Peloni:  Study this report carefully, and based on all of this, consider why the US govt would not specifically target the Qatari regime, much less protect them from attack or promote them throughout the world.  Such actions hardly advance an America first agenda.

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: US-Israel Initiative” | February 19, 2026

USS Gerald R. Ford With 7 Warships Deploying Toward Iran. February 14, 2026. Screengrab via Youtube 

* Qatar’s strategic alliance with Iran’s Ayatollah regime has been tightened since 2017, in the face of the blockade on Qatar, which was imposed by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and Bahrain. The blockade was imposed due to their accusation that Qatar was fomenting terrorism and subversion in their countries, as well as assisting Al Qaeda, Yemen’s Houthis and other terrorists.

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Peloni:  Don’t miss final tweet at the bottom. It appears that the temperature in the region is rising fast with many expecting an imminent attack this weekend.  I still question if Trump will strike Iran during Ramadan.  Recent word of Rubio meeting with Bibi at the end of the month and US troop dispositions being ready in about three weeks time would support this conclusion, unless these are part of a disinformation op.

Pamela Geller | Feb 19, 2026

If anyone deserved a brutal ass-kicking, it’s these butchers.

The people inside Iran are looking up to the sky every day, waiting for the sound of American planes.

This is no exaggeration.

Everyone is holding their breath.

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Peloni:  The claim made that Trump is looking for a way to take the temperature down belies the fact that the rising temperature is the intentional drama being created by Carlson’s one-sided and inaccurate reports which include blood libels and false statements by radical opponents of Israel, overt antisemites and off center ‘historians’.  Consequently, the one who Trump should be specifically addressing in calling for taking down the temperature is actually Carlson.

Israeli Airport Authority and US embassy clarify: Carlson underwent routine security check

All Israel News Staff | Published: February 19, 2026

Tucker Carlson in Israel (Photo: Tucker Carlson/X) 

Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News anchor who has drawn flak for his ferocious anti-Israel activism in recent months, added more controversy on Wednesday by claiming Israeli officials detained him before his departure, which the Airport Authority and the U.S. embassy denied.

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Rafael Medoff

David French speaking at the 2012 CPAC in Washington, D.C.  Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – David French, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

In a New York Times op-ed this week, pundit David French denounced what he called “both the heinous massacre of Jews on Oct. 7, 2023, and the aggressive, violent expansion of settlements in the West Bank.”

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Peloni:  Bravo!  Bring justice for the slaughtered.  For the maimed.  For the raped.  For the kidnapped.  For the violation of the state itself.  A fair judgement must be brought against the barbarians who turned a routine morning for the thousands surrounding the Gaza envelop into a state of siege where murder, mayhem, rape and wholesale slaughter was the entire goal of what took place on October 7.

All Israel News Staff | Published: February 17, 2026

Hamas shooting into bomb shelter near Supernova Festival October 7 2023. Photo by Dashcam footage: No human authorship – NBC News, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara announced on Monday that a military tribunal led by Military Advocate General Itay Offir will prosecute more than 300 Hamas Nukhba terrorists who took part in the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre that killed 1,200 Israelis.

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Peloni:  Including such advocates against Israel’s interests as the Indonesian forces into an organization intended to maintain the peace between Israel and the radical belligerents of Gaza demonstrates the clarity with which the so called International Stabilization Force lacks credibility to pursue much less achieve its intended mission of providing stability to the region.  Note that Indonesia has voted against Israel in 100% of the 185 resolutions raised against Israel in the UN over the past decade.  Nothing demonstrates bias more than such consistency.

By: Fern Sidman | TJV News | Feb 18, 2026

Indonesian Soldiers prepare for Bastille Day Parade July 9, 2025.  Screengrab via Youtube

As deliberations intensify over the composition of a future international stabilization presence in the Gaza Strip, a prominent pro-Israel advocacy organization has issued a stark and uncompromising warning: any deployment of foreign troops must be anchored in political realism as much as in humanitarian aspiration. Americans for a Safe Israel (AFSI), one of the longest-standing pro-Israel organizations in the United States, has publicly opposed proposals to include Indonesian soldiers in a prospective “International Stabilization Force” for Gaza, arguing that states which refuse to recognize Israel’s existence cannot plausibly serve as neutral guarantors of security in a post-conflict environment.

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Peloni:  The move towards normalizing Jew Hatred lacks decency, morality, and rationality.  It is a toxin which seeks out alliances with the worst elements of anti-Western values, which actually threatens the future stability and survival of the West in the war being waged against it by Marxists and Islamists both.  Meanwhile, those among the Right in America who have the gravitas and influence to turn this toxic movement into outcasts, seem to be demonstrating the same lack of leadership and control as was seen by the Democrats as they cravenly remained silent before joining the rising din of antisemitism after having allowed it to fester among their followers without any serious opposition.  As the likes of Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation have failed twice to act when it should have been an instantaneous response to what is being spewed by these Leftist wannabees within the Right, it is disappointing that President Trump has not taken up the slack using the bully pulpit of the presidency to describe antisemites as being antisemitic, even when they claim to be supporting him.  Contrary to the notion carried by Megyn Kelly, the Right has a duty to identify what is and is not acceptable among their own adherents, and this becomes particularly true as some of these adherents attempt to mimic the Left in damaging ways which are not limited to their embrace of antisemitism.  Recall that like the Woke Right, Obama too sought to ally with the Iranians against the interests of not just Israel but the US as well.  These charlatan Conservatives have much to explain, but they must first be challenged by someone on the Right, and no one more so than Trump would benefit from seeing this smoldering fire of division on the Right put to rest.

by Pierre Rehov  •  Gatestone Institute  •  February 18, 2026

The newly vocal antisemitic “Right” seems to represent regress masquerading as rebellion. They do not actually speak for the “Right;” they speak for themselves and for the social media algorithms that reward outrage and sounding outrageous. Pictured: Tucker Carlson. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Tucker Carlson, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

• This chill is often dressed up as “just asking questions” or “anti-globalism”. How come there never seem to be similar “questions” about Qatar, China, Turkey, Nigeria or Pakistan?

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Arlene Kushner | Feb 18, 2026

Sec. of State Marco Rubio at Munich Security Conference. Screengrab via Youtube

After weeks of confusion and mixed messages, there is now more clarity regarding what President Trump is likely to do concerning Iran.

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Peloni:  Hear how deep the Israeli Deep State goes

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Peloni:  This is an important move by the DOJ.  Another important aspect of action by the Trump administration would be to target the Muslim Brotherhood and other foreign sources of support for college campus protest movement groups.

David Brody | All Israel News | Published: February 18, 2026

Martin Marks hosts Jewish leaders to a Faith Office event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on June 4th, 2025. Photo by Leo Terrell / Department of Justice – Leo Terrell in Facebook, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee over allegations that its policies discriminate against Jewish students.

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Peloni & David Fieldstone

Peloni:  Not to be missed video of Natasha Hausdorff explaining the Western hypocracy on which the criticism of Israel’s recent land reform is based.  She also provides an important description of the various ruses on which the fantasy of ‘Settler Violence’ is based.

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Peloni: I long to see the hopes fulfilled of the one million protestors around the world who support a free Iran. The context of these protests are two-fold. First, there is the reality that the protests of support in the West are the voices of Iranian expats and their supporters, all of whom live in the West while looking towards a future for Iran free from oppression and able to choose a path of freedom for the Iranian people. The question is whether this represents only the perspective of those who were able to flee the tyranny of the Mullahs, or if it speaks to the hopes of the people who have lived under Iranian oppression for nearly 50yrs. Second, these protests, no matter their relevance in Iran, demonstrate a political movement in the West which might be transformed into political weight at the polling booths.  If this is accurate, it might come to be more relevant to what comes next than the first point.

BREAKING: Persia has risen. Over 1 million Iranians and allies marched across the world for a free Iran and the return of national sovereignty. Toronto 350,000. Los Angeles 350,000. Munich 250,000. London, Sydney, Paris and Stockholm joined. No terrorist flags. No looting. No… pic.twitter.com/OKJvNdapGR

— George Mamalis (@georgieAM) February 16, 2026

Reading a chronicle of the Israeli peace movement now is a fascinating reminder of how far the Labor Party and the Israeli left has drifted.

Moshe Phillips

Fighters of the Shaked Patrol. Amos Yarkoni, unit commander, sits in the Jeep commander’s chair, behind the machine gun. Sinai, Six-Day War, June 1967. By Rafi Rogel, Attribution, Wikipedia

It didn’t make headlines when it was published, but Rael Jean Isaac’s Israel Divided: Ideological Politics in the Jewish State remains one of the most important books published in English about contemporary Israel. On the book’s 50th anniversary, it’s worth looking back at what she wrote, and what we can still learn from her.

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Rabbi Jacob Herzog | X

Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed, the next President of UAE?. Screenshot via Youtube

* From the Rabbi of the Arabian Peninsula, congratulations on the occasion of the blessed month of Ramadan, may God return it to us and to you with all goodness. Today’s tweet is big and its information is shocking and includes only Jordan and the UAE.

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Peloni:  It is also important to neutralize the threat from Hezbollah to help reduce any threat while attacking Iran

Hezbollah, supposedly battered and defeated, still stands and is actively rebuilding. If that is the case, what on earth has Israel been doing over the past two years? Have we merely postponed the inevitable?

by  Prof. Eyal Zisser | Feb 14, 2026

Israel’s agreement to a ceasefire in Lebanon in November 2024, at a moment when Hezbollah was reeling from the blows it had sustained, is increasingly emerging as an unfathomable missed opportunity. We had a rare chance to decisively defeat the organization long regarded here as our most formidable and certainly most dangerous enemy. The paralyzing fear of Hezbollah not only cast a heavy shadow over daily life in northern Israel, it also prevented Israel, as many will recall, from acting against Iran’s nuclear capabilities at the start of the previous decade.

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Peloni:  Herein lies the truth about the Saudi shift against normalization with Israel, but it also demonstrates a real and substantive flaw in the Abraham Accords.  The AA were intended to bring about peace by ignoring the Israeli-Pal issue, making bilateral peace agreements between Sunni states and  Israel the focus rather than waiting for the situation with the Pals to be rectified first, something which is impossible due to the terror-based leadership and all of society’s effort at blocking any form of peace with Israel among the Pals.  But the Arab street was always something which has and continues to drive the policies of the Sunni states.  This dependency of the Sunni states on the Arab states is why Bahrain cut its diplomatic ties with Israel shortly after October 7, and why the UAE argued that Israel should not invade Gaza after October 7 and continues to argue that Hamas should not be destroyed today.  It is also why Riyadh will not formalize a commitment to the future upon which MBS has focused the future of his country.  Recognizing these facts is useful to the stability of these Sunni states, but it is also useful towards understanding the real obstruction which exists between a more stable region and what exists today, and that is the need to eradicate the control which the Muslim Brotherhood has on the Sunni states.  So, as Jonathan Feldstein noted previously, Trump’s move to ban only part of the Muslim Brotherhood is a good start, but it needs the subsequent steps to ban all the Muslim Brotherhood, not just those of less useful powers than Qatar and Turkey.

By: A. Savyon and Yigal Carmon | MEMRI | Feb 17, 2026

25th anniversary of Hamas celebrated in Gaza. By Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

In his December 2, 2025 column in the London-based daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Lebanese journalist Nadim Koteich responded to U.S. President Trump’s executive order seeking to designate certain chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) as terrorist organizations. Highlighting the connection between this executive order and the October 7 attack perpetrated by Hamas, which is the Palestinian branch of the MB, Koteich writes that “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,” as Hamas calls the attack, did not harm only Israel.

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Peloni: So will Trump surrender to the demands of the Mullahs while declaring victory?  I wouldn’t bet on it.  Nothing will happen before Ramadan ends, and that won’t be til be til March 18.  This will give the Iranians time to course correct as Trump continues to assemble US forces in the region in an unprecedented show of force.  The clock is ticking and a US strike is coming, just not likely anytime soon.

Witkoff May Have Agreed to a Framework that falls outside the Trump-Rubio Parameters

Stephen Bryen | Weapons & Strategy | Feb 17, 2026

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi in Geneva for indirect talks with Iran. Screengrab via Youtube

The US-Iran “indirect” talks in Geneva lasted between 3 and 4 hours. Omani diplomats acted as intermediaries. The US delegation did not meet directly with the Iranians. Thus suggestions were carried from one side to the other, and vice versa by the Omani intermediaries.

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By Victor Sharpe

IHC Abstract from 2002

This article emphasizes how the recent Palestinian massacre of Jewish worshippers at Hebron was labeled by CNN and Associated Press as having been carried out by “militants” against “settlers”.

The writer further notes how the victims of these massacres were “shamefully made a hot potato between two leftist political rivals.” By this, he means that the deaths were a direct result of the IDFÂ’s withdrawal from the Arab occupied hills surrounding the Jewish community. This withdrawal was ordered by the ex-Israeli Defense Minister and Labor Minister in the coalition government, Benjamin ben-Eliezer, in order to win points in his battle against left wing rival Amram Mitzna for leadership of the Labor party.

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