Peloni: Amb. Mike Huckabee talks with Batya Ungar-Sargon about Iran and Tucker Carlson’s bizarre claims of being mistreated in an Israeli airport.
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Peloni: The support of quiet Jihad in Britain persists and is growing ever deeper, in England, in France, in Germany and in the US. As the tolerance for such things as blasphemy laws and Sharia law, and Islamic courts become law of the land, sovereignty over the people is being co-opted, transferred and permanently transformed into that of captured people. And of course, this is the very purpose and goal of Jihad, ie CONQEST…
Paul Schnee: Can the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) explain why hundreds of people on British streets shouting, “Globalize the Intifada” and “From the River to the Sea!” should not be arrested and prosecuted for contributing to possible “public disorder”?
By Robert Spencer |
An ongoing controversy in Britain could do nothing less than change the course of that country’s history, and that of the entire world. It may be too late as it is; the U.K. has already taken a decisive step away from the principles of free speech that it played a dominant role in formulating and giving to the world. There is serious cause for doubt now about whether the Sceptered Isle will even survive as a free society.
Peloni: Are the American people simply looking for transparency and no accountability? I doubt it. Not a single conviction, not a single prosecution and not a single conviction. And Trump’s response is to release the UFO files? Many delays, many disappointments, and many question abound over the hesitancy to expose the criminal behavior behind the many topics, only some of which are cited by Benz below.
Anthony Iafrate | Associate Editor | Daily Caller |
Mike Benz speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) . Photo by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Mike Benz, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia
Former State Department official and investigative journalist Mike Benz warned time is running out for the Trump administration to expose government corruption before November’s midterm elections possibly hand Democrats congressional majorities.
Peloni: Important reflections by Sinan Ciddi, a senior fellow at FDD and director of the Turkey program, as he talks with EMET’ Sarah Stern about the expansionist policies of Turkey and its effect in Syria and the region as Erdogan pursues a power-driven strategy seeking to position Turkey as a ever increasingly dominant regional and potentially global actor amid the shifting Middle Eastern power dynamics.
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Peloni: Notably, PM Netanyahu recently stated that only 150km out of about 500km tunnels in Gaza had been destroyed, and as Christine Douglass-Williams explains the overall number of tunnels is increasing. This mission is very very far from complete.
By | Feb 22, 2026
Terror tunnels in Gaza. Photo by IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia
It’s obvious that powerful players are supporting Hamas; otherwise, it would not be able to rebuild its jihad terror tunnels so quickly in the face of sophisticated IDF efforts to dismantle them. So here’s the breakdown by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies:
Peloni: PM Netanyahu discuss India, second and third Israeli airports to come, accelerated expansion of AI server farms and Quantum computing, as well as alliances beyond that with the US. In what he describes as an hexagonal system of alliances, Netanyahu is proposing a transnational block which could operate in opposition to both the radical Sunni and radical Shia blocks.
PM Netanyahu’s Remarks at the Start of Today’s Government Meeting. Screengrab via X.
PM Netanyahu’s Remarks at the Start of Today’s Government Meeting
“We have a unique and, in my opinion, historic alliance with the United States, both nation-to-nation and through my personal relationship with President Trump. This alliance does not mean that we are not seeking additional alliances; on the contrary, we are cultivating them constantly.
Peloni: Must read article. EXPERTLY EXPLAINED
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman | VIN News | Feb 24, 2026
Ambassador Mike Huckabee. Screengrab via Youtube
When U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told Tucker Carlson last Friday that it would be “fine” if Israel “took it all” — referring to the vast biblical territory stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates — the Arab world erupted. Saudi Arabia called it “extremist rhetoric.” Egypt termed it a “blatant violation of international law.” The League of Arab States accused him of inflaming religious and national sentiments.
Update: Iran’s IRGC reportedly assumes command of Hezbollah as threat of US strike grows
Peloni: Under the reign of the Mullahs, Iran has acted like a plague spreading terror and mayhem across the entire Middle East, but perhaps nowhere were its effects so damaging and so permanent as in Lebanon where a majority Christian nation with an accepted Shia minority community was ethnically cleansed into a Shia majority nation with an oppressed Christian minority community. While people speak of the the threat of ethnic cleansing of Christians in Africa which is taking place today, and of ethnic cleansing of Christians by Israel which stands as an outright blood libel, they all easily ignore the transformation which came to persist in Lebanon as the Iranian controlled Hezbollah dominated, terrorized and transformed that nation. So long as the Mullahs remain in Iran, their despotic and menacing influence will remain in Lebanon, threatening and reducing the Christian community there, as is the practice of their Jihadi ethos.
Lebanon majority areas: 1980s vs 2020s. Image created via AI
Islamic Republic disappointed over Hezbollah’s failure to participate in 12-day war last year
Iran is pressuring Hezbollah to enter into any future conflict with Israel, according to a Ynet News report.
Peloni: It is important to note in Conrad Black’s article below, the division of the land between the two competing factions which he describes was in fact carried out by the British, even as they lacked the specific authority to do so, at the Cairo Conference of 1921 when they created the Emirate of Transjordan for exactly this purpose with the Jordan River as the border between the two territories. Additionally, the reason the Emirate of Transjordan, later to become the state of Transjordan as recognized in 1946, was named ‘Transjordan’ was specifically in reference to the boundary of that nation being the Jordan River, ie trans Jordan referenced the region on the far side of the Jordan river, as opposed to cis Jordan region (the near side of the Jordan River) which was appropriated for the Jewish homeland. This division was adopted by the League of Nations as the Two State Solution which has since been attempted over and over again under the same sense of duplicity and historical revisionism which led the state of Transjordan reinventing its name as Jordan in 1950 to try to erase the fact that its border had been set at the Jordan River.
The argument that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state is unspeakable nonsense
By | National Post | Feb 22, 2026
Israeli athletes at the Opening Ceremonies for the 2026 Winter Olympics. Screengrab via X.
There were two events in Canada last week which may, viewed optimistically, constitute a turning point in the shameful and distressing flirtation that this country is having with antisemitism. There is widespread anecdotal evidence of discrimination against Jewish applicants for many categories of work and entry to exclusive professional occupations, including doctors and teachers. Antisemitic incidents are far more numerous than the police can make any pretense to respond to and include unprecedented levels of violence, car theft, and petty harassment such as ripping Mezuzahs off door-frames. The two incidents included the turnout of over 350,000 people, mainly Muslims, in Toronto to demand regime change in Iran.
Peloni: At some point, Trump, conservatives, and the MAGA leadership/base will come to accept the truth that Tucker Carlson has moved from promoting what was Trump’s vision for America to promoting what was Obama’s vision for America. While many on the American Right refuse to do anything but support and endorse Carlson’s shift, including Megyn Kelly, Steve Bannon and others, the reality is that their lack of due diligence is promoting the very failed nation policies which they opposed when Obama and Biden were president. The consequence of such obsequious inspection of Carlson’s agenda by Trump and others is leading America on the same ill guided path drawn by Obama and Biden like a heard of sea lions marching over the side of a cliff. Trump’s attempt to deal with this matter surreptitiously has failed, most notably because he relied upon Carlson’s cooperation which was a mistake. Hopefully he has come to recognize that he needs to deal with this matter more directly, and as expeditiously as possible.
My Contacts With Tucker Carlson About Anti-Semitism on His Show
A few weeks ago, a mutual friend asked me if I’d be willing to speak to Tucker Carlson off the record. I agreed and Tucker called me three weeks ago to talk. I continued texting with him for eight days after that.…
— Yoram Hazony (@yhazony) February 21, 2026
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Peloni: Libels, half truths, and misdirections…
Note the final paragraph of the TOI article which includes the suggestion that some of Carlson’s statement were reminiscent of the far left in the US, which should be have come at the beginning of the column as it is the focus of Carlson to do what the far left can not, ie legitimize Jew Hatred in the eyes of Trump’s base, split Trump’s party and defeat Trump in the coming midterms while providing protective rhetoric to both Qatar and Iran.
Debate requires honest reporting and substantiated factual bases of what is discussed, which is why this debate with an cloaked Obama-lyte commentator should not have taken place, and why US conservatives should not continue providing Carlson a prominent position on the Right. Instead, they should recognize their opposition when they see it. Failing to do so only advances the demise of the America First agenda as the Iranian menace is left in place to become an even more radical and far more dangerous threat to America and the West than North Korea will ever be
In program including interview with Huckabee, right-wing commentator launches litany of unsubstantiated claims echoing antisemitic tropes, falsely says Herzog visited Epstein island
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In a program released Friday following his brief visit to Israel, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson claimed the Israeli government targeted his family, called the Jewish state “probably the most violent country on earth” and falsely said President Isaac Herzog had visited Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous island, apparently citing a fake AI-generated image that had circulated online.
Peloni: The possibility of any US strike to be used to push the Mullahs to agree to Trump’s terms rather than is a serious mistake would be a waste of good amunition which should instead be tarteted at bringing this Iranian regime to an end.
By | Feb 21, 2026
Donald Trump speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia
Those hoping for a massive attack on Iran to destroy what remains of its nuclear program, to devastate its store of 1,500-2,000 ballistic missiles, and to get Iran to agree to stop giving support to its proxies, the terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah, may well be disappointed. Though every other day President Donald Trump changes his mind as to what he may, or may not, do in Iran, at the moment, his aides have let it be understood that he is now planning a limited strike that would leave the supreme leader’s regime in place, but sufficiently chastened so that he will be more willing to accept American demands for a complete end to Iran’s nuclear program. More on Trump’s latest plan can be found here: “Trump says ‘considering’ limited strike on Iran to coax it into accepting deal on his terms,” Times of Israel, February 20, 2026:
By Arlene Bridges Samuels | CBN | Feb 19, 2026
Photo by Cole Keister on Unsplash
The world’s population now exceeds eight billion and continues to grow. In the Middle East alone, seventeen Arab nations account for more than 515 million people. By contrast, Israel has just reached a population of about ten million, including a Jewish majority of slightly more than seven million.
By Pamela Geller |
Iranian protests January 2026. Screengrab via Youtube
Tehran’s university students have poured out of their campuses and into the streets for the first time since the massacre — and what they are chanting marks a seismic shift. Long regarded as the most left-leaning demographic in Iran, students are no longer rallying around vague slogans like “death to the dictator.” Instead, massive crowds are openly denouncing leftism and chanting “Javid Shah,” signaling a dramatic ideological turn. This is not symbolic nuance — it is a profound evolution.
The Iranian supreme leader faces his biggest threat yet after more than three decades in power
Lee Keath & Rosie Slater | The Independent | Tuesday 13 January 2026
Ali Khamenei. Photo by Khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has spent more than three decades consolidating power by crushing internal threats.
But his leadership faces its most significant challenge yet as widespread protests against his leadership continue to grow across the country, with millions of Iranians taking to the streets to demand regime change.
Ontario Camps Association Calls Effort Discriminatory as Jewish Groups Raise Security Concerns.
TheJ.ca Staff | Feb 18, 2026
Campers gather at a Jewish overnight summer camp in Canada. Jewish community leaders and provincial camp associations have warned that coordinated anti-Israel campaigns targeting camp accreditation and visibility risk impacting youth institutions central to Jewish identity and communal life. (Image: TheJ.Ca.) [Resized]
A coalition of anti-Israel organizations is urging provincial camping associations to revoke or reconsider accreditation for at least 17 Jewish overnight summer camps across Canada, a move that Ontario’s main camp accreditor says relies on discriminatory rhetoric and risks undermining the welfare and safety of Jewish children.
Peloni: Why is Trump’s America First policy standing in line behind China?
by Gordon G. Chang • Gatestone Institute • February 20, 2026
The U.S. Department of Commerce has decided to allow American data centers to buy Chinese equipment, thereby permitting Beijing to steal as much as it wants and perhaps remotely control or take down these critical facilities. Commerce has also decided not to impose a ban on the U.S. operations of Chinese state-owned China Telecom. Photo by NANSZEIQ HAZEIW 500 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia
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Map showcasing the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine (Mandatory Palestine and the Emirate of Transjordan) in 1923. Photo by Shuaaa2 – Own work, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia
The Simple Truth: Jordan did not gain independence in 1946. It officially and legally remained part of the British Mandate for Palestine until the morning the Mandate ended on 15 May 1948. All Mandate laws and international conventions applied to it as part of the British Mandate for Palestine until the British departure, not as the regime claims that a “kingdom was established” in 1946.
Peloni: Trump emonstrating that there more than one way to get a job done.
Harold Hutchison Media Reporter | Daily Caller |
President Donald Trump announced Friday he was using different legal authorities to continue tariffs after the Supreme Court struck down his use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
