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By Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – J. D. Vance, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia
In a recent interview, VP JD Vance announced his opposition to free market economics, Margaret Thatcher, and meritocracy, to which Steve Moore responded the release of a corrective statement which he followed up with the following two interviews:
by Gerald A. Honigman
VP J.D. Vance. Photo by U.S. Senate – U.S. Senate (archived), Public Domain, Wikipedia
It just doesn’t stop…
Seems not a day passes when yet more evidence emerges illustrating that notorious, know nothing antisemite, Tucker Carlson’s, best buddy has a deep seated animus against Jews and the Jew of the Nations…
Peloni: This week, Gadi Taub and Mike Doran return to discuss the passage of the Draft Evasion law over which Mike shares two important observations at the 21min. mark following which he and Gadi both agree with what has been mentioned on this site several times: that if the Left comes to power, they will pass the Haredi legislation with whatever terms the Haredi want – as Yossi Baum stated, the Left doesn’t want the Haredi in the IDF, they want them in a Left led govt – and that the High Court will simultaneously drop its objections to the same Right Block legislation which it vetoed because the veto was only intended to obstruct and diminish the Right’s political options. At the 32min mark they shift to talking about the defunct MOU in which Mike draws attention to the fact that Trump’s efforts to draw Iran back to negotiations is failing, and that a far more pronounced set of targets will need to be chosen to punish Iran for its failure negotiate. The final topic discussed is the Rahm Emannuel and Ro Kanna visits to Israel which are covered beginning at the 49min mark. Notably, the latter visit resulted in a new round of the Settler Violence accusations, to which Gadi proposes that a Fast Response Group be put together to help dispel the nonsensical claims made by the likes of Ro Kanna in real time due to Israel’s govt failures to do as much.
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Diane Bederman | July 16, 2026
What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The prophet Jeremiah understood that a nation can appear strong while its moral foundations quietly crumble. His warning was timeless: No society can endure if it abandons justice, compassion, honesty, and responsibility.
Bridget Toomey & Edmund Fitton-Brown | July 15, 2026
Houthi Drone. Screengrab via Youtube.
The Houthis and Saudi Arabia broke a four-year truce after Iran and its Yemeni proxy attempted to establish a direct flight path between Tehran and the Houthi-controlled capital of Sanaa. The flight openly flouted the Saudi-imposed air blockade of the Iran-backed terror group, established to prevent the flow of arms and support.
Peloni: As I have noted before, those who took part in the October 7 slaughter should take note that we will find you, and we will kill you. It is just that simple, and that is a promise which will not be broken.
Slowly but steadily, Israel is ensuring that the people who crossed its borders with murder on their minds face an appropriate consequence.
Am Thinker | July 14, 2026
Graphic created by AI using official Israeli images of just eight October 7 terrorists. AmThinker.com
“To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.” — Proverbs 21:3
“Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made He man.” — Genesis 9:6
Israel may be a leftist country, but it’s still one that was founded on the Bible—and the Jewish Bible is about the rule of law and the necessity for justice. That’s why it was good to learn that a special Israeli unit is bringing justice to the October 7 attackers.
UPDATE: Osint613: “A lot of people thought the MOU was a bad agreement. That is not a coordinated influence campaign. It is people expressing their opinions.
The MOU did not collapse because people criticized it. It collapsed when Iran attacked ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The regime killed the deal, not the people who questioned it.”
And Trump came to that same conclusion following the latest Iranian attempt to assassinate him while the blunderous policy of the MOU was being pursued.
See source for more detail from Jay here: https://x.com/Osint613/status/2077722201520840948
Peloni: It is amusing that Vance seems to be reading the same script which has been pushed by Tucker Carlson of being targeted by Israel while responding to claims that he is fulfilling an agenda supportive of Carlson’s pro Iran, anti Israel bias. Is this really how he is preparing for the midterms – by appealing to the “I hate Israel” constituency using the oldest Jew Hating tropes of all time that Israel is controlling the world? Perhaps Vance is reacting to the possibility that his opposition to American meritocracy and free market economics was not enough to pull from the Democrat constituency, so now he is now focusing on competing for their anti Israel base as well. It is not news to report how politics makes for interesting bedfellows, but it is still somewhat enlightening nonetheless.
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Linda Goudsmit: The most important three words in this excellent article are “Muslim settler-colonists.” Unless and until Americans understand that Islam is most definitely NOT a religion like any other, the Muslim threat to America’s stability and sovereignty will continue unabated. Islam is doctrinally a binary, supremacist, expansionist, sociopolitical, replacement ideology with a religious wing. Its singular goal is to make the world Muslim in an Islamic totalitarian caliphate where the whole world will follow the Iranian model and be ruled by Islamic theocrats according to sharia law. Everything else is details. No business deals, no peace deals, no amount of money will change 1400 years of Islamic replacement ideology.
The most threatening element in today’s entire Islamic advance is that the globalist elite want Iranian hegemony in the Middle East. For globalists, it is Israel and the United States that are the two existential obstacles to establishing globalism’s own planetary Unistate. America’s anti-American, antisemitic Muslim/Marxist alliance represented by the radical leftist Democrat party is being funded and fomented by the globalist elite. And its escalating antisemitic, anti-Israel, anti-Netanyahu rhetoric is being marketed as “in America’s interest” by disingenuous men like J.D. Vance.
President Trump has lost his way and is now being played by the enemies of America. If the President does not return to the counsel of his America 1st leaders, Rubio and Hegseth, Trump ’47 will facilitate the collapse of America with his Western deals that are not considered binding deals in the Muslim world. History is a great teacher and history teaches us that the Middle East is replete with nations that were once Christian and are now Muslim because of the success of Muslim settler-colonists. Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and even Iran were once Christian nations. Whether by force or by fake deals, Islam’s unchanged goal for 1400 years is the Islamic caliphate, and the short-sighted, avaricious Kushner/Witkoff negotiating team is a gift to the enemies of America.
As many as 1 million may support Al Qaeda and ISIS.
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Hamas soldier storming Alumim in southern Israel during October 7 Massacre. Photo by CCTV footage: No human authorship – I24, Public Domain, Wikipedia
In 2024, 37% or 1 in 3 Muslims in America, told a Pew survey that they have a positive view of Hamas. In a new Pew survey, 44% or nearly 1 in 2 Muslims in the US now support Hamas.
Peloni: John Spencer provides a LONG list of actionable targets and strategies which have been left untapped while focusing on negotiation strategy with an enemy whose strategic strength has always been in negotiating its survival while evading all terms and commitments forced on it.
John Spencer | Jul 15, 2026
Bushehr, Iran, under attack on July 8, 2026. Screengrab via Youtube.
The war against Iran that began on February 28 was never designed as a regime-change campaign. Had the United States intended to overthrow the Islamic Republic, it would have applied vastly different forces and pursued Tehran’s political collapse from the opening hours. Operation Epic Fury, a regime-behavior change campaign, began with limited objectives:
Peloni: The fundamental failure of the solution being proposed in the Lebanon negotiations remains that it is dependent upon the Lebanese being a dependable partner, and it isn’t. It never has been, and it failed to be so just last January when it published falsified claims that they had already disarmed Hezbollah. The only benefit Israel is seeking in Lebanon is the permanent removal of Hezbollah, and the Lebanese can not be trusted to assure this end is maintained, and that is what the Americans are pressuring Israel to accept.
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Peloni: Having gained Trump’s support in this pivotal meeting wwith Trump in Washington, it now falls to PM al-Zaidi to prove his capacity to effect Washington’s will in Iraq is more than bluster. If he is able to isolate Iran’s control over Iran, it will be a sea change against the regional stature of the Mullahs. So we will see.
Iraq is already a kind of frontline between the US and Iran. After the US and Israel began strikes on Iran on February 28, the Iranians operationalized militias in Iraq.
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | JULY 14, 2026
PM Ali al-Zaidi. Screengrab via Youtube
Iraq’s Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi arrived in Washington on July 13 for a long-anticipated visit. The new prime minister is seeking to increase ties with the United States.
“It seemed to me that I could smell the fumes and the fire.”
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David Bergelson with son Lev. By user:Elisheva Kitrossky – Own work, CC BY 3.0, Wikipedia [Cropped]
“There is a day that falls in August when the Temple of Solomon was burned,” David Bergelson told a Soviet tribunal. “On this day all Jews fast for twenty-four hours, even the children. They go to the cemetery for an entire day and pray there ‘together with the dead.’ I was so immersed in that atmosphere of that temple being burned—people talked about it a great deal in the community—that when I was six or seven years old it seemed to me that I could smell the fumes and the fire.”
Peloni: Kahled Hassan exposes the test which took place in Sudan, and how Saudi Arabia failed that test. He also addresses the common interests being promoted by Egypt and Turkey.
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Peloni: Avi so well captures the context of what is taking place with the Haredi Draft Law debacle.
Avi Abelow | Meta
No, I’m not happy that most ultra-Orthodox young men do not serve in the IDF. I think it is clearly against the Torah, as service in the IDF is literally a milmechemet mitzvah, and it is morally wrong. I understand the deep concerns and cultural barriers that keep many Haredim from serving, but I am personally involved in initiatives working directly with the ultra-Orthodox community to help them overcome these challenges and serve in the IDF.
No, I also don’t support the recent laws that Haredi parties pushed through the coalition.
But I refuse to be swept up in the one-sided, anti-Haredi hysteria that dominates much of Israel’s media and public discourse.
Plenary session – European Council and Commission statements – Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20-21 June. Photo by © European Union 2019, European Parliament, Wikipedia
Officials in the United Kingdom said on July 14 that former British politician Ann Widdecombe was murdered in a “targeted attack” last week.
Counterterror police also said authorities continued to investigate the incident into the former member of Parliament’s death, the Associated Press (AP) reported. The 78-year-old former Conservative Party cabinet minister and Reform UK spokeswoman was found dead in her Devon home on July 9 with a bloody head wound. Officials suspect she was attacked and killed the day prior.
Peloni: In the wake of the recent reports regarding the intended plan in Iran that went awry, Michael Rubin revisits the warning previously raised by Harold Rhoades regarding any encouragement or support for the Iranian separatist groups such as the Kurds which contrasted with the views raised by Martin Sherman on this subject that we really do not have a great deal to lose. You can refresh yourselves on the policy debate regarding this matter HERE.
Magic Formulas Do Not Exist
Michael Rubin | MEF | July 14, 2026
Iranian Ethnic Groups. By Mapper 01 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia
When I worked as a Defense Department desk officer two decades ago, you could set a clock by it: Every few months, someone newly assigned to the Iran file, whether in the Joint Chiefs of Staff or the Central Intelligence Agency, would read somewhere that Iran was a multiethnic country and suggest supporting ethnic separatism in Iran to fragment the country.
Max Meizlish
Chabahar, Iran on the morning of July 15, 2026. Screengrab via Youtube.
The memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the United States and Iran was meant to secure a 60-day ceasefire.
Instead, the Islamic Republic has repeatedly attacked commercial vessels operating in or near the Strait of Hormuz and launched missiles and drones against sites used by the United States in multiple Arab countries.
Peloni: Acquiescing to Trump’s request would be a strategic mistake by Netanyahu and he would pay a huge political price for doing so. Notably, Netanyahu is attending a memorial for Sen. Graham next Tuesday and he is trying to arrange a meeting with Trump during that trip. So far, no meeting has been scheduled.
Despite pressure from US, Israeli defense officials remain suspicious of al-Sharaa government
All Israel News Staff | Published: July 15, 2026
IDF soldiers and a tank operate in southern Lebanon on March 21, 2026. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON’S UNIT)
U.S. President Donald Trump asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to remove Israeli troops from Lebanon and Syria in a recent phone call, Axios reports.
A Conversation with Joël Rubinfeld – Part III
by Grégoire Canlorbe • Gatestone Institute • July 15, 2026
“International law, a noble concept in itself, is today being perverted — serving as a shield for some of the worst executioners on the planet. Have the West’s useful idiots of the Islamic Republic of Iran already forgotten the tens of thousands of unarmed Iranian citizens massacred by their own horrific government in just two days, on January 8 and 9?” — Joël Rubinfeld. Pictured: Joël Rubinfeld. Screengrab via Youtube.
Peloni: Sima Shine, former head of research and evaluation at Mossad and Iran expert at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies, provides an important context for the lack of credibility surrounding the report that Ahmadinejad was an Israeli intelligence asset. Note further that Ahmadinejad turned up at a memorial service for Khamenei yesterday. As I noted before, there is a disinfo opp taking place here, the only question is whose disinfo opp it is. In any event, Shine provides further analysis on the issue of the Israeli plan to overthrow the regime, but more than this, she speaks to the recognition that devleoped in the aftermath of the 12 Day War that the real target in a war with Iran needs to be not the nuclear program, but the regime itself. She also addresses the Israeli polls and the coming election among other matters.
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