Peloni:  Is there a Trump Mideast Shift?

President Donald Trump attends a FIFA Task Force meeting, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in the East Room. (By The White House – Flikr, Public Domain)

Is the Trump administration leaving Israel behind? That’s the impression one gets from recent news stories.

Steve Witkoff, the president’s special envoy to the whole entire world, has been leaking to media and then commenting on his own leaks to the media. It’s a monologue billed as a conversation. And it has some Israelis worried.

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Peloni:  A democracy holds elections.  This single event is in fact the construct thru which the people offer their consent to be governed, it empowers the people over their leaders, and forces accountability upon those same leaders for their actions and their governance.  A govt which does not hold elections is an exercise in tyranny, the personification of depotism and an assault on the liberty and dignity of those men, women and children for whom the govt has little interest and no regard.

Sinan Ciddi | May 9, 2025

(Photo by kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0)

On March 19, Turkish authorities arrested Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu—President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s most serious political challenger. Imamoglu has served as mayor since 2019 and has defeated Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) in three consecutive elections. Following his detention on unsubstantiated charges of corruption and aiding terrorism, Imamoglu declared himself a “political prisoner,” noting that more than 100 people, including his senior advisers and municipal colleagues, were arrested alongside him.

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Avi Abelow

President Trump at the Israel Museum. Jerusalem May 23, 2017 (Photo by U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv – President Trump at the Israel Museum. Jerusalem May 23, 2017 President Trump at the Israel Museum. Jerusalem May 23, 2017, CC BY 2.0)

Anyone listening to the mainstream media right is in panic mode that Trump is distancing himself from Israel, and thinking we are about to be dumped by him.

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Peloni :  Jonathan Schanzer and Behnam Ben Taleblu talk about the possible talks this weekend between Iran and US. Talebu makes the case for Iran selling its weakness, and that of its failing proxy armies, as a gesture of good will towards the objective of surviving to fight another day. Notably, as I am posting this video, another alert has gone out in regards to an incoming Houthi missile.

The U.S.-#Iran nuclear talks will be back in full swing on Sunday. Will the White House hold firm on full disarmament? @FDD_Iran Program Sr. Director @therealBehnamBT joins me on the @FDD Morning Brief to make sense of the madness. https://t.co/U2NwD66O7s

— Jonathan Schanzer (@JSchanzer) May 9, 2025

Peloni:  Also See Part I and Part II in this important series.

by Karys Rhea  •  Gatestone Institute  •  May 9, 2025

Those who understand the scope of this have witnessed how the plan of former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is part of a much bigger strategy of illegal land use that extends to the Negev Desert in the south and to the Galilee in the north, all driven by a European-supported narrative that replaces Jewish history with the 20^th-century fiction of Palestinian-Arab nationalism.  Pictured: Salam Fayyad, Fmr. Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2013 (Photo by World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland – Transformations in the Arab World: Salam FayyadUploaded by January, CC BY-SA 2.0)

• The international community continues to conspire against the reality of Israel’s existence by testing the limits of its sovereignty and threatening the Jewish right to self-determination and self-defense.

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Peloni:  Unilaterally announcing a ceasefire on the heals of a successful Israeli air attack without informing Israel, followed shortly afterwards with the news of an US-Saudi deal now being made without Israel would suggest the making of a crisis between the US and Israel, but does is this crisis real or manufactured?

From Raylan Givens: “From C14 @Tamir114 Israeli officials have been trying to clarify the details of the crisis between Trump and Netanyahu in recent hours – they simply have not been “informed” about it by the Israeli media…

There are disputes and tension on several issues, but I repeat: reports of a crisis, “the collapse of relations,” etc., have no basis in reality, as far as I was able to find out during the night and today.

I also refer you to the report that my colleague Barak Ravid revealed this morning about Dermer’s meeting with Trump in the Oval Office last night. How exactly does this fit in with a deep crisis in relations? It is unclear.”

Things do appear somewhat uncertain at this moment, but time will tell.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | May 7, 2025

President Trump has now made his separate peace with the Houthis, without alerting the Israelis of his plans, and as a result, he has caused some consternation in Jerusalem, but Israeli policymakers have wisely kept mum. Trump wanted a done deal before the Israelis could rouse their supporters in the US to try to talk him out of it. Here’s the deal: the Houthis will no longer strike international shipping, and in return, Trump promises to cease bombing Houthis in Yemen. Israeli shipping, and Israel itself, are not part of the deal; they will remain targets of the Houthis, who just the other day sent a missile that managed to hit Ben-Gurion Airport.

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Shoshana Bryen • JPC • May 7, 2025

Christian and Druze celebrations in As-Suwayda.  (Photo by Drozi Yarka – Flikr, CC BY 2.0)

It is now the turn of Syria’s Druze population to face the danger of standing up to tyranny. But to understand what is happening in Syria, beyond more hideous death and destruction by terrorists of all stripes – and aid and protection provided only by Israel and the IDF – it helps to take a circuitous route.

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By Christine Douglass-Williams | May 8, 2025

When useful idiots of the West kowtow to or appease jihadist leaders, it sends a wider message to all jihadists about how they will react to jihad violence within their own countries, and about how they can be manipulated in order to get money.

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Peloni:  The devil is in the details and it is the details which must be made clear to Iran.

Trump has returned to office with a clear message: Iran will never possess nuclear weapons. But clarity on what that entails—and how to achieve it—is still lacking.

Jacob Nagel | May 8, 2025

Iran nuclear talks in Vienna, 2 July 2015. (Photo by Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0)

As the fourth round of negotiations between the US and Iran approaches, a barrage of conflicting statements, reports, and analyses continues to emerge—many riddled with inaccuracies. These stem either from a lack of understanding of technical details or from a deliberate desire to maintain ambiguity and prolong the talks.

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Peloni:  Never before in history has such a standard been required of any nation as has been required of Israel to care for the safety, security and feeding of those who have made war upon them.

What is more, there is no famine in Gaza.  For greater clarity on the libel of famine in Gaza, see the recent Free Press article by Michael Ames, The Gaza Famine Myth as well as the thread following Pres. Trump’s statement below.

JUST IN: TRUMP SAYS TO NETANYAHU:

“You got to be good to Gaza. Those people are suffering… There's a very big need for food and medicine, and we're taking care of it” pic.twitter.com/mP6j763ccb

— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) April 26, 2025

This came a few weeks after Leslie Stahl suggested in her interview with ransomed hostages that Gazans did not have enough food  This wasn’t true when Stahl made this claim:

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Israel-Alma | May 7, 2025

As the White House seeks a nuclear deal, the Iranian regime may already be making preparations to break any such agreement before it even starts. This was exactly the case with the 2015 nuclear deal and the Arak Nuclear Complex known as IR-40, when Iran kept a spare calandria to… pic.twitter.com/DZ8PLUndfa

— Israel-Alma (@Israel_Alma_org) May 7, 2025

As the White House seeks a nuclear deal, the Iranian regime may already be making preparations to break any such agreement before it even starts. This was exactly the case with the 2015 nuclear deal and the Arak Nuclear Complex known as IR-40, when Iran kept a spare calandria to keep their weapons-grade plutonium production.

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DM Katz warns Iran: ‘Era of proxies is over, and the axis of evil has collapsed’

All Israel News Staff | Published: May 8, 2025

(Phot by The White House from Washington, DC – President Trump Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Public Domain)

Israel will continue to defend itself by itself, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared, one day after U.S. President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement of a ceasefire with the Houthi terror group.

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By Moshe Phillips

A montage of 9 prominent Ethiopian Jews in Israel. (Photo by A derivative work by WikiJunkie, from a variety of images credited above., Public Domain)

“We’ve been dreaming of Jerusalem for many years. We’re the generation that fulfilled that dream. It shows the sacrifice that was there—the risks that were taken—the desire to get to Jerusalem at all costs.”

— Shay Yasso, an Israeli born in Ethiopia, rescued by the Mossad as a child

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Peloni:  Rule by AI is the ultimate consequence of the tyranny of experts, but democracy should restored such that rule of the corrupt will be replaced with the rule of the governed, not to the rule of AI.

Large swaths of federal workers being terminated does not mean the end of government involvement in our lives. It just means you’ll no longer have humans making decisions that affect your life.

Leo Hohmann |May 06, 2025

(Photo by Office of Speaker Mike Johnson – X.com, Public Domain) [Cropped]

Many of us voiced concerns when Elon Musk said he was going to eliminate large numbers of federal workers.

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Peloni:  It is interesting that Trump pulled Dr. Janette Nesheiwat’s nomination one day before her confirmation hearings were to begin.  So now that we have seen the confirmation of the former advocate of mRNA shots halted, might we soon see the Covid shots themselves halted, as they currently remain on the mandatory child vaccination schedule?

Also, something shared in other reports regarding Dr. Means is that she was significantly involved in the negotiated alliance between Trump and RFK during the last election season.

Robert McGreevy | Daily Caller | May 07, 2025

Casey Means (Photo by The Plant Yourself Podcast – YouTube, CC BY 3.0)

President Donald Trump is nominating Dr. Casey Means for the position of surgeon general after pulling Dr. Janette Nesheiwat’s nomination, Trump announced on his Truth Social account Wednesday.

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Peloni:  The victories in Judea & Samaria have been largely overshadowed by the successes in other fronts of this war, but they have been significant.