Arlene Kushner | January 12, 2026
Owen Jones
Along with the rest of Israel, I have been tracking the situation in Iran, holding on to the hope that the regime might fall and the world might change. What this would mean for us is enormous: Not only would the threat of Iranian missiles be gone, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis would lose their patronage and support.
By Sha’i ben-Tekoa
United Nations General Assembly. Photo by Mojnsen – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia
Would you believe a 13-year-old boy 66 years ago discovered the deep corruption in this institution?
Peloni: This is a very important video. Mudar Zahran addresses the concerns about those who see the Hashemites as essential to Israel’s security, the weaponization of rendering the former Jordanian citizens as stateless because they lived on the West side of the Jordan, as well as the false relevance of the ‘ban’ on the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan last year.
Peloni: From anti Israel protests which took place one day after October 7 to anti-National Guard protests to anti-ICE protests to pro Venezuela protests, they all lead back to one organization.
The U.S. government needs to realize that nations with a documented history of hostility toward Israel cannot credibly serve as neutral peacekeepers.
Moshe Phillips | Jan 12, 2025
Bangladesh flag. Photo by Frameofashik – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia
Bangladeshi officials issued statements on Jan. 10 saying that their military should be deployed as part of the planned “International Stabilization Force” in the Gaza Strip. They also claimed that their national security adviser, Khalilur Rahman, also an economist and a former U.N. official, met with members of the Trump administration in Washington and discussed the idea. News reports indicated that the U.S. State Department had no immediate comment on the Bangladeshi claims.
Peloni: The more things change, they eerily remain the same in various and important ways, as demonstrated in this article below. Geoffrey Clarfield wrote this article some 17yrs ago, yet it describes both a similar situation today as well as what might be hoped to be the result of todays ongoing protests even as it failed to be the result of the protests which took place 17yrs ago.
Geoffrey Clarfield | National Post | June 24, 2009
During the last few weeks, much ink, as well as some blood, has been spilled over the Iranian election. The competition between the two contenders has inadvertently triggered a youth-led expression of frustration directed at the middle-aged and elderly men at the helm of the Islamic regime — men ruling with an iron fist over a generation of Iranians who were born after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and who desire greater personal freedom.
Peloni: And of course, this is not just true in Canada… Moral courage has not been weaponized against the Jewish state, used to threaten the lives and livelihoods of Diaspora Jew, while distorting the truth to dehumanize the Israeli state. All of this, and so much more which could fill an encyclopedia, are the actions of antisemites as the Old Hatred is being normalized and popularized with the help of useful idiots and the careful support of moral corruption and cowardice which resides too comfortably in political leaders around the world.
As Iran’s regime reportedly kills thousands of its own citizens, the silence from Canada’s self-styled human rights movement reveals a double standard rooted in antisemitism.
Ron East | TheJ.ca | Jan 12, 2025
Winnipeg — At least 2,000 protesters are believed to have been killed in Iran over just 48 hours as the Islamic Republic unleashed one of the bloodiest crackdowns in its modern history.
And in Canada, the silence has been deafening.
Peloni: Is antisemitism too popular to actually describe antisemites as being antisemitic, even as POTUS is announcing that there is no room for them in his movement? As Trump initially demonstrated the moral courage needed to whisk away any support from antisemites, he refrained from addressing the antisemitism which is infiltrating its poisonous effect among his base, making his statement rejecting antisemitism no different than those shallow remarks made by Heritage Pres. Roberts or that of VP Vance. So the masquerade of antisemites within the MAGA talking heads will continue to erode support for the most philosemitic movement in US history. As the lack of moral clarity from the top down has already consumed the Democratic party entirely, this is an increasingly worrying sign.
President refuses to say who would be a good candidate to replace him, says Vance and Rubio ‘both doing a great job’
President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks at the Israeli American Council National Summit Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019, in Hollywood, Fla. Photo by The White House from Washington, DC – President Trump at the Israeli American Council National Summit, Public Domain, Wikipedia
U.S. President Donald Trump said that neither his Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement nor the Republican Party needs people with antisemitic views.
Jihadi Islam is the fundamental evil driving violence and oppression in the Middle East and beyond. The Jewish people and the Jewish state of Israel are the answer.
Avi Abelow | Jan 12, 2025
History is unfolding in Iran right now. We are witnessing a popular uprising unlike anything seen in decades, Iranians rising up against 46 years of brutal repression under the Islamic regime. For the first time, the United States is openly signaling that it may intervene if the regime shoots and massacres its own people. That alone tells you how serious this moment is.
But what many still fail to grasp is that this uprising is exposing some of the biggest lies ever sold about the Middle East.
Peloni: The greatest betrayal of the Iranian people would be to see them rescued from the Mullahs, only to be handed over to the MEK. Doing so could hardly save the Iranians, and it wouldn’t safeguard the West either.
Laura Loomer | Loomered.com | January 10, 2026
Agents from the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK), which leads the group National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), have been appearing on pro-Trump news stations and podcasts recently to promote their vision for Iran’s future to the American people, amidst widespread anti-regime protests in Iran.
There are few heroes and many villains. A New America? Yes. Minneapolis and Portland are dystopian leftwing hellholes! Otherwise, Observations on the Passing Scene: especially TAKING OUT THE GARBAGE!
Andrew Benjamin | Jan 11, 2026
THE SUPERHERO – ALLAH APPROVES!
Bondi Beach hero Ahmed Al-Ahmed honored at $1000 a seat NYC Chabad gala, calls selfless act disarming shooter his ‘duty as a human being’
By Gerald A. Honigman
Somaliland (left) and Morocco flag (right). Image via AI
Recent reports have announced that Israel is extending its military reach into Africa with a Morocco defense partnership. This is potentially good news.
By Walter E. Block
Libertarians favor the legalization of all drugs, including not just marijuana, but also cocaine, opium, heroin, fentanyl, for adults only, of course. Ignorant critics deduce from this stance that we support their actual use, and indulge. God forbid. Libertarians favor the legalization of prostitution, pornography, sado-masochistic relationships between consenting adults. Malicious detractors claim that we all engage in every one of these activities and urge others to do so. Ditto.
Peloni: This is a must read article. Saudi Arabia is renewing its engagement on Gaza by proposing that it be allowed to supervise reforms within the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a step toward future governance of the Strip. Offering its support to ensure anti-corruption measures, administrative restructuring, de-radicalization, while also ending terrorist stipends, required benchmarks demanded by Israel, the US, and Gulf states, the Saudis are calling for the release of withheld tax revenues and offer to include Saudi financial incentives. While the Saudis argue that this is intended to end the Gaza war and advance the Trump plan and Abraham Accords, Israel remains opposed to premature PA entry into Gaza, while the UAE doubts reform credibility. Hence, once again, we stand at the brink of offering terrorists cash to behave rather than finding some alternative to the American equity of the terrorist PA, which has a history of absorbing cash like a financial black hole while ignoring the demands which are associated with payments. Radicals have no end of appetite for cash, no limit of pretense in role-playing hudnas and no possibility of being deradicalized following a life built upon the structural application of radicalization. While the PA celebrated October 7 longer than did their cousins in Gaza, we are to trust that they will not only be reformed, but that they will be reformed while being granted access to authority in Gaza for which they should NEVER have any access ever. This is pure madness…and we can expect that Washington is going to put the full weight of its inscrutable support behind it.
After months of signaling disengagement, Riyadh has presented Washington with a plan to oversee comprehensive reforms within the Palestinian Authority – a move designed to pave the way for Ramallah’s return to power in Gaza.
by Danny Zaken | Israel Hayom | 01-08-2026.
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Peloni: An important essay relating the current events in the Middle East to interactions with and by relative Iranian expats in CA. A very insightful essay.
By Ari Bussel
I was asked whether “perhaps this time the Iranians will succeed in emerging from the dictatorship?”
To reinforce this, it was said: “In fact, what Trump said regarding the Iranian people sounded like giving them backing.”
Peloni: Is this how the Trump administration foresees peace in our age might be achieved? The insanity of treating terrorists as having any interest in peace is the lie which betrayed and underpinned the folly of Oslo. Do we need to walk this path again, or is it possible to grasp that peace can have no partnership with terror, not alliance with belligerents, and no future which so closely mimics past mistakes.
by Uzay Bulut • Gatestone Institute • January 11, 2026
Turkey makes no secret of its support for the Hamas terror organization. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime, through its continuous support for Hamas, has not brought a lasting peace; it has brought lasting terrorism. Erdogan’s own words reveal his intentions. Pictured: Erdogan (right) honors then Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Istanbul, Turkey on April 20, 2024. (Screengrab via Youtube)
Peloni: An excellent summary of the threat posed by the Brotherhood and more importantly, why it is necessary to ban it in all its iterations at once. For those able to attend The Genesis 123 Foundation’s webinar “Banning the Moslem Brotherhood & the Future of the Middle East” with noted experts Yisrael Ne’eman and Mudar Zahran, it will he held on Thursday, January 15 at 8:00PM Israel time, 1:00PM Eastern US. Advance registration is both required and free.
Jonathan Feldstein
Banning the Muslim Brotherhood is vital to the survival of Western civilization and the defeat of Jihad. Image created via AI
In November 2025, the White House issued an executive order appearing to be part of a broader trend with global impact banning elements of the Moslem Brotherhood, and designating certain Moslem Brotherhood entities as foreign terrorist organizations. This is a good start, but to have the necessary impact, it must be widened and expanded.
Peloni: What is really needed to support the people of Iran in their goal of regaining control over their lives and their country is real support. When the US chooses their targets and drops their bombs, no matter the sensitivity of the targets, the people of Iran will still only have their voice with which to defend themselves. What they need are the capabilities to do more than overwhelm their oppressors with their numbers as they march into a hail of bullets and grenade fire. They need arms, munitions, and the capability to render their zeal as being more meaningful than a gaggle of protesting fish in an Iranian barrel. They need the ability to protect themselves and to stop the purge of their leaders and members and to bring their fight to a meaningful and decisive conclusion. Their victory in this moment will be a victory for the US and the West, and the possibility of their failure in this moment will have far reaching implications. Of course, arming the Iranians will lack the the public extravaganza which arial explosions always provide for the press and which may satisfy a Western audience. Yet, when the smoke clears from the US ordinance, it will leave the protestors in the precarious and unenviable position of still being defenseless against the unrestrained wrath of their Mullah masters whose control over Iran will not be defeated in the coming strikes. The Iranians need arms, and they need them now.
While the leftists have been mentally masturbating over Maduro and Renee Good, the real news is the growing anti-Islamist revolution Iran.
Am Thinker | January 10, 2026
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For Democrats, including those who run most of America’s media, the only news is that Trump “illegally” extradited Maduro and his wife for crimes against America and that an ICE agent “murdered” an innocent lesbian poet and mommy. For people living in the real world, the most important news this weekend may be that the Islamic Republic of Iran is almost certainly on its last legs—thanks in large part to long overdue action from Israel and America against this violent, terror-fomenting regime.
Peloni: Recall that the PA and its associated organizations, including the PA Police, are an American equity, one which is held in such high esteem that even the stigmatism of it institutionally associated with and rewarding terrorism has failed to lead to the US disowning this Fatah operated sham facade as Israel’s peace partner. Even today, the US is operating under an understanding that their PA equity will be miraculously refashioned into something which can be relied upon to manage what will come to be in Gaza, and no doubt will also be included in America’s never forgotten and always resuscitating vehicle of terror Two State Solution. The Americans needs to take responsibility for the pernicious pretense that their PA behemoth is anything more than a weaponize tool intended to seek the destruction of Israel, and the slaughter and enslavement of its people. This organization, despite it being owned by the US, is incapable of any meaningful reform for the very reason that it was fashioned from the steel of a terrorist organization which has only had one goal in mind, and that goal is not, and could never be, the pursuit of peace or anything slightly resembling it. Til such an honest evaluation of the PA which America has developed over the years is adopted, such tragedies as described below will continue, because war, not peace, is the purpose of the PA, and any attempt to fashion this terror entity towards fitting a peace sized hole will only demonstrate the facetious and false nature of those who would tolerate, much less advocate, for such an outrageously malicious, and all too obvious, fabrication.
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Under the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authority made a solemn commitment to help the IDF suppress terrorists in Judea and Samaria (a/k/a the West Bank). These turn out to be promises more honored in the breach than in the observance. Again and again, Palestinian Authority policemen have not only refused to fight the terrorists plaguing Israelis; in many cases, they have turned out to be terrorists themselves. The latest example is Younes Walid Shtayyeh, a PA police officer who was shot dead after he fired at Israeli special forces. Far from apologizing for one of their policemen trying to murder Israelis, the Palestinian Authority has hailed Shtayyeh as a brave “martyr.” More on the policeman-terrorist can be found here: “Palestinian Authority police commit another terrorist attack,” by Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, January 5, 2026:
