Peloni:  This political ruse is being used to support the Western claim that the PA has been reformed and is democratically based.  The relevance of this shell game, no matter the outcome of this election, is to validate US involvement in the American Equity also known as the Palestinian Authority in the future governance of Gaza, when in fact the PA is a terrorist institution whose every iterations should be proscribed as such.  While Hamas is prohibited from being included in these elections, it is notable that the same standard is not enforced to keep members of Abbas’ faction from being eligible as well.  The PA’s role in terrorist funding and its many members who have been involved in terrorist attacks is well known and documented.  This institution should be fully defunded, its members should be targeted for prosecution of war crimes, and every tie between the US and this vile institution should be severed.  Instead, they are being given a new lease on life, and will soon this terrorist institution will be deemed ‘eligible’ to extend their weaponized ideology to Gaza where they will seamlessly be able to take over from Hamas, if Hamas is itself ever removed from power there.

The elections will be closely watched to see the trends. If things go well, this could boost the plans for change in Gaza.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | APRIL 25, 2026

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | April 26, 2026

*500,000 Arabs (away for over a year) are included in the census, contrary to global norms. 325,000 were included in the 1997 census. 400,000 in 2005, according to the Palestinian Election Commission. 100,000 overseas births added to the census in 1995-2014, according to the Palestinian Undersecretary of Interior. The number grows steadily due to births.

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President Donald Trump and other senior administration officials were evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night after shots were fired.

There was several loud bangs and the Secret Service with guns drawn rushed the press pool out of the room, the Washington Times’ Jeff Mordock, who was at the dinner, reported. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was seen limping after the incident, according to Mordock.

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Peloni:  Israel News Talk Radio  Tamar Yonah joins Prof. Francisco Gil-White for a discussion of home front during these now more than two years of war.  Among the topics discussed is Gil-White’s hypothesis of whether Trump is trying to save the Jihadists in Iran. Not to be missed.

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UPDATE: Trump sends message to New York Post reporter to “Come home!!!” – OSINT613

UPDATE:Trump cancels Witkoff, Kushner trip to Pakistan for Iran talks.  Iranians.  Iranians have already left after giving terms to Pakistanis and issuing threat to US.

Peloni:  Recent report on situation in Pakistan.  As China and India are urging evacuation from Iran, Iranian leadership continues to project defiance.

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Peloni:  An Office to Combat Antisemitism which has no website, three people, and which has no definition of antisemitism to guide any action it might take if it ever takes one.

Council Member Inna Vernikov/Talkline With Zev Brenner

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Peloni:  The shameful disregard of the Reza Pahlavi continues.

By Amil Imani | April 24, 2026

Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran. By ir.voanews.com – VOA News, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The European political machine actively conspires to silence Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi through a calculated strategy of diplomatic betrayal and systemic negligence. European leaders prioritize their blood-soaked deals with the Islamic Republic over the democratic aspirations of the Iranian people, effectively acting as the silent executioners of the opposition.

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Janet Levy

Jewish students forced to seek shelter from a Pro-Hamas mob weeks following the October 7 Massacre. Screengrab via Youtube

Today’s antisemitism is highly effective and built on reach and simplicity.

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Peloni:  Vahidi is betting on Trump becoming frustrated with Iran, and thus gaining victory from the essence of the Iranian regime to hold out no matter the cost to their war machine, infrastructure and leadership personel.  Will he be proven right in this, or does Vahidi stand as the remaining straw needed to be targeted to bring the regime to its knees?

Jalal Tagreeb

Ahmad Vahidi. Photo by Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

By the time Donald Trump sent his latest ultimatum to Tehran in April 2026, the man effectively deciding Iran’s response was not a president, not a foreign minister, and not even a supreme leader newly installed after Ali Khamenei’s death. It was a brigadier general with a warrant out for his arrest in Argentina, a man who has operated in the shadows of Iran’s security state for nearly half a century — Ahmad Vahidi.

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Peloni:  It remains an inexplicable choice that Trump maintains Tom Barrack at the center of US-Turkish policy, while working to support Turkish interests in Syria and Lebanon as Turkey’s expansionist ambitions gain real support from the US Ambassador to Turkey at the expense of America’s true ally in the region, Israel.

Sinan Ciddi & Jonathan Schanzer |  April 24, 2026

Ambassador Tom Barrack and President Recep Erdogan. Image via AI

U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack raised eyebrows last weekend at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum when he stated, “Turkey is not a country to be messed with,” — a remark intended to blame Israel for heightened tensions between Ankara and Jerusalem. Blood pressures rose further after Barrack equated Hezbollah and Israel, remarking that both were “equally untrustworthy.”

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Peloni:  Meir Weinstein, Director of Israel Now, discusses the US-Israel relationship in detail with Ambassador Yoram Ettinger.

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Peloni:  Bibi, may the Master of the Universe grant you a complete and enduring refuah shleimah, strengthening you in both body and spirit.  May you also be blessed with continued health, long life, and the strength to carry on with your many responsibilities on behalf of Am Yisrael, as you go from strength to strength, and from victory to victory in good health and peace.

As you continue to lead the Jewish nation in its battles against Islamic terror and jihadism amid the context of the rising tide Jew Hatred among the nations, may you never know illness, never encounter defeat, and never fail to act while guided by the wisdom, courage, and decisiveness which will keep the nation strong, prosperous and united, as you have done in simultaneously facing your recent medical scare while raising war against the modern Amelekites holding dominion in Tehran.  As the longest serving premiere in Israel’s history, you have led the nation thru many significant trials, with the current wars being the height of the struggles which you have faced thus far.  As the making of war turns towards the making of peace, may you also follow a singular chord of victory which will secure the fate of the nation as one, undivided, united and secure to deliver into the hands of the emerging generation.  Am Israel Chai.

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Peloni:  Khaled Hassan, an Egyptian-British national security & foreign policy researcher  and Council Member of President Herzog’s Voice of the People, begins an exploration of how Egyptian policy makers view the world and why Egypt’s true north among these policy makers maintains a hostile focus towards and for Israel and the Israeli people.

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Peloni:  Bravo to Gerald Honigman as he offers just a word or two, and an open challenge, for the latest arm-chair advocate of terrorism and antisemitism.

by Gerald A. Honigman

Hasan Piker.  Screengrab via Youtube

I’ve been following your increasing popularity among the vast majority of generally ignorant know-nothings regarding the actual history and politics related to the Arab-Israeli conflict who either retain an almost genetically passed on animus towards Jews, and therefore their sole, resurrected, minuscule, 9-15 mile wide nation, due to two millennia of Church inspired and inculcated antisemitism as seen here…

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Peloni:  Meetings between Israel and Lebanon, while historic, only serve to evade the reality which maintains such meetings as NOTHING more than political theatrics.  Trump can not be unaware of this fact, nor can his entire cabinet.  It does buy time for Trump to push Iran to give word of mouth to controlling Lebanon via its Hezbollah proxy, but this is not something which Iran will part with except by use of arms.  In other words, the war will either continue, or peace with Lebanon will not be possible any more than it has been in the past.

President Trump @realDonaldTrump vowed to end Lebanon's anti-Israel law after learning it criminalizes contact with Israelis.

"I've never heard of that… we're going to put an end to it," Trump declared when questioned by a reporter during a press conference. pic.twitter.com/iXW8ZdRRfb

— C14 News Israel | EN (@c14israel) April 24, 2026

Peloni:  The Two State Solution is NOT dead in the mind of the West.  The manner in which they intend to revive the latest effort to revive this never ending attempt to make rip a second Palestinian Muslim State from the Jewish Nation is thru UN Security Council Resolution 2803.  More on this in to come.

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Peloni:  Iraq remains an important aspect of Iranian power in the region.  The choice of the next prime minister remains a critical depiction of the path on which Iraq’s future might be paved.  The unresolved contest between the US and Iran is why this seat continues to remain empty six months after elections were held in Iraq.

The US-Iran talks are now tied to wider regional issues. For instance, Iran wanted a ceasefire in Lebanon. The US wants to see Iranian support for proxies ended.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | APRIL 22, 2026

Iraqi Security Forces. Screengrab via Youtube

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