MOR explains Trump’s ‘Epic Fury’ war on Iran—the Hezbollah front (Part 5)  

Janet Levy:  Professor Gil-White, a brilliant scholar who I’ve met, makes compelling arguments based on observable facts. This is Part 5 of his Management of Reality” analysis.

In 2004, Gil-White was fired from UPenn for supporting Israel. A non-Jew, he supports Jews and Israel out of self-interest (not out of sympathy for the Jews) and asserts that antisemitism is bad for EVERYONE it will result in the demise of Western civilization and the enslavement of humanity.

The Geopolitical Theorem – An MOR series

Francisco Gil-White | MOR | Jun 07, 2026

If you haven’t read Part 4 yet, you may do so here:

https://franciscogilwhite.substack.com/p/mor-explains-trump-war-on-iran

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June 10, 2026 | 5:47 pm | Comments »

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The Bully of the Middle East is DEAD!!!  

Peloni:  Something just changed.  Trump has thus far balanced all threats of destruction with a reference to the deal being close, imminent and maturing.  I am wondering if an American soldier might have been killed in Iran’s subsequent attacks on the US.  Whatever caused this change, it is a much more determined and uncompromising tone to what Trump has been employing over the past two months.  G_d willing, this is not another negotiating posture.

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Iran’s Military is a complete and total mess. Much of it, like their Navy and Air Force, doesn’t even exist anymore – They have been completely defeated. Iran is all talk and no action. The Bully of the Middle East is DEAD!!! They’ve taken too long to negotiate a deal that would have been great for them, now they will have to pay the price!!!

June 10, 2026 | 2:55 pm | Comments »

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US & Iran exchange fire in Persian Gulf following downing of American military helicopter  

Iranian FM tells US forces to leave Persian Gulf ‘if you want to be safe’

All Israel News Staff | Published: June 10, 2026

Illustrative – F-16 Falcon (Photo: US Air Force)

The United States and Iran traded airstrikes on Tuesday evening, after President Donald Trump ordered retaliatory attacks on Iran in response to the downing of a U.S. helicopter over the Persian Gulf.

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June 10, 2026 | 1:07 pm | Comments »

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Israeli Officials Have Given Up On Talks with Lebanon  

Peloni:  This course correction by the Netanyahu govt places Netanyahu directly at odds with Trump’s insistence that nothing be done to threaten the deal with Iran.  Notably, Erdogan and MBS each issued statements opposing Israel’s continued presence in Lebanon, and it should be understood that when Erdogan and MBS both agree upon something, Trump will take notice of it.

A Massive Israeli Strike Is Now More Likely

Jafaj.net | 2026-06-09

Israeli Air Force (IAF) F-35I Adir. By Source: William LewisDerivative: User:MathKnight - WikiCommons: File:230322-F-UT528-1038 - Red Flag-Nellis 23-2, 22-24 Mar, 2023.jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=147001996Israeli Air Force (IAF) F-35I Adir. By Source: William LewisDerivative: User:MathKnight – WikiCommons: File:230322-F-UT528-1038 – Red Flag-Nellis 23-2, 22-24 Mar, 2023.jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

1.JAFAJ has learned from an Israeli government source that U.S.-mediated talks with Lebanon aimed at reaching a ceasefire are not progressing, as the Israelis have given up hope that Hezbollah is serious. The source said Israel now believes Hezbollah was merely trying to buy time on behalf of its Iranian mentors.

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June 10, 2026 | 7:40 am | Comments »

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Iranian regime REJECTS the legitimacy of the West  

Peloni:  Take note of Mark Levin’s comments regarding the folly of pursuing any deal with the Islamist regime in Iran.  Iran is at war with the West, and the only deal which might lead to peace with this regime is the destruction of this regime.

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June 10, 2026 | 7:28 am | Comments »

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Attempted Beheading in Belfast  

Peloni:  If you can not identify or talk about terrorism, you can not fight it.  Worse than this, every time a terrorist act takes place in such a situation as this below, it acts to further establish terrorist actions as normative and routine.  Videos are at the bottom.  viewer discretion is advised.

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Anyone who is older than about 20 should be able to remember a time when we did not see, ever, stories of this kind in Europe or North America. What has changed, and what can we do about it now?

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June 10, 2026 | 7:08 am | 2 Comments »

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Trump Launches WAR In Iran Again – U.S. Military Strikes IRGC  

Peloni:  Take note of the fact that while Iran’s attacks targeting Israel’s northern communities and the American helicopter were both arbitrary in nature, the assaults being brought by both Israel and America are strategic and penalizing.  Israel targeted the Iranian oil infrastructure and Trump is targeting Iran’s gulf capabilities.  While Israel has been forced to halt their attack on Iran, Trump has now ordered at least three waves of attacks thus far on Iran’s Gulf assets which directly has a bearing on Iran’s ability to leverage its authority in enforcing its Gulf blockade.  Will Iran be capable of continuing its blockade after these attacks?  We will see.

June 10, 2026 | 1:41 am | 1 Comment »

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Trump to respond to Iran shooting down US helicopter  

Peloni:  It is interesting that President Trump is\n Planning a response to the Downing of an American black Hawk helicopter.\n But demanded that Israel  Should\nNot respond to the multiple waves of drone and missile attacks , which have been mounted against israel’s northern cities.  In any event, Trump certainly has his pick of targets to choose from, which include missiles and missile production sites, drone production sites, nuclear development facilities IRGC and Basij leaders and  command facilities as well as the energy grid and transportation systems which Trump threatened with destruction two months ago.  Yet when the focus remains on keeping oil prices low, it places many of these targets off-limits, which is why the war has ended without fulfilling the unconditional surrender which Trump has mentioned more than once.

June 10, 2026 | 12:02 am | 1 Comment »

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The Muslim Brotherhood an existential threat far outstripping traditional organized crime. Damning evidence linking the October 07 / Western “Free Palestine” movement  

Harry Liberman

Muslim Brotherhood Flag. Phaoto: Public Domain, Wikimedia CommonsMuslim Brotherhood Flag. Phaoto: Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

Jasem Aljuraid is a Kuwaiti investigative journalist, political analyst, and prominent dissident based in Canada. Formerly a Senior Vice President at the Kuwait Financial Centre (Markaz) and a writer for the Al-Qabas newspaper, he was forced into exile after facing death threats and legal persecution for his public advocacy of regional peace, normalization with Israel, and his vocal opposition to sectarian extremism. [1, 2]
Career and Exile

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June 9, 2026 | 6:39 pm | 1 Comment »

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Israel’s Right to Exist and Trump’s Iran Gamble  

Michel Benchimol

The double standard that singles out Israel, the religious core of Arab rejectionism, and whether Iran will become Trump’s Waterloo—with Israel as the price.

The question “Does Israel have a right to exist?” remains one of the most persistent and revealing in modern discourse.

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June 9, 2026 | 6:30 pm | 8 Comments »

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Vance Tries to Describe Difference Between Trump Deal and Obama Deal  

Peloni:  Actually, contrary to Vance’s assertion that the Obama deal with Iran simply didn’t have enough safeguards in place to make it enforceable, the truth is that the problem with the Obama deal with Iran was that it was brokered with Iran by an American president who was unwilling to go to war in response to any violations discovered in the deal.  While Trump has demonstrated his willingness to strike Iran, even for prolonged periods of time using a coordinated effort with Israel in doing so, Trump has simultaneously demonstrated a lack of political will to do more than threaten to Iran with taking steps needed to eliminate the regime entirely.  While the distinction between Trump’s and Obama’s policies on enforcement may appear sizeable, they each left the Iranian regime with the means by which to survive, and survival of the regime is all that Mullahs and the IRGC need to win.  And make no mistake about this fact, Iran sees itself as having won the war, as it will soon see that it has won the peace as well, specifically because the safeguards which Vance asserts will keep Iran in compliance with the coming deal do not carry with it the political will to end the Iranian regime when the deal fails to be fulfilled by the Mullahs.  Lacking the will to do what is needed to end the Iranian regime is what brought Trump to the negotiating table, and this is true of Obama as well, and this common motivation between the two different tracts of negotiations is what will see the Mullahs resurrect its nuclear ambitions in the future knowing that no matter what, the Americans lack the will to see any action thru to its completion as has been so well demonstrated by first Obama and now Trump.

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June 9, 2026 | 6:27 pm | Comments »

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Is the Trump-Bibi Spat a Calculated Strategic Deception  

Peloni 

President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence participate in an expanded bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, in the Oval Office of the White House. (By The White House from Washington, DC - President Trump Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86370136) President Donald J. Trump participates in an bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. Photo by The White House from Washington, DC – President Trump Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Public Domain, Wikipedia

According to senior Israeli security analyst Kobi Michael, reports of tense phone calls between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding Iran were not genuine conflicts but a calculated strategic deception designed to mislead Tehran. According to Michael, the leaks depicting a deep rift were intended to create uncertainty within Iran’s leadership about whether the US and Israel would pursue diplomacy or military action.

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June 9, 2026 | 4:59 pm | 7 Comments »

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From Israel: The Victory That Still Awaits Us!!  

Peloni:  Alliances require a certain level of understanding between the partners which respects the needs and abilities of eachother which serves to both support and to continue the partnership.  A caveat to this is that public pronouncements of disrespect and daylight should be avoided at all costs.  Trump’s behavior since entering into his mad dash for a deal in the past two months has, for some reason, come to demonstrate a growing disrespect for the partnership between himself and Bibi.  Not only has this been made clear in public, but it appears that this being made public is more and more Trump’s earnest intent.  While Bibi and Trump have alternate political objectives, it is not entirely in Trump’s interest to denigrate his partnership with Israel as he is currently in negotiations with the Arabs and the Iranians.  Since Trump can hardly be unaware of any of this, it seems there is a greater game at play than the public pronouncements might indicate…maybe…

Arlene Kushner | June 8, 2026

President Donald J. Trump participate in an expanded bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, in the Oval Office of the White House. Photo by The White House from Washington, DC - President Trump Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86370144 President Donald J. Trump participate in an expanded bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, in the Oval Office of the White House. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)

It was roughly 6 AM this morning, and I was sitting in my safe space because of a Home Front alert warning of an incoming Iranian missile that might be headed to Jerusalem, when my daughter, who was sitting in her mamad (safe room) in Beit Shemesh, sent me a WhatsApp message:

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JaFaJ Exclusive: Israel and Lebanon Edge Toward Ceasefire as Hezbollah Signals Openness to Deal  

Peloni:  Is Hezbollah looking for a way out of its current plight as it is caught between being squeezed out the Israeli-Lebanese negotiations and being bombed into destruction by the IDF?  Notably, Iran’s response to Israel bombing Beirut was far from impressive by any standard, so did the impotence of this response lead Hezbollah to reassess its options?  Time will tell.

Jafaj.net | June 8, 2026

1.JAFAJ learned today, June 8, 2026, from an Israeli government source that discussions and talks between representatives of the Lebanese government and Israel have been underway since June 6, the same day that witnessed the peak of Israeli airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, including Beirut’s southern district, Hezbollah’s main stronghold.

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June 9, 2026 | 10:30 am | Comments »

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Shira Efron is no friend of Israel  

By Walter E. Block

Dr. Shira Efron. Screengrab via Youtube.Dr. Shira Efron. Screengrab via Youtube.

Dr. Shira Efron bewails the fact that the Jewish state is becoming more and more isolated from more and more people. She finds “Especially worrisome … the age breakdown. Among Americans aged 18 to 49, nearly three-quarters view Israel unfavorably, including nearly 60 percent of young Republicans, the very demographic many Israelis still assume supports the Jewish state. It is, in short, next to impossible to find a young cohort in America that looks at Israel and likes what it sees.”

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June 9, 2026 | 10:24 am | 6 Comments »

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The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon is compromised  

Peloni:  The consequence of interacting with terrorists is that those most intimately involved in conducting that interaction face the dilemma of having to choose between their complicity with terrorists and becoming an actual casualty of the process.  Treating terrorists as if they are honest partners in any negotiation defies reality, and the resulting willful ignorance is what makes a mockery of every ‘negotiated’ ceasefire which is also ‘enforced’ by the complicity of the UN’s representatives and agencies.  The corruption begins with the logical disconnect of ‘dealing’ with terrorists as if they were statesman, and it ends with the UNIFIL acting as Hezbollah’s watchman and protector in the same moment.  So, more than just addressing UNIFIL, the international preference to preserve terrorists is what truly needs to be reconsidered, and until such time as this is done, any group acting to safeguard a ‘peace’ with Hezbollah will become its toady, as has been the case with UNIFIL.  The implications of this reality has consequences for what is also being proposed in Gaza.

Rather than serving as a stabilizing element, 13,000-strong UNIFIL is operating as a hostile entity under the guise of international diplomacy.

Moshe Phillips | June 8, 2026

An independent international investigation is needed of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, more commonly known as UNIFIL. It simply cannot be allowed to continue in its role without expert oversight. This is not just a grave concern for Israel, but for Lebanon and Syria as well.

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June 9, 2026 | 10:18 am | 1 Comment »

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Ahead of the Sovereignty Movement conference new data reveals broad support within the Haredi public for applying sovereignty and promoting Jewish settlement. “The Haredi public sent a clear and unequivocal message to its leadership.”  

Peloni:  This is very encouraging news.

Yehudit Katsover & Nadia Matar, co-chairs of the Sovereignty Movement | Ribonut.co.il | June 7, 2026

Against the backdrop of the crisis between the Haredi parties and the coalition, a new poll published ahead of the Sovereignty Movement conference that took place Thursday June 4th in Jerusalem, points to especially broad support among the Haredi public for a series of measures identified with the national camp.

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June 8, 2026 | 6:40 pm | 2 Comments »

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