Peloni:  A federalized Syria with autonomous zones or a divided Syria with independent statelets are the only paths towards peace in Syria.

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Peloni: As the world waits to see what will materialize from Trump’s promise to the Iranians that help was coming, the internet access in Iran continues to be jammed.  If there are no more killings, and Iran has control over the country, why is it that no one outside of the Iranian curtain of silence is allowed to confirm this so called fact.

Regime confirms that planned execution was halted, no further hangings of protesters planned

All Israel News Staff | Published: January 15, 2026

Bodies of murdered protestors being loaded onto a truck.  Screengrab via X

Amid a flurry of reports suggesting that the broader Middle East is expecting U.S. strikes against the Iranian regime, U.S. President Donald Trump caused general confusion when he suggested that the regime’s bloody crackdown against the protesters had “stopped” on Wednesday evening.

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“President Trump is well aware that Tehran obliterated his red line like a nuclear site under a Beautiful B-2. He’s well aware how fragile the regime is right now. He’s well aware that Xi and Putin would look at this moment and wonder whether he got cold feet. So, we’ll see.”

– Richard Goldberg

Is this an Obama 2.0 redline moment or a smart Trump head fake? https://t.co/bJPdo4CYTk

— Mark Dubowitz (@mdubowitz) January 14, 2026

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Arlene Kushner | January 13, 2026

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The numbers of Iranian citizens who have been killed by the regime is horrifying. As communication coming out of Iran is erratic, it is impossible to confirm the statistics; from different sources I’m seeing somewhere between 6,000 and 20,000. Horrifying indeed.

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Peloni:  Why does every Red Line drawn by the US ultimately become a new line of negotiations after it is crossed.  Is victory the aim of the negotiations or is it actually the negotiations themselves that are the desired aim, so as to pretend that the outcome of the negotiations have not failed as the declared Red Lines are simply crossed over and new ones are chosen it their place.  Indeed, Phase 2 was to begin after the disarmament or destruction of Hamas as well as the complete return of the hostages.  Neither of these demands have been met, but US impatience has once again simply made new threats while ignoring past threats which failed to materialize, as if the new threats will be deemed more useful for anyone as Phase 2 is pushed forward with Phase 1 still incomplete in gross and significant ways.

Israeli groups decry transition to next phase without return of last Israeli hostage

All Israel News Staff | Published: January 14, 2026

Steve Witkoff (Photo By Unknown author – https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse45/videos/white-house-opioids-summit/1598737246880669/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=152740717)

White House Special Envoy Steve Witkoff on Wednesday announced the launch of the second phase of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza in a post on ?.

“Today, on behalf of President Trump, we are announcing the launch of Phase Two of the President’s 20-Point Plan to End the Gaza Conflict, moving from ceasefire to demilitarization, technocratic governance, and reconstruction,” Witkoff declared.

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Initial $2 billion in aid through UN will go to Ukraine, Syria and Haiti

Daniel Greenfield | Jan 13, 2025

United Nations General Assembly. Photo by Mojnsen – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

A few days before New Year’s Eve, when hardly anyone was paying attention, State Department officials visited Geneva and signed a $2 billion aid deal with the UN.

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Peloni:  It sounds as if Sisi is concerned he might be the next to be Maduroed

By: Steven Stalinsky, Ph.D., Rachel Legow, and R. Sosnow | MEMRI | January 12, 2025

President Donald Trump welcomes Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Monday, April 3, 2017, at the West Wing entrance of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

The abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in an American military operation on January 3, 2026 sparked harsh criticism in Egypt and expressions of concern over its implications for the world order. While the Egyptian Foreign Ministry sufficed with a laconic statement saying it remains in constant contact with Egypt’s embassy in Caracas to monitor the situation of Egyptians in Venezuela,[1] the Egyptian press and pro-regime state published numerous articles and cartoons condemning the operation and describing it as a “crime,” a “piratical act,” and a “dark chapter” in American history.

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By Martin Sherman

For decades leading up to the atrocities of October 23, the top echelons of the Israeli leadership have wildly misjudged the realities that prevailed in Gaza

Looking back over the last several decades, citizens of Israel will find much reason for grave concern over the aptitude of the country’s leadership. Indeed, almost all of those who held- and some who still hold—senior positions of national responsibility have raised ideas, which have either precipitated trauma and tragedy or, by mere good fortune, have not done so.

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Peloni:  The courage of the Iranian protests is unlike anything I can remember.  It calls to mind the image of Tank Man, the lone protestor who stood afront a column of Chinese tanks following the Tiananmen Square massacre, but Tank Man was but an individual whose courage exemplified the hopes of a nation in a desperate act of heroism.  Yet, today, there are millions of Tank Men who stand defenseless in the streets of Iran, and like the Tank Man from another generation, these millions are facing down another totalitarian regime armed with only their sheer will of defiance which cries out for support from the freedom loving world, not for sympathy, not for kind or inspiring words, but for action, for weapons, for a combined effort to free the Iranian people who have been consistently betrayed by Western silence and inaction for decades.  We live in revolutionary times, which means the actions we take, or those we fail to fulfill, will decide the path on which the future and the course of history will turn.  So the only question which bears comment on this topic is what kind of a world we want our children to face: one with a nuclear ambitious terror regime with anti-Western tentacles strangling the free world, or one which recognized the need to support the courage of a free people who are standing as a nation, with the same defenseless resolve which Tank Man demonstrated forty years ago.  Will the world simply applaud and ignore the demand for freedom by the Iranian people as what followed the demonstration of Tank Man in another age, or will we see the demand for freedom of an oppressed nation fulfilled with US and Western support which will free both Iran and America, and the Western world from living with the persistence of the ghoulish Mullahs maintaining control over the rogue nation of Iran.  Is it time for the Mullahs to fall, or will we simply look on as the millions of Iranians are disappeared from view as was the fate of Tank Man and his murdered comrades in Tiananmen Square.

Their Iranian civilians’ courage and resolve should be a wake-up call for freedom loving people everywhere

Douglas Altabef |  Jan 12, 2026

Anyone who professes a love for freedom and liberty must regard the current protests in Iran with a sense of awe.

How courageous are these people, knowing that they are up against an unabashedly brutal and repressive regime, which thinks nothing of wantonly killing their own people!

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A young Iranian who recently crossed into Turkey shared a message for the world, warning that the scale of killings by the Islamic regime is far greater than outsiders realize. “They’re shooting at people’s chests all the time,” he said. pic.twitter.com/z0yBCNkTp7

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) January 14, 2026

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Avi Abelow | X

The latest threat from the United Nations removes all remaining doubt about what the UN truly represents.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres just sent a menacing letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing Israel of violating international law for severing ties with UNRWA and seizing its assets.

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Michael Ordman | VGNI | Jan 11, 2026

In the 11th Jan 26 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• More Israelis now live in Gaza border communities than before Hamas invasion.
• Israel’s life-saving skin cancer treatment can now cure multiple myeloma.
• Israel boosts ties with Greece, Cyprus, Morocco, Chile, Honduras and Somaliland.
• Nvidia’s boss praised Israel for powering its global success.
• Israelis enjoy excellent employment prospects and inflation-beating salaries.
• Israeli basketball star enjoyed two major birthday presents.
• Grandchildren of US Ambassador to Israel discovered buried treasure. 

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Peloni: CBS is reporting minimum 12K protestors have been killed and that it could be as high as 20K dead. These reports come from IRGC tallies of the dead, not Western estimates.

Eyewitness account from an Iranian doctor, now safely out of the country, describes unbelievable brutality during the 2026 protests.

“I heard gunfire like never before,” the doctor said, describing the use of DShK heavy machine guns mounted on IRGC pickup trucks driving through…

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) January 12, 2026

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Peloni:  The following article provides an important context to Israel’s outreach to Somaliland.  Indeed, Israel’s recent recognition of Somaliland should be understood beyond its geopolitical and security relevance, with an understanding of the largely forgotten historical grasp of Somaliland’s deep and persistent Jewish past. Long before modern diplomacy, Jewish communities lived and traded while practicing their faith across the Somali Peninsula, particularly in key port cities such as Zeila and Berbera. Positioned along vital maritime and caravan routes linking East Africa, Arabia, and the Indian Ocean, Somaliland naturally attracted Jewish merchants, especially Adeni and Yemenite Jews, who played important roles in regional commerce.

Near Hargeisa, ancient cemeteries marked with Stars of David testify to an established Jewish presence, while Berbera once had a synagogue and a Jewish quarter known as “the alley of the Jews.” By the mid-20th century, nearly all of Somaliland’s Jews emigrated to Israel as part of broader Aliyah movements.

The article also highlights the marginalized Yibir tribe, widely believed in Somali tradition to be of Jewish origin, possibly preserving traces of ancient Jewish identity despite later conversion to Islam. Ultimately, the author contends that Israel’s recognition of Somaliland reconnects two peoples with intertwined histories, broadens understanding of Jewish diaspora in Africa, and underscores Somaliland’s long role as a crossroads of cultures and faiths.

By Michael Freund | Jewish World Review | Published January 12, 2026

Click on the following Link to Read Article

https://jewishworldreview.com/0126/somaliland_jews.php

Peloni:  The designation of the FTO brings with it legal ramifications for those supporting the group being targeted, while the SDGT faces economic isolation and comprehensive asset seizure.  The targeting of only some of the Muslim Brotherhood chapters will leave others, ie Turkey and Qatar, free to continue their corrupting practices worldwide, even as they are targeting the US public. The consequences to those who support the designated groups is that under the FTO, providing material support is a criminal offense in the US, while under the SDGT, it provides the ability of US sanctions being placed on those who provide support for the relative group in question.  There are immigration consequences for the designations as well, with the FTO being directly relevant due to the criminal nature of the designation, while the SDGT designation is useful but far less so.

It was a grave mistake to not ban the Muslim Brotherhood entirely.  They are using US institutions and protections to infiltrate and expand their control over US officials and organizations.  The constitution is not a suicide pact, unless it is allowed to be interpreted as one, and allowing the Muslim Brotherhood chapters which are most relevant in the US to go un-banned in the US is an example of exactly this.  See relevant article pinned at the top.

President Donald Trump’s administration has made good on its pledge to label three Middle Eastern branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations, imposing sanctions on them

By Associated Press | US News & World Report | Jan. 13, 2026

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President Donald Trump’s administration has made good on its pledge to label three Middle Eastern branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations, imposing sanctions on them and their members in a decision that could have implications for U.S. relationships with allies Qatar and Turkey.

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Peloni:  As reports of VP Vance, Mideast Envoy Witkoff, and the US influencer Qatar have all been pressing for Trump to show restraint and negotiate with the Mullahs in the face of the Iranian protestors being savagely murdered, Trump seems to have come to a tipping point…and he seems to be tipping away from negotiations…

See below Trump tweet for macabre screengrabs of bodies of protestors being uploaded on X

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Peloni:  What is needed when dealing with the likes of the Mullahs of Iran is not a negotiator, but an idealogue who has the moral compass to distinguish between good and evil.  This is not hyperbole, just as the images of bodies from the recent crackdown in Iran is not rhetoric.  Recall too that the bodies of these protestors are but a fraction of the thousands of American dead who met their untimely fate at the hand of the regime with which Witkoff is trying to now cut a deal.  From the Beirut barracks from 1982 to the barbarism of October 7, to the thousands of American soldiers butchered on the sands of Iraq, Iran has demonstrated their desire and capabilities of exacting a high price upon the American people, a price which should not be negotiated into allowing that price to continue to increase, but should in fact create a certain demand that the regime responsible for that butchers bill should be ended at the first opportunity…and the protest movement in Iran today presents Trump with just such an opportunity.

Witkoff is Negotiating with Iran’s Mullahcracy

Stephen Bryen | Weapons & Strategy | Jan 13, 2026