by Gerald A. Honigman

As of Memorial Day in America during the last week of May in 2026, the latest reports regarding the newest round of negotiations with the master practitioners of taqiyyah and kitman obfuscation and outright prevarication with despised kafir/infidels, of which President Trump is the world leader, the long term chances that an Iran in which any vestige of the supremacist theocracy of the current 12’er Shi’a mullahs bent on Islamic world conquest is left intact, will keep its promises are less than zero.

More on this later, but this toxic, genocidal regime must be treated as a malignant tumor which must be totally removed so it doesn’t metastasize and reappear later, long after America has left the arena.

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Jonathan Feldstein

Palestinian Passport issued by British Colonial Office for Israel Yehuda in 1929.  Photo by Huddyhuddy – Own work, Public Domain, Wikipedia

On May 15, as has been done for decades, Palestinian Arabs, their supporters and Israel detractors observed the “Nakba” or the catastrophe of Israel’s birth in 1948. In order to understand the veracity of that narrative and how it’s been conflated in modern dialogue and reporting, it’s important to understand what lies behind that. This is Part One of a Six Part series.

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by Amir Taheri  •  Gatestone Institute  •  May 24, 2026

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Beijing almost in the same timeframe. China’s President Xi Jinping gave both visitors exactly the same reception while granting neither any of the things they demanded. Pictured: President of Russia Vladimir Putin and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping at Zhongnanhai in Beijing, China. Photo by Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

• In the past decade, the UN has lost much of its aura as a source of moral authority, let alone meaningful material relevance. Two of its veto-holding members have been engaged in wars of choice, while a third one has been branded a gross violator of human rights.

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Peloni:  In Amit Segal’s article below, he explains that Trump is using the extension of the Abraham Accords as the means by which to restrain Netanyahu in the region, much as tethering Israel to the UAE did in the first round of the AA.  While such an event would give Netanyahu the political capital to possibly survive what is coming in the form of faux peace deals with Lebanon, Gaza and Iran, it leaves a very big question mark as to whether the Arabs would actually acquiesce to accepting such a demand by Trump.  Already, MBS has announced his fallback line of requiring a second Pal state, a line in the sand which the other Arab states will no doubt support.  This will raise the specter of the revival of the latest iteration of the American imposed gambit of the Two State Solution, the foundation for which is already baked into the UNSC Resolution 2803.  In the post October 7 period, such a venture lacks all viability in Israel, but that would require having a leader with both the temerity and the strength to stand up to the Americans and to simply refuse such an outcome.  Alternatively, we could recognize the reality that a Pal state was created with the formation of the state of Transjordan, now renamed Jordan, a reality around which would provide a more stable future for the entire region than in succumbing to the demand of creating a second Pal state from the heartlands of the Jewish State.  The Jordan Option is the better path forward.

The bill for American action has arrived at the Saudi door. Last night, Donald Trump reportedly demanded that in exchange for finalizing the current ceasefire deal with Iran—the one desperately needed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz—the Gulf states would have to pay a massive… pic.twitter.com/iQYzQzQHqw

— Amit Segal (@AmitSegal) May 25, 2026

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Peloni:  The problem is not whether Trump’s deal with the Iranian regime is a good deal, but rather that he is chasing a deal as his ultimate goal of victory, because such a deal is not a victory for America, the West or Israel.  Instead such a deal, regardless of the terms, indicates victory for the Iranian regime, and even if Trump doesn’t understand this, the Iranians do, and so do those in the region.

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Peloni:  The lack of victory on every front, as seems imminent, will leave Netanyahu politically exposed and vulnerable going into the election.

In addition to nuclear issue, Lebanese front is major concern for Israel

All Israel News Staff | Published: May 25, 2026

President Donald J. Trump participate in an expanded bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, in the Oval Office of the White House. Photo by The White House from Washington, DC – President Trump Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The emerging deal between Washington and Tehran to end the war has encountered strong criticism from voices in the Israeli military and senior politicians, despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assertions that the deal would decisively end the regime’s nuclear program.

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Peloni & David Fieldstone

Mark recasts a very important episode of his show in which he spent the entire evening speaking with Peter Schweizer to discuss topics covered in his recent book, The Silent Coup.  Among the topics covered are the following:

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Peloni:  The UN should be evicted from every hectare of land on which its various agencies and NGOs stand.  The relative personnel should deported and banned for life from returning.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | May 24, 2026

Israel begins to demolish UNRWA buildings in East Jerusalem. Screengrab via Youtube

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) continues to provide help to “Palestinian refugees” that no other group of refugees in the world receives. Among all the hundreds of millions of refugees created since World War II, only the so-called “Palestinians” have a UN Agency devoted solely to their care and feeding. All the other refugee groups are collectively looked after by a single UN Agency, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Another unusual feature of UNRWA is that it keeps on its list of refugees not just the real refugees who left Mandatory Palestine and then Israel, just before, during and after the 1948 war, of whom less than 20,000 are still alive, but all of those refugees’ children, grandchildren, and so on, without end. So their numbers keep increasing, and UNRWA now provides aid to 5.9 million “registered Palestine refugees.” And all of those 5.9 million descendants of refugees are provided with UNRWA benefits. For all other refugees, that status is not passed on. No one has yet satisfactorily explained why the Palestinian “refugees” should enjoy this unique treatment.

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Peloni:  We were supposed to have the one page MOU published today, but that did not happen.  Instead, the Iranians are demanding that there be no linkage between concessions on the nuclear file and the billions of dollars in sanctions relief.  Meanwhile we are hearing concerns about the deal falling apart in place of the ‘coming soon’ proclamations made yesterday.  Ultimately, it comes down to the question of whether the Iranians are ultimately willing to capitulate to Trump’s demands, and publicly at least, there has never been any indication that this would be forthcoming, and this has still not changed.  Hence the publicly released message by Trump via Truth Social in the picture below…

Avi Abelow | Meta | Ma 24, 2026

Most recent picture posted by Trump, with the implied warning that war is still a possible solution to the current situation in Iran.  Screengrab via X.

The emerging reports about this proposed agreement with Iran should concern anyone who actually understands the Middle East, not through the naïve lens of Western diplomacy, but through the reality of Islamic jihadist ideology and regional power politics.

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Peloni:  As if trying to demonstrate that Turkey can be just as authoritative in its refusal to tolerate popular opponents as has been seen in Europe, Erdogan acts with impunity in isolating and disqualifying his political rival.

Clashes erupted at CHP headquarters in Ankara after a court removed opposition leader Ozgur Ozel, raising fears of a deeper political crisis as Erdogan tightens his grip.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | MAY 24, 2026

Turkish Opposition Party Ozgur Ozel reacts with defiance in the face of the court ruling. Screengrab via Youtube

Turkey is facing a potential political crisis as the leading opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has been thrown into turmoil.

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