Janet Levy: The Austin City Council unanimously approved a formal resolution designating January as Muslim Heritage Month.  The council also elevated CAIR by proclaiming “CAIR-Austin Day,” flouting the Muslim Brotherhood group’s recent designation by Governor Abbott as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO).

It’s clear that CAIR has greatly expanded its leverage in Austin and continues building its power using false charges of “Islamophobia.”

NOTE:  CAIR was exposed as Hamas doing business in the U.S. in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation trial, the largest terrorist funding trial in American history.  Hamas is an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood.

RAIR Foundation USA | Jan 23, 2026

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In a brazen act of defiance against Governor Greg Abbott’s designation of CAIR as a foreign terrorist organization, Austin’s far-left City Council proclaimed ‘CAIR-Austin Day’ on January 22, 2026, while building on the city’s new permanent Muslim Heritage Month resolution to institutionalize Islamic influence, launder grievance narratives, and prioritize ideological activism over Texas public safety—all while conservatives leaders remain silent.

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Order requires the defeat not only of an armed force, but of the ideology and power structures that sustained it.

Stephen M. Flatow | Jan 21, 2025

Israeli tanks on Israeli Border. Photo by Guardian – Guardian, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

The opening of Phase 2 of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan is being described as a case of realism. It risks reviving a dangerous illusion: that Hamas can be reasoned into relinquishing power if offered reconstruction, recognition or the promise of a “better life.”

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Peloni: This is a very souring turn of events.  With the failing threat from Iran comes the rise of Turkey, the growing hostility of Egypt, and now the hard lining of Saudi Arabia.

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Maayan Hoffman | All Israel News | Published: January 22, 2026

Trump Speaks at Board of Peace Initiation. Screengrab via Youtube 

U.S. President Donald Trump may promote his new Board of Peace this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Still, critics say the initiative’s sweeping ambition may far outpace its chances of success.

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Peloni:  The return of the Jewish presence linked to facilitated emigration is how peace in Gaza can be achieved.  Same is true for Judea and Samaria.

Finance Minister urges decisive action, permanent security control, and rebuilding Jewish communities in the coastal enclave.

Israfan | Jan 20, 2025

In a powerful and uncompromising address, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on Israel to take full responsibility for Gaza’s future by restoring Jewish communities and ensuring permanent Israeli control of the territory. Speaking Monday at the inauguration ceremony of the new community of Yatziv in Gush Etzion, Smotrich framed the moment as a historic crossroads for the nation and a test of leadership.

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Peloni:  Dr. Stephen Bryen, a former Pentagon official and author of “Security Planning for Holy Places“, discusses the steps that might be taken to protect loved ones, and houses of worship in an increasingly dangerous world.  Dr. Bryen is also author of the Weapons and Strategy Substack.

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The ISIS flag flies again in Raqqa, thanks to the man who drove them out a decade ago.

by Robert Spencer | Jan 23, 2026

No one ever thought this day would come: On Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, the flag of the Islamic State (ISIS) flew once again over Raqqa, the Syrian city that once served as its capital.

It was around ten years ago now that ISIS controlled a territory in Iraq and Syria that was larger than Britain. Given Barack Obama’s indifference (which is the best face one can put on his behavior) to its continued presence and even expansion, the ISIS caliphate looked as if it was here to stay. Then, however, came Donald J. Trump.

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Peloni:  So we are being told that the butchers of October 7 are to not only remain, but remain intact as active political party??  With the PA overseeing the governing structures of Gaza, Hamas is to be allowed not only a presence in the Strip, but to play a functioning role in the emerging political system which was intended to replace them.  And if Trump has his way, the Turks and Qataris will be tasked with the enforcement of keeping their Muslim Brotherhood brothers in place.  In what realm of sanity could such a perversion of reality be deemed acceptable to even the most mendacious of actors!  This report has to be false.

Sources:

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421300

SHOCKER: US allows Hamas to remain as ‘political party’ if they disarm – report

Peloni:  This policy is long overdue and needs to be broadly applied against all Muslim Brotherhood Chapters and affiliations.

By Joe Truzman | January 22, 2026

Hamas soldier storming Alumim in southern Israel during October 7 Massacre. Photo by CCTV footage: No human authorship – I24, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on January 21 that it sanctioned a network of organizations it says are covertly controlled by Hamas. The move aims to limit the Islamist group’s ability to raise funds while improving international mechanisms for supporting legitimate Palestinian civil and humanitarian needs.

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Peloni:  The US preference of Jolani over the Kurds is a recognition of Trump’s preference to promote and strengthen Turkey in the region, something which will only lead to further Turkish expansion and greater recognition of Turkey’s growing dominance in the region.  The only way this can lead to peace if all others in the region are forced into the subjugating role which the Kurds were forced to accept when abandoned by the US.

Syrian Democratic Forces’ collapse will intensify Turkish-Israeli rivalry while providing possible entry point for an Islamic NATO

by Andrew Korybko | January 19, 2026

SDF fighters during the Northern Raqqa offensive (November 2016–present).  Photo by VOA, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed umbrella group dominated by armed Syrian Kurds from the YPG and linked to the PKK which Turkey designates a terrorist organization, rapidly collapsed over the weekend due to the coordinated defection of their Arab tribal junior partners.

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Peloni:  Was it a mistake for Bibi to join Trump’s Board of Peace?  Would Israel have been better positioned to boycott Trump’s peace initiative leaving almost no voice for Israel on this new world stage?  Is the Board of Peace the newest iteration of Oslo?  Weinstein and Jolovitz provide an interesting conversation, but I don’t agree that Bibi should have remained outside the box in Trump’s new remolding of the international community.  Unlike the Oslo Accords, if Israel had refused to participate, Trump’s BOP would have sailed all the same.

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By Joan Swirsky | The Post Email | ©2026

Vice President JD Vance Hosting The Charlie Kirk Show. Photo by The White House – YouTube: VP Vance Hosts the Charlie Kirk Show – View/save archived versions on archive.org and archive.today, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Once upon a time, there was a good-looking, articulate, young boy named David Duke who attended a conservative elementary school in New Orleans. In Junior High, as an eighth-grade project, he was irresistibly attracted to the subject of segregation. He then attended a military school in Georgia and “by the time he graduated was already a member in good standing of the Ku Klux Klan”––ultimately becoming a grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

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Peloni:  This is an important article.  The normalization of rogue states is something which Pres. Trump railed against during his first term, and the rejection of radicalism was the major them of his famous and inspiring speech in Riyadh.  Eght years after calling for the Arabs to drive the radicals out of “your places of worship…your communities…your holy land, and…OUT OF THIS EARTH” Trump oversaw the installation of an Isis affiliate in Syria while citing him being better qualified to fight Isis…

From Syria to Gaza to Iran, Qatar is hijacking the Trump administration.

by Daniel Greenfield

Image by Aerra Carnicom – This image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file:, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

Syria’s Al Qaeda regime is massacring Kurds to free imprisoned ISIS terrorists, state sponsors of Hamas in Turkey and Qatar are being named to boards running Gaza and thousands of democracy protesters are being massacred in Iran while Al Jazeera defends the regime.

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Peloni:  Israel developed Iron Dome and US funding made it possible to bring it to scale, as well as increasing the number of deployable missile batteries and interceptor stockpiles.

So while there is enough credit to go around, Trump should not shade Israel’s brilliant achievements in formulating, crafting and successfully producing the remarkable technology which will one day likely come to protect America from her enemies, which should be understood to include Trump’s erstwhile Muslim Brotherhood affiliates mislabeled as allies.

? TRUMP TO NETANYAHU: “STOP TAKING CREDIT” FOR IRON DOME

At Davos, President Trump claimed he told PM Netanyahu to “stop taking credit” for Iron Dome because “it’s our technology.”

Key context:
That claim is highly inaccurate
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Peloni:  Well, this will at least remove any need for Bennett to promise he won’t form a government with those who he hopes to form a government.

While I think Handel strikes the right chord in criticizing Eisenkot’s proposal, I think that this proposition present the strongest chance the Leftist opposition has in returning to power, unless the ‘former’ Muslim Brotherhood Raam party joins their ranks as well.

Leader of new party to be announced after date for the next elections is finalized

All Israel News Staff | Published: January 21, 2026

Former IDF chief and Knesset minister, Gadi Eisenkot, proposed to create a unified platform with former prime minister Naftali Bennett and current Opposition Leader Yair Lapid, Israeli media reported on Tuesday.

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UPDATE: Trump gains Greenland/Arctic Region Deal just hours after making demand at Davos while dropping threat of military intervention

See Trump Truth Social statement below article.

Trump begins to speak at about 28min. mark.

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Peloni:  Having the capability of successfully providing the defense of the homeland is the primary and foremost obligation of any nation’s governing body.  Hence, it is unfortunate that so many nations in the world have come to accept that such obligations are either arbitrary or conditional, just as it is unfortunate that those nations who are so inclined to ignore such necessities as border defense will likely pass into the pages of history when they find that their security capabilities, or lack thereof, are someday tested.

Security is not a slogan; it is a capability. 

Moshe Phillips | Am Thinker | January 19, 2026

Landscape images of the Judean Hills and Greenland drifts.  Image created via AI

President Trump is saying it plainly — and repeatedly — right now: Greenland matters because security matters. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s near daily threats toward Taiwan, including flying military aircraft near its airspace and rehearsing naval blockades, are just two obvious examples. This much should be obvious: the United States can defend Greenland. Denmark, an extremely small nation of roughly six million people, cannot.

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