Peloni:  Good overview of how badly the US Middle East file has been managed against its own interests over the years while support the rise of the Mullah’s in Iran.  As Al Bienenfield explains below, Pres. Trump has the opportunity to set a course correction with the removal of the Iranian regime in Tehran and thereby end its cross generational support of terrorism against the US and US interests.  When all the bluster and fog of war recedes, will we see a new source of power rise in Iran which is pro Western, pro America and pro Israel, or will we see the terrorist IRGC cabal still in place?  Time will tell.

Al Bienenfeld

A demonstration in Iran against the Shah, 1978 at College Bridge, Tehran. By Unknown author – Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Tran_Quoc123 using CommonsHelper., GFDL, Link

Looking back at American Middle East policy since WWII, there has been a series of errors running from bad to worse. The overall problem is the failure of American Leadership to grasp that they simply do not understand the Middle Eastern Muslim mindset and refuse to learn from their predecessor’s mistakes. Incredibly they have been content continually going down the road previously traveled regardless of the outcome.

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Peloni:  Geoffrey Clarfield offers insights into how Israel should stop trying to fit itself into the antisemitic subculture of the international establishment and how it should instead seek to form its own center of highlighted cultures from regions and people who support and embrace the Jewish State and the Jewish people.

By Geoffrey Clarfield

Most Israelis are understandably outraged by the near-universal cultural boycott of this year’s Israel Festival. The festival is intended to celebrate Israeli creativity while bringing artists, musicians, and performers from around the world to Jerusalem. Instead, many international participants refused to come.

Once again, Israelis are confronted with a disturbing reality: following October 7 and the atrocities committed against Israeli civilians, it is Israel, not Hamas, that increasingly finds itself isolated and boycotted in cultural circles around the world.

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