Peloni:  John Spencer provides a LONG list of actionable targets and strategies which have been left untapped while focusing on negotiation strategy with an enemy whose strategic strength has always been in negotiating its survival while evading all terms and commitments forced on it.

John Spencer | Jul 15, 2026

Bushehr, Iran, under attack on July 8, 2026. Screengrab via Youtube.

The war against Iran that began on February 28 was never designed as a regime-change campaign. Had the United States intended to overthrow the Islamic Republic, it would have applied vastly different forces and pursued Tehran’s political collapse from the opening hours. Operation Epic Fury, a regime-behavior change campaign, began with limited objectives:

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Peloni:  The fundamental failure of the solution being proposed in the Lebanon negotiations remains that it is dependent upon the Lebanese being a dependable partner, and it isn’t.  It never has been, and it failed to be so just last January when it published falsified claims that they had already disarmed Hezbollah.  The only benefit Israel is seeking in Lebanon is the permanent removal of Hezbollah, and the Lebanese can not be trusted to assure this end is maintained, and that is what the Americans are pressuring Israel to accept.

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Peloni:  Having gained Trump’s support in this pivotal meeting wwith Trump in Washington, it now falls to PM al-Zaidi to prove his capacity to effect Washington’s will in Iraq is more than bluster.  If he is able to isolate Iran’s control over Iran, it will be a sea change against the regional stature of the Mullahs.  So we will see.

Iraq is already a kind of frontline between the US and Iran. After the US and Israel began strikes on Iran on February 28, the Iranians operationalized militias in Iraq.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | JULY 14, 2026

PM Ali al-Zaidi. Screengrab via Youtube

Iraq’s Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi arrived in Washington on July 13 for a long-anticipated visit. The new prime minister is seeking to increase ties with the United States.

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“It seemed to me that I could smell the fumes and the fire.”

by Daniel Greenfield | July 15, 2026

David Bergelson with son Lev. By user:Elisheva Kitrossky – Own work, CC BY 3.0, Wikipedia  [Cropped]

“There is a day that falls in August when the Temple of Solomon was burned,”  David Bergelson told a Soviet tribunal. “On this day all Jews fast for twenty-four hours, even the children. They go to the cemetery for an entire day and pray there ‘together with the dead.’ I was so immersed in that atmosphere of that temple being burned—people talked about it a great deal in the community—that when I was six or seven years old it seemed to me that I could smell the fumes and the fire.”

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Peloni:  Kahled Hassan exposes the test which took place in Sudan, and how Saudi Arabia failed that test.  He also addresses the common interests being promoted by Egypt and Turkey.

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Peloni:  Avi so well captures the context of what is taking place with the Haredi Draft Law debacle.

Avi Abelow | Meta

No, I’m not happy that most ultra-Orthodox young men do not serve in the IDF. I think it is clearly against the Torah, as service in the IDF is literally a milmechemet mitzvah, and it is morally wrong. I understand the deep concerns and cultural barriers that keep many Haredim from serving, but I am personally involved in initiatives working directly with the ultra-Orthodox community to help them overcome these challenges and serve in the IDF.

No, I also don’t support the recent laws that Haredi parties pushed through the coalition.

But I refuse to be swept up in the one-sided, anti-Haredi hysteria that dominates much of Israel’s media and public discourse.

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Lucy Spence | Daily Caller | July 14, 2026 

Plenary session – European Council and Commission statements – Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20-21 June. Photo by © European Union 2019, European Parliament, Wikipedia

Officials in the United Kingdom said on July 14 that former British politician Ann Widdecombe was murdered in a “targeted attack” last week.

Counterterror police also said authorities continued to investigate the incident into the former member of Parliament’s death, the Associated Press (AP) reported. The 78-year-old former Conservative Party cabinet minister and Reform UK spokeswoman was found dead in her Devon home on July 9 with a bloody head wound. Officials suspect she was attacked and killed the day prior.

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Peloni:  In the wake of the recent reports regarding the intended plan in Iran that went awry, Michael Rubin revisits the warning previously raised by Harold Rhoades regarding any encouragement or support for the Iranian separatist groups such as the Kurds which contrasted with the views raised by Martin Sherman on this subject that we really do not have a great deal to lose.  You can refresh yourselves on the policy debate regarding this matter  HERE.

Magic Formulas Do Not Exist

Michael Rubin | MEF | July 14, 2026

Iranian Ethnic Groups. By Mapper 01 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

When I worked as a Defense Department desk officer two decades ago, you could set a clock by it: Every few months, someone newly assigned to the Iran file, whether in the Joint Chiefs of Staff or the Central Intelligence Agency, would read somewhere that Iran was a multiethnic country and suggest supporting ethnic separatism in Iran to fragment the country.

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Max Meizlish

Chabahar, Iran on the morning of July 15, 2026. Screengrab via Youtube.

The memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the United States and Iran was meant to secure a 60-day ceasefire.

Instead, the Islamic Republic has repeatedly attacked commercial vessels operating in or near the Strait of Hormuz and launched missiles and drones against sites used by the United States in multiple Arab countries.

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Peloni:  Acquiescing to Trump’s request would be a strategic mistake by Netanyahu and he would pay a huge political price for doing so.  Notably, Netanyahu is attending a memorial for Sen. Graham next Tuesday and he is trying to arrange a meeting with Trump during that trip.  So far, no meeting has been scheduled.

Despite pressure from US, Israeli defense officials remain suspicious of al-Sharaa government

All Israel News Staff | Published: July 15, 2026

IDF soldiers and a tank operate in southern Lebanon on March 21, 2026. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON’S UNIT)

U.S. President Donald Trump asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to remove Israeli troops from Lebanon and Syria in a recent phone call, Axios reports.

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A Conversation with Joël Rubinfeld – Part III

by Grégoire Canlorbe •  Gatestone Institute  •  July 15, 2026

“International law, a noble concept in itself, is today being perverted — serving as a shield for some of the worst executioners on the planet. Have the West’s useful idiots of the Islamic Republic of Iran already forgotten the tens of thousands of unarmed Iranian citizens massacred by their own horrific government in just two days, on January 8 and 9?” — Joël Rubinfeld. Pictured: Joël Rubinfeld. Screengrab via Youtube.

• The Kurds are a valiant people who have repeatedly stood by the West. This was evident in the role of the Peshmerga in the fight against the Islamic State. Whenever they were called upon, they answered. Then, every time the crisis had passed, they were abandoned again to their fate.

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Peloni:  Sima Shine, former head of research and evaluation at Mossad and Iran expert at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies,  provides an important context for the lack of credibility surrounding the report that Ahmadinejad was an Israeli intelligence asset. Note further that Ahmadinejad turned up at a memorial service for Khamenei yesterday.  As I noted before, there is a disinfo opp taking place here, the only question is whose disinfo opp it is.  In any event, Shine provides further analysis on the issue of the Israeli plan to overthrow the regime, but more than this, she speaks to the recognition that devleoped in the aftermath of the 12 Day War that the real target in a war with Iran needs to be not the nuclear program, but the regime itself.    She also addresses the Israeli polls and the coming election among other matters.

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Peloni:  This is such a chilling indictment of Jewish leaderships and institutions in America, failures from which have made the revivalism of Jew Hatred such a profound success story.  Reinforcing Jewish identity is the answer to Jew Hatred, but it also provides key foundations which could have helped prevent it as well.

By Moshe Phillips

Shenna Bellows. Screengrab via Youtube.

Far too many professors of Holocaust history and staffers at Holocaust-related education agencies in the U.S. perversely twist the memory of the Shoah and, at the same time, falsely malign Israel as committing genocide in Gaza.

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Paul Schnee:  Melanie Phillips’ article is a master class in how historical and political truth has been and is being distorted by deliberate misinformation, disinformation, crass falsifications and lies the size of Jupiter. Clearly, a commitment to historical revision dulls one’s sense of contradiction, but it helps one to pole-vault from one false conclusion to another.

Yesterday at their Synod the Church of England, of which His Majesty King Charles III is the Supreme Governor, issued a rebarbative Israel-bashing and Jew-hating declaration called, “ A Moment of Truth: Faith In A Time of Genocide.” It succeeded in adding duplicity to the incomprehensible.

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Ashley Brasfield Senior Politics Reporter | Daily Caller | July 13, 2026

Senator Lindsey Graham with his sister Darline Graham Nordone at the Iowa State Fair, 2015.  Tweet Text: With my sister Darline & @ISF_ButterCow what a great day at the @IowaStateFair #ISF2015By LindseyGrahamSC – From X (Twitter) account of Lindsey Graham, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Republican South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has selected Republican Senator Lindsey Graham’s sister to fill the late Senator’s seat in the United States Senate.

McMaster announced the appointment of Darline Graham Nordone during a Monday afternoon press conference, where he reflected on Graham’s decades of public service.

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Peloni:  Very good news indeed!

Avi Abelow | Meta

In a historic first, a landmark framework agreement was signed in the presence of Prime Minister Netanyahu between the government and the Samaria Regional Council to build 12,000 new housing units, together with thousands of square meters of commercial, industrial, and hotel space.

The total investment: 8.5 billion shekels. This is part of a broader vision that includes 18 new Jewish communities in northern Samaria, including the rebuilding of the four communities destroyed as part of the 2005 “disengagement” from Gaza and Northern Samaria, paving the way toward one million residents in the region.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Trump Speaks at Board of Peace Initiation. Screengrab via Youtube 

The following article appeared in the July 6, 2026 Washington Times. Please read carefully…

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