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Iran has managed to twist Trump’s arm once again | Prof. Kobi Michael on Knesset Channel, 6/2/26  

Update:  Amit Segal reports the US agrees with strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs if Hezbollah continues to targets Israeli towns and villages.  Addionally, Segal reports that the White House has denied the derogatory comments reportedly made by Trump regarding Netanyahu and Israel.

Peloni:  Prof. Kobi Michael, Senior Researcher at the Institute of National Security Studies and the Misgav institute, reviews the actions taken by the US to countermand Israel’s announced attack on Beirut.  Trump’s preference to reaffirm his linkage of the war in Lebanon to his negotiations with Iran diminishes Israel’s position in the region, reinforces the subjugation of Lebanon under Iran’s suzerainty, and strengthens Iran’s regional and international outlook rather than diminishing it.  While the nature between the US and Israel is not that of equal powers, it is not in Washington’s interest to treat Israel with the lack of respect and influence which is inherently due to its partner in this war.

Furthermore, while Washington announced a ceasefire, this ceasefire was no more accurately termed as such than was the original ceasefire Trump imposed upon Israel on April 16, stating “Israel will not be bombing Lebanon any longer. They are PROHIBITED from doing so by the U.S.A. Enough is enough!!!”

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June 2, 2026 | 2:23 pm | 1 Comment »

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PM Carney Appoints Member of Pro-Hamas Group to Fight Antisemitism in Canada  

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By World Economic Forum - Flickr: Mark Carney - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19542924 By World Economic Forum – Flickr: Mark Carney – World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

Year after year, Toronto police have allowed Muslim pro-terrorist mobs to invade and harass the Jewish community. Now, PM Mark Carney has declared that there is a “scourge of antisemitism” and plans to combat it with a DEI council.

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June 2, 2026 | 12:40 pm | 2 Comments »

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South Korea Takes a Hard Left Turn Against America  

The radicals in charge in Seoul are pushing constitutional revisions to permit their own indefinite rule.

By Nicholas Eberstadt and Lawrence Peck | WSJ | June 1, 2026 12:56 pm

President Donald Trump greets President Lee Jae-myung of the Republic of Korea, Monday, August 25, 2025, at the West Wing entrance of the White House. By The White House - https://www.flickr.com/photos/202101414@N05/54748367371/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=173722685President Donald Trump greets President Lee Jae-myung of the Republic of Korea, Monday, August 25, 2025, at the West Wing entrance of the White House. By The White House – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia

South Korean officials storm the command center of an American military base, seizing details about U.S. Air Force flights in the name of a domestic investigation.

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June 2, 2026 | 9:31 am | 1 Comment »

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Israel is right to defend its Gaza blockade  

Imagine how much worse the attacks on Israeli civilians would have been if Hamas had been able to import guidance systems and more sophisticated rockets.

Moshe Phillips | June 1, 2026

Israeli Navy enforcing Gaza Blockade, May 2026. Screengrrab via YoutubeIsraeli Navy enforcing Gaza Blockade, May 2026. Screengrrab via Youtube

The foreign politicians who chose last month to criticize Israel’s treatment of the extremists detained from the so-called Gaza flotilla are wrong. The flotilla participants understood the risks and consequences of deliberately challenging a lawful and necessary Israeli maritime blockade designed to protect Israeli civilians.

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June 2, 2026 | 8:47 am | 1 Comment »

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How double-dealing Oman threatens Trump’s Mideast peace  

“Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we’ll have to blow them up,” President Donald Trump declared Wednesday.

An apparently shocking statement about a nation long regarded as a key US ally.

But as a tentative deal to end the war with Iran appears to be within reach, Washington has grown increasingly frustrated by the Gulf sultanate’s quiet yet significant support for the Islamic Republic.

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June 1, 2026 | 6:45 pm | 1 Comment »

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Iran Ends All Negotiations…  

June 1, 2026 | 6:22 pm | 3 Comments »

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New York Times Tries To Cover Up Story We Broke About Terror Tied Candidate  

Peloni:  As what has historically been accepted as the leader of the Fourth Estate, the New York Times has conducted itself in an ever increasing manner of complicity in the shame of what it should otherwise be exposing due to its long held prestige among the Legacy Media.  It is unfortunate that this institutionalized state of capture continues to this day by this falsely presumed pillar of journalism which has failed to improve its preferred duplicities, the practice of which took place during WWII is well known as it acted to shield the shame of the US govt in ignoring the plight of the annihilation of the Jews of Europe.  Indeed, the shame of the Old Gray Lady persists to this day, even as the threat of its coverup is targeting Americans now rather than just Europeans.

We do the reporting. The New York Times does the cover-ups.

Daniel Greenfield | June 1, 2026

By Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA - New York Times Building - New York Times Logo, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80146855Image by Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA – New York Times Building – New York Times Logo, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia

In April, Freedom Center Investigates broke the story that Hisham ‘Adam’ Hamawy, an Egyptian Muslim running for Congress in New Jersey, backed with $2M in Islamic cash, had ties to Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, an ally of Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, tied to the WTC bombing and a plot to bomb the Statue of Liberty and parts of New York City. One of our sources for the backstory was a New York Times story on Hamawy’s testimony at the time. Other outlets, the Free Beacon and FOX News, picked up the story.

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June 1, 2026 | 5:56 pm | Comments »

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Memorial Day There (in the Heart) and Here (If at All)  

By Ari Busel

Translated by Peloni

Box of Colors. Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@leisyvidal?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Leisy Vidal</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/assorted-crayons-in-box-on-wooden-table-vJritQGOFvc?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a> Box of Colors. Photo by Leisy Vidal on Unsplash

A mix of songs surround me, songs beautiful and beloved:  I Had a Box of Colors, Let It Be, I Promise You (The Last War), What Shall I Bless Him, My Younger Brother Yehuda, … and they blend into one another, like seawaves crashing together, merging, and disappearing as though they had never been.

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June 1, 2026 | 5:45 pm | Comments »

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Mark Levin: Iran, Ideology, and the Future of the West  

Peloni &  David Fieldstone

Report of the Mark Levin Show of Sunday, May 31, 2026 – on FOX NEWS – including his opening comments, and his interviews with (1) Ben Domenech – who has many high-end political functions, and (2) Retired 4 star General Jack Keane – who is well known in the USA and beyond.

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June 1, 2026 | 3:25 pm | Comments »

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The deeper the investigations go, the clearer the picture becomes.  

Peloni:  It is remarkable that the overseas network of Leftist allies in America which seem to have made the extraordinary protest movements in Israel possible is being unveiled by the financial footsteps left behind by that very same overseas network of Leftist allies in America.  In fact, the need for America to free its own nation from being captured by an elitist cabal may soon require the prosecution of not only their own Leftist elites, but those with whom they worked in Israel at the expense of immense sums of US taxpayer dollars, simply to corrupt and control America’s greatest ally in the world from acting in its own self interest in establishing an independence from the corruption in Israel, which was itself tied back to the corruption in America.  I have often made the statement that what begins in America does not remain in America.  This was true of the corruption and capture of the Deep State in America, but it will also prove to be true of the process to free America from that same state of corruption and capture as we are witnessing take place currently.

Avi Abelow | June 1, 2026

Anti-government protests over judicial reform financed by US. Screengrab via YoutubeAnti-government protests over judicial reform financed by US govt under the Biden administration. Screengrab via Youtube

The deeper the investigations go, the clearer the picture becomes.

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June 1, 2026 | 3:04 pm | 2 Comments »

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Citing repeated Hezbollah ceasefire violations, Netanyahu orders strikes on terror infrastructure in Beirut  

Peloni:  In recent hours, Iran has predictably taken to threatening its ‘ceasefire’ which exists with the US.  This attempt to reassert the linkage between the war in Lebanon with Israel and the war in Iran with Israel and the US is significant.  It was a strategic error for Trump to have granted the linkage between these two fronts to Iran as the basis of his negotiating tract, and having the non-ceasefire finally collapse in Lebanon, it would be an ever greater error to acquiesce to Iran’s demand that this linkage be restored.  So we will see who blinks first, with either Iran ignoring the renewed assault on Beirut or with Trump renewing the linkage between the two fronts.  Notably, the Lebanese government has been playing its regular role of acting as Hezbollah’s toady, even as it can offer nothing but empty promises of doing more than the literally nothing it has repeatedly done following its many regular promises in the past.  It is time for this ruse to end.  Some matters can only be solved by war, and the case in point of dealing with the Armageddonist terrorists in Iran and its various proxies is clearly such a matter.

Netanyahu says ‘no situation where Hezbollah threatens our cities, but Beirut is safe’

Israeli strike in Tyre in recent days. Screengrab via YoutubeIsraeli strike in Tyre in recent days. Screengrab via Youtube

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday morning that he ordered the IDF to strike Hezbollah targets in the Dahiyeh neighborhood of Beirut, following “repeated and ongoing violations of the ceasefire in Lebanon.”

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June 1, 2026 | 2:33 pm | 1 Comment »

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The fate of orphaned Jews in Yemen & 78 Years of Nabka propaganda  

Peloni:  Idit Bar continues to produce important and informing videos which reveal both details of history and aberration within Islamist propaganda.  Two examples of her valued work are below.

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A question for history: If the father of a child from a religious minority in Yemen died about 100 years ago… What do you think would happen to that orphaned child? The answer is shocking – and it’s in the video.

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June 1, 2026 | 11:01 am | Comments »

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Open Letter to Nervous Nellie Kristof  

By Walter E. Block

Nicholas D. Kristof, Columnist, The New York Times, USA is captured during the session 'Redesign Your Cause' of the Annual Meeting 2010 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 30, 2010. Photo by World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland - Nicholas D. Kri - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2010, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14773672Nicholas D. Kristof during the Annual Meeting 2010 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 30, 2010. Photo by World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland – Nicholas D. Kri – World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2010, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

Nicholas Kristof delivers himself of a screed calling into question the US-Israel attack on Iran. He ends his missive with this comment: “So, readers, what do you think of this war we’ve just started? Am I a nervous Nellie?”

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June 1, 2026 | 10:02 am | 1 Comment »

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Give Us the Excuse: Iran’s Regime Will Fall | Israel’s 3-Step Endgame  

Peloni:  Gen. Amir Avivi restates PM Netanyhu’s position that the war with Iran is not over, and that with or without the US, Israel will resume the war.  He also affirms that there is no chance that the MOU currently being pursued will result in an agreement by Iran which would prevent such an ultimate result.  He also concludes that the MOU is intended to fascilitate the ships still caught in the Persian Gulf to be able to bring their oil cargo to market and reduce the price elevations on energy.  He also states that the Iranian regime will ultimately collapse.  He also addresses the issue of Gaza, a local Gazan police force, and proposals of settlement  development in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria.

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June 1, 2026 | 9:04 am | Comments »

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How Jordan Is Saving the Muslim Brotherhood, Evading US Pressure  

Peloni:  We are at the point in which we will finally see if the efforts to ban the Muslim Brotherhood under the Trump Executive Orders are merely window dressing statements or if they will have the real world effects of actually seeing the ban against the few branches of the Muslim Brotherhood thus far targeted being fully enforced.  Notably, as this site has asserted over the years, the Jordanian govt is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, and their attempt to help the Muslim Brotherhood affiliate, IAF, avoid being subjected to this ban demonstrates this fact.  Notably, what is described below is an important plan of action for what is also taking place in the states of Texas and Florida in America where bans on the Muslim Brotherhood exist as well.  Notably, the Muslim Brotherhood have survived been banned previously by such chameleon practices described below being tolerated by the relevant govts involved in such dubious public displays which lacked the stamina to eliminate the influence of such a powerful entity as the Muslim Brotherhood.  So will the Trump administration ignore the chameleon tactics used by the Muslim Brotherhood to survive being banned once more, or will the US enforcement of the ban be implemented in such a way as to take the measured and necessary steps needed to eliminate Muslim Brotherhood influence in such Islamist tolerant (read as complicit) nations as Jordan.  The answer to this question will make evident the serious effect, or lack thereof, in the official ban on Muslim Brotherhood.  Trump’s Ban has the ability to reshape the Middle East, and America too if the Ban were extended to American shores, but only if it is implemented in a manner which enforces a full repudiation of the presence of the Brotherhood rather than simply forcing them the inconvenience of rebranding its many limbs once more.  Time will tell.

Jafaj.net | May 31, 2026

Muslim Brotherhood Flag. Phaoto: Public Domain, Wikimedia CommonsMuslim Brotherhood Flag. Phaoto: Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

SUMMARY:
1. On January 13, 2026, pursuant to President Trump’s Executive Order, the U.S. Departments of State and Treasury announced the designation of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) chapters in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon as terrorist organizations. Treasury concurrently designated the Jordanian and Egyptian chapters as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) for providing support to Hamas.

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June 1, 2026 | 6:56 am | 4 Comments »

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FULL: 2026 Israel Day Parade in New York City  

Peloni: Don’t miss the double talking speeches by Sen. Schumer among other Democratic Party leaders in the second video at the bottom.

I understand the importance of the tradition of public officials participating in the Israel Day Parade, and the obvious implications of a Mayor governing over the largest congregation of Jews in America breaking with that tradition, but I see the realities surrounding this issue somewhat differently.  In fact, Mamdani’s evident policies and rhetoric supporting Jew Hatred and Jew Haters is self evident, and his presence at the Israel Day Parade would not only be a break with his policies and rhetoric, but it would have also undermined the honesty of the celebration simply by honoring him with any role in the celebrations which took place.  Indeed, when I watched the hypocritical statements of Sen. Schumer the Palestinian speaking about the concerns of the rise of antisemitism during the celebrations, I have to confess it made my blood boil.  In fact, the leadership of the Democratic Party betrayed the Jews of America with their support of the Mamdani mayoral candidacy, just as their betrayal also included the support of the policies which brought about the rise in antisemitic immigrants being actively shuttled into the US in general, and into New York specifically, while subsidizing the failing support of the Dems by actual Americans.

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May 31, 2026 | 10:46 pm | 3 Comments »

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‘Morally Incomprehensible’: Jihad Mamdani Spends MILLIONS on his Propaganda Office  

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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji. Screengrab via YoutubeNew York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji. Screengrab via Youtube

Mamdani is worse, far worse, than even the most dire predictions.

“This is purely politics at a time when real services are needed,” Democratic political consultant Hank Sheinkopf told The Post. “We have real deficits and this mayor is spending five million dollars to put 40 political operatives on the payroll. It’s morally incomprehensible . . . It’s outrageous.”

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May 31, 2026 | 10:29 pm | 1 Comment »

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