By Alexander G. Markovsky | June 27, 2025

This is the story of how a small frontier territory of approximately 80,000 square kilometers — once home to the free-roaming Zaporozhian Cossacks with a population not exceeding 300,000 — transformed into the largest country in Europe after Russia in just 300 years, surpassing even France and Germany in size without a single conquest or acquisition. While the supporters of Ukraine keep manufacturing its history, they cannot escape the fact that Ukraine is a man-made nation established by some of the most notorious mass murderers in history — Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler.

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Peloni:  Al Shara is part of the problem in the Middle East.  He is not in power due to popular consent, nor due to his moderate views, but due to the strength of his armed forces which have been dedicated towards Jidhad over the past decade or more.  To display his lack of credible ‘moderation’ even more than this, one would only need to look at his co-Jihadi allies who he has surrounded himself.  Moderation, not Hudna, is what is needed for peace, and peace is what is needed for the successful pursuit of the IMEC.  Also, Rabbi Cooper’s assertion that “He [Al Shara] did say he wants peace” should be understood to be remarkably unremarkable.  Al Shara needs regional cooperation and support to help stabilize his regime before he falls prey to the very form of violent overthrow which initially brought him to power.  The Abraham Accords should eschew such transparent Jihadis as Al Shara rather than inviting them inside the wire, as it were.  No good will come from entering into the self deception needed to portray him as a moderate.

Roi Kais / KAN 11 | All Israel News | Published: June 30, 2025

Rabbi Abraham Cooper. (Photo: Screenshot)

Abraham Cooper, an American rabbi who met with Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, did not rule out the possibility of a future meeting between al-Sharaa and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington. According to Cooper, the path to such a meeting has not yet been paved and depends largely on U.S President Donald Trump.

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By Andrea Widburg | Am Thinker | June 30, 2025

Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat party’s candidate for mayor of New York, has attracted attention for the fact that he’s a hardcore communist. However, his religious beliefs deserve some attention, too.

First, there’s the fact that he’s a Shia Muslim who is affiliated with the Twelver Branch that drives the Iranian mullahs. Back in 2006, the late Bernard Lewis wrote about this ideology when he explained why the mullahs are not necessarily amenable to the doctrine of mutually assured destruction:

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IT’S A GOOD THING THEY’RE NOT OVERWROUGHT!

Andrew Benjamin | Jun 29, 2025

> IT’S A GOOD THING THEY’RE NOT OVERWROUGHT! < WATCH

Their hatred of Jews brings the antisemite to the brink of insanity.

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Peloni:  The Saudi commitment to peace is betrayed by actions such as this which honor and patronize the families who have slaughtered innocent Israelis for the exact reason that their family member slaughtered the relevant Israelis.  The path towards the future project of the IMEC is not paved with through the efforts of King Salman to honor the radicals in the Arab street.  Instead it lay a path towards the past, toward war, after gaining the great benefits resulting from Trump’s Gulf State tour.  In fact, while this action is a betrayal of any hope of a peaceful future, it is a direct slap in the face of recent American diplomatic efforts.

Saudi king rewards 1,000 Palestinian terrorists’ relatives with free Mecca pilgrimagehttps://t.co/n5ojNiiOQX

— World Israel News (@worldisraelnews) June 29, 2025

News of Israel’s Achievements and Heartwarming Stories from the Jewish State.

Michael Ordman | VGNI | May 25, 2025

In the 29th Jun 25 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• Israel and the USA have made the world a safer place.
• A non-Jewish Cypriot billionaire gave free rooms to stranded Israelis.
• Israeli scientists have discovered chemicals in corals that can treat infections.
• A Druze IDF officer raced to prepare his Jewish soldiers for the Sabbath.
• An Israeli startup is enhancing the ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide.
• Israel’s global financial status has skyrocketed.
• An Iranian missile hit an Israeli building due for demolition. 

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Peloni:  Is Israel to become even more controlled by the US in the wake of the US acting in its own defense against Iran?  Should Netanyahu succumb to Trump’s demands as Trump is simultaneously pressing for the Lawfare against Netanyahu to be dismissed?  The transactional perspective with which Trump seems to assess the world is ever present and defies the history of the Middle East which has been formed in large part around Western interests while ignoring radical and regional ideologies, the result of which has been damaging in many ways, not least to the interests of both the US and Israel.  Is the deal in question connected to the grand bargain leaked to Israel Hayom in recent days?  Despite the denial of the Office of the PM, the timing of Trump’s latest tweet is quite alarming.

As IDF prepares for extensive operations against Hamas, Arabic spokesman calls for civilians to leave parts of Gaza City

All Israel News Staff | Published: June 29, 2025

President Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Monday, April 7, 2025, in the West Wing Lobby of the White House. (Photo by The White House – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia)

U.S. President Donald Trump resumed his calls for a hostage-ceasefire deal in Gaza, following speculation in recent days that Israel and Hamas are close to a deal following the end of Operation Rising Lion.

“MAKE THE DEAL IN GAZA. GET THE HOSTAGES BACK!!! DJT,” Trump posted to Truth Social early Sunday morning.

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Peloni:  Mike Doran and Gadi Taub discuss the aftermath of the 12 Day War.  Mike warns that while the war was an enormous operational victory, Iran remains as a threat, likening it to a wounded dog, questioning whether this will lead Iran towards a strategic shift or if it will simply recover and return towards achieving its previous bad behavior.  Explaining further he questions if this war is more analagous to the 6-Day war, or the Yom Kippur War, ie is the 12 Day War an operataional victory which opens the next stage in the war with Iran, or is one which brings the conflict to an end?  He explains that the answer is that there is too much left unknown at this point to accurately judge, most importantly he notes it is unknown how the war will affect the Iranian leadership.  He also warns against being too optimistic as is normal for American foreign policy experts who overwhelmingly like to believe that money rather than ideology rules the world.  Very interesting conversation in total, but focus on the 30-min following the 11min 40sec mark

Peloni:  Exactly correct!

The Lebanese model should be applied to Iran. Israel has redrawn the map of the Middle East, emerging as the region’s top military power, cornering Iran and outpacing Turkey.

by  Prof. Eyal Zisser 

Iranian Funerals from 12-Day War.  (Photo by Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0)

The announcement of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran, coming just as Iran appeared to be buckling under the weight of the blows it had suffered, has taken many back to November 2024. That was when, under US pressure, a ceasefire was declared to end the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

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by Christine Williams | June 27, 2025

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei has declared that Iran “isn’t a nation that surrenders”:

Those very words from Khamenei are reflected in the regime’s move to survive, as it now seeks likely candidates to succeed Khamenei. “Iranian officials consider removing Ali Khamenei in plot to replace supreme leader – report,” Jerusalem Post, June 22, 2025:

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THEY HAVE FLED. WE ARE STILL HERE. WE WIN, THEY LOSE!

Peloni:  Tony Badran explores the myth created to support Iran dominance in the Middle East by bipartisan US politicians, exposing the pro-Iran establishment in the US which completely defies US interests, and which is maintaining its dedication towards empowering Iran today, even after the myth of its strength has been exposed due to the efforts of Trump and Netanyahu pursuing their own national interests, respectively.

Iran's winning hand was an illusion sustained by Washington. Luckily for the rest of us, the behavior of D.C. sewer-dwellers matters far less now, thanks to President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu. Me in @tabletmag pic.twitter.com/xrUBISVgoz

— Tony Badran (@AcrossTheBay) June 25, 2025

Here is the link:

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/iran-flying-monkeys

Peloni:  Only by working together, backing a single candidate, can New Yorkers be saved from this looming nightmare.

Less than a third of New York City’s registered Democrats voted in the mayoral primary on June 24.

Leonard Grunstein

By Bingjiefu He – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

The New York City Democrat mayoral primary on June 24 ended with Zohran Mamdani, a so-called Democratic Socialist, effectively becoming the party’s standard-bearer in the Nov. 4 mayoral election. Many are rightly troubled by this unfortunate circumstance.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

I just finished reading an excellent analysis by Uri Kurlianchik and offered by astute observers at “Future of Jewish”regarding the Iran-Israel war which echoes my own previous commentary on this same subject…

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by Sha’i ben-Tekoa | June 27, 2025

Recently, a precocious, curious, intelligent young boy in Israel asked why is it that in the United Nations Security Council, among the five permanent members—unlike the other ten states that rotate in and out in two-year terms—the United Kingdom is there among huge powers like China, the United States and Russia, when it is such a little country.

Obviously, the boy had yet to learn of the four centuries during which the English created and ruled over arguably the greatest empire in history, over which “the sun never set.”

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By Lawrence Martin | June 27, 2025

Image by Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA – New York Times Building – New York Times Logo, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia

 When we lived in New York City many years ago, my wife and I were avid readers of The New York Times. My career brought us to Cleveland, and I changed over to an online subscription which I read less frequently, and never thought much about the paper’s stance regarding Israel. Then in 2017, after retirement, we made our first of several trips to Israel, and I began to dig deep into the history of the Jewish-Arab conflict in the Holy Land. I read books on the subject, and prepared PowerPoint presentations which I gave in my retirement community. I also created a website on the history of the conflict, pointing out the multiple times a 2-state solution had been turned down by the Arabs, who wanted all the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

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