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Peloni: This adds to the report made several days ago by Mudar Zahran regarding Syria’s involvement in dismantling Hezbollah. Such coordination provides both important opportunities and worrisome concerns with regards tackling Hezbollah, a Shiite terror organization which stands as a common enemy to both Syria/Turkey and Israel. Ultimately, this will further add to Turkey’s regional influence, if not an outright expansion of its already too well expanded empire, while also earning it a greater threat and forward access towards Israel, something which should call to mind Erdogan’s so often repeated goal of conquering Israel.
Israel is weighing partial security coordination with Syria amid Lebanon’s failure to rein in Hezbollah, potentially overseeing southern Lebanon while Syria handles the north; the Syrian Hermon may be returned, with talks, direct or U.S.-mediated, seen as a last-resort option.
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) April 5, 2026
Hezbollah views Israel’s shift away from disarming the group as a strategic win, believing that the Israeli climbdown will benefit its survival and influence in Lebanon.
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN |
IDF soldiers and a tank operate in southern Lebanon on March 21, 2026. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON’S UNIT)
Hezbollah appears to be keenly listening to recent Israeli reports that indicate the IDF will not be able to disarm the Iranian-backed terrorist group.
These reports began circulating in the media on Friday and have continued to percolate.
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A candid and increasingly frustrated Arabic-language commentary by Khaled Hassan, a National Security & Foreign Policy Expert and Council Member of Israeli President’s Voice of the People Initiative, has been circulating in Egyptian political circles, and its message is as striking as it is revealing. Hassan — proud of his heritage, proud of his nation’s storied civilization — poses a deceptively simple question to the Egyptian government, its elites, and its people: What do Egyptians actually want?
Peloni: Natasha Hausdorff and Prof. Richard Susskind, the world’s most cited author on the future of legal services and a leading expert on the impact of AI on society, discusses both the challenges and opportunities which are available in the war on antisemitism with the the advancing developments and employment of artificial intelligence. He cautions that this is not a simple topic, and that this discussion should be understood to be more of an introduction rather than an encompassing review of the topic.
Peloni: Two C130s were lost during Sunday’s rescue of the second airman. See footage below the All Israel News article which shows the remains of these downed planes after US forces targeted them to prevent them falling into the hands of the Iranians.
Note additionally, the second plane that went down on Friday, an A-10 Warthog attack plane, was lost while coordinating with ongoing rescue attempts to secure the safe return of the two airmen from the downed F-15E.
Confirmed!!! We got him! Second Airman rescued!
This sounds like one hell of a battle. Evidently they knew where he was since he was first shot down but we had to fight our way to him.
‘Merica! pic.twitter.com/SPRfXKWLwT— ????Red White and True News???? (@RWTNews) April 5, 2026
Peloni: Bravo Rubio!
See additional information and photos in Peg Tierney’s report at bottom.
Barry Shaw, The View from Israel. April 4, 2026
Breaking News. The US authorities have arrested the niece of Qassem Soleimani (the former commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps) and her daughter, and revoked their green cards following an order from Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
They are facing deportation.
Peloni: As goes Turkey’s policy, so goes Jolani’s policy.
By | April 4, 2025
It is clearer by the day that Ahmed al-Sharaa is still an Islamic jihadi, and that his supporters know that and approve of it. So how long will Trump continue to support him?
Peloni: Is the attack on the vital B1 Bridge a demonstration of Washington’s growing frustration, or is it possibly a move away from potential regime change hopes for Iran and towards a possible break up of Iran?
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The Demonstration of U.S. and Israeli Military Superiority Has Not Yet Produced a Positive, Victorious Outcome from the Israeli and American Point of View
Jonathan Spyer | MEF | April 3, 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
The current round of fighting between Israel, the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran appears to have reached a stalemate. On the one hand, Iran is being pummelled by US and Israeli air power, against which it can mount no effective defense. At the same time, the demonstration of US and Israeli military superiority has not, until now at least, produced a positive, victorious outcome from the Israeli and American point of view.
Expel Turkey from the NATO alliance and bring in Cyprus and Israel as members.
Am Thinker | April 2, 2026
Map of the districts of Cyprus, named in English, with English annotations, and showing the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, United Kingdom Sovereign Base Areas, and United Nations buffer zone. Photo by Golbez – Own work (traced from public domain UN or CIA maps.), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia
“I’m so disappointed in NATO, because this was a test for NATO,” said President Trump on March 26 while speaking about the Iran war.
Peloni: Avi Abelow provides another critical description of the true nature behind the canard of ‘Settler Violence’. Instead of joining Israel’s enemies in voicing opposition the Hilltop Youth movement, Israel’s Chief of Staff and more recently its US Ambassador should be raising the facts shared in this video with Israel’s enemies and its friends. Doing so is key to dealing with the current willingness/eagerness of the current US administration, and possibly a future US administration, to revive long standing US support for the Two State Solution. The truth of these matters alone will serve Israel’s interests, so why is it that the head of the IDF and the head of its delegation to the US are fostering lies over reality?
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Peloni: As Iraqi Shia militia’s move to support Iran in the current war, the political crisis at home remains. The choice of a new leadership continues to stand as a political contest between America and Iran, with Iraq’s future weighing in the balance. Will the political deadlock be maintained or will a political coalition finally come to be formed. Both the political and military stability of Iraq stand in the shadow of Iran’s power projection, making the outcome of the current war significantly relevant to the Iraq’s ability to choose its own government. So, while Iran is still able to assemble its military arms in Yemen, Lebanon and Iraq, the coming vote will show us if Iran still maintains its leverage over the political process in Iraq, or if there has been a shift due to current events, making the April 11 vote a litmus test of Iranian power in Iraq. Was this relevant in Trump choosing a deadline of April 6 for Iran to agree to his terms?
Jafaj | April 1, 2026
Iraqi polling stations in the 2025 election. Screengrab via Youtube
EXECUTIVE SNAPSHOT
The Iraqi Council of Representatives is set to convene on April 11 to elect a president, marking the most credible attempt in months to break Iraq’s political deadlock.
Peloni: Notably, America’s traditional European partners have been dissembling themselves for sometime now, ignoring realities of defense while simultaneously calling for greater involvement in the Ukraine War. The current blunder of disregarding the threat from Iran, both the threat of its missile development as well as its threat over the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, reinforces Europe’s eagerness to maintain policies which are antithetical to their own interests. To what purpose might a military alliance serve when partnering with nations which consistently ignore its own vital interests, both in their own region, and in the Middle East. Furthermore, their attempts to block America dealing with the threats from China and Iran have demonstrated that Europe is not only ignoring their own security interests, but also leveraging their influence to force America to do the same.
| All Israel News | Published: April 3, 2026
President Donald Trump with leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council, May 14, 2025, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Photo by The White House – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia
During his two terms as president of the United States, Donald Trump made it clear to our long-time traditional allies in Europe that America would no longer do all the heavy lifting financially or otherwise. Now, with the military conflict with Iran continuing to rage on, the president is back at it again. He’s not happy with some of those so-called “friends” of America. Increasingly, the president is turning to Gulf states as trusted allies and partners. More on that in a moment.
by Uzay Bulut • Gatestone Institute • March 31, 2026
Following President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s December 2024 seizure of power in Syria, the jihadist regime’s persecution of religious minorities, including Christians, Druze and Alawites, has skyrocketed as the country undergoes a process of radical Islamization. Pictured: Mar Elyas Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus on June 22, 2025, after an attack by jihadists who murdered 25 Christians and wounded nearly 70 there during Sunday mass. Screengrab via Youtube
By David Daoud | April 3, 2026
The renewed Lebanon war between Israel and Hezbollah that began on March 2 is now over a month old, with little change in the overall picture or disposition of the main actors. However, Israeli officials have reframed initial publicly stated goals for the conflict away from an imminent disarmament of Hezbollah, signaling a more prolonged approach. Simultaneously, political disagreements over the conflict and Hezbollah’s status have arisen in Lebanon while Hezbollah has escalated its attacks against Israel and rhetoric.
