Peloni:  Pursuing this now seems somewhat late.  How much more powerful of a statement this would have been had this been the announcement made previously when it was announced that the Epstein case was being dropped.  Reports on this topic don’t even make it clear if the negotiations with Maxwell are for public consumption alone, or if this is really the first contact between Bondi’s “exhaustive” investigation and this key actor in Epstein’s crimes.

Hudson Crozier | Daily Caller |  July 22, 2025

Photo by Federal Bureau of Prisons – NY Post, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Tuesday that he expects to meet convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell “in the coming days” to discuss potential evidence in the case of her late partner, Jeffrey Epstein.

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Peloni: Amb Barrak: “Strong nation states are a threat – especially Arab states are viewed as a threat to Israel,…I think all of the minority communities are smart enough to say, we’re better off together, centralized.”  

Is Barrak intending this statement to include the Druze minority which just suffered being slaughtered by Jihadists, the same Jihadists which Jolani described as being “Syrian heroes”???

Meanwhile US citizens are among those being slaughtered by those Syrian heroes, “Folks I am going to save you the graphic and gruesome video of the murder the American Druze in Syria”

Doubling down on this policy of a centralized power under Jolani will not bode well for the future regional  stability, any more than it has for the Druze community over this past week, so Plan B would seem to already be in place by the Jihadists on which Amb. Barrak is doubling down his suspport.

Truce in Syrian Druze areas holds, Bedouin civilians evacuate from Suwayda

All Israel News Staff | Published: July 22, 2025

Tom Barrack met with Ahmed al-Sharaa in Syria in May 2025.  Photo by Ambassador Tom Barrack – X, Public Domain, Wikipedia)

Washington sees no alternative to continue working together with the Syrian government that is dominated by former members of Islamist terror groups, Tom Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria and Lebanon, said in Beirut on Monday.

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There was no fire at the church in Taybeh.
Here is a translation of journalist Elisha Yered's report on the July 7 incident, posted yesterday,followed by the conclusion of the @israelpolice
Investigation.

I’m joining this event late, unfortunately, but we must shatter the lies.… https://t.co/1eUW0JfFQA

— Caroline Glick (@CarolineGlick) July 22, 2025

Peloni:  Exactly right!  The support of Islamic radicals will not secure the stability required in the region for the US to make their pivot to Asia. The road to stability lies thru the empowering of individuals who want peace, who eschew Jihadism, oppose radical Islamist teachings, and who are not Muslim Brotherhood.  Investments in the future stability require more care than simple acts of expediency, the latter being the road towards ever greater regional instability.

There may be no Nobel Peace Prize for not supporting Islamic terrorists but it is the safest and most reliable path to peace.

by Daniel Greenfield | July 22, 2025

Al Jolani’s Liberation Speech at Damascus Mosque.  (Photo by Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic – Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic, Public Domain, Wikipedia)

The New York Times has a special video appeal to President Trump that at once condemns him and promises him that he can ‘win a Nobel Peace Prize’ if he follows in Obama’s footsteps and betrays America, Israel and the free world by supporting Islamic terrorist states in Iran, Israel and across the region.

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Peloni:  The collapse of regional dominance of Iran has provided for many possibilities in the future, making the choices which are being made today all the more signifigant.  Choices such as supporting a wanted terrorists in the role of controlling a multi cultural state with long established minority communities, such as exist in Syria, are the sort of choices which will directly impact the very nature of what these possibilities might become, ie promoting greater regional instability or something closer to a stabilizing peace.

Yossi Kuperwasser | July 21, 2025

Israel’s bombing on IRGC facilities in Tehran. (Photo by Avash Media, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia)

For nearly half a century, the Middle East has been defined by a single overarching reality: the Iranian threat. Since 1979, the ayatollahs’ growing influence, nuclear program, and destabilizing activities have shaped regional dynamics more than perhaps any other factor. An entire generation has grown up accepting periodic clashes and proxy conflicts as the natural order, with Iran’s tentacles reaching Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Gaza, always threatening Israel and pragmatic Arab nations alike.

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Benedict Arnold and his successors were mere amateurs. We have here real conspiracy and collusion meant to destroy the American constitution, dream, and democracy. WE, THE PEOPLE, have the evidence!

Andrew Benjamin | Jul 21, 2025

HE IS GOING TO JAIL! TREASON, SEDITION, KNEECAPPING THE FIRST TRUMP PRESIDENCY ON HIS WAY OUT – and MORE RECENTLY, THE CURRENT PRESIDENT – OUT OF PIQUE, SPITE AND HATE.

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Omer Bartov was accusing Israel of such “crimes” even before Oct. 7.

Omer Bartov, an Israeli-American historian and professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, delivers the lecture “Colonialism, Genocide and the Holocaust: Between the Duty to Remember and the Urge to Forget.” His lecture was the keynote of the conference “Beyond: Towards a Future Practice of Remembrance,” hosted at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Sept. 22, 2022. Credit: Bildungsstätte Anne Frank via Wikimedia Commons.

Moshe Phillips | July 21, 2025

It’s no secret that, over the decades, the editors of The New York Times’ opinion pages have earned every ounce of criticism leveled at them by supporters of Israel—and yet they persist in finding the most extreme writers to showcase. A column published on July 15 may go down as one of the worst hit pieces the Times has published since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.

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Peloni

In his opening segment of Saturday’s show, Mark discusses the disturbing, somewhat inexplicable, fusion taking place between the Marxists and the Islamists as personified by Zohran Mamdani and his election bid in NYC as mayor, as well as with Rep. Omar and Tlaib, and across the capitals and campuses of the Western world.  Mark explains that President Trump stands resolved to defeat this rising threat to the Western world and the American people.  To this fusion, Mark describes one more element characterizing this amalgamating threat to Western society as being the attempt to establish a policy of nullification of Constitutional authority of the federal govt, whereby the authority of the US govt is transformed to the advantage of this threat of the Marxist-Islamist fusion.

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Screenshot via Rumble

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on Monday alleged that the Obama administration knew Hillary Clinton’s campaign plotted to “smear” President Donald Trump for colluding with Russia but “kept silent.”

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Peloni:  Important observations in the video with LTC (res) Sarit Zehavi, Maj. Gen. (res) Gershon Ha-cohen, and Brig. Gen. (ret) Relik Shafir.

FDD | July 20, 2025

Deir al-Balah (central) OpenStreetMap 2024-01-29.  (Photo by Open Street Map contributors – https://www.openstreetmap.org/export#map=18/31.41671/34.35136, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia)

Latest Developments

• Evacuation Notices: The IDF issued warnings calling on Palestinians to evacuate the central-Gaza city of Deir al-Balah on July 20, indicating the start of what would be the first Israeli ground operation in the area since the beginning of the war in Gaza. Israeli Air Force planes dropped evacuation leaflets over the city on Sunday, and the IDF’s chief Arabic spokesperson, Col. Avichay Adraee, urged civilians to move south toward the al-Mawasi humanitarian area. “The IDF continues to operate with great force to destroy the enemy’s capabilities and terror infrastructure in the area, as it expands its activities into an area where it has not operated before,” Adraee said.

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By Pamela Geller | on July 17, 2025

President Donald Trump and his national security team meet in the Situation Room of the White House, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (Photo by The White House – https://www.flickr.com/photos/202101414@N05/54609013013/, Public Domain, Wikipedia)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the foreign ministers of France, Germany and the U.K. agreed in a phone call on Monday to set the end of August as the de facto deadline for reaching a nuclear deal with Iran, according to three sources with knowledge of the call. If no deal is reached by that deadline, the three European powers plan to trigger the “snapback” mechanism that automatically reimposes all UN Security Council sanctions that were lifted under the 2015 Iran deal….  Since the end of the war between Israel and Iran, the Trump administration has been trying to resume negotiations on a new nuclear deal (Axios).

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It seems that there is now concern in Washington that Damascus is not able to hold things together. Israel has played a complex role in this.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | JULY 20, 2025

Photo by Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic – Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Days before violence broke out in Sweida between Druze and Bedouin tribesmen, Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa was in Azerbaijan.

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Peloni:  Here lies a fair analysis of the promise which was made when a Jihadist donned a suit and was claimed to be a reformer, when the terrorist Al Jolani was repackaged as the moderate Al Shaara, when repression was suppose to be replaced with reform and was instead only redirected against Syria’s minorities.  Indeed, radicalism is the reality of what came of the promises of Jolani’s reportedly miraculous transformation into Shaara,, and proof of this lies in his own words as he described the butchers of the Druze as being “heroes”.  Taha challenges that Jolani now has a choice to be the statesman rather than a terrorist, but that choice was already offered when the terrorist put on the suit, and the choice was poorly made, and trust was badly abused.   So are we going to offer Jolani the opportunity to choose again only to hope for a better outcome??

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— Amjad Taha ???? ?? (@amjadt25) July 20, 2025

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Peloni:  Kohn and Block are 100% correct!

By Jacob Kohn and Walter E. Block | June 29, 2025

Israel’s bombing on IRGC facilities in Tehran. (Photo by Avash Media, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia)

On June 20, 2025, President Donald Trump authorized the most consequential military action of his second presidency: U.S. B-2 stealth bombers dropped massive bunker-buster bombs on Iran’s nuclear facilities, including the heavily fortified Fordo site buried 300 feet beneath a mountain. This action, while controversial, was both necessary and overdue.

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