Peloni:  This course correction by the Netanyahu govt places Netanyahu directly at odds with Trump.  Was this the purpose in Trump making the startling suggestion that Netanyahu might not run for re-elction in the fall when he asked, ‘Does he want to continue?’  The implication in this statement seems pretty clear.

A Massive Israeli Strike Is Now More Likely

Jafaj.net | 2026-06-09

Israeli Air Force (IAF) F-35I Adir. By Source: William LewisDerivative: User:MathKnight – WikiCommons: File:230322-F-UT528-1038 – Red Flag-Nellis 23-2, 22-24 Mar, 2023.jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

1.JAFAJ has learned from an Israeli government source that U.S.-mediated talks with Lebanon aimed at reaching a ceasefire are not progressing, as the Israelis have given up hope that Hezbollah is serious. The source said Israel now believes Hezbollah was merely trying to buy time on behalf of its Iranian mentors.

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Peloni:  Anti-migrant protests broke out in Ireland after video of a Sudanese migrant trying to behead a man with a knife went viral.  Counter migrant protests followed shortly afterwards.  The victim of the barbaric attempted beheading suffered multiple stab wounds to the head and neck but is reported to have survived the attempted beheading due to the efforts of bystanders to beat the apparently gleeful savage off of him.  The graphic unedited video is at the bottom, but viewer discretion is advised for both the edited and unedited videos.

CBS News | X

Police in Northern Ireland say they have arrested a Sudanese man in his 30s for a brutal stabbing attack in Belfast late Monday night. Graphic video of the incident shows a man straddling another man lying in a street and slashing him several times in the head and neck with a knife. Eventually, a group of bystanders intervenes, hitting the attacker with a stick until police arrive.

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Peloni:  Take note of the fact that while Iran’s attacks targeting Israel’s northern communities and the American helicopter were both arbitrary in nature, the assaults being brought by both Israel and America are strategic and penalizing.  Israel targeted the Iranian oil infrastructure and Trump is targeting Iran’s gulf capabilities.  While Israel has been forced to halt their attack on Iran, Trump has now ordered at least three waves of attacks thus far on Iran’s Gulf assets which directly has a bearing on Iran’s ability to leverage its authority in enforcing its Gulf blockade.  Will Iran be capable of continuing its blockade after these attacks?  We will see.

Peloni:  It is interesting that President Trump is\n Planning a response to the Downing of an American black Hawk helicopter.\n But demanded that Israel  Should\nNot respond to the multiple waves of drone and missile attacks , which have been mounted against israel’s northern cities.  In any event, Trump certainly has his pick of targets to choose from, which include missiles and missile production sites, drone production sites, nuclear development facilities IRGC and Basij leaders and  command facilities as well as the energy grid and transportation systems which Trump threatened with destruction two months ago.  Yet when the focus remains on keeping oil prices low, it places many of these targets off-limits, which is why the war has ended without fulfilling the unconditional surrender which Trump has mentioned more than once.

Harry Liberman

Muslim Brotherhood Flag. Phaoto: Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

Jasem Aljuraid is a Kuwaiti investigative journalist, political analyst, and prominent dissident based in Canada. Formerly a Senior Vice President at the Kuwait Financial Centre (Markaz) and a writer for the Al-Qabas newspaper, he was forced into exile after facing death threats and legal persecution for his public advocacy of regional peace, normalization with Israel, and his vocal opposition to sectarian extremism. [1, 2]
Career and Exile

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Michel Benchimol

The double standard that singles out Israel, the religious core of Arab rejectionism, and whether Iran will become Trump’s Waterloo—with Israel as the price.

The question “Does Israel have a right to exist?” remains one of the most persistent and revealing in modern discourse.

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Peloni:  Actually, contrary to Vance’s assertion that the Obama deal with Iran simply didn’t have enough safeguards in place to make it enforceable, the truth is that the problem with the Obama deal with Iran was that it was brokered with Iran by an American president who was unwilling to go to war in response to any violations discovered in the deal.  While Trump has demonstrated his willingness to strike Iran, even for prolonged periods of time using a coordinated effort with Israel in doing so, Trump has simultaneously demonstrated a lack of political will to do more than threaten to Iran with taking steps needed to eliminate the regime entirely.  While the distinction between Trump’s and Obama’s policies on enforcement may appear sizeable, they each left the Iranian regime with the means by which to survive, and survival of the regime is all that Mullahs and the IRGC need to win.  And make no mistake about this fact, Iran sees itself as having won the war, as it will soon see that it has won the peace as well, specifically because the safeguards which Vance asserts will keep Iran in compliance with the coming deal do not carry with it the political will to end the Iranian regime when the deal fails to be fulfilled by the Mullahs.  Lacking the will to do what is needed to end the Iranian regime is what brought Trump to the negotiating table, and this is true of Obama as well, and this common motivation between the two different tracts of negotiations is what will see the Mullahs resurrect its nuclear ambitions in the future knowing that no matter what, the Americans lack the will to see any action thru to its completion as has been so well demonstrated by first Obama and now Trump.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

As I was finishing this analysis, I received additional news that President Trump was going to announce that he was about to achieve “total victory” which will solely serve American interests, and especially referred to bringing oil prices down and such.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-898796

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President Donald J. Trump participates in an bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. Photo by The White House from Washington, DC – President Trump Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Public Domain, Wikipedia

According to senior Israeli security analyst Kobi Michael, reports of tense phone calls between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding Iran were not genuine conflicts but a calculated strategic deception designed to mislead Tehran. According to Michael, the leaks depicting a deep rift were intended to create uncertainty within Iran’s leadership about whether the US and Israel would pursue diplomacy or military action.

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Peloni:  Alliances require a certain level of understanding between the partners which respects the needs and abilities of eachother which serves to both support and to continue the partnership.  A caveat to this is that public pronouncements of disrespect and daylight should be avoided at all costs.  Trump’s behavior since entering into his mad dash for a deal in the past two months has, for some reason, come to demonstrate a growing disrespect for the partnership between himself and Bibi.  Not only has this been made clear in public, but it appears that this being made public is more and more Trump’s earnest intent.  While Bibi and Trump have alternate political objectives, it is not entirely in Trump’s interest to denigrate his partnership with Israel as he is currently in negotiations with the Arabs and the Iranians.  Since Trump can hardly be unaware of any of this, it seems there is a greater game at play than the public pronouncements might indicate…maybe…

Arlene Kushner | June 8, 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. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)

It was roughly 6 AM this morning, and I was sitting in my safe space because of a Home Front alert warning of an incoming Iranian missile that might be headed to Jerusalem, when my daughter, who was sitting in her mamad (safe room) in Beit Shemesh, sent me a WhatsApp message:

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Peloni:  Is Hezbollah looking for a way out of its current plight as it is caught between being squeezed out the Israeli-Lebanese negotiations and being bombed into destruction by the IDF?  Notably, Iran’s response to Israel bombing Beirut was far from impressive by any standard, so did the impotence of this response lead Hezbollah to reassess its options?  Time will tell.

Jafaj.net | June 8, 2026

Peloni:  The consequence of interacting with terrorists is that those most intimately involved in conducting that interaction face the dilemma of having to choose between their complicity with terrorists and becoming an actual casualty of the process.  Treating terrorists as if they are honest partners in any negotiation defies reality, and the resulting willful ignorance is what makes a mockery of every ‘negotiated’ ceasefire which is also ‘enforced’ by the complicity of the UN’s representatives and agencies.  The corruption begins with the logical disconnect of ‘dealing’ with terrorists as if they were statesman, and it ends with the UNIFIL acting as Hezbollah’s watchman and protector in the same moment.  So, more than just addressing UNIFIL, the international preference to preserve terrorists is what truly needs to be reconsidered, and until such time as this is done, any group acting to safeguard a ‘peace’ with Hezbollah will become its toady, as has been the case with UNIFIL.  The implications of this reality has consequences for what is also being proposed in Gaza.

Rather than serving as a stabilizing element, 13,000-strong UNIFIL is operating as a hostile entity under the guise of international diplomacy.

Moshe Phillips | June 8, 2026

An independent international investigation is needed of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, more commonly known as UNIFIL. It simply cannot be allowed to continue in its role without expert oversight. This is not just a grave concern for Israel, but for Lebanon and Syria as well.

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Peloni:  This is very encouraging news.

Yehudit Katsover & Nadia Matar, co-chairs of the Sovereignty Movement | Ribonut.co.il | June 7, 2026

Against the backdrop of the crisis between the Haredi parties and the coalition, a new poll published ahead of the Sovereignty Movement conference that took place Thursday June 4th in Jerusalem, points to especially broad support among the Haredi public for a series of measures identified with the national camp.

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Peloni:  I think this article misses an important distinction between the policies of Trump and Obama, and I think it worth highlighting this distinction, because this distinction also separates Trump’s policies from those pro-Iranian influencers such as Carlson, Kelley & Owens.  Obama’s intention was to make Iran the regional hegemon, placing the influence of Iran above that of Israel, and Trump’s efforts to undo this is what gained the support of the Carlson, etc. podcasters to break with Trump.  While Trump has taken to push Israel into adopting a second seat to Trump’s peace efforts with Iran, such as they are, he is not promoting Iran as the dominant hegemon in the region.

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Peloni:  The story of Israel spying on America’s leaders is nonsensical in the extreme.  The US-Israel alliance is what is being attacked with this “leak”, and the alliance is well described in this following sentence from the report below:

“In recent decades, intelligence sharing between both countries has been so extensive that the standard view is that there would be no need to spy on what is already being voluntarily shared by both sides.”

By Christine Douglass-Williams | June 8, 2026

The Pentagon, David B. Gleason, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0

See this article which explains much about anonymous leaks: “When Cowardly Journalists Abuse Anonymous Sourcing.”

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Peloni:  Wow! It is important for democratic nations to grasp the importance of opposing antisemitism, not just because their Jewish community members are citizens and deserve the full protections of the local laws, but because the weaponization of Jew Hatred is a violation of democratic norms, and it stands as a foreboding warning for the wider non-Jewish communities of what is coming for them.  With this in mind, it is encouraging to see at least the people of Canada are responding with an ear to the assault on their values, institutions and people, even as their leadership acts quite to the contrary of this.

Organizers describe the 2026 event as the largest in the march’s history while police maintain a significant security presence amid counter-protests.

By: TheJ.ca Staff | TheJ.ca | June 7, 2026

Thousands of participants march through North York during Toronto’s 2026 Walk With Israel. Organizers estimated more than 60,000 people attended, making it the largest event in the walk’s history, while Toronto Police reported five arrests amid counter-protests. (Image: Supplied.)

More than 60,000 people took part in Toronto’s annual Walk With Israel on Sunday, according to organizers, making this year’s event the largest in the history of the longstanding pro-Israel march. The event proceeded under heavy security, with Toronto Police reporting five arrests during the day as participants and counter-protesters gathered along the route.

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Peloni

Feature image: Tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. Social media.

In an article by SIGNAL’s Carice Witte, “From Hormuz to Beijing: How war is recasting China’s green energy strategy – opinion”, she explains that the Iran war and Iran’s use of the vulnerability of the Strait of Hormuz highlighted the inherent risks of Beijing’s heavy reliance on imported oil and natural gas.

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