Peloni:  We are given to believe that the US is out of option, but the truth is that the options available to Trump are quite numerous in fact, as detailed by John Spencer in his recent article: What Options Does the United States Have Left in Iran? Actually, Many.  The question of options is not the issue, the question of political will is what will distinguish which if any of these options are employed.  There are significant political and geopolitical ramifications for both acting and failing to act, and this is no doubt the basis on which Trump is basing his preference for delaying decisive actions after announcing imminent strikes.  Unfortunately, this too is having an effect, which is undermining confidence in American resolve by many, such as is being voiced by Maj.-Gen. (res.), Eitan Ben Eliyahu below.

Trump says Hormuz Strait is ‘sort of open,’ promises agreement ‘soon’

All Israel News Staff | Published: August 7, 2026

Smoke rising from a damaged tanker after being attacked this week. Is this a casualty of failing or successful negotiations? Screengrab via X

Israel’s former commander of the Air Force warned that the U.S. military leverage is slowly eroding amid the repeated threats by President Donald Trump, followed by assurances that an agreement between the United States and the Iranian regime is imminent.

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Peloni:  Europe is changing, and this change has not been subtle nor has it been handled with care, but quite the opposite is true.  An conquering nidus has been introduced all across Europe which is entirely antithetical to European standards and norms.  Note that this foreign element is forming voting blocks which are directly influencing governing institutions with such success that Muslim grooming gangs were protected in England for decades as the innocence of that nation’s children were openly exploited with the support of those who should have acted and instead remained silent.  In a land where the most basic values are being reshuffled to support a radical Muslim ideological need for conquest and subjugation of Europe, the shock of hearing of Jew Hunts being conducted and popularized might seem to be less than shocking, but I have to confess, I am still shocked by the cognitive dissonance coincident with the recognition that Europe has fallen, in many ways too terrible to easily grasp.  Indeed, this is true even after nearly two years have past since that terrible day when hunting Jews came to fill the unsatiated zeal associated with a foot ball tournament in Amsterdam on November 7, 2024.  Hence, as the world is changing, we must come to recognize this change, and act accordingly.  Indeed, as English moms and dads are no longer able to trust their children’s safety to the institutions which should have insulated the lives of hundreds of thousands of children, Jews should be cognizant of the fact that, well, we are no longer talking about the Europe which existed even just a few years ago.  Many Jews will still venture to see the great relics and artifices of old Europe, but truth is that we should acclimate to the changes rising in Europe, and see vacations in lands which are becoming less similar to the likes of Jordan and Egypt.

The forms were removed following intervention by General Pasquale Angelosanto, Italy’s National Coordinator for the Fight Against Antisemitism.

MATHILDA HELLER | JPOST | JULY 20, 2026

The Jewish Brigade and members of the Milan Jewish community during a parade celebrating Italy’s Liberation Day on April 25, 2026. (credit: SCREENSHOT/X/VIA SECTION 27A OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT)

The president of Mosaico, the Jewish Community of Milan, Walker Meghnagi, has gravely condemned online forms urging the public to report the presence of Israeli citizens and Italian Jews staying in Italian hotels and other tourist accommodations. “I think we’re going back to the 1930s, to hunting Jews,” he said.

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by Gordon G. Chang  •  Gatestone Institute  •  August 7, 2026

The Chinese regime is determined to kill Americans, and the Trump administration is not stopping it. According to Reuters, China plans to sell Iran up to 400 shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles, commonly known as MANPADs. On April 3, Iran took down a U.S. Air Force F-15E, apparently using a Chinese MANPAD. Pictured: A Chinese FN-16 MANPAD launcher. (Photo by Mike1979 Russia/Wikimedia Commons)

• “The whole notion of a ‘private sector’ in China is fanciful…” — Roger Robinson former chairman of the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission, to Gatestone Institute, August 3, 2026.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Tal Vaknin.  Screengrab via Facebook

When opening the You Tube sent to me, I first thought that this handsome, young, Israeli war veteran was Ryan Gosling (remember the movie, “Crazy, Stupid, Love?”), but when I heard Tal Vaknin’s hauntingly beautiful voice, it touched my heart and soul in such a way that I was reminded of another earlier young man who has shared his love and passion for the Land, People, and eternal G_d of Israel since he was born within the very same week (May 8th) as Israel’s miraculous rebirth on May 14, 1948…myself.

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Peloni

A new Channel 14 mandate poll conducted by Shlomo Filber shows stability in the right-wing bloc with 62 mandates and Likud leading confidently with 31 mandates, while Gadi Eisenkot's "Yashar" party receives 22 mandates. pic.twitter.com/LDpb1BPk25

— C14 News Israel • Headlines (@c14israel) August 4, 2026

Adam Scott Bellos, founder and CEO of The Israel Innovation Fund, penned an insightful article on the choices facing the Israeli public on election day.  Though the current opposition parties might prefer to describe the article as inciteful, Bellos details the truth that Benjamin Netanyahu’s greatest political advantage is the weakness embodied in the parties and opponents forming his opposition, which have largely chosen to define themselves as being little more than “not Netanyahu” rather than offering a compelling governing vision on which the nation might actually find a legitimate election choice.

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By Robert Spencer | Aug 6, 2026

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The Biden regime cravenly betrayed Israel as it tried to satisfy its increasingly radical leftist base. People thought that Trump understood the jihad imperative and the need for all countries that jihadis currently threaten to stick together. But Trump seems to have forgotten whatever he may once have known about Islam and jihad, and has an Obama-like enthusiasm for making concessions to the Islamic Republic of Iran in the hopes that its leaders will make a deal with him. And maybe they will. But it will only be one that works to their advantage only.

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By Pamela Geller | August 7, 2026

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President Trump signed a pair of executive orders that he said were aimed at cracking down on birthright citizenship.

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Janet Levy:  Meloni’s Government Targeting the Jewish State – Excludes Israeli Defense Companies

Peloni:  Meloni continues to provide an important role in betraying the friendship she once espoused for Israel, even at the cost of following in the footsteps of her counterpart in Ireland who currently can’t land his plane in foggy weather due to his placing greater emphasis on the source of security technology than to its use.  Not the best leadership choices for a continent intent on returning to a war footing as an alternative to dealing with the Islamist cancer growing within its own polity.

Italy Ousts Israeli Counter-Drone Consortium From Rome Airport in Latest Move Targeting the Jewish State

By: Fern Sidman | TJV | August 7, 2026

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Italian authorities have ordered the replacement of an Israeli-led consortium developing the counter-drone protection system for Rome’s principal international airport, a decision that has intensified concerns over what critics describe as a growing European trend of excluding Israeli defense companies from major public procurement projects in the wake of the war in Gaza.

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Peloni:  At one point, Trump stated to his Arab so called allies that they are either with him or they are not, implying that they are with him or against him.  This was an important point to raise with the ever hedging Sunni Arab states who prefer to straddle their positions amid US and Chinese spheres of influence.  Trump should press this standard firmly, following which he will know which  of them he can rely upon, however few that number might actually be seen to be.

Bradley Bowman, Logan Rolleigh & Cameron McMillan

The United States now confronts one of the most dangerous geostrategic environments since 1945, in no small part because of the emergence of a new Axis of Aggressors consisting of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Their cooperation is making each of these adversaries more capable and increasing the chances that the United States may find itself fighting simultaneous major wars for which Washington is not prepared.

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Turns out a hacker got his hands on more than 600,000 Maricopa County voter registrations, including sensitive personal information on many.

Monica Showalter | Am Thinker | August 6, 2026

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Remember how CBS ‘journalist’ Scott Pelley breathlessly touted the 2020 election as ‘the most secure in history’?

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Mark Dubowitz | August 6, 2026

Nine months have elapsed since President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Gaza Strip was enshrined by UN Security Council Resolution 2803.

Trump’s plan lays out an explicit vision for a Gaza freed from both Hamas’s arsenal and its brutal rule. Yet rather than welcome the immunity proposed for its operatives if they acquiesce, Hamas is actively trying to warp the course of U.S.-led Gaza peacemaking efforts. Its latest gambit is to surrender or store its heavy weapons only in stages, while delaying the collection of its vast stock of rifles and shifting the onus onto Israel to withdraw. That amounts to a recipe for a permanent Hamas enclave in Gaza.

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Peloni:  I have said this before, but it bears repeating.  Elections are about choosing the path on which the future will be set.  It determines how a free people passes the baton of values from the past to the future, thus determining the world in which one’s children will develop, and the world in which one’s grandchildren will be born.  It is a solemn process which too many people approach with a sense of too little forbearance and frankly too much loyalty to voting trends which might no longer have the relevance which they might once have had.  Indeed, on election day, a society is actually able to entirely redirect the future course of history in which they and their loved ones will live and die.  So, as you stand in the ballot box filling out your ballot, choose carefully because the fate of you and everything you hold sacred will bear the indelible consequences for those choice.

Barry Shaw | The View from Israel | Aug 06, 2026

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Jewish Democrats in certain key states have committed to vote Republican in the upcoming US Midterm elections out of genuine fear of the radical anti-Semitic Left that has taken over their party.

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Peloni:  The following is an abbreviated segment of Sen. Cruz’s hearing on the Muslim Brotherhood infiltration in America.  More on this to come later.  See highlights covered below video.

Abdul El-Sayed’s U.S. Senate candidacy

• Questions regarding whether his candidacy should be a concern.
• Discussion of alleged family and organizational associations.

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Peloni:  Dr. David Wurmser warns that as the Trump administration is working towards a policy of containment with Iran, it is failing to grasp the changing environment taking shape in Turkey, Qatar and Pakistan which have formed a Bloc which is tied to that of the Chinese axis due to the aligned enmity for Iran by Turkey and Pakistan.  With the Saudis joining this bloc, it leaves the combined interests of China, Turkey, Qatar, Pakistan, and Saudi with the US and Israel standing as the obstruction to the relative national goals of these various nations, even as the goals are themselves not necessarily aligned with one another.  Consequently, Wurmser explains that the original purpose of the MOU was designed to bog down America, make it weak, and expose its vulnerabilities.  Thru the influence on the Trump administration by Erdogan and Tom Barrack, the strategic alliance between Qatar, Turkey, and Pakistan is the mechanism which has unfortunately been chosen to guide US policy in isolating Iran, despite the reality that it is actually weakening the US instead as Iran is being preserved under the guidance of Iran’s major sponsor in the world, China.

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Peloni: So, as the Republicans come towards the end of the midterm election season, they call for Fauci to be charged with contempt for his refusal to testify, while completely failing to bring any request for charges of malfeasance against Fauci or anyone else of note related to the subject of Covid.  While I think any reasonable person might have no objection to Fauci spending a similar 4-month sentence in jail as was handed down to Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, the significance of this move is both very tardy and very limited, and I think the celebration should be understood to be missing a very poignant question of whether, while the topic of Fauci’s contempt hearings are being held, will any prosecution or even charges be handed down for what took place in the lead up to Covid or the psyops which followed it.   The repercussions are international in nature because, as I often note, what starts in Washington rarely stays there.

Emily Kopp | Senior Investigative Reporter | Daily Caller | August 06, 2026
Anthony Fauci pleads the Fifth Amendment during Congressional hearing. Screengrab via Youtube

A committee chaired by Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress on Thursday morning.

The Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee voted 8 to 7 to hold Fauci in contempt of the body, with all Republicans voting “aye” and all Democrats voting “nay.”

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Sure, there are a few dissenting voices. But the left will take care of them.

by Robert Spencer | August 8, 2026

Quran. Image by Mustafa-trit20 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

Barring some wholly unforeseen development, such as Republicans actually mounting an effective challenge somewhere, the 120^th Congress will convene on January 3, 2027 with a record seven Muslim members, six representatives and, for the first time in American history, one senator. And for Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations in the U.S., the future looks bright.

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