FDD | July 2, 2025

Latest Developments

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• Billions of Dollars in Damage Prevented: The Israeli Defense Ministry reported that its aerial defenses successfully intercepted 86 percent of ballistic missiles launched by Iran during the conflict in June. In a newly released assessment, the ministry estimated that the interception rate prevented more than $15 billion in potential property damage and saved countless lives. Twenty-eight civilians were killed during the strikes, with hundreds wounded as well.

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Max Lesser | July 1, 2025

The “Iran Hayom” network posts anti-Israel propaganda, in Hebrew and English, across X, Instagram, TikTok, Telegram, and YouTube. Its name is a play on the widely read Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom, which publishes in Hebrew at israelhayom[.]co[.]il and whose English website is israelhayom[.]com. The Iran Hayom logo even borrows design elements from Israel Hayom. An Israeli reader scrolling casually through their feed might even read Iran Hayom content and think the Israeli paper had posted it.

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Peloni:  Changes on the ground, and not just around Pokrovsk, was what fueled Putin’s refusal of Trump’s requests in a phone call on July 3.  Ukraine is in a desperate position, with the territorial losses gaining steam over time, with Russia territorial advancements breaking records in June without dispute.  The comment of drip, drip, flood is the only possible consequence to Urkaine’s deficits in men, munitions and morale.  Adding to the territorial gains, the innovative and penalizing attacks against Russia proper has left the Russians with little interest in conceding their advantage over Ukraine.

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Peloni:  See more here:  Columbia President Claire Shipman Privately Said School Needed To Add an ‘Arab’ Board Member—and Remove a Jewish One

Amazing how @ClaireShipman manages to tokenize Arab and Middle Eastern People while simultaneously slandering a @Columbia board member using Antisemitic tropes. I expect her resignation imminently as both an alum and a parent of a current student. https://t.co/NmNqfziTUe

— Michael Rubin (@MrMichaelRubin) July 2, 2025

Peloni:  Recalling the intense debate over the renewal of the FISA authorization during Trump’s first term, the far less significant conversation over the BBB’s expanding the surveillance state in America is important to note.  Liberty is by nature a diminishing quality, something which must be constantly defended and tested to remain upheld.  As the world looked very different in the wake of the Patriot Act, the world will look very different in the wake of the BBB.  And subsequent generations will find it impossible to grasp exactly what they lost due to the current inattentiveness to maintain the liberties which are being swallowed whole in this bill.  And of course, what begins in Washington never remains exclusively in Washington…

Bill allocates billions for digital tracking systems nationwide, mostly under the guise of ‘border security.’ All major state and federal highways will be monitored 24/7 in real time.

Peloni:  There are many current reports on the unbelievable feats of Catherine Perez-Shakdam, but I think this one captures a greater context than most, while also raising remaining questions which linger after reading of her incredible movement into the most inner circles of the Iranian regime.  In fact, the questions which are raised at the end of this video are what drew my interest in looking closer into what is known of Perez-Shakdam, but the honest truth is that there the answers to these questions remain somewhat unclear.  In any event, if she was acting on behalf of the Mossad or out of a resolve to deal with the antisemitism which she grew up with, she is an amazing woman, and her reports on the inside conversations with the leadership of the Mullahs were incredibly important, even if she did not have a hand in what took place by Israel inside Iran over the past many years. 

Al-Shabaab insurgents.  (Photo by Al-Kataib Media Foundation – film titled “Ambush in Bardali”, Public Domain, Wikipedia)

By Christine Douglass-Williams | July 3, 2025

The Red Sea is a critically important route for companies that are shipping goods from Asia to Europe. It accounts for about “15% of total global sea trade.” The Houthis have been disrupting those shipping routes since early 2024, thus affecting the price of goods, which are now costing more to ship and are taking longer to arrive, as the ships have faced attacks. This translated into higher prices for Western consumers in already bad economies. Then in early May, the Iran-aligned Houthis struck a deal with Trump to stop interrupting the shipping vessels in the Red Sea and Middle East. In turn, Trump said the U.S. would stop bombing the Houthis in Yemen. The agreement, however, did not include Houthi strikes on Israel. While that deal gave a hope of reprieve for the shipping vessels at risk, a new report is now stating that the Houthis have struck what appears to be a simultaneous deal with al-Shabab.

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Peloni: Shame on Schumer!

by Rafael Medoff

Israeli ambassador Abba Eban was greeted by an irritating sight when he rose to speak in Harvard University’s Sanders Hall on a chilly Tuesday evening in the autumn of 1970. A group of anti-­Israel extremists in the gallery had unfurled a banner denouncing “Zionist imperialists” and tried to shout Eban down when he began to speak.

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US officials accuse Albanese of antisemitism, false legal claims and attacks on American companies.

Israfan | July 3, 2025

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Peloni:  Senate changes to the BBB succeeded in removing the moratorium on State level oversight of AI, but there is no mention of the land grabs, terrorist exemptions for terrorist organizations or tax on tips, so many of the worms remain which were described in  THE ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL HAS WORMS IN IT.  As the bill moves back to the House, it presents the opportunity for further revisions as well as additional additions…

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The Senate passed President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” on Tuesday morning, but only after senators spent hours negotiating changes to the near-1,000 page sweeping budget legislation.

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Will the US support Israel’s new post-October 7 doctrine of preemption and deterrence, or will Washington revert to urging Israeli restraint once ceasefires are established?

By Eric Mandel | July 1, 2025

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John Spencer, head of West Point’s Urban Warfare Institute, wrote that the US and Israel “achieved overwhelming success at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels… shatter[ing] the myth of Iran’s invulnerability.” Yet, as The Wall Street Journal observed, despite the blow to the “pillars of Iran’s theocracy, the regime remains intact – wounded but capable of regrouping in more dangerous and unpredictable ways.”

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I Urge Everyone to Read and listen to this article.

Obama Should Apologize for Shameful Cash Payment to Iran

IT DETAILS SOME OF WHAT WE HAD BEEN WARNING, WHO EVER WAS WILLING TO LISTEN, WELL BEFORE OBAMA TOOK OFFICE AS POTUS IN HIS FIRST TERM.

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Peloni: The end is near.

?JUST IN: PM Netanyahu: “There will be no Hams, this thing is over – we will eliminate it to the core.” pic.twitter.com/oEHcO3RI7y

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) July 2, 2025

Peloni:  As the evidence continues to mount to support what was always obvious as a political weaponization of the US Justice system, will no one ever be charged with a crime?  Where is the action to support the outrage which these documents validate?