Peloni:  Lebanon must produce results, full stop.  No let up on military pressure, and no release of prisoners, and no concessions of any kind should be offered.  Also, Israel should put her sites on clearing the area upto the Awali River, not just to the Litani, which is still quite close to Israel’s borders.

This conflict could finally free Beirut from Hezbollah

When Hezbollah launched attacks on northern Israel on October 8, 2023, ostensibly in solidarity with Hamas, Israel initially considered confronting its stronger northern adversary first before shifting focus south to take on Hamas in Gaza. The Biden Administration vetoed this approach, warning of potential regional or global escalation. Israel therefore prioritised operations in Gaza while engaging in tit-for-tat exchanges with Hezbollah.

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By GIL TROY | MARCH 17, 2026

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It’s terrifying. We could have been mourning the deaths of many schoolchildren in West Bloomfield, Michigan, this week. That was the intention of the brother of the Hezbollah terrorist killed in Lebanon who attacked Temple Israel, a synagogue filled with preschoolers.

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Peloni:  This is an important report.

Steven Stalinsky, R. Sosnow, Rachel Legow | MEMRI | Mar 20, 2026

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Background: U.S. Government Warnings

Iran’s calls of “Death to America” over the past 47 years of its Islamic regime have never been mere rhetoric. U.S. intelligence agencies have long warned that Tehran’s ideological messaging and covert networks could inspire or enable attacks inside the U.S.

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The US victories in World War II (WWII) over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan offer profound lessons on transforming militant dictatorships, led by cult-like virtually religious ideologues.

Leonard Grunstein | Mar 17, 2026

The terrorist theocratic Iranian Regime, with unabated nuclear ambitions, in a long-standing state of war of aggression against the US and Israel, is now facing extinction. Coordinated airstrikes by the U.S. (Operation Epic Fury) and Israel (Operation Roaring Lion), targeting the Regime and IRGC leadership, ballistic missile launchers, nuclear sites, military sites, air defenses and naval assets, have been devastatingly successful.

However, notwithstanding the elimination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the Regime rejected surrender and continues its aggression with missile/drone attacks against U.S. bases and sites in the region and civilian targets in Israel, as well as the Gulf Arab States.

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Peloni:  Don’t miss the personal testimony by Rabbi Pesach Wolicki regarding Charlie Kirk, Joe Kent and the leaks to Candace Owens at the end of the video.

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Peloni: The pretense that an Armageddonis terror regime which has chanted death to America for 50yrs is not a threat to the US while it builds nuclear bombs, along with the missiles capable of delivering these bombs to cities around the US, was always based on something between political rhetoric and fantastical non-realities.  The threat lies in their attempts at maturing the capabilities to fulfill the hopes enshrined in their chants of Death to America.  Some will say that this failed attack on Diego Garcia was the first shot demonstrating this truth, but the reality is that the shots against America began decades ago, in the murder of American servicemen and American citizens across the globe.  Indeed, the slaughter of thousands of Americans demonstrated the intent of the Iranian regime, even as they have bankrupted their nation trying to develop capabilities to fulfill the greater realization of that intent.

By Pamela Geller |  March 21, 2026

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“Iran is not a threat.”

Iran just proved it can strike over 2,300 miles—hitting Diego Garcia with missiles it insisted didn’t exist. This wasn’t a test. It was a revelation.

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2 Minute Video by Andrew Roberts Below

Download full report at 7Octparliamentarycommission.co.uk

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Cliff Kincaid interviews the brilliant Joan Swirsky as she describes “the actual pandemic of anti-Semitism” which has “made seemingly normal people,” including commentators like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, “side with the murderers of 1,200 innocent Israelis” on October 7, 2023, and in Iran were developing nuclear weapons to destroy the West — before the USA and Israel went to war. Other topics examined include George Soros, Obama, the Deep State, and Jeffrey Epstein.

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | March 20, 2026

Watch the video by clicking photo below and read the full original Op-Ed here:

The annual $3.8 billion US investment in Israel (misperceived as “foreign aid”) is the most profitable strategic investment in US history. This video explores how Israel serves as a unique economic and defense force-multiplier for the US, yielding an outsized Return-on-Investment. From upgrading the F-35 and surging its exports, to providing intelligence worth “five CIAs,” the partnership saves the US billions in R&D and replaces the need for multiple aircraft carriers. Discover why this alliance is a critical, mutually-beneficial two-way street for US national security and prosperity.

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The language of nuance has become a cover for cowardice, moral inversion, and paralysis in the face of terror and Iran’s ambitions.

Michel Benchimol

The site of the Nova Massacre.  Photo by Roded Shlomo Pikiwiki Israel, CC BY 2.5, Wikipedia

The Pretense of “Nuance”

Let’s stop pretending.

What we are witnessing is not confusion or nuance. It is cowardice—cloaked in sophistication, marketed as restraint, and defended as wisdom.

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Iranian missile impact area at the Jerusalem old city. https://t.co/NnHppXSDc4 pic.twitter.com/iP1axkrPqr

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) March 20, 2026

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Peloni: Mike Doran and Gadi Taub discuss the current events in the war in Iran and beyond.  Mike addresses the West’s lack of competence in dealing with the Islamist threat on its own shores while also provides an interesting explanation for how there are two clocks counting down which will decide if Trump will declare victory after achieving it or in lieu of achieving it.  He also argues that while he hopes to see the fall of the IRGC, if they are not defeated in this war, there are still many important tools which can defeat them long term.  The second half of the program addresses the campaign in Lebanon and the fallout surrounding the Yemeni Fields Affair.

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Israel under heavy missile fire from Iran just ahead of Shabbat | IDF strikes 2,000 Hezbollah targets, kills 570 militants | In first, IDF launches strikes east of Tehran

All Israel News Staff | Published: March 20, 2026

17:00 – WATCH: No reports of injuries after shrapnel impact in Jerusalem’s Old City

There were no reports of injuries after the impact of a missile piece in Jerusalem’s Old City earlier.

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Peloni:  Truly exceptional analysis by Victor Davis Hanson.

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Barry Shaw | The View from Israel | Mar 20, 2026

Iran hangs 3 people, including teen on national wrestling team.  Screengrab via Youtube.  

On the morning of March 19, three young men—Saleh Mohammadi, 19, Saeed Davoudi, 21, and Mehdi Ghasemi—who were all arrested during the January protests in Iran, were publicly hanged in Qom after being convicted of “waging war against God,” according to the Iranian judiciary’s Mizan News Agency.

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Peloni:  A city dependent upon stability and economic investment is being rocked by the rigors of war and a reluctance to do more than adopt a defensive posture.  Will Dubai survive this challenge or will they once again show themselves to be the quintessential resilient nation, which previously survived the 2008 economic crisis and the Covid shutdown?

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Kataib Hezbollah said it might pause attacks on US targets in Iraq, but its strict and unlikely conditions suggest strikes could resume soon.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | MARCH 19, 2026

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Peloni:  Qatar continues to cling to its prefered position of supporting Islamist Iran, even as Iran rains down destruction on Qatar’s economic lifeline infrastructure. In a world driven by madness only rational responses are deemed to be taboo…

MEMRI

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Since the outbreak of the war against Iran on February 28, 2026, leading Qatari media outlets, chief of them Al-Jazeera, have continued to serve as mouthpieces of the Iranian regime, despite the fact that Iran has launched hundreds of missiles and drones at Gulf states, including a few at U.S. military facilities in Qatar itself. These media outlets provide Iranian officials with an open platform, without reservation or criticism; present the Iranian narrative as fact; echo and amplify Iranian conspiracy theories; and promote pro-Iranian messaging.[1]

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Peloni:  How about this turn about?  The opposition to support the US given the nominal request being made by Trump was itself rather revealing about the state of the alliance between the US and its erstwhile allies.  Even as they have come to capitulate in supporting Trump’s request, it is a remarkable distance of support and capabilities to what Israel has demonstrated in recent weeks and over the past year.  Of course, partnerships indicate common interests and like minded values.  While no two nations are a perfect match for such things, Europe in particular has demonstrated once again that it has meandered far from where it once stood in decades past, even as they were at the time far from a lock-step supporter of US leadership.  As Trump noted, there will be consequences for Europe in light of these changes, even with their move to finally acquiesce to Trump’s request.

By Pamela Geller | March 20, 2026

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Well, that was quick.

Score one for Donald Trump. European leaders—including Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron—initially rejected his request to help escort commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Trump responded by openly questioning America’s commitment to NATO’s collective defense, pointedly referring to these countries as “allies” in quotation marks and calling the relationship a “one-way street.” Speaking to reporters at the White House, he framed the Hormuz standoff as a “litmus test” of NATO’s reliability.

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