Peloni:  In his opening segment, Mark discusses the recent ruling by the US Court of International Trade which ruled against Trump’s use of emergency powers to address the economic crisis in the US.  Mark explains that the core of the ruling is based upon the concept and practice of separations of power, and even the court itself addresses this fact.  The problem with acknowledging this fact, however, is that Congress is not only not supporting the complaint in the case, but that there is no material Congressional objection to Trump exercising the emergency powers.  Mark also raises the point that Congress has not even attempted to draw back the powers delegated to the president in a bill which was signed into law back in 1977, further demonstrating that Congress has no objections to Trump’s actions on this topic.  While stating that the case is a dispute between executive and legislative powers, the Trade Court ignores the fact that there is no dispute between the executive and legislative branches, as the case in question is exclusively based on private complaints, which begs the question from where does the court draw its authority to intercede in a the president exercising the authority empowered to the presidency by the legislature some 50yrs ago.

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Peloni:  This provides very good coverage of the ongoing chaos in France over the past two nights.

If Hamas returns to power, it will be interpreted as Allah’s favor, opening the door to new victories

Alexander Maistrovoy | May 31, 2025

The war in Gaza and the “sinat chinam” in Israel itself, when the elite openly turned against its own people, made me remember an interview I conducted almost 20 years ago, in the now distant year of 2007. My interlocutor was the historian Asher Eder from Jerusalem. He was not a so famous, he was not invited to prestigious world conferences, forums, TV studios; he had no titles or positions. But I think he could give them all a head start in erudition.

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Alexander G. Markovsky

• Geopolitics

The lodestar of President Donald J. Trump’s foreign policy, “America First,” is reminiscent of the concept of raison d’état —the national interests—originated by Cardinal Richelieu, which prioritizes practicality and national interests and has been the basis of international relations for the last three centuries. No president since Theodore Roosevelt has so comprehensively defined America’s position in global affairs through the lens of national interests as Donald Trump.

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Linda Goudsmit:  President Donald J. Trump is a brilliant businessman who understands that economic wars are won and lost without bullets. The problem is that our America 1st president assumes that ideological wars can be won and lost with economics––it is a fatal mistake. President Trump is making the same mistake in his trade deals in the Middle East with Muslim nations, that Nixon/Kissinger made in opening trade with Communist China in 1971. Americanism is associated with the colors red, white, and blue. Communism is associated with the color red, and Islam with the color green. The red/green ideologies are existential enemies of the red, white, and blue. Any short term red/green trade deals are just pauses in the ideological wars against the red, white, and blue. Why is this true? Because the red and green ideologies are long-term, binary, socio-political, supremacist, expansionist world views that fully intend to rule the entire planet. What about the western globalist elite? The western globalist elite are the most dangerous existential enemies of Americanism and our constitutional republic. Globalism is the third binary socio-political ideology of rulers and ruled that seeks the destruction of all nation-states, and our constitutional republic in particular. Americanism, with its upward mobility and middle class, is the exception to the binary red/green and globalist totalitarian political ideologies. President Donald Trump and MAGA republicans are committed to the preservation and protection of Americanism and freedom in our constitutional republic––they courageously stand against servitude in the globalist Unistate, the Communist Unistate, or the Islamic Unistate.

by Majid Rafizadeh •  Gatestone Institute  •  May 31, 2025

Iran does not want “peace.” Iran wants victory. Why don’t we? The only “peace” Iran is interested in is one strictly on its terms. With nuclear weapons, there will be “peace,” all right — the Iranian regime’s survival, power and domination — that kind of peace. Pictured: Iranian ballistic missile is displayed during the annual military parade in Tehran, on September 22, 2023.  (Photo by Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0)

• Iran knows exactly what it is doing. It is playing a game it has mastered for decades: stall, confuse, buy time, bring in the well-intentioned but toothless International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). All the regime needs to win the negotiations is to entrench enforceability and retain the ability to work in secret down the pike.

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Peloni:  Unconditional surrender should be the only terms offered to the evil scourge which conducted the October 7 slaughter.  This was the limit of US tolerance shown to the Nazis and it should be the limit of tolerance shown Hamas.  It is an American concept, based on the understanding that the forces we are facing are altogether evil, and their complete eradication is entirely necessary for any possible peace to result from this war.  The only thing which should be negotiated is on what day Hamas will capitulate, void of any terms or reprieve.

The goal for Hamas has never been a two-state solution or co-existence. Its charter, still unchanged, calls for the annihilation of Israel.

By  JOHN SPENCER | JUNE 1, 2025

25th anniversary of Hamas celebrated in Gaza. (Photo by Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0)

Imagine what would have happened if Japan hadn’t agreed to surrender in 1945. Or if Germany had remained undefeated after World War II. Even after their regimes had dragged their countries into catastrophic wars—wars they started—what if the world had simply stopped fighting and walked away?

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“All I saw was someone on fire.”

by Daniel Greenfield | June 2, 2025

The last two pro-Hamas terrorist attacks, the arson at Gov. Shapiro’s mansion and the murder of two people at the Capital Jewish Museum in D.C., were carried out by leftists. But actual Muslim terrorists weren’t going to be left out.

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Peloni:  At last, we hear mention by US officials of recognizing this latest terror attack against Jews in the US as being terrorism, even as the locals continue to be either too shy or too ignorant to do so.   The full scope of anti-terrorism laws should always have been employed while addressing the the antisemitic terrorism sweeping across the US, and prosecutions should be pursued against not only the perpetrators of the antisemitic terrorism, but those who are funding it as well.

I’m horrified to learn that an incendiary device was thrown at participants in the Run for Their Lives walk as they peacefully raised awareness for the hostages held in Gaza.

This was not an isolated incident. This antisemitic terrorist attack is part of a horrific and…

— Leo Terrell (@LeoTerrellDOJ) June 1, 2025

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Allowing Iran to keep even a civil nuclear program is still too great a risk for regional and international security

Saeed Ghasseminejad | May 30, 2025

Photo by Unknown author – Flickr, Public Domain

The consensus that recently emerged within the Trump administration rightly identifies the absolute necessity of permanently preventing the Islamic Republic from enriching uranium on its own soil. The Trump administration must remain firm on this issue and not weaken this requirement with “creative” solutions. To allow the Islamist regime in Tehran such a capability is to pave a pathway, however disguised, to a nuclear bomb—an outcome the world can ill afford.

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By Ted Belman (Originally published in April 2011)

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has been hard at work of late lining up votes in the UNGA for the recognition of the state of Palestine with pre ’67 borders with the eastern part of Jerusalem as its capital.  They intend to use the “Uniting for Peace” procedure to avoid a possible UNSC veto regardless of whether the procedure is legal. (See; The UN Charter Cannot Support GA Resolution 377). Were they to get such recognition the repercussions would be significant.

Alan Baker, who was legal counsel for Israel in the drafting of the Oslo Accords and is currently associated with the Jerusalem Center of Public Affairs, recently published The Palestinian UN Gamble — Irresponsible and Ill-Advised. He summarized his article as follows:

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Peloni:  The attempt by America’s European allies to carve a Pal state from the strategic, ancestral heartlands of the Jewish State should be met with the full force of American political and economic consequences.  The attempt to force such a demand on Israel defies logic, reason and international law, while it will also lead to greater destabilization in the region, even as the US is currently trying (against all reason) to tease the Mullahs into abandoning their nuclear ambitions.

Full interview can be seen HERE

Statement made by US Amb. Huckabee as he explains that the US will NOT be part of France’s ruse supporting a Pal state at the expense of Israel.

WATCH ?

Mike Huckabee, US Ambassador to Israel: “If France is really so determined to see a Palestinian state, I have a proposal for them: Cut off part of the French Riviera and create a Palestinian state there.” pic.twitter.com/TlAMbb5WbA

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) June 1, 2025

Clifford D. May | FDD | May 28, 2025

Not so long ago, homicidal antisemitism in America was widely regarded as peculiar to neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other far-right extremists, men such as Robert Gregory Bowers who, in 2018, murdered 11 worshippers and wounded six more at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA.

Meanwhile, within the American left, antisemitism has been metastasizing. Last week, we saw the results.

A college-educated terrorist shot and killed – “allegedly” if you insist, but he admitted it and there’s surveillance footage – Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.

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Avi Abelow

Once again, Israel has accepted an immoral hostage deal that does not free all our hostages, does not dismantle Hamas, and in fact allows our Islamonaz*I enemy in Gaza to regroup and tighten its grip over the population of Gaza.

The infuriating thing is that any deal that fails to free all the hostages and simultaneously weakens Hamas is a dangerous, immoral deal. It’s a delay tactic — one that buys Hamas time to regroup to kill more of us.

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FDD,  May 31, 2025

Image by Original: NGerda~commonswiki?Vector: Rfc1394 – http://www.iaea.org/, Public Domain

Latest Development

• U.S. to Draft Resolution with E3 Partners: The United States, along with allies Britain, France, and Germany — known as the E3 — plans to submit a resolution to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board that would declare Iran non-compliant with its non-proliferation obligations. If adopted, it would be the first time in 20 years that the IAEA has formally declared Iran in violation of these obligations, a step which prompted the U.N. Security Council to levy sanctions against the Islamic Republic in 2006.

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Peloni:  Elections have consequences, and an unfortunate consequence of the recent Canadian election was to elect a govt which openly tolerates and supports and practices antisemitism in Canada.

By Christine Douglass-William | May 30, 2025

Housakos referred to a recent incident when the Liberal government summoned the Israeli ambassador to slam Israel because the IDF fired warning shots when an EU-Arab delegation that included Canadian diplomats violated agreed-upon boundaries which were established prior to their delegation’s trip to “a combat area.” The group deviated from the war-zone path, which was an extremely dangerous and foolish move. Even worse was their outrage at the shots, despite the fact that they were in the wrong.

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Peloni:  Israel is often falsely accused by the likes of the latest Hashemite scion as failing to enforce freedom of worship for its Arab inhabitants, most notably with these libels being focused on the Temple Mount.  The unfortunate truth is that Israel has failed to enforce the freedom of worship, but for its Jewish inhabitants, not the Arabs, and specifically on the Temple Mount.  While the purpose of Abdullah’s repeated libels on this point are intended as a call to violence, Ben Gvir’s attempts to highlight the truth of the situation on the Temple Mount are intended to undo the injustice which was systematically installed by Moshe Dayan’s post-67 War folly.  The promise of supporting all faiths in the Jewish state should not be isolated from including the Jews, and yet it is.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | May31, 2025

Seth Mandel has just written about Jerusalem, the city the Muslims call Al-Quds and that they claim belongs to the Arabs and Muslims, for it is from Jerusalem, and the place known to the Western world as the Temple Mount, that Muhammad made his Night Journey (miraj), on his fabulous wingèd steed Al-Buraq, going up to the Seventh Heaven and back within 24 hours. The connection, then, of Muslims to Jerusalem is one based purely on religious belief. The connection of the Jews to Jerusalem does not require any religious belief. It is history, not fantasy, that connects the Jews to Jerusalem — a history that goes back some 3500 years. “The Jews Are Jerusalem’s Only Hope,” by Seth Mandel, Commentary, May 26, 2025:

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