John Spencer | X

Israeli Air Force members wait for F-35I Adirs to launch for a Red Flag-Nellis 23-2 mission at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, March 16, 2023. Photo by Airman 1st Class Trevor Bell – dvidshub.net, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The relationship between the U.S. and Israel is not transactional, it is a long and vital partnership, but the next time you hear the tired question of “What does the U.S. get for $3.8 Billion to Israel,” answer simply – RETURNS.

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Peloni:  Trump’s suggestion to place an Islamist terrorist in charge of Lebanon bodes poorly for Lebanon and disastrous for Israel.  It will significantly strengthen Turkey’s hand in the region and would likely lead to confrontations between Israel and Turkey’s proxy if not Turkey itself.  Trump’s willingness to bolster Turkey in the region mirrors Obama’s willingness to bolster Iran.  Neither of these nations are good actors, as they are each involved in sponsoring terrorism and they each have colonial interests spread across the region to the regret of the peoples under their control.  Trump’s willingness to feed the ambitions of Turkey right up to the border with Israel indicates would bring about a folly of cataclysmic proportion.

Syrian intervention could benefit Hezbollah by galvanizing its base, uniting Lebanon against invaders

Hanan Lischinsky | All Israel News | Published: June 17, 2026

Pres. Trump Meets with Syrian Pres. Jolani. Photo by Donald Trump – TruthSocial, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Sitting next to Qatar’s Emir on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump casually raised a suggestion that could tip the entire region over the edge.

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Peloni:  Ambassador Huckabee, you’re a real mensch.  Bless you.

All Israel News Staff | Published: June 17, 2026

Ambassador Huckabee’s Participation in Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day 2025. Photo by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee took part in the International Conference on Israeli Heritage in Judea and Samaria on Tuesday, where he delivered remarks that appeared to highlight historical and religious connections between the United States and Israel.

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Peloni:  Don’t forget the important influence of Trump’s machatunim, Special Advisor To the President on Africa and the Middle East, Massoud Boulos, who is rarely mentioned, but who should be understood to be one of Trump’s closest advisors.

James L. Pollack

Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Iran’s Foreign Minister in Oman on Feb. 6, 2026. Screengrab via Youtube

Our foreign policy is and always has been ultimately determined and decided by our President, with guidance from his most trusted administration advisors.

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Peloni:  This is HORRIFYING!

By Pamela Geller | June 17, 2026

Screengrab via Gellerreports.com

Restore Britain released a report this week documenting the systemic rape of British girls by Muslim rape gangs across the country.

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Is the Trump administration is about to surrender a significant portion of its leverage before the hardest phase of negotiations begin?

Mark Dubowitz | June 17, 2026

Iranian protestors.  Screengrab via Youtube [Cropped] 

President Trump’s Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran avoids the obvious question: why trade away unprecedented leverage after unprecedented military success?

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Peloni:  What we see when we look at Trump’s statements at the beginning of the war and his shocking comments in the past two days, while Trump talks about regime change having taken place with the replacement of the leadership in power in Iran, what is very clear is that there has been a regime change which has taken place in Washington with the same leadership in America in power.  No such reversal in national policy has been seen in history since Queen Anne betrayed her own policies in the War of the Spanish Succession to spite her own commanding general, the Duke of Marlborough, and his wife.  There is more to this picture than is we are currently seeing.

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Peloni:  The current trajectory of the Trump administration secures the Iranian regime, prolongs the suffering it promotes around the world, including in the US, and makes certain that the Armageddonist death cult ideology in Tehran is given a further license on pursuing its nuclear ambitions by simply outlasting the will of those who have the means to stop them, while lacking the will to secure such a victory.

We Fought the Islamic Republic for Thirty-Nine Days and We Were Winning. The Memorandum in Islamabad Hands That Victory Back. And It Sells the Iranian People to Do It.

Gregg Roman | MEF | June 17, 2026

For thirty years the Middle East Forum has argued one unfashionable proposition: that civilizational threats are not managed, they are ended. We were told this was naïve. Then came the war, thirty-nine days of fire, in which American and Israeli power did to the Iranian war machine what three decades of “engagement” never could. The blockade closed Iran’s economy. The regime that had spent a generation threatening to shut the Strait of Hormuz could not keep its own ports open. For the first time since 1979, the theocracy was not managing us; we were ending it. And at that precise moment, the hour victory required only that we keep our nerve, we are preparing to sign it all away.

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Janatan Sayeh | June 17, 2026

A port view of the reflagged Kuwaiti supertanker GAS KING underway. Photo by Department of Defense. American Forces Information Service. Defense Visual Information Center. 1994 -Public Domain, Wikipedia

The U.S. has reportedly granted Iran sanction waivers for selling oil, with one Iranian supertanker transporting crude oil having already crossed the U.S. naval blockade.

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Peloni:  Excellent march thru the history and struggles of the Jewish people culminating in the reconstitution of the Jewish state on our ancient lands.

Michel Benchimol

Photo by Cole Keister on Unsplash

Few nations in history can trace an unbroken identity across four millennia.
Fewer still have survived repeated conquest, exile, persecution, expulsion, and attempted annihilation while preserving their language, religion, culture, and national consciousness.

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See Part 1 HERE

Mark Levin | X | June 17, 2026

“Mark Levin” by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0

This is the second part of my comments regarding the MOU. I post the first part this morning.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a global leadership summit on the end of the war in Gaza between Israel.  Photo by Daniel Torok – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Here’s the perceptive NYPost Editorial Board on this same topic: Iran wins upfront in Trump’s deal…

https://tinyurl.com/yhj6jvff

Think about this for one moment…

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Peloni: This is too much to believe. If this really represents the new US policy, Trump is capitulating to China, dropping his goals of building the IMEC, and abandoning Israel, all in the same moment. I don’t believe this is real, not because I think Trump is some paragon of virtue, but because I don’t believe he is truly self destructive by nature. Trump loves nothing better than Trump, and his self image of grandeur and greatness is too great to allow him undo himself so completely as he is doing with this document.

By Caitlin Doornbos | NYP | June 17, 2026

The secret US-Iran peace deal was released Wednesday by a senior US official — three days after it was signed electronically.

A senior US official read the 14-point US-Iran memorandum of understanding to reporters on a call Wednesday — and it pledges the US will immediately lift its blockade and waive Iranian oil sanctions until a final deal is reached.

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Peloni:  Another must see video with Dr. David Wurmser

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The mistaken assumption that everyone shares our aspirations has undermined generations of US policymakers seeking to resolve conflicts from Tehran to Gaza.

By ERIC R. MANDEL | JUNE 15, 2026

Hezbollah forces at a parade in south Beirut, Lebanon, in the late 2000s. Photo by Voice of America – YouTube – Public Domain, Wikipedia

Has US President Donald Trump followed the path of previous Democratic and Republican presidents who believed the Islamic Republic could be trusted to honor a negotiated agreement? Or will he come to recognize that Iran is not merely a difficult adversary but a revolutionary regime whose objectives fundamentally differ from those of the United States?

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