And the Script for Confrontation Is Already Being Written

Khaled Hassan, The Grand Strategy,  July 7,2025

Picture this. You’re the president of a nation on the brink. Decades of decay have hollowed out your country. The economy? A carcass picked clean. Healthcare and education? Crumbling faster than cheap plaster. For ten long years, you’ve peddled the same promise to your weary people: “Hold fast. Prosperity is just months away.” A gleaming future, you swore. A standard of living they could scarcely imagine.

Fast forward to 2025. The dream’s a nightmare.

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The fact that the Sons of Iraq or the leaders of Jordan and Iraq emerged under US and British support, illustrate that these tribal structures often require outside support.

Seth J. Frantzman

A recent article at The Jerusalem Post speaks about meeting with the top Hebron sheikh who wants to pull out of Palestinian Authority. The article claims that Sheikh Wadee’ al-Jaabari is the leader of Hebron’s most influential clan. Now “and four other leading Hebron sheikhs have signed a letter pledging peace and full recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.”

A letter has even been drafted. Jaabari has reached out to Israeli officials, the report says. Eight sheikhs are “believed to lead 204,000 local residents.”

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Peloni:  In his opening segment Mark explores the political and cultural aspects of the recent violent protests against the American way of life.  He begins with an interview with Adam Sohn of the Network Contagion Research Institute about influence peddling in the US by foreign enemies. Sohn explains that 50% of all foreign money going to US universities over the past 40yrs, $58 billion in total, was donated in just the last 4yrs without any knowledge of how that money was spent by the universities. He explains that Qatar and China are by far the greatest sources of these donations. Notably, as Qatar funds Hamas, they have been funding US colleges, many of which have campuses in Qatar. Sohn also shares that there are a network of recognized terrorist organizations which have manipulated their way into being US non-profit organizations. Due to the rules and regulations guiding the universities being ignored, and the simultaneous infiltration of the US non-profit organizations, these terrorist groups are promoting their radical ideology among universities as well as grade schools.

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Mudar Zahran

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Peloni: Indeed, what the Arabs states will endure to secure their own regimes in their own lands, they will not do to secure the Jewish people in Israel.  Arab interests revolve around their own national well being, not around that of Israel.  Failing to appreciate this point will only lead to bad outcomes, once again.

by Khaled Abu Toameh  •  July 7, 2025 at 5:00 am

By turning a blind eye to the massive smuggling industry, Egypt significantly contributed to transforming the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip into a major base for Islamist terrorism, paving the way for the October 7 attack on Israel. Pictured: A large Hamas tunnel between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, beneath the Philadelphi Corridor, discovered by the Israeli military on August 4, 2024.

• There are also concerns that the tunnels could be used to smuggle terrorists into Gaza.

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Let us count the ways.

by Hugh Fitzgerald | July 4, 2025

Photo by Davidi Vardi Pikiwiki Israel, CC BY 2.5, Wikipedia

The Institute for the Study of War, a nonpartisan group based in the United States, has issued its report on Israel’s achievements in its 12-day war with Iran. Dozens of nuclear facilities were damaged by Israel, while three of them — Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow — were also attacked by the Americans, with the first two “destroyed,”and the last “severely damaged” (or, according to the administration, “totally obliterated”) on June 22. More on what the IDF accomplished in its brief war with Iran can be found here: “Israel ‘Achieved Its Objectives’ in Iran Operation, Says Leading War Studies Think Tank,” by Jack Elbaum, Algemeiner, June 26, 2025:

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Peloni:  Highly recommended article.  Alex Traiman provides a broad overview of the potential purposes of the coming White House visit by Netanyahu, while providing a broad 30K foot overview of where things stand in the region and how Trump and Netanyahu have been working towards an unltimate vision of remaking the Middle East into a more peaceful region which might also become more independent of the political swings emanating inside the shifting fortunes of American politics.

President Donald Trump and senior staff greet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Monday, April 7, 2025, in the West Wing Lobby of the White House. (By The White House – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia)

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Peloni:  Crimes must be treated as criminal with penalties equivalent to the crime.  Awarding less than an equivalent penalty on such a serious and far reaching crime as treason, only serves to encourage it all the more.  Notably, there is no greater crime than to raise treason against ones own country, as it is an assault on every man, woman and child in the nation with a single act of treason, and in this time of war in Israel, the cost of such actions as would give aid and comfort to the Iranians should merit nothing less than the most severe penalties possible.

A spate of cases of has Israelis shaking their heads with disbelief and disgust. What should we do?’

Douglas Altabef | Jul 5, 2025

The poster was used during World War I by authorities to remind people to be on their guard and to stay vigilant and report anything suspicious. The poster is from our Army Department archive collection. Archives New Zealand Reference: AD1 44/283. (Photo by Archives New Zealand from New Zealand – ‘Beware of Spies’ World War I propaganda poster, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia)

Since October 7th we have seen Israel at its best: thousands upon thousands of heroic soldiers engaged in breathtaking, unprecedented military heroism and success, supported by a resolute, resilient and in its way no less heroic homefront.

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Kelleigh Nelson

Image by Paul J. Scheips – This image has been extracted from another file, Public Domain, Wikipedia

I wouldn’t be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It’s become part of our culture, those characters.  Joe Mantegna

To found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.  James Smithson, Founder of the Smithsonian

President Donald Trump has expressed criticism towards Smithsonian exhibits, particularly in the context of what he and his administration perceive as promoting “improper, divisive or anti-American ideology”.

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Peloni:  And again, Avi hits the perfect tone.  Jihadi’s have no role in peace, and we should not stabilize the tyranny which they hold over their minorities, which is the same tyranny which they hope to one day hold over the entire Western World after destroying Israel.

Every time Israel has traded land for peace with enemies still committed to our destruction, we have paid in blood.

By AVI ABELOW | JULY 6, 2025

Al-Shaara and Pres. Erdogan.  (Photo by Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic – Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic, Public Domain, Wikipedia)

Now that the direct war with Iran is on pause, headlines are flooding the Israeli and international media with news that should sound like a dream: Israel and Syria in direct talks, a potential peace deal on the horizon, normalization, even rumors that Syria could join the Abraham Accords.

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Liberty is a big discipline, one we need to ponder and re-commit to regularly.

J.E. Dyer, a retired Naval Intelligence officer, blogs as The Optimistic Conservative, July 4, 2025

It’s OK to declare independence from the schemes of men to keep us in subjection.

That is the statement that comes to me as we celebrate America’s Independence Day on 4 July 2025.  We are 249 years on from the original declaration, published on this day in 1776.  (Technically, the first publication was on 2 July 1776.  But since becoming a nation, we have celebrated the latter day, 4 July, as our national day, and cheered in particular for the nation’s continued adherence through its iterations of statehood and Union to the original Declaration of Independence.)

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Peloni:  Interesting conversations regarding the report of Sheikh Jabaari and others wanting to do away with Oslo and the PA.  Focus on the segment between 10min and 40min, but the half hour with Dr. Einat Wilf is very interesting as well.

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Hebron.  Photo by JAMAL KIWAN, WESAM, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

In an important article by Elliot Kaufman in the Wall Street Journal, A New Palestinian Offer for Peace With Israel, a new peace proposal has been put forward by the most influential of Hebron’s clans, Sheik Wadee’ al-Jaabari, as follows:

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Peloni:  Highly recommended video.  This is an encompassing and highly detailed discussion of the reality surrounding the pejorative term of ‘Settler Violence’

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Peloni:  This article was written 15 months ago, but it is as relevant today as the day Victor wrote it.  Shame on Schumer!

By Victor Sharpe | March 15, 2024

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) delivers remarks at the signing of H.R. 5376, the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022”, Tuesday, August 16, 2022, in the State Dining Room of the White House. (Photo by The White House – P20220816ES-0198, Public Domain, Wikipedia)

Senator Chuck Schumer, who slavishly supports and defends the blighted Democrat Party, the Party riddled with anti-Semites, called today for the removal of Israel’s embattled Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and replace him with a leftist leader who will bow to the abhorrent will of those who have no true love for the Land of Israel or especially for its ancestral and God given heartland of Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Israel on World Map.  (Image by By TUBS – This vector image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file:, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia)

Find Israel on a world globe without a magnifying glass, I dare you.

Like some other authors, I’ve also written about what comes next, even though it seems like trying to reinvent the wheel over and over again. Regardless, since the same old double standards keep being applied to Israel, the same old answers (and a few others) have to be repeated over and again as well.

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If you are watching it go down slackjawed, observing the passing scene, knowing that the world has gone bonkers, batsh-t crazy if you will, you are correct.

If you’ve been reading these pages, you already know that what’s up is down, and what’s in is out. You’ll understand that it is not a dystopian world as the left would portray it in their moment of losing it all. It is rather, a painful labor, the rebirth of a golden age and a golden nation descending upon us. The left’s acknowledgement of these facts, having been marinated in their media and propaganda, is immaterial.

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