Peloni:  Trump’s comments about Netanyahu and Lebanon did nothing more than to advantage those who would prefer to see the US-Israel alliance dismantled, and that is very unfortunate.

Iran is little more than a depleted skeleton of a state without a functional leadership. And at that moment, Trump obsessively wants to agree to a deal that lifts sanctions on the regime, unfreezes its assets, and allows oil sales, playing negotiation games with a cheater he can never beat.

Alexander Maistrovoy | Jun 3, 2026

President Donald J. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stop to talk with reporters Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, along the West Wing Colonnade of the White House prior to their meeting in the Oval Office. By The White House from Washington, DC – President Trump Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Public Domain, Wikipedia

This brilliant phrase, attributed to Winston Churchill, perfectly describes Trump’s impending deal with Iran. Victory seemed closer than ever. Following the strikes first in June last year and then in March of this year, the Iran lay in ruins: military infrastructure was destroyed; the IRGC’s top command was eliminated; the Supreme Leader was killed; Iran lost two-thirds of its missile and drone production capacity, hundreds of launchers and 250 air defense systems; damage to the economy reached $140-150 billion; major factories, power plants and bridges were destroyed; more than 85% of Iran’s petrochemical exports were disabled.

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This dystopia is closer than you think.

Janet Levy | Am Thinker | June 3, 2026

During the Biden administration, there was extensive discussion of the Great Reset. The avowed aim of the Great Reset — also known as Agenda 21, Agenda 2030, or Sustainable Development — was to foster public-private cooperation to solve the world’s most pressing challenges: environmental protection, global health, and bridging the gap between developed and developing nations and groups.

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Peloni: Interestingly, I have always linked the point raised in this essay as being the foundation for Ben Franklin supposedly having stated “A Republic, if you can keep it” when quizzed about the form of the new American nation.  The will of the people can be misguided and shifting, and this makes the possibility of consistent national policies somewhat questionable if not impossible.

Of course, the Republican form of govt has served the Americans well up to recently, and I would argue that much of the recent insanity in America has to do with the inability of the American govt to exercise agency over its own borders, governing administrations, and education.  The failure of the Fourth Estate has accentuated much of these failures in American governance, and the consequence of this is that the too many people are not just ill informed, but rather they are purposefully misinformed.  The nuance between these facets is significant, and the willful move to misalign public sentiment at the behest of malevolent foreign actors such as China, Qatar and Turkey is having the desired effect of this foreign cabal to weaponize the the inherent vulnerability of democracies against the national interest.  Recalling that freedom isn’t free, and without the heavy lifting by the world’s democracies to reaffirm their national agency and sovereign obligations, freedom will continue to be diminished from many aspects, but none so dangerous and crippling I would argue than from the loss of journalistic standards which should be shining the light on foreign influence and political corruption, rather than playing a role of complicity in these matters.

Linda Goudsmit:  I am an American with an American perspective. Even if every single item listed in this excellent analysis is true, there is one glaring void in the article. The entire list is intentional––it is planned demolition. Until the public understands that every item listed has been advanced deliberately to collapse America from within, we the people will not be able to defeat the enemies of freedom who are advancing the policies and protocols to destroy the nation-state. And who are our enemies? The globalist elite who fund and foment the escalating destructiveness of their useful idiots: the red/green Marxist/Muslim axis, the radical leftist Democrat party that supports them, and the greedy RINOS (republicans in name only) who vote with them.

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Peloni:  The reality is that the Iranian regime will not surrender, and will never surrender.  To force the regime from power, as indicated in the often raised analogy to the Nazis in WWII, Trump would need to commit a ground force to eliminate the regime in Tehran, as was done with the Nazi regime in 1945 Germany.  Of course, Trump could have used the Kurds, but instead chose to once again abandon such strategies which conflict with Turkey’s interests.  This leaves no such available capable armed force in the region to force the Iranian regime from power, and Trump was never going to use American warfighters in Iran despite his hyperbole and threats.  The Iranians know this, and so they persist.  Hence victory was always going to be ceded to the Iranians.  Trump’s blockade has the means to cripple the Iranians financially, but even as we speak, China and Pakistan are moving to improve the overland transit of oil from Iran to keep China’s Iranian pawn in the Middle East fed with cash, if not also with arms aplenty to use against either the Iranians or the Americans & Israelis if war returns.

The president turns on his ally to attain a false peace.

by Robert Spencer | June 2, 2026

President Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Monday, July 7, 2025, at the South Portico of the White House.(Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

Trump himself announced the betrayal on Monday:

I had a conversation with Bibi Netanyahu today, asking him not to go into a major raid of Beirut, Lebanon. He turned his Troops around. Thank you Bibi! I also had a conversation with Representatives of the Leaders of Hezbollah, and they agreed to stop shooting at Israel, and its soldiers. Likewise, Israel agreed to stop shooting at them. Let’s see how long that lasts — Hopefully it will be for ETERNITY! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Peloni:  Dr. David Wurmser addresses the America First policy as it relates to Israel and the Iran War.

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Peloni:  Expanding Barrack’s role in the region, across nearly the entire region, espouses the notion that his efforts in either stabilizing Syria or instituting peace along Lebanon’s border were successful.  The reality is that the Druze continue to live under constant threat in Syria, and Israelis continue to be murdered with impunity along Israel’s northern border, and both of these very real realities are a consequence of Barrack’s pro-Turkey approach.  In fact, it seems that Trump is disposed to keeping key actors in his govt busy by expanding their roles as we have seen with Rubio and most recently with FHFA Director Bill Pulte being named to now also be Trump’s new DNI, but as the role being played by Amb. Barrack expands, it seems destined to be accompanied by the influence of Turkey over the region, and the implications of this are pregnant with disastrous effects for the future.

US Envoy Tom Barrack has played a key role in US policy in the Middle East over the past year. He was appointed Special Envoy to Syria last year. He is also the US Ambassador to Turkey.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | JUNE 1, 2026

Ambassador Tom Barrack and President Recep Erdogan. Image via AI

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Sarah N. Stern | June 2, 2026

Antonio Guterres at COP30 in Belem (Nov 20, 2025). By Xuthoria – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

Misleading claims about Israel frequently circulate at the United Nations. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, consists of 57 member states and aims to represent the voice of the Muslim world.

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Peloni:  Is thru the courage and strength exemplified by Katie Hopkins from which the struggle to save the West might ultimately be won.  Her resilience, and unbowed refusal concede to the threats wrapping around her stands as a rare mark of defiance which we should all ascribe to emulate.

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Update:  Amit Segal reports the US agrees with strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs if Hezbollah continues to targets Israeli towns and villages.  Addionally, Segal reports that the White House has denied the derogatory comments reportedly made by Trump regarding Netanyahu and Israel.

Peloni:  Prof. Kobi Michael, Senior Researcher at the Institute of National Security Studies and the Misgav institute, reviews the actions taken by the US to countermand Israel’s announced attack on Beirut.  Trump’s preference to reaffirm his linkage of the war in Lebanon to his negotiations with Iran diminishes Israel’s position in the region, reinforces the subjugation of Lebanon under Iran’s suzerainty, and strengthens Iran’s regional and international outlook rather than diminishing it.  While the nature between the US and Israel is not that of equal powers, it is not in Washington’s interest to treat Israel with the lack of respect and influence which is inherently due to its partner in this war.

Furthermore, while Washington announced a ceasefire, this ceasefire was no more accurately termed as such than was the original ceasefire Trump imposed upon Israel on April 16, stating “Israel will not be bombing Lebanon any longer. They are PROHIBITED from doing so by the U.S.A. Enough is enough!!!”

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by Daniel Greenfield | June 2, 2026

By World Economic Forum – Flickr: Mark Carney – World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

Year after year, Toronto police have allowed Muslim pro-terrorist mobs to invade and harass the Jewish community. Now, PM Mark Carney has declared that there is a “scourge of antisemitism” and plans to combat it with a DEI council.

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The radicals in charge in Seoul are pushing constitutional revisions to permit their own indefinite rule.

By Nicholas Eberstadt and Lawrence Peck | WSJ | June 1, 2026 12:56 pm

President Donald Trump greets President Lee Jae-myung of the Republic of Korea, Monday, August 25, 2025, at the West Wing entrance of the White House. By The White House – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia

South Korean officials storm the command center of an American military base, seizing details about U.S. Air Force flights in the name of a domestic investigation.

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Imagine how much worse the attacks on Israeli civilians would have been if Hamas had been able to import guidance systems and more sophisticated rockets.

Moshe Phillips | June 1, 2026

Israeli Navy enforcing Gaza Blockade, May 2026. Screengrrab via Youtube

The foreign politicians who chose last month to criticize Israel’s treatment of the extremists detained from the so-called Gaza flotilla are wrong. The flotilla participants understood the risks and consequences of deliberately challenging a lawful and necessary Israeli maritime blockade designed to protect Israeli civilians.

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