Peloni:  Meanwhile, Egypt has decided to not appoint a new Ambassador to Israel, and it has refused for five months to accept the Israel’s Ambassador to Egypt.

Joint drills mark Beijing’s latest effort to expand its military reach and Cairo’s boldest signal yet that it is willing to test US patience

By Morgan Phillips | Fox News | May 6, 2025

President Donald Trump greets the President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, prior to their bilateral meeting, Sunday, May 21, 2017, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Photo by The White House from Washington, DC – President Trump’s Trip Abroad, Public Domain)

Egypt and China wrapped up their first-ever joint military exercises on Sunday, in a show of force involving the U.S.’ top rival and one of its top recipients of military aid.

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Peloni:  Jennifer provides an important proposal for the future, one in which like minded nations would voluntarily, not thru coercion, cooperate to advance the interests of the strengthening of individual nation-states rather than that of a globalist or collectivist body.   A poignant and thoughtful proposal for a better tomorrow which might replace the failing structures of old, which preferred trans-natioanal organizations and coercive tactics.

In structural failure, opportunity.

J.E. Dyer, a retired Naval Intelligence officer, blogs as The Optimistic Conservative, May 7, 2025

President Trump is heading to the Middle East next week for a summit with the Gulf nations, and it doesn’t surprise me that he has a major announcement he plans to make before the summit begins.  (Its dates are 13-16 May 2025.)

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Peloni: The duplicity of ‘humanitarian aid’ masked as food for starving people is both a despicable and an effective ploy in supporting barbarians such as the Houthis towards goals which should be understood to be completely antithetical to the civilized people of the world.  In fact, such acts of support for terrorism as have become routine outcomes of providing aid for these fake famines should be investigated and those involved should be prosecuted for supporting terrorism.

By Daniel Greenfield | May 10, 2025

The U.S. sent billions in famine relief to Yemen. During the famine, the population rose 30%. And Yemen’s Houthis used our money to go to war against us.

In May 2024, the Biden administration announced that it was providing $220 million in aid to Yemen which the United States had been at war with since the start of that year.

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By Gerald A. Honigman

If the report in the following link is true, the President’s decision is at best, premature, as I will explain below:

A dear friend, however, recently alerted me to the new development that Ambassador to Israel Huckabee has absolutely denied this claim:

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Netanyahu confidante Ron Dermer meets Trump before Middle East trip next week

All Israel News Staff | Published: May 10, 2025

Ambassador Mike Huckabee’s Participation in Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day 2025 Ceremony, April 24, 2025 (Photo by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem – Flickr, CC BY 2.0)

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Saturday strongly denied a report suggesting U.S. President Donald Trump could announce his intention to recognize a “State of Palestine” during his Middle East trip next week.

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Peloni:  Transparency and accountability are twin aspects of a govt which respects and adheres to the will of the people.  The long overdue application of these features in regards to important acts of govt misconduct has been a feature rather than a bug.  While the statute of limitations will preclude accountability for malfeasance, it seems that some tranparancy might soon be provided for what took placed during the political psyop best known as the Russia Hoax.  It will be a beginning at least, and at last, which demonstrates the real life consequences of the adage of “Justice delayed is justice denied”, the fury for which might fuel greater real-time accountability for future and more recent past events which have betrayed the will of the people in a more timely fashion.

Sundance | May 10, 2025

Deputy U.S Attorney General Todd Blanche, United States Solicitor General D. John Sauer, and Dept of Justice Investigative Lead, Attorney Ed Martin, are very serious people in Main Justice.

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Diane Weber Bederman

The Jewish people gave the world the ethic of freedom some 3500 years ago. God said to all present and future:

All people are born with equal intrinsic value, all life is sacred and most importantly and most frightening – we have free-will.

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Anti Israel protest at Columbia University.  (Photo by ProudFarmerScholar – Own work, CC0)

I wonder how Columbia University would behave in the following scenario. A bunch of students and outside agitators descend on their campus. They are dressed in the gear of the Ku Klux Klan, being careful to conceal their faces so as to avoid any personal criticism. They then enter the university’s library and other sacred spaces of learning and chant for the lynching of black Americans.

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Peloni: This is a huge demand by Trump.  If this is accurately described by Witkoff, which is anyone’s guess, it requires the dismantlement of Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities.  They won’t concede to this.

?FOLKS THIS IS HUGE: Trump administration envoy Steve Witkoff, in a significant statement ahead of the round of nuclear talks with Iran on Sunday, said, “We must dismantle the three uranium enrichment facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. The uranium enrichment program in… https://t.co/yRQxqYXEp6 pic.twitter.com/hK1haBDKlk

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) May 9, 2025

Peloni:  Must read article 

By Yigal Carmon* | May 9, 2025

New @MEMRIReports on @MOI_QatarEn
Qatar's role in financing and aiding the mastermind of 9/11 terrorism attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. By Yigal Carmon. cc: @marklevinshowhttps://t.co/C5WBVTZgfg…This report is part one of a forthcoming comprehensive study examining Qatar, the…

— Benjamin Weinthal (@BenWeinthal) May 10, 2025

Direct Link to Article

https://www.memri.org/reports/ksm-and-qatar

Janet Levy:  So-called “civil” nuclear cooperation with Saudi Arabia will NOT be contingent on Saudi recognition of Israel.

The Trump Organization is partnering with Dar Global, a Saudi company, and Qatari Diar, a Qatari government-owned company, to build a $5.5 billion Trump International Golf Club in Qatar that will include an 18-hole golf course, luxury villas, and is part of a larger entertainment district. In addition, they are working on residential developments and another golf course in the Kingdom.

The company already has a Trump International Golf Club in Dubai with other projects in development.

Fern Sidman | TJV | April 9, 2025

Click link below to read article

https://tjvnews.com/2025/05/u-s-drops-israel-normalization-demand-in-nuclear-talks-with-saudi-arabia-signaling-strategic-shift-ahead-of-trump-visit/

BREAKING NEWS!!

Just spoke to Ambassador Mike Huckabee about all these scary rumors.

I asked him, and I quote, “Hi, These rumors about Trump “breaking up” with Israel are terrifying. Any truth?”

His response:

“Absolutely not! That is a media lie. Bibi has spent more time… pic.twitter.com/OGPXolWbRn

— Hillel Fuld (@HilzFuld) May 9, 2025

by Rafael Medoff

Auschwitz I (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Eighty years after the end of the Holocaust, the mayor of Amsterdam has apologized for the crucial role the city’s administration played in the mass deportation of Dutch Jews to Auschwitz. Do such apologies serve any purpose? And has the current mayor genuinely learned the lessons of the Nazi genocide?

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Peloni:  Is there a Trump Mideast Shift?

President Donald Trump attends a FIFA Task Force meeting, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in the East Room. (By The White House – Flikr, Public Domain)

Is the Trump administration leaving Israel behind? That’s the impression one gets from recent news stories.

Steve Witkoff, the president’s special envoy to the whole entire world, has been leaking to media and then commenting on his own leaks to the media. It’s a monologue billed as a conversation. And it has some Israelis worried.

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Peloni:  A democracy holds elections.  This single event is in fact the construct thru which the people offer their consent to be governed, it empowers the people over their leaders, and forces accountability upon those same leaders for their actions and their governance.  A govt which does not hold elections is an exercise in tyranny, the personification of depotism and an assault on the liberty and dignity of those men, women and children for whom the govt has little interest and no regard.

Sinan Ciddi | May 9, 2025

(Photo by kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0)

On March 19, Turkish authorities arrested Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu—President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s most serious political challenger. Imamoglu has served as mayor since 2019 and has defeated Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) in three consecutive elections. Following his detention on unsubstantiated charges of corruption and aiding terrorism, Imamoglu declared himself a “political prisoner,” noting that more than 100 people, including his senior advisers and municipal colleagues, were arrested alongside him.

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Avi Abelow

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 President Trump at the Israel Museum. Jerusalem May 23, 2017, CC BY 2.0)

Anyone listening to the mainstream media right is in panic mode that Trump is distancing himself from Israel, and thinking we are about to be dumped by him.

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Peloni :  Jonathan Schanzer and Behnam Ben Taleblu talk about the possible talks this weekend between Iran and US. Talebu makes the case for Iran selling its weakness, and that of its failing proxy armies, as a gesture of good will towards the objective of surviving to fight another day. Notably, as I am posting this video, another alert has gone out in regards to an incoming Houthi missile.

The U.S.-#Iran nuclear talks will be back in full swing on Sunday. Will the White House hold firm on full disarmament? @FDD_Iran Program Sr. Director @therealBehnamBT joins me on the @FDD Morning Brief to make sense of the madness. https://t.co/U2NwD66O7s

— Jonathan Schanzer (@JSchanzer) May 9, 2025

Peloni:  Also See Part I and Part II in this important series.

by Karys Rhea  •  Gatestone Institute  •  May 9, 2025

Those who understand the scope of this have witnessed how the plan of former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is part of a much bigger strategy of illegal land use that extends to the Negev Desert in the south and to the Galilee in the north, all driven by a European-supported narrative that replaces Jewish history with the 20^th-century fiction of Palestinian-Arab nationalism.  Pictured: Salam Fayyad, Fmr. Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2013 (Photo by World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland – Transformations in the Arab World: Salam FayyadUploaded by January, CC BY-SA 2.0)

• The international community continues to conspire against the reality of Israel’s existence by testing the limits of its sovereignty and threatening the Jewish right to self-determination and self-defense.

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Peloni:  Unilaterally announcing a ceasefire on the heals of a successful Israeli air attack without informing Israel, followed shortly afterwards with the news of an US-Saudi deal now being made without Israel would suggest the making of a crisis between the US and Israel, but does is this crisis real or manufactured?

From Raylan Givens: “From C14 @Tamir114 Israeli officials have been trying to clarify the details of the crisis between Trump and Netanyahu in recent hours – they simply have not been “informed” about it by the Israeli media…

There are disputes and tension on several issues, but I repeat: reports of a crisis, “the collapse of relations,” etc., have no basis in reality, as far as I was able to find out during the night and today.

I also refer you to the report that my colleague Barak Ravid revealed this morning about Dermer’s meeting with Trump in the Oval Office last night. How exactly does this fit in with a deep crisis in relations? It is unclear.”

Things do appear somewhat uncertain at this moment, but time will tell.