By Pamela Geller |
The moment that the US base in Jordan was attacked by Iran. Screengrab via X.
Trump has ordered US CENTCOM to open “the gates of hell” upon Iran after US casualties in Jordan, US officials tell NPR. Another US official tells CBS News tonight’s US attacks will be much more extensive and larger than previous nights.
Madeline Brooks: As Avi sees it, Israel is just the linch pin of the unraveling of the West, since it is the first of the three great foundations of the West: Jewish, Greek, Roman. Plus, it’s low hanging fruit, what with ever present antisemitism.
And all this is not supposed to be talked about because it is too upsetting
It’s a long video, but a very good teaching tool. I knew the basic story but learned a few new details. And Avi’s presentation style is very effective.
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Peloni: This is a must read article. Rochel Sylvetsky, editor of Arutz Sheva, provides a 30,000 foot view of what the purpose and intention of the Fayyad Plan entails, as well as a close and personal depiction of the valiant warriors whose lives and families stand as the bulwark upon which the physical defense against the Fayyad Plan rests. Indeed, while being targeted with false narratives of Settler Violence, these Hilltop Youths represent what should be understood to be very basis of the anti Fayyad Plan, which in fact blocks and makes impossible the creation of facts on the ground which will in turn make a second Palestinian state inevitable. Indeed, these young families are in fact our greatest hope of securing the promises made by PM Netanyahu and other when they assure us and the world that there will be no second Palestinian State carved from the heartlands of the Jewish State.
Three young communities and what they contribute to Israel’s longterm security. Feature.
Rochel Sylvetsky | Arutz Sheva |
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https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/430321
Peloni: In its eagerness to prostrate itself at the alter of Jew Hatred, the world’s democracies have in fact stripped their societies bare of the very norms, guardrails and tenets which distinguish democracy from authoritarianism, liberty from tyranny, and slavery from free people. This of course is because the very basis on which democracies are founded – civil liberties, equal justice, a free press, and the societal deterrence which comes from the routine practice of all of these democratic norms – are in fact the very same basis under which Jews have come to flourish in Western democracies. Hence, we can grasp the true meaning of what is described as the canary in the coal mine, as the very societal boundaries which gave rise to the Golden Age of Jewry in the Diaspora are the same boundaries which empower, protect, and secure the entire populace within a given democratic society. While we Jews will always have Israel, those democracies which have corrupted themselves to secure the ability to safeguard Jew Hunts, to victimize Jewish victimhood, and to return the world to a Medieval standard of living, with all that which such a tragedy includes, will have to live with the nightmare they have carved out for themselves as the very concept of decency is purged, along with every aspect of life which recognizes the dignity of men as a fundamental right in preference of a retrograded nightmare from which there will be little chance of escape for these former democratic realms. The lesson to be taken from all of this for the people of the world is that the curse of Jew Hatred has a broader target than just we Jews, and in supporting the denigration, delegitimization and double standards for the Jews, the Jew Hating miscreants are preparing that same lack of liberty as the inheritance which they will leave to their children and their children’s children.
Victor Satya | July 17, 2026
October 7 Collage by Hnuden – Own work, CC0, Wikipedia
When October 7 ended, one might have expected the story to follow a familiar script.
Mudar Zahran
Our Interview with Tom Wagner, President of the Abrahamic Peace Organization
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Our Interview with Tom Wagner, President of the Abrahamic Peace Organization
Peloni: Well, the title here overstates the current situation, but it captures both the IRGC’s greatest nightmare and Washington’s greatest hope, all in a single common strategy. Arm the public, support the rebellion with aerial targeting of strategic centers of power and authority in the country, and unleash the greatest potential to win the war quickly. Will we see Trump follow this path?
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Peloni: Policy shift focusing on Iranian infrastructure continues. Will this be enough to bring the regime to its knees? Perhaps. A better policy shift would be to support the Iranians to take their country back for themselves with US and Israeli support as needed.
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Peloni: Trump’s continued policy of trying to push the Iranian regime back to the negotiating table continues to affect the general public more directly than the butchers who serve as their overseers. The solution to this tragedy is to end the attempt to offer Iran an offramp for their relentless abuses on their neighbors, but to arm the very people that Trump promised he would eventually help the Iranian people back on February 28 when the war broke out. In truth, the Iranian people should be offered a role in the overthrow of the tyrants holding dominion over them, and Trump has the means to help them do exactly this, while simultaneously fulfilling two thus far unfulfilled promises at once.
Janatan Sayeh
The United States has reimposed its naval blockade against Iranian ports while striking the Islamic Republic’s military assets for a full consecutive week, all in response to Tehran’s repeated violations of the two countries Memorandum of Understanding. President Donald Trump also threatened to bomb Iran’s power plants and bridges “unless they [the regime] get to the table and negotiate.” Regime media claimed on July 17 that the United States had already struck some of this infrastructure.
Rabbi Jacob Herzog | X
Map of the Middle East. Image by Cacahuate, amendments by Globe-trotter and Joelf – he.wikivoyage.org, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia. [Resized]
From the Rabbi of the Arabian Peninsula
Blessed Friday and Happy Sabbath.
* Major preparations: Iran is planning to assassinate a Gulf ruler, and the Gulf countries that Iran now hates the most are the UAE and Bahrain. We pray to the Great Name to protect everyone who seeks good and to destroy everyone who seeks evil. But I say to the security services of those two countries: Pay attention, be careful, keep your eyes open, and we in Israel are always ready to help.
by Gerald A. Honigman
Democratic Socialists of America. Screengrab via Youtube.
Dear DSA…
As can be seen in the above opening link, since you forcefully advocate for the virtual obliteration of the sole, minuscule, 9-15 mile wide resurrected 4,000 year ancestral homeland of the Jewish People and their murder by endorsing the genocidal Arab call for Intifada embodied in the “right to resist” against them, there are indisputable truisms which you either deliberately choose to ignore or simply don’t care about relevant to this existential conflict for the Jewish People.
by Jalal Tagreeb,
Screengrab via Youtube.
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In a video that has circulated widely across Arabic-speaking platforms, Khaled Hassan delivered a searing indictment of Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy, one that, whether he intended it or not, serves as a powerful vindication of Israel’s strategic position in the Middle East. Hassan’s analysis, sharp and unsparing, was aimed at Saudi Arabia and what he called its “kingdom of fear, submission, and hypocrisy.” But in laying bare Riyadh’s paralysis and contradictions, Hassan inadvertently stripped away the last remaining pretexts for the Arab world’s hostility toward Israel. What emerges from his critique is a devastating truth. Iran is the existential menace in this region, and Israel, far from being the aggressor, has long been the rational actor that much of the Arab world secretly wishes it could emulate.
Madeline Brooks: Not just words here, much needed words, but the beginnings of plans for action.
I can easily see Marco Rubio as President picking this country out of the leftist rubble and leading us back to civilization, and spearheading a global return to renewal. That is, if he also pushes back against Islamist infiltrations, which he does not seem to have addressed yet.
Peloni: Khaled Hassan examines Saudi Arabia and his comments are quite interesting.
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Avi Abelow | Meta | July 17, 2026
The war against Iran has entered a fascinating new stage, and this time, the United States is leading the escalation.
As of now, the days of worrying about President Trump’s memorandum of understanding with Iran, promoted by the Vance-Witkoff wing of his administration, appear to be behind us.
That deeply flawed arrangement was never going to last.
Peloni: Rabbi Pesach Wolicki covers recent headlines which clearly indicate significant escalations in the region.
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Ahmad Sharawi | July 17, 2026
Abu Muhammad al-Jolani. Photo by Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia
Outside Syria’s parliament building in Damascus, lawmakers filed past the stone façade for the chamber’s first session since Bashar al-Assad’s fall. Inside, the freshly minted lawmakers stood to take the constitutional oath as President Ahmad al-Sharaa looked on. The ceremony was carefully staged to show both Syrians and foreign observers that independent political institutions have returned after more than half a century of Assad family rule.
By | July 16, 2026
Ivan Aivazovsky, View of Constantinople by evening light. Public domain
Lars Møller reminds us of how Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and then of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the Muslim Ottomans, and how the story of that fatal defeat may offer lessons to Westerners today, who are under a different kind of Muslim assault, this one from within, where steady demographic conquest has replaced swift conquest on the battlefield. More on his history lesson can be found here: “The Prophecy From Constantinople,” by July 14, 2026:
Peloni: As I noted yesterday, this move to begin targeting IRGC infrastructure represents a key shift in US policy. Is the once promised demise of the IRGC at hand? The loss of energy and transportation infrastructure will leave Iran in a dire economic state, and with what appears to be near daily tightening of US sanctions on the Iranian regime, this will have an important effect upon the regime’s ability to function. Trump noted in his speech last night that success in Iran won’t take long, and continuing to target Iranian infrastructure is what cause that statement to be realized.
By Pamela Geller |
Damage to strategic bridge in Iran. Screengrab via X.
Trump had warned over and over again about hitting infrastructure. It looks like that time has now come.
