From the 1953 coup to the Islamic Revolution, Washington helped create the regime it now confronts—and stopping halfway will only guarantee a worse war later.

Michel Benchimol 

Blast site where Khamenei and dozens of the Iranian leadership were eliminated. Screengrab via X

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The missiles flying across the Middle East today are the delayed consequences of decisions made decades ago in Washington and Tehran. If this war ends halfway, the next one will be far worse.

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Peloni:  An important context can be gleaned from the military strikes on Kharg Island.  So long as the strikes are targeted at the military installations while preserving the oil infrastructure, it can be assumed that the outcome of the war is still directed towards a Western focused govt taking over in Iran, as the oil would provide the financial basis of this emerging Western aligned regime.  Should the military strikes begin to target the oil infrastructure, it would signal an understanding by the US that the existing regime is too well entrenched and that the oil infrastructure provides support for this entrenchment, thus making it a necessary target.  Kharg Island is a pivotal aspect of Iran’s economic lifeline, so US attacks on it provides an important bellwether insight into the US strategic outlook.  The economic model supporting the existing regime and its various regional/global proxies would be greatly compromised if the energy infrastructure on Kharg Island was destroyed, but destroying it would also compromise any regime which might emerge as a result of such an attack

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Janatan Sayeh

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The Iran conflict has entered a new phase after US–Israeli strikes have destroyed key military infrastructure, killed thousands of regime personnel, and degraded Iran’s missile and drone launch rates. Israel has shifted toward hyperlocal targeting of repression units and regime figures inside Tehran, often aided by intelligence from Iranians on the ground. Simultaneously, the Islamic Republic has publicly projected stability after Mojtaba Khamenei’s elevation to supreme leader, despite Khamenei’s continued absence from public view and some signs of internal strain.

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Rabbi Jacob Herzog | X | Mar 11, 2026

Today’s talk is about the film “The King of Bahrain,” Iran’s strike on the Sultanate of Oman, the lie about revoking citizenships in Jordan, and the conflict among Zayed’s sons after the war.

* Iran’s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is not dead yet; he is fighting between life and death. Even if he dies, the Iranian authorities will not announce it, and you will see AI-generated videos just as other rulers have done. In all cases, the matter is not important because the entire Iranian regime will be destroyed.

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Peloni:  And the world keeps changing in dramatic and revealing ways…  Note the impact that this will have upon China…once again.

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Peloni:  Rabbi Pesach Wolicki reviews remarks made by Victor David Hanson’s description comparing US allies in Europe with Israel.  More importantly, however, is Rabbi Wolicki’s insightful reflection on the relevance of what is described as US aid to Israel in comparison to US Defense spending spent on the creation and development of bases in the surrounding Arab nation.

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Peloni:  Another insightful, informative and engaging conversation with JPC’s Shoshana Bryen.  This time it is with David M. Weinberg, senior fellow at the Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy.  Among the topics discussed is the toll of the war on Israeli society, the evolving political changes in the region and the possible end points of the war amid Pres. Trump’s longtime opposition for the Iranian regime.  He also addresses the potential for ground forces securing the nuclear sites as they have yet to become targets of largescale aerial assaults thus far.

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By Sha’i ben-Tekoa 

Iranian missile strike in Beit Shemesh. Screengrab via Youtube

On Sunday, 1 March in Bet Shemesh, a missile built and launched in Iran by the gentiles there crashed down not on an enemy’s military camp or installation but randomly in a residential area, slamming into a synagogue with an air raid shelter built beneath it. The synagogue was destroyed and 9 of the 30 Jews within the shelter were murdered.

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Peloni:  Must read article

By Joan Swirsky

In the 1960s, the Russian KGB and Yasir Arafat literally invented the entire concept––or should I say fiction––of a “Palestinian people,”  you know, those perpetual “victims” who have received billions —more likely trillions — in “aid” from the world’s bleeding hearts, but after over 50 years, have become famous for a few things only:

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Federal Security Grants are Blocked by DHS Funds cutoff

Temple Israel has great security and we should all be grateful that its armed security guards were able to neutralize the armed intruder who crashed his explosives-filled vehicle into the synagogue. The guards saved many lives, especially children attending a preschool in the synagogue, the location of the attack.

Too many times churches and synagogues make excuses for not having security. Some are ideological: we don’t want armed guards or guns near our religious place. Others are willing to have guards but not with guns (consider what that would have meant for Temple Israel with over 140 lives at risk). Some are financial: we don’t have money to put in security. Some are denial: it will never happen to us.

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Peloni: There is a particular foulness about Patinkin having chosen to voice his support for Mamdani, a modern day promoter of the Jew Hatred,  during the very celebration which marked the defeat of those who sought the annihilation of our ancestors during the age of the Maccabees.

How Mandy Patinkin helped whitewash Zohran Mamdani’s Anti Jewish Ideology with a Hanukkah cameo

Michel Benchimol

Mandy Patinkin at the premiere of Life Itself, 2018 Toronto Film Festival. Photo by GabboT – Life Itself 05, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia [Cropped]

Mandy Patinkin’s Hanukkah Cameo For Zohran Mamdani Is A Moral Collapse

Mandy Patinkin has spent a lifetime as one of the most visible Jewish figures in American culture, trading on stories of Holocaust trauma, Jewish conscience, and the moral obligations that come with them.

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Western sources, always careful not to offend, describe Ramadan as “a month of intense spiritual renewal, focused on devotion,” while Islamic clerics offer a completely opposite directive.

Janet Levy | Am Thinker | March 13, 2026

Western sources, always careful not to offend, describe Ramadan as “a month of intense spiritual renewal, focused on devotion.” In contrast, Islamic sources and clerics instruct devout Muslims to view it as a time for jihad, conquest, and martyrdom. This message is spread by madrasas (religious schools), school systems in Muslim countries, and mosques worldwide.

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Peloni:  Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger provides an important update on Israel’s commanding Jewish demography.  Very good news.

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | March 13, 2026

Here’s how demography is fueling Israel’s future!

*The number of annual Jewish births in Israel surged by 74% from 1995 (80,400) to 2025 (139,676), compared to a 21% increase of annual Arab births in Israel during the same period (from 36,500 to 44,029), as reported by the February  2026Monthly Bulletin of Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (ICBS).

*The2025  Jewish births (139,676) were 76% of total births (183,705), compared to 69% in 1995.

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NATO shoots down 3rd Iranian missile launched at Turkey | Six US soldiers killed in tanker plane crash in Iraq | IDF strikes 400 targets in Lebanon, urges evacuation ahead of strikes on Iran

All Israel News Staff | Published: March 13, 2026

18:22 – WATCH: “Cleared, 10 seconds, Alpha”: Israeli Air Force strikes missile launcher

The IDF published footage of an Israeli Air Force fighter pilot and combat navigator dismantling a missile launcher belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization yesterday in southern Lebanon.

“Listen to these female IAF combat navigator and fighter pilots as they coordinate a strike on a Hezbollah missile launcher in southern Lebanon. That’s teamwork,” commented Lt.-Col. Nadav Shoshani, the IDF’s International Spokesman.

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Peloni:  The status of the Strait of Hormuz is an vital and credible threat to any prolonged US campaign in Iran.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is repeating history. Including its own mistakes.

Behnam Ben Taleblu

This week Iran claimed to have formally closed the Strait of Hormuz, the 21-mile-wide chokepoint through which roughly 20% of the world’s oil flows every single day. Three more ships – the Thai-flagged Mayuree Naree, the Japanese ONE Majesty, and the Marshall Islands-flagged Star Gwyneth – were struck by “unknown projectiles,” which is almost certainly reporter-speak for Iranian missiles and drones on Wednesday. This brings the total number of vessels attacked since February 28 to at least 14.

Welcome back to the Persian Gulf, circa 1987. Back then, Iran targeted tankers carrying oil from countries supplying Saddam’s Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War, forcing the Reagan Administration to escort re-flagged Kuwaiti vessels under U.S. Navy protection — a confrontation that ended with American warships sinking a significant chunk of Iran’s fleet in a single day.

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Another 2 last week. Total of 4 attacks this month.

by Daniel Greenfield | Mar 13, 2026

Temple Israel Synogogue. Screengrab via X

This sort of thing is a milestone. We’ve had 3 Islamic terrorist attacks in two weeks and 2 in 1 day alone.

So far we’ve had 4 Islamic terrorist attacks in America in March.

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New diplomatic ties could strengthen regional security cooperation and enhance monitoring of threats near the Gulf of Aden.

Israfan | Mar 13, 2026

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For years, Iranian-backed militias and terror groups attacked countries, and Iran carried out attacks directly, but the regime never seemed to face any censure.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | MARCH 12, 2026

United Nations Security Council 6. Photo by The White House – https://www.flickr.com/photos/202101414@N05/55128178997/, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The UN Security Council on Wednesday voted in favor of a resolution condemning Iran. This is highly unusual for Tehran. Previously, Iran’s regime has been able to spread havoc all over the Middle East, and around the world, without facing consequences.

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