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Peloni: This notification of the coming ceasefire comes without any vote supporting it from Israel’s Security Cabinet. There is no way to describe this other than what it is. Trump has linked Iran to Lebanon, even as he is presumably demanding Iran give up any such linkage to Lebanon in the coming negotiations. Meanwhile the Lebanese President has refused to even speak with Netanyahu on the phone, further demonstrating his state of capture under Hezbollah, while still seeing his calls for a ceasefire from Israel on Hezbollah satisfied. This is a disgraceful surrender of Israel’s security interests in Lebanon to satisfy the Iranians, and Trump didn’t even allow Israel’s own govt the dignity of making such a concession themselves. This is an utterly shameful point of appeasement on the eve of the latest US negotiations with Iran when peace thru strength, rather than ceasefire by concessions, should have been the strategy which gained Iran’s participation in this US gambit to end the war with Iran.
Peloni: The High Court calls for a compromise, but compromising the authority of the elected govt is exactly what is at stake in this trial. In effect, they are requiring the govt assign themselves a limited authority or face the judges imposing something similar on them. Divesting ministerial authority from the ministers is not deliberating the law, it is setting legal precedent in which the Court would be limiting the power of the elected govt without any established legal basis to do so. Is the authority of the unelected High Court greater than the authority of the elected representative govt? By requesting Ben Gvir and Netanyahu compromise on this point, they are requesting them to agree that the answer to this question is ‘yes’ when they answer should instead be clearly stated as ‘no’.
Justice Minister, coalition members vow to ignore court ruling, says it has no authority to order firing ministers
| Published: April 16, 2026
After a ten-hour-long, stormy debate, Israel’s High Court did not issue a ruling on a petition to dismiss National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir over his alleged politicization of the police after a hearing on Wednesday.
Instead, the nine judges called on the government and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara to find a compromise that would restrain the controversial minister, instead of taking the unprecedented step of forcing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire Ben Gvir.
Peloni: This is very welcome news.
ASFI | April 16, 2026
Tennessee Capitol. Photo by Ken Lund – Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia
New York — Americans For A Safe Israel, a leading pro-Israel organization, is thankful to the Tennessee General Assembly for passing legislation that directs state agencies to use the historically accurate name “Judea and Samaria” in place of the politically charged “West Bank” in official state materials.
Peloni: Excellent!
By Norma Zager
Now, Iran speaks loudly and clearly that it will destroy Israel, the Jewish people and America. The world’s reaction to this bit of news? #whatakidder
Twitter comments by Iran boasting about victories over the foolish countries of the world got me thinking. What if Adolf Hitler could have tweeted his thoughts after his conference with then British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at Munich?
The battle at Deir Yassin was turned into a fabricated “massacre,” helping launch a strategy of demonization that is still used against Israel today. Opinion.
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There is an old political instinct: never let a good crisis go to waste. In the Arab-Israeli conflict, a parallel rule has often proved just as useful: never let a military defeat go to waste when it can be repackaged as a Jewish atrocity.
Paul Schnee: This is alarming and suicidal. Just as in Europe, we have imported a parallel society that will NEVER integrate. We have imported war.
RAIR Foundation USA | Apr 15, 2026
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by Gerald A. Honigman
Recently, The Hill published an AP report about “Settler” violence against Arabs in “the occupied West Bank”…
Firstly, there is absolutely no historical doubt that the land in question is the 4,000 year old, soundly corroborated ancestral Jewish homeland in Judaea and Samaria which was not renamed “West Bank” until some four millennia afterwards in the first half of the 20th century C.E..
Peloni: The breaking event here is that Israel and Lebanon have met directly, to appease the Americans, all while ignoring the fact that the Lebanese govt has no capacity to deliver anything they might agree to do, even to the point of controlling its own armed forces, even as the US continues to cover the costs of these armed forces. So the big news is that this meeting has no material relevance beyond giving cover to the pressure that America is applying to the Netanyahu govt to purposefully end the war prematurely, with the obvious caveat that Hezbollah will be pulled from the jaws of destruction so as to appease their Iranian masters in Tehran. This rationale for this celebrated ‘peace negotiation’ is terribly flawed, and the celebration is quite inappropriate. If the proposed ceasefire goes forward, the only thing which might be honestly stated is that Evil won…again.
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by Pierre Rehov • Gatestone Institute • April 15, 2026
The issue is no longer whether the regime in Tehran is under strain — it clearly is — but whether Washington is preparing, consciously or not, to replace a brutal clerical dictatorship with a brutal military one. Pictured: Iran’s then Supreme Leader, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, prepares to award a medal to the late General Amir Ali Hajizadeh (L), then commander of the Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in the presence of the senior IRGC leadership, in Tehran on October 6, 2024. (Image source: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)
Peloni: This event spelled the coming end of Hezbollah, raising the question of why the West and the Americans are once again racing to save these terrorists from annihilation.
By | April 14, 2026
The IDF on Friday revealed the details behind the largest strike in Lebanon since the start of Operation Roaring Lion. That strike took place on Wednesday, April 8, and within ten minutes at least 180 Hezbollah terrorists were eliminated, in near-simultaneous strikes on the Dahiyeh neighborhood in southern Beirut, on the Bekaa Valley, and on the area between the Litani River and the Lebanese border with Israel. More on this achievement can be found here: “IDF delivers massive blow: 180+ Hezbollah terrorists eliminated in one minute,” Israel National News, April 10, 2026
Peloni
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. Ben Gvir – Own work, CC0, Wikipedia
A growing legal and political confrontation in Israel has been centered on efforts to remove National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from office, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forcefully opposing such moves while the High Court of Justice weigh the issue.
Arlene Kushner | April 14, 2026
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I write this on Tuesday evening as Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day) draws to an end here in Israel.
I had planned to watch the official ceremony on-line last night, as I always do. The core of the ceremony is the lighting of torches by six survivors, for the six million Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis. Each is accompanied by a relative.
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Imagine that Hamas had won on Oct 7 and the victims were Christians. That’s what happened in Algeria. Islamist and Marxist terrorists during the Algerian War waged a ruthless campaign against the non-Muslim population. Including Jews.
The atrocities by Muslim terrorists included the slitting of women’s throats and babies being murdered by having their heads smashed against walls. The massacres climaxed in the Oran Massacre in which De Gaulle’s corrupt regime refused to protect Christians and Jews from the Muslim mob.
Mudar Zahran
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IRAN: WHAT DOES “VICTORY” LOOK LIKE FOR TRUMP?
??Let’s get straight to the point. Trump is NOT trying to repeat the disaster of George W. Bush in Iraq. Back then, they didn’t just remove Saddam Hussein, they dismantled the… pic.twitter.com/RxC1FIIJuZ— Mudar Adnan Zahran ??? ????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) April 14, 2026
* Let’s get straight to the point. Trump is NOT trying to repeat the disaster of George W. Bush in Iraq. Back then, they didn’t just remove Saddam Hussein, they dismantled the entire state. Police gone. Health system gone. Government bodies wiped out. The result? Total collapse and chaos. In my view, that wasn’t a mistake. That was a controlled demolition. And it led to a never-ending war that cost U.S. taxpayers TRILLIONS, money that flowed straight into companies like Halliburton and others tied to people like Dick Cheney. That’s not even hidden.
Peloni: The Lebanese govt is a fake peace partner. They have no agency, and no enforcement capacity for anything they might commit to agreeing upon. Meanwhile, it appears that the same disregard for this fact which has infected Washington has come to make Netanyahu’s govt complicit in this shell game of accountability where agreements are made which will only serve to hamper Israel’s freedom of action, embolden and strengthen Hezbollah over time, and make believe that the Lebanese govt is acting independently when they failed to even enforce the removal of the Iranian ambassador from his current position in their country. This peace negotiating gambit is not just foolish, it is dangerous. Netanyahu should have refused to enter into such a ruse at making peace with a fake peace partner. No good can possibly come from this denial of reality by all sides so as to safeguard Trump’s Iran negotiations which are themselves a further breakdown in critical reasoning.
Israeli envoy Leiter: ‘Lebanese made it very clear that they will no longer be occupied by Hezbollah’
| Published: April 15, 2026
The Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors to the U.S. met in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, in the first high-level meeting between representatives of the two governments since 1993.
The meeting, described by both sides as a preliminary step toward formal negotiations, was hosted at the State Department by Secretary Marco Rubio, Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz, and U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa.
Update: UN Human Rights Council: experts calling for all member states to end arms transfers going to Israel.
Peloni: The truth is that the long standing and perpetually shameful nature of the United Nations is both beyond doubt and beyond repair. It needs to be shuttered and its leadership should, themselves, be prosecuted for supporting crimes against humanity.
By Geller Report Staff |
United Nations General Assembly. Photo by Mojnsen – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia
The mass murdering, human rights violating, and terrorist state of Iran just secured seats on a number of influential UN bodies. UN bodies that help shape policy on human rights, women’s rights, disarmament and counterterrorism. This outrageous decision was made possible because of the support of weak and morally bankrupt Western governments.
