Peloni:  This is an important move by the DOJ.  Another important aspect of action by the Trump administration would be to target the Muslim Brotherhood and other foreign sources of support for college campus protest movement groups.

David Brody | All Israel News | Published: February 18, 2026

Martin Marks hosts Jewish leaders to a Faith Office event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on June 4th, 2025. Photo by Leo Terrell / Department of Justice – Leo Terrell in Facebook, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee over allegations that its policies discriminate against Jewish students.

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Peloni & David Fieldstone

Peloni:  Not to be missed video of Natasha Hausdorff explaining the Western hypocracy on which the criticism of Israel’s recent land reform is based.  She also provides an important description of the various ruses on which the fantasy of ‘Settler Violence’ is based.

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Peloni: I long to see the hopes fulfilled of the one million protestors around the world who support a free Iran. The context of these protests are two-fold. First, there is the reality that the protests of support in the West are the voices of Iranian expats and their supporters, all of whom live in the West while looking towards a future for Iran free from oppression and able to choose a path of freedom for the Iranian people. The question is whether this represents only the perspective of those who were able to flee the tyranny of the Mullahs, or if it speaks to the hopes of the people who have lived under Iranian oppression for nearly 50yrs. Second, these protests, no matter their relevance in Iran, demonstrate a political movement in the West which might be transformed into political weight at the polling booths.  If this is accurate, it might come to be more relevant to what comes next than the first point.

BREAKING: Persia has risen. Over 1 million Iranians and allies marched across the world for a free Iran and the return of national sovereignty. Toronto 350,000. Los Angeles 350,000. Munich 250,000. London, Sydney, Paris and Stockholm joined. No terrorist flags. No looting. No… pic.twitter.com/OKJvNdapGR

— George Mamalis (@georgieAM) February 16, 2026

Reading a chronicle of the Israeli peace movement now is a fascinating reminder of how far the Labor Party and the Israeli left has drifted.

Moshe Phillips

Fighters of the Shaked Patrol. Amos Yarkoni, unit commander, sits in the Jeep commander’s chair, behind the machine gun. Sinai, Six-Day War, June 1967. By Rafi Rogel, Attribution, Wikipedia

It didn’t make headlines when it was published, but Rael Jean Isaac’s Israel Divided: Ideological Politics in the Jewish State remains one of the most important books published in English about contemporary Israel. On the book’s 50th anniversary, it’s worth looking back at what she wrote, and what we can still learn from her.

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Rabbi Jacob Herzog | X

Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed, the next President of UAE?. Screenshot via Youtube

* From the Rabbi of the Arabian Peninsula, congratulations on the occasion of the blessed month of Ramadan, may God return it to us and to you with all goodness. Today’s tweet is big and its information is shocking and includes only Jordan and the UAE.

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Peloni:  It is also important to neutralize the threat from Hezbollah to help reduce any threat while attacking Iran

Hezbollah, supposedly battered and defeated, still stands and is actively rebuilding. If that is the case, what on earth has Israel been doing over the past two years? Have we merely postponed the inevitable?

by  Prof. Eyal Zisser | Feb 14, 2026

Israel’s agreement to a ceasefire in Lebanon in November 2024, at a moment when Hezbollah was reeling from the blows it had sustained, is increasingly emerging as an unfathomable missed opportunity. We had a rare chance to decisively defeat the organization long regarded here as our most formidable and certainly most dangerous enemy. The paralyzing fear of Hezbollah not only cast a heavy shadow over daily life in northern Israel, it also prevented Israel, as many will recall, from acting against Iran’s nuclear capabilities at the start of the previous decade.

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Peloni:  Herein lies the truth about the Saudi shift against normalization with Israel, but it also demonstrates a real and substantive flaw in the Abraham Accords.  The AA were intended to bring about peace by ignoring the Israeli-Pal issue, making bilateral peace agreements between Sunni states and  Israel the focus rather than waiting for the situation with the Pals to be rectified first, something which is impossible due to the terror-based leadership and all of society’s effort at blocking any form of peace with Israel among the Pals.  But the Arab street was always something which has and continues to drive the policies of the Sunni states.  This dependency of the Sunni states on the Arab states is why Bahrain cut its diplomatic ties with Israel shortly after October 7, and why the UAE argued that Israel should not invade Gaza after October 7 and continues to argue that Hamas should not be destroyed today.  It is also why Riyadh will not formalize a commitment to the future upon which MBS has focused the future of his country.  Recognizing these facts is useful to the stability of these Sunni states, but it is also useful towards understanding the real obstruction which exists between a more stable region and what exists today, and that is the need to eradicate the control which the Muslim Brotherhood has on the Sunni states.  So, as Jonathan Feldstein noted previously, Trump’s move to ban only part of the Muslim Brotherhood is a good start, but it needs the subsequent steps to ban all the Muslim Brotherhood, not just those of less useful powers than Qatar and Turkey.

By: A. Savyon and Yigal Carmon | MEMRI | Feb 17, 2026

25th anniversary of Hamas celebrated in Gaza. By Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

In his December 2, 2025 column in the London-based daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Lebanese journalist Nadim Koteich responded to U.S. President Trump’s executive order seeking to designate certain chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) as terrorist organizations. Highlighting the connection between this executive order and the October 7 attack perpetrated by Hamas, which is the Palestinian branch of the MB, Koteich writes that “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,” as Hamas calls the attack, did not harm only Israel.

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Peloni: So will Trump surrender to the demands of the Mullahs while declaring victory?  I wouldn’t bet on it.  Nothing will happen before Ramadan ends, and that won’t be til be til March 18.  This will give the Iranians time to course correct as Trump continues to assemble US forces in the region in an unprecedented show of force.  The clock is ticking and a US strike is coming, just not likely anytime soon.

Witkoff May Have Agreed to a Framework that falls outside the Trump-Rubio Parameters

Stephen Bryen | Weapons & Strategy | Feb 17, 2026

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi in Geneva for indirect talks with Iran. Screengrab via Youtube

The US-Iran “indirect” talks in Geneva lasted between 3 and 4 hours. Omani diplomats acted as intermediaries. The US delegation did not meet directly with the Iranians. Thus suggestions were carried from one side to the other, and vice versa by the Omani intermediaries.

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By Victor Sharpe

IHC Abstract from 2002

This article emphasizes how the recent Palestinian massacre of Jewish worshippers at Hebron was labeled by CNN and Associated Press as having been carried out by “militants” against “settlers”.

The writer further notes how the victims of these massacres were “shamefully made a hot potato between two leftist political rivals.” By this, he means that the deaths were a direct result of the IDFÂ’s withdrawal from the Arab occupied hills surrounding the Jewish community. This withdrawal was ordered by the ex-Israeli Defense Minister and Labor Minister in the coalition government, Benjamin ben-Eliezer, in order to win points in his battle against left wing rival Amram Mitzna for leadership of the Labor party.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Recently a friend and fellow author, Victor Sharpe, alerted me to an interview by Israeli journalist Ariel Kahana with Hamas and other Arab perpetrators of the atrocities of October 7th 2023 in which it became clear that there was absolutely no remorse whatsoever for the deliberate butchery committed.

This was reminiscent of the unrepentant cruelty described in 1963, while covering the Eichmann trial in Israel and penned by Hannah Arendt, as the “Banality of Evil” referring to Nazi perpetrators of the Holocaust.

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Major arms deal strengthens strategic partnership and cements Israel’s role as a top supplier to India.

Israfan | Feb 16, 2026

SPICE 1000 and 2000 precision-guided bombs. Screengrab vua Youtube

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Peloni:  This will prove to be one of the most important achievements of this Knesset.

The government has been slowly increasing Israeli authority over Judea and Samaria in past two years

All Israel News Staff | Published: February 16, 2026

Knesset plenum at the special plenum meeting to mark the 61th anniversary of the establishment of the Knesset. By Itzik Adar, CC BY 2.5, Wikipedia

The Israeli Cabinet approved the proposal of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Defense Minister Israel Katz, and Justice Minister Yariv Levin to open the land registration process in Judea and Samaria on Sunday.

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A Shin Bet investigator interrogated the Hamas terrorists. It is incumbent upon each of us to read and internalize. Here are several central paragraphs:

Victor Sharpe

October 7 Collage by Hnuden – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=143009820

During the months of the war against the Hamas perpetrators of the October, 2023 Nakba massacre of Jewish men, women, children and babies in Israel, Ariel Kahana met the cruelest of these Palestinian murderers, those who committed the inconceivable crimes on October 7. ‘What stands out most, was their utmost banality.

As Hannah Arendt said, the Banality of Evil.

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Joel C. Rosenberg | All Israel News | Published: February 15, 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, Wikipedia

On Friday, I landed here in the American capital just about the time that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu and his team were arriving back in Israel after their “emergency” trip to Washington and three-hour meeting with President Donald J. Trump.

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1. Peloni:  This is an important letter written by Morton Klein, President of ZOA in which he draws attention to the failure of Heritage Foundation’s President Kevin Roberts and Heritage foundation itself to address the close association with Tucker Carlson and the bigoted positions adopted by Carlson, despite Roberts having promised to do so more than six weeks ago.

Morton A. Klein |  Feb 15, 2026

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Peloni:  Setback in Califorinia using federal funding as leverage.  Trump should turn to charging these institutions with Civil Rights violations under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Law.

Jaryn Crouson Education Reporter | Daily Caller | February 16, 2026

Pro-Palestinian protest at UCLA. Screengrab via Youtube. 

The Trump administration on Friday reached an agreement with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) that requires the government to retract its $1.2 billion demand and restore millions in federal funding.

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