By Arlene Bridges Samuels | CBN | Feb 19, 2026
Photo by Cole Keister on Unsplash
The world’s population now exceeds eight billion and continues to grow. In the Middle East alone, seventeen Arab nations account for more than 515 million people. By contrast, Israel has just reached a population of about ten million, including a Jewish majority of slightly more than seven million.
By Pamela Geller |
Iranian protests January 2026. Screengrab via Youtube
Tehran’s university students have poured out of their campuses and into the streets for the first time since the massacre — and what they are chanting marks a seismic shift. Long regarded as the most left-leaning demographic in Iran, students are no longer rallying around vague slogans like “death to the dictator.” Instead, massive crowds are openly denouncing leftism and chanting “Javid Shah,” signaling a dramatic ideological turn. This is not symbolic nuance — it is a profound evolution.
The Iranian supreme leader faces his biggest threat yet after more than three decades in power
Lee Keath & Rosie Slater | The Independent | Tuesday 13 January 2026
Ali Khamenei. Photo by Khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has spent more than three decades consolidating power by crushing internal threats.
But his leadership faces its most significant challenge yet as widespread protests against his leadership continue to grow across the country, with millions of Iranians taking to the streets to demand regime change.
Ontario Camps Association Calls Effort Discriminatory as Jewish Groups Raise Security Concerns.
TheJ.ca Staff | Feb 18, 2026
Campers gather at a Jewish overnight summer camp in Canada. Jewish community leaders and provincial camp associations have warned that coordinated anti-Israel campaigns targeting camp accreditation and visibility risk impacting youth institutions central to Jewish identity and communal life. (Image: TheJ.Ca.) [Resized]
A coalition of anti-Israel organizations is urging provincial camping associations to revoke or reconsider accreditation for at least 17 Jewish overnight summer camps across Canada, a move that Ontario’s main camp accreditor says relies on discriminatory rhetoric and risks undermining the welfare and safety of Jewish children.
Peloni: Why is Trump’s America First policy standing in line behind China?
by Gordon G. Chang • Gatestone Institute • February 20, 2026
The U.S. Department of Commerce has decided to allow American data centers to buy Chinese equipment, thereby permitting Beijing to steal as much as it wants and perhaps remotely control or take down these critical facilities. Commerce has also decided not to impose a ban on the U.S. operations of Chinese state-owned China Telecom. Photo by NANSZEIQ HAZEIW 500 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia
Mudar Zahran
Map showcasing the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine (Mandatory Palestine and the Emirate of Transjordan) in 1923. Photo by Shuaaa2 – Own work, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia
The Simple Truth: Jordan did not gain independence in 1946. It officially and legally remained part of the British Mandate for Palestine until the morning the Mandate ended on 15 May 1948. All Mandate laws and international conventions applied to it as part of the British Mandate for Palestine until the British departure, not as the regime claims that a “kingdom was established” in 1946.
Peloni: Trump emonstrating that there more than one way to get a job done.
Harold Hutchison Media Reporter | Daily Caller |
President Donald Trump announced Friday he was using different legal authorities to continue tariffs after the Supreme Court struck down his use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
Peloni: Ben Shapiro warns against missing the opportunity to literally make the world a safer place to live.
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Peloni: I worried about this possibility when the Saudi’s came to Washington and did an about face on their objections regarding any attack on Iran. Saudi Arabia know how to obtain what they want, and once again, it appears that they have come to bring Washington to support Saudi interests rather than the reverse – a long accepted practice between Riyadh and Washington over the years. This time, however, marks an altogether new level of concern as the Trump administration has dropped the requirements for guardrails preventing nuclear enrichment and the SNAP inspections to ensure compliance.
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Peloni: Coordination between state security services to lock down citizens is a frightening and emerging feature of totalitarianism, but the quashing of dissent is not exclusively a feature of regimes such as China and Iran. We are all of us old enough to recall when stolen elections were deemed to be a feature of such regimes as Iran, but the practice of employing electoral selection rather than political elections failed to remain outside the realm of Western democracies, did it…
Inside the Infrastructure That Silenced a Nation
Aynaz Anni Cyrus | Feb 18, 2026
Photo by Shahadat Rahman on Unsplash
Iran’s protest suppression is no longer a purely domestic operation. It is now reinforced by Chinese technology, security doctrine, and training infrastructure.
Jonathan Feldstein
Marjorie Taylor Greene speaking with attendees at the 2021 AmericaFest in Phoenix AZ. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Marjorie Taylor Greene, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia
It’s said that if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes truth. Sadly, that was displayed recently by someone with whom I was once friendly and who hosted me multiple times on his radio program, enthusiastic about my work building bridges between Jews and Christians in support of Israel.
Mark Dubowitz & Ben Cohen | Feb 19, 2026
Trump speaks at the Board of Peace. Screengrab via Youtube
President Donald Trump convened his Board of Peace on Thursday, announcing new commitments to fund Gaza’s reconstruction and provide troops for a Gaza stabilization force. But so far, everyone’s avoided an essential question: How will future generations of Palestinian children be raised and educated — and will they again be indoctrinated with radical hatred of Jews and Israel?
Peloni: Dr. David Wurmser discusses Trump’s Board of Peace.
Peloni: As I have noted many times, the US has PLENTY of laws which might be used to target those who support and carry out terrorist attacks, and it is only a lack of political will which prevents serious penalties from being exacted for those who violate the laws described below, which go on being violated on a daily basis. The failure to fully employ these laws as they were intended to be applied has cost many American lives, among many others, and this will continue to be true so long as evil is left to fester unabated while being fed millions of US dollars every year.
The U.S. secretary of state should consider designating the Palestinian Authority, PLO and their associated proxies as Foreign Terrorist Organizations due to active concealment of their violations.
Leonard Grunstein | Feb 19, 2026
Screengrab via Youtube
The Taylor Force Act (22 USC 2378c-1) was named in memory of Taylor Force, a U.S. veteran and graduate student who was visiting Israel and was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist. The Palestinian Authority awarded the terrorist’s family a stipend for his homicidal efforts, under its longtime “pay for slay” program.
Peloni: Oy vey…
Peloni: Brig. Gen. (Res.) Yossi Kuperwasser (JISS President; former DG of Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs) and Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Dr. Amnon Sofrin (former Mossad Intelligence Directorate Chief) provide an important analysis of Trump’s initiative with the Board of Peace and its likely lack of success.
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by Peloni & David Fieldstone
Mark Levin’s February 15 Sunday Show:
Mark opens his Sunday, February 15 show: speaking about the current Iranian Regime being one of the most consequential foreign policy challenges facing the United States today, while also noting how this challenge is met will shape the future for generations to come. (The conflicts of interest of the US Commander-in-Chief President Donald Trump with the enemy Qataris, were never mentioned by him or his 2 guests following his opening.)
Peloni: The fantasyland depictions of peace discussed by the Board of Peace ignores the very real dilemma which the IDF faces on a daily basis, where repeated attempts by Hamas operatives to kidnap Israeli servicemen go on unabated, all while noting that should the IDF detection of these serialized butchers fail, these barbarians will happily revisit the horrors of October 7 upon the Israeli people all over again. Even more concerning is that among the force named to do the heavy lifting needed to achieve peace, ie the International Security Force, there are to be included Indonesian forces who are likely capable of dealing with threats which rise against their own homeland, but which should never be trusted to do the same with regards to the security and safety of Israel, a nation which Indonesia does not recognize and whose sentiments are strongly tied to support the likes of Hamas instead. This entire process is a gross disregard of everything the Israeli people have sacrificed and endured over the past two and half years, as there appears the expectation of peace forthcoming from the Board of Peace will be just as imaginary as the expectation of stability forthcoming from the International Stabilization Force.
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