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By Hugh Fitzgerald | July 20, 2026

The Sunni regime that has ruled in Damascus since December 2024 has been a mixed bag. Its army has attacked both the Alawites in Latakia, who had been the mainstay of Bashar Assad’s regime, and the innocent Druze in Sweida Governorate who inhabit the territory between Damascus and the Golan, showing its determination to keep the minorities in Syria down. In addition, Ahmed Al-Sharaa’s troops have taken part in attacks on the Christian minority and on the Kurds in Aleppo and southeastern Syria. All this makes clear he is determined to persecute Syria’s many minorities — the Alawites, Druze, Kurds, and Christians. He nonetheless has managed to present himself as a “moderate,” even hinted at being ready to make peace with Israel, but his treatment of the country’s minorities suggests he is still an unreformed jihadist. Trump has been impressed with al-Sharaa’s makeover, and approvingly calls him a “strong leader.”

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President Donald Trump and senior staff greet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Monday, April 7, 2025, in the West Wing Lobby of the White House. (Photo by The White House – ,Flickr Public Domain, Wikipedia)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled this week’s meeting with President Donald Trump amid apparent tensions with the American president.

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IDF in ‘no hurry’ to continue withdrawing, plans to monitor success of Lebanese army

Hanan Lischinsky | All Israel News | Published: July 21, 2026

LAF forces deploy to southern Lebananese areas after Israeli withdrawal from the pilot area following agreement brokered by the US. Screengrab via Youtube.

The Israeli and Lebanese military confirmed the start of the pilot program under the Beirut-Jerusalem agreement on Monday, which will see local withdrawals of Israeli troops from areas in southern Lebanon while Lebanese soldiers will replace them.

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Peloni:  Stopping Iran’s dedication to terror really does come down to American resolve to actually stop Iran.  Trump’s continued stated preference for negotiations only serves to provide Iran with the understanding that Trump will ultimately not stop them, that they can simply move the clock forward by alternating periods of negotiations amid periods of breaches of already negotiated agreements, such as having the Strait of Hormuz open.  Iran is only emboldened by this fact, as its negotiating govt officials and warring IRGC leaders work together to stall while they make their ultimate ownership of the Strait of Hormuz evident based on facts on the grounds.  As Seth Frantzman notes below, alternate routes are already being improvised to work around the use of the Strait, but the reality is that these costly pipelines remain just as vulnerable to Iranian missiles as the Gulf State’s other infrastructure which is already being attacked, making this alternate solution no more secure than shell shocked Strait.

Iran may hint that it is willing to hold talks again and continue to play the “good cop, bad cop” game it has played in the past. The IRGC would act as the bad cop and the government as the good.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | JULY 20, 2026

Iran firing missiles at Bahrain and Qatar over the weekend. Screengrab via Social Media.

The US has been carrying out strikes in Iran for nine days, including a number of attacks on bridges and tunnels near the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas. What comes next in the American conflict with Iran?

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BREAKING: SECURITY GUARD PLOTTED TO ASSASSINATE BEN-GVIR

The Shin Bet and Israel Police arrested Muhammad Awad, a 29-year-old Israeli citizen from Nazareth, on suspicion of seeking to join Hamas and obtain resources for terrorist activity.

Authorities say Awad planned an attack… pic.twitter.com/4qjF0IC99y

— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) July 21, 2026

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Michel Benchimol

Dear Mr. President,

President of the United States Donald Trump speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

I hope you will receive this letter in the spirit in which it is written.
I am not writing as one of your critics.
You have more than enough of those.
I am writing as someone who has defended your presidency for years—not out of blind loyalty, but because I believed then, and continue to believe today, that your accomplishments altered the course of American history.

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Peloni:  The free exercise of the will of the people is what will save America from tyranny.  In fact, this is the only thing which might lead to such an outcome.  This was Trump’s highest priority in returning to office, and his current attempt to fulfill his mandate to achieve such a victory is now in full swing.  It is vital that such his efforts be successful, for as the only super power in the world, what begins in America NEVER stays in America.  This was true with election irregularities, judicial efforts to overturn election outcomes, and it will be true with the restoration of the legitimacy of seeking a transparent election process.

Joe Fried | Am Thinker | July 20, 2026

Image by landrachuk – Pixabay, CC0, Wikipedia

We have all heard it many times.  According to “journalists,” claims made by President Trump regarding election cheating are “unfounded,” “disproven,” and/or “debunked.” However, irrefutable evidence of large-scale 2020 election fraud exists.

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Peloni:  US investment in Israeli defenses has led to priceless enhancement of real world research and development in America’s militiary industrial complex, but it has had the affect of limiting the respect which the US has for its ally.  The ‘aid’ should be ended.  Bibi says it will be ended within ten years time.  I expect that it will be sooner than that, and when it does end, Israel and America will look at eachother with a more honest and fair assessment of two independent nations with only their shared history and values to shape the relationship between them, and this will be an important and valuable change to anticipate.  This change is definitely coming, and to be honest the sooner it does, the relationship between America and Israel will become better and stronger.  As Malkah notes, the proposition to end the aid should not be one focused on alienating these two nations, but in rejoicing in the fundamental basis of the relationship between the two nations, which is based on something far more substantial than finances.

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Peloni:  Also see 3 min. report on Israel’s Iron Wasp anti-Drone program at bottom below article.

There are many potential solutions being developed to deal with the Drone Threat and the truth is that we need all of them working and integrated around the country right now.  There is no single answer to deal with the Drones.  It requires a layered defense with multiple modalities to secure a given position on the battlefield.  Another consideration which needs to be answered is how to protect cities when the target is redirected from troop positions towards civilian targets.

Francis Kapper | Defense Reporter | Daily Caller | July 14, 2026

Anti Drone Iron Wasp System. Screengrab via Youtube.

Star Wars is not just a movie anymore, as laser weapons begin to trickle into the U.S. military.

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Peloni:  Trump continues to try to pursue negotiations focused on only the Strait of Hormuz.

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Peloni:  Escalation leads to further escalation.  Trump’s adversaries block every opportunity offered to them to end the war as Trump looks for a negotiations offramp.  Gas prices are rising, and the coming US election is drawing ever closer, drawing conclusions of significant widening of the war all the more likely if not imminent.  In fact, Washington has alerted Jerusalem of their intention to widen the war in the coming days while requesting Israel remain outside of the coming battle, but in this too Trump’s efforts to mollify his adversaries will be seen to be defeated by those same adversaries.  As Sarah Stern notes, it’s time to buckle up once again.

For reasons of its own, Washington doesn’t want Israel involved in this latest bout with Iran.

Sarah N. Stern | July 20, 2026
Capt. Andrew “Dojo” Olson, F-35 Demonstration Team pilot and commander performs a high-speed pass during the Oregon International Airshow Sept. 21, 2019 in McMinnville, OR. Photo by Air Force Senior Airman Alexander Cook – Defense.gov, Public Domain, Wikipedia.

So far, it seems like there is a dichotomy between the U.S. and the Israeli positions on the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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Peloni:  The mask is falling, but the charade of Justice from the illicit ICC was never in doubt.  This evil institution has no interest in justice, does not practice equality before the law, and extends its reach well beyond its authorized jurisdictions.  Israel should shun this corrupt institution, give it no weight of recognition on the international stage, and the US should do the same.  More than this, the US sanctioning of the ICC and its members is the only justice which might be sought from such an illegal, unlawaful, and corrupt organization.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | July 18, 2026

Karim Khan, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0

Karim Khan is an International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor. The ICC has temporarily suspended him while the charges against him, of pressuring a member of his staff to engage in nonconsensual sexual touching — its exact extent has not been made public — with him, and of misusing ICC funds that were spent on that staff member’s first-class travel so that she could accompany him on his travels around the world, can be investigated. That’s not the end of his troubles. The British regulators of lawyers in the UK have just extended their previous barring of Khan from practicing in the UK, that began last June, pending the ICC’s final decision in Khan’s case. More on the latest woes for Karim Khan can be found here: “UK Upholds ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan’s Suspension Over Sexual Misconduct Allegations,” by Ailin Vilches Arguello, Algemeiner, July 15, 2026:

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Peloni:  When I think back to the 2021 War with Hamas, I recall the claims that were made that all the tunnels in Gaza had been collapsed.  It wasn’t true, but such wartime claims of success are common enough during war, and they can only be exposed by later events as we are seeing today in Iran and Lebanon.  The only way to certify such claims is to bring the war to an ultimate conclusion rather than seeking another frozen conflict, but Trump’s preference for negotiations will prevent such an outcome, and of course, as we saw with the terms of the MOU, the objective of dealing with Iran’s ballistic missile program was not even included in what would have been a mowing of the grass in Iran.

Harold Hutchison | Second Amendment Reporter | Daily Caller | July 19, 2026

Screengrab via Rumble.

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo pressed former Trump administration official Victoria Coates on Sunday over how Iran was able to launch a fatal strike against American forces.

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Peloni:  The fingerprints of our history are carried in every dunam of land, making our ownership of the land all the more priceless and all the more pressing.

Roamnrab:  ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!

BUT,VERY SOON, HASHEM’S WRATH IS GOING TO BE METTED OUT ON ALL OF OUR-HIS ENEMIES.

THIS IS REPEATEDLY STATED IN THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS- AND WE ARE APPROACHIND THIS EAR- VERY FAST!!!

ALL THE SIGNS ARE POINTING CLEARLY IN THAT DIRECTION!!!!

Find comes just days before Tisha B’av, which commemorates the destruction of the temples

Hanan Lischinsky | All Israel News | Published: July 20, 2026

Screengrab via Youtube.

Days before the Jewish holiday of Tisha B’av, which commemorates the destruction of the temples in Jerusalem, charred wooden beams testifying to this very event were revealed to have been found by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).

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Peloni:  There are no hardliners and moderates.  There are only hardliners who will tell you what you want to hear, and those who will not, but they all have the same ideology, they hold the same rejection of the West, and are motivated to raise Jihad across the world.

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Peloni:  Read this article carefully. Somethings which come out during an election cycle are highly revealing.  The comparison of an Israeli hero to the local Muslim Brotherhood is one such revelation, and the implications for such a comparison should provide a profound indication of Gadi Eisenkot’s judgement as well as his qualifications for becoming prime minister.

Avi Abelow | Meta 

Gadi Eisenkot. Screengrab via Youtube.

With election season upon us in Israel, and much of the mainstream media in the Jewish and Israeli world pushing Gadi Eisenkot as the next Prime Minister, I believe it is critically important to highlight two recent quotes from his public interviews that reveal why he would be a terrible choice for the job. Eisenkot is a nice guy who paid a steep price with the loss of his son in this war, but as former IDF Chief of Staff he was responsible for stripping the army down to bare bones and instigating a huge chunk of the manpower problems the army faces today, both in the regular forces and the reserves. And as the quotes I will explain below make clear, he would be a horrible choice for Prime Minister.

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