Peloni:  America has two important allies in the Middle East capable of projecting power beyond their borders.  One is Israel, who has repeatedly demonstrated itself to be the Ideal Ally for America that it is, while the other is Turkey, which has demonstrated itself to be something far less ideal than an ally.  Washington would be wise to recognize this fact and respond to it with something more deserving than praise.

By  Christine Douglass-Williams | April 3, 2026

Image via AI

Turkey has an extensive history of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoot Hamas, and far beyond. Turkey has collaborated with the worst jihadists, including ISIS. It is a particularly dangerous country, so much that it can be reasonably concluded that NATO would be reckless to continue to include it as a member. It should have long ago been ejected as a NATO member.

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Peloni:  What will it take for the American people to receive the justice which they voted for in the 2024 election.  While Trump was victimized by the election fiasco of the 2020 election, so too were his supporters and the American people at large.  From the election fraud to the January 6 persecutions to the Covid scam to the censorship campaigns to the political show trials… are these crimes truly just too big to prosecute?  Trump’s pick to follow in Bondi’s footsteps requires someone motivated to pursue justice rather than protecting the powerful.  Bondi failed the American people in this respect.  Will her successor do any better?

By Pamela Geller | April 3, 2026

Attorney General of the United States Pam Bondi speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Pam Bondi, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

Bondi was out of her depth.

After months of mounting frustration, the DOJ failed to act on explosive evidence, delivering talk instead of accountability. Promised prosecutions never materialized as critics point to a year of inertia inside the Justice Department. Whistleblowers spoke, documents piled up and still no action.

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by Rahul Mishra, Harshit Prajapati and Prisie L. Patnayak •  Gatestone Institute  •  April 3, 2026 at 5:00 am

• Purveyors of radical content, to reach a wider audience, have overtaken the non-confrontational format through memes, commentary video reels and influencer content. Extremist propaganda is being repackaged in local languages. Algorithms on these social media platforms serve as amplifiers for radical content.
• Although concealed as individual efforts, they were systematically planned and organised.

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Peloni:  As if to remind us that we have no choice but victory over our enemies.

IDF strikes in Iran to thwart missile fire, kills some 40 Hezbollah terrorists

All Israel News Staff | Published: April 2, 2026

Millions of Israelis spent the Passover holiday going back and forth to their shelters every few hours, as the Iranian regime, Hezbollah, and the Houthis markedly stepped up their attacks against Israel from Wednesday to Thursday evening.

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Peloni:  As explained in the video below, Tina Peters, the Mesa County Clerk whose actions secured evidence regarding the election tampering in her county, just before that evidence was erased under the order of the Colorado Secretary of State, had her 9-year sentencing thrown out on appeal due to the obvious bias demonstrated by the judge during sentencing.  Despite this, her conviction was upheld and instead of Peters being set free, she is being handed back to the original state court where she will be resentenced.  So, the injustice which has been used to silence those who might expose election fraud in the US will go on.

Sponsored by terror victim, it ends a revolving door system for terrorist killers.

Daniel Greenfield | April 3, 2026

MK Limor Sun Har Melech, following the approval of the death penalty for terrorists law. Screengrab via Youtube.

In 2003, Limor Son Har-Melech was 7 months pregnant and driving home with her husband, Shalom, an ambulance driver, when Islamic terrorists attacked them. The car rolled over, killing her husband and injuring Limor. Seriously injured, the 24-year-old mother survived. So did her newborn daughter. Limor, still carrying the scars of the attack, married again, had children and decided to run for public office in Israel to protect others from what she had suffered.

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By Hugh Fitzgerald | April 2, 2026

U.S. President Donald Trump. Photo by Daniel Torok – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The Islamic Republic of Iran is, for the moment, a mid-range military threat to the United States, and will remain so until it can manufacture both nuclear warheads and the ballistic missiles capable of carrying them all the way to the east coast of America. It is a major threat to Israel, and the Israelis are fighting with everything they have got to limit Iran’s ability to hurt the Jewish state. Both Israel and the United States, in fighting Iran, are also helping to limit the damage Iran can do to the Gulf Arab states. Iranian missiles and drones have attacked seven of those states —Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, and Oman. Those missiles and drones have hit oil and gas facilities, airports, desalination plants, power plans, anti-missile batteries, and much more.

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By Robert Spencer | April 2, 2026

Pope Leo XIV by Edgar Beltrán, The Pillar, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

Popes of earlier ages would not recognize this man’s teaching.

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Ahmad Sharawi | Apr 2, 2026

Firing Iranian Qadr Missile from a truck launcher in Velayat-90 Naval Exercise. Photo by Mohammad Sadegh Heydari – Ypa.ir, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

Iran and its allied militias continued launching drones, missiles, and rockets against regional countries between March 28 and April 1. There were nearly 90 incidents in this period, including distinct mass barrage events involving more than 20 ballistic missiles and 30–40 drones across multiple waves in the United Arab Emirates, alongside repeated barrages in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Unconditional Surrender. Image by 47th President of the United States of America en:Donald J. Trump – X.com, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Recently, the anti-establishment, Left-leaning publication, The Intercept, published some spot on, updated critique of President Trump and the War Department’s handling of the conflict with Iran:

https://tinyurl.com/2fazs69d

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Peloni: Guermantes Lailari, a retired U.S. Air Force foreign area officer and senior non-resident fellow of the Jewish Policy Center in Taiwan, tells JPC’s Shoshana Bryen that China’s involvement in the war in Iran makes it a participant in the war, whose intelligence sharing, satellite guidance, and radar technicians have been integral to Iran’s ability to incur its strikes on American, Israeli and allied Sunni Arab states.

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Peloni:  Qatar is at an inflection point in its history.  It has been fixed in its current situation for the past 5 decades as it stood in the unenviable position of being in the shadow of Iran’s domination.  Today that domination has shifted, and this is clear from the reporting from Qatar’s media empire.  This fact provides Qatar with choices and possibilities which have never been available to the current regime.  Indeed, events surrounding Qatar will have no small part in choosing its path, and the path that it takes will in turn have no small effect on the region at large.

Ahmad Sharawi & Natalie Ecanow | April 2, 2026

Al Jazeera Media Network Logo design. Photo by Isma4l – Own work, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

Veteran Al Jazeera analyst Leqaa Makki threw viewers a curveball during a recent news segment. He advocated for an escalation against Iran. A familiar face on the network since 2003, Makki argued that strategic sites, including power plants, electricity infrastructure and assets that would make ordinary Iranians “feel the impact of the war” should be hit, to potentially turn against them against the regime.

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Peloni: Lee Zeldin to replace Bondi? Note the association between Bondi and Zeldin in Kelleigh Nelson’s essay “Pam’s Poison Fetish”.  Is there no one from Trump’s MAGA base which he might choose for the role of heading his Justice Department?  One of Trump’s long standing complaints regarding Bondi was her failing to push thru the prosecutions which a MAGA loyalist would certainly pursue.  A MAGA loyalist would also not have made the inexplicable blunders with the Epstein files either.  The choice for AG is a critical one to make, and it should be filled with someone closely aligned with the MAGA movement which placed Trump in office.

Attorney General of the United States Pam Bondi speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).  Photo by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

Pam Bondi will no longer be attorney general following a tumultuous and controversial tenure.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will lead the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the interim, President Donald Trump announced.

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Peloni:  Rabbi Pesach Wolicki talks with Dr. David Wurmser.  The interview focuses on the war with Iran, with particular attention on the recent escalation by the Houthis. Wurmser explains that the Houthis are part of Iran’s broader strategy to raise oil prices, disrupt key shipping routes like the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and prolong the conflict while avoiding direct confrontation, while also recognizing that this may also reflect Iran’s need for proxy support due to its diminished missile capabilities. The discussion challenges the narrative that Gulf states are weak for not joining the war, suggesting that the US and Israel might prefer to exclude them from participating in the war due to operational risks, intelligence concerns, and political complications, while they may still offer indirect support.

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Peloni:  This coming in the wake of the Israeli-Somaliland alliance provides an important context for Kainerugaba’s pronouncement of support for Israel.  The world is being reordered, and Israel has played a pivotal role in this reordering, and this is having an important response which has not yet been fully unveiled.

by Amine Ayoub | The Algemeiner | Mar 27, 2026

Maj. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, head of the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) and son of Uganda’s current president. Screengrab via Youtube

Fifty years ago, Israeli commandos stormed the terminal at Entebbe Airport under the cover of darkness. They engaged in a deadly firefight with Ugandan troops and Palestinian hijackers to rescue over 100 Jewish and Israeli hostages. The daring 1976 raid astonished the world and reshaped modern counterterrorism, but it cost the life of the assault unit’s commander, Lieutenant Colonel Yonatan “Yoni” Netanyahu.

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Peloni:  Excellent speech!  I hope the Day After plan has as much careful forethought as Trump’s prepared comments tonight.

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Here are the key highlights drawn strictly from the speech:

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Peloni:  Sheikh Khalid Al-Hail, a Qatari opposition leader is interviewed by Israel Channel 14 in English.   They discuss the media cover which the Al Thani regime in Qatar provides for Iran, the $6 billion deal which Qatar was recently reported to offer Iran, why Qatar is not a US ally, a change of regime in Iran will lead to a change of regime in Qatar, Trump’s support for Qatar, and Tucker Carlson’s relationship with Qatar.

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“But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good…” Genesis 50:20

Cherie Zaslawsky | Truth Be Told | Mar 26, 2026

The poor Democrats. I can almost feel sorry for them. I said “almost.”

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