Peloni:  Also see Ted’s insightful article, The settlements are neither, “illegitimate’ nor “illegal”

Pro-Israel Advocates Reject UK’s Condemnation of New Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria as Misguided and Unjust

By: TheJ.ca Staff | May 29, 2025

Israel’s largest West Bank settlement expansion in decades affirms Jewish historical ties and security needs, despite British government’s harsh denunciation. (Photo: TrickyH/Wikipedia.)

Britain’s Criticism of Israeli Settlements Ignores Historic Realities and Israel’s Right to Security

The British government’s recent condemnation of Israel’s decision to approve 22 new Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria has drawn sharp rebuke from pro-Israel advocates who call the UK’s stance “wrong and immoral.” The British Minister for the Middle East, Hamish Falconer, labeled the expansion a “deliberate obstacle to Palestinian statehood” and claimed the settlements “do not protect Israel.” However, critics argue that these statements overlook Israel’s decades-long restraint and the ongoing threats it faces.

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Peloni:  This is a substantive victory!  Well done to both Min. Chikli and Naomi!

Amichai Chikli leads a government decision to facilitate the absorption of residents of squatter camps into recognized Bedouin settlements.

Naomi Linder Kahn | May 28, 2025

The Ministerial Committee on Bedouin Affairs, led by Cabinet Minister Amichai Chikli, recently approved a policy decision that will empower a wide-ranging reform in land regulation policy in the Negev.

For the first time, the government has created a realistic framework for moving the region forward, approving a decision designed to facilitate the absorption of residents of squatter camps into recognized Bedouin settlements, on land that has been suspended in limbo for decades by  “ownership claims.” 

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Peloni:  Ollie is exactly correct! Thankfully Hamas refused the deal.

by Robert Williams  •  Gatestone Institute  •  May 30, 2025 at 5:00 am

By N509FZ – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0

• While it is understandable that President Donald Trump is eager to bring business deals to America, since when has Qatar been “a friendly country that continues to be an important force for political stability and economic progress in the Middle East”? The answer is: Never.

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It must be called out for what it is: Jew-hatred.

Ronn Torossian | May 28, 2025

Image by Ana.pullse – Own work, Public Domain

In today’s volatile world, with the Middle East undergoing significant change, Meta (formerly Facebook) has a Supreme Court-like body that determines content on Facebook and Instagram, comprising 21 people on an independent board that even Mark Zuckerberg (its founder, chairman and CEO) cannot fire.

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Peloni:  This is a potentially game changing technology.  I have been looking forward tot the deployment of this technology over the past few years, but this has thus far seemed to be an elusory expectation.  Hopefully the expectation of deploying it this year will not be delayed further.

Israel Defense Minister Israel Katz said that the new lasers will “change the rules of the game in the region — our enemies should fear, not only the capabilities we have already developed, but the capabilities we are developing now.”

By Seth J. Frantzman |  May 29, 2025

An unidentified prototype laser-based air defense system Israel says it has used in combat. (IDF image)

Israel revealed that its military has used prototype laser air defenses to shoot down a number of threats during the course of the multi-front war that the country has been engaged in over the last year and a half.

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Peloni: Per well placed source, Tom Homan revealed to a well-respected counterterrorism analyst who served in the JCS that he goes on national television to talk about illegal alien deportation efforts but, in reality, he has no staff.

Tom Homan Says Illegal Immigrant That Threatened Trump Will Live To Regret It

Border czar Tom Homan said on Thursday that the illegal immigrant who made a threat on President Donald Trump’s life will not get away with his actions.

Ramon Morales-Reyes, a Mexican national with a lengthy criminal record, sent a handwritten letter to the U.S. government stating that he will self-deport himself once he shoots Trump with his “30 yard 6” firearm, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced. Following Morales-Reyes’ arrest, Homan said on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” that he is “foolish” for making a threat against Trump and that he will be deported.

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | May 30, 2025

Image by TUBS – This vector image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file:, CC BY-SA 3.0)

*Since the 1979 US-assisted toppling of the pro-US Shah, the Ayatollah regime has been driven by a globally-domineering Mega Shia vision, which requires Mega capabilities (conventional, ballistic and nuclear), in order to overcome the Mega obstacle – “the Great American Satan.”

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By Victor Sharpe

Mandate for Palestine – AD 1923. (Image by Shuaaa2 – Own work, CC BY 4.0)

All such notions of “land for peace” and a “two state solution” erode the millennial and inalienable rights of one people alone to the land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea – the Jewish people

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According to Channel 12, U.S. President Donald J. Trump has ordered the military to halt any further cooperation with Israel on potential strikes against Iran, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the Defense Ministry and Air Force to continue preparations… pic.twitter.com/VPkkwhyQE2

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) May 29, 2025

By Ted Belman (originally published Mar 15, 2006)

A narrative has emerged that Israel’s settlements in the West Bank are a “tragedy.” The fatal flaw lies in the original sin of supposedly lawless occupation of land, in contravention of the Geneva Convention. It makes a strong emotional pitch to a sense of justice, a major influence on the thinking of many American Jews. But the narrative is built on a flawed foundation.

For example, Gershom Gorenberg in his Op—Ed in the New York Times, “Israel’s Tragedy Foretold,” on March 10, 2006, opines that Israelis and their leaders have finally seen the light, namely that Israel should abandon the settlements.

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Peloni: This warning defies the reality that the only reason the Mullahs are talking to Trump is due to their diminished capacities which have come as a result of Israel’s stripping them of their air defenses while also crippling their proxy armies.

Trump warned Bibi not to do anything to disrupt the current talks there in the region.

Bibi ofc ignored Trump.

REPORTER: “Did you warn Prime Minister Netanyahu against taking some sort of action that could disrupt the talks there?”

TRUMP: “I’d like to be honest. Yes, I did.” pic.twitter.com/Ovd8xrQMLo

— WayneTech SPFX®? (@WayneTechSPFX) May 28, 2025

Government decision marks largest expansion since 1967, reinforcing Zionist presence and strategic depth in ancestral homeland.

Israfan | May 29, 2025

Israeli settlement in Judea near Za’atara.  (Photo by Ralf Roletschek – Own work, GFDL 1.2)

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The assault against Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim marks the return of far-left terrorism to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its arrival in the US.

Jonathan Spyer | May 29, 2025

Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim.  (Photo by Eagle003 – Facebook, CC BY-SA 4.0)

The murders of Israeli diplomats Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. by Elias Rodriguez on May 21 represent the return of a once quite widespread phenomenon which over the last half century had largely disappeared.

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by Bassam Tawil  •  May 26, 2025

25th anniversary of Hamas celebrated in Gaza.  (Photo by Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0)

• After the 2007 Hamas takeover, the Gaza Strip became an independent Palestinian state controlled by Hamas, with its own government, parliament, police force, and multiple armed groups. The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip, in addition, had exclusive control over the border with Egypt, which was also abandoned by Israel.

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Why hasn’t Israel won the war yet? A look at some of the policies implemented may provide an explanation.

By AVI ABELOW | MAY 28, 2025

Nineteen months have passed since October 7, 2023, the darkest day in modern Israeli history. The day Hamas terrorists invaded our homeland, massacred over 1,200 innocent people, and took 251 hostage. Despite the government’s commitment to victory and the IDF’s sustained military efforts, the war continues with no clear end in sight.

Our brave soldiers – my sons among them – have risked everything to ensure such an attack never happens again. And yet, here we are, still fighting a dragged-out war in Gaza, still burying heroes, and still hearing promises of victory that somehow remain just out of reach.

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The British government believes that it has the moral authority to dictate where in their ancestral homeland Jewish families can and cannot live.

Moshe Phillips

Along with the Israeli Defense Forces, perhaps no group of Israelis draws the attention of Israel’s critics as frequently as the so-called Jewish settlers.

In the same week that Tzeela Gez, a 30-year-old pregnant Israeli “settler” who was on her way to the hospital to deliver her fourth son, was murdered by a Palestinian Arab terrorist, the British government targeted a 79-year-old great-grandmother named Daniella Weiss.

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Peloni:  Trump’s push to solidify support around Turkey, sever the connection of US-Saudi deal with Saudi-Israel normalization, terminating the war with the Houthis without restoring full freedom of the seas accepting the Israel only exception, and a Middle East tour without a stop in America’s greatest ally in the world, Israel, provides serious concerns for what the regional ‘shift’ really represents.  Also, the US has been providing unfettered weapons supplies to Israel and had remained silent on the Israeli offensive in Gaza, but now Trump has noted he is looking to end the war in Gaza too.  Simultaneously, he has told Bibi not to take actions which will affect the US-Iranian negotiations.  While this shift in Trump’s policy is most commonly referenced in comparison to Biden’s policy, it is far more interesting to consider the shift from Trump’s first term policy.  Indeed, all in all, Trump’s policy from his first term which had been centered upon its good and strong relationship with Israel while aligning itself against Iran – something which led to the unveiling of the Abraham Accords after only a couple of years.  Now, the central aspects of Trump’s policy seems to be centered around the Gulf states, leaving Israel somewhat isolated to its disadvantage.  All of this ignores the fact that all of Trump’s leverage in the region has come from the strategic upsets which were brought about by Israel’s actions which have collapsed the Iranian power base throughout the region.  The resulting appearance of isolating Israel from the US during the past month has strengthened the resolve of US enemies, while diminishing US leverage with those enemies.  This will have unfortunate consequences for both the US and Israel.

President Trump’s evolving Middle East policy, highlighting a strategic shift from traditional Western intervention toward fostering regional partnerships, diplomacy, and sustainable peace.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | MAY 27, 2025

US President Donald Trump has been laying out a vision for how his administration views the Middle East. The administration came into office hoping that it could end the conflict in Gaza and bring about a hostage and ceasefire deal.

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