Netanyahu’s move is likely to avert early new elections, which are currently set for October
Israel Eichler, Knesset member. By Knesset Archives, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia
In a surprising move, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu managed to split the ultra-Orthodox parties and convince one of their Knesset Members to rejoin the governing coalition on Thursday.
Peloni: Excellent!
By Ari Bussel
Aharon Barak as guest judge in South Africa v. Israel (Genocide Convention) at the Peace Palace in the Hague, 11 January 2024. Screengrab via Youtube
The Israeli Attorney General is paid by the government, as are her senior lawyers, assistants, secretaries, and many other employees. The government funds her — yet she works to undermine the government in every possible way.
Peloni: Highly recommended conversation between Mudar Zahran and Yisrael Ne’eman, hosted by Jonathan Feldstein. Topics discussed include the threat raised by the Muslim Brotherhood, its central role in Jordan, its continued presence and threat in nations which have banned it, the threat it poses to the West, its role in Israel, proposed ways to defeat it, and the need to ban it entirely, everywhere.
This insightful conversation with two expert. Yisrael Ne’eman has been a lecturer at University of Haifa and at the Technion, teaching courses on about Israel, Middle East nationalism, and terrorism. He authored “Hamas Jihad: Antisemitism, Islamic World Conquest and the Manipulation of Palestinian Nationalism.” In 2024 Yisrael and his wife Susan established the Ne’eman Academy for online study about World Jihad, the Middle East, Israel, the Jewish people and the scourge of antisemitism. Mudar Zahran is a Jordanian Palestinian politician living in exile. He heads the Jordanian Opposition Coalition. He previously served as an economic specialist and assistant policy coordinator for the U.S. embassy in Amman. Zahran is a Ph.D. in political science — the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Peloni: America has a Qatar problem, a Turkey problem and a Muslim Brotherhood problem. The Trump administration believes that they can leverage profits over the ideology which drives these entities, and in this they are gravely mistaken. This issue must be addressed at home, but so too, it must be adressed in the region. The center of Centcom should be relocated elsewhere, and the forces concentrated there should be dispersed. Qatar is no ally, and its infiltration of Western agencies, its indoctrination of Western education, and its propaganda promoted by its media empire in Al Jazeera demonstrates this fact.
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An aerial overhead view of “Ops Town” at at Al Udeid Air Base (AB), Al Rayyan Province, Qatar (QAT), taken from a US Air Force (USAF) KC-135 Stratotanker during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.. Photo by US gov – ResearchArchive.gov, Public Domain, Wikipedia
It’s been a busy week at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. On January 14, the U.S. military started evacuating some troops from America’s largest base in the Persian Gulf region in anticipation of potential strikes against Iran. The U.S. Embassy in Doha also advised staff to “limit non-essential travel” to Al Udeid. However, the skies over Iran remained quiet, and U.S. troops began returning to the base on January 15. Al Udeid hosts approximately 10,000 troops and is home to U.S. Central Command’s (CENTCOM) forward headquarters.
Peloni: Maduro was China’s man in Latin America as well. Russia’s too. Qatar’s too. A great many lines intersected with Maduro in power, which made his capture all the more curious in the noisy but actionless responses which followed the event. How many paper tigers are ruling the world? Or have we just not yet felt the bite which will soon follow?
The Mullahs’ reach keeps shrinking.
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Nicolás Maduro was Iran’s man in Latin America. He allowed Iran-linked Hezbollah operatives to operate freely in his country, trafficking in drugs to raise money, and then sending both money and weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Now he’s in a New York jail. More on what the overthrow of Maduro means for Iran, and consequently, for Israel, can be found here: “Iran’s friends vanishing: Why Maduro’s arrest matters for Israel – analysis,” by Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post, January 4, 2026:
Peloni: Prof. Kontorovich provides a detailed explanation as to why Trump was so grossly in error when he stated he was going to stop Israel from “annexing the West Bank”, even ignoring the use of the pejorative to reference our ancient homelands in Judea and Samaria. By history, international agreements and customary international law, Israel has no need to annex that which is her own. Israel has a right to enact her laws for the legal protections of her own people in her own lands, and pretending otherwise only supports the antisemitic goal of labeling the Jewish state as the ‘special case’, the lone exception to legal protections and practices made normative throughout the entire rest of the world.
‘International law’ hardly demands a ‘two-state solution’ to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Nor can it properly limit Israel’s sovereignty over its own territory.
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Peloni: We are 5 months now waiting for Trump to allow the ‘hard way’ to proceed as Hamas rearms and resupplies itself. The concern that is being expressed for the Gazans should have pushed the ‘hard way’ forward one day after Hamas failed to do as they were obligated to do under the terms of the Trump plan. The only one being leveraged to keep to the terms of that plan is Israel, and that is still true today as we are mysteriously in Phase 1 and 2 at the same time, as the head technocrat invents “Israeli violations” while ignoring the very real violations being daily exhibited by all parties other than Israel. The technocrat has shown his true nature, but we will see more of it, much more no doubt.
Trump giving press conference on Air Force One. Screengrab via Youtube
U.S. President Donald Trump announced the establishment of a Board of Peace that will govern the Gaza Strip last night.
Peloni: Mudar Zahran explains that the current strategy against Iran includes a preference for giving a chance for the Iranian regime to fall under the threat of force. He also argues that sooner or later an attack on Iran will be needed and will be seen to come to fruition. He also addresses the importance of, and associations with, Iran which have been enjoyed by ALL Arab regimes in the region with the notable exception of Assad’s Syria which fell in December ’22. From the UAE to Saudi Arabia to Turkey to Qatar to Egypt, they are all opposed to the toppling of the regime in Iran because it would demonstrate a threat against their own relative regimes as well.
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by Gerald A. Honigman
Port at Bandar Abbas. Screengrab via Youtube
Recent reports relate that the fall of the strategically important port of Bandar Abbas and oil rich Khuzestan/“Arabistan” province centered in Ahwaz is underway.
Syria’s President Ahmad al-Sharaa “affirmed that the injustices witnessed in Syria during the decades of the deposed regime’s rule affected all segments of the Syrian population without exception.”
BySETH J. FRANTZMAN | JANUARY 15, 2026
Syria’s transitional government is trying to do outreach to Kurds as it appears to prepare a new offensive against the Syrian Democratic Forces.
The SDF is backed by the US and is composed mostly of Kurds, controlling eastern Syria.
Syrian security forces recently ejected Kurdish fighters from two neighborhoods in Aleppo, raising concerns about Damascus abusing the rights of Kurds. US officials, who back the new Syrian government, are concerned about attacks on the SDF.
The Tina Peters case.
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chuckles as he sentences Tina Peters. Screengrab via Youtube
“Election denial” was really hot 5 years ago. The ‘Election Denial’ moral panic led to mass censorship and claims that anyone denying an election result was a dangerous insurrectionist who needed to be locked up and posed a threat to democracy.
Peloni: Did Trump really abandon the Iranian protestors after urging them into the streets where thousands were gunned down by the Mullahs? I don’t believe this is likely. Rather, I agree with the summation of this article, namely that a limited but significant strike raised against Iran will be the most likely outcome in Iran. I don’t think Trump is looking for regime change, and I don’t think his attack will be the deciding factor in what successes might be made by the protests. Time will tell of course.
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The lead headline on The New York Times website as of 11 p.m. Israel time said, “Israel and Arab Nations Urge Trump to Postpone Attack on Iran.”
Peloni: What goes unstated in this article is that the death penalty provides justice, irreversible by future acts of terror which have been used over the past 70 years to inevitably leverage the lives of Jew Ransomed innocents against the release of those who should never be released. Let these butchers know that their sentence will be final, that they will have no hope of freedom, and that a final justice at the end of a noose will be the consequence of their barbarity. Be not kind to the cruel so as to not be cruel to the kind. Simply hang them.
Revised proposal seeks faster implementation and stronger deterrence as Israel confronts ongoing terror threats.
Israfan | Jan 15, 2025
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir – Own work, CC0, Wikipedia
In a move that has ignited intense national debate, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir unveiled a revised version of Israel’s proposed death penalty for terrorists, announcing that hanging would replace lethal injection as the method of execution. The update was presented during a Knesset National Security Committee meeting and reflects growing determination within the coalition to push the legislation forward.
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BREAKING: Trump:
We have been told that the killing in Iran is stopping, it has stopped.
There is no plan for executions. I have been told that, we will find out about it. pic.twitter.com/TnJMgP2Dfp
— Clash Report (@clashreport) January 14, 2026
Peloni: As Likud moves to support Trump’s ban on Israeli sovereignty, who will pick up the banner supporting sovereignty, and will it result in material vote swings in the next election?
An historic missed opportunity that will cost at the ballot box.
Photo by Hudson Institute – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia
Recent reports indicate that the Sovereignty Law, approved by the Knesset plenum two months ago, has been effectively blocked. Coalition Chairman Ofir Katz transferred the bill from the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to the Knesset Committee, which he chairs- reportedly following instruction from the Prime Minister. The law is now frozen without debate or formal decision. This is not a minor procedural matter; it represents a significant national opportunity that has been lost, unless it is overturned.
Peloni: A federalized Syria with autonomous zones or a divided Syria with independent statelets are the only paths towards peace in Syria.
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Peloni: As the world waits to see what will materialize from Trump’s promise to the Iranians that help was coming, the internet access in Iran continues to be jammed. If there are no more killings, and Iran has control over the country, why is it that no one outside of the Iranian curtain of silence is allowed to confirm this so called fact.
Regime confirms that planned execution was halted, no further hangings of protesters planned
Bodies of murdered protestors being loaded onto a truck. Screengrab via X
Amid a flurry of reports suggesting that the broader Middle East is expecting U.S. strikes against the Iranian regime, U.S. President Donald Trump caused general confusion when he suggested that the regime’s bloody crackdown against the protesters had “stopped” on Wednesday evening.
