Iranian Kurdish parties form a historic coalition to coordinate efforts and safeguard Kurdish interests amid regional unrest.
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | MARCH 5, 2026
Kurdish Peshmerga forces engaging militants in Iraq. Screengrab via Youtube
Paul Schnee: In the report posted below Governor Gavin Newsom likened Israel to an apartheid state. Other than pandering to the woke militia of leftocrats in the Democrat Party it is difficult to understand why he would use the most easily refutable accusation against Israel to discredit America’s greatest ally and only democracy in the Middle East.
It’s almost as if he has never read anything about Israel or walked around wearing a blindfold when he visited there a week after October 7th. 2023. If he had removed his blindfold, he couldn’t have helped noticing that Israel’s two million Arab Palestinian citizens enjoy full civil liberties including free speech, Habeas Corpus and freedom of religion. Many serve in the IDF, in the judiciary, the police and as members of the Israeli parliament.
By Ari Bussel
Translation by Peloni
The owner of the Five Stones Winery, Ilan Hasson, was last week in Los Angeles to promote and taste his wines. In the picture (right) in a wine total which is in Pico
Once there were very few wineries in Israel. They predate the modern state of Israel. One can see the remains of holding tanks and wineries in Rehovot and Rishon Le-Zion, Zichron Yaakov and elsewhere, children playing among the well-kept remains. Among the well-known ones (in terms of name recognition, not necessarily quality, and in no particular order): Carmel Mizrahi in Rishon LeZion and Zichron Yaakov, Binyamina Winery at the foot (south) of the Carmel Mountains, Barkan Wineries on the way from Rehovot via Mazkeret Batya and Hulda to Jerusalem, and others. Not very many, and wines about which one would not be writing home or buying at the airport as a souvenir
Peloni: Amid the ongoing war which will change the face of the Middle East, the Israeli Deep State continues its war of control at the cost of unity, fair governance and any sense of equitability, all of which is most appreciably relevant amid the ongoing war. This is a proper setting for MAG Ofir to intervene and, unlike his predecessor’s notorious intervention in the Yemeni Fields Affair, to end what should be understood by all to be a contemptible, destabilizing and unjust policy. In this regard, Ofir should act immediately as it not only stands as a moral imperative, but it simultaneously represents a very real threat to the very men and women who stand on the front line of the nation’s battles across all its many battle fronts.
May G_d Bless, Preserve and Protect the Courageous and Honorable Men and Women of the IDF!
Combat Doctrine – Temporary | X | Mar 4, 2026
Translated by Peloni
Major (res.) Dov Yudkin, a reserve company commander, brother of Captain Israel Yudkin, of blessed memory [killed in the northern Gaza Strip on May 22, 2024, while serving in the Kfir Brigade]. Screengrab via Youtube.
A shocking post by Major Dov Yudkin
Please read every word:
Peloni: Is Turkey going to continue in its role as the catfish of the Middle East, swallowing nations as they lie defeated and vulnerable to Turkish sourced intrigues as was seen to be the consequence of Israel having hollowed out Hezbollah in Syria? Is this what is fueling Trump’s preference of Regime Transformation over Regime Change as described by Mike Doran in a recent podcast?
Jonathan Schanzer | Mar 4, 2026
By kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia
The US military and the Israeli Defense Forces continue unleashing their might on the Iranian regime — and precise intelligence, overwhelming firepower and a bit of good luck could soon usher the downfall of the Islamic Republic.
Peloni: This is an important article. Washington needs to recognize the legal hurdles of legislation aimed at dealing with Sharia which have limited potential of dealing with the problem. Amy Mek describes both the problems inherent in anti-Sharia legislation and the how best to preserve Western values in the face of the expansion of Sharia inside the US by reinforcing protections of actual religious freedoms.
Amy Mek | X | Mar 4, 2026
Dame Justice. Photo by Sang Hyun Cho – Pixabay, CC0, Wikipedia
To Our Leaders:….
Well-intentioned bills that try to stop courts from enforcing Sharia-based decisions if they violate our rights sound good on paper. But they almost always fail in reality.
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | March 05, 2026
Is the threat from the Ayatollah regime only a Middle Eastern concern? Think again. This video explores why the Iranian regime’s “Great Satan” ideology places the US directly in its crosshairs, completely independent of its hostility toward Israel.
by Gerald A. Honigman
Kurdish Soldiers Qameshli, Syria. Photo by Yan Boechat/VOA – Voice of America, Public Domain, Wikipedia
Recently, President Trump sent out a mass mailing asking if fellow Americans supported his long delayed military actions in Iran.
Peloni: This report of a Kurdish ground incursion was initially sourced to Fox News, but in the hours which have passed since the report first became public, there is no clear evidence on the ground of an actual incursion taking theplace. Furthermore, the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan has denied the accuracy of this report is accurate, despite the reports from US and Israeli sources. So, with this in mind, was this an actual info op, intended to threaten the Iranian regime of the potential use of the Kurdish and other separatist groups in Iran so as to draw them to the negotiating table? One consequence for all of this is that IRGC forces are currently targeting Kurdish opposition strongholds, something which should not have been altogether unexpected following reports by Trump of having interest in using these opposition forces for the purpose described in the below report.
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Seth J. Frantzman | Mar 4, 2026
Israeli Air Force (IAF) F-35I Adir. Photo by William LewisDerivative: User:MathKnight – WikiCommons: File:230322-F-UT528-1038 – Red Flag-Nellis 23-2, 22-24 Mar, 2023.jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia
Israel has carried out 1,600 “strike sorties” against Iran since the joint US-Israeli military operation began on the morning of February 28, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on March 4. Iran has responded by launching hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel, resulting in 10 people killed and dozens wounded over the first four days of the conflict.
| Published: March 4, 2026
16:35 – No reports of victims, limited damage after Hezbollah and Iranian attacks over past hour
There were no reports of injuries or significant damage after numerous drone and rocket attacks were launched by Hezbollah on Israel’s northern border areas, and by Iran, which fired a ballistic missile that triggered alarms across central Israel, including the Jerusalem and Tel Aviv areas.
MEMRI | March 4, 2026
Iran’s Ambassador to Qatar Ali Saleh Abadi (center) with Qatari Foreign Ministry official Ibrahim Yousef Fakhro (right) and Qatari Minister of Environment and Climate Change Abdullah Al-Subaie. Screengrab via X, February 5, 2026
In the weeks before the launch of the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran, Qatar conspicuously sided with Tehran – politically, diplomatically, and in the media – despite its ostensible role as a strategic ally of Washington and as a mediator between the U.S. and Iran. The warming between Doha and Tehran was evident first and foremost in the increasing diplomatic contacts between them in that period, alongside Qatar’s blatant disregard for the popular protests in Iran and their violent suppression by the Iranian regime.[1] Thus, on January 31, 2026, Qatar’s Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Aal Thani, met in Tehran with the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani.
Rabbi Jacob Herzog | X | Mar 3, 2026
Translated by Peloni
Image via X
The fate of Bahrain, the UAE, Kuwait, Oman, and Saudi Arabia in detail:
* The Gulf will never return to how it was on the twenty-seventh of last February. The Gulf will not return to how it was on the night of the war with Iran. The element of trust and stability has ended forever, and I will give you the details now.
Peloni
The United States and Israel have launched a joint military campaign against Iran, employing a historic level of bilateral cooperation. While each nation has its own codename for the ongoing operatoin, Operation Epic Fury by the U.S. and Roaring Lion by Israel, their unified effort began with the aim of dismantling Iran’s nuclear program, destroying its ballistic missile and drone capabilities, eliminating its navy, and decapitating its leadership. The ongoing operation follows months of bilateral planning coordinated between U.S. Central Command and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), which also included daily coordination their respective leaders, ie CENTCOM chief Adm. Brad Cooper and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir.
Peloni: Erin opens with a monologue chastising Megyn Kelly for her offensive and inaccurate claim that American soldiers are fighting for Israel. Later, in an interview with Elliot Abrams, Abrams raises the concern that it is a mistake that Pres. Trump has not directly addressed the American people from the Oval Office, and adds his weight behind the lack of clarity for the aims of the war in Iran. He notes that the support for Trump entering this war is not strong, and that this might be strengthened with an Address to the Nation and better explaining what the aims of the war actually are. Erin next talks with Israeli DM Gideon Sa’ar. They address casualties of the war as well as effect of the Iranian strikes on the Arab countries. Among other matters, they also discuss the emerging conflict in Lebanon and what victory in Iran might look like.
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Peloni: Hypocrisy is a favorite undertaking of Western leaders in challenging that Israel should simply be more conciliatory as they are relentlessly attacked, that they should be more tolerant as terror attacks fill Israeli streets, and that they should be more restrained as threats made against them by hostile terror states are put into action.
Prime Minister Keir Starme. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street. Photo by Number 10 – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia
Israel’s retaliatory attacks on Iran in October 2024 were carefully designed to avoid hitting Iran’s nuclear program or destroying its energy infrastructure. They did, however, prove to Tehran that Israel had the capability to hit targets inside Iran virtually at will and to take control of Iranian airspace.
US has sunk ‘the entire’ Iranian Navy, says CENTCOM chief Adm. Cooper: ‘We’ve just begun’
| Published: March 4, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a global leadership summit on the end of the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas at the Tonino Lamborghini International Convention Center in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Monday, October 13, 2025. Photo by Daniel Torok –Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia
U.S. President Donald Trump denied that Israel had forced the U.S. into launching military strikes on Iran on Tuesday, claiming that, if anything, it was he who may have forced Israel, based on his belief that Iran was planning a preemptive attack.
The Iranian examples.
Barry Shaw | The View from Israel | Mar 04, 2026
Photo by Kevin Kandlbinder on Unsplash
The world was astounded when beepers began exploding across Lebanon killing and maiming the top echelon of the Hezbollah terror regime. It turned out that Israel had set up an export company that delivered lethal communication equipment directly into the hands of their enemy agents which exploded when Israel paged them.
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