Following ballistic missile launches by Iran, politicians call for swift response

All Israel News Staff | Published: June 24, 2025

Foreign Minister Droutsas with Israel’s Foreign Minister, Mr. Avigdor Lieberman in New York 27 September 2010. (Flickr, this file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license)

Many Israelis, including politicians, were surprised by U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement of a ceasefire early Tuesday morning.

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There are two possible reasons for the persistence of shrill, reflexive denunciations of Israel by progressive politicians: naiveté or malice.

Matthew M. Hausman, J.D. | Jun 23, 2025

Bernie Sanders at a rally in New Orleans, Louisiana, July 26, 2015 (Photo by Nick Solari, CC BY-SA 2.0)

Israel initiated Operation Rising Lion because there was absolutely no doubt regarding Iran’s intention to attack the Jewish State with nuclear weapons. And the timing was critical because the Islamic Republic was dangerously close to “breakout,” facilitated in part by Barack Obama’s feckless nuclear deal and the transfer of billions of dollars to Iran during both his and Biden’s administrations. This windfall also enabled Iran to fund Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, and in effect finance the atrocities of October 7th.

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Janet Levy: How can Trump possibly censure Israel for rightly responding to Iranian missiles?  He equates Iran and Israel with “they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing!”

Sundance | June 24, 2024

It’s all right there for those who have eyes to see and do not pretend.

Chopper Pressers are the best pressers.  Departing the White House President Trump leads off his initial remarks by saying. … “And I’m talking directly to Israel right now”… “I’m not happy with Israel, I’m not happy at all.”  President Trump repeats.

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Peloni:  It is as if Trump was unaware that the Mullahs were never going to keep the peace, or expectant that Israel would ignore the casualties which were associated with these treaty violations.  Israel should maintain a vigilance with Iran as it has done with Lebanon.  Violations, particularly significant violations, must be met with a penalizing response.  Just what might Pres. Trump do if an Iranian ballistic missile should find its way to the center of New York City?  He would do what was  expected of him as the leader of the American people, and punitively punish those who purposefully fired that missile, and he would be right to do so.  Israel should have no more restraint placed upon them while responding to such intended tragedies than any other nation, and no other nation would be expected to do less than respond.  In fact, it would be a moral, strategic and political act of betrayal by anyone who failed to respond to such an obvious war crime.  The objective of peace should not be simply the absence of war by one side or the other, but the expectation of reciprocal responses to violations as the occur as the minimum foundational basis of any cessation of hostilities.  Failing to employ such a standard as Trump is now demanding would require Israel to surrender, when in fact the war with Iran has always been a defensive war, placing the greater onus of any ending of hostilities on Iran, not Israel.

By Robert Spencer | June 24, 2025

Operation Rising Lion concludes with strategic success as Israel warns against further Iranian aggression.

Israfan | June 24, 2025

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Peloni:  For an antisemite to be made mayor over the largest congregation of Jews in the US is a foretelling warning.

A shock poll suggests that the Marxist-Muslim Zohran Mamdani will be New York’s next mayor

Marty Nemko

Israel surrounded.

I failed to find my first post-retirement relationship no matter what I did: apps, set-ups, dancing, even serendipity. So I decided that maybe the world is telling me that for now at least, I needed to turn my attention elsewhere.

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Peloni:  Fascinating discussion between Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen regarding the impact of the US operation in Iran on Russia and China, as it demonstrated the success, capabilities and reach of the US airforce and stealth technology in the context of real world battlefield against the Russian and Chinese aerial defenses in Iran.  Also discussed is Mexican drug lords, US missile defenses, and a small bit on the attack on US base in Qatar as it was announced.

Peloni:  David Wurmser discusses the nuance which distinguishes Israeli and American aims following the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.  He also warns against concluding the war with a ceasefire with the Iranian regime as the lack of moral clarity will have serious and destructive consequences for the US.  Notably, this is the path which the US has chosen to take, for the moment at least.  Also see second video (10min) discussing the Iranian attack on US base in Qatar at the bottom.

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Peloni:  While being interviewed (15min beginning at 4hr 30min mark) by Hannity during special programming about the US attack on Iran, Mark Levin explains that Trump is an historic figure, and that more trust should be extended to him.  Contrasting with this, Mark notes the betrayal of Bill Clinton which led to North Korea becoming a nuclear armed state.  He also recalls that Obama cut a deal so that Iran could ultimately become a nuclear armed state before Trump happily ripped up that deal.  Following this, Biden actually funded the Iranians as they proceeded with their nuclear weapons development.   With all of this in mind, Mark reminds us of the fact that the wise and judicious use of the military for good and specific purposes will actually result in peace, not war.

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By deepening ties with Tehran, China establishes a presence in one of the most conflict-ridden areas of the world while avoiding the risks and costs of military entanglement. pic.twitter.com/6F41CGeA2G

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Peloni:  The factional animosity between the parties in Iran represents a significant hurdle facing the Iranians on their bid toward establishing a new state.  As Mandel explains, it will be important for the Iranian people to meet this hurdle while facing off against the interests of the IRGC.  This hurdle will however be made extensively less complicated if the minorities regions, which Mandel proposes be given autonomy, are instead granted their own state altogether.  By doing so, the Persian majority would have a free hand to reestablish order in their own community under whatever form of govt they might ultimately choose while eliminating the influence of the IRGC.  It would also lessen the significance of the possibility of the the Persians choosing either a leadership or govt which is less than supportive of the US and the West.

If managed wisely, the fall of the Islamic Republic could catalyze a historic realignment of the Middle East in favor of peace, stability, and freedom.

By ERIC R. MANDEL | JUNE 22, 2025

The event that would be the most likely to eliminate Iran’s nuclear ambitions – and curb its imperial drive to dominate the Sunni Arab world and destroy Israel – is regime change. However, toppling the Islamic Republic would be only the beginning. To advance American national security and prevent regional chaos or the rise of another authoritarian regime, we must plan now for what would come next in that event.

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Peloni:  Riveting speech by Danny Danon in the UN as he brings receipts condemning the attempt of the butchers in Iran to play the victim.

Peloni:  The various minorities in Iran should each pursue control of the territories on which they each reside within Iran, and upon having done so, the relative minorities should each declare these territories as independent from the Iranian state.  Freeing the dominion over the minority regions by an overriding ruling organization or authoritarian will protect and empower the relevant minorities, but it will also diffuse the centralized power and authority which made possible the Ayatollahs’ dreams of world domination over the past fifty years remotely possible.

Martin Sherman

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For 30 years, Democrats and some Republicans lied about stopping Iran. Trump did it.

by Daniel Greenfield 

President Donald Trump and his national security team meet in the Situation Room of the White House, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (By The White House – Flickr, Public Domain)

“Iran’s appetite for acquiring and developing nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them has only grown larger,” Bill Clinton claimed in 1995. “We have tried to stop its quest to acquire weapons of mass destruction, which would make it a threat not only to its neighbors but to the entire region and the world.”

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Peloni:  Yes, regime change is vital in the wake of the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.  Indeed, the brazen resolve to possess nuclear weapons by the Armageddon seeking Twelver tribe which populates the halls of power in Iran demonstrates how necessary how necessary regime change in Iran is needed.  Either by efforts from abroad or by revolution from within Iran itself, Khameini’s rule must come to an end and the sooner the better.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | June 21, 2025

Iranians in exile are wishing and hoping, and hoping and wishing, that Israel will succeed in its demolition derby, taking apart bit by bit every aspect of the Islamic Republic’s military machine, so weakening it that the rulers can only with great difficulty suppress their domestic enemies should those enemies begin to demonstrate against them, and so humiliated in the eyes of the world that the number of those domestic enemies grows, as people have taken to saying, “exponentially.”

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Question: What nation or people is the only one not permitted by others to win and actually be victorious in war?

Answer: Jews and the Jew of the Nations, Israel, of course.

It’s admittedly difficult when, as billions in the Christian West have been taught for millennia, that Jews were “G_d killers,” poisoners of wells, children of the Devil, etc.; forcibly expelled, burned at the stake, ghettoized, and so forth, seeing them in anything other than an extremely negative light.

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