Peloni:  Naomi Kahn looks at the consequences of legal land use which has siphoned off nearly 1/4 of the usable land in the Negev.

Peloni:  Well, here is where we stand.  Israel continues the war alone, while Trump continues to sit on the sidelines talking with the blood soaked minions of Iran’s regime. This is what comes from nations’ acting in their own interest, as interpreted by the relevant leaderships of those nations.  While the US has every reason to enter the fray, they are instead choosing a pause to further consider their options as their shared interest in eliminating the threat to both the Israeli and American people are carried by the Israelis alone.

For those who have faith in the will of the Iranian people to finally overthrow the Ayatollahs, this indecision by the US will most certainly have a chilling effect upon what otherwise might have been a building crescendo towards a popular uprising against the current regime.  Relatedly, Trump’s attempt to extend his deal making efforts will no doubt be coordinated with an extension on the prohibition on Khomeini’s execution by Israel.

Israel is no longer the dependent child of Western powers. We are a sovereign nation rising with moral clarity where others hesitate.

Avi Abelow | Jun 19, 2025

Ben Gurion reading the Declaration of Statehood in 1948.  (Photo by Rudi Weissenstein – This is available from National Photo Collection of Israel, Photography dept. Government Press Office (link), under the digital ID D247-041.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information., Public Domain)

For decades, many around the world—including Jews and Israelis—have clung to a dangerous myth: that Israel cannot act alone. That we depend on American permission, American firepower, and American protection.

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Peloni:  American technology should be limited to regimes which are understood to be stable enterprises which also promote US interests.  Established stability and common interests remain as the the twin engine of any partnership, and should be held as the minimum requirement upon which to base decisions regarding any offer of sharing such sensitive technology as the F-35.  Hence, it would seem reasonable to question the wisdom of sharing such technology with regimes which are marked by challenges to their stability, as would include those described below.

AFSI warns of risks in supplying F-35s to authoritarian regimes following Iran strike

Peloni:  We have all been waiting for the moment that we can all say we are no longer waiting for the moment that this threat to all of Western Society has been neutralized.  That moment is nearly over.

by Lawrence Kadish  •  Gatestone Institute  •  June 19, 2025

Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (Screenshot from Youtube)

President Donald J. Trump has a problem. If he leaves Iran’s major nuclear research and centrifuge sites, such as the Fordow uranium enrichment plant or Natanz, under their protective mountains, the countless centrifuges sheltered there will remain a permanent temptation — an “attractive nuisance” — for the Iranian regime to resurrect to terrorize its neighbors with again.

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Macron is using the ongoing conflict in Gaza and the Iran-Israel standoff not out of genuine concern, but as tools to pander to the Muslim world

By Martin Sherman

President Donald J. Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron participate in a joint press conference at the Centre de Congrés Bellevue Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, in Biarritz, France, site of the G7 Summit. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks, DC – #G7Biarritz, Public Domain)

With the war raging between Iran and Israel, few news items beyond reports from the battlefront itself make it into international headlines. The recent G7 Summit in Canada was one event that did manage to breach that barrier, mostly relating to provocative statements and/or actions by Donald Trump. Such, for example, was his decision to leave the Conference after barely a day, and his vehement verbal assault on French President Emmanuel Macron.

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All Israel News Staff | Published: June 19, 2025

Following Thursday morning’s missile barrage that struck several civilian targets, including the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva, Israeli leaders sharply escalated their rhetoric, publicly stating for the first time that ending the ayatollah regime in Tehran is among Israel’s war objectives.

“Iran’s terrorist tyrants launched missiles at Soroka Hospital in Beersheba and at a civilian population in the center of the country,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.

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Peloni:  Today marks the 78th anniversary of the death of John Henry Patterson, a man who was responsible for the founding of what would come to be the IDF.  Below is an important telling of his life as he encountered many famous moments, ultimately culminating in him leading and training the first Jewish fighting force in the modern era, a force which would include so many of the familiar names which would come to fill the ranks and leadership of the modern Zionist movement.

The Curious Tale of John Henry Patterson

by Geoffrey Clarfield (November 2016)

Lt-Colonel John Henry Patterson, from his book “With the Judaeans in the Palestine Campaign” (Photo By John Henry Patterson – book “With the Judaeans in the Palestine Campaign”, 1922, Public Domain) [Cropped]

I had the pleasure of living and working in East Africa for 16 years. Our children spent much of their childhood there. As a family we were often on Safari, meaning that we would take our jeep, Land Rover, or Land Cruiser, pack up our tents, store food and camping equipment and go out into the bush of wild East Africa. We stayed in rustic tented camps, often in remote tribal areas which were sites where as an anthropologist, I was doing research.

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Peloni:  Note the segment with Gingrich

Peloni:  While Cruz calls out Carlson’s obsession with Israel, it should be recalled that I have been consistently noting that the “isolationists”, such as Carlson, are in fact not isolationists.  They are specifically either anti-Israel, or pro-Iran.  Either way, their focus is not directed in favor of America but either in opposition to America’s greatest ally or in tandem to America’s great enemy.  Striking a tone which is intended to be encompassing and factually based, they twist reality towards something quite harmful for America should US leadership follow their Siren calls.  While supplicants such as Bannon and Johnson failed this test, Sen. Cruz and Pres. Trump never lost their stated intolerance to Iran’s nuclear program.

Finally, someone with real power calls out Tucker Carlson straight to his face over his thinly veiled antisemitism. Kudos, @tedcruz pic.twitter.com/b4VDeioDNO

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) June 18, 2025

Israel’s systematic dismantling of Hezbollah’s infrastructure—killing its leader Hassan Nasrallah, obliterating its missile stockpiles, and forcing its remnants north of the Litani River—has reduced the group to a mere spectator in the ongoing war between Israel and Iran.

Jalal Tagreeb

Introduction:

This article is not written by an Israeli analyst, a Western journalist, or even a neutral observer. These are the words of Jalal Tagreeb — a former Muslim preacher. A self-proclaimed “warrior of Islamic debate” who once vowed to win debates with non Muslims. He swore his arguments would crush them and that his theological prowess would silence all opposition.

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Peloni:  This is a very good interview between Bari Weiss and Mike Doran.  They offer a description of the basis of the mounting victory over Iran which has come as a result of the tight coordination between Netanyahu and Trump, aided by the predictable nature of Iranian arrogance and duplicity.  Begin watching at about 12min 21sec mark for about 30min.  Very keen insights and explanations.

Peloni:  A very good description of the past weeks actions.

Peloni:  The road to facing off against China runs thru defeating Iran.  As the current regime in Iran is on the verge of collapse, we are likely to see the coordination between Iran and China being replaced by the coordination between Irna and the US.  Given that Iran is China’s main supplier of energy, and that its entire domestic policy might be leveraged by the US against China into the future, the defeat of Iran will not only benefit US interests by eliminating the nuclear and developing ICBM threat in Iran, but it will shift the control of the flow of oil from Iran, not to mention it also shifting the control of the Straits of Hormuz from an enemy regime to a US ally.  These are important and potentially decisive shifts.

by Gordon G. Chang  •  Gatestone Institute  •  June 16, 2025

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi signed a document on Iran–China 25-year Cooperation Program. (Photo by Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0)

• “There were some very, very relieved people in the Gulf as the sun rose this morning…. The Saudis know that China had armed their enemy Iran with nukes and lesser weapons and fully backed the Houthis, who have been waging war on the Kingdom for years.” — Jonathan Bass, Chief Executive Officer, Argent LNG, to Gatestone Institute, June 13, 2025.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Look my Friends of all political persuasions…

As a NPA Independent who has penned numerous analyses over the decades taking both Republicans and Democrats to task, I also wrote favorably about President Trump during his first administration.

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Peloni:  The reality is that Tucker Carlson has a very large following, and that this provides him with a great platform from which to promote his desired narratives.  While he promotes an important mix of truth, he clearly imbues it with his own toxic views that the Jews control the world and the US govt, something which is both antisemitic, and therefore anti-American, and also counterfactually untrue.  Nonetheless, his fan base gives him the security and authority to wield his nonsensical rhetoric to the four winds, leaving both his admirers and other sycophants to soak up and croak out repeats of his views to the wider world.  Meanwhile, one of the targets of his implied narrative being the most powerful man in the world, Pres. Trump, it came as a great relief to finally hear Trump describe Carlson as ‘Kooky’ in recent days.  Even as they seem to have made amends, it remains true that Carlson’s views of the Jews controlling the world is both untrue and still not accepted as such, even as he was forced to make some apologies for his specific rants against Pres. Trump.   While I wish conservatives would find a better, less toxic venue, from which to share their message to the MAGA base, it is likely that they will continue to do as they have done.  Still it would be useful, meaningful and responsible if they would both now and in the future clarify their lack of support for the antisemitic worldview which are promoted by venues such as that of Carlson if they are to continue using those venues to promote their own messaging.  Otherwise, they are no less responsible, and no less complicit, than were Bannon and Johnson in promoting Carlson’s antisemitic worldview when they promoted and praised Carlson efforts to challenge Trump over whether Iran should be left to continue on its tract towards becoming a nuclear state.  The MAGA movement in the US remains to be the most philosemitic movement in US history, something which I have noted quite often.  As such it needs to find better media sources from which to promote the MAGA narrative than those which are hustling Jew Hatred as being a normative state of mind.

Peloni:  The potential threat from Egypt is a topic which Dr. David Wurmser has also addressed in several interviews over the past two years.

Khaled Hassan | Jun 18, 2025

In 2019, I spent days preparing a report for a senior Israeli diplomat in the UK, analysing Israel’s public diplomacy and strategic posture towards the Arab world—particularly Egypt. Drafted overnight in a London studio flat’s kitchen, the report was admittedly rough around the edges, yet it pinpointed critical Israeli deficiencies and proposed concrete recommendations. More significantly, the exchange revealed what I believe is Israel’s Achilles heel: a mindset I encountered firsthand, one that precipitated the Yom Kippur surprise and, tragically, the October 7th massacre.

Scholars like Dr Itai Shapira have meticulously dissected Israel’s intelligence culture (notably in his book, Israeli National Intelligence Culture). This article, however, addresses a distinct flaw: the inherent inability of Israeli decision-makers and intelligence analysts to distinguish friend from foe. I offer this critique as an Egyptian with extensive experience engaging Egyptian state officials and policymakers.

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It really seems that way…

Francisco Gil-White | Jun 17, 2025

If you didn’t read PART 4 yet, you may do so here:

Go to Part 1

• Trump to Netanyahu: Don’t strike Iran—I’ll negotiate.

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June 16:

 

Peloni:  Pay particular attention to comments made by Mark Levin and Ted Cruz regarding the war in Iran.

June 17:

Peloni:  See also  Six-day-old baby rescued from rubble of building in central Israel hit by Iranian missile

By Victor Sharpe

Two puppies rescued from a building destroyed in an Iranian missile strike in Bat Yam, June 17, 2025. Credit: Vadim Action.

The dogs were located by teams of the Israel Defense Forces’ Home Front Command.

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Unity is powerful, offering clear evidence against the idea that this society is fractured to the point of civil war.

Moshe Phillips

Netzah Yehuda Battalion fighters in Beit Hanun during the Iron Swords War. (Photo by IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0)

It was never my plan to be in Israel when it attacked Iran.

About a year ago, my wife and I learned that a close relative of ours had decided to volunteer for the Israel Defense Forces as a lone soldier. This was a longtime goal. He’s 19.

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