By Marziyeh Amirizadeh

Iranian riots in last week of December 2025. Screengrab via Youtube

Unprecedented protests are taking place across Iran, both in terms of the number of people participating, and number of cities in which the protests are taking place. Countless videos have documented Iranians protesting. And it’s growing. The reason is the compounded suffering to which Iranians have been subject under the Islamic republic, and which hopefully are at the breaking point.

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Peloni:  Recall that Israel has all the authority required to exercise its ability to deal with Hamas under the UN resolution on this subject, yet in this press conference it is clarified that others will be responsible for doing this.  Hamas has stood in violation of that UNSR since it was adopted, and Israel has stayed its hand to allow the feckless Arabs to demonstrate their lack of resolve and their true intent to preserve Hamas in power rather than to depose them under any terms.  Referring back to the interview with Amb. Ettinger posted earlier, and recalling that Netanyahu came to Florida to negotiate with Trump, the question arises as to what the negotiations were truly about.  Interestingly, in the press conference below Trump is seen to finally add his voice of acknowledging and threatening Iran’s moves to rebuild its nuclear program.  In that same press conference, Trump recalls that the Arabs agreed to deal with Hamas and seems to suggests/insist that they will do so as agreed.  So, was this the deal struck at Mar a Lago, ie Trump’s support for Israel’s position on Iran for more time in dealing with Hamas?  Well, in part, yes, I think it was.

FDD | Dec 29, 2025

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Latest Developments

• Trump Promises ‘Hell’ if Hamas Doesn’t Disarm: President Donald Trump warned Hamas would be given a “very short period of time to disarm” as he prepares to launch the second phase of his peace plan for Gaza. “If they don’t disarm as they agreed to do … then there’ll be hell to pay for them,” Trump declared in a joint appearance with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Earlier, Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida vowed that the Iran-backed terrorist group would not disarm.

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Peloni:  Amb. Yoram Ettinger provides an important context for Netanyahu’s trip to Mar A Lago.  Ettinger notes that the overwhelming defeat of Iranian hegemony in the Middle East has been simultaneously a strategic defeat for China in the region which has led to China doubling down on its support of Iran by reaming them and providing them with advanced warfare tools.  He goes on to explain that negotiating with Iran advances Iranian goals of delaying defeat while rebuilding and establishing new heights of its warfare capabilities.  This is the message needed to be heard in Washington, and in Florida too.

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Avi Abelow | X

Israel stands today at five decisive junctions: Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, and the future structure of the U.S.–Israel alliance. Each one demands clarity, not slogans.

First: Gaza.

Israel cannot move forward while Hamas still exists, armed, empowered, and dreaming of the next October 7. Hamas and Islamic Jihad are not “governing bodies.” They are jihadist armies. There can be no Phase B, no “day after,” without the return of the body of Ran Gueli z”l and the complete disarmament of Hamas. Anything less is surrender disguised as diplomacy. If Hamas refuses, Israel must retain full freedom of action to finish the job.

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by Daniel Greenfield | Dec 29, 2025

Steven Spielberg.  Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Steven Spielberg, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

“Let Gaza live,” a mob of anti-Israel protesters screamed, brandishing signs falsely accusing the Jewish State of “ethnic cleansing”, “starving Gaza” and genocide while illegally blocking traffic outside the Israeli consulate in Midtown Manhattan.

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Peloni:  Wide spread reports of riots taking place in Iran have been announced in the recent hours, with the Israel’s Mossad announcing on its Persian-language X account calling for Iranians to take to the streets and claiming to be offering “active, on-the-ground support rather than symbolic backing” .

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Peloni:  The most fundamental of issues are what remains to be decided, and it remains to be demonstrated that Zelensky can push thru any compromise on what is being discussed, even as he continues to lose more and more ground on the battlefield every day.  Importantly, a report was released today indicating that the Ukrainians attacked one of Putin’s residences.  These are the gambits which will be pushed forward as demands for a peace become more and more required by Washington.

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By Christine Douglass-Williams | Dec 29, 2025

 Turkey’s alliance with Iran is to “defend the interests of the Islamic world in international forums,” while the West continues to turn a blind eye to the true nature of Turkey, which is still a member of NATO. A top Israeli strategist described Turkey as the “new Iran,” for good reason.

On July 2025, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf met with Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Numan Kurtulmus on the sidelines of the Sixth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament in Geneva, calling on Islamic and regional countries, especially Iran and Turkey, to unite and remain strong in opposition to the United States and Israel.

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By Sha’i ben-Tekoa

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Did you see during Christmas week in New York City the Times Square electronic billboard proclaiming. “Jesus is Palestinian”?

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History shows how quickly allies can turn into adversaries.

Moshe Phillips | Dec 29, 2025

27th Adir F35 arrival at Nevatim, August 2020. Photo by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem – DSC_0863SM, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia

When Tom Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, tweeted on Dec. 9 that America “is in ongoing discussions with Turkey regarding their desire to rejoin the F-35 program,” it should have sent chills through any American who cares about the future of the Middle East. An F-35 stealth fighter jet taking off from Turkey could reach Israeli airspace in about 15 minutes. Cyprus is even closer, and Turkey doesn’t even recognize the Republic of Cyprus.

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Jalal Tagreeb and Peloni

Avi Weiss,

Introduction

In a detailed interview aired on TOV Israeli television, Avi Weiss, a retired Deputy Commissioner of Israel Police, presented a comprehensive critique of what he terms multiple “Qatar-gate” scandals plaguing Israeli politics. Weiss argues that these overlapping investigations represent prosecutorial overreach, politically motivated charges, and a fundamental misunderstanding of the evidence. His analysis comes at a critical juncture, as two separate but interconnected cases involving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s associates have captured national attention and sparked intense debate about national security, foreign influence, and the integrity of Israel’s legal system.

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Peloni:  In this video Dershowitz demonstrates his continued support for the Two State Solution, something which defies reason and rationale, as there is no appetite for such insanity in Israel  Furthermore, the Jihadis with whom he suggests needs to earn such a boon have no interest in anything but the intended massacre of Jews which is clearly explained by the repeated refrain ‘from the river to the sea’.  Importantly, there needs to be a model which might be endorsed by the Israeli govt and the Israeli people.  Rather than looking to seek a way to rip a second Palestinian state from the Jewish homeland, it would seem reasonable that we should instead focus upon the notion that a Palestinian state was already ripped from the Jewish homeland more than a century ago due to the malicious motivations of Perfidious Albans.  Jordan is that state, a state which has an usurper feigning to be both king over his well subjugated subjects, and who feigns any friendship for the Jewish state which he continuously elicits blood libels against.   Jordan is Palestine, and it would be best for Israel, best for the psychotic ‘Palestinians’ and best for the region, as well as the world, if this fact were admitted and respected.

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Peloni:  The corrupt, compliant and complicit within French society are condemning their future descendants to the yoke of dhimmitude and subjugation which their ancestors defeated.  

French courts insist: Islam had nothing to do with it.

by Hugh Fitzgerald | Dec 29, 2025

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In Paris, a French Jewish family had hired a nanny, originally from Algeria, in a display of astonishing naivete. They apparently had no idea of what hate for Jews this Arab woman likely harbored in her heart; in this respect, they were simply like so many people in Western Europe who still do not realize what the Muslims in their midst think of them.

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Peloni:  The enemy lies inside the gate, weaponizing the youth, corrupting vital institutions, bribing public officials and threatening the future survival of the American nation and the American people.  For the sake of the West, for the benefit of future generations, and for the preservation of the Judeo Christian heritage on which the American Experiment was formed upon, the truth about the Jihadists with whom the US is coordinating must be made clear to the Americans.

Avi Abelow

President Donald Trump and senior staff greet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Monday, April 7, 2025, in the West Wing Lobby of the White House. (Photo by The White House – X Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia)

Prime Minister Netanyahu just left Israel to meet with President Trump in Florida. This will be a very important meeting for Israel.

But it may be even more important for the United States.

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Peloni:  This article is from a several years ago, but it accurately describes the divergent paths which first led to the converging of Somaliland with Somalia and later led to their permanent separation and current political situation.

If Canada does not recognize Somaliland, we will be harming our own interest and contributing to conflict in a turbulent part of the world

By Geoffrey Clarfield , National Post | August 3, 2018

Somaliland in Orange and Somalia in Green. Image by Adam Hegazy337259 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

It starts like this. A Somali “entrepreneur,” often a former pirate who rose in the ranks of his “profession,” decides to attack a ship in the Indian Ocean in the hope that he can get a king’s ransom from the owners, or from the companies that insure the massive vessels, which carry 90 per cent of the world’s shipping. The entrepreneur either uses his own money or gets it from investors. With this money he hires local crews of pirates who are willing to man the small powerboats used to board the larger ships.

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