Update 2:  Coalition submits bill to dissolve Knesset and trigger elections within 5 months

Update: Likud attempts to control the terms of the dissolution of the govt.

Peloni:  The consequences of these developments have been threatening the stability of the Netanyahu govt since its formation, and can in fact presage serious reshaping of the political spectrum.  One thing is certain, though, the Left will pay the price which the Haredi parties are demanding so as to retake power, even if the Right wing govt does not.  Herein lies the truth of all this.

PM Netanyahu said to favor regular elections set to take place at the end of October

All Israel News Staff | Published: May 13, 2026

US Ambassador Mike Huckabee meets with Rabbi Dov Landau. Screenshot via Youtube

Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) leaders on Tuesday called to dissolve the Knesset and schedule slightly earlier elections, citing the coalition’s failure to legislate a new IDF draft law that would ensure broad exemptions from military service for yeshiva students.

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By Pamela Geller | May 13, 2026

President Trump upon landing in China. Screenshot via Youtube

It will be Trump’s second meeting with President Xi in the US president’s second term.  The first was on October 30 last year at the APEC summit in South Korea. This is the first state visit to China by a U.S. president since Trump’s 2017 meeting (White House).

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Peloni:  The degree to which the Western world specifically and earnestly turned its back on the Jews abandoned in the Shoah serves as an indictment of what the true meaning of liberalism means for Jews, and it should inform us as to the degree to which we might expect Western govts to react as Jews are now being openly targeted across the Western nations.  Indeed, it is remarkable that as we witness the slaughters such as took place at Bondi Beach, Golders Green and elsewhere, platitudes are being preferred in place of solutions to address the intentional spread of Islamic radicalism which is marking and marring the entire world on a growing basis, nearly by the day.  As was true in the 1940’s with Roosevelt, the hapless victims of the current campaign of Jew Hatred reshaping the West today could also have been saved, and yet, the future today for Jews around the Diaspora looks darker than ever.

by Rafael Medoff

One hundred years ago this week, the US government agreed to a new immigration procedure: the wives and unmarried children of clergymen and professors would be allowed to enter together with them, outside the restrictive quota system. The new policy could have later saved many Jews from the Holocaust. So why didn’t it?

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Avi Abelow | May 12, 2026

Today, the European Union decided to impose sanctions on Jews in Israel. They call them “violent settlers in the West Bank.”

Not surprisingly, the EU sanctions don’t impact any actual ‘violent settlers.’ Instead, they targeted law-abiding Jews and the organizations they run, all of them deeply involved in building and protecting Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.

Surprised?

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Peloni:  This is an important video in which insightful conclusions are drawn by Rabbi Pesach Wolikci based on Gen. Jack Keane’s recent comments and ironically the statements being announced by an Iranian propaganda outlet.  Victory for Iran requires only that the regime should survive, while victory for America, the West and Israel requires nothing less than regime change.  Half measures, no matter the successes claimed by pursuing such short sighted goals, will only preserve the threat which brought about the war to be handed to successive generations which will likely be less inclined to deal with it.  In short, delay in any form presages an Iranian victory, not its defeat.

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Peloni: Is this the coming reality, or is it something more akin to what was recently explained by IDSF’s Elie Pierpz.

US intelligence suggests Iran regained access to nearly 70% of missile launchers

All Israel News Staff | Published: May 12, 2026

U.S. President Donald Trump traveled to Beijing on Wednesday for talks without having reached an agreement to end the war with the Islamic Republic.

Despite a range of issues expected to be discussed between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, including trade and economic policy, Taiwan, and technology, the Iranian conflict is also expected to feature prominently.

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Peloni:  The war which was unleashed on October 7, 2023 was aimed at world Jewry, both those Jews inside Israel and those spread across the Diaspora.  During the course of these past nearly three years, we have all witnessed horrors which have caused us to seriously doubt the realities around us.  Of course, the source of stability in the Diaspora for Jews was always founded upon the equal application under the law, and while we Jews have been the target of the wave of antisemitism around the world, it has come at the cost of the application of democratic norms being cast aside in preference of the defense of radicalism and illiberality which if left unchecked will see the capitulation of any semblance of democracy values around the world with the isolation and targeting of Jews proving the long discussed metaphor of the Jews being the canary in the coalmine.  With the rapidly and nearly unopposed mobilization of violent antisemitic mobs around the world, the Golden Age of Jews, including in America where such a reality seemed impossible to contemplate, Jews have been placed under a state of siege, the ultimate cost of which are still yet to be decided.

European communities have been likely most affected with few having the capabilities with which to withstand such attacks.  In the believed to be enlightened and tolerant lands of Canada and Australia, the govts there have come to demonstrate a preference for defending Jew Hatred as something akin to a Human Right, even as Jews continue to be attacked with impunity and violence. American communities have greater capabilities than exist in these other nations due to their greater numbers as well as their successful local networking, so the open embrace and toleration for Jew Hatred there came as a greater shock.  Importantly, the thus far reluctance to ban the Muslim Brotherhood at the federal level looms large in grasping any rational for such tolerance of intolerance in what was once known to us all as the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.  Also, recent moves by Florida and Texas to support such bans still seem to be poorly enforced months after the state bans were first announced, with recent reports questioning if there is any real intent on seeing the Islamic radicals in America opposed at any level.  The image of antisemitic Squad in Congress alongside the antisemitic faux MAGA podcasters led by Tucker Carlson are both enforced by the recent election of an antisemitic NYC mayor where the largest concentration of Jews in America resides. And so, yes, as Steve Kramer asserts below, the tide is turning fast for Jewish communities, and faster for some than others.  We will see what success might be won for those communities in America from which the tide might be pushed back, but for many communities, such an outcome might seem as lost as the hope to see the Jewish communities across Arabia returned to their former state of existence and stability over the millennia.

by Steve Kramer 

I’m sitting comfortably in my apartment in Kfar Saba despite the fact that Israel has been at war against its enemies since October 7, 2023. The resilience of Israelis is well known and it is proven by the fact that our country still functions on a high level even in this period. The Israeli shekel is extremely strong, Israel’s stock market is outpacing the NYSE and Nasdaq, and innovative new companies continue to develop. While all this is happening, the toll on families, which include reservists in the IDF, are paying a high price, in deaths, injuries, and financial distress.

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Arlene Kushner | May 12, 2926

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) conducts U.S. blockade operations in the Arabian Sea, April 16, 2026. (Photo: US Centcom)

Weary but ever resilient, the people of Israel await the resolution of the war with Iran.

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By Pamela Geller | May 12, 2026

How Hamas was allowed to see another day defies all reason, all logic, all humanity.

Unimaginable savagery. Necessary that it is published in full to finally extinguish anit-Jewish, perverse doubts that remain over what happened that day.

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Peloni:  An important caveat to Sinan Ciddi’s insightful analysis below, Turkey’s interests in preserving such destabilizing factors as the regime in Iran adds to the value  of its Middle Corridor at the cost of the IMEC, and its continuing expansionist goals accentuate the basis by which it can force its dominance in this trade route competition without the need to accually compete.  For these reasons, and many others, the US Turkey strategy which promotes Turkey’s domineering role in the region deserves a serious reconsideration.

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

War has a way of redrawing maps – not just political ones, but commercial ones as well. The outbreak of conflict with Iran has disrupted longstanding trade arteries linking Asia to Europe, from Persian Gulf shipping lanes to overland routes through Iranian territory. Into that vacuum, Turkey has moved forward with a familiar pitch: It is the natural bridge between East and West.

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ASFI | May 12, 2026

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Americans For A Safe Israel Launches National Campus Initiative: “Students For A Safe Israel”

NEW YORK — May 12, 2026—Americans For A Safe Israel (AFSI), a leader in pro-Israel advocacy since 1970, is officially launching Students For A Safe Israel (SFSI). This nationwide program is designed to empower student leaders to become unapologetic voices for Israel’s security and territorial integrity at colleges across the country.

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Peloni:  Must read report.

Janet Levy:  Anti-Israel Conspiracies Are Being Used to Shield the Chinese Communist Party.

Clearly, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) benefits when the narrative portrays Israel, rather than China, as the primary threat to the U.S.

Just as all social media is manipulated by foreign and domestic bots, purchased likes and retweets, etc., the content on the “formerly” CCP-owned TikTok has been amplified or suppressed depending on whether it aligns with Beijing’s interests. The TikTok influence campaign is ultimately designed to delegitimize America.

The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) reports that pro-Israel hashtags on TikTok were underrepresented by a 6.2-to-1 ratio compared with Instagram.

A report from the Institute for National Security Studies found that Chinese cyber campaigns spread antisemitic messages to U.S. audiences, alleging Jewish and Israeli control of American politics, ahead of the 2024 election.

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Peloni:  The future of the UAE and its cooperation with Israel since signing the Abraham Accords, such as it has been, is understood to be as an existential threat by the Iranian regime, and it seems that the UAE, after spending significant effort over the past several years to ignore this fact, has finally come to realize the nature of the existential threat which Iran poses to its survival.  This is a very important development which should have been grasped by the Emeratis in the immediate aftermath of their joining the Abraham Accords.

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Avi Abelow | May 11, 2026

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Not enough people truly understand the power, influence, and devious agenda of the unelected officials in Israel who abuse their positions of authority. That is exactly why I am writing this series of articles, to expose how these individuals operate behind the scenes, manipulate democratic systems hand in hand with their ideological partners in the mainstream media, and undermine the will of the people.

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Peloni:  And so the campaign of blood libels and delegitimization continues once again atop the NYT.

NYT claims abuse is ‘standard operating procedure’ by soldiers, settlers, prison guards

All Israel News Staff | Published: May 12, 2026

Using exceptionally harsh language, Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Monday blasted a report by the New York Times (NYT) which alleged “a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence” against Palestinian prisoners, including children.

“Today, the [NYT] chose to publish one of the worst blood libels ever to appear in the modern press. In an unfathomable inversion of reality, and through an endless stream of baseless lies, propagandist Nicholas Kristof turns the victim into the accused,” the Foreign Ministry wrote on ?.

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