Peloni:  Avi so well captures the context of what is taking place with the Haredi Draft Law debacle.

Avi Abelow | Meta

No, I’m not happy that most ultra-Orthodox young men do not serve in the IDF. I think it is clearly against the Torah, as service in the IDF is literally a milmechemet mitzvah, and it is morally wrong. I understand the deep concerns and cultural barriers that keep many Haredim from serving, but I am personally involved in initiatives working directly with the ultra-Orthodox community to help them overcome these challenges and serve in the IDF.

No, I also don’t support the recent laws that Haredi parties pushed through the coalition.

But I refuse to be swept up in the one-sided, anti-Haredi hysteria that dominates much of Israel’s media and public discourse.

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Lucy Spence | Daily Caller | July 14, 2026 

Plenary session – European Council and Commission statements – Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20-21 June. Photo by © European Union 2019, European Parliament, Wikipedia

Officials in the United Kingdom said on July 14 that former British politician Ann Widdecombe was murdered in a “targeted attack” last week.

Counterterror police also said authorities continued to investigate the incident into the former member of Parliament’s death, the Associated Press (AP) reported. The 78-year-old former Conservative Party cabinet minister and Reform UK spokeswoman was found dead in her Devon home on July 9 with a bloody head wound. Officials suspect she was attacked and killed the day prior.

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Peloni:  In the wake of the recent reports regarding the intended plan in Iran that went awry, Michael Rubin revisits the warning previously raised by Harold Rhoades regarding any encouragement or support for the Iranian separatist groups such as the Kurds which contrasted with the views raised by Martin Sherman on this subject that we really do not have a great deal to lose.  You can refresh yourselves on the policy debate regarding this matter  HERE.

Magic Formulas Do Not Exist

Michael Rubin | MEF | July 14, 2026

Iranian Ethnic Groups. By Mapper 01 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

When I worked as a Defense Department desk officer two decades ago, you could set a clock by it: Every few months, someone newly assigned to the Iran file, whether in the Joint Chiefs of Staff or the Central Intelligence Agency, would read somewhere that Iran was a multiethnic country and suggest supporting ethnic separatism in Iran to fragment the country.

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Max Meizlish

Chabahar, Iran on the morning of July 15, 2026. Screengrab via Youtube.

The memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the United States and Iran was meant to secure a 60-day ceasefire.

Instead, the Islamic Republic has repeatedly attacked commercial vessels operating in or near the Strait of Hormuz and launched missiles and drones against sites used by the United States in multiple Arab countries.

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Peloni:  Acquiescing to Trump’s request would be a strategic mistake by Netanyahu and he would pay a huge political price for doing so.  Notably, Netanyahu is attending a memorial for Sen. Graham next Tuesday and he is trying to arrange a meeting with Trump during that trip.  So far, no meeting has been scheduled.

Despite pressure from US, Israeli defense officials remain suspicious of al-Sharaa government

All Israel News Staff | Published: July 15, 2026

IDF soldiers and a tank operate in southern Lebanon on March 21, 2026. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON’S UNIT)

U.S. President Donald Trump asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to remove Israeli troops from Lebanon and Syria in a recent phone call, Axios reports.

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A Conversation with Joël Rubinfeld – Part III

by Grégoire Canlorbe •  Gatestone Institute  •  July 15, 2026

“International law, a noble concept in itself, is today being perverted — serving as a shield for some of the worst executioners on the planet. Have the West’s useful idiots of the Islamic Republic of Iran already forgotten the tens of thousands of unarmed Iranian citizens massacred by their own horrific government in just two days, on January 8 and 9?” — Joël Rubinfeld. Pictured: Joël Rubinfeld. Screengrab via Youtube.

• The Kurds are a valiant people who have repeatedly stood by the West. This was evident in the role of the Peshmerga in the fight against the Islamic State. Whenever they were called upon, they answered. Then, every time the crisis had passed, they were abandoned again to their fate.

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Peloni:  Sima Shine, former head of research and evaluation at Mossad and Iran expert at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies,  provides an important context for the lack of credibility surrounding the report that Ahmadinejad was an Israeli intelligence asset. Note further that Ahmadinejad turned up at a memorial service for Khamenei yesterday.  As I noted before, there is a disinfo opp taking place here, the only question is whose disinfo opp it is.  In any event, Shine provides further analysis on the issue of the Israeli plan to overthrow the regime, but more than this, she speaks to the recognition that devleoped in the aftermath of the 12 Day War that the real target in a war with Iran needs to be not the nuclear program, but the regime itself.    She also addresses the Israeli polls and the coming election among other matters.

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Peloni:  This is such a chilling indictment of Jewish leaderships and institutions in America, failures from which have made the revivalism of Jew Hatred such a profound success story.  Reinforcing Jewish identity is the answer to Jew Hatred, but it also provides key foundations which could have helped prevent it as well.

By Moshe Phillips

Shenna Bellows. Screengrab via Youtube.

Far too many professors of Holocaust history and staffers at Holocaust-related education agencies in the U.S. perversely twist the memory of the Shoah and, at the same time, falsely malign Israel as committing genocide in Gaza.

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Paul Schnee:  Melanie Phillips’ article is a master class in how historical and political truth has been and is being distorted by deliberate misinformation, disinformation, crass falsifications and lies the size of Jupiter. Clearly, a commitment to historical revision dulls one’s sense of contradiction, but it helps one to pole-vault from one false conclusion to another.

Yesterday at their Synod the Church of England, of which His Majesty King Charles III is the Supreme Governor, issued a rebarbative Israel-bashing and Jew-hating declaration called, “ A Moment of Truth: Faith In A Time of Genocide.” It succeeded in adding duplicity to the incomprehensible.

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Ashley Brasfield Senior Politics Reporter | Daily Caller | July 13, 2026

Senator Lindsey Graham with his sister Darline Graham Nordone at the Iowa State Fair, 2015.  Tweet Text: With my sister Darline & @ISF_ButterCow what a great day at the @IowaStateFair #ISF2015By LindseyGrahamSC – From X (Twitter) account of Lindsey Graham, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Republican South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has selected Republican Senator Lindsey Graham’s sister to fill the late Senator’s seat in the United States Senate.

McMaster announced the appointment of Darline Graham Nordone during a Monday afternoon press conference, where he reflected on Graham’s decades of public service.

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Peloni:  Very good news indeed!

Avi Abelow | Meta

In a historic first, a landmark framework agreement was signed in the presence of Prime Minister Netanyahu between the government and the Samaria Regional Council to build 12,000 new housing units, together with thousands of square meters of commercial, industrial, and hotel space.

The total investment: 8.5 billion shekels. This is part of a broader vision that includes 18 new Jewish communities in northern Samaria, including the rebuilding of the four communities destroyed as part of the 2005 “disengagement” from Gaza and Northern Samaria, paving the way toward one million residents in the region.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Trump Speaks at Board of Peace Initiation. Screengrab via Youtube 

The following article appeared in the July 6, 2026 Washington Times. Please read carefully…

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Peloni:  Those who can not learn from history will live to regret having to revisit it in the future, but of course, what is taking place today is not the failure to simply learn from history, but to counteract the attempts by malicious actors to weaponize distortions of the historical record so as to specifically undermine and destabilize Western civilization.  Dr. Steven Stalinksy proposes an ideal solution to this problem, providing that the malicious actors who are today gaining support in the West are not also included to run such an endeavor as Dr. Stalinsky describes below.

By Steven Stalinsky, Ph.D. | July 14, 2026

A mound of destruction is what is left after terrorists attacks against the U.S. took place at the Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, Oct. 23, 1983. Photo by Dvidshub.net, Public Domain, Wikipedia

In an op-ed published July 1, 2026 by RealClearWorld, MEMRI Executive Director writes about the need for a National Institute for the Study of Terrorism.

Below is the op-ed.

Over the past year, many initiatives have been announced and carried out in Washington, D.C. in advance of the marking of America’s first quarter-millennium. Among President Trump’s projects are renovations to Lafayette Square, already underway; a proposed Memorial Circle arch across from the Lincoln Memorial, a proposed National Garden of American Heroes, and more. Other changes to the face of the capital include the renovation of the White House East Wing ballroom, the revamping of the Rose Garden, the painting of the Eisenhower office building and the relocation of FBI headquarters from the J. Edgar Hoover building to the nearby Ronald Reagan building.

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Israel now serves both as a physical refuge and a diplomatic shield for Jews worldwide. Opinion.

Dr. Alex Grobman | Jul 14, 2026

The Jewish people possess an inherent right to live in peace and security within their ancestral homeland. This statement is not merely a contemporary political debate; it is an ongoing existential test. For millennia, Jewish history was defined by dispersion, leaving a stateless population structurally vulnerable and dependent on what Edmund Burke termed the fluctuating “benevolence of nations.”

The Zionist revolution radically upended this paradigm by asserting that genuine safety cannot be outsourced. True security requires autonomy-the physical, military, and diplomatic capacity of a nation to defend itself.

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Peloni:  The problem with the story that former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is that Ahmadinejad reported to have been still active in the Iranian govt while he was supposedly so out of favor with the regime that he was under guard.  Also, it seems a bizarre means of rescue to bomb his residence with him in it, and then immediately afterwards proclaim his death as part of the plan to eliminate the Iranian hiarchy.  While this being intended disinformation might explain this celebration of Ahmadinejad’s death, it also seems curious that the report of Ahmadinejad being an Israeli asset would so quickly be released while the war was still ongoing.  Now the NYT releases a new story about Ahmadinejad being an Israeli asset, only to have a Iranian report earlier today state that “Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attended Saturday’s meeting of the Economic Committee of the Council for Discerning the Interests of the Regime” [OSINT613].  So disinformation is clearly at play here, the only question is who is trying to gaslight whom, and is it actually working?  So was Israel’s plan to back Ahmadinejad or Pahlavi?  Would Ahmadinejad be kept alive amid the war which he was caught actively working with Israeal to kill Khameini?  Is the claim of Ahmadinejad as an Israeli agent really credible? 

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Peloni:  Trump moves to take control of the Strait of Hormuz and plans to charge 20% for compensation of shipping thru the Strait.  Also a 5 hour mission striking Iranian military targets along the strait.

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By Amil Imani – on July 12, 2026

Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran. By ir.voanews.com – https://ir.voanews.com/a/crown-reza-pahlavi-full-iv/3718665.html, Public Domain, Wikipedia

For nearly half a century, Israel and Iran have defined themselves partly through mutual hostility. That may be changing – not through official diplomacy between the two governments, which don’t exist, but through a growing, increasingly public relationship between Jerusalem and Iran’s exiled opposition, centered on Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi.

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Peloni:  Brigadier General Res. Erez Winner provides an important war update following his recent meeting with Defense Minister Katz.  Among the most important topics raised is Winner’s discussion of facilitating voluntary movement of Gazans out of Gaza and Israeli settlement in Gaza beginning at about 12 min. mark.  Facilitating Gazans emigration is the most important task in Gaza. 

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