Victor Davis Hanson: This Is Who Really Deserves Reparations  

Peloni:  In the following video, Victor Davis Hanson states, “?If you want to give reparations, how about all the people who died fighting in World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and Korea? What did they get.”  Victor Davis Hanson discusses pro-Palestinian protests in Jewish neighborhoods in New York City, arguing that political and campus culture have contributed to rising antisemitism and broader social disorder. He outlines what he calls the “four horsemen” of modern antisemitism: immigration-driven demographic change, DEI ideology, shifts within the Democratic Party, and left-wing popular culture, while also criticizing parts of the populist right.   The conversation also covers immigration and sanctuary policies, comments by Alejandro Mayorkas on border policy, reports on Oct. 7 atrocities, Harvard University’s reparations initiative, crime and early release policies, and upcoming political issues.

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May 15, 2026 | 6:04 pm | Comments »

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The World’s Favorite Existential Question: Should Israel Exist?  

Peloni:  Must read article by Victor Satya!  The poignant consequence of questioning if Israel should exist posits the implication that Israel’s survival is debatable, and that this debate should be held by those other than the people which formed this nation, in both the millennia past or in its current reconstitution.  And this word ‘reconstitution’ is the point upon which the ignominious debate should be silenced once and for all.  Indeed, the League of Nations did not grant the Jews a state of their own, but instead empowered them with only the recognition that our ancient people would once again be constituted on the indigenous lands of our ancestors.  This recognition itself was in deference to the will of the Jewish people to rebuild our nation on our land as represented by the Zionist movement.

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May 15, 2026 | 5:03 pm | 3 Comments »

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We Ignored This Speech… Now It’s Impossible to Ignore | Mosab Hassan Yousef  

Madeline Brooks:  The outstandingly brave Son of Hamas, Mosab Hassan Yousef, goes even further in his excoriations of Hamas’ wickedness and his endorsement of Israel. In a recent video that did not recieve the attention it deserved, he declares, “Israel is earth, Israel is God. You fight with Israel, you fight with the most powerful authority of the universe.”  What a wonderful rebuke not only to the gentile Israel haters but to the growing hordes of “Jewish” Israel haters who side with Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Of course, Israel is not God, but it is the place where God is working Redemption.

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May 15, 2026 | 4:46 pm | 1 Comment »

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Israel to Sue New York Times for Defamation  

Peloni:  While it should be acknowledged that any lawsuit put forward will almost certainly be dismissed, what is the real prize in such a suit will not be the judgement of the plaintiff’s [ie Israel] innocence in the form of any sum awarded, but rather victory in such an undertaking would be in being granted discovery where the real source and motivation behind Krisof’s rape fantasies might be uncovered.

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New York Times Building by Robert Scoble, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0

The just-published New York Times piece by Nicholas Kristof, accusing Israel of horrific crimes, including the sexual abuse of “Palestinians” in Israeli prisons, with victims said to include men, women, and children, and of “training dogs” to rape “Palestinians” as well, has quite properly enraged the government and the people of Israel. The Office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced in a Thursday, May 14 statement that Israel will take legal action against the Times over Kristof’s column.

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May 15, 2026 | 3:52 pm | 1 Comment »

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Xi-Trump Summit: Iran’s Shrinking Margin  

Peloni: Zineb Riboua explains how Iran’s attempt to use the Strait of Hormuz as leverage has backfired after the Xi–Trump summit showed U.S.–China alignment on keeping the waterway open and preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.  Whereas the relationship between China and Iran has been characterized as being an alliance, I have argued previously that the their connection was merely that of partners, where shared interests were the limit of any commitment by China for Iran.  Iran’s refusal to negotiate with the US, tied to its weaponizing of the Strait of Hormuz, to its whimsical attack on the Gulf Arab nations, have all undermined China’s interests in Iran, even as Iran foolishly ignored its growing isolation from its former partner.  The enforcement of US sanctions on China’s Teapot refineries was always the ultimate leverage which Trump held over the Chinese-Iranian relationship, and having now enacted this crucial measure, there can be little support for Iran coming from China.

The Strait of Hormuz Is Not Iran’s to Close

Zineb RibouaBeyond the Ideological | May 14, 2026

Pres. Trump meets with Pres Xi at Beijing Summit. Screengrab via X

The situation is obviously dynamic, but from reading today’s statements, here is my takeaway.

When Iran sealed the Strait of Hormuz, its genius strategists believed they held a winning hand. They expected two things: a global energy shock to force Washington into negotiations and the Gulf states to blame the disruption on US belligerence. Today, as President Trump sat across from Xi Jinping in Beijing, the first statements emerging from that summit began to reveal how thoroughly Tehran had misjudged the situation.

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Sharia Free America Caucus – Trump MUST Designate the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood NOW!  

Janet Levy

Listen to Amy Mekelberg from the RAIR Foundation (6 minutes)

Sharia-compliant enclaves exist throughout Texas, Michigan, Florida, Minnesota, New Jersey, California, Tennessee, Phoenix, and at least five other states.

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May 15, 2026 | 10:54 am | 1 Comment »

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Stories of Immigration and Absorption  

 
By Ari Bussel

Translated by Peloni

I come from a family of immigrants, half of them illegal immigrants for they broke the British Mandate over Palestine:  My mother arrived through the illegal “Aliyah Bet” immigration from Europe, from the DP (Displaced Persons) Camps after the Second World War. My father arrived to the State of Israel exactly two years after Israel’s rebirth.

My father’s father fought the Nazis in General Anders’ Polish Army, and at the end of the war found himself in Italy, from where he joined his brother in New York. The two brothers lived in Manhattan, one with his wife in Upper East Side and the other with his second wife (the first was murdered during the Holocaust) in Upper West Side, this until the end of their lives.

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May 15, 2026 | 10:32 am | Comments »

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Underground Financial System Keeps Iran Afloat Amid War, Sanctions  

Ahmad Sharawi |May 14, 2026

Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@sharonmccutcheon?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Alexander Grey</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/1-usa-dollar-banknotes-8lnbXtxFGZw?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a> Photo by Alexander Grey on Unsplash

A man walks into a Dubai currency exchange, intending to send money to Iran. He hands over $50,000 in cash, and provides a name and a location. Hours later, the money reaches a beneficiary in Tehran. No bank processes the transfer, no wire crosses a border, and no regulator signs off, yet the system worked as intended.

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May 15, 2026 | 10:15 am | Comments »

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In The Arab-Israeli Conflict, The One Crucial Thing ARABISM Will Always Lack Is Corroborating Evidence…  

by Gerald A. Honigman

While ARABISM is unquestionably permitted to stake claim to over six million square miles of real estate by virtue of its violent conquests of mostly non-Arab people’s ancestral homelands, the one damning thing it lacks in the Arab-Israeli conflict is legitimate corroborating evidence that its claimants were/are anything more than late coming invaders, settlers, and colonizers of another ancient historical people’s ancestral homeland, the Jews.

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May 15, 2026 | 4:09 am | 2 Comments »

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We love you Jerusalem  

Peloni:  Am Yisrael Chai!

The propaganda effort to disassociate Jews from Israel and Jerusalem is absurd. International Law, the Bible, Quran (5:21 and 17:104) and history recognize the rights of the Jewish People to Israel. So did President Trump.

Jerusalem, 21 December 2025.  Photo by Hebrew hyphen – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

Beginning Thursday night and all day Friday, May 15, 2026, we will be celebrating Yom Yerushalayim-Jerusalem Day, the anniversary of the liberation and reunification of Jerusalem. This year is the 59th anniversary; but our connection to Jerusalem stretches back well over 3,000 years ago, including to the time when Biblical King David declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel.

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May 14, 2026 | 11:33 pm | Comments »

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VAHIDI’S CATASTROPHIC MISTAKE – HE BURNT CHINA  

Peloni:  What China needs from Iran is stability in the region so as to exercise its influence while also having free access to Iran’s cheap oil.  What China has been receiving for its vast investment in Iran has been something very far from this.

Mariam Gregorio 

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with his Iranian counterpart, Seyyed Abbas Araghchi, in Beijing.  Screengrab via YoutubeChinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with his Iranian counterpart, Seyyed Abbas Araghchi, in Beijing. Screengrab via Youtube

China has played Vahidi for the fool he is. Vahidi thought he was clever when he blocked the strait; he was outsmarted by Trump. The US has stopped all traffic in and out of the strait, in particular tankers with Iranian oil. As a consequence, the flow of Iran’s crude oil to China came to a halt. Vahidi lost his revenue stream; China was buying 90% of Iran’s oil at a discounted rate. Iran’s economy is in free fall; as a consequence, the currency is worthless toilet paper: 1 USD equals approximately 1.8 million Iranian Rials.

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May 14, 2026 | 10:22 pm | Comments »

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Israel at 78: From a declaration heard around the world to a nation still defining itself  

J. Micah Hancock | All Israel News | Published: May 14, 2026

David Ben-Gurion (First Prime Minister of Israel) publicly pronouncing the Declaration of the State of Israel, May 14 1948, Tel Aviv, Israel, beneath a large portrait of Theodor Herzl, founder of modern political Zionism, in the old Tel Aviv Museum of Art building on Rothshild St. The exhibit hall and the scroll, which was not yet finished, were prepared by Otte Wallish. Photo by Rudi Weissenstein - Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39649093David Ben-Gurion (First Prime Minister of Israel) publicly pronouncing the Declaration of the State of Israel, May 14 1948, Tel Aviv, Israel, beneath a large portrait of Theodor Herzl.  Photo by Rudi Weissenstein – Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Public Domain, Wikipedia

May 14, 1948, is considered the birthday of the modern State of Israel. On that day, as the British Mandate officially expired, David Ben-Gurion stood in the Tel Aviv Museum Hall and read out the Jewish State’s Declaration of Independence, in a speech broadcast over the radio.

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May 14, 2026 | 9:53 pm | Comments »

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LONG LIVE THE BLOCKADE  

Peloni:  Mike Doran joins guest host Tamir Morag, diplomatic correspondent for Israel’s Channel 14, to discuss the viable options going forward in Iran as well as the shifting alliances which are forming around current events, and the import of Azerbaijan in the region.

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May 14, 2026 | 9:51 pm | Comments »

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CIA Seized JFK, MKUltra Files Out From Under Tulsi Gabbard: Sources  

Peloni:  A rather significant turn of events as the CIA unveils an internal document plot while both the president and the director of the CIA are out of the country.  Is there a brewing civil war emerging in the US Intel agencies?

Rebeka ZeljkoNational Correspondent | Daily Caller

Two intelligence community officials confirmed to the Daily Caller that CIA officials took documents from the JFK and MKUltra files that were being reviewed by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard for declassification.

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May 14, 2026 | 3:40 pm | 1 Comment »

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Britain’s forgotten war crimes against young Zionists  

Two stories that do much to shed light on the cruel nature of the British Mandate and the crimes committed against young Zionists are the cases of 16-year-old Alexander Rubowitz and Yaacov Eliav.

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This month is the anniversary of the kidnapping of sixteen-year-old Alexander Rubowitz in Jerusalem in May 1947. While the story of Rubowitz should be a well-known one, it is one of the most notorious unsolved crimes of the British Mandate era in Israel, the truth is that far too few have ever come across the story.

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May 14, 2026 | 3:31 pm | 1 Comment »

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‘Judea and Samaria’ for 3,000 Years, ‘West Bank’ for 19  

Peloni: The pejorative term ‘West Bank’ has been modeled around a false assertion that there is no association between these lands and either the Jewish State of Israel or the Jewish People when in fact the lands indicated by this malicious term are integral to the Jewish state, the Jewish people and their respective histories. A point which should be understood in all of this is the fact that prior to the Hashemite Kingdom having illegally seized the lands in Judea and Samaria during its illegal invasion in the 1948 War of Independence, what is now termed as “the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan” was actually known as ” the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan”.  Notably, it was only due to the illicit Hashemite conquest of the lands of Judea and Samaria from Israel which forced the Hashemites to rename their kingdom from “Transjordan” to “Jordan”.  The motivation for this renaming the entire country was hinged upon the truth which was revealed each time the “Kingdom of Transjordan” was spoken.  Indeed, the word Transjordan was taken from a long recognized cartographic description exclusively referencing the region of land on the far side, trans Jordan, ie East side of the Jordan river.  Hence, the name of the country Transjordan was evidence of both the fact that the Hashemites had no claim to the lands of Judea and Samaria, as well as the fabricated nature of renaming these conquered lands as the “West Bank”.  So apparent was the false connection between Jordan and its ill-gotten gains during the 1948 War that nearly no one on the international field recognized Jordan’s use of the term ‘West Bank’.  That is, until Israel liberated the indigenous lands of its forefathers in 1967, and a manufactured campaign was launched to imply that these lands held no connection to the Jews or the state of Israel, when the opposite was actually true going back three millennia.  So, as Hugh Fitzgerald explains below, these lands were ‘Judea and Samaria’ for 3,000 Years, but ‘West Bank’ for 19.

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The place name “West Bank,” although universally used today, appeared out of thin air. More on this relatively recent invention can be found here: “A 19-Year Name vs. 3,000 Years of History: Judea vs. ‘West Bank,’” by Micha Danzig, Algemeiner, May 7, 2026:

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May 14, 2026 | 3:51 am | 2 Comments »

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The Disintegration of the Right-Wing Bloc — How Many Seats Are We Talking About?  

Yossi Baum | X | May 13, 2026

Ch 14 Election Poll from May 7, 2026.  Screengrab via XCh 14 Election Poll from May 7, 2026. Screengrab via X

I see publications from senior figures on the right claiming that the departure of Degel HaTorah has negligible significance for the bloc. If this is a tactic intended to prevent faintheartedness in the right-wing bloc — fine. If not — then this is a very serious mistake.

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May 14, 2026 | 3:22 am | 5 Comments »

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