Peloni:  An important caveat to Sinan Ciddi’s insightful analysis below, Turkey’s interests in preserving such destabilizing factors as the regime in Iran adds to the value  of its Middle Corridor at the cost of the IMEC, and its continuing expansionist goals accentuate the basis by which it can force its dominance in this trade route competition without the need to accually compete.  For these reasons, and many others, the US Turkey strategy which promotes Turkey’s domineering role in the region deserves a serious reconsideration.

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

War has a way of redrawing maps – not just political ones, but commercial ones as well. The outbreak of conflict with Iran has disrupted longstanding trade arteries linking Asia to Europe, from Persian Gulf shipping lanes to overland routes through Iranian territory. Into that vacuum, Turkey has moved forward with a familiar pitch: It is the natural bridge between East and West.

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ASFI | May 12, 2026

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Americans For A Safe Israel Launches National Campus Initiative: “Students For A Safe Israel”

NEW YORK — May 12, 2026—Americans For A Safe Israel (AFSI), a leader in pro-Israel advocacy since 1970, is officially launching Students For A Safe Israel (SFSI). This nationwide program is designed to empower student leaders to become unapologetic voices for Israel’s security and territorial integrity at colleges across the country.

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Peloni:  Must read report.

Janet Levy:  Anti-Israel Conspiracies Are Being Used to Shield the Chinese Communist Party.

Clearly, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) benefits when the narrative portrays Israel, rather than China, as the primary threat to the U.S.

Just as all social media is manipulated by foreign and domestic bots, purchased likes and retweets, etc., the content on the “formerly” CCP-owned TikTok has been amplified or suppressed depending on whether it aligns with Beijing’s interests. The TikTok influence campaign is ultimately designed to delegitimize America.

The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) reports that pro-Israel hashtags on TikTok were underrepresented by a 6.2-to-1 ratio compared with Instagram.

A report from the Institute for National Security Studies found that Chinese cyber campaigns spread antisemitic messages to U.S. audiences, alleging Jewish and Israeli control of American politics, ahead of the 2024 election.

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Peloni:  The future of the UAE and its cooperation with Israel since signing the Abraham Accords, such as it has been, is understood to be as an existential threat by the Iranian regime, and it seems that the UAE, after spending significant effort over the past several years to ignore this fact, has finally come to realize the nature of the existential threat which Iran poses to its survival.  This is a very important development which should have been grasped by the Emeratis in the immediate aftermath of their joining the Abraham Accords.

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Avi Abelow | May 11, 2026

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Not enough people truly understand the power, influence, and devious agenda of the unelected officials in Israel who abuse their positions of authority. That is exactly why I am writing this series of articles, to expose how these individuals operate behind the scenes, manipulate democratic systems hand in hand with their ideological partners in the mainstream media, and undermine the will of the people.

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Peloni:  And so the campaign of blood libels and delegitimization continues once again atop the NYT.

NYT claims abuse is ‘standard operating procedure’ by soldiers, settlers, prison guards

All Israel News Staff | Published: May 12, 2026

Using exceptionally harsh language, Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Monday blasted a report by the New York Times (NYT) which alleged “a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence” against Palestinian prisoners, including children.

“Today, the [NYT] chose to publish one of the worst blood libels ever to appear in the modern press. In an unfathomable inversion of reality, and through an endless stream of baseless lies, propagandist Nicholas Kristof turns the victim into the accused,” the Foreign Ministry wrote on ?.

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Paul Schnee:  The perceptive article below by Daniel Greenfield of the David Horowitz Freedom Center demonstrates how the Anti-Defamation League has been confusing activity with achievement and raking in plenty of money doing so.

For the past 11 years, the ADL has had the misfortune of having the vastly overpaid Johnathan Greenblatt as its CEO. Of course, he is one of Obama’s former devoted choir boys and as such he has deliberately tilted the ADL much farther to the left than when Abe Foxman was in charge.

Somehow, towards the end of Foxman’s stewardship he became afflicted with some form of Jewish advocacy dementia. Nothing else can explain why he became so fixated on Islamophobia or why he thought Greenblatt would make a suitable successor.

Mark Twain once remarked that if you give a man a reputation for being an early riser he can sleep until noon. This is what has happened to the ADL. Due to its early effective advocacy people still think the ADL can be taken seriously as a Jewish civil rights organization. It does just enough to make it look as if that is the case, but it’s deceptive. Greenblatt understands that you can’t keep the balloon rising without the usual infusion of hot air.

But the ADL is trying to take the credit.

Daniel Greenfield | May 11, 2026

By Starfish – ADL, Public Domain, Wikipedia

When the Trump administration began its crackdown on campus antisemitism that had proliferated when it was backed by deans and faculty members, many liberal Jewish groups were uncomfortable with the blunt confrontational style of the White House and members of Congress like Rep. Elise Stefanik. Now the numbers are in and they’re undeniable.

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Peloni:  Such a permanent association between America and Israel would come to be seen as both a blessing and a curse, but more a curse than a blessing, I would argue. If the US is serious about enforcing any ‘deal’ struck with Iran, it needs a constant presence in the region which does not limit US freedom of action against an intransigent and feckless Iran when, not if, they violate any deal which might be foolishly agreed upon with the US. As we have recently seen, US command in coordination with Israel leaves the US in command over Israel, even in so far as existential threats and sovereign interests are relevant. And this is the point of both the blessing and the curse. It must be noted that the Trump admin has been the most friendly US admin to Israel in history, and yet it has had no hesitation in both humiliating Israel [forcing stand down at end of 12 Day War and recent stand down order in Lebanon by Trump] before the world and forcing it to act against its own interest with impunity [The Gaza Deal, UNSCR 2803].  So what might we expect under a Vance administration, or G_d forbid a Harris administration or its like. Furthermore, while the blessing aspect would provide the US with the means by which to threaten and actually strike Iran, the political reality of Israel’s expected diminishing support in the US over the coming years will turn this US protection racket into a source of keeping the peace in the ME at any cost to Israel, which is the only nation which the US seems able to intimidate and control even without its army becoming part of the Israeli defense structure. Israel needs to be sovereign, and stationing US force in times of need should not be turned into a permanent condition, or sovereignty at every level will be lost to the Jewish people, and the Jewish State will simply become on large ghetto where Washington decidedly calls the shots, leaving court Jews to intercede for permission as to what Israel can and can not do in what was previously the independent Jewish State of Israel. And all of this doesn’t even address the greatest point of policy friction which exists between Israel and the US, which is the creation of a second Pal state. So, yes, A formalized US base in Israel would be a blessing and also a curse, but a far greater curse than a blessing, IMO.

US-led Gaza ceasefire HQ scales back activity but remains operational

All Israel News Staff | Published: May 10, 2026

American Israeli flags. Created via AI

The U.S. military is considering making Israel one of its main bases in the region, following the intense and successful cooperation between the U.S. and Israeli military over the past few years, particularly during the two wars against Iran, Israel Hayom reported.

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Peloni:  Israel must take back the land in Gaza, establish settlements which would in turn support the military presence there.  Simultaneously, emigration from Gaza must be established such that Israel facilitates the freedom of movement so the psychopathic Jew Hating community in Gaza might successfully relocate elsewhere.  This is how peace and security might be restored to Gaza, and simultaneously, Gaza will return to its rightful place under the ownership of the Jewish people, to whom Gaza belonged going back millennia.

Reports from Washington indicate that the Americans, too, have finally gotten the message, and that they, too, have lost patience in the face of Hamas’ refusal. The question, however, is where we go from here, assuming the Americans give us a green light to carry out Trump’s threat: If Hamas refuses to disarm, I will let Israel do it. 

by  Prof. Eyal Zisser | May 10, 2026

Hamas gunmen capturing civilian hostages from Kibbutz Beéri on October 7 2023. By Bodycam footage: No human authorship – WSJ, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Reports from Washington indicate that the Americans, too, have finally gotten the message, and that they, too, have lost patience in the face of Hamas’ refusal. The question, however, is where we go from here.

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Peloni:  The path forward on which Riyadh might restore an interest in peace is to accept that there already exists a Palestinian state, that it was created a century ago with the flip of a pen at the Cairo Conference, that this arbitrary decision by Winston Churchill to vivisect the territory which had been intended to be the Jewish Homeland was endorsed into international law by the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine.  If MBS could acknowledge this fact, many things would become possible for Saudi and Israeli relations.  It would also resolve the crisis of having to deal with the Arabs described as Palestinians as if they had a formal right to Jewish lands included in the state of Israel, when the reality is that three quarters of the land which had been intended for the Jewish Homeland was instead siphoned off for the Muslims living in the area, and which did not at any time include the territory of Judea and Samaria.

by Pierre Rehov  •  Gatestone Institute  •  May 10, 2026

Saudi Crown Prince MBS Welcomes Qatar Emir in Riyadh. Screengrab via Youtube

• The Abraham Accords, once touted as a breakthrough, have quietly moved, in Saudi political conversation, into the deep freeze.

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REGIME CHANGE IN HUNGARY: The Jury is Still Out! But the promises appear to be promising. And for certain if you believe anything.

Andrew Benjamin | May 10, 2026

PHOTO CREDIT – THE NEW REGIME

The majority of Hungarians say sixteen years of the old regime is enough. Bring on the new gang!

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Peloni:  The crimes of October 7 are nearing 3yrs old while we are still waiting for any glimmer of what might approach justice for that slaughter.  Unlike the Nuremberg Trials, those in the dock in the coming October 7 trials will not be limited to a bare few number of leaders and representatives of Nazi Germany.  Also, unlike in the Nuremberg Trials, the judges will be representatives of the people who were the subject of the slaughter.  In fact, the judgements which were handed down in Nuremberg at the end of WWII were applied with an incredibly slight regard for the incredible crimes committed by both the men in the dock and the German population more generally.  Our slaughtered relatives who were consumed in the Shoah gained little purchase in the form of justice in Nuremberg, specifically because the focus of the Nuremberg Trials was to establish a new world order in which the United Nations might be used to prevent or rectify such tragedies as occurred under Nazi Germany.  The tragic reality of this fact, however, is exposed by the revelations in which UN representatives have acted to shield the perpetrators of October 7, to mask the crimes against the victims of that slaughter, and to instead weaponize what amounts as the justice from the system created following the Nuremberg Trials into an instrument in which to indict the response to this modern day genocide rather than to promote the slightest effort in which to prevent such a harrowing event from occurring again in the future.  As the docks will include the perpetrators of this latest genocide against our people, we can be sure that a greater sense of justice will be forthcoming for these more recent crimes against humanity, and more specifically, against we Jews.  So it is good that the trials are this time to be held in courts comprised of our own people, and that the forthcoming judgements will be the full responsibility of what comprises Israeli justice, rather than as a vehicle under which some new world order might be structured.

350 will be prosecuted for the pogrom

Barbara Kay | National Post | Published May 10, 2026

Prosecutor Ralph Albrecht making an address at the Nuremberg trials. Photo by United States Army Signal Corps photographer – Harvard Law School Library, Harvard University [1], Public Domain, Wikipedia

Pro-Hamas protesters in New York City and elsewhere are perpetuating falsehoods to the extreme.

Leonard Grunstein | May 11, 2026

Efrat is located in the area known as Gush Etzion in Israel. Before 1948, the residents of the Gush were Jews residing in four thriving kibbutzim, known as Kfar Etzion, Massu’ot Yitzhak, Ein Tzurim and Revadim.

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Peloni:  It is obscene that an interview with the leader of America’s greatest ally in the Middle East, if not more generally, has not been conducted in the past three years of war, conflict and attempted regime change in Israel.  As the Middle East had been discussed on 60 Minutes with numerous other guests, the central focus of these discussions revolved around the one character who was never granted a voice by CBS to defend his nation nor to answer the antisemitic cat calls from his adversaries.

The interview itself was a fair interview, granting Bibi the ability to fully answer questions without being talked over or leaving him no chance to respond.  In fact Bibi, the ever capable communicator, took full advantage of the interview and openly addressed difficult questions with candor and reflection.  From the topic of responsibility for the October 7 to the Iran War, to the potential of regime change in Iran, to the investment by the US in Israel better known as ‘aid’, Bibi openly shared fair and credible responses, many of which had previously been shared by Israel’s longest living premiere to outlets which unlike 60 Minutes were not selectively preventing their vast audience from hearing over the past several years.

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