Peloni:  All nations should move to protect themselves from foreign interlocutors disguised in the form of NGOs.  They can have a meaningful and detrimental effect, and as Janet Levy describes below, China has had a long and successful history of pursuing such malicious outreach into the West.

China has seeded the West with thousands of agents pushing propaganda, engaging in espionage, fomenting protests, and silencing domestic dissent.

Janet Levy | Am Thinker | February 23, 2026

Secret Chinese police station in New York. Screengrab via Youtube. 

In 2023, the FBI arrested two Chinese-Americans, Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping, for operating a Chinese police station in Manhattan. Chen pleaded guilty and faces up to five years in prison for acting as a Chinese agent, while Lu, who has connections to Chinese authorities, pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial. He faces 20 years for obstruction of justice.

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Peloni:  America has ALWAYS had the ability to bring the likes of Nafez Sabih and Bassam Issa to justice, just as they have always had the ability to bring Ahlam Tamimi to justice for her role in the Sbarro Pizza bombing in which two other Americans were killed, Malka Chana Roth, a 15-year-old, and Judith Shoshana Greenbaum, a pregnant 31-year-old teacher.  Of course, the facetious claim put forward by Dennis Ross is not sincere, which is why there will never be justice for the likes of these American victims whose murderers remain in a state of constant protection by governments and authorities which are directly funded by the US taxpayers.

by Rafael Medoff

Thirty years ago this week, Palestinian Arab terrorists bombed a bus on Jaffa Road, in downtown Jerusalem. Twenty-six passengers were murdered.

Among the victims were U.S. citizens Sara Duker, of New Jersey, and Matthew Eisenfeld, of Connecticut, students at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America who were engaged to be married.

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Peloni:  Time is not on Israel’s side, and it never was.  As the clock ticks by Hamas has become stronger, better equipped, further entrenched and better secured within its position of dominance over the people of Gaza.

On paper, billions of dollars have been pledged for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, and a multinational force is in the process of being formed. But it remains doubtful that any of it will come to fruition, since the key to everything has always been, and remains, the disarmament of Hamas. 

by  Prof. Eyal Zisser | Feb 23, 2026

Trump Speaks at Board of Peace Initiation. Screengrab via Youtube 

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Peloni:  An important question related to Ankara’s ever increasing regional ego is why the US has acted to significantly promote Turkey’s position in the region, even as its already stated and partially realized goal is to reconquer the region, including US regional allies.

Ankara feels that from the Horn of Africa to the Eastern Mediterranean and Syria and Iraq it has increased its influence greatly in the last years. 

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | FEBRUARY 22, 2026

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Photo by kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

In 2019 Turkey took delivery of an S-400 air defense system from Russia. This was the culmination of a deal dating from 2017. It also marked Ankara’s shift in strategy from being a NATO member to hedging its bets by working with Russia. A pipeline across the Black Sea to Russia, called TurkStream was completed in 2020.

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Peloni:  This is an important article.  The West is being conquered.  This article describes the process by which this conquest is taking place.

Islamification Process Of Da’wa and Its Constitutional and Social Implications

By Wm Gawthrop, Ph.D.

Islam is a challenger civilization. The Islamic worldview divides the world into the House of War and the House of Islam (dar al-harb and dar al-Islam) and a state of war, not peace, perpetually exists between Islam and unbelievers^{i,ii,iii,iv,v,vi,vii,viii,ix,x,xi,xii,xiii}. The purpose of waging war is “one of two things: it is either for (the non-Muslims) conversion to Islam or the payment of the jizya.”^{xiv,xv,xvi,xvii,xviii,xix} Dawa and jihad become the tools for advancing the ideology toward its defined goals.^xx Jihad can be violent. Dawa is seduction. Dawa will use Jihad if the seduction is resisted.

Dawa is the conversion tool; a form of missionary work, and an Islamic strategy for reshaping the modern world.

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Peloni:  Amb. Mike Huckabee talks with Batya Ungar-Sargon about Iran and Tucker Carlson’s bizarre claims of being mistreated in an Israeli airport.

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Peloni:  The support of quiet Jihad in Britain persists and is growing ever deeper, in England, in France, in Germany and in the US.  As the tolerance for such things as blasphemy laws and Sharia law, and Islamic courts become law of the land, sovereignty over the people is being co-opted, transferred and permanently transformed into that of captured people.  And of course, this is the very purpose and goal of Jihad, ie CONQEST…

Paul Schnee: Can the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) explain why hundreds of people on British streets shouting, “Globalize the Intifada” and “From the River to the Sea!” should not be arrested and prosecuted for contributing to possible “public disorder”?

By Robert Spencer | February 21, 2026
Quran. Image by Mustafa-trit20 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

An ongoing controversy in Britain could do nothing less than change the course of that country’s history, and that of the entire world. It may be too late as it is; the U.K. has already taken a decisive step away from the principles of free speech that it played a dominant role in formulating and giving to the world. There is serious cause for doubt now about whether the Sceptered Isle will even survive as a free society.

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Peloni:  Are the American people simply looking for transparency and no accountability?  I doubt it.  Not a single conviction, not a single prosecution and not a single conviction.  And Trump’s response is to release the UFO files?  Many delays, many disappointments, and many question abound over the hesitancy to expose the criminal behavior behind the many topics, only some of which are cited by Benz below.

Anthony Iafrate  | Associate Editor | Daily Caller |  February 21, 2026

Mike Benz speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) . Photo by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Mike Benz, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

Former State Department official and investigative journalist Mike Benz warned time is running out for the Trump administration to expose government corruption before November’s midterm elections possibly hand Democrats congressional majorities.

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Peloni:  Important reflections by Sinan Ciddi, a senior fellow at FDD and director of the Turkey program, as he talks with EMET’ Sarah Stern about the expansionist policies of Turkey and its effect in Syria and the region as Erdogan pursues a power-driven strategy seeking to position Turkey as a ever increasingly dominant regional and potentially global actor amid the shifting Middle Eastern power dynamics.

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Peloni:  Notably, PM Netanyahu recently stated that only 150km out of about 500km tunnels in Gaza had been destroyed, and as Christine Douglass-Williams explains the overall number of tunnels is increasing.  This mission is very very far from complete.

By Christine Douglass-Williams | Feb 22, 2026

Terror tunnels in Gaza.  Photo by IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia

It’s obvious that powerful players are supporting Hamas; otherwise, it would not be able to rebuild its jihad terror tunnels so quickly in the face of sophisticated IDF efforts to dismantle them. So here’s the breakdown by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies:

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Peloni:  PM Netanyahu discuss India, second and third Israeli airports to come, accelerated expansion of AI server farms and Quantum computing,  as well as alliances beyond that with the US.  In what he describes as an hexagonal system of alliances, Netanyahu is proposing a transnational block which could operate in opposition to both the radical Sunni and radical Shia blocks.

PM Netanyahu’s Remarks at the Start of Today’s Government Meeting. Screengrab via X. 

PM Netanyahu’s Remarks at the Start of Today’s Government Meeting

Peloni:  Must read article.  EXPERTLY EXPLAINED

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman | VIN News | Feb 24, 2026

Ambassador Mike Huckabee. Screengrab via Youtube

When U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told Tucker Carlson last Friday that it would be “fine” if Israel “took it all” — referring to the vast biblical territory stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates — the Arab world erupted. Saudi Arabia called it “extremist rhetoric.” Egypt termed it a “blatant violation of international law.” The League of Arab States accused him of inflaming religious and national sentiments.

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Update:  Iran’s IRGC reportedly assumes command of Hezbollah as threat of US strike grows

Peloni:  Under the reign of the Mullahs, Iran has acted like a plague spreading terror and mayhem across the entire Middle East, but perhaps nowhere were its effects so damaging and so permanent as in Lebanon where a majority Christian nation with an accepted Shia minority community was ethnically cleansed into a Shia majority nation with an oppressed Christian minority community.  While people speak of the the threat of ethnic cleansing of Christians in Africa which is taking place today, and of ethnic cleansing of Christians by Israel which stands as an outright blood libel, they all easily ignore the transformation which came to persist in Lebanon as the Iranian controlled Hezbollah dominated, terrorized and transformed that nation.  So long as the Mullahs remain in Iran, their despotic and menacing influence will remain in Lebanon, threatening and reducing the Christian community there, as is the practice of their Jihadi ethos.

Lebanon majority areas: 1980s vs 2020s. Image created via AI

Islamic Republic disappointed over Hezbollah’s failure to participate in 12-day war last year

All Israel News Staff | Published: February 19, 2026

Iran is pressuring Hezbollah to enter into any future conflict with Israel, according to a Ynet News report.

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Peloni: Rabbi Pesach Wolicki highlights Jared Kushner’s presentation at the Board of Peace which can only be described as being completely unrelated to any factual representation of Gaza today.  Wolicki discusses the six polls which have been conducted in Gaza since October 7, 2023 and the unabashed support demonstrated by the Gazans in these polls for both Hamas and its terrorist allies in the region.  The first step to deradicalizing the people in Gaza is to conquer them, to defeat their leaders, to subjugate them under an occupying force which will eliminate and outlaw the very ideology which is still governing over them as Kushner continues to present articulate utopian descriptions of the financial windfalls which do not impress the radicals in Gaza.  At a minimum, the Hamas leadership must be tried for war crimes with sentences appropriate for the horrors which they coordinated and conducted so as to demonstrate the intolerance for the barbaric behavior which was carried out not only by Hamas but by thousands of the citizenry of Gaza.  Instead, the Board of Peace has plans for no defeat of Hamas, no trials for even the leadership, and instead is trying to decide how many arms should be left in the hands of these terrorists and in what position of power and authority the terrorists should be allowed to play in Kushner’s vision for Gaza.  The lack of responsibility forming around this multi-billion dollar makeover for Gaza speaks ill of both the internationalists financing it and the ‘Peace Envoys’ who have crossed every Red Line established in what was the already dangerous proposal of their now ignored 20 Point Plan.

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Peloni:  It is important to note in Conrad Black’s article below, the division of the land between the two competing factions which he describes was in fact carried out by the British, even as they lacked the specific authority to do so, at the Cairo Conference of 1921 when they created the Emirate of Transjordan for exactly this purpose with the Jordan River as the border between the two territories.  Additionally, the reason the Emirate of Transjordan, later to become the state of Transjordan as recognized in 1946, was named ‘Transjordan’ was specifically in reference to the boundary of that nation being the Jordan River, ie trans Jordan referenced the region on the far side of the Jordan river, as opposed to cis Jordan region (the near side of the Jordan River) which was appropriated for the Jewish homeland.  This division was adopted by the League of Nations as the Two State Solution which has since been attempted over and over again under the same sense of duplicity and historical revisionism which led the state of Transjordan reinventing its name as Jordan in 1950 to try to erase the fact that its border had been set at the Jordan River.

The argument that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state is unspeakable nonsense

By Conrad Black| National Post | Feb 22, 2026

Israeli athletes at the Opening Ceremonies for the 2026 Winter Olympics. Screengrab via X. 

There were two events in Canada last week which may, viewed optimistically, constitute a turning point in the shameful and distressing flirtation that this country is having with antisemitism. There is widespread anecdotal evidence of discrimination against Jewish applicants for many categories of work and entry to exclusive professional occupations, including doctors and teachers. Antisemitic incidents are far more numerous than the police can make any pretense to respond to and include unprecedented levels of violence, car theft, and petty harassment such as ripping Mezuzahs off door-frames. The two incidents included the turnout of over 350,000 people, mainly Muslims, in Toronto to demand regime change in Iran.

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Peloni:  At some point, Trump, conservatives, and the MAGA leadership/base will come to accept the truth that Tucker Carlson has moved from promoting what was Trump’s vision for America to promoting what was Obama’s vision for America.  While many on the American Right refuse to do anything but support and endorse Carlson’s shift, including Megyn Kelly, Steve Bannon and others, the reality is that their lack of due diligence is promoting the very failed nation policies which they opposed when Obama and Biden were president.  The consequence of such obsequious inspection of Carlson’s agenda by Trump and others is leading America on the same ill guided path drawn by Obama and Biden like a heard of sea lions marching over the side of a cliff.  Trump’s attempt to deal with this matter surreptitiously has failed, most notably because he relied upon Carlson’s cooperation which was a mistake.  Hopefully he has come to recognize that he needs to deal with this matter more directly, and as expeditiously as possible.

My Contacts With Tucker Carlson About Anti-Semitism on His Show

A few weeks ago, a mutual friend asked me if I’d be willing to speak to Tucker Carlson off the record. I agreed and Tucker called me three weeks ago to talk. I continued texting with him for eight days after that.…

— Yoram Hazony (@yhazony) February 21, 2026

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Peloni:  Libels, half truths, and misdirections…

Note the final paragraph  of the TOI article which includes the suggestion that some of Carlson’s statement were reminiscent of the far left in the US, which should be have come at the beginning of the column as it is the focus of Carlson to do what the far left can not, ie legitimize Jew Hatred in the eyes of Trump’s base, split Trump’s party and defeat Trump in the coming midterms while providing protective rhetoric to both Qatar and Iran.

Debate requires honest reporting and substantiated factual bases of what is discussed, which is why this debate with an cloaked Obama-lyte commentator should not have taken place, and why US conservatives should not continue providing Carlson a prominent position on the Right. Instead, they should recognize their opposition when they see it.  Failing to do so only advances the demise of the America First agenda as the Iranian menace is left in place to become an even more radical and far more dangerous threat to America and the West than North Korea will ever be

In program including interview with Huckabee, right-wing commentator launches litany of unsubstantiated claims echoing antisemitic tropes, falsely says Herzog visited Epstein island

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff | TOI | Feb 21, 2026

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In a program released Friday following his brief visit to Israel, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson claimed the Israeli government targeted his family, called the Jewish state “probably the most violent country on earth” and falsely said President Isaac Herzog had visited Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous island, apparently citing a fake AI-generated image that had circulated online.

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Peloni:  The possibility of any US strike to be used to push the Mullahs to agree to Trump’s terms rather than  is a serious mistake would be a waste of good amunition which should instead be tarteted at bringing this Iranian regime to an end.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | Feb 21, 2026

Donald Trump speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

Those hoping for a massive attack on Iran to destroy what remains of its nuclear program, to devastate its store of 1,500-2,000 ballistic missiles, and to get Iran to agree to stop giving support to its proxies, the terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah, may well be disappointed. Though every other day President Donald Trump changes his mind as to what he may, or may not, do in Iran, at the moment, his aides have let it be understood that he is now planning a limited strike that would leave the supreme leader’s regime in place, but sufficiently chastened so that he will be more willing to accept American demands for a complete end to Iran’s nuclear program. More on Trump’s latest plan can be found here: “Trump says ‘considering’ limited strike on Iran to coax it into accepting deal on his terms,” Times of Israel, February 20, 2026:

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By Arlene Bridges Samuels | CBN | Feb 19, 2026

Photo by Cole Keister on Unsplash

The world’s population now exceeds eight billion and continues to grow. In the Middle East alone, seventeen Arab nations account for more than 515 million people. By contrast, Israel has just reached a population of about ten million, including a Jewish majority of slightly more than seven million.

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