Syria’s President Ahmad al-Sharaa “affirmed that the injustices witnessed in Syria during the decades of the deposed regime’s rule affected all segments of the Syrian population without exception.”

BySETH J. FRANTZMAN | JANUARY 15, 2026

Syria’s transitional government is trying to do outreach to Kurds as it appears to prepare a new offensive against the Syrian Democratic Forces.
The SDF is backed by the US and is composed mostly of Kurds, controlling eastern Syria.

Syrian security forces recently ejected Kurdish fighters from two neighborhoods in Aleppo, raising concerns about Damascus abusing the rights of Kurds. US officials, who back the new Syrian government, are concerned about attacks on the SDF.

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The Tina Peters case.

by Daniel Greenfield | Jan 15, 2025

Judge Matthew Barrett chuckles as he sentences Tina Peters. Screengrab via Youtube

“Election denial” was really hot 5 years ago. The ‘Election Denial’ moral panic led to mass censorship and claims that anyone denying an election result was a dangerous insurrectionist who needed to be locked up and posed a threat to democracy.

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Peloni:  Did Trump really abandon the Iranian protestors after urging them into the streets where thousands were gunned down by the Mullahs?  I don’t believe this is likely.  Rather, I agree with the summation of this article, namely that a limited but significant strike raised against Iran will be the most likely outcome in Iran.  I don’t think Trump is looking for regime change, and I don’t think his attack will be the deciding factor in what successes might be made by the protests.  Time will tell of course.

Joel C. Rosenberg | All Israel News | Published: January 15, 2026

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The lead headline on The New York Times website as of 11 p.m. Israel time said, “Israel and Arab Nations Urge Trump to Postpone Attack on Iran.”

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Peloni:  What goes unstated in this article is that the death penalty provides justice, irreversible by future acts of terror which have been used over the past 70 years to inevitably leverage the lives of Jew Ransomed innocents against the release of those who should never be released.  Let these butchers know that their sentence will be final, that they will have no hope of freedom, and that a final justice at the end of a noose will be the consequence of their barbarity.  Be not kind to the cruel so as to not be cruel to the kind.  Simply hang them.

Revised proposal seeks faster implementation and stronger deterrence as Israel confronts ongoing terror threats.

Israfan | Jan 15, 2025

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir – Own work, CC0, Wikipedia

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By Robert Spencer | Jan 15, 2025

BREAKING: Trump:

We have been told that the killing in Iran is stopping, it has stopped.

There is no plan for executions. I have been told that, we will find out about it. pic.twitter.com/TnJMgP2Dfp

— Clash Report (@clashreport) January 14, 2026

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Peloni:  As Likud moves to support Trump’s ban on Israeli sovereignty, who will pick up the banner supporting sovereignty, and will it result in material vote swings in the next election?

An historic missed opportunity that will cost at the ballot box. 

Yehudit Katsover & Nadia Matar, co-chairs of the Sovereignty Movement | Ribonut.co.il | |   Jan 15, 2026

Photo by Hudson Institute – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia

Recent reports indicate that the Sovereignty Law, approved by the Knesset plenum two months ago, has been effectively blocked. Coalition Chairman Ofir Katz transferred the bill from the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to the Knesset Committee, which he chairs- reportedly following instruction from the Prime Minister. The law is now frozen without debate or formal decision. This is not a minor procedural matter; it represents a significant national opportunity that has been lost, unless it is overturned.

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Peloni:  A federalized Syria with autonomous zones or a divided Syria with independent statelets are the only paths towards peace in Syria.

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Peloni: As the world waits to see what will materialize from Trump’s promise to the Iranians that help was coming, the internet access in Iran continues to be jammed.  If there are no more killings, and Iran has control over the country, why is it that no one outside of the Iranian curtain of silence is allowed to confirm this so called fact.

Regime confirms that planned execution was halted, no further hangings of protesters planned

All Israel News Staff | Published: January 15, 2026

Bodies of murdered protestors being loaded onto a truck.  Screengrab via X

Amid a flurry of reports suggesting that the broader Middle East is expecting U.S. strikes against the Iranian regime, U.S. President Donald Trump caused general confusion when he suggested that the regime’s bloody crackdown against the protesters had “stopped” on Wednesday evening.

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“President Trump is well aware that Tehran obliterated his red line like a nuclear site under a Beautiful B-2. He’s well aware how fragile the regime is right now. He’s well aware that Xi and Putin would look at this moment and wonder whether he got cold feet. So, we’ll see.”

– Richard Goldberg

Is this an Obama 2.0 redline moment or a smart Trump head fake? https://t.co/bJPdo4CYTk

— Mark Dubowitz (@mdubowitz) January 14, 2026

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Arlene Kushner | January 13, 2026

UGC

The numbers of Iranian citizens who have been killed by the regime is horrifying. As communication coming out of Iran is erratic, it is impossible to confirm the statistics; from different sources I’m seeing somewhere between 6,000 and 20,000. Horrifying indeed.

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Peloni:  Why does every Red Line drawn by the US ultimately become a new line of negotiations after it is crossed.  Is victory the aim of the negotiations or is it actually the negotiations themselves that are the desired aim, so as to pretend that the outcome of the negotiations have not failed as the declared Red Lines are simply crossed over and new ones are chosen it their place.  Indeed, Phase 2 was to begin after the disarmament or destruction of Hamas as well as the complete return of the hostages.  Neither of these demands have been met, but US impatience has once again simply made new threats while ignoring past threats which failed to materialize, as if the new threats will be deemed more useful for anyone as Phase 2 is pushed forward with Phase 1 still incomplete in gross and significant ways.

Israeli groups decry transition to next phase without return of last Israeli hostage

All Israel News Staff | Published: January 14, 2026

Steve Witkoff (Photo By Unknown author – https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse45/videos/white-house-opioids-summit/1598737246880669/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=152740717)

White House Special Envoy Steve Witkoff on Wednesday announced the launch of the second phase of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza in a post on ?.

“Today, on behalf of President Trump, we are announcing the launch of Phase Two of the President’s 20-Point Plan to End the Gaza Conflict, moving from ceasefire to demilitarization, technocratic governance, and reconstruction,” Witkoff declared.

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Initial $2 billion in aid through UN will go to Ukraine, Syria and Haiti

Daniel Greenfield | Jan 13, 2025

United Nations General Assembly. Photo by Mojnsen – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

A few days before New Year’s Eve, when hardly anyone was paying attention, State Department officials visited Geneva and signed a $2 billion aid deal with the UN.

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Peloni:  It sounds as if Sisi is concerned he might be the next to be Maduroed

By: Steven Stalinsky, Ph.D., Rachel Legow, and R. Sosnow | MEMRI | January 12, 2025

President Donald Trump welcomes Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Monday, April 3, 2017, at the West Wing entrance of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

The abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in an American military operation on January 3, 2026 sparked harsh criticism in Egypt and expressions of concern over its implications for the world order. While the Egyptian Foreign Ministry sufficed with a laconic statement saying it remains in constant contact with Egypt’s embassy in Caracas to monitor the situation of Egyptians in Venezuela,[1] the Egyptian press and pro-regime state published numerous articles and cartoons condemning the operation and describing it as a “crime,” a “piratical act,” and a “dark chapter” in American history.

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By Martin Sherman

For decades leading up to the atrocities of October 23, the top echelons of the Israeli leadership have wildly misjudged the realities that prevailed in Gaza

Looking back over the last several decades, citizens of Israel will find much reason for grave concern over the aptitude of the country’s leadership. Indeed, almost all of those who held- and some who still hold—senior positions of national responsibility have raised ideas, which have either precipitated trauma and tragedy or, by mere good fortune, have not done so.

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Peloni:  The courage of the Iranian protests is unlike anything I can remember.  It calls to mind the image of Tank Man, the lone protestor who stood afront a column of Chinese tanks following the Tiananmen Square massacre, but Tank Man was but an individual whose courage exemplified the hopes of a nation in a desperate act of heroism.  Yet, today, there are millions of Tank Men who stand defenseless in the streets of Iran, and like the Tank Man from another generation, these millions are facing down another totalitarian regime armed with only their sheer will of defiance which cries out for support from the freedom loving world, not for sympathy, not for kind or inspiring words, but for action, for weapons, for a combined effort to free the Iranian people who have been consistently betrayed by Western silence and inaction for decades.  We live in revolutionary times, which means the actions we take, or those we fail to fulfill, will decide the path on which the future and the course of history will turn.  So the only question which bears comment on this topic is what kind of a world we want our children to face: one with a nuclear ambitious terror regime with anti-Western tentacles strangling the free world, or one which recognized the need to support the courage of a free people who are standing as a nation, with the same defenseless resolve which Tank Man demonstrated forty years ago.  Will the world simply applaud and ignore the demand for freedom by the Iranian people as what followed the demonstration of Tank Man in another age, or will we see the demand for freedom of an oppressed nation fulfilled with US and Western support which will free both Iran and America, and the Western world from living with the persistence of the ghoulish Mullahs maintaining control over the rogue nation of Iran.  Is it time for the Mullahs to fall, or will we simply look on as the millions of Iranians are disappeared from view as was the fate of Tank Man and his murdered comrades in Tiananmen Square.

Their Iranian civilians’ courage and resolve should be a wake-up call for freedom loving people everywhere

Douglas Altabef |  Jan 12, 2026

Anyone who professes a love for freedom and liberty must regard the current protests in Iran with a sense of awe.

How courageous are these people, knowing that they are up against an unabashedly brutal and repressive regime, which thinks nothing of wantonly killing their own people!

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A young Iranian who recently crossed into Turkey shared a message for the world, warning that the scale of killings by the Islamic regime is far greater than outsiders realize. “They’re shooting at people’s chests all the time,” he said. pic.twitter.com/z0yBCNkTp7

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) January 14, 2026

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