Peloni:  Mike Doran and Gadi Taub discuss the recent turmoil in the wake of Trump’s Gulf tour.  Mike makes the case that the manner in which Trump has been pursuing its America First policies has effectively undermined his own stated goals in pursuing this policy, eg making threats against the terrorists and Iran while failing to make good on those threats.  He also argues to consider that Trump’s team is still forming its agenda, and learning as they go, and that this past week was just a bad week which should not necessarily be taken to indicate Trump’s agenda.   He also argues that Trump wanted credible victories to herald from his first overseas trip, and that Israel had no such victories to hand him, suggesting that this should not be taken to indicate that Trump is no longer prioritizing Israel in his Middle East policies.  Notably, while Mike is entirely correct in suggesting Trump wanted tangible victories from this trip, he gave the Islamists a tangible victory in separating Israel from his deal with the Saudis, while growing closer to Qatar, and promoting the canard that Gazans are starving.   Are any of these actions likely to be revised in the coming weeks or months?  I would be happy to find the answer is yes, but I suspect the answer is actually no.  But of course we will see.

by Khaled Abu Toameh  •  Gatestone Institute  •  May 19, 2025

President Donald Trump’s visit to Qatar — Hamas’s major sponsor and funder — is seen by many Palestinians and Arabs as a victory for the Palestinian terror group. If Trump wants real peace and prosperity, he must, unfortunately, act against Iran and its terror proxies, and distance himself from jihadists and their sponsors, especially Qatar. Pictured: President Donald Trump participates in a receiving line with Amir of Qatar Sheikh Tamin bin Hamad Al Thani and his wife, Sheikha Jawaher, at an official State Dinner at Lusail Palace in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (By The White House – Flickr, Public Domain)

• In the eyes of Iran and the Houthis, Trump’s separate peace deal that excluded Israel is a captivating green light to continue their attacks on “The Little Satan”, while obligingly halting their assaults on vessels in the Red Sea.

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Not all speech is protected under the First Amendment. Thus, for example, speech that is directed towards inciting or producing lawless action and is likely to do so is not protected speech, even if both Left and Right use it.

Leonard Grunstein | May 20, 2025

United States Supreme Court Building at dusk in Washington, D.C (Photo by Joe Ravi, CC BY-SA 3.0)

There have been many documented links between leaders of the far left and far right over the years.

Historically, there was the Hitler-Stalin pact that divided up Poland. Some of the more modern iterations include flirtations between Elijah Muhammad of the Nation of Islam and George Lincoln Rockwell of the Nazi party, as well as Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam and Tom Metzger of the KKK. Then there is the phenomenon of extremists like David Duke of the KKK, Farrakhan and their ilk sharing each other’s poisonous antisemitic views.

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Mark Levin May 18 Show

Peloni:  The below Thread covers a report on a post-election Qatari foreign influence operation which targeted conservative news outlets following Trump’s election victory.  The targets included Tucker Carlson, Fox News Digital, Just The News, the New York Post, the Daily Mail, and the Washington Examiner, with the Qatari PM’s interview with Tucker Carlson being described as “Perhaps Qatar’s biggest victory in its post-election right-wing media campaign thus far”.   Notably, the report, written by Robert Schmad, was published on one of the targets of the Qatari influence efforts, the Washington Examiner.

A recent Spaces on X by Stealth Medical provides a good bit more detail on this subject as well.  See link for Stealth Medical Spaces below Thread Link and the direct link to article at bottom.

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Peloni:  This is an important video by Rabbi Pesach Wolicki.  Trump’s claim that there are “a lot of people starving” in Gaza is a blood libel against Israel.  In doing so he is adopting the propaganda of our enemies and is actively promoting these lies as factual.  Worse than this, he is acting on this false narrative in a way which will embolden and strengthen Hamas by basically funding Hamas via the ruse of sending them ‘humanitarian aid’, something which was forced on Israel by the Biden White House.  There is no famine in Gaza.  This is part of the Qatari influence op being leveraged either by the many Qatari supporters in Trump’s own administration, or by his now strongly cemented partnership with the slave terror state of Qatar, directly.   While Rabbi Wolicki notes that the canard about starving Gazans is being used to directly supplement Hamas as well as to preserve its governance over the Pals, it should also be noted that it is being used to preserve the Gazans as Hamas’ human shields, which in turn leads to an entirely alternate form of blood libel against Israel.  Consequently, rather than feeding the false narrative of a fake famine, Trump should be demanding that any and all aid should be directed towards moving the Gazans away from Hamas, and eventually out of Gaza, as per his own proposed plan.  Doing otherwise, as he is currently doing, only serves to increase the victimhood of the Gazans at the hands of Hamas, which is of course exactly what Hamas and Qatar would prefer.  

Hamas must be stripped of all resources, stripped of their human shields, and denied any support including the humanitarian aid which Israel is currently being pressured to facilitate for Hamas by the Trump’s own White House as well as Trump’s own commentary.   It is time to end the fake news and pursue humanitarian solutions by halting all humanitarian aid which supports Hamas and their savagery in any way.

Peloni:  The debt which we owe to Cohen is beyond any price which might ever be paid.  I hope to one day soon see his body returned to his family.

Newly unveiled documents and items shed light on Israel’s most legendary spy and his vital role in the nation’s security history.

Israfan | May 19, 2025

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Peloni:  Confidential source revealed to me that Trump ordered Bibi to make deals with Al-Jolani and Hamas, and to leave Syria, while also ending any protection for the Syrian Druze.  This would amount to a complete surrender to the Muslim Brotherhood interests in the region.

Hamas continues to demand guarantees for end of war and entry of humanitarian aid

All Israel News Staff | Published: May 19, 2025

U.S. special Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, delivered a new hostage-ceasefire proposal to Israel and Hamas and is actively pressuring both sides to accept it, Axios reported.

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Peloni:  This is a highly responsible move.  It is unseemly to have the terror supporting state of Qatar interacting on behalf of the victims of Qatari sponsored terrorism with Qatari sponsored terrorists.  As it has been noted previously, Qatar is unsurprisingly responsible for the recent release of Edan Alexander, who was released with no quid pro quo price in exchange for his release, but due to Qatari pressure.  If Qatar could work their will to gain the release of Alexander today, they could have done it last week, last month or last year.  What is more, they could have done so for all of the hostages at any time, at will, and for just the price of the Qatar applying their own pressure on their sock-puppet proxy in Gaza.  Simple things are simple, and the terror suppoting state of  Qatar warrants being labeled a ‘terror-supporting state’, not just by Israel but by the US as well.  Recall that Edan Alexander was just the last living hostage held by Hamas, but they butchered, raped, murdered many others and still hold murdered American victims in their clutches while Qatar ‘talks’ with their sponsored terror army in Gaza.

By Nava Freiberg | TOI |18 May 2025

Amid the ongoing “Qatargate” scandal in the Prime Minister’s Office and the hostage negotiations in Doha, the Ministerial Committee for Legislation approves a bill seeking to designate Qatar a “terror-supporting state.”

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Peloni: Also, see Mike Keyes’ remarks at bottom, congratulating Qatar on their adept influence campaign in the US.

Additionally, read The $1 Trillion Network of Islamic Terror – All Eyes on Qatar where it quotes Barry Tigay‘s insightful comment:

“President Trump has played hardball with Canada, Panama, Mexico and Greenland. But he seems unable to stand up to Qatar. What’s the problem here? Why let a state sponsor of terrorism and Muslim Brotherhood influence buyer get a way with murder?”

My take on the dangers of Qatar’s courtship of Trump @i24NEWS_EN pic.twitter.com/HPB4u8940t

— Michael P Pregent (@MPPregent) May 12, 2025

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Diane Weber Bederman | May 17, 2025

It’s exhausting being Jewish: It’s Groundhog day every day

Warning: It will be exhausting reading this.

As a Jew, I not only worry about the hate in Canada, where I live, I worry about Israel, the Jewish homeland. How many Polish people living outside Poland worry about Poland; or Germans worry about Germany, or British worry about Britain-oh wait-they should be worried about Britain.

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Peloni:  A very important article, which gives a good assessment of Trump’s Gulf Tour.   Ignoring the attack on the values and interests which made America into the strong and vibrant society which led the West to defeat the twin threats of Nazism and Communism, will only cede a similar victory as Trump’s Gulf allies march forward in their quest of establishing a world dominating caliphate.  Trump has the power of his office, and the influence of a presidential bully pulpit, the power of which is likely never been present in US history before, and from this position of power and influence he has demonstrated a specific lack of clarity of the threat emanating from these very same gulf nations with whom he has come to be so tightly associated.  Rather than praising these nations, he should be openly challenging there attempts to corrupt, divide and re-imagine American values as well as blocking the encroaching efforts to promote the establishment of an Islamist caliphate.

by Con Coughlin  •  Gatestone Institute  •   May 18, 2025 at 5:00 am

Given the Qataris’ history of double-dealing with the West, negotiating lucrative contracts with Western firms while at the same time funding Islamist terror groups, US President Donald Trump would be well-advised to reconsider their gift of a $400 million luxury jet and reject this highly questionable offer. Pictured: The Boeing 747 that Qatar intends to give as a gift to Trump sits in Palm Beach International Airport on February 15, 2025. (Photo by The White House from Washington, DC – President Trump Meets with the Amir of Qatar, Public Domain)

• [Trump’s] soft approach, however, to the Saudi Crown Prince — that he was welcome to join the Abraham Accords “in your own time” — could easily be a “never”….

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