Peloni:  An important look at the nuanced perspectives on why the Americans have it all wrong and are being misled.  Highly recommended reading.

Arlene Kushner | February 10, 2026Crystal Ball. Image via Unsplash
Lunacy seems a fitting term to describe the current status of the face-off between the US and Iran. The challenge for us here in Israel is to do our best to understand what is going on and what we are likely to expect moving forward. This is no small feat: it is, in fact, an undertaking of the first order.

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Peloni:  The LAF was tasked last year to disarm Hezbollah, and despite this being their objective, the US is now heralding the LAF having simply identified Hezbollah weapons depots while ignoring their mandate to disarm Hezbollah.  It isn’t that the impossibility of the LAF fulfilling their primary objective is not known to the US, it is that Lebanon’s capture by Hezbollah is treated as an inconvenient truth which is constantly ignored by the Americans who continue to confer bipartisan support (read as nearly half a billion dollars in 2024 and another quarter billion dollars in 2025) for Lebanon.

Hezbollah tunnel was found south of Litani, where Lebanese army claimed terror group’s presence had ended

All Israel News Staff | Published: February 10, 2026

U.S. Central Command chief Admiral Brad Cooper praised the Lebanese Armed Forces for discovering a massive weapons depot belonging to Hezbollah on Monday, several days after a visit of the LAF commander revealed tensions with the U.S.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

With the various Islamist Arab and Arabized Iranian jihadi slaughter of Kurds and Iranians once again making news, along with that of black African, Druze, Assyrian and other Middle Eastern Christian victims as well, as a NPA Independent who voted for you twice, and via published articles have encouraged others to do so as well, I’d like to share some thoughts with you regarding the plight and quest for justice for the Middle East and North Africa’s (MENA) various peoples.

To help provide you with some credentials, my work on these topics has been placed on recommended reference lists in such places as Paris’s acclaimed Institut d’etudes Politiques (Sciences Po), and Georgetown, the American University of Beirut, Cornell, NYU, UF, Wesleyan, Penn State, Kobe University, UC-Irvine, the main library system of the Abraham Accords’s United Arab Emirates, and numerous other universities are using my published works as well.

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By Alexander G. Markovsky

Soviet POWs covering a mass grave after the Babi Yar massacre, October 1, 1941. Photo by Johannes Hähle – History.kby.kiev.ua, Public Domain, Wikipedia

It’s been said that God acts in mysterious ways. In Judaism, the belief that vengeance belongs to God is rooted in the verse, “It is Mine to avenge; I will repay,” declares God (Deut. 32:35). From this perspective, it is plausible that to implement the God’s will and exact vengeance on Ukrainians for the atrocious crimes committed against Jews over the centuries, God has brought Vladimir Zelensky down to Earth and made him the President of Ukraine.

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Peloni:  The peace processors only exert leverage on Israel, and by doing so every step forward is another step back to October 6.  The same mistakes ignore the same realities, and the result of this is the further cost in Jewish lives and regional wars.  As Moshe explains, it is time to learn from the mistakes of the past rather than reliving them all over again with different trimmings.

Opening the Rafah border crossing while Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad continue to be fully armed benefits the terrorists more than anyone.

Moshe Phillips | Feb 9, 2026

“Gaza Crossing to Egypt Reopens in Step Forward for Fragile Cease-Fire,” celebrated The New York Times on Feb. 2, Groundhog Day. And just like the 1993 Bill Murray film of the same name, it feels like we are seeing the same thing occur yet again.

Only this is real life and far from funny. It’s deadly serious. Opening the Rafah border crossing while Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad continue to be fully armed benefits the terrorists more than anyone.

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Peloni:  This was a very disappointing surrender by the Trump administration.  Required reforms at the UN must include more than simply cutting spending and waste.  There is real and substantive abuse of power wielded from the UN, from the highest echelons including the UN Secretary General, to UN envoys, to UN institutions which wield influence around the world.  Antisemitism and anti-Westernism is the hallmark of policies pushed thru by the UN to such a degree that it should be dismantled from top to bottom, or at least be left unfunded til such reforms are demonstrated as evidence that these biases have been addressed.  Instead, there seems to be not even a mention of dealing with the institutionalized systemic abuses inherent in the entire United Nations system.  Very regretful.

Mark Tanos Contributor | Daily Caller |  February 08, 2026

Mike Waltz with Scott Bessent and Pete Hegseth. Photo by The White House – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The Trump administration will send an initial payment toward billions in overdue United Nations dues within weeks.

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Peloni:  Topics discussed include Iranian Negotiations, Carlson’s claims of Christian abuse in Israel and Sharia in the US

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Peloni:  Trump has one, and only one, opportunity to change the situation regarding Iran, and negotiations play no role in what is needed.  Clear Red Lines, which hold the commitment of Trump’s will to enforce them, would prove decisive in dealing with Iran.   Instead, Trump’s repeated moving goalposts only play to the strengths of the Mullahs who have slaughtered their people, expanded their missile arsenal, openly threatened Trump, his administration, and his armed forces, while holding to their demands of continuing their nuclear ambitions in one form or another.  Hence, if Trump has assembled the largest military force in the region in decades only to bluff the Mullahs into surrendering, the Mullahs have already won, even as Trump will come to claim victory for the faux wins which might be promised by the Mullahs across the negotiating table.

To date, President Trump has not truly negotiated with anyone. Instead, he has dictated his will to countries dependent on him, with one exception: Russia, over ending the war in Ukraine, negotiations that, as is well known, have gone nowhere.

by  Prof. Eyal Zisser | Published on  Feb 9, 2026

Donald Trump speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

Only a few weeks ago, it appeared that the fate of the regime in Tehran was sealed. A sweeping popular protest by masses of Iranians flooded the streets, and it seemed poised to topple the Iranian regime, despite its attempts to drown the demonstrators in rivers of blood.

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Peloni: Western rejection of the Muslim Brotherhood must become universal and complete.  Arab govts whose stated ideology reflect not only an animus for Western values, but a goal of subjugating them through coercive, if not militant means, should gain at least an equal focus of US sanctions and criminal prosecution as those in Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon, if not more so as they are weaponizing financial support in the US towards the complete perversion of the values on which the US and the West are based.  So, as Jonathan Feldstein suggests, Trump’s initial ban is only a first step which needs to be followed with additional steps, both in the US and around the world, as discussed by Mudar Zahran & Yisrael Ne’eman in the below article.

Jonathan Feldstein

In a riveting conversation on the “Inspiration from Zion” from a panel of experts dissected the Moslem Brotherhood (MB)—an extremist Islamist organization whose tentacles stretch from the Middle East to the West and around the world. Featuring expert panelists Yisrael Ne’eman, a lecturer and author on Middle East nationalism and terrorism, and Mudar Zahran, a Jordanian-Palestinian politician leading the Jordanian Opposition Coalition, the discussion illuminated the MB’s origins, enduring and corrupting influence, contemporary threats, and strategies for its eradication. The catalyst for the conversation was the recent U.S. executive order (November 20205) designating MB “chapters” illegal, but asking the question why not ban all its elements. The week of the webinar the US made it official, branding MB branches in Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon as terrorist entities. This is a critical development but only a first step.

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By Christine Douglass-Williams | Feb 6, 2026

Photo by The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, United Nations – Website and publications of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, Public Domain, Wikipedia

UNRWA was long ago fully infiltrated by jihadists. Now comes another open admission from the Palestinian Authority. “Palestinian Authority again admits UNRWA is political,” by Ephraim D. Tepler and Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, February 4, 2026:

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By Hugh Fitzgerald | Feb 7, 2026

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David Weinberg is the managing fellow of the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy, who has recently published here his argument on why Israel should delay no longer but, in the face of the European countries that have decided to recognize a “state of Palestine” — which would likely have its capital in east Israel— reassert its rights to Jerusalem: “Re-liberating Jerusalem: Why Israel must assert sovereignty over its capital, now – opinion,” by David M. Weinberg, Jerusalem Post, January 24, 2026:

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Peloni:  The political-security cabinet approved a sweeping set of decisions which significantly level the legal, civil, and land-administration framework overseeing the governance in Judea & Samaria. The measures, formulated under the leadership of the Settlement Administration within the Defense Ministry, are designed to dismantle longstanding legal barriers, repeal anti-Jewish Jordanian-era laws, and streamline procedures related to land registration and property transactions. Central to the overhaul is the opening of land registries to public access and the removal of special permit requirements for land purchases, steps intended to place real estate activity in Judea and Samaria on a footing closer to that of a sovereign Israel while also facilitating accelerated development of Jewish settlement. The decisions also expand Israeli enforcement authority in areas such as construction oversight, water regulation, environmental protection, and archaeology, and transfer responsibility for certain sensitive sites and planning decisions from PA or mixed frameworks to Israeli defense authorities. This is a long-overdue (nearly 70-years overdue) normalization of Israeli governance in the Jewish heartland and a deepening of Israel’s sovereignty and control over the land.

By Nava Freiberg & ToI Staff | TOI | Feb 8, 2026

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/security-cabinet-okays-dramatic-west-bank-policy-overhaul-deepening-israeli-control/

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Peloni:  Iranian protester, Pouria Hamidi is reported to have committed suicide after making this video pleading against any deal with the Mullahs.  His death marks the slaughter of a literal wartime slaughter, and in fact, the Iranian people have entered into a wartime effort to through off the shackles of their oppression, an oppression which was only possible thru the support which Iran has received over the years in the form of trade, arms and inexplicably ready cash payments.  The world itself has been under siege by the Jihadi war implemented by the Mullahs, both in the Middle East, but also throughout the US and Europe, proving the claim false which is raised by Isolationists Iranian pundits who falsely challenge that bringing down the Mullahs is not a vital American interest.   Hence, acting in accordance with Hamidi’s plea for support would also support the protection and security needs of the US.  The question is whether Trump will act to support the interests of the Iranian people, the people of the Middle East, and the people of America while supporting the toppling of Mullahs, or if he will allow them the opportunity to survive into the future, further oppressing their people and those of the world.

Roamnrab: SCREAM ‘GEVALT’ TO THE HIGH HEAVENS!

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Peloni: Highly recommended video. As I noted previously, focusing on our identity is the best way to respond to antisemitism.  Bret Stephens’ commentary goes far further in addressing this and other matters.

Paul Schnee: I think you will enjoy this presentation by Bret Stephens. It will take about 45 minutes to watch, but it’s well worth the time as it has some important, pertinent & powerful  insights.

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