By Hugh Fitzgerald | April 2, 2026

U.S. President Donald Trump. Photo by Daniel Torok – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The Islamic Republic of Iran is, for the moment, a mid-range military threat to the United States, and will remain so until it can manufacture both nuclear warheads and the ballistic missiles capable of carrying them all the way to the east coast of America. It is a major threat to Israel, and the Israelis are fighting with everything they have got to limit Iran’s ability to hurt the Jewish state. Both Israel and the United States, in fighting Iran, are also helping to limit the damage Iran can do to the Gulf Arab states. Iranian missiles and drones have attacked seven of those states —Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, and Oman. Those missiles and drones have hit oil and gas facilities, airports, desalination plants, power plans, anti-missile batteries, and much more.

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By Robert Spencer | April 2, 2026

Pope Leo XIV by Edgar Beltrán, The Pillar, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

Popes of earlier ages would not recognize this man’s teaching.

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Ahmad Sharawi | Apr 2, 2026

Firing Iranian Qadr Missile from a truck launcher in Velayat-90 Naval Exercise. Photo by Mohammad Sadegh Heydari – Ypa.ir, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

Iran and its allied militias continued launching drones, missiles, and rockets against regional countries between March 28 and April 1. There were nearly 90 incidents in this period, including distinct mass barrage events involving more than 20 ballistic missiles and 30–40 drones across multiple waves in the United Arab Emirates, alongside repeated barrages in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain.

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Peloni: Guermantes Lailari, a retired U.S. Air Force foreign area officer and senior non-resident fellow of the Jewish Policy Center in Taiwan, tells JPC’s Shoshana Bryen that China’s involvement in the war in Iran makes it a participant in the war, whose intelligence sharing, satellite guidance, and radar technicians have been integral to Iran’s ability to incur its strikes on American, Israeli and allied Sunni Arab states.

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Peloni:  Qatar is at an inflection point in its history.  It has been fixed in its current situation for the past 5 decades as it stood in the unenviable position of being in the shadow of Iran’s domination.  Today that domination has shifted, and this is clear from the reporting from Qatar’s media empire.  This fact provides Qatar with choices and possibilities which have never been available to the current regime.  Indeed, events surrounding Qatar will have no small part in choosing its path, and the path that it takes will in turn have no small effect on the region at large.

Ahmad Sharawi & Natalie Ecanow | April 2, 2026

Al Jazeera Media Network Logo design. Photo by Isma4l – Own work, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

Veteran Al Jazeera analyst Leqaa Makki threw viewers a curveball during a recent news segment. He advocated for an escalation against Iran. A familiar face on the network since 2003, Makki argued that strategic sites, including power plants, electricity infrastructure and assets that would make ordinary Iranians “feel the impact of the war” should be hit, to potentially turn against them against the regime.

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Peloni: Lee Zeldin to replace Bondi? Note the association between Bondi and Zeldin in Kelleigh Nelson’s essay “Pam’s Poison Fetish”.  Is there no one from Trump’s MAGA base which he might choose for the role of heading his Justice Department?  One of Trump’s long standing complaints regarding Bondi was her failing to push thru the prosecutions which a MAGA loyalist would certainly pursue.  A MAGA loyalist would also not have made the inexplicable blunders with the Epstein files either.  The choice for AG is a critical one to make, and it should be filled with someone closely aligned with the MAGA movement which placed Trump in office.

Attorney General of the United States Pam Bondi speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).  Photo by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

Pam Bondi will no longer be attorney general following a tumultuous and controversial tenure.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will lead the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the interim, President Donald Trump announced.

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Peloni:  Rabbi Pesach Wolicki talks with Dr. David Wurmser.  The interview focuses on the war with Iran, with particular attention on the recent escalation by the Houthis. Wurmser explains that the Houthis are part of Iran’s broader strategy to raise oil prices, disrupt key shipping routes like the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and prolong the conflict while avoiding direct confrontation, while also recognizing that this may also reflect Iran’s need for proxy support due to its diminished missile capabilities. The discussion challenges the narrative that Gulf states are weak for not joining the war, suggesting that the US and Israel might prefer to exclude them from participating in the war due to operational risks, intelligence concerns, and political complications, while they may still offer indirect support.

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Peloni:  This coming in the wake of the Israeli-Somaliland alliance provides an important context for Kainerugaba’s pronouncement of support for Israel.  The world is being reordered, and Israel has played a pivotal role in this reordering, and this is having an important response which has not yet been fully unveiled.

by Amine Ayoub | The Algemeiner | Mar 27, 2026

Maj. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, head of the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) and son of Uganda’s current president. Screengrab via Youtube

Fifty years ago, Israeli commandos stormed the terminal at Entebbe Airport under the cover of darkness. They engaged in a deadly firefight with Ugandan troops and Palestinian hijackers to rescue over 100 Jewish and Israeli hostages. The daring 1976 raid astonished the world and reshaped modern counterterrorism, but it cost the life of the assault unit’s commander, Lieutenant Colonel Yonatan “Yoni” Netanyahu.

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Peloni:  Excellent speech!  I hope the Day After plan has as much careful forethought as Trump’s prepared comments tonight.

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Here are the key highlights drawn strictly from the speech:

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Peloni:  Sheikh Khalid Al-Hail, a Qatari opposition leader is interviewed by Israel Channel 14 in English.   They discuss the media cover which the Al Thani regime in Qatar provides for Iran, the $6 billion deal which Qatar was recently reported to offer Iran, why Qatar is not a US ally, a change of regime in Iran will lead to a change of regime in Qatar, Trump’s support for Qatar, and Tucker Carlson’s relationship with Qatar.

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“But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good…” Genesis 50:20

Cherie Zaslawsky | Truth Be Told | Mar 26, 2026

The poor Democrats. I can almost feel sorry for them. I said “almost.”

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Warning/ Assassination Plot against His Highness the Amir Mohammed bin Salman. The King of Jordan is spying on His Highness the Amir. The King of Jordan requests Zelensky’s mediation with Israel. Will Israel dissolve Jordan? Anything is possible! And the Emirates and its last chance
The Rabbi of the Arabian Peninsula informs you of what you did not know and what they are hiding from you.

* To the United Arab Emirates: You want to buy the Israeli “Arrow 4” system to protect yourselves from missiles and drones, which is on par with the American THAAD system.

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Peloni: Is Zionism the Messiah?

By Allen Gindler

I decided to write an article that will probably not be accepted positively by both religious Jews and many secular ones. There were two triggers that prompted me to write this piece.

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Yigal Carmon | MEMRI | April 1, 2026

A 1947 photo of the Führerbunker, the last headquarters Hitler used during WWII. Photo by Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-V04744 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Wikipedia

Part One of this series, which can be read here, described why President Trump has no choice but to fight the Iranian regime all the way to its bunker just as the United States fought Hitler all the way to his bunker. The main reason mentioned in Part One was that the Iranian regime is a fanatical apocalyptic and messianic sect that has sought “death to America” since Day One of the revolution in 1979, applying this doctrine over the years resulting in hundreds of American casualties. This sect is a total minority – even within Shi’a Islam, which is itself ten percent of the world of Islam – that will simply not accept any deal. Part Two, below, adds three more arguments that make a deal impossible for President Trump.

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Michel Benchimol

There was a time when I was proud to be Canadian. Truly proud. I believed Canada stood for tolerance, decency, and moral clarity. I believed that, whatever our flaws, we had at least learned from history. I believed we had confronted our failures honestly, absorbed the lesson, and emerged as a country that knew the difference between right and wrong.

I was wrong.

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Paul Schnee: The hateful effort described below is a clear indication of just how much influence the Jew-haters in the Democrat Party have managed to gain in spite of overwhelming but tragically misplaced support from the Jewish community over the decades.

The so-called SQUAD is now at the ideological forefront of a political party that has turned not only on the Jewish community but also on what it means to be an American which is to say it has embraced cultural Marxism, Islamic fascism, open borders, criminal illegal aliens, decriminalizing crime, voter fraud, massive Minnesotan Somali fraud, the divisiveness of identity politics over beneficial policies and it has abandoned merit replacing it with DEI. Why? Because that is where it thinks the votes are to provide it with a permanent majority in its anxious pursuit of the Holy Grail of a one-party-state. This cynicism has transformed the Democrat Party into an enemy of the people making it a real danger to the survival of our democratic republic and the greatest experiment in freedom the world has ever seen.

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