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In a previous article, I shared about the incredible conservative political victories across Latin America. I explained that these political reversals for good are on par with the Fall of the Berlin Wall, but with lasting effect across the entire continent. Conservative pundits have longed for these developments for years, and now they are here. President Trump deserves credit for helping this resurgence of freedom and prosperity to manifest across a region of the world which had fallen into the thralls of communist dictatorships.
Jack McGeever | Business Reporter | Daily Caller |
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PM Carney meets with President Xi. Screengrab via Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42lTdHP0G8Y [Cropped]
Canada slapped tariffs as high as 50% on about $20 billion of American goods Tuesday, escalating its trade fight with President Donald Trump and threatening exporters in states hosting critical midterm races.
Peloni: As Ukraine maintains an uncompromising position in its war with Russia amid US munitions limitations, the question arises as to what is doable and what is achievable. Ukraine’s maximalist demands with marginal capabilities continue to be inconsistent with reality. Even in a stalemate, Ukraine’s dependency on US weapon systems represent a demand which can not be sustained inevitably, and this is what would be needed in pursuit of Ukraine’s demands. Reality bites and the reality is that Ukraine’s war with Russia is not sustainable, its war aims are not realistic, and its capabilities are dependent on siphoning critical weapon inventories of the entire West to balance against these realities with no real possibility of altering this balance in Ukraine’s favor.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner wound up their visit to Kiev on September 6 after visiting Moscow the day prior. In both capitals, the US special diplomatic duo met with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky respectively. Both offered solutions that the Russians seemed to like, and the Ukrainians did not. Washington needs a solution to the Ukraine war because it cannot continue to support Ukraine’s war needs. Supporting Ukraine is undermining NATO’s defenses and NATO’s viability.
Seth J. Frantzman | Sept 8, 2026
IRGC struck Kurdish militant positions in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. April 14, 2026. Screengrab via Youtube.
On September 7, Iran launched a drone targeting the Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan party in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq, the latest attack on the region and the latest against Kurdish Iranian opposition groups. Iran and its militia proxies in Iraq have carried out more than 1,000 drone and missile attacks on the Kurdistan Region. The attack comes as Iraq continues to discuss how to disarm Iranian-backed militias in the country.
America must rethink its policies and priorities in the volatile Middle East.
Janet Levy | AM Thinker | September 8, 2026
Signing of the Mecca Agreement by Erdogan, MBS, and Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif. Screengrab via Youtube.
Last month, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed the Mecca Pact, a defense alliance moving toward autonomous security arrangements and away from America’s shield. President Donald Trump hailed the pact, saying the Middle East is coming together. Some analysts called it an incipient “Islamic NATO.” But there are far too many complexities, and events are still unfolding.
Peloni: So while recognizing the devastating consequence of having created a defacto Second Palestinian state in Gaza, Europeans are determined to move forward with their support for creating an actual Second Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria. Notably, European hypocrisy knows no bound as they are applying sanctions on even those who support the creation of illegal settlements in Judea and Samaria when in fact the European nations launching this economic war on Israel are in fact guilty of having supported the creation of thousands of illegal settlements all across Judea and Samaria.
The fact that the European sanctioning is even stated to affect a Second Palestinian state while simultaneously ‘condemning’ the result of the last attempt at creating a Second Palestinian state in Gaza provides all the clarity needed to demonstrate that Europe is pursuing yet one more attempt at pursuing political arrangements which will oversee the slaughter and destruction of the Jewish people as they first pursued in the notorious Evian Conference of 1938 when Europe agreed to seal the fate of European Jewry in the hands of the Nazis. Well, this is not 1938, and Israel is not the plaything of Europe’s to decide the fate of her people.
In addition to the expulsion of the diplomats for the countries now making economic war on the people of Israel, Israel should pursue a policy such that for every Israeli sanctioned by the European powers, Israel should oversee the destruction of one illegal Arab settlement which receives or has received funding from Europe.
Britain, France and Canada say they will introduce national measures targeting settlement goods as 12 governments coordinate new economic pressure on Israel.
By: Ron East | TheJ.ca | September 8, 2026
Britain, Canada, France and nine other countries announced plans Tuesday to impose or pursue restrictions on trade with Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, marking a significant escalation in international economic pressure over Israel’s settlement policies.
Peloni: Rabbi Pesach Wolicki provides an important look at the likely political outcomes in the coming Israeli election as well as at the truth about polling in Israel in general.
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Turkey’s Pres. Erdogan meets Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. Screengrab via Youtube.
Despite being 1,000 miles apart and in different time zones, Turkey and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) maintain a military partnership that operates in direct violation of a standing UN arms embargo. Turkish combat drones initially helped SAF reverse the tide of the civil war. However, by late summer, counter-momentum by rival forces erased those gains, forcing Sudanese Chief of Staff Yasir al-Atta to travel to Ankara to request expanded, urgent military assistance from his Turkish counterpart, Selcuk Bayraktaroglu. But what is Turkey doing intervening in Africa?
Peloni: The achievements over the past few days by the Saudi forces in Yemen have been highly impressive. Let’s see if their successes persist. Their decade long failure to defeat the Houthis is likely the basis for a report earlier today indicating that Riyadh is still very much interested in pursuing a diplomatic talks with the Houthis.
As the Yemeni government forces push against the Houthis, attacks on Saudi Arabia are raising the stakes and forcing Riyadh to consider its next military moves.
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN |
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Reported Houthi strikes on Aramco facilities in Jizan, Saudi Arabia, Sept 8, 2026. Screengrab via X. [Resized]
The last 48 hours in Yemen have seen movement and clashes on numerous frontlines as the Yemen government seeks to push the Houthis back and weaken the Iranian-backed group. Meanwhile, the Houthis have attacked Saudi Arabia.
David Daoud | Sept 6, 2026
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on September 3 that its 36th Division had cleared Hezbollah personnel from two underground routes beneath south Lebanon’s Ali al Taher Ridge, the site of a strategic underground installation built by the group, and achieved “operational control” above and below ground. The reported takeover occurred despite a lull in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that has been in effect since June 19.
Peloni: Natasha Hausdorff, UKLFI Charitable Trust Legal Director, joins Mike Graham to review Ed Miliband’s depiction of Israel using medieval antisemitic blood libels.
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In this video, Avi Abelow details the truth that the Qusra story is not a tale of “settler violence,” but is instead the consequence of inadequate Israeli deterrence, a decades-long land struggle, the weaponizing of US citizenship to influence US/Israeli policy, and a standing threat posed by the Palestinian Authority’s armed forces.
Peloni: Naturally, Israel’s Arab neighbors are objecting to their cousins in Gaza being offered the means by which to leave Gaza, for when the Trump vision of the Gazans being allowed to go is finally realized, there would be far fewer Jihadis in Gaza able to slaughter their Jewish neighbors. This is why these neighboring Arab countries will not take the Gazans at any price. Note that both Ben-Gvir and Katz were careful to characterize their efforts as being in support of fascilitated voluntary emigration, but the Arabs would prefer to distract from this point that the Gazans would be allowed to go anywhere beyond the city limits of an active war zone, demonstrating the lack of sincerity that they have for peace or even for the Gazans themselves.
What would be interesting to hear from Trump and Huckabee on this topic is why the US is itself withholding support for those nations which would otherwise accept the Gazans.
By | Sept 7, 2026
A political flag map of the Middle East. By Cookie030307 – Geography and Space, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link
Completely contradictory reports are surfacing about the plans that Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Defence Minister Israel Katz have announced. Both are discussing plans to remove Palestinians from Gaza. In response, “Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Pakistan, Indonesia and Turkey said they condemned in ‘the strongest terms’ the “plans and mechanisms they proposed aimed at forcibly expelling Palestinians from their land.”
Once again, Britain’s political leaders have completely lost their moral compass when it comes to Jews and Israel.
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British government plans to boycott Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria (aka the ‘West Bank’) must be condemned. The U.K. policy echoes some of the darkest periods of recent Jewish history, and the British action must be called out as hateful and dangerous. Once again, Britain’s political leaders have completely lost their moral compass when it comes to Jews and Israel.
By | Sept 5, 2026
Mercado de esclavas circasianes en Constantinopola, Desconocido, litografía del siglo XIX, Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication
The UN wants school curricula in the UK to cover black slavery even more than they already do: “UN Tells Britain To ‘Honour Contributions of People of African Descent’ as ‘Reparation’ for Colonialism and Slavery,” by Javier Villamor, European Conservative, September 3, 2026:
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Long Game in America-with Kyle Shideler https://t.co/ZOWo2rrNrB
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Itamar Marcus | PMW |
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The Fatah spokesman in the Gaza Strip, Mundhir Al-Hayek, has now confirmed what Palestinian Media Watch has documented all along—the Palestinian Authority has rejected the US demand to stop Pay-for-Slay: “We did not stop the payment of salaries.”
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Mike Doran of the Hudson Institute. Screengrab via Youtube.
Mike Doran of the Hudson Institute recently penned an important article in Tablet Magazine, Trump’s Third Way, which bears careful consideration.
Jalal Tagreeb
From Right to Left: Pres. Trump, PM Shehbaz Sharif, Pres. Xi, and PM Netanyahu. Image created via AI.
When American and Iranian negotiators finally sat down in the same room in Islamabad in April 2026, the choice of venue surprised almost everyone outside the region. Pakistan is not a traditional Middle East power broker. It has no seat at the Gulf Cooperation Council, no historic role in Arab-Israeli diplomacy, and a domestic political system so dominated by its military that most Western chancelleries treat it as an afterthought.
