Robert Kaplan

It is important for understanding recent history to appreciate the relation between Henry Kissinger and the Rockefellers. Kissinger served the Rockefellers and was supported by them. He described Nelson Rockefeller as “the single most influential person in my life.”

In each of Nelson Rockefeller’s three attempts to become Republican candidate for the US presidency, Kissinger was his foreign policy advisor. From 1955 1965 he was employed by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund as director of its Special Studies Project. During 1955 and 1956 he was employed by the Rockerfeller–funded Council on Foreign Relations.

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FDD | June 14, 2025

Latest Developments

• Israel Begins Striking Iranian Oil Industry: Israeli planes began targeting Iran’s critical energy infrastructure in response to Iran’s continued deadly ballistic missile barrages against Israeli population centers. The Iranian Oil Ministry reported on June 14 that the IDF struck the Shahran oil depot northwest of Tehran as well as another oil reservoir to the city’s south. Reports also indicated that the Ray Oil Refinery in Tehran was also struck. Videos of the Shahran depot following the strikes showed the facility engulfed in a massive fire, but the oil ministry’s news agency downplayed the devastation, stating that “The fuel volume in the targeted tank was not high, and the situation is fully under control.”

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Peloni:  Iran’s response to Netanyahu’s call towards revolution has been in play for many years now.  The only concern which might preclude the strength of the Iranian opposition from acting in this, their hour of liberation, would be the fractured nature of the opposition, something which has worked towards the stabilizing of the Mullah regime over the past nearly 5 decades.  The only question which lies before the Iranian people today is whether the liberty of their children and grand children means less to them than their disgust for their fellow opposition factions.

By Amil Imani | Am Thinker | June 15, 2025

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For decades, the Islamic Republic has crushed the soul of Iran under its iron fist, a tyrannical regime that has bled its people dry, sowing terror, poverty, and despair. This monstrous machine, built on fanaticism and oppression, has choked the life from a proud nation, silencing voices with brutality, imprisoning dreamers, and executing dissenters.

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Peloni:  For the US to successfully deal with the rising threat from China, it must first deal with the rising threat in the Middle East, and that means with Iran, who should be clearly understood to be China’s main proxy in the region.  Should the US fail to successfully deal with Iran, it will leave a persistant fault line in the region from which China can consistently manipulate US interests and global energy markets.

Iran’s proxies have been defeated, bringing stability to Lebanon and Syria – but this isn’t enough. This is a test for Israel and regional states, but above all, it’s a test for US.

Prof. Eyal Zisser  | June 15, 2025

Like the Six-Day War 68 years ago, everyone knew that war with Iran was imminent. First among them were Iran’s leaders, who promised they were prepared to advance an attack on Israel and deliver a crushing response that would lead to Israel’s destruction – which has been and remains the primary goal of the ayatollah regime since it seized power in Iran more than 40 years ago.

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by Gerald A.Honigman

Various months of the year have been set aside to honor those other marvelous creatures G_d placed on Planet Earth, which humans have come to domesticate, but also too often use and horribly abuse.

This essay will focus on the plight of donkeys, and later I will relate this to a particular story involving a special Judaean teacher (“rabbi”) whom almost two billion people believe is, at the very least, the Messiah, and more likely G_d as well.

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Peloni:  Political violence is the antithesis of democracy, it retrogrades personal liberty, and it is the foundation by which fascism overtakes society.

61 buildings in Bat Yam damaged in attack, dozens more in Rehovot, Haifa Bay

All Israel News Staff | Published: June 15, 2025

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Footage reportedly shows the moment an Iranian missile hit a building in Bat Yam, southern Tel Aviv pic.twitter.com/nDhmqYciXc

— Tehran Times (@TehranTimes79) June 15, 2025

An Iranian ballistic missile struck a 10-story residential building in Bat Yam, just south of Tel Aviv, during a wave of attacks on Israel last night, killing six people, including children.

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Avi Abelow

The war escalated dramatically over Shabbat.

After Israel’s miraculous and precise surprise attack deep inside Iran on Thursday night, striking military nuclear sites, senior regime and nuclear officials, and key personnel even in their beds, Iran responded over Shabbat with multiple missile barrages on Israel.

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Peloni: Cliff May and Aaron Cohen offer insights into the role which Trump is playing in the attack on Iran.

Peloni:  The ties between the globalists and the Islamist are on open display in England.  How sad, how tragic, and how dangerous.

Photo by Roger Harris – Wiki, CC BY 3.0

Never mind that London has fallen on Sadiq Khan’s watch, with violent migrant crime soaring. Jews are also fleeing Khan’s London in record numbers due to antisemitism, and Khan banned cab drivers from flying English flags. Yet he was rewarded by King Charles — who opened Windsor Castle to Muslims for a Ramadan iftar dinner in April — with a prestigious British honor.

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By Robert Spencer | June 13, 2025

The Biden regime tried to establish the abortive Disinformation Governance Board, which would have policed speech that dissented from the leftist establishment’s perspective. The regime also sicced the FBI on angry parents protesting at school board meetings, worked with Twitter (X) and other social media giants to silence and deplatform people with opposing views, and even sent spies into Catholic churches to keep tabs on pro-lifers.

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Israel took “Death to Israel” seriously. We should take “Death to America” seriously.

Daniel Greenfield | June 14, 2025

By Khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0

Last month, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei told an enraged crowd of Islamists that President Trump’s statements weren’t even “worthy of a response.”

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Peloni:  Israel’s assault on the Iranian regime provides the Iranian opposition with an important opportunity, but it remains to be seen if the Iranian opposition will be so bold as to unite in common cause with Israel in overthrowing the Mullahs. Indeed, it is time to see if the Iranian people who have been oppressed by their Mullah overlords over the past forty years will finally unite together to overthrow these overlords or if the fractionalized nature of the Iranian opposition is greater than their desire to be free.  As was true in Israel after October 7, only national unity can defend a nation’s identity, and only the people of Iran have the means to choose their own fate.   The time to make that choice is today.

“Our fight is with our common enemy”

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Avi Abelow

Photo by IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0

As we prepare to enter Shabbat and read Parshat Beha’alotcha, we do so with a deep sense of awe and gratitude.

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Peloni:  Dealing with the Iranian threat will be Bibi’s greatest achievement!  Even the Leftist insurrectionists took a pause in their campaign against the govt to support this vital undertaking.  It is of course too much to expect that such responsible behavior from the opposition will last for longer than a moment, but one may still hope.

Herzog, ministers, and opposition rally in full support as IDF strikes Iran to safeguard Israel’s future.

Israfan | June 13, 2025

Photo by Kobi Gideon / Government Press Office of Israel, CC BY-SA 3.0

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Peloni:  Preventing a nuclear armed Iran should be understood to be not only an Israeli interest, but as Joel explains below, it is very much an American interest as well, even if American Kumbayists such as Carlson and others would like to pretend otherwise.  Indeed, the very regime which holds watch over the Iranian people and are actively sprinting to expand its nuclear program has the blood of thousands of Americans on its hands, from the bombing of an American barracks in 1982 to the roadside IEDs deployed against American servicemen in the Iraq war to the butchered, raped, kidnapped, executed and body snatched American civilians on October 7, America has all the evidence needed to demonstrate an explicit need to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of the Iranian Twelvers who would use them against American targets should it be given any chance to do so.  The motivations of the eclectic falsely claimed ‘American Firsters’ who would tolerate Iranian access to such weapons of slaughter, when Iran has utilized far less credible capacities to butcher American citizens not only puzzles the mind, it demonstrates a sense either duplicity or stupidity on the part of those who would make such incoherent arguments as described by these pseudo America Firsters.  Keeping America safe at all costs should specifically be a priority for Americans, and preventing a nation which has casually and purposefully murdered thousands of Americans over the past four decades from becoming a nuclear menace should in fact be advocated by everyone, but certainly by those who claim to be heralding the interests of America as they instead promote the interests of Iran.  War is the purposeful act of unraveling civilized norms for the precise purpose of preserving the practice of civilized norms for future generations.  It is not something which should be indulged promoted for slight or silly purposes, but should instead be reserved for appropriately serious matters, and this should reasonably include preventing nuclear weapons from being acquired by Jihadi terror states such as Iran whose has already claimed the lives of far too many Americans with impunity.

Tucker trashes Trump for standing with Israel against genocidal Iranian regime — but Trump is absolutely right to stand with America’s most faithful ally

Joel C. Rosenberg | All Israel News | Published: June 13, 2025

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL — Tucker Carlson has lost it.

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AS YOU ARE GETTING THIS ESSAY, ISRAEL HAS JUST “MARTYRED” TOP IRANIAN JIHADISTS. IN THIS PART II WE EXPLAIN THE SHIA JIHAD, THE PHILOSOPHY OF ENVY & RESENTMENT THAT SUPPORT ISLAMIC SUPREMACY.

Andrew Benjamin | Jun 13, 2025

READ PART I

NEW YORK POST Friday the 13th…

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CONSIDER THIS:

THE JEWS’ FIGHT FOR THEIR HOMELAND IS THE LONGEST ANTI-COLONIZATION AND LIBERATION MOVEMENT IN HUMAN HISTORY!

Why Israel matters, and should matter to the West and modern civilization, is this:

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Peloni:  Gen. Avivi discusses the attack on Iran as well as the importance of the US-Israel partnership.