Peloni:  Trump’s push to solidify support around Turkey, sever the connection of US-Saudi deal with Saudi-Israel normalization, terminating the war with the Houthis without restoring full freedom of the seas accepting the Israel only exception, and a Middle East tour without a stop in America’s greatest ally in the world, Israel, provides serious concerns for what the regional ‘shift’ really represents.  Also, the US has been providing unfettered weapons supplies to Israel and had remained silent on the Israeli offensive in Gaza, but now Trump has noted he is looking to end the war in Gaza too.  Simultaneously, he has told Bibi not to take actions which will affect the US-Iranian negotiations.  While this shift in Trump’s policy is most commonly referenced in comparison to Biden’s policy, it is far more interesting to consider the shift from Trump’s first term policy.  Indeed, all in all, Trump’s policy from his first term which had been centered upon its good and strong relationship with Israel while aligning itself against Iran – something which led to the unveiling of the Abraham Accords after only a couple of years.  Now, the central aspects of Trump’s policy seems to be centered around the Gulf states, leaving Israel somewhat isolated to its disadvantage.  All of this ignores the fact that all of Trump’s leverage in the region has come from the strategic upsets which were brought about by Israel’s actions which have collapsed the Iranian power base throughout the region.  The resulting appearance of isolating Israel from the US during the past month has strengthened the resolve of US enemies, while diminishing US leverage with those enemies.  This will have unfortunate consequences for both the US and Israel.

President Trump’s evolving Middle East policy, highlighting a strategic shift from traditional Western intervention toward fostering regional partnerships, diplomacy, and sustainable peace.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | MAY 27, 2025

US President Donald Trump has been laying out a vision for how his administration views the Middle East. The administration came into office hoping that it could end the conflict in Gaza and bring about a hostage and ceasefire deal.

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Peloni:  Martin Sherman voices concerns about the growing trend of subversive political activism in Israel.  Warning of the potential of civil war, he raises the alarm over the irrational reaction of PM Netanyahu’s opponents whose treasonous activities threaten the stability and longevity of the state of Israel.

By Ted Belman  [First published Sept 18, 2007]

I recently disclosed The Vast Power of the Saudi Lobby. Now I want to provide a list of what Saudi Lobby (money) achieved.

• In ‘48, US imposed arms embargo on Israel
• In ‘56 Israel forced by Eisenhower to retreat from Sinai
• Prior to ‘67 War, Johnson promised Nasser to supply him with intelligence
• In ‘73 war, Kissinger withheld resupplying arms to Israel so it would get “a bloody nose”

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Peloni: What makes Iran so special, so unique, as it has launched hundreds of ballistic missiles on a neighboring state, weaponized and deployed terror organizations stymieing international shipping, launched terror squads to execute Trump and Trump officials last year, and persists in its demand that it be allowed to enrich uranium which can have only one legitimate purpose.  And in the wake of all of this, and more, the US continues to seek ways to preserve this rogue regime as it brutalizes its citizens, joins with drug gangs in South America, and still calls for the annihilation of the US and Israel, even as it ‘negotiating’ its for its own survival.  Even under Trump, Iran’s proxies have murdered Americans with impunity, and still hold the remains of American they murdered, while threatening the US and Trump.  So, once again, what stays the hand of the US military from bringing a fraction of the carnage to Iran as was brought down on the Houthis?  It is past time that Trump act as Marziyeh has stated and strike Iran for any of what I described above, and a great deal more.

By Marziyeh Amirizadeh

It’s taken a few days for the West to wake up to and realize the significance of strikes that are taking place and widening throughout Iran, and to report on these. What’s needed now is for Western leaders to take action that capitalizes on these strikes, and empowers the Iranian people to replace the evil Islamic Republic regime which has threatened them and the world, causing immeasurable pain, suffering, trauma, and death for nearly five decades.

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Janet Levy:  How did flu cases plummet from 48 million in 2019 to 2,000 in 2020?

Financial incentives – 20% bonus payments for COVID diagnoses, hazard pay, FEMA reimbursements, emergency relief funds…coupled with bureaucratic overreach and media-driven fear.

This was an opportunity to centralize authority and impose sweeping mandates – vaccine passports, masks, “non-essential business” closures – all without congressional oversight!

This was the warping of scientific integrity that rightly shattered the public’s trust in the medical industrial complex.

by Gerald A. Honigman

Back in early 2024, actors Joaquin Phoenix and Elliott Gould were among the other 151 Hollywood signers of a letter supporting director Jonathan Glazer’s scandalous speech in which, while accepting an International Film category academy award for his movie, “Zone of Interest,” he equated Israel’s forced defensive actions in Gaza—after having endured decades of Arab savagery stemming from that territory—to what Nazis did to Jews in the Holocaust.

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Iran is exporting 1.6 million barrels of oil every day. Thanks to a shadowy fleet, fake paperwork, and a global network of front companies, Tehran keeps its oil flowing, fueled by China’s backing. The West’s sanctions are failing spectacularly. Find out why and what it will take to finally cut off this illicit lifeline.

Saeed Ghasseminejad | May 24, 2025

Iran’s Thriving Oil Exports Despite Sanctions

A glaring gap persists between Western aspirations to curtail Iran’s oil revenue and the stark reality of its flourishing exports. Stated objectives, such as slashing Iranian oil to a mere 100,000 barrels per day, are dwarfed by current figures approaching 1.6 million barrels daily.

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Forget George Floyd, remember the 14,000.

by Daniel Greenfield | May 26,2025

Protesters drive by a large under-construction building that went up in flames during unrest over the murder of George Floyd. May 28, 2020.  (Photo by Chad Davis – Flickr, CC BY 2.0)

In 2019, the FBI recorded less than 17,000 homicides. After George Floyd died of a drug overdose while violently resisting arrest, we would not see numbers like that again.

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Peloni:  Cohen tells the story of two elite units of Gideonim and Yamam which broke the momentum of Hamas’ advance on October 7, preventing a deeper incursion into central Israel.

Peloni:  Prof. Fransisco Gil-White interviews Gadi Taub on the constitutional crisis in Israel, but also delves into a discussion over whether PM Shamir should have explained the connection between Fatah and Iran to pre-empt the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991.

Peloni:  The shattering effect of October 7 changed the world, in ways which were both great and terrible.  The quiet resolve supporting the Jerusalem Day celebrations is certainly to be counted among these.  A powerful and important result of the sense of unity and identity which was previously far less universal than it stands today.

The parade, a long cherished part of the day’s celebration, was regarded with fear and loathing by the Left right through 2023. Now they are seen as teaching self-respect.

Douglas Altabef | Published: May 26, 2025

One way to gauge the change and difference the horrific October 7th massacre and the ensuing Swords of Iron war has made in contrast to the previous prevailing “conceptzia” is to consider the Jerusalem Day parade.

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Peloni:  The final statement in this report by Noem seems to highlight Trump’s need to restrain Bibi as he continues to push forward on his efforts of negotiating with the duplicitous Mullahs, while failing to appreciate that there is no good outcome to be had which keeps the Mullahs in power.  Good for Bibi for providing some upstream pressure on what will be Trump’s greatest failure should he succeed in his attempts at a ‘better deal’.

Homeland Security Secretary Noem says she and Netanyahu had ‘candid and direct’ conversation

All Israel News Staff | Published: May 27, 2025

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.  Jerusalem May 23, 2017, CC BY 2.0)

The most recent phone call between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump involved a heated exchange and exposed differences between the two leaders on how best to deal with the Iranian threat according to a report in Israel’s Channel 12 news.

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Victor Sharpe

Zionism, simply put, is the Jewish people’s national liberation movement. Put in Biblical terms, it is the return from exile of the Jews to Zion – to that very special land promised by God to the first Jew, Abraham, and through Isaac, Jacob and the Jewish prophets to the Jewish people forever.

The Hebrew Scriptures equate Zion with the holiest city in Judaism, Israel’s 3,000-year-old capital city of Jerusalem. You can read numerous references in the Bible and the Psalms to the word Zion, such as in Psalm 135:21, II Samuel 5:7 and Isaiah 24:23.

The Biblical yearning of the Jews, ancient and modern, to return to their ancestral homeland is mirrored in the modern political usage of the term Zionism, first employed in 1890 by the Jewish author and poet, Nathan Birnbaum.

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Peloni:  Even amid war, the celebrations which define and characterize the Jewish state are not set aside.  Among these one of the most relative celebrations is the, unification of, and Jewish connection to, Jerusalem.

Despite ongoing challenges, Jerusalem Day unites Israelis in joy and remembrance of a pivotal moment in Jewish history.

Israfan | April 26, 2025

Jerusalem Day 2007.  (Photo by Hoheit, to commons uploaded Daniel.baranek 11:10, 6 May 2007 (UTC) – de-wiki, CC BY-SA 2.0 de)

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Peloni:  This comes in the wake of an announcement of France and Saudi Arabia to co-chair UN conference on resuscitating the defunct two state paradigm in coordination with China and Canada.

Roi Kais / KAN 11 | All Israel News | Published: May 26, 2025

In recent days, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas made a rare visit to Lebanon, during which he declared the need for Palestinian weapons – specifically those held in refugee camps and by Palestinian factions in the Land of the Cedars – to be handed over to the state. According to a report that aired on Kan Reshet Bet on Monday morning, the driving force behind this move is Saudi Arabia.

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