Iranian leaders fear only strength and the credible willingness to use it

by Harold Rhode  •  Gatestone Institute  •  August 21, 2025

Iranian media caricatured John Kerry and President Barack Obama during the nuclear talks a decade ago. Kerry’s broken leg was exaggerated with larger crutches, symbolizing weakness. Obama’s skin was darkened to highlight “defects” as the U.S. gave in. The Iranian message: America submits, Iran dictates. Pictured: Kerry, then Secretary of State, shakes hands with then Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Vienna, Austria, on July 14, 2014. (Image source: US State Department)

• Iranian leaders have mastered the art of patience, procrastination, and opportunism, waiting for the right moment to strike.

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Arlene Kushner | Aug 20, 2025

Uriel Even Sapir

We are now in late August, and a good number of the young people here in Israel – among them some of my grandkids – will begin their year of study next week, which means this is their last free week of summer. A good time, then, for me to be with them. Yesterday was an excellent day with a museum focus.

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Peloni:  The war against the Jews is being extended to strike at the heart of support for Israel and the Jews among Christian Zionists.  From Tucker Carlson’s referencing Israel over 800 times across only 6 weeks of interviews, to the Paper of Record promoting fake famines, to the use of religious iconography to attach to a religious significance, the Christian Zionists are being manipulated, much as was Amb. Huckabee, to condemn the only bastion of safety and security for Christians in the entire Middle East Region.

Ben Poser & Timothy L. Jackson, Ph.D. | White Rose Magazine | Aug 18, 2025

Since Israel’s latest war began, Hamas and the global forces of anti-Semitism have engaged in a three-pronged propaganda campaign to cripple the Jews and Israel: (1) fool gullible leftists into supporting the victims of “genocide”; (2) rally Muslims throughout the West to terrorize Jews while pressuring supine governments; and (3) encourage Christians to withdraw their support for Zionism.

While many secularists have long ago discarded any sympathy for Jews or Israel—partly thanks to disinformation from the KGB in the last century and from the legacy media today—Hamas’s propagandists and their allies at The New York Times are well aware that the last major bastion of Western philo-Semitism is Christian Zionism. Therefore, they have embarked on a campaign to convince Christians that the Jews are the aggressors—even the persecutors of Christians themselves—in the cause of breaking the Christian-Jewish alliance.

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Peloni:  Amb. Yoram Ettinger provides explanation of US reliance upon Israel, more so, with fare more success, than any other of America’s world allies, for its intelligence sharing, counterterrorism, homeland security, testing & development of military technology, as well as its strategic positioning within the Middle East.  He also explains that recognition of a New Palestinian Arab State would undermine US national security interests.

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Peloni:  So long as the hostages are to be treated like a priceless asset, Hamas will move to increase the number of hostages it holds.  This is bad news for the IDF forces on the front lines as well as in outposts inside Gaza.  As Israel has been anxious to pay such steep prices for the hostages, it has made the revival of Jew Hunting profitable beyond imagining.  This was always an unfortunate but predictable outcome to the ‘negotiations’ at almost any price for even a small number of hostages.

US Ambassador to Turkey and Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack is creating a mess in the Middle East, seemingly unaware of the repercussions. Working with the Lebanese government, he crafted a five-page plan outlining steps for Lebanon to disarm the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah and reciprocal actions for Israel. The fatal flaw? Barrack failed to consult Israel before committing it to this Lebanese-American proposal, expecting the Jewish state to adhere to a plan it never reviewed. This, Barrack believes, is diplomacy. It is not.

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by Sha’i ben-Tekoa

One major change in Israel since October 7, 2023 is that sovereignty has become a respectable policy. No sober Israeli Jew, Druze, Christian can any longer promote the insane idea of turning Judea and Samaria over to the “Palestinians.”

But if not, who should be sovereign there? Who will be the law in what antisemites call the “West Bank”?

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FEATURING Iranian AMIR PARS who sees through them all…and afterward: Observations on the Passing Scene

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HARDLY ANYONE BUYS THE WORLD’S ‘SMARTEST’ PHONES

No, it’s not the iPhone – not even close!

Not to be outfoxed, FORBES, the financial source, commits by upping the bet:

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Peloni: Great interview!

?A MUST WATCH interview by @triggerpod of @netanyahu and, as always, the brilliant @KonstantinKisin pic.twitter.com/xQk7Z4Gp0a

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) August 20, 2025

Peloni: Megyn Kelly’s description of the routine Israel Lobby nonsense easily fails to impress.  Where is her commentary on the Qatari lobby, the Saudi Lobby or the UAE lobby, all of which outdistance the Israel lobby.  Indeed, rather than criticizing AIPAC for its efforts to share the realities in Israel with her, she should have taken that offer and seen for herself the tragedy of what took place there.  Instead of being ‘independent’, her comments clearly paint Kelly as being ill informed, as she once again comes to the support of the pro-Iran, Israel-bashing Tucker Carlson who she “knows” so well.  Perhaps she should stop outsourcing her perspective to the influence of her friend Carlson, and find out for herself what the facts really are in Israel.   Perhaps, then, instead of condemning AIPAC for their efforts to inform the world of what life really is like in Israel, she will come to lend her voice in calling for AIPAC to stop supporting the menacing threat of a Two State Solution.

“Israel is the only country I know of that has some sort of incredible influence and control over nearly every single one of my colleagues…”
@mtgreenee on AIPAC and the Israel lobby’s power in Washington, D.C.

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— The Megyn Kelly Show (@MegynKellyShow) August 19, 2025

by Gerald A. Honigman

An interesting article was recently published regarding voluntary resettlement of Gaza Arabs (who only as of the mid-20th  century C.E. renamed themselves “Palestinians”) to the independent nation of South Sudan—a very different entity than Sudan.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-gaza-relocation-south-sudan-15191c194cb6f972bc627a382d830edd

The following analyses provide very important background about South Sudan necessary to better understand this proposal:

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Peloni:  This Iranian regime extends its authority to Lebanon, Gaza, the PA, Yemen, across Europe, and North, Central and South America.  It’s intent is to destroy the West and place the world under an Islamic Caliphate.  As the West continues to pretend that this is a manageable threat, they are toying with their own demise and subjugation.  This regime must be removed, allowing Iranians the choice of a future which is not dependent upon world conquest, and the world with the security of knowing that this long held kernel of threat over the Western World has finally been eliminated.

By Majid Rafizadeh  •  Gatestone Institute  •  August 16, 2025

Photo by Unknown author – http://english.khamenei.ir/photo/5807/Ayatollah-Khamenei-met-with-Hajj-organizers, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

• This is the same regime that has built its entire political identity around hatred for America, branding the U.S. the “Great Satan” and chanting “Death to America” at every major gathering.

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Peloni:  Defeating Hamas is the response which should be made to Hamas’ further attempts to delay or negotiate.

Former US President demands total defeat of Hamas as mediator talks show renewed momentum.

Israfan | August 19, 2025

Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

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