By Gerald A. Honigman
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Recent reports have announced that Israel is extending its military reach into Africa with a Morocco defense partnership. This is potentially good news.
By Walter E. Block
Libertarians favor the legalization of all drugs, including not just marijuana, but also cocaine, opium, heroin, fentanyl, for adults only, of course. Ignorant critics deduce from this stance that we support their actual use, and indulge. God forbid. Libertarians favor the legalization of prostitution, pornography, sado-masochistic relationships between consenting adults. Malicious detractors claim that we all engage in every one of these activities and urge others to do so. Ditto.
Peloni: This is a must read article. Saudi Arabia is renewing its engagement on Gaza by proposing that it be allowed to supervise reforms within the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a step toward future governance of the Strip. Offering its support to ensure anti-corruption measures, administrative restructuring, de-radicalization, while also ending terrorist stipends, required benchmarks demanded by Israel, the US, and Gulf states, the Saudis are calling for the release of withheld tax revenues and offer to include Saudi financial incentives. While the Saudis argue that this is intended to end the Gaza war and advance the Trump plan and Abraham Accords, Israel remains opposed to premature PA entry into Gaza, while the UAE doubts reform credibility. Hence, once again, we stand at the brink of offering terrorists cash to behave rather than finding some alternative to the American equity of the terrorist PA, which has a history of absorbing cash like a financial black hole while ignoring the demands which are associated with payments. Radicals have no end of appetite for cash, no limit of pretense in role-playing hudnas and no possibility of being deradicalized following a life built upon the structural application of radicalization. While the PA celebrated October 7 longer than did their cousins in Gaza, we are to trust that they will not only be reformed, but that they will be reformed while being granted access to authority in Gaza for which they should NEVER have any access ever. This is pure madness…and we can expect that Washington is going to put the full weight of its inscrutable support behind it.
After months of signaling disengagement, Riyadh has presented Washington with a plan to oversee comprehensive reforms within the Palestinian Authority – a move designed to pave the way for Ramallah’s return to power in Gaza.
by Danny Zaken | Israel Hayom | 01-08-2026.
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Peloni: An important essay relating the current events in the Middle East to interactions with and by relative Iranian expats in CA. A very insightful essay.
By Ari Bussel
I was asked whether “perhaps this time the Iranians will succeed in emerging from the dictatorship?”
To reinforce this, it was said: “In fact, what Trump said regarding the Iranian people sounded like giving them backing.”
Peloni: Is this how the Trump administration foresees peace in our age might be achieved? The insanity of treating terrorists as having any interest in peace is the lie which betrayed and underpinned the folly of Oslo. Do we need to walk this path again, or is it possible to grasp that peace can have no partnership with terror, not alliance with belligerents, and no future which so closely mimics past mistakes.
by Uzay Bulut • Gatestone Institute • January 11, 2026
Turkey makes no secret of its support for the Hamas terror organization. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime, through its continuous support for Hamas, has not brought a lasting peace; it has brought lasting terrorism. Erdogan’s own words reveal his intentions. Pictured: Erdogan (right) honors then Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Istanbul, Turkey on April 20, 2024. (Screengrab via Youtube)
Peloni: What is really needed to support the people of Iran in their goal of regaining control over their lives and their country is real support. When the US chooses their targets and drops their bombs, no matter the sensitivity of the targets, the people of Iran will still only have their voice with which to defend themselves. What they need are the capabilities to do more than overwhelm their oppressors with their numbers as they march into a hail of bullets and grenade fire. They need arms, munitions, and the capability to render their zeal as being more meaningful than a gaggle of protesting fish in an Iranian barrel. They need the ability to protect themselves and to stop the purge of their leaders and members and to bring their fight to a meaningful and decisive conclusion. Their victory in this moment will be a victory for the US and the West, and the possibility of their failure in this moment will have far reaching implications. Of course, arming the Iranians will lack the the public extravaganza which arial explosions always provide for the press and which may satisfy a Western audience. Yet, when the smoke clears from the US ordinance, it will leave the protestors in the precarious and unenviable position of still being defenseless against the unrestrained wrath of their Mullah masters whose control over Iran will not be defeated in the coming strikes. The Iranians need arms, and they need them now.
While the leftists have been mentally masturbating over Maduro and Renee Good, the real news is the growing anti-Islamist revolution Iran.
Am Thinker | January 10, 2026
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For Democrats, including those who run most of America’s media, the only news is that Trump “illegally” extradited Maduro and his wife for crimes against America and that an ICE agent “murdered” an innocent lesbian poet and mommy. For people living in the real world, the most important news this weekend may be that the Islamic Republic of Iran is almost certainly on its last legs—thanks in large part to long overdue action from Israel and America against this violent, terror-fomenting regime.
Peloni: Recall that the PA and its associated organizations, including the PA Police, are an American equity, one which is held in such high esteem that even the stigmatism of it institutionally associated with and rewarding terrorism has failed to lead to the US disowning this Fatah operated sham facade as Israel’s peace partner. Even today, the US is operating under an understanding that their PA equity will be miraculously refashioned into something which can be relied upon to manage what will come to be in Gaza, and no doubt will also be included in America’s never forgotten and always resuscitating vehicle of terror Two State Solution. The Americans needs to take responsibility for the pernicious pretense that their PA behemoth is anything more than a weaponize tool intended to seek the destruction of Israel, and the slaughter and enslavement of its people. This organization, despite it being owned by the US, is incapable of any meaningful reform for the very reason that it was fashioned from the steel of a terrorist organization which has only had one goal in mind, and that goal is not, and could never be, the pursuit of peace or anything slightly resembling it. Til such an honest evaluation of the PA which America has developed over the years is adopted, such tragedies as described below will continue, because war, not peace, is the purpose of the PA, and any attempt to fashion this terror entity towards fitting a peace sized hole will only demonstrate the facetious and false nature of those who would tolerate, much less advocate, for such an outrageously malicious, and all too obvious, fabrication.
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Under the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authority made a solemn commitment to help the IDF suppress terrorists in Judea and Samaria (a/k/a the West Bank). These turn out to be promises more honored in the breach than in the observance. Again and again, Palestinian Authority policemen have not only refused to fight the terrorists plaguing Israelis; in many cases, they have turned out to be terrorists themselves. The latest example is Younes Walid Shtayyeh, a PA police officer who was shot dead after he fired at Israeli special forces. Far from apologizing for one of their policemen trying to murder Israelis, the Palestinian Authority has hailed Shtayyeh as a brave “martyr.” More on the policeman-terrorist can be found here: “Palestinian Authority police commit another terrorist attack,” by Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, January 5, 2026:
Otto Von Bismark. By Braun et Compagnie – Kabinett-Photo, Public Domain, Wikipedia. [Cropped] [Colorized via AI]
Otto von Bismarck is often credited with the insight: “The aggressor is not the one who attacked; the aggressor is the one who provoked the attack.” This notion aligns with the Caroline Doctrine, which justifies preemptive self-defense as legitimate under certain conditions, as well as with principles of American self-defense law, which recognize that initiating physical violence isn’t the sole measure of aggression.
Peloni: As Iran is facing US strikes, it warns of US & Israeli targets becoming targets, as if Iran has not been targeting US and Israeli ‘targets’ over the past 5 decades. It is time to see an end to this terror regime, and to settle the scores which have been mounting since 1979, for Israel, for the US, and for the West.
Iranian Parliament Speaker threatens US and Israel over possible intervention
All Israel News Staff | Published: January 11, 2026
Protest in Iran. Screengrab via Youtube
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke over the phone on Saturday, as the situation in Iran continues to deteriorate, and as U.S. President Donald Trump signaled willingness to intervene.
Peloni: Iran has raised its alert level to highest ever.
SOURCES INDICATE A MAJOR DEVELOPMENT IN IRAN MAY UNFOLD WITHIN THE NEXT 48 HOURS.
Just as unexpected as VENEZUELA.#IranRevolution2026 #IranProtests #IranRevolution— Mudar Adnan Zahran ??? ????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) January 10, 2026
MAN POSING AS A MOSSAD OFFICER AND TARGETING MUDAR ZAHRAN ARRESTED FOR THREATENING A SENIOR ISRAELI IDF OFFICER
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It has been established that Yitzhak Magrefeta (???? ??????) has been working with an Arab journalist in Israel in an effort…— Mudar Adnan Zahran ??? ????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) January 9, 2026
Peloni: Israel alone in the region is addressing the threat posed over minorities in the region, and while the Trump administration has spoken about the genocidal threat to the Christians in Africa, it has failed to support the plight of the Christians in Syria where they are sponsoring the Jihadist regime of minority slaughter by the US supported Jolani govt and allies. While the US can ill afford to be the world’s policeman, the fate of Christians in US supported Egypt and Syria and Lebanon are far more amenable to US threats regarding the fate of their Christian communities than Africa. While it need not be a choice between the plight of the Christians of the Middle East or those of Africa, there is a great deal of influence which the US could bring to bear in nations where US influence and funding is key to the stability and survivability of the relative regimes of the Middle East.
The burgeoning relationship between Somaliland and Israel proves that the Jewish state is not hated and isolated in the region, despite the neighboring cluster of authoritarian states insisting otherwise.
Ben Cohen | Jan 9, 2025
“Only Israel supports you.”
These words, delivered in a tone by turns mocking and threatening, were addressed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the people of Iraqi Kurdistan following their September 2017 referendum on independence, in which 93% of participants voted in favor.
Sadly, Erdogan was correct.
Peloni: So, will Trump act to support the protestors, and what form might that support take? It is highly unlikely that he will fulfill Sen. Graham’s claim that Khamenei will be killed, but he could strike the IRGC facilities and/or those of the Basij, the internal security forces which enforces the oppressive will of the Mullahs on the Iranian people. Such strategic moves could certainly provide the protestors with a valuable support.
Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has warned the Iranian Islamic regime that President Donald Trump and the world are “closely watching” as events unfold in Iran, with the implied threat that if there are too many deaths of protesters, Trump could intervene. Senator Lindsey Graham says that in such a case, Trump will definitely “kill Khamenei.” Reza Pahlavi has said that any attempt by the regime to cut off internet access — it has already been done in some places — will only cause more protesters to turn out on the streets. And on January 7, Reza Pahlavi again called on Iranians to come out in “coordinated protests across the country.”
More on the latest developments in Iran can be found here: “Internet, phone services shut down across Iran as protesters attack state broadcaster offices,” by Alex Winston, James Genn, and Goldie Katz, Jerusalem Post, January 8, 2026:
Update: See the latest footage of the attack on the ICE officer from his own perspective.
By Pamela Geller |
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Federal Border Patrol agents fired defensive shots in Portland after an alleged member of Tren de Aragua attempted to run them over with a vehicle, according to the Department of Homeland Security. DHS confirmed the suspects were illegal Venezuelan nationals tied to the notorious gang’s sex-trafficking and violent criminal operations. Agents identified themselves during a targeted stop; the driver then “weaponized” the vehicle and tried to mow them down. Fearing for their lives, agents fired in self-defense.
Peloni: The UAE is committed to eliminating the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood in its own borders, and has employed a strategy which fails to employ such a rigid focus against radicalism beyond their own realm, which is why they spent two years opposing Israel from dealing a fatal blow to Hamas, and why they aligned with the radicals as it brought Israel before the UNSC on fake charges of condemning Israel just because an Israeli Minister visited the Temple Mount. Relevantly, the UAE is supporting the Trump strategy of only targeting a partial list including only some of the Muslim Brotherhood Chapters. This attempt of half baked measures only serves to support the threat which Jihadism poses, to the UAE, and to the US, as it ignores the reality that Jihad seeks no borders, no divisions, and no bargains. Instead, their goal is to include the entire world in their vision of conquest under a world wide caliphate, and the choice to lend support or tolerance to any aspect of these Jihadis or their goal only makes this goal all the more possible. The Brotherhood and their policies need to be opposed by the moderate Sunni nations such as the UAE, but also by the Western nations such as the US. Failing to appreciate the importance of seeing a cancer as cancerous only establishes the malignancy to spread and thrive beyond the relative boundaries which are selectively deemed as taboo. As is evident here in this article, no bargains with this scourge will long protect those who enter into such arranged marriages of convenience.
By: Yigal Carmon | Memri | Jan 8, 2025
The Trump administration’s intention to designate the branches of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon as terrorist organizations has heightened tensions in the Arab world between supporters of the MB and its opponents. As part of this tension, two senior MB figures who are also members of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), an arm of the Qatari regime for disseminating extremist Islamist, anti-Western and antisemitic ideology,[1] attacked the UAE over its positions and policies against the MB and its support for Trump’s initiative.
Peloni: The policies of censorship are policies of control and oppression. All freedom loving people should be repulsed by the attempts of governing oppressions which limit their freedom of expression and personal liberty.
by Drieu Godefridi • Gatestone Institute • January 9, 2026
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Arlene Kushner | January 8, 2026
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When planning this posting – a follow-up to the last, which focused in good measure on the Netanyahu-Trump meeting as it pertained to Iran – my intention was to look at the implications of that meeting with regard to Gaza.
Peloni: The foul sickness of Jew Hatred which has taken hold in the psyches of many in our current age is a frightening and growing event. Where it might lead and how it might end is clearly uncertain at this point, but if past proves prophetic as is too often true, we are facing an ever greater calamity which will forever cast a shade of shame for those inheriting the mantle of the Greatest Generation which recognized this soiling scourge as a clear death knell of morality and decency. As the chants for the annihilation of the Jews of Israel are followed by Jew Hunts in Amsterdam, Jew Shaming in Harvard, Jew Ransoming in Gaza and Jew Slaughter in Australia, the grand old generation which made an easy transition from defeating the Nazis to defying the Communists could only look down in shame at the rogues which are filling the streets of the modern world which were paved with the cost and privilege of facing down the very evil which is today made more and more commonplace among people we know and whom we once considered to be honest and good folks, only to find that they have morphed into the fountains of Jew Hating propaganda which would have made them the pride of Goebbles.
The charge was as ugly as it was predictable, reaching reflexively for conspiracy when accountability proved inconvenient.
Stephen M. Flatow
Proceedings inside the Supreme Court during Maduro’s second inauguration in January 2019. Photo by Presidencia El Salvador – Flickr, CC0, Wikipedia
The first reaction from Nicolás Maduro’s allies was not denial, reflection or even outrage over the mechanics of his reported rendition. It was an accusation. Almost immediately, regime figures and sympathetic outlets claimed the operation bore “Zionist fingerprints”—that it was inspired, guided or orchestrated by Israel. The charge was as ugly as it was predictable, reaching reflexively for conspiracy when accountability proved inconvenient.
Mariane Angela | News Reporter | Daily Caller |
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Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz on Friday made a constitutional case against requiring congressional approval before limited U.S. military actions.
