Paul Schnee
Yesterday Fox News reported this:
President Donald Trump (https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/donald-trump) on Monday said negotiations with Iran are “proceeding nicely” and urged multiple Middle Eastern countries to sign onto the Abraham Accords, saying Iran could also eventually join the agreement if a deal is reached with the United States.
Avi Abelow
Disgraced IDF Military Advocate General, Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi. Screengrab via Youtube
Many Jews and Israelis still don’t fully see it, but we are dealing with a dangerous level of corruption and entrenched power at the highest levels of our institutions, a “deep state” of unelected officials that often works against the interests of the Israeli people and our elected leaders because they represent a strong nationalist-religious direction for the Jewish state of Israel, that is abhorrent to them.
Peloni
Amid a report that she is PM Netanyahu’s preferred candidate to succeed Ofir Akunis as Israel’s next consul general in New York, International Affairs Advisor to PM Netanyahu Caroline Glick appeared on an interview on JNS to discussed Israel’s war with Hezbollah in Lebanon. During the interview, Glick aptly described Hezbollah as Iran’s “foreign legion,” having entrenched itself within Lebanese society, government institutions, and civilian areas. She explains that Hezbollah has rebuilt parts of its military infrastructure after suffering serious setbacks from Israeli operations over the past more than two years, including assassinations and strikes on missile stockpiles. In the wake of Iran’s renewed attacks on Israel’s northern communities, she states that Israel can simply not tolerate this to continue.
A Record of Inaction, Rising Disorder, and a City in Decline
Michel Benchimol
Olivia Chow in an interview with TVA Nouvelles. Photo by TVA Nouvelles, CC BY 3.0, Wikipedia
Toronto is being mismanaged, and the consequences are now visible in every corner of daily life.
This is a city that used to function. It used to move. It used to offer a reasonable path for people willing to work, build, and invest in their future.
On May 15, as has been done for decades, Palestinian Arabs, their supporters and Israel detractors observed the “Nakba” or the catastrophe of Israel’s birth in 1948. In order to understand the veracity of that narrative and how it’s been conflated in modern dialogue and reporting, it’s important to understand what lies behind that. This is Part Two of a Six Part series.
Jonathan Feldstein
Zuheir Mohsen. Screengrab via Youtube
A core element of the Nakba narrative is the notion that there was an independent entity known as “Palestine,” that was occupied, and a “Palestinian” people that were displaced with the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. Indeed there were Arabs who fled due to the war and due to Arab leaders calling upon them to leave. The Nakba narrative erases the truth by calling it an “expulsion” when the reality is that many fled voluntarily, not even in the midst of battle. But history proves that in no case was Israel’s 1948-1949 War of Independence – which would have been the Arabs’ War of Annhilation had they succeeded – designed to eliminate the Arabs in pre-state Mandatory Palestine, whether they were indigenous or not.
US official: ‘Israel not expected to absorb attacks, this isn’t the Biden administration’
| Published: May 26, 2026
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a security consultation with Defense Minister Israel Katz and IDF Chief Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir, at Defense Headquarters in Tel Aviv, May 26, 2026. (Photo: Ma’ayan Toaf/GPO)
The Israeli military carried out a broad wave of airstrikes against Hezbollah overnight, and troops launched a new ground operation on Tuesday, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to growing criticism of a perceived lack of action against the terror group by vowing that the IDF would “step on the gas.”
Peloni: As the Peace Processors are revving up for another display of insanity in pushing Islamist pegs into peace sized holes, it should be noted that using terrorists as mock peacemakers was a foundational underpinning built into the Oslo Accords, the replication of which should be avoided at all costs. The world should listen to Dahlan when he says he has no interest in leading a Pal state, just as they should ignore him when he announces his support for creating a second Pal state. Instead, the recognition of the already created Pal state in Jordan is what should be pursued. If peace is the objective, recognizing Jordan as the Muslim Palestinian state is the only viable solution, but again, not under Dahlan.
Despite terror past, former Fatah official Dahlan seen as more palatable figure for Israel
| Published: May 26, 2026
The head of the Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) met with a former senior Fatah official during his recent trip to the United Arab Emirates, public broadcaster Kan News reported.
Janet Levy: CAIR has long been established as Hamas doing business in the United States. It is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. These facts were presented during the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorist-funding trial in Texas.
CAIR used the press conference arranged with Texas officials to rant about the “rise in anti-Muslim hate” and to falsely label the recent San Diego attack as an act of “white supremacy.”
Expert on the Left and author Trevor Loudon identified the perpetrators of the attack as part of a foreign influence operation – the “red-brown alliance” that seeks to destabilize America by creating racial chaos. He links the San Diego strike to attacks in Buffalo, El Paso, Poway, and Christchurch, which he views as engineered events meant to push Islamic narratives, using the charge of “Islamophobia” as a smokescreen to deflect attention from the Islamic takeover of America.
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Qatari PM Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Arrives in Washington for High level Talks. Screengrab via Youtube
Qatar’s role in the Iran crisis appears to be growing as negotiations move from military de-escalation toward the economic terms of a possible settlement. The Guardian reported on May 24 that the emerging peace framework could include access to frozen Iranian assets, while Reuters has previously reported that Iranian officials specifically pointed to funds held in Qatar and other foreign banks as part of their demands in the talks.
Peloni: An exceptional description of Min. Ben Gvir and the true offense which he stirs with Israel’s enemies. It is interesting that Ben Gvir’s support among the electorate has risen over his term in office, and I expect that this latest offense will only drive his support even higher. This isn’t even about his political positions so much as it is about giving face to how an unabashedly proud Jew might act when specifically provoked to do so, something which seems intolerable to many around the world. In doing so, Ben Gvir has few who can compete in fulfilling the image of a proud Jew who will not bend to the double standards raised against him and the Jewish people, and this is something which we should all resolve to celebrate and emulate.
by Steve Kramer
Min. Ben Gvir welcoming pro-Hamas activists whose flotilla expenditure was financed by Hamas. Screengrab via X
What is the purpose of the many flotillas which have attempted to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza? (The blockade exists to help prevent Hamas receiving weapons shipments.) Organizations which promote flotillas towards Gaza purport to help the “starving” Gazan population by sending them aid and support. There have been many Gaza flotillas which have attempted to gain entrance to Gaza but none have succeeded. As far as Israel is concerned, these boats are a political stunt meant to harm Israel’s reputation. The boats contain negligible amounts of aid but those on board do enjoy tremendous amounts of “virtue signaling”. Despite these malevolent attempts to defame Israel, the boats would be permitted to unload “aid” in a Israeli port near Gaza. But that wouldn’t promote the activists’ anti-Israel cause. Proclaiming “starvation” in Gaza is their ploy to promote hatred of Israel.
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | May 26, 2026
Israeli Air Force members wait for F-35I Adirs to launch for a Red Flag-Nellis 23-2 mission at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, March 16, 2023. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Trevor Bell)
*The export reach of the US-manufactured C-130 transport plane has multiplied 4-5 times since Israel received its first 2 units in 1971. Since 2010, more than 2,700 C-130s have been ordered and/or delivered to 70 countries. The total production volume of the initial C-130 program (A-H) reached 2,271 airframes, while the highly modernized C-130J Super Hercules variant has already surpassed 2,800 aircraft (48% operated by the US Air Force and 52% exported). The cost of 1 C-130J Hercules is $85mn-$100mn.
Peloni: What goes unmentioned in this article is the poignant silence which awkwardly followed Trump’s proposal for the Sunni nations to join the Abraham Accords on the phone call discussed below. That pregnant pause demonstrated the taboo nature of Trump’s proposal, and notably, Trump’s own lack of clarity on what might make peace in the region possible. Frozen lines of battle between Israel and its warring enemies in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen and Iran do not support the potential of widening of peace between Israel and its neighbors, but instead it makes such peace arrangements impossible to navigate for the Sunni nations. Notably, in Trump’s Riyadh speech of 2017, Trump called for the Sunni nations to “drive out” the very radicals from their nations and the region which are being left in place in Iran and its regional holdings due to Trump’s current preference of adopting frozen wars rather than seeing them thru to victory. Furthermore, seeking such victory over the Iranian Islamists and their subsidiaries would be the only means by which to extricate these radicals from power in their strongholds of terror in these nations. Failing to secure such a victory does not make peace more possible for the Sunni nations, because the preservation of radicalism in the region at large only serves to strengthen the radicals on the streets of the very nations Trump is mandating to join the Abraham Accords. Stated differently, by refusing to do what is needed to demonstrate the intolerance for radicalism in Iran and its Proxy states only serves to weaken the resolve of the Sunnis to stand firm against the radicals in their own nations, and that does not support the development of peace with Israel.
by Gerald A. Honigman
As of Memorial Day in America during the last week of May in 2026, the latest reports regarding the newest round of negotiations with the master practitioners of taqiyyah and kitman obfuscation and outright prevarication with despised kafir/infidels, of which President Trump is the world leader, the long term chances that an Iran in which any vestige of the supremacist theocracy of the current 12’er Shi’a mullahs bent on Islamic world conquest is left intact, will keep its promises are less than zero.
More on this later, but this toxic, genocidal regime must be treated as a malignant tumor which must be totally removed so it doesn’t metastasize and reappear later, long after America has left the arena.
Jonathan Feldstein
Palestinian Passport issued by British Colonial Office for Israel Yehuda in 1929. Photo by Huddyhuddy – Own work, Public Domain, Wikipedia
On May 15, as has been done for decades, Palestinian Arabs, their supporters and Israel detractors observed the “Nakba” or the catastrophe of Israel’s birth in 1948. In order to understand the veracity of that narrative and how it’s been conflated in modern dialogue and reporting, it’s important to understand what lies behind that. This is Part One of a Six Part series.
Peloni: Bravo Moshe Phillips! Very revealing. I was unaware of the sourcing of this latest libel to the KKK.
The use of Holocaust inversion by enemies of Israel has gone from being used only by pariahs to becoming chic.
Moshe Phillips | May 25, 2026
Dan Bilzerian. Screengrab via Youtube
Where did the epithet “Jewish supremacist” come from? Why would an organization that claims to “organize and mobilize pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans” use this slur at the same time unabashed Jew-haters are regularly employing it in their propaganda?
by Amir Taheri • Gatestone Institute • May 24, 2026
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Beijing almost in the same timeframe. China’s President Xi Jinping gave both visitors exactly the same reception while granting neither any of the things they demanded. Pictured: President of Russia Vladimir Putin and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping at Zhongnanhai in Beijing, China. Photo by Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia
Peloni: In Amit Segal’s article below, he explains that Trump is using the extension of the Abraham Accords as the means by which to restrain Netanyahu in the region, much as tethering Israel to the UAE did in the first round of the AA. While such an event would give Netanyahu the political capital to possibly survive what is coming in the form of faux peace deals with Lebanon, Gaza and Iran, it leaves a very big question mark as to whether the Arabs would actually acquiesce to accepting such a demand by Trump. Already, MBS has announced his fallback line of requiring a second Pal state, a line in the sand which the other Arab states will no doubt support. This will raise the specter of the revival of the latest iteration of the American imposed gambit of the Two State Solution, the foundation for which is already baked into the UNSC Resolution 2803. In the post October 7 period, such a venture lacks all viability in Israel, but that would require having a leader with both the temerity and the strength to stand up to the Americans and to simply refuse such an outcome. Alternatively, we could recognize the reality that a Pal state was created with the formation of the state of Transjordan, now renamed Jordan, a reality around which would provide a more stable future for the entire region than in succumbing to the demand of creating a second Pal state from the heartlands of the Jewish State. The Jordan Option is the better path forward.
The bill for American action has arrived at the Saudi door. Last night, Donald Trump reportedly demanded that in exchange for finalizing the current ceasefire deal with Iran—the one desperately needed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz—the Gulf states would have to pay a massive… pic.twitter.com/iQYzQzQHqw
— Amit Segal (@AmitSegal) May 25, 2026
Yossi Baum | X | May 25, 2026
Screengrab via X
Commentary:
The Haredi opposition now to the draft law does not come from a political background. On the contrary. On the political level, the current law could not restore the situation to the status quo that existed upto recent years (which was its original purpose at the time the coalition agreement was signed), but only minimize damages.
