Announcing Israel-Sudan peace, US president invites reporters to hear call with Israel, Sudan leaders, says Saudis will sign up, ultimately Iran too; PM backs ‘better’ Iran deal

By TOI STAFF and JACOB MAGID

President Donald Trump talks on a phone call with the leaders of Sudan and Israel, as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, left, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, and National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, applaud in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Oct. 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

With the leaders of Israel and Sudan on the phone in the Oval Office, a euphoric US President Donald Trump on Friday predicted peace throughout the Middle East and wider region, including between Israel and even Iran — in a “unified family” as never before.

In extraordinary scenes in the Oval Office, Trump brought reporters into the room to hear much of the call, during which he announced that Israel and Sudan had agreed to make peace, and then set out far wider ambitions and predictions.

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By Jennifer Van Laar, RED STATE   | Oct 23, 2020 6:30 AM ET

A nearly 60-page intelligence report dated October 2 and provided to RedState late Wednesday details the relationship between multiple Chinese State-Owned Entities (SOE’s) and companies owned by Hunter Biden, Chris Heinz (stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry), Devon Archer, James Bulger, and suspected Chinese intelligence asset Michael Lin.

Despite what Hunter Biden’s attorney claimed in 2019, Hunter started traveling to China shortly before the Big Guy became Vice President and signed contracts with SOE’s while the Big Guy was Vice President.

According to Christopher Balding, Associate Professor at Peking University HSBC School of Business Shenzhen – who notes that he did not vote for Donald Trump in 2016 and will not be voting for him this year – who reviewed the report before publication:
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Like a fly blasted with insecticide, Biden and his campaign will buzz around for a few days in insouciant denial, but their levitation should finally be over.

By Conrad Black, AM GREATNESS    October 23, 2020

The fraudulent Biden campaign effectively blew up on Thursday night in Nashville.

After five days of intensive subterranean preparation, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was coherent and gaffe-free for the first hour and got to the end without any horrifying blunders, though he trailed off into grammatical chaos and jumbled articulation a couple of times. There were relatively few interruptions and no persistent interruptions and neither candidate was acoustically or behaviorally irritating.

The moderator, Kristen Welker, was fair and efficient. President Trump skillfully cast himself as an “outsider” who gets and has produced results, facing an insider who has accomplished precious little useful after 47 years paddling and wallowing in the public trough and moving steadily to the left.

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Apparently, when true policy shifts occur, they do so behind the smokescreen of media demagoguery and populist propaganda.

By Amnon Lord, ISRAEL HAYOM

All the signs on the board indicate it’s about to happen. That within a few days, Israel will sign a peace treaty with Sudan, one of the largest and most important countries in Africa. So say sources in Jerusalem, whose sources are currently in the heart of Sudan.

We should revisit the past again. Sudan was among “our worst enemies,” as described by those intimately familiar with the history on the ground.

Al-Qaida founder Osama Bin-Laden resided there. First and foremost, Sudan was a terrorist hub used by al-Qaida and Iran to target moderate Muslims. Read more…

Senior defense official says the kingdom could be next to ‘come out of the closet,’ amid reports that Israel on verge of normalizing relations with Sudan

By TOI STAFF

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, left, speaks to his father, King Salman, at a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Riyadh, December 9, 2018. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

A senior defense official on Thursday predicted Saudi Arabia would soon move to normalize ties with Israel.

The comments by the official, who spoke to reporters as Defense Minister Benny Gantz visited America, came amid reports that Sudan was poised to follow the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in normalizing diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.

“Soon Sudan and later Saudi Arabia will come out of the closet,” the official was quoted saying by Hebrew media, without further elaborating.
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The ADL slammed State Department plans to denounce popular NGOs, yet Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam are all guilty of inciting hate against Israel.

(October 22, 2020 / JNS) For four years, Trump administration critics have accused it of conducting foreign policy that was devoid of the sort of moral leadership that the world was accustomed to getting from the United States. But now that it’s planning to make a seminal statement of principle, the president’s liberal detractors aren’t happy. To the contrary, they’re deeply disturbed by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s reported decision to call out three prominent international groups for their anti-Semitism.

Incredibly, defenders of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam are saying that Washington’s desire to call them to account for their prejudicial attacks and efforts to undermine the right of Israel to exist is actually proof of the administration’s lack of concern for human rights.

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T. Belman. Shapiro is too critical of Trump’s character. And too acceptant of Clinton.

Beijing’s Ideological Agenda Has Gone Global

By Robert C. O’Brien, FOREIGN POLICY October 21, 2020

For decades, conventional wisdom in the United States held that it was only a matter of time before China would become more liberal, first economically and then politically. We could not have been more wrong—a miscalculation that stands as the greatest failure of U.S. foreign policy since the 1930s. How did we make such a mistake? Primarily by ignoring the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party. Instead of listening to the CCP’s leaders and reading its key documents, we believed what we wanted to believe: that the Chinese ruling party is communist in name only.

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Who remembers when Joe Biden yelled at — and threatened — Prime Minister Menachem Begin?

By Stephen Silbiger, FPM Wed Oct 21, 2020

Before the Democratic Party’s lurch to the Left and his selection by Barack Obama, Joe Biden saw himself as a quasi-Dixiecrat. In his first try for the Democratic Presidential he bragged that he had received an award from George Wallace and boasted that “Delawareans were on the side of the South in the Civil War.”

In 1982, as he was probably beginning to plan that campaign, Biden thought he could appeal to the perceived nativism of the Dixiecrats by publicly threatening to cut off aid to the Jewish state. In July of that year, he used an appearance of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin before the Senate Finance Committee to threaten to cut off aid to Israel. After enduring Biden’s fist-pounding tirade, Begin responded with the eloquence that was his trademark. Looking directly at Biden, he said:

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By Bruce Heiden,  AM THINKER

A chorus of voices, some of them belonging to sympathizers, has arisen to warn President Trump that the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop are a losing issue for him in the waning days of the presidential election campaign.  Instead, we hear, he should emphasize the economic promise of a second Trump term.

Yesterday, I heard a distinctly unsympathetic commentator, Marie Harf, state that voters don’t care about Hunter Biden’s laptop.  She’s wrong, and she knows it.  Her party’s “Resistance” has persecuted President Trump for years with a series of made-up scandals — Russian collusion, Ukrainian interference, corruption, indiscretion — that are structurally almost indistinguishable from the Joe-and-Hunter scandal, except that the Biden scandal isn’t made up.  Democrats did this, not because they think the public is interested in the president’s phone calls or associates, but because they believe that the public is interested in his character, and they are determined to blacken it with every weapon or pseudo-weapon that falls within reach.

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T. Belman.  This is great news. Please note that the purpose of this article is to register may voices in defense of these two NGOs. These voices are wrong and so is JPOST for giving them a platform.  The worst voice of all is T’ruah, a rabbinic human rights organization that represents over 2,000 rabbis.  Shame on them.

The Trump administration  is to be praised.

“Amnesty International is deeply committed to fighting antisemitism and all forms of hate worldwide,” the NGO responded.

By SARAH CHEMLA , JPOST

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump signs an executive order against antisemitism at the White House last year.

The Trump administration is to declare major international Human Rights NGO’s Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam as antisemitic in a soon-to-be released State Department declaration, voicing that governments should not support them any longer.

If the declaration happens, it is likely to cause an uproar among civil society groups and might incite litigation. Critics of the possible move also worry it could lead other governments to further crack down on such groups, according to Politico.

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Report by London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research finds that Europe accounts for same percentage of worldwide Jews today as it did nearly 1,000 years ago ? 70,000 Israeli-born Jews live permanently in Europe

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An estimated 1.3 million Jews currently live in Europe, where they account for barely one-tenth of a percent of the total population. Their share in the global Jewish population is just under 10 percent  – more or less what it was close to 1,000 years ago, yet down from a peak of nearly 90 percent a century and a half ago. In the last half century, Europe lost nearly 60 percent of its Jewish population, and two out of every three European Jews live today in either France, the United Kingdom or Germany.

These are some of the key findings of a detailed report on Jewish population estimates and trends, published Thursday by the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research. The report was penned by Sergio DellaPergola – the world’s leading authority on Jewish demography and a professor emeritus at the Hebrew University, where he chaired the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry – and Daniel Staetsky, director of the European Jewish Demography Unit at JPR. The 88-page report, which draws on numerous communal, national and pan-European data sources, some previously never used, offers the most in-depth and comprehensive survey of European Jewry in nearly a century, according to its authors.

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Democracies are fighting 8 forms of warfare: kinetic, biological, drug trafficking, cultural, economic, legal, demographic, and cyber.Op-ed.

By Kenneth Abramowitz , INN 21/10/20

Americans are now fighting for our freedoms in a Multifront War. This war embodies fundamental aspects of some of the key wars in our history. It is an epic battle of We The People vs Tyranny. America’s future depends on the outcome.

We have fought and won battles before: the Revolutionary War (We The People vs British tyranny), the Civil War (the anti-slavery Unionists who supported American democracy – mostly Republicans – vs the pro-slavery Confederates — who were mostly Democrats), and the Japanese) and the Cold War (the cultural/economic battle between US vs Russia).

The multifaceted war we fighting now is more dangerous and more difficult to win. This war is to save and protect our unique freedoms and independence. It is the equivalent of World War III. The characteristics of this war are:
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Secretary of State Pompeo reportedly pushing to declare groups such as Amnesty and Human Rights Watch anti-Semitic.

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The Trump administration is considering declaring that several prominent international NGOs — including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam — are anti-Semitic and that governments should not support them, two people familiar with the issue told Politico on Wednesday.

The proposed declaration could come from the State Department as soon as this week, according to the report. If the declaration happens, it is likely to cause an uproar among civil society groups and might spur litigation.

The groups named, meanwhile, deny any allegations that they are anti-Semitic.

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There’s too Much at Stake

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein, ZOA Chairman Mark Levenson, Esq., and ZOA Director of Special Projects Elizabeth Berney, Esq. released the following statement:

The 2020 World Zionist Congress (“WZC”) election was a “change” election. The ZOA Coalition, and other pro-Israel and religious slates worked hard to win because we saw that decades of left wing domination had taken the World Zionist Organization (“WZO”) away from its Zionist mandate of protecting and defending the Jewish homeland and people.

Under the left, WZO education programs often wrongly criticized the Israeli government, the Israeli people and religious Jews. A program and pamphlet produced by the WZO Department of Diaspora Affairs (a department under Reform Jewish control) even praised “Machsom Watch” – an anti-Israel non-governmental organization (“NGO”) that harasses and condemns the brave young Israeli soldiers who oversee the checkpoints that stop suicide bombers from attacking Jerusalem pizza stores. A Reform official declared that his group planned to bring presumably similar NGOs into the WZO.
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The plight of Christian girls in Pakistan (AKA “Land of the Pure”).

By Raymond Ibrahim, FPM

Christian girls are being abducted, sexually abused, and forced into Islam with increasing frequency all throughout Pakistan, and everyone—including local police, court officials, and Islamic clerics—seem bent on facilitating this human rights tragedy.

Most recently, according to a September 16 report,

A Christian 6 year old girl was beaten and raped after being forcibly taken to the home of a Muslim rapist in broad daylight.  In a sickening twist the local Muslim community are threatening the Christian parents with violence, the rape of their other daughters and financial ruin if they proceed with a legal case against paedophile Muhammad Waqas (18 yrs)…   Tabitha [the raped child] had been verbally abused, shouted at, slapped and beaten and forced to do a number of sex acts with Waqas.  She had been stripped of her clothes and had described her terror that she would be killed by Waqas…

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