By Hugh Fitzgerald | Nov 16, 2025

President Donald Trump welcomes Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, Monday, April 3, 2017, at the West Wing entrance of the White House in Washington, D.C. ( Photo by The White House from Washington, DC – Foreign Leader Visits, Public Domain, Wikipedia)

The Egyptian state is a stratokleptocracy — that is, the rule of thieving military officers. Those military men, with General Abdelfattah el-Sisi himself leading them, are busy helping themselves, through sweetheart business deals with the state, to much of the nation’s wealth, and are driving legitimate businesses that lack such connections into bankruptcy. More on the Egyptian state’s cracking can be found here: “The Cornerstone Is Cracking: Why Egypt’s Internal Decay Threatens the Middle East’s Longest Peace,” by Amine Ayoub, Algemeiner, November 10, 2025:

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Peloni:  So as the American plan falls apart, they seem intent upon refusing to take responsibility for the policy failures which were in fact baked into the plan by the main authors, Kushner and Witkoff, who somehow saw their own lack of independence from Hamas-allied Qatar as some form of asset.  The lack of credibility in making such a protestation only lend itself toward the plan’s failure, whether this was intentional or not.  In fact, the plan thus far has resulted in the return of all but a few of the hostages, including all of the living.  The return of the hostages, however, was never the extent of the Trump plan.  That Trump would pivot towards so badly fumbling this initiative seems too impossible to accept.  Is this all an attempt to get the last remaining hostages freed?  Or is Trump so disingenuous as to reverse himself on the survival of Hamas intact from this war, something which he made clear that he clearly opposed from the very first interview he gave regarding the Gaza war, almost a year before he returned to the White House?  Are we to believe that he is so corrupt, so beguilable, so villainous, as to now support the complete destabilization of the region, when stability is exactly what will make the IMEC possible, while the IMEC remains a key factor to Trump’s China strategy?

Israeli official says US and Israel have ‘fundamental differences of opinion’ over how to move forward

All Israel News Staff | Published: November 16, 2025

 Hamas. Photo by Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

In their desire to push forward with the Gaza peace plan, U.S. officials are considering moving to the second phase of the ceasefire, despite the failure of Hamas to disarm or release all the hostage remains, an Israeli report claims.

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Peloni:  The notion that Trump is acting to isolate Israel is evident from the fact that the proposed UN resolution was devised from input from all the Sunni states but none from Israel as indicated HERE.  Is this really where the Trump administration stands today?  It makes little sense if it is true.  For us to believe this, we would need to accept that Trump has folded on both his support for Israel, his opposition to Hamas, and his plans to engage China thru the development of the IMEC, of which a stable Middle East region is essential.  For us to dispute this, we would need to ignore everything that is actually taking place on the ground, in the region as well as in the UN.  Meanwhile Netanyahu is about to employ Trump’s support of Israel as the key pillar of his re-election plans which will take place in less than a year’s time or sooner.  Is Trump really a villain, and is Bibi really tying his political future to Israel being marginalized?

Toward Israel too, he maintains a low profile, and repeats again and again his desire to reach a security agreement with it that would ensure quiet along the border between the two countries.

by  Prof. Eyal Zisser  | Nov 16, 2025

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa with U.S. President Donald Trump, November 2025. Photo by Donald Trump – Truth Social, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Peloni:  The Gaza plan requires the defeat of Hamas.  In the face of such diplomatic ineptitude as evidenced in the plan negotiated by Witkoff and Kushner, only Israel has the means, the interest and fortitude to do what is needed, and only Trump stands in the way of them doing it, as Trump has stated himself.  If Trump’s hopes for something other than a Korea stalemate model in Gaza, he must finally step aside, stop negotiating with the Hamas butchers of his own citizens, and let this war finally come to its natural end.  His initial instinctive choice to move the war trained Gazans to Egypt, Jordan and elsewhere was an inspired vision constructed upon the need of addressing the brutality and savagery endemic in the Gazan population.  With the implosion of Kushner/Witkoff plan at the UN, the time is right to do what was always right, but the question remains to be answered if Trump will allow this to come to be.

Avi Abelow

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

The American proposal at the UN, an international force in Gaza, was dead on arrival, and anyone actually grounded in Middle Eastern reality knew it.

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FDD | Nov 15, 2025

Latest Developments

• Russia Proposes Draft Resolution: Russia floated a draft UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution on the future of Gaza on November 13 that contrasts with a U.S. proposal to establish an International Stabilization Force (ISF) in the enclave. Moscow’s draft discusses examining “the options of [the] deployment” of the ISF in Gaza, while the U.S. draft calls for the explicit implementation of an ISF for a duration of at least two years, in line with U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point proposal. Additionally, the Russian draft does not mention Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace,” while the U.S. resolution “welcomes the establishment of the Board of Peace as a transitional governance administration” in Gaza.

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Peloni:  Besides his disagreements with Maimonides and a brief few comments on Epstein, Alan talks about how New Yorkers should prepare to deal with Mamdani as mayor.

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by Majid Rafizadeh  •  Gatestone Institute  •  November 15, 2025

Since its inception, the current Iranian regime has not been built on peace, but on the sword. The revolutionary slogans of the regime are not about coexistence or mutual respect; they are about domination, erasing enemies, and building an empire under the flag of the Supreme Leader. The regime has never sought to win influence by persuasion or diplomacy, but through nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and global assassinations. Photo by Unknown author – http://english.khamenei.ir/photo/5807/Ayatollah-Khamenei-met-with-Hajj-organizers, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

• From the very first day of their 1979 revolution, the Ayatollahs established a theocracy whose core mission was not just to govern, but to export its revolution across the world and impose its radical Shia Islamist doctrine on others.

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By Christine Douglass-Williams | Nov 14, 2025

Majed Al-Ansari. Screengrab via Youtube 

The hostile comments that Majed Al-Ansari, who is now an advisor to the Qatari prime minister and spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, made against Israel should come as no surprise to anyone. His views reflect the official position of the state of Qatar, which is a chief funder of Muslim Brotherhood — of which Hamas is an offshoot.

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Peloni:  Why is it that neither the Arab nations nor Hamas are being required to fulfill their relative aspects of the Trump 20 Point Plan, while Israel has fully complied?  And why is it that the same Mideast Negotiator who finds strength in his own conflict of interest, and whose previous negotiations have left Israel alone complying to his negotiated terms, now directly engaging with the Hamas terrorist who planned Oct 7 and has the blood of countless Americans on their hands?

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By Andrea Widburg | Am Thinker | Nov 14, 2025

Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Image by AldrianMimi – Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian and fierce anti-Nazi, a man so dangerous to the Nazi movement that he was one of the last people they killed lest he taste liberation, was a man of extraordinary moral courage. For Tucker Carlson, however, he was a failed Christian for having dared to stand up to Hitler (and, probably, for having rescued Jews).

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The city’s newly elected Democratic Socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, supports the BDS movement and is likely to push an anti-Israel agenda.

Sarah N. Stern |Nov 14, 2025

By Bingjiefu He – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

The post-World War II halcyon days for the American Jewish community in the United States have ended. New York City, which has more Jews within its population than any place on earth outside of Israel, elected its first jihadist mayor.

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Peloni:  It is vital that Israel maintain its strategic advantage in US military armaments til such time as Israel has its own innovative armaments being produced.  Yet at the same time, the US will find the sale of billions of dollars of advanced military equipment to Saudi Arabia as being very tempting.  So the question arises, is the loss of Israel’s strategic advantage worth MBS’ commitment to normalize relations with Israel, or even to join the Abraham Accords?  I would think that the answer would be a hearty and resounding ‘NO!’ but I worry that this is exactly what might be coming in the next few days.  The Saudis are experts at getting the Americans to do as they want during such negotiations, and the Saudis want the f35s…and nuclear power as well.

Not a Slam Dunk Deal

Stephen Bryen | Weapons & Strategy | Nov 14, 2025

Donald Trump in Saudi Arabia with Prince Mohammed bin Salman, May 13, 2025. Photo by The White House – X, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Sultan will soon arrive in Washington for crucial talks with US President Donald Trump. Among the deals on the table, the most controversial is Saudi Arabia’s request for 48 of the stealth F-35 fifth generation jets.

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Peloni:  The conversation about the safety of Jews in the Diaspora grows ever more conspicous as Jew hunts, anti-Jewish protests, and anti-Jewish influencers increasingly dominate headlines.  Is it the time to fight for Jewish presence among the nations at an end, or is it more important today than ever?  Please comment on Ronn Torrosian’s warnings below.

Assimilated German Jews insisted that Jews had nothing to fear if they behaved correctly, shed their national identity, rejected Zionism, and embedded themselves wholly within German society. Sound familiar?

Ronn Torossian | Nov 14, 2025

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In August 1933, only months after Hitler rose to power, a chilling interview appeared in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Dr. Max Naumann, a proud German patriot and the founder of the Verband nationaldeutscher Juden – the Association of National German Jews – declared his unwavering loyalty to the Nazi government. Even as Jewish livelihoods were being dismantled, professions confiscated, and families terrorized, this group of proper, non-Orthodox German Jews insisted that Jews had nothing to fear if they behaved correctly, shed their national identity, rejected Zionism, and embedded themselves wholly within German society.

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Peloni:  The Israeli Deep State continues to expose itself as it works to manipulate matters using gag orders and lawfare while the public looks on.

Assistant-Chief Meni Benjamin questioned over suspected misconduct, sparking political backlash.

Israfan | Nov 14 2025

An Israel National Police officer stands outside Lahav 433, the investigative arm of the department, in Lod. Photo by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) – Israel National Police Officer, Public Domain, Wikipedia

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By Joan Swirsky | Am Thinker | Nov 13, 2025

Image from Pexels. 

I stopped counting the massive numbers of articles — both before and after the election of November 4, 2025 — that predicted the complete devolution/collapse/implosion of New York City, a huge exodus of both Jews and Christians, as well as businesses and the Wall Street financial district to friendlier climes in what was anticipated to be the full-fledged conversion of the Big Apple from capitalism to communism, from law and order to a runaway crime wave, and from historical diversity to full-bore antisemitism and the passionate embrace of Islamism and sharia law if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor.

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Peloni:  Is Washington completely blind to the govt which it has just hosted a full court press event in the Oval Office?  Many are calling for this event to be cancelled, but it should be clear that cancelling the event would be the real deception of that which Washington has chosen to align itself.  Trump may believe that he can control these barbarians, but this demonstrates the reality of who is fooling who.

Min. Diaspora Affairs, Amichai Chikli | X

Who could have possibly imagined that the Ministry of Culture of Jolani’s jihadist regime would host an event called “Al Aqsa Flood” celebrating the rape and murder committed by Hamas terrorists?!

It is a tragedy to witness the naivety and ignorance displayed by senior advisers who still fail to grasp the true nature of this regime. Their blindness is not only embarrassing but also dangerous.

However, Sinwar did choose an accurate name for his disastrous attack, one that perfectly describes what he brought upon his own people, turning Gaza into a flooded tent camp.

Peloni:  Judicial review is an important concept, but it needs to be tied to established institutional doctrine which the the Founding Fathers of the US, unlike those of Israel, had the good wisdom to enshrine in a single document, ie the US Constitution.   The further the US strays from this arrangement, the greater they will be transformed into a nation ruled by a black robed junta.  To see how bad things can get, look to Israel today.

By J.B. Shurk | Am Thinker | Nov 13, 2025

Should America’s constitutional republic ever fall, the most likely cause of death will be its corrupt institutions. When citizens lose faith in the “system” and have exhausted all available remedies to “fix” that “system,” they will feel wholly disconnected from the government that rules over them. A cascade of institutional crises will exacerbate public distrust in the “system” until the “system’s” legitimacy collapses.

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Peloni: Rabbi Pesach Wolicki makes the case that the plan being suggested in a recent report by Axios where the Gazans will be housed in the Israeli controlled part of Gaza is actually provided for in Trump’s original plan under Point #17.  The only distinction is that Point 17 explicitly states that the Gazans will be held in territories which the IDF transfer to the ISF, the proposed Arab armed force for which the composition is still highly obscure.   So, as Israel has fulfilled its part of the Trump plan, withdrawing even further than indicated, the Arabs states and Hamas have each failed to honor their part of the deal, something which should surprise few.  Yet, the consequence of this is that the IDF controlled territory is now to harbor what the Trump’s 20 point plan describes as New Gaza.  In other words, Israel evacuated from its forward positions, only to be burdened with controlling the territory on which the Gazans, some thousands of which participated in October 7, will now be housed.  This is not only significantly different from what Trump’s 20 point plan called for, it defies the very reason which Netanyahu ostensibly gave for not wanting the IDF to control Gaza throughout the war, ie, that the IDF would have to patrol the Gazan people.

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