by Amin Sharifi  |  Gatestone Institute  | July 9, 2025

Iran’s suspension of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is not a turning point. It is business as usual. Tehran’s decades-long strategy — deny, delay, deceive — continues, and the West still refuses to call it for what it is: a slow-motion march toward nuclear capability. Pictured: HE Mr. Reza Najafi, Resident Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the IAEA, chats with IAEA Spokesperson Fredrik Dahl at the IAEA 1762nd Board of Governors meeting held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 9 June 2025 (Photo by IAEA Imagebank – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia)

• Iran’s suspension of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is not a turning point. It is business as usual. Tehran’s decades-long strategy — deny, delay, deceive — continues, and the West still refuses to call it for what it is: a slow-motion march toward nuclear capability…. It has never stopped.

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Peloni:  To be honest, I wrongly expected the bromance between Trump and Musk to fall apart much sooner than it did, but I was correct in expecting the zero sum nature consequences of the world’s greatest break-up.  As Musk continues to run off the rails, his threat of raising a spoiler event, in the form of a third party so similar to MAGA that it is indistinguishable, provides a real potential of revitalizing the far more destructive and far more radical part of Washington’s Uniparty which was just unseated in the last election.

Who’s right?

by Robert Spencer | July 10, 2025

Image by Mike Goad – Flickr, CC0, Wikipedia

When President Donald Trump was asked on Monday about what he thought of Elon Musk’s new plan to launch a third party, he was characteristically forthright: “I think it’s ridiculous to start a third party,” Trump said. “We have a tremendous success with the Republican Party. The Democrats have lost their way, but it’s always been a two-party system, and I think starting a third party just adds to confusion. It really seems to have been developed for two parties. Third parties have never worked. So he can have fun with it, but I think it’s ridiculous.”

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In general, Westerners are taught to be kind, self-assured, self-responsible and tolerant of others, while Muslims are taught to be aggressive, insecure and intolerant.

Ron Jager | Jul 10, 2025

When observing the daily demonstrations by Muslims and their radicalized supporters on the campuses and streets of America, I never cease to be amazed by the primal rage, overt hatred, and endless blaming of Jews they displayed. One cannot escape the question: why are Muslims so easily offended? When I see and hear these voices of hostility, I am reminded of the classic novel “Moby Dick” authored by Herman Melville

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Peloni:  The psychopathic resolve of the media, the UN, and the “humanitarian” organizations” to support Hamas has never been made so clear.

What the war on the Gaza Humanitarian Fund is really about.

By Daniel Greenfield

Amnesty International, Greenpeace and Code Pink signed a petition demanding that the Gaza Humanitarian Fund stop handing out food to Gaza’s Arab Muslim settlers. The Center for Constitutional Rights, a Communist-founded group which on Oct 7, declared that it “stands in solidarity” in response to “Palestinian armed resistance”, demanded that GHF “cease” handing out millions of free meals to Muslims or face charges of “genocide” and “war crimes”.

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Peloni:  Netanyahu discusses the “Pivot of History, highlighting Israel’s economic endurance during the war, innovating with AI, and US partnership.  He also dismisses the future threat of antisemitism in the US as being manufactured

Peloni:  Now do the Muslim Brotherhood.

FDD | July 10, 2025

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese.  (Photo by Esquerda.net – Encontro com relatora especial da ONU, Francesca Albanese – Out.24, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia)

Latest Developments

• ‘Action Against U.S. and Israeli Officials, Companies and Executives’: The United States sanctioned Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for the “Occupied Palestinian Territories,” for her efforts to “prompt the International Criminal Court (ICC) action against U.S. and Israeli officials, companies and executives,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced. “Albanese has spewed unabashed antisemitism, expressed support for terrorism, and open contempt for the United States, Israel, and the West,” Rubio emphasized, adding on X that “Albanese’s campaign of political and economic warfare against the United States and Israel will no longer be tolerated.”

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By Victor Sharpe

Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar of the Sovereignty Movement speak at the Jerusalem Conference 2018. By Ben Nahum – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia 

“Every member of the Jewish and Christian faiths should know and preach these timeless facts.” 

The regions of Judea, Samaria known from profound Biblical significance as the heartland of ancient Israel  (but known falsely as the so-called Arab West Bank) are territories which are woven into the fabric of Jewish history and religious identity, representing the cradle of Jewish civilization.

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Reciprocal procurement deals drive economic growth, bolster SMEs, and expand Israel’s global industrial partnerships.

Israfan | July 9, 2025

By Itzike – Itzik Edri – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia

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Avi Abelow

While most eyes are fixed on the war in Gaza, few realize that the real battle for Israel’s future is being fought by Netanyahu and Trump in the shadows, and this may be the most explosive story you haven’t heard.

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s latest trip to Washington, his third this year and second meeting with President Donald Trump on this trip itself, sparked intense speculation: Was it about Gaza? Iran? A future regional deal?

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Peloni:  Egyptian born, British national security expert Khaled Hassan provides an important context of the realigning shifts among the Arab states in the wake of Iran’s power decimation, American regional withdrawal, and growing Jihadi radicalism.   He also provides a description of the rampant antisemitism in Egypt as well as how it relates to the generations long held fiction which tells of the Egyptians victory over Israel in the Yom Kippur war, and how this is impacting Egyptian society and geopolitics to this day.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | July 9, 2025

Image by Abw200 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

After Israel’s twelve-day war with Iran, the Iranians — humiliated by the amount of information the Israelis had acquired about their country that allowed them to assassinate leading military men and nuclear scientists, and to attack nuclear sites that had been kept top secret, such as the facility at Parchin, the Iranians began to flail about. In a fury, they rounded up hundreds of those they called Israeli spies, but there is reason to believe that their hysteria misled them, and the real spies are still methodically plying their trade inside Iran, while those picked up, the Iranians to their chagrin will discover, turn out to be innocent after all.

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Peloni:  The degree of silence from the US over Iran’s missile program is deafening, and highly misguided.

by Eric R. Mandel | July 5, 2025

Shahin missiles.  (Photo by Vahid Reza Alaei – Farsnews.ir, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia)

Did you know that 10,000 ballistic missiles — each carrying one to two tons of explosives — could cause as much, or even more, devastation than a Hiroshima-style atomic bomb?

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Peloni:  These attacks on Jews and Jewish property is becoming more and more routine in Australia…and elsewhere.

By Robert Spencer | July 9, 2025

All over the world, violent attacks on Jews are proliferating, and the perpetrators persist in thinking they occupy the moral high ground.

“Man charged with setting fire to Melbourne synagogue as police probe terror motive,” Times of Israel, July 6, 2025:

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Peloni:  It is scandalous that Israel continues to be restrained from victory in this war while being forced to feed, fuel and thereby fund the butchers of October 7 who should have long ago been eliminated.  As Avi explains, madness is guiding Israeli along a policy of pulling punches and needlessly sacrificing more and more IDF soldiers on the same ground previously won and previously evacuated.

Peloni:  Immediately before watching the Carlson interview with Iran’s president, people should rewatch his interview with Sen. Ted Cruz, or watch the near decade old interview which Carlson had with John Bolton.  Hard questions were seemingly the entire point of Carlson’s interviews with Bolton and Cruz, with the latter interview being just a few weeks old.  Yet in the time since then, he seems to have lost his appetite for hard question in an interview which lacks any commentary or questioning over the Iranian govt’s many atrocities against Israelis, Iranians and particularly Americans.  Shame on Tucker Carlson…again.

By Janet Levy | Am Thinker | July 9, 2025

Few people—even diligent media followers—are likely to speak knowledgably about the Bank of International Settlements (BIS). Yet, hidden in plain sight in a 20-story tower (with four more stories below ground level) in Basel, the BIS influences the leaders of the world’s top central banks and controls the global economy. Moreover, it cannot be questioned or held accountable for any of its actions. In his 2013 book Tower of Basel, Adam LeBor, a former reporter for The Economist and author of thoroughly researched works such as Hitler’s Secret Bankers, The Last Days of Budapest, and City of Oranges, analyzes the bank’s history to explain how it gained unlimited power.

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Peloni:  Michael Snyder examines what can only be described as incompetence at the minimum, and suspected complicity at the worse, which will forever surround the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein case.  As the promise of “all will be revealed” wass meekly replaced with the proposed guarantee that there was nothing relevant to discuss, with the routine attempt to bury this change of concept regarding Epstein, his co-conspirators, the evidence of his guilt and his already divulged connection to the intelligence world, as this drastic change of narrative was made over the July 4 holiday.  Indeed, if the claim that celebrated notoriety of the Epstein case was just a fiction, a solemn and thorough disclosure of the facts needed to be produced to the public in such a way as to merit the value already assessed to the charges by both Trump administration officials such as AG Bondi, as well as by the American public in general.  Notably, Trump voiced some reluctance about declassifying the Epstein files about a year ago, but Bondi in particular provided a foreboding commentary regarding the importance of the Epstein revelations, already having turned the re-release of previously revealed documents into a media circus.  Promises made deserve to be kept, and when expectations fail to materialize, it heightens, rather than eliminates, the need to highlight the change of narrative, and more importantly, a full, rather than dismissive, explanation for why those changes took place.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Reports have surfaced in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere that a significant number of Hebron’s most prominent sheikhs have proposed to leave the blood soaked Fatah’s PLO/Palestinian Authority and join the Abraham Accords in Judaea and Samaria.

The latter were not renamed “West Bank” until Transjordan illegally snatched the lands west of the Jordan River after invading a nascent Israel in May 1948. Question: Was Yehoshua/Jesus born in Bethlehem of Judaea or Bethlehem of the “West Bank?” Check out the New Testament’s Gospels for an answer.

Hamas was created in 1987, and its raison d’etre’s charter calls for the total obliteration of the sole, minuscule, resurrected nation of the Jewish People, which emerged on about 14% of the original April 25, 1920 Mandate of Palestine after what is now Jordan was gifted with almost 80 % of the total area in 1922.

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Peloni:  The incident of Trump, the most pro-Israel and greatest friend the Jews have ever had in the White House to date, using an well known antisemtic trope, calls to mind the recent article by Jonathan Feldstein, Elon Musk, the Holocaust, and Antisemitism, in which he explains that situations such as Trump’s Shylock comment offer an important “learning opportunity and something from which positive things could come out”.

by Rafael Medoff

Italian actor Franco Branciaroli as Shylock.  (Photo by ArezzoTV, CC BY 3.0, Wikipedia)

President Donald Trump says he did not know that the term “Shylock” has antisemitic connotations, when he used it in a recent comment about unscrupulous bankers. Then-Vice President Joe Biden said essentially the same thing when he called predatory bankers “Shylocks” back in 2014. Should we believe them? Does it matter?

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