Peloni:  Note the segment with Gingrich

Peloni:  While Cruz calls out Carlson’s obsession with Israel, it should be recalled that I have been consistently noting that the “isolationists”, such as Carlson, are in fact not isolationists.  They are specifically either anti-Israel, or pro-Iran.  Either way, their focus is not directed in favor of America but either in opposition to America’s greatest ally or in tandem to America’s great enemy.  Striking a tone which is intended to be encompassing and factually based, they twist reality towards something quite harmful for America should US leadership follow their Siren calls.  While supplicants such as Bannon and Johnson failed this test, Sen. Cruz and Pres. Trump never lost their stated intolerance to Iran’s nuclear program.

Finally, someone with real power calls out Tucker Carlson straight to his face over his thinly veiled antisemitism. Kudos, @tedcruz pic.twitter.com/b4VDeioDNO

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) June 18, 2025

Israel’s systematic dismantling of Hezbollah’s infrastructure—killing its leader Hassan Nasrallah, obliterating its missile stockpiles, and forcing its remnants north of the Litani River—has reduced the group to a mere spectator in the ongoing war between Israel and Iran.

Jalal Tagreeb

Introduction:

This article is not written by an Israeli analyst, a Western journalist, or even a neutral observer. These are the words of Jalal Tagreeb — a former Muslim preacher. A self-proclaimed “warrior of Islamic debate” who once vowed to win debates with non Muslims. He swore his arguments would crush them and that his theological prowess would silence all opposition.

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Peloni:  This is a very good interview between Bari Weiss and Mike Doran.  They offer a description of the basis of the mounting victory over Iran which has come as a result of the tight coordination between Netanyahu and Trump, aided by the predictable nature of Iranian arrogance and duplicity.  Begin watching at about 12min 21sec mark for about 30min.  Very keen insights and explanations.

Peloni:  A very good description of the past weeks actions.

Peloni:  The road to facing off against China runs thru defeating Iran.  As the current regime in Iran is on the verge of collapse, we are likely to see the coordination between Iran and China being replaced by the coordination between Irna and the US.  Given that Iran is China’s main supplier of energy, and that its entire domestic policy might be leveraged by the US against China into the future, the defeat of Iran will not only benefit US interests by eliminating the nuclear and developing ICBM threat in Iran, but it will shift the control of the flow of oil from Iran, not to mention it also shifting the control of the Straits of Hormuz from an enemy regime to a US ally.  These are important and potentially decisive shifts.

by Gordon G. Chang  •  Gatestone Institute  •  June 16, 2025

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi signed a document on Iran–China 25-year Cooperation Program. (Photo by Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0)

• “There were some very, very relieved people in the Gulf as the sun rose this morning…. The Saudis know that China had armed their enemy Iran with nukes and lesser weapons and fully backed the Houthis, who have been waging war on the Kingdom for years.” — Jonathan Bass, Chief Executive Officer, Argent LNG, to Gatestone Institute, June 13, 2025.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Look my Friends of all political persuasions…

As a NPA Independent who has penned numerous analyses over the decades taking both Republicans and Democrats to task, I also wrote favorably about President Trump during his first administration.

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Peloni:  The reality is that Tucker Carlson has a very large following, and that this provides him with a great platform from which to promote his desired narratives.  While he promotes an important mix of truth, he clearly imbues it with his own toxic views that the Jews control the world and the US govt, something which is both antisemitic, and therefore anti-American, and also counterfactually untrue.  Nonetheless, his fan base gives him the security and authority to wield his nonsensical rhetoric to the four winds, leaving both his admirers and other sycophants to soak up and croak out repeats of his views to the wider world.  Meanwhile, one of the targets of his implied narrative being the most powerful man in the world, Pres. Trump, it came as a great relief to finally hear Trump describe Carlson as ‘Kooky’ in recent days.  Even as they seem to have made amends, it remains true that Carlson’s views of the Jews controlling the world is both untrue and still not accepted as such, even as he was forced to make some apologies for his specific rants against Pres. Trump.   While I wish conservatives would find a better, less toxic venue, from which to share their message to the MAGA base, it is likely that they will continue to do as they have done.  Still it would be useful, meaningful and responsible if they would both now and in the future clarify their lack of support for the antisemitic worldview which are promoted by venues such as that of Carlson if they are to continue using those venues to promote their own messaging.  Otherwise, they are no less responsible, and no less complicit, than were Bannon and Johnson in promoting Carlson’s antisemitic worldview when they promoted and praised Carlson efforts to challenge Trump over whether Iran should be left to continue on its tract towards becoming a nuclear state.  The MAGA movement in the US remains to be the most philosemitic movement in US history, something which I have noted quite often.  As such it needs to find better media sources from which to promote the MAGA narrative than those which are hustling Jew Hatred as being a normative state of mind.

Peloni:  The potential threat from Egypt is a topic which Dr. David Wurmser has also addressed in several interviews over the past two years.

Khaled Hassan | Jun 18, 2025

In 2019, I spent days preparing a report for a senior Israeli diplomat in the UK, analysing Israel’s public diplomacy and strategic posture towards the Arab world—particularly Egypt. Drafted overnight in a London studio flat’s kitchen, the report was admittedly rough around the edges, yet it pinpointed critical Israeli deficiencies and proposed concrete recommendations. More significantly, the exchange revealed what I believe is Israel’s Achilles heel: a mindset I encountered firsthand, one that precipitated the Yom Kippur surprise and, tragically, the October 7th massacre.

Scholars like Dr Itai Shapira have meticulously dissected Israel’s intelligence culture (notably in his book, Israeli National Intelligence Culture). This article, however, addresses a distinct flaw: the inherent inability of Israeli decision-makers and intelligence analysts to distinguish friend from foe. I offer this critique as an Egyptian with extensive experience engaging Egyptian state officials and policymakers.

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It really seems that way…

Francisco Gil-White | Jun 17, 2025

If you didn’t read PART 4 yet, you may do so here:

Go to Part 1

• Trump to Netanyahu: Don’t strike Iran—I’ll negotiate.

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Peloni:  Pay particular attention to comments made by Mark Levin and Ted Cruz regarding the war in Iran.

June 17:

Peloni:  See also  Six-day-old baby rescued from rubble of building in central Israel hit by Iranian missile

By Victor Sharpe

Two puppies rescued from a building destroyed in an Iranian missile strike in Bat Yam, June 17, 2025. Credit: Vadim Action.

The dogs were located by teams of the Israel Defense Forces’ Home Front Command.

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Unity is powerful, offering clear evidence against the idea that this society is fractured to the point of civil war.

Moshe Phillips

Netzah Yehuda Battalion fighters in Beit Hanun during the Iron Swords War. (Photo by IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0)

It was never my plan to be in Israel when it attacked Iran.

About a year ago, my wife and I learned that a close relative of ours had decided to volunteer for the Israel Defense Forces as a lone soldier. This was a longtime goal. He’s 19.

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Peloni

UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!

— Trump Posts on ? (@trump_repost) June 17, 2025

Recalling the recognition of evil which faced the world in WWII, President Trump has finally uttered the words, UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER, something which led to the reversal of fortune in Germany which followed the victory in that war.  While the policy of denazification following WWII was ultimately left both incomplete and retrograded to suit the shifting trends of emerging geopolitical realities/interests, the demand of an unconditional surrender by the Axis powers represented the fact that the Allies would never negotiate a partial peace or contemplate any ceasefire with its enemies which might leave them with any remnant of authority, dignity or legitimacy. In fact, it would be quite relieving to know that Washington has adopted a similar sense of resolve of the Allied Powers with regards to eradicating the abject evil which has been sheltered in Iran over the past nearly half century, as amusingly announced in this historic short tweet.

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Peloni:  It is said that ridicule sometimes presents the best arguments, but in this short and insightful essay, what reads as ridicule is in fact the imposed reality which the West has fashioned for Israel alone.  It is a sad betrayal of the values upon which the West was founded, values which were in fact adopted from the Jewish traditions of old, but this is the reality which Israel finds itself today, struggling against the same antisemitic game of ‘For the Jews Only’ once again.  And so we will find the means by which to survive this latest attempt to manipulate us against ourselves by our enemies, and hopefully prepare for a better tomorrow, a tomorrow which might hopefully be better informed by these betrayals of today than we stand informed today by similar betrayals of previous generations.

Gary Epstein

They are trying to kill me.

Yes.  We understand.  It is regrettable.  We understand your concern.

Good.  Will you make them stop?

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Peloni:  China is partnered with the wrong party in this war.  Trump should pursue a sanction policy which will motivate China towards acknowledging this fact, thus isolating Iran further.

Beijing condemned Israel’s sweeping strikes on Iranian nuclear and military sites shortly after they began as a violation of “Iran’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity,” according to a June 14 Chinese foreign ministry readout. Beyond rhetoric, however, Beijing has offered no material aid or mediation plan, underscoring the widening gap between China’s great power aspirations in the Middle East and its limited ability to shape fast-moving crises.

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Israel is right to see Iran as an existential threat.

by Robert Spencer | June 17, 2025

“The real divide,” Tucker Carlson declared Friday, “isn’t between people who support Israel and people who support Iran or the Palestinians. The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence, and those who seek to prevent it — between warmongers and peacemakers. Who are the warmongers? They would include anyone who’s calling Donald Trump today to demand air strikes and other direct US military involvement in a war with Iran. On that list: Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Rupert Murdoch, Ike Perlmutter and Miriam Adelson. At some point they will all have to answer for this, but you should know their names now.”

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