiac risk was marginal.  As the authors of the current study explain:

“This brief research report uncovers real-time safety data from Israel (often described as the “world’s laboratory” due to its early and extensive vaccination campaign) that were not disclosed to the public during the critical decision-making period of mid-2021 [13]. These data could have materially informed contemporaneous risk–benefit assessments, particularly with respect to adolescents, and may have warranted age-stratified reconsideration of vaccination policy. “

By Sean Adl-Tabatabai | Lioness of Judah Ministry | February 22, 2026

A devastating Freedom of Information bombshell from Israel has ripped the lid off the biggest cover-up yet: the COVID jab triggered a massive wave of heart attacks in healthy teenagers.

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By Kelleigh Nelson

The hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews. Rabbi Jonathan Sachs

After the horrifying Hamas atrocities, I was disgusted with the moral relativism and clear antisemitism being displayed around the world in so many of our institutions, particularly the media, elite academia, the UN, and tragically in the US House of Representatives. Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter John Ondrasik

If I am to understand that you are inquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people.  My great-great grandfather came to England from Germany in the Eighteenth Century…. of impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride…  I trust you will find this reply satisfactory, and remain yours faithfully, J.R.R. Tolkien. This was written in a letter to his British publisher, Stanley Unwin, refusing to work with the German publishing house.

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16 Muslim countries, 10 non-Muslim countries and $10 billion in taxpayer money.

Daniel Greenfield | Feb 23, 2026

Trump speaks at the Board of Peace. Source: Wikipedia Commons

The problem with the United Nations wasn’t its blue color scheme: it was that globalism doesn’t work. The UN rebooted the already useless League of Nations and eventually expanded its membership to every third world dictatorship until the roster was so full of Marxist and Muslim countries (and Islamomarxist ones) that it had become an anti-American organization.

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