Peloni:  As the brilliant philosopher and author, Yoram Hazony, recently noted, there has never been a Purim such as we have recently had.  The death of the modern day Haman alongside traditional celebrations being held underground, if at all, mark these distinctions as we can only hope and pray to see modern day miracles continue to be revealed in our favor in the coming reshaping of the region.

by Steve Kramer

Tapestry showing the story of Ahasuerus and Esther. The tapestry was donated by Adolf von Wylich in 1574. It was made in Wesel. By Ad Mesken© Ad Meskens – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

The story of Purim in the Scroll of Ester takes place about 2,400 years ago. At that time the Persian Empire was the greatest empire in the world, comprising 127 provinces from India to Europe and Africa.  It was ruled by the Persian Emperor, Xerxes the Great, aka King Ahasuerus. Ahasuerus holds a significant place in Jewish history because of his role in the Purim story. Queen Ester’s entrapment of the evil Haman, the king’s prime minister, was a dangerous but necessary act to save the Jews from destruction. The king rewards the queen by allowing his Jewish subjects to defeat their enemies who had been preparing to slaughter them. The villain of the story is Haman, who ends up being hanged along with his 10 sons. Queen Ester and her cousin Mordechai are the heroes of Purim.

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Iran reportedly picks a brutal hardliner as the new supreme leader.

by Robert Spencer | Mar 5, 2026

Mojtaba Khamenei. By Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

The first attempt the surviving rulers of the Islamic Republic of Iran made to replace their fallen supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, didn’t quite go as planned. Fox News reported Tuesday that “Israeli forces struck an Iranian Supreme Council gathering on Tuesday as the group was meeting to choose a successor to the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.” According to Fox News’ Trey Yingst, “They just targeted the meeting in Tehran where what’s left of the leadership was gathering to choose a new Supreme Leader.”

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The American forces will carry out a major assassination in Iran soon, and in an unconventional manner… Big names are nominated to join Qassem Soleimani at the bottom of hell…

The curse of shedding our children’s blood in Syria, Gaza, Yemen, and Ahwaz has come back to haunt…

— Mudar Adnan Zahran ??? ????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) March 6, 2026

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An Indictment

By Gregg Roman | MEF |March 5, 2026

Tucker Carlson. Screengrab via Youtube

“Tucker has lost his way,” President Trump told ABC News on March 5. “He’s not MAGA. MAGA is saving our country. MAGA is making our country great again. MAGA is America first, and Tucker is none of those things. And Tucker is really not smart enough to understand that.”

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Finance Min Smotrich warns Beirut’s Dahiyeh will look like Khan Younis | Hezbollah fighters return to southern Lebanon | In first, IDF orders evacuation of entire southern Beirut

All Israel News Staff | Published: March 5, 2026

21:12 – Iran’s FM: No plans to close Hormuz Straits, regime doesn’t ask for negotiations

Speaking to NBS News, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the regime is not asking for negotiations with U.S. but also doesn’t plan to close the Strait of Hormuz for now, contradicting statements by the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).

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Peloni:  THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!!  This statement has been long overdue, but Trump has finally laid down a line on which he stands on one side and Carlson stands far on the other.  Quite relevant to Trump’s statement, Prof. Jeffrey Lax released a statement a few hours prior to Trump’s interview, in which Lax lists many of the key players whose support for Carlson came from remaining silent or standing by him or fully endorsing Carlson’s antisemitic babble.  Trump has now spoken up.  It is time for the rest of these enablers of Carlson’s campaign of Jew Hatred to do the same.

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Peloni:  Joan Swirskey‘s rotting fruit analogy is so well deserved by Carlson and his ilk.  It is a sad and terrible reality that the hatred of Jews being promoted by the fake Right Carlson, Owens, Kelly etc, contrasts sharply with great favor which the American Founding Fathers held for the Jewish people.  While the American Left have cast off these ties to the past, it was the American Right, ie the conservative MAGA movement, which saw its past as something worth savoring and restoring, which again contrasts sharply with the Jew Hatred inherent in so much of the Fake Right’s rhetoric, giving rise to the fact that these pro-Islamist, Iran-supporting, Jew haters have far more in common with Obama and his ilk than with Trump’s philosemitic MAGA movement.  Hence the truth is not so much that the fruit is rotten, but that it is laced with the same toxic focus inherent in what should be understood to divide the American Left from the American Right.  Indeed, the rotting fruit in Joan’s analogy represents the Obama-lyte faction which should be cut out of Trump’s party, very much like you would cast aside a rotting apple to define the limit of what is acceptable to a conservative pallet.  Or so I would suggest.

Plus what they will teach us about those who are still with us.

Joan Swirsky | Am Thinker | March 5, 2026

Photo by form PxHere 

When I was growing up in New Haven, Conn., my parents subscribed not only to our local newspaper — The New Haven Register, still extant — but also to The New York Times and the now defunct (since 1966) New York Herald Tribune.  I think I was about eight or nine years old when I was idly flipping through the Times and came across the obituary section.  From that very moment, I was hooked.

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Peloni:  This is an important interview with Haviv Rettig Gur.  The war in Iran is integral to Trump’s China policy.  Failing to grasp this point oversimplifies the current war, and it will lead to serious misled conclusions.  Gur’s analogy to America fighting on a world chessboard while Israel fights on a regional chessboard is an important context to grasp.  These two tightly aligned nations have their own priorities based on their regional vs global perspectives, and it also provides some distinctions between what each of these nations seek as their respective ultimate goals.

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Iranian Kurdish parties form a historic coalition to coordinate efforts and safeguard Kurdish interests amid regional unrest.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | MARCH 5, 2026

Kurdish Peshmerga forces engaging militants in Iraq. Screengrab via Youtube

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Paul Schnee:  In the report posted below Governor Gavin Newsom likened Israel to an apartheid state. Other than pandering to the woke militia of leftocrats in the Democrat Party it is difficult to understand why he would use the most easily refutable accusation against Israel to discredit America’s greatest ally and only democracy in the Middle East.

It’s almost as if he has never read anything about Israel or walked around wearing a blindfold when he visited there a week after October 7th. 2023. If he had removed his blindfold, he couldn’t have helped noticing that Israel’s two million Arab Palestinian citizens enjoy full civil liberties including free speech, Habeas Corpus and freedom of religion. Many serve in the IDF, in the judiciary, the police and as members of the Israeli parliament.

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Peloni:  Amid the ongoing war which will change the face of the Middle East, the Israeli Deep State continues its war of control at the cost of unity, fair governance and any sense of equitability, all of which is most appreciably relevant amid the ongoing war.  This is a proper setting for MAG Ofir to intervene and, unlike his predecessor’s notorious intervention in the Yemeni Fields Affair, to end what should be understood by all to be a contemptible, destabilizing and unjust policy.  In this regard, Ofir should act immediately as it not only stands as a moral imperative, but it simultaneously represents a very real threat to the very men and women who stand on the front line of the nation’s battles across all its many battle fronts.

May G_d Bless, Preserve and Protect the Courageous and Honorable Men and Women of the IDF!

Combat Doctrine – Temporary | X | Mar 4, 2026

Translated by Peloni

Major (res.) Dov Yudkin, a reserve company commander, brother of Captain Israel Yudkin, of blessed memory [killed in the northern Gaza Strip on May 22, 2024, while serving in the Kfir Brigade]. Screengrab via Youtube. 

A shocking post by Major Dov Yudkin

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Peloni:  Is Turkey going to continue in its role as the catfish of the Middle East, swallowing nations as they lie defeated and vulnerable to Turkish sourced intrigues as was seen to be the consequence of Israel having hollowed out Hezbollah in Syria?  Is this what is fueling Trump’s preference of Regime Transformation over Regime Change as described by Mike Doran in a recent podcast?

Jonathan Schanzer | Mar 4, 2026

By kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

The US military and the Israeli Defense Forces continue unleashing their might on the Iranian regime — and precise intelligence, overwhelming firepower and a bit of good luck could soon usher the downfall of the Islamic Republic.

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Peloni:  This is an important article.  Washington needs to recognize the legal hurdles of legislation aimed at dealing with Sharia which have limited potential of dealing with the problem.  Amy Mek describes both the problems inherent in anti-Sharia legislation and the how best to preserve Western values in the face of the expansion of Sharia inside the US by reinforcing protections of actual religious freedoms.

Amy Mek | X | Mar 4, 2026

Dame Justice. Photo by Sang Hyun Cho – Pixabay, CC0, Wikipedia

To Our Leaders:….

Well-intentioned bills that try to stop courts from enforcing Sharia-based decisions if they violate our rights sound good on paper. But they almost always fail in reality.

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | March 05, 2026

Is the threat from the Ayatollah regime only a Middle Eastern concern? Think again. This video explores why the Iranian regime’s “Great Satan” ideology places the US directly in its crosshairs, completely independent of its hostility toward Israel.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Kurdish Soldiers Qameshli, Syria. Photo by Yan Boechat/VOA – Voice of America, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Recently, President Trump sent out a mass mailing asking if fellow Americans supported his long delayed military actions in Iran.

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Peloni:  This report of a Kurdish ground incursion was initially sourced to Fox News, but in the hours which have passed since the report first became public, there is no clear evidence on the ground of an actual incursion taking theplace.  Furthermore, the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan has denied the accuracy of this report is accurate, despite the reports from US and Israeli sources.  So, with this in mind, was this an actual info op, intended to threaten the Iranian regime of the potential use of the Kurdish and other separatist groups in Iran so as to draw them to the negotiating table?  One consequence for all of this is that IRGC forces are currently targeting Kurdish  opposition strongholds, something which should not have been altogether unexpected following reports by Trump of having interest in using these opposition forces for the purpose described in the below report.   

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Seth J. Frantzman | Mar 4, 2026

Israeli Air Force (IAF) F-35I Adir. Photo by William LewisDerivative: User:MathKnight – WikiCommons: File:230322-F-UT528-1038 – Red Flag-Nellis 23-2, 22-24 Mar, 2023.jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

Israel has carried out 1,600 “strike sorties” against Iran since the joint US-Israeli military operation began on the morning of February 28, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on March 4. Iran has responded by launching hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel, resulting in 10 people killed and dozens wounded over the first four days of the conflict.

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Israel under simultaneous fire from Iran & Hezbollah | IDF orders evacuation of entire southern Lebanon | CENTCOM says operations ‘ahead of schedule’ 

All Israel News Staff | Published: March 4, 2026

16:35 – No reports of victims, limited damage after Hezbollah and Iranian attacks over past hour

There were no reports of injuries or significant damage after numerous drone and rocket attacks were launched by Hezbollah on Israel’s northern border areas, and by Iran, which fired a ballistic missile that triggered alarms across central Israel, including the Jerusalem and Tel Aviv areas.

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