Peloni:  Netanyahu describes a radical shift in his political strategy going forward, from leading a Right wing govt to heading a broad national govt.  The question remains, however, if there is any more appetite today for a broad national govt in support of Netanyahu today than there has been over the past many years.  The political freedom of such a possibility would be vital to his political future, but the question remains how Bibi will gain support from any of the anti-Bibi factions.

Full Engish text for the Q&A is provided below.  Topics discussed:

• IDF operational rules of engagement in Lebanon
• Strikes on Hamas and Gaza war outcomes
• Israel’s strategy against Hezbollah in Lebanon
• Security zone concept in Lebanon and border defense
• Iran as a central strategic threat
• Civil-war tensions, Israeli internal division and call for unity
• Proposed broad national unity government
• Haredi conscription and religious study exemptions
• Israel’s diplomatic relations and regional agreements
• Response to political criticism and characterization of opposition figures (Eisenkot and others)

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Peloni:  Hezbollah’s show of force in the streets of Beirut threatens Lebanon’s Prime Minister from the streets of his own capital.  It would be a mistake to believe that these threats are not material in nature, or that their effect will not have the desired effect of reminding both the Lebanese people and the Lebanese govt of the power which Hezbollah commands in Lebanon.  Only by eliminating their masters in Tehran will this Iranian organization cease to form a basis of control in Lebanon and a consistent threat to Israel.

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Peloni:  Khaled Hassan, Egyptian-British national security and geopolitics expert, provides some honest truths which would be best understood by Trump and his team.

“US response is actually very limited and if you ask me I would probably say it’s pathetic to be honest”

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Peloni:  In recognition of the advantages which were abandoned by Trump’s preference for Peace thru Negotiation, the simple reality is that this gambit can only end in Trump entirely surrendering to Iran, or the resumption of the war which was the only basis of advantage which Trump ever had with the Iranians.

The new US-Iran memorandum offers Tehran sweeping concessions, but raises questions about whether Washington is relinquishing its leverage before securing meaningful restrictions

Janatan Sayeh

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Pres. Donald Trump. Photo by The White House from Washington, DC – President Trump Travels to NC, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The odds had never been worse for the Islamic Republic than in early June 2026. Its missile infrastructure had been devastated, senior military leaders killed, nuclear facilities bombed, the repression apparatus weakened, oil exports reduced to zero, and inflation driven to its highest level since World War II. Through military action, the maximum pressure campaign, and a naval blockade, US President Donald Trump had assembled the strongest leverage ever brought to bear against Tehran.

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Peloni:  A truly great loss, Rael Isaac’s pro-Israel commentaries over the years served as the staple of wisdom and acuity, and they still serves as a significant guide of truth in a world once again marked by increasing fantasies of Jew Hatred.  May her Memory Be a Blessing, as was her life’s work.

Remembering A Founder of Americans For a Safe Israel.

By: Moshe Phillips | TheJ.ca | June 25, 2026

Rael Jean Isaac. Screengrab via Youtube

Social scientist and pro-Israel author Rael Jean Isaac passed away in New York this week at the age of 93.

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Peloni:  Disarming a terrorist organization by an state armed force which has been complicit in protecting that terrorist organization for decades seems to be something of a forced comedy routine.  Yet when it is linked to the hand over of lands which have been seized as part of a security operation to protect Israel’s Northern communities, this comedy routine becomes rather a dangerous undertaking.  The LAF, UNIFIL and the Lebanese govt, have all acted to shield Hezbollah over the years, with the LAF and the Lebanese govt most recently claiming that they had disarmed Hezbollah as recently as this past January.  Yet, we should believe the sincerity of this too often played charade which is openly tied to the US linkage of preserving Hezbollah so as to satisfy the demands of their Iranian partners to keep the masquerade of negotiations over the summer from going bust.  Forgive me if I raise an objection to the credulity of any of this.  As was seen in Oslo, forcing terrorists and their associates into binding agreements does not bring peace.  As Hezbollah’s associates, the LAF can not be trusted to disarm Hezbollah in earnest, and turning over one pot hole to the LAF only assures Hezbollah that they can and will return to arm and occupy that pot hole at their own discretion. The LAF can’t disarm Hezbollah, the internation community won’t disarm Hezbollah, and Israel is religiously prevented from any attempt to react to these realities by meaningless agreements as staged as the photo below for public consumption to pretend that the lipstic rather than the pig is what we are being asked to marry.

By Pamela Geller | June 27, 2026

Signing of a framework agreement at the State Department.  From left: Israel’s Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, counselor Dan Holler, and Lebanon’s Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others standing behind them. Friday, June 26, 2026, in Washington.Screengrab via Youtube

Israel, Lebanon, and the United States have signed a framework agreement that begins a limited, conditions-based Israeli withdrawal from parts of southern Lebanon—but only after the IDF has destroyed Hezbollah’s terror infrastructure.

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Peloni:  Daniel Greenfield perfectly describes price of paying Iran’s price.  The circular reality of Trump’s impossible deal explains why it isn’t working and why it never can work.

Iran only has one card to play and it’s not going to stop.

by Daniel Greenfield | June 27, 2026

Via Memri.org

Iran only has one card to play and that’s shutting down the Strait of Hormuz. So it’ll never stop doing it.

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Peloni: Such celebrations and pronouncements as being made by Bibi and Katz should be held until at least the first evidence supporting these grand conclusions can be reported. Recall we have been here before.

UPDATE:  Katz hails Lebanon deal as ‘strategic blow to Iranian axis 

Peloni:  It appears that this is the season to sign agreements which describe how to work on actually substantive agreements and frame all of it as victory.  Remember to look behind the lipstick.

PM Netanyahu

PM Netanyahu statement following the signing of a framework between Israel and Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah.  Screengrab via X

“Citizens of Israel, before the Sabbath begins, I want to share with you a major achievement for the State of Israel.

As you know, we have been conducting negotiations in Washington between representatives of Israel, Lebanon, and the United States. It has been a lengthy negotiation, and today it has borne fruit.

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Peloni:  One point must be made clear while playing witness to this ongoing back and forth drone diplomacy.  The only benefit from the American perspective which Trump’s MOU was intended to achieve from the outset was that the Strait of Hormuz was to be open.  It is notable that Trump was playing this game of dialogue amid drone attacks before the MOU was signed, and yet, 10 days later, the Strait is still being managed and controlled by Iran, who has only been emboldened by the MOU to now eliminate even Oman’s role in overseeing this essential waterway, all while untold number of vessels still remain held like prisoners in the Persian Gulf by Iran.  Vance’s remarks about violence will be met with violence can only be useful if the response is both significant and painful.  The minimal attacks raised on Iran in response to breaking the terms of Trump’s deal with Iran, ie attacking shipping, deserves a substantive and meaningful response.  Iran does not respect Trump’s or Vance’s bluster.  Painful attacks on high valued targets inside Iran should be the preferred strategy at this moment.

Update:  Iran fires drones at Bahrain

By Sarah Roderick-Fitch | The Center Square | June 26, 2026

Aircrafts, attached to Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW9) fly over the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Daniel Kimmelman) 

United States military strikes were launched in retaliation against Iran on Friday.

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Peloni:  A very interesting discussion which raises the question about the motivation behind US funding for Jihadism over the years and whether the motivation for doing so has changed or remains consistent.  Dr. David Wurser joins Prof. Francisco Gil-White to discuss the trend of US support for Jihad over the decades.  Gil-White seems somewhat dismissive of Wurmser’s explanations about the changing parameters which fueled the support of Jihad stemming from the 1970 during the Cold War to the post Cold War period to today.  Wurmser goes on to note that while the motivations US State Department apparatus has changed over the years, it has currently come to a point in which there are currently real advocates whose true interests are explicitly supportive of Jihadism, but that this was previously not the case in previous decades.   So, have the motivations for US funding of Jihadism over the years changed, or is this simply a veil to manage reality, as Gil-White suggests?

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Stephen Bryen   Weapons & Strategy 

Trump announcing strikes on Iran, February 28 2026, Donald J. Trump, Public domain

There are many who think Trump’s about face on Iran, virtually embracing the radical IRGC (now they are linked up to CENTCOM in Doha, Qatar) is a sellout of US and allied forces, not to mention his now frequent denunciations of Benjamin Netanyahu (and by Vice President Vance who also is the sponsor of the IRGC-CENTCOM hook up). Embracing dictators and spurning those who are fighting for democracy is bad policy and is destabilizing in the long term.

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Peloni:  Indeed, it is interesting that Israel worked quite closely with the US during the Iran war only to wake up facing the Trump’s wrath on the day afterwards, in which the IRGC is being invited as partners in the deconfliction mechanism which OVERSEES Israel rather than including Washington’s former partner in the war.  We have seen some serious shifts in US policies in recent days, but the formal linkage of Lebanon to Iran, and including Iranian oversight to determine US policy on Israel’s activities in Lebanon presents significant support for the conclusion that Washington has switched sides.

by Debbie Weiss | Algemeiner |June 25, 2026

The newly established five-nation deconfliction mechanism for Lebanon is a catastrophic strategic betrayal by Washington, a former Israeli intelligence official warned, saying that US President Donald Trump has effectively “switched sides” by handing Iran a diplomatic victory and curtailing Israel’s freedom of action against Hezbollah.

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Peloni:  Vance’s commentary about Iranian bad behavior would seem to be relevant to the firing of missiles at the shipping lane, which was the only benefit which Vance gained by entering into this gambit with the Iranian terrorist regime.  So, where is the military resolve which should be responding to this outrage?  While the control of the Strait is being further captured by Iran, the US continues to do nothing to stop it.  So of course Iran moved to reinforce their authority in the power vacuum left by US inaction as Iran began its threats and instructions regarding passage thru the Strait.  This is simply more evidence of Iran testing the US, without the US following thru on postured warnings.  Where is the mentioned ‘Strength’ in Trump’s avowed policy of ‘peace thru strength’.  Certainly the Iranians don’t see it, which is why they continue to act as if they can do what they want.

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Peloni:  Yishai Fleisher explains how Arabs who have been radicalized over the generations can pursue a life which provides them with upward mobility and freedom from oppression, but we have to ask ourselves if this is actually what these Arabs want?  I will venture to argue that the answer to this question is that they do not, but it appears that we may soon see what they choose.  A better option, and a safer choice, would be to recognize the Jordanian citizenship that was stripped of these Arab, and provide them the means by which to live in a prosperous Jordan and the ability to relocate there to do so if they choose.  Alternatively, if they misbehaved, they could be forcefully shipped there to face Jordanian justice.  This would be what is known as the Jordan Option, and one way or another, it will be by the Jordan Option rather than by alternative proposals that peace might ever be achieved, if it is to be achieved at all.

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Peloni:  The Democratic party needs to be figuratively burned to the ground and started anew, while shunning those radical characters who are actually taking over the party.  Of course, the support of new immigrants provides a strong support for these radicals, and Mamdani showed us just how effective such voters as these can be harnessed to win elections.  So, when Carville calls for a schism in the party he once helped lead to power, he is one of the few voices of wisdom speaking from the Democratic camp.  The fact that his voice is so isolated there, unfortunately, provides the telling reality, however, that such a movement as he is advocating is still very premature.  Let us hope it is one day successful.

“I actually do think it’s time for Democrats to talk the ‘s’ word: schism.”

by Daniel Greenfield | June 26, 2026

James Carvell. Screengrab via Youtube

The Democrats have a problem. They outsourced the ideology and the culture to the farthest left which means the party no longer has any other identity or any ideological brakes. The lack of competitive districts due to gerrymandering and election consolidation means that a small number of primary voters, mainly leftists, are choosing members of Congress even when those people are open Communists or openly support Islamic terrorists.

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Avi Abelow | Meta | June 26

Major-general rank awarding ceremony of David Zini and Nimrod Aloni, June 2023. By IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia

In the upside-down world we live in, the latest manufactured outrage in Israel isn’t that Israel’s domestic intelligence agency was siphoning taxpayer money and institutional resources into ideological LGBT programming. No, the “scandal” is that the new director, David Zini, had the guts to end it.

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Peloni:  It is vital for the US Congress to block the sale of F-35s to Turkey.  Turkey still has the Russian S-400s and the use of these two systems together undermines the advantages of the F-35 program.

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Peloni:  Bravo to Rabbi Pesach Wolicki!  There is a new website focused at arming people with the truth about Jew Hatred today.  It is https://theisraeltruthnetwork.org/

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