By Lawrence Peck | Pennmike.com | April 13, 2026

By Republic of Korea – Flickr, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

Just days before this year’s solemn Holocaust Remembrance Day, Korea’s leftist President Lee Jae-myung apparently calculated that it was a good time to engage in his usual practice of glaring double standards and hypocrisy by disrespecting the memory of victims of the Holocaust and to insult Israel, Jews, and others around the world. Lee did this by spreading what is known in Western nations as a “blood libel” against Israel, by recklessly re-posting the false claims of an extremist account on the social media platform “X.”

Read more…

Peloni & David Fieldstone

Mark Levin. Screengrab via Rumble

Video Loads Below

Read more…

Peloni:  This remains a potent possibility as Trump’s patience with the regime seems somewhat indefinite, even while leaving the blockade on Iranian shipping in place.  The question of whether regime collapse would outlast the regime’s willingness to accept terms and thereby survive to reign down madness upon the world once again would seem to argue that the regime will in fact survive this test of wills.

Despite the end of Operation Roaring Lion, Tehran continues to issue military threats and project strength. But beneath the surface, a deepening economic and social crisis could turn any agreement into a lifeline for the regime, rather than an end to the war.

by  Prof. Eyal Zisser | April 26, 2026

The declaration of a ceasefire, which has for now brought Operation Roaring Lion to an end, was met in Israel, and among many in the US, with a sour feeling. The Iranian regime did not collapse, as some in Washington and Jerusalem had hoped, and it even continued to rain missiles down on us. By all indications, the number of missiles it still has may be enough for many more weeks of fighting. The fire could indeed resume at any moment, but it is clear that the US administration is focused on reaching a permanent agreement that will end the war.

Read more…

By Pamela Geller | April 26, 2026

Image via Truth Social

Fox News reporter: The shooters manifesto said he wanted to target administration officials.

A bloodbath was averted. The Democrat party should be designated a terrorist organization.

Investigators also found extensive anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric across his social media accounts.

Read more…

Arlene Bridges Samuels | April 23, 2026

Image via IWM.org

American pilots, both Jewish and Christian, share a remarkable history of partnership with Israel that reaches back to the nation’s founding on May 14, 1948. On that historic evening in Tel Aviv, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion read the Declaration of Independence as jubilant crowds filled the streets with celebration.

Read more…

Peloni:  See more HERE.

Well, it would seem that former PM Bennett, who once claimed to be ten steps to the Right of Bibi, is now linking his future to the sinking hopes of Lapid under the party name of “Together”.  I am only surprised that the name of their party is not “Together Again” in reference to a re-do of their previous gambit to do whatever was needed to unseat Bibi from power, something which they seem to hope to do once again…Together.  Of course, they are leaving space for Gadi Eisenkot to join, but it seems that that the Ra’am leader, who recently stated his divorce from the Muslim Brotherhood, has had no such invite being afforded to him…but after the election, no doubt he too will be offered a seat at Bennett’s table so that the reunion of the govt of Spare Parts will be reunited once more…Together.   Does this gambit of reviving the anti-Bibi cabal have the potential of restoring a Left-Arab coalition to power in the first post October 7 national election?  Time will tell of course, but the problem for the Right lies more with those who support the Right under the leadership of the candidate whom the people cast the greatest number of votes, be that Bibi or some one else.  In other words, any candidates for Knesset which provide a greater import to disposing Bibi than to promoting the Right wing nationalist agenda is clearly not a candidate of the Right.  The coming election will be a difficult and chaotic affair, even more than usual, but it seems there will be little support lost by those who would vote for the Right as Bennett strikes his colors and openly joins the Left to maximize the effort to defeat the nationalist camp.  As Smotrich noted, the Left can handle their votes however they like.

Notably, on hearing of the merger between Bennett and Lapid, Bibi posted the simple comment that: “They will do it again,” and of course, he is quite correct.  The absolutely mean to do it again, and perhaps that is the true inference of naming their new party ‘Together’.

Former PMs Naftali Bennett (@naftalibennett) and Yair Lapid (@yairlapid) announce merger of their parties under Bennett's leadership.

With the move, Bennett officially abandons the right wing by merging with Lapid's Yesh Atid party. After failing to pull votes from Netanyahu's… pic.twitter.com/RuvtVwhtj5

— C14 News Israel | EN (@c14israel) April 26, 2026

Read more…

Peloni:  It continues to be intolerable that this Jihadist in a suit is being given full US support while continuing to prove that he is either unable or unwilling to control his throngs of minority hating Jihadists.  The centralization of power in Syria falls along the lines of rhetoric invoked by Amb. Tom Barrack who asserts that strong totalitarianships are to be preferred over govts espoused by the people governing them.  Syria has been the litmus test which seems to continuously prove Barrack’s rather distasteful claim false.  Washington should never have fully embraced the policy of supporting Jolani without setting benchmarks.  The Syrian minorities continue to pay the price for this mistake, and with regards to the Syrian Druze, this mistake directly undermines Israeli interests.

The jury is still out on Ahmed al-Sharaa. And it is not a theoretical question, because developments inside Syria matter far beyond its borders. 

Stephen M. Flatow | Apr 25, 2026

Abu Muhammad al-Jolani. Photo by Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, Wikiepdia

Syria’s new leadership under Ahmed al-Sharaa would be given room to consolidate power in exchange for something basic: restraint, stability, and protection of minorities.

Read more…

Peloni:  This political ruse is being used to support the Western claim that the PA has been reformed and is democratically based.  The relevance of this shell game, no matter the outcome of this election, is to validate US involvement in the American Equity also known as the Palestinian Authority in the future governance of Gaza, when in fact the PA is a terrorist institution whose every iterations should be proscribed as such.  While Hamas is prohibited from being included in these elections, it is notable that the same standard is not enforced to keep members of Abbas’ faction from being eligible as well.  The PA’s role in terrorist funding and its many members who have been involved in terrorist attacks is well known and documented.  This institution should be fully defunded, its members should be targeted for prosecution of war crimes, and every tie between the US and this vile institution should be severed.  Instead, they are being given a new lease on life, and will soon this terrorist institution will be deemed ‘eligible’ to extend their weaponized ideology to Gaza where they will seamlessly be able to take over from Hamas, if Hamas is itself ever removed from power there.

The elections will be closely watched to see the trends. If things go well, this could boost the plans for change in Gaza.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | APRIL 25, 2026

Image by landrachuk – Pixabay, CC0, Wikipedia

Read more…

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | April 26, 2026

*500,000 Arabs (away for over a year) are included in the census, contrary to global norms. 325,000 were included in the 1997 census. 400,000 in 2005, according to the Palestinian Election Commission. 100,000 overseas births added to the census in 1995-2014, according to the Palestinian Undersecretary of Interior. The number grows steadily due to births.

Read more…

Video Loads Below

Read more…

President Donald Trump and other senior administration officials were evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night after shots were fired.

There was several loud bangs and the Secret Service with guns drawn rushed the press pool out of the room, the Washington Times’ Jeff Mordock, who was at the dinner, reported. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was seen limping after the incident, according to Mordock.

Read more…

Peloni:  Israel News Talk Radio  Tamar Yonah joins Prof. Francisco Gil-White for a discussion of home front during these now more than two years of war.  Among the topics discussed is Gil-White’s hypothesis of whether Trump is trying to save the Jihadists in Iran. Not to be missed.

Video Loads Below

Read more…

UPDATE: Trump sends message to New York Post reporter to “Come home!!!” – OSINT613

UPDATE:Trump cancels Witkoff, Kushner trip to Pakistan for Iran talks.  Iranians.  Iranians have already left after giving terms to Pakistanis and issuing threat to US.

Peloni:  Recent report on situation in Pakistan.  As China and India are urging evacuation from Iran, Iranian leadership continues to project defiance.

Read more…

Peloni:  An Office to Combat Antisemitism which has no website, three people, and which has no definition of antisemitism to guide any action it might take if it ever takes one.

Council Member Inna Vernikov/Talkline With Zev Brenner

Video Loads below

Read more…

Peloni:  The shameful disregard of the Reza Pahlavi continues.

By Amil Imani | April 24, 2026

Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran. By ir.voanews.com – VOA News, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The European political machine actively conspires to silence Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi through a calculated strategy of diplomatic betrayal and systemic negligence. European leaders prioritize their blood-soaked deals with the Islamic Republic over the democratic aspirations of the Iranian people, effectively acting as the silent executioners of the opposition.

Read more…

Peloni:  Vahidi is betting on Trump becoming frustrated with Iran, and thus gaining victory from the essence of the Iranian regime to hold out no matter the cost to their war machine, infrastructure and leadership personel.  Will he be proven right in this, or does Vahidi stand as the remaining straw needed to be targeted to bring the regime to its knees?

Jalal Tagreeb

Ahmad Vahidi. Photo by Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

By the time Donald Trump sent his latest ultimatum to Tehran in April 2026, the man effectively deciding Iran’s response was not a president, not a foreign minister, and not even a supreme leader newly installed after Ali Khamenei’s death. It was a brigadier general with a warrant out for his arrest in Argentina, a man who has operated in the shadows of Iran’s security state for nearly half a century — Ahmad Vahidi.

Read more…

Peloni:  It remains an inexplicable choice that Trump maintains Tom Barrack at the center of US-Turkish policy, while working to support Turkish interests in Syria and Lebanon as Turkey’s expansionist ambitions gain real support from the US Ambassador to Turkey at the expense of America’s true ally in the region, Israel.

Sinan Ciddi & Jonathan Schanzer |  April 24, 2026

Ambassador Tom Barrack and President Recep Erdogan. Image via AI

U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack raised eyebrows last weekend at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum when he stated, “Turkey is not a country to be messed with,” — a remark intended to blame Israel for heightened tensions between Ankara and Jerusalem. Blood pressures rose further after Barrack equated Hezbollah and Israel, remarking that both were “equally untrustworthy.”

Read more…