Peloni: Rabbi Pesach Wolicki makes the argument that the reason that Iran is hitting Kuwait so hard is to try to have them abandon their ties with Washington. As the least US aligned Gulf nation, this would be a reasonable expectation for Iran to make, but Rabbi Wolicki suggests that Iran may have pushed Kuwait further towards the West than away from it.
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Peloni: There is no calculable advantage for either America or Israel to provide any support of linkage between Lebanon and Iran, and it also greatly disrespects the notion that Lebanon has any agency of its own, which would be the so-called peace negotiations currently ongoing between Israel and Lebanon.
Israel must have full freedom of action to act to prevent attacks from Hezbollah against Israeli forces and citizens, and this should not be restricted from targeting Hezbollah’s command and control centers in Beirut.
Hezbollah says it ‘will not accept partial ceasefire,’ as rocket and drone attacks continue
| Published: June 3, 2026
Screengrab via Youtube
Israel and Lebanon held a fresh round of talks in Washington in an attempt to achieve an end to the fighting in Lebanon and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the country.
Peloni: The incessant attacks from Iran and its proxies are intolerable for Israel and the Arab states to have to endure.
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Peloni: Trump’s comments about Netanyahu and Lebanon did nothing more than to advantage those who would prefer to see the US-Israel alliance dismantled, and that is very unfortunate.
Iran is little more than a depleted skeleton of a state without a functional leadership. And at that moment, Trump obsessively wants to agree to a deal that lifts sanctions on the regime, unfreezes its assets, and allows oil sales, playing negotiation games with a cheater he can never beat.
President Donald J. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stop to talk with reporters Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, along the West Wing Colonnade of the White House prior to their meeting in the Oval Office. By The White House from Washington, DC – President Trump Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Public Domain, Wikipedia
This brilliant phrase, attributed to Winston Churchill, perfectly describes Trump’s impending deal with Iran. Victory seemed closer than ever. Following the strikes first in June last year and then in March of this year, the Iran lay in ruins: military infrastructure was destroyed; the IRGC’s top command was eliminated; the Supreme Leader was killed; Iran lost two-thirds of its missile and drone production capacity, hundreds of launchers and 250 air defense systems; damage to the economy reached $140-150 billion; major factories, power plants and bridges were destroyed; more than 85% of Iran’s petrochemical exports were disabled.
This dystopia is closer than you think.
Janet Levy | Am Thinker | June 3, 2026
During the Biden administration, there was extensive discussion of the Great Reset. The avowed aim of the Great Reset — also known as Agenda 21, Agenda 2030, or Sustainable Development — was to foster public-private cooperation to solve the world’s most pressing challenges: environmental protection, global health, and bridging the gap between developed and developing nations and groups.
Peloni: Interestingly, I have always linked the point raised in this essay as being the foundation for Ben Franklin supposedly having stated “A Republic, if you can keep it” when quizzed about the form of the new American nation. The will of the people can be misguided and shifting, and this makes the possibility of consistent national policies somewhat questionable if not impossible.
Of course, the Republican form of govt has served the Americans well up to recently, and I would argue that much of the recent insanity in America has to do with the inability of the American govt to exercise agency over its own borders, governing administrations, and education. The failure of the Fourth Estate has accentuated much of these failures in American governance, and the consequence of this is that the too many people are not just ill informed, but rather they are purposefully misinformed. The nuance between these facets is significant, and the willful move to misalign public sentiment at the behest of malevolent foreign actors such as China, Qatar and Turkey is having the desired effect of this foreign cabal to weaponize the the inherent vulnerability of democracies against the national interest. Recalling that freedom isn’t free, and without the heavy lifting by the world’s democracies to reaffirm their national agency and sovereign obligations, freedom will continue to be diminished from many aspects, but none so dangerous and crippling I would argue than from the loss of journalistic standards which should be shining the light on foreign influence and political corruption, rather than playing a role of complicity in these matters.
Linda Goudsmit: I am an American with an American perspective. Even if every single item listed in this excellent analysis is true, there is one glaring void in the article. The entire list is intentional––it is planned demolition. Until the public understands that every item listed has been advanced deliberately to collapse America from within, we the people will not be able to defeat the enemies of freedom who are advancing the policies and protocols to destroy the nation-state. And who are our enemies? The globalist elite who fund and foment the escalating destructiveness of their useful idiots: the red/green Marxist/Muslim axis, the radical leftist Democrat party that supports them, and the greedy RINOS (republicans in name only) who vote with them.
Peloni: Bravo Jonathan Feldstein! With the booming of the IAF overhead, Jonathan provides the clarity and operational awareness needed to address both feel and achievement of victory in Lebanon and beyond. Political realities are the direct result of practiced statecraft, and to the degree that such diplomatic efforts are exercised with practiced skill and effective care, these realities will be realized as victory or defeat. Notably, as an existential threat lies on the northern border as well as in the rumped remnant of Hamistan in the south, not to mention the nerve center of both of these still operating out of Tehran, victory can only be understood to incorporate a maximum effect of utter devastation and defeat of these forces. Unfortunately, the mood projected from Washington is demonstrating a sharp preference to choose a moderating approach which preserve these vehicles of desecration and destruction, for both Israel and America. As Jonathan explains so well below, it is better to eliminate these threats than to pretend that threat management thru forward positions would be the better path. When dealing with existential threats, anything less than total victory should be understood to be a total defeat, no matter the tactical victories achieved or the terrible costs indured.
Jonathan Feldstein
Beaufort Castle. IDF Spokesman’s Unit
A twelfth-century Crusader fortress in southern Lebanon teaches a lesson that Washington keeps refusing to learn: ceasefires are not a strategy, and walking away from the battlefield only guarantees the next generation will have to return to it.
Peloni: Avi Abelow addresses the Deep State effort to block PM Netanyahu’s recent appointment of Roman Gofman to be the next leader of the Mossad.
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Arlene Kushner | June 2, 2026
Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf. By Seyed Shahabbodin, Vajedi – Akkasemosalman.ir, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia Wikipedia
This is all so very wearisome. And confusing. And ultimately significant.
Peloni: Yifa Segal, founder of International Legal Forum and an expert in international law and international relations, provides some insightful proposals and observations as to the how Israel might advance its national interests, while also providing an important context to the limitations associated with having already been outflanked by its enemies in various and significant ways. She notes that it is important to both focus on what might be useful, while noting that realities which already exist provide measurable constraints on what is actually achievable.
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by Gerald A. Honigman
https://unitedwithisrael.org/trump-fumes-at-netanyahu-over-planned-beirut-strikes/
I reluctantly voted for The Donald as a NPA Independent—both times.
He did have a very good first term regarding his foreign policy decisions—for the most part. Abraham Accords; recognition of Jerusalem as the 3,000
year old capital of Israel and moving America’s embassy there; recognition of the Golan Heights as part of sovereign Israel (was included as part of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine, and was Biblical Bashan); defunded terror supporting UN organizations; cut off the mullahs’s oil revenues; improved the American economy and rebuilt its military; and so forth.
Peloni: The reality is that the Iranian regime will not surrender, and will never surrender. To force the regime from power, as indicated in the often raised analogy to the Nazis in WWII, Trump would need to commit a ground force to eliminate the regime in Tehran, as was done with the Nazi regime in 1945 Germany. Of course, Trump could have used the Kurds, but instead chose to once again abandon such strategies which conflict with Turkey’s interests. This leaves no such available capable armed force in the region to force the Iranian regime from power, and Trump was never going to use American warfighters in Iran despite his hyperbole and threats. The Iranians know this, and so they persist. Hence victory was always going to be ceded to the Iranians. Trump’s blockade has the means to cripple the Iranians financially, but even as we speak, China and Pakistan are moving to improve the overland transit of oil from Iran to keep China’s Iranian pawn in the Middle East fed with cash, if not also with arms aplenty to use against either the Iranians or the Americans & Israelis if war returns.
The president turns on his ally to attain a false peace.
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President Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Monday, July 7, 2025, at the South Portico of the White House.(Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)
Trump himself announced the betrayal on Monday:
I had a conversation with Bibi Netanyahu today, asking him not to go into a major raid of Beirut, Lebanon. He turned his Troops around. Thank you Bibi! I also had a conversation with Representatives of the Leaders of Hezbollah, and they agreed to stop shooting at Israel, and its soldiers. Likewise, Israel agreed to stop shooting at them. Let’s see how long that lasts — Hopefully it will be for ETERNITY! President DONALD J. TRUMP
By Jalal Tagreeb
Despite the landmark 1994 Wadi Araba Peace Treaty between Jordan and Israel, which formally ended decades of hostility and promised a new era of cooperation and mutual respect, the country’s educational system has failed to reflect this peaceful accord. For over three decades, the Hashemite Kingdom’s textbooks have remained a reservoir of antisemitic incitement, a direct legacy of the pervasive influence of the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliated Islamic Action Front (IAF) on the nation’s pedagogy. This analysis examines how a network of Brotherhood-dominated unions and a government stance of appeasement have poisoned children’s education, ensuring that the peace treaty remains an empty promise on the ground.
Peloni: Dr. David Wurmser addresses the America First policy as it relates to Israel and the Iran War.
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Peloni: Expanding Barrack’s role in the region, across nearly the entire region, espouses the notion that his efforts in either stabilizing Syria or instituting peace along Lebanon’s border were successful. The reality is that the Druze continue to live under constant threat in Syria, and Israelis continue to be murdered with impunity along Israel’s northern border, and both of these very real realities are a consequence of Barrack’s pro-Turkey approach. In fact, it seems that Trump is disposed to keeping key actors in his govt busy by expanding their roles as we have seen with Rubio and most recently with FHFA Director Bill Pulte being named to now also be Trump’s new DNI, but as the role being played by Amb. Barrack expands, it seems destined to be accompanied by the influence of Turkey over the region, and the implications of this are pregnant with disastrous effects for the future.
US Envoy Tom Barrack has played a key role in US policy in the Middle East over the past year. He was appointed Special Envoy to Syria last year. He is also the US Ambassador to Turkey.
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | JUNE 1, 2026
Ambassador Tom Barrack and President Recep Erdogan. Image via AI
Sarah N. Stern | June 2, 2026
Antonio Guterres at COP30 in Belem (Nov 20, 2025). By Xuthoria – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia
Misleading claims about Israel frequently circulate at the United Nations. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, consists of 57 member states and aims to represent the voice of the Muslim world.
Peloni: Is thru the courage and strength exemplified by Katie Hopkins from which the struggle to save the West might ultimately be won. Her resilience, and unbowed refusal concede to the threats wrapping around her stands as a rare mark of defiance which we should all ascribe to emulate.
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Victor Satya | TOI Blogs | May 30, 2026
Hamas terrorists carry to the Red Cross one of four coffins said to hold a body of a slain Israeli hostage, in the southern Gaza Strip’s Khan Younis, February 20, 2025. Screengrab via Youtube.
There is a peculiar rule governing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Nobody wrote it down. Nobody voted on it. Yet journalists, activists, diplomats, academics, and social media commentators appear to know it by heart.
Update: Amit Segal reports the US agrees with strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs if Hezbollah continues to targets Israeli towns and villages. Addionally, Segal reports that the White House has denied the derogatory comments reportedly made by Trump regarding Netanyahu and Israel.
Peloni: Prof. Kobi Michael, Senior Researcher at the Institute of National Security Studies and the Misgav institute, reviews the actions taken by the US to countermand Israel’s announced attack on Beirut. Trump’s preference to reaffirm his linkage of the war in Lebanon to his negotiations with Iran diminishes Israel’s position in the region, reinforces the subjugation of Lebanon under Iran’s suzerainty, and strengthens Iran’s regional and international outlook rather than diminishing it. While the nature between the US and Israel is not that of equal powers, it is not in Washington’s interest to treat Israel with the lack of respect and influence which is inherently due to its partner in this war.
Furthermore, while Washington announced a ceasefire, this ceasefire was no more accurately termed as such than was the original ceasefire Trump imposed upon Israel on April 16, stating “Israel will not be bombing Lebanon any longer. They are PROHIBITED from doing so by the U.S.A. Enough is enough!!!”
