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“Expel Two Million.” Eighteen Months. Zero Flights.  

Peloni: The failure to see the gates of Gaza opened, even as the US is taking on the new controlling authority there as Trump personally heads the Board of Peace, portrays a serious implication for the future.  Regardless of whether the number of people wanting to leave Gaza is 80% or merely 8%, it remains intolerable that the US would not facilitate the movement of these people outside of a city sized war zone.   As the world’s super power stand as the gatekeeper on not only holding the Gazans in place but also seeing that Hamas stands ever more entrenched over them, one might honestly ask exactly what excuse might support doing so which does not place the US in a very bad light.  As the sentiments out of Washington are routinely echoing false narratives on behalf of suffering Gazans, why might Washington prefer to hold the Gazans in this Gaza sized cage with a Hamas sized taskmaster, even as there are nations which would accept.

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September 3, 2026 | 3:50 pm | Comments »

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The Islamic Republic’s Illusion of Power – The Meridian  

Peloni:  Zineb Riboua makes an important case arguing that the IRGC is facing a choice of what sacrifices it must make to survive, and how far it might be capable of stretching its resources to maintain the fascade of strength as the effects of Economic D-Day increasingly mount by the day.  Keep in mind that the US midterms are just two months away, and the balance of power in the US Congress between allies of Trump and those of Iran will be decided in that coming contest.  To be certain Iran is keeping this in mind, and yet, all the same, two months would seem to be an eternity when the value of Iranian currency dropped about 10% in just one week.

Iran’s Strength Was Always Conditional

Zineb Riboua | Aug 31, 2026

Iranian missiles launched against US bases in Jordan on Sept 1, 2026. Screengrab via Youtube.Iranian missiles launched against US bases in Jordan on Sept 1, 2026. Screengrab via Youtube.

or months, I have made the same argument: the IRGC is weak and will lose. The numbers have taken longer to surface than the strategic reality, but they are now increasingly difficult to dismiss. More interesting is why recognition took so long. Part of the answer lies in the effectiveness of the Islamic Republic’s propaganda. Another part lies in assumptions about Iran and the Middle East that have remained remarkably resistant to evidence.

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September 3, 2026 | 2:37 pm | Comments »

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Saudi Arabia & The UAE: The Gulf’s Quiet Power Struggle  

Two of America’s most important Gulf partners are no longer pursuing identical regional interests. Their competition is reshaping oil policy, Yemen, Red Sea security, investment and the future balance of power in the Arab Gulf.

Jafaj | Sept 2, 20026

JaFaJ MENA INTELLIGENCE BRIEF

KEY JUDGMENT

The Saudi-UAE relationship is not collapsing. It is changing.

For much of the past decade, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were treated as the core of a new Gulf partnership: closely aligned on Iran, hostile to political Islam, active in Yemen, supportive of regional normalization with Israel, and determined to reduce dependence on Western security guarantees.

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September 3, 2026 | 2:07 pm | 1 Comment »

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Israel’s Enemies are Positioning for the Next War – Why is Trump Helping Them?  

Peloni:  Since his return to the White House in his second term in office, Pres. Trump has taken many hard positions relative to Israel in apparent deference to his Arab partners, positions which are hard to explain or ignore, some of which Al Bienenfeld shares below.  This being stated, Trump’s policies on whole have benefited Israel in various and significant ways, not the least of which was the support for Israel having targeted the Iranian regime with extreme prejudice.  This fact hasn’t been changed by Trump’s subsequent actions which included the reported scuttling of the potential coup de grâce in the form of a Kurdish ground assault, nor by the quizzical attempt to charm the charmless IRGC into accepting the hopefully now defunct MOU.  Also, in recent months, the tensions between Trump and Netanyahu have been evident, but still limited, revealing what is difficult to ignore reality that Trump wants Bibi to agree to something which is either beyond his ability or his conscience to agree.

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September 3, 2026 | 2:25 am | 1 Comment »

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Shame on You Mamdani!  

Peloni: Bravo to Stephanie Benshimol!  This is the reception all of New York City should be sharing with their Jew Hating mayor.

September 3, 2026 | 12:39 am | Comments »

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Trump Blasts “Luddites” For Opposing Data Centers  

Janet Levy:  Remember, this was announced on Day 2 of the Trump presidency with Stargate and the globalists in tow. Local governments are being destroyed to make way for the technocracy.

As local communities object to massive data centers with extensive water and energy demands and noise and environmental pollution, Trump derides them as Luddites that are “aiding” Communist China.

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The Utah Data Center located in Bluffdale, Utah. Photo by Swilsonmc - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, WikipediaThe Utah Data Center located in Bluffdale, Utah. Photo by Swilsonmc – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia

On Monday, the President of the United States told the people of Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, Arizona, and every other state now fighting hyperscale data centers exactly what he thinks of them. “The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backward and poor,” he wrote on Truth Social. “If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign.” And then the warning: “If we kill the Golden Goose, you will only have yourselves to blame.”

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September 2, 2026 | 9:04 pm | Comments »

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First Jordan, then Egypt: Xi Jinping’s search for a new MO in the Middle East  

Peloni: SIGNAL’s Carice Witte offers an interesting look at China’s attempts to deal with the dichotomy which exists between Beijing’s dependency which comes from being the dominant trading partner in the Middle East without the means by which to either control its erstwhile partners or the ability to dominate the region militarily.  It appears that instead of looking to its old partners in the region, China is instead attempting to engage a new strategy thru interactions with Egypt and Jordan.

Carice Witte | JNS | Aug 31, 2026

Flag of the People's Republic of China. Photo by Reinhold Möller, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=107325534Flag of the People’s Republic of China. Photo by Reinhold Möller, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

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September 2, 2026 | 7:17 pm | Comments »

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“Anti-Zionism is not Anti-Semitism.” Oh, yeah?  

Peloni:  Sha’i Ben Tekoa provides a clarity belying the fact that anti-Zionism is antisemitism cloaked in an alternate terminology so as to pretend that it is not the same old foul sickness which rises in every age to face off against the Jewish people.

Sha’i ben-Tekoa

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How common it is now in this generation for Jew-haters to claim they are not antisemites because they have nothing against the Jewish religion. They say they are against Zionism, which is a political ideology and policy.

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September 2, 2026 | 4:56 pm | 8 Comments »

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Why Remember Munich  

Jonathan Feldstein

A member of the Arab terrorists which seized members of the Israeli Olympic Team in 1972. Photo by AP Photo/Kurt Strumpf (? – 2014) - https://apnews.com/article/winter-olympics-entertainment-sports-munich-f14bab3397569badf8e4cca273c9af66, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=160470235A member of the Arab terrorists which seized members of the Israeli Olympic Team in 1972. Photo by AP Photo/Kurt Strumpf (? – 2014) –APnews.com, Public Domain, Link

Several years ago, I was flying through the Munich airport making a connection on the way home to Israel. For some reason I was selected for additional and what felt like particularly obnoxious screening inside the airport. Admittedly, until that point, passing through the Munich airport was the closest I had ever been to “visiting” Germany, a place that I never really wanted to go, and where I was uncomfortable being at all.

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September 2, 2026 | 4:40 pm | 4 Comments »

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Israel Update: A Trojan Horse on the Right?  

Peloni:  Mike Doran and Gadi Taub take a look at the choices and complications facing the Right wing Bloc as the rising tide of small parties persists.  Gadi specifically addresses the implications of Ofer Winter’s new Party and how he might come to play a role in establishing a Left wing govt under the auspices of Avigdor Lieberman.  They also address Prof. Dan Schueftan’s highly antisemitic comments from their previous show and end with a look at the state of play with regards to Economic D-Day and the ever widening of traffic thru the Strait of Hormuz.

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September 2, 2026 | 4:12 pm | Comments »

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America; Enemies to the Left of us. Enemies to the Right. Stuck in the Middle Alone.  

Barry Shaw | The View from Israel | Sep 01, 2026

I recently published a report on the decay of the English-speaking Western democracies caused by the mass import of alien cultures whose negative impact can clearly be seen in the type of behavior once thought impossible in advanced Western societies.

The phenomenon, named by political psychologist, Gad Saad, as “suicidal empathy” shows us how people who once proclaimed themselves as “progressive” and “liberal” have unleashed the most regressive ideas on their societies as they whip off their progressive masks and reveal themselves to be hardened Communists, Marxists, and Islamists.

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September 2, 2026 | 3:43 pm | 6 Comments »

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Iran heats up as U.S. conducts second round of strikes following tension in Strait of Hormuz  

Peloni:  What stands out in this latest return to US strikes on Iran is first, Trump’s trivializing of any import of the MOU, and far more importantly, second, Trump’s question as to when the Iranian people are “going to rise up and fight?”  This latter point is the real focus behind the economic D-Day, which is still yet to be put into force on a grand scale, so we will see if the people will rise up, but the real question which we might ask ourselves is when will the Iranian people be armed (if they have not yet been armed) so that they might do more than be added to the list of tens of thousands of Iranian dead who were slaughtered last January…

Iran heats up as U.S. conducts second round of strikes following tension in Strait of Hormuz

J. Micah Hancock | All Israel News | Published: September 2, 2026

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

The U.S. military struck two tankers owned by the Iranian government on Tuesday in retaliation for attacks on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, Axios reported early Wednesday.

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September 2, 2026 | 3:36 pm | 1 Comment »

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“Come November, what do your Jewish values tell you to do?”  

Peloni:  The answer to the question raised by Michigan AG Dana Nessel about Jewish values demonstrates an inherent betrayal of Liberal Jews whose understanding of Jewish values is actually substituted by their loyalty to the Democratic party.  In doing so they have replaced the ethos of Justice for the worship of even their own destruction as the ultimate golden calf worthy of their obsessive dedication.  Such warped vision of the world and what might serve as an ultimate good is not only dangerous to the Jewish people, but to civilization at large.  As Nessel acknowledges, service to the Democratic party is paramount conviction of the values she holds so high, its replacement of anything related to Jewish values is demonstrated further by the re-imagining of the entire telling of the story of Esther, as Avi Abelow describes below.  Jewish protection, Jewish education and Jewish identity are the keys to fighting Jew Hatred, but of course Jews who have cast off their own identity and values to support a globalist project integrated with Islamist antisemites will instead find value in their own self destruction so long as it serves their new ideology, and in keeping with the warping of reality they describe the would be destruction of our people as a necessary good.  This is truly evil.

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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. Photo by SHOWTIME - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afT3SCp4b2U&ab_channel=SHOWTIME – View/save archived versions on archive.org, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=136168839Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. Photo by SHOWTIMEYouTube – Archived versions on archive.org, CC BY 3.0, Link

Did you hear what Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, herself Jewish, just told the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus???

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September 2, 2026 | 2:40 pm | 2 Comments »

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The Guide to Happiness, Warm Guns,Sharp Knives, and Fab Watches Part II  

Happiness just happens for the Productive who Expect Results, and it does not for those for whom ideology is the substitute…

Andrew Benjamin

PART I can be read here.

CONSERVATISM IS NOT IDEOLOGY. IT IS THE ANTIDOTE TO IT. – Roger Scruton

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Normally demand is what YOU want. Supply is what I am giving you here.

Add China to the mix and we explore the economic rule that too much competition creates ruinous results. It’s not that a restaurant row on one block in your town provides too many options. Rather, you have too many options when every block becomes a restaurant row. You were happy with the outcome that you had so many choices and dishes, but the proprietors of these establishments have gone broke, leaving you little or no choice at all, leaving staff jobless and unhappy.

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September 2, 2026 | 2:16 pm | Comments »

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From Israel: Makes One’s Blood Run Cold!!  

Arlene Kushner | September 1, 2026

Itamar MarcusItamar Marcus.  Screengrab via Youtube.

There appears to be a temporary glitch in GoDaddy, as I post, so that spacing is erratic. I apologize. In any event, I am putting this out because the text is quite fine and the information is quite important.

Palestinian Media Watch has just released a major report, “How PA Schools celebrated October 7” by Director of PMW Itamar Marcus (pictured above) and Ahron Shapiro.

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September 2, 2026 | 6:27 am | 2 Comments »

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Does Jewish Existence Conflict with Human Survival?  

Peloni:  Surrendering to the Jew Hating mob by mislabeled “Jewish leaders” is one of the most shameful acts of betrayal to any Jewish community.  This act by Michigan AG Dana Nessel is, however, particularly disturbing as she suggests that the interests, identity and safety of her fellow Jews is less relevant than the universalist message which she is endorsing.  In doing so, Nessel is knowingly endorsing the message of Jew Hatred, making Jews everywhere less safe, while playing the role of the Court Jew which has previously been so well demonstrated by Senator Chuck Schumer, the Palestinian.  Rather than supporting Nessel in this moment of subjugation and capitulation, her Jewish neighbors should focus on hardening thei security, education and joy of embracing their own identity as Jews .  Remember that there is nothing more useful in facing down Jew Hatred than reasserting the spirit of Jewish identity which Nessel has instead come to advocate abandoning completely. As her Jewish community lies in a state of siege by the combined campaigns of Islamist and Leftist Jew Hatred, Nessel’s moral cowardice and abject leadership failures should render any influence she might once have had to become entirely moot.

Dana, you should go home to reflect upon the damage stemming from your troubling statements and stay there until such time as you can find the courage that will see your words in the future doing less harm than good, and that may well be forever.

by Rafael Medoff

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. Photo by SHOWTIME - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afT3SCp4b2U&ab_channel=SHOWTIME – View/save archived versions on archive.org, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=136168839Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. Photo by SHOWTIMEYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afT3SCp4b2U&ab_channel=SHOWTIME – View/save archived versions on archive.org, CC BY 3.0, Link

Is there a conflict between the existence of the Jewish people and the survival of mankind? The attorney-general of Michigan thinks so. She has chosen her side in this alleged conflict—and it’s not the side of the Jews.

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September 1, 2026 | 6:18 pm | 6 Comments »

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