By Dr. Hanan Shai, BESA  October 29, 2020

Abraham Sees Sodom in Flames, circa 1896–1902, by James Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836-1902) via Wikipedia

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,789, October 29, 2020

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

Biblical morality, which can also be called Abrahamic morality, was born in Mesopotamia and from there spread west. Until Europe freed itself of its yoke, it was the legacy of the West. Europe’s renunciation led to a series of horrendous calamities from which it was rescued by the US and Britain, which, unlike continental Europe, continued to uphold Abrahamic morality. The Abraham Accords were signed at a time when the US, patron of the Accords and leader of the West and the world, is likewise disavowing its moral values and being taken over by progressivism—another utopian European ideology that has broken from morality. The children of Abraham must make the most of the peace they have reached to reconnect the West with the moral roots that took form in the East.

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Trump saw that most of the Middle East was ready to love its children more than they hated Israel. He got it. And he acted upon it, to remarkable effect.

By Bruce Bawer, AM GREATNESS

The comedian Gilbert Gottfried used to tell a joke about a guy who finds a bottle and rubs it, causing a genie to come out and grant him a wish. The guy takes out a map and tells the genie, “See this map? This is the Middle East. For thousands of years, there’s been nothing but war and conflict in this region. Can you bring peace to it?”

The genie replies, “I’m sorry, this is beyond even my powers. Do you have another request?”

In reply, the man explains that even though he’s been married for a long time, his wife has never, shall we say, been willing to engage in a certain type of intimacy with him. Could the genie, he asks, make that happen?

The genie’s response: “Could you give me another look at that map?”
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T. Belman. my own analysis goes as follows:

1. Trump delivered on his promises and thus all people who voted for him in 2016 will do so again.
2. Many people in the center who didn’t vote for him in 2016 have been won over by his performance. He is now a known quantity as president.
3. Chief among them are the blacks who are coming over in droves. Blacks are expected to vote for Trump 4 times more so than in 2016.
4. Big shift among Hispanics also.
5. Trump enjoys an enormous enthusiasm gap.
6. Biden is sleepy and creepy and crooked.
7. Trump has a lock on the law and order crowd.

JEWS CHOOSE TRUMP

1.Trump to List ‘Jerusalem, Israel’ on Passports of Jerusalem-Born Americans

2.US acts on declaration settlements are legal, extends deal to West Bank

By Hana Levi Julian, The Jewish Press    October 28, 2020,

The Trump administration is expected to announce Thursday that US passports of Americans born in the Israeli capital will be able to state “Jerusalem, Israel” as the place of their birth.

The policy, reported Wednesday by Politico, is the latest of a steady list of pro-Israel actions by President Donald Trump that will remind his Zionist and evangelical supporters why they must make sure to get to the polls and vote in the lead-up to Election Day.

Up to this point, American citizens who were born in Jerusalem fell into a no-man’s-land when it came to stating a country of birth on their passports. One US administration after another proved unwilling to take on the issue of deciding the status of Jerusalem….

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Biden touching girls compilation

In the eternal battle between fear and hope, writes the ‘Green Prince,’ the Abraham Accords offer a chance to break free from irreconcilable dogmas and imagine what is possible

By Mosab Hassan Yousef, TOI

‘In my vision of a future peace, the Palestinian leadership would be wise to let the Jews build their Third Temple on the Temple Mount.’ (iStock)

“Israel is the solution, not the problem.”

To have expressed this as a young Palestinian twenty years ago, or even come to realize it, as I did, was an unforgivable heresy deserving a gruesome death before a stone-throwing mob. And yet here we are these twenty years of hatred and strife later with a new reality set in motion by the Abraham Peace Accords that can make those treasonous words even become an accepted truth.

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By Thomas Lifson, AM THINKER

Europeans are in open rebellion over the reimposition of harsh anti-Coronavirus lockdown measures. Severe limits on personal freedoms have failed to arrest the spread of the China virus in Italy and Spain, as positive tests for the virus have surged in both nations after relaxing the measures imposed last spring. The Financial Times reports:

The governments of Italy and Spain, the European countries hardest hit by the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, announced sweeping measures on Sunday to combat a surge in the number of new cases.

Italy said it would introduce the harshest public health restrictions since the end of its first national lockdown in May as new coronavirus cases hit a fresh daily record. Spain announced a nationwide curfew and triggered emergency powers after the country’s infection rate jumped by almost a third over the past week.
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By Alan M. Dershowitz, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  October 28, 2020

Now that the Sudan has joined the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in normalizing relations with Israel, the future seems bright for even more Arab countries to make peace with their former enemy. Pictured: An Etihad Airways flight carrying a delegation from the United Arab Emirates on a first official visit, lands at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on October 20, 2020. (Photo by Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)

• Israel is a stabilizing influence in an unstable region of the world. It is a democracy, a military and technological innovator, an economically advanced country. It can assist its new allies in each of these areas, as it has already begun to do even in the short time since normalization began.
• This may be their last opportunity to achieve a reasonable two state solution. Israel’s Arab neighbors have demonstrated that the Palestinian cause is not as high on their agenda as it appeared to be in the past. These nations understand that the situation the Palestinians now find themselves in have been the result of self-inflicted wounds — most importantly an unwillingness to take yes for an answer when the Israelis have offered them statehood.

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by Benjamin Weinthal, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  October 28, 2020

• Swiss and German economic deals might be aiding Iran’s illicit nuclear weapons program…. The Swiss firm Ceresola TLS reached an agreement [in 2010] with the Rahab Engineering Establishment in Iran to deliver tunneling technology as part of a subway project. This is precisely the type of heavy earth-moving equipment Iran’s rulers need to burrow away nuclear facilities underground, as the regime did with the Qom and Natanz nuclear enrichment plants.
• The German company Krempel delivered to two Iranian companies insulating pressboards that were incorporated into Iranian missiles armed with chemical warheads, which were used by the Syrian regime in a chlorine gas attack in January 2018. The attack resulted in 21 injuries, including six children.

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T. Belman. American Jews who are Democrats, have a different litmus test than, “Is it good for the Jews”. In fact they scorn this test .  If it is good for the Jews they reject it.

By Joan Swirsky, RENEW AMERICA

“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”

Those words were spoken by Menachem Begin in June of 1982, directly to the Democrat senator from Delaware, Joe Biden, who had confronted the Israeli Prime Minister during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee testimony by threatening to cut off aid to Israel.

That’s right, only 32 years after the establishment of the tiny Jewish state, which was surrounded by 22 war-mongering, Israel-loathing Arab states, and only 35 years after the Holocaust savagely murdered––tortured and gassed-to-death––six-million Jewish men, women, children, and infants, Senator Biden was once again terrorizing the Jews of the world with his menacing ultimatum.
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By Fredy Lowe, CFP —— Bio and Archives—October 27, 2020

since Joe Biden recently bragged that they have assembled the most extensive-voter-fraud-organization in history, while repeatedly telling us that he is either running for the senate or against George, his now weary-eyed-handlers thought he might have a problem with the proper pronunciation of a three-syllable word like Deplorables, so they decided to give him a simple, more guttural term, to call us— “Chumps”! Which they told him would be best said with a loud cough in order to disguise it. But, seriously, with or without the fraud-votes, they all know Joe’s campaign is in a serious crisis, as the number one Google search asks, “Can I change my vote?” While Kamala Harris can be seen behind a makeshift parking lot stage, chomping at the bit to hurry up and make this all go away with her high-hopes of still replacing him.
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The media must answer for the most egregious smear job in the history of the democratic world.

By Conrad Black, AM GREATNESS October 26, 2020

As the national political media have conducted practically the entire Democratic presidential election campaign, the credibility of the media is entirely implicated in the election result. In the latest revelations about the financial activities of the Biden family while presidential candidate Joe Biden was the vice president, the national political media and the principal social media companies have sandbagged another large media company, News Corporation’s New York Post, and have tried to impose online silence on the White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.

The media either had to suppress the story to maintain support for their candidate and continue to make his campaign for him, or give normal attention to such a well-attested story and probably sink his candidacy—effectively their joint candidacy. If they had chosen the second course of action and treated Biden as they would have treated Trump or any previous presidential candidate mired in such allegations, the Biden candidacy almost certainly would be doomed. In going full metal jacket to ignore the story and to maintain Biden in their candidate protection program, the major media and the executives behind them are putting the credibility and ultimately the value of their franchises on the line.
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What are you going to believe, your ears or the lying polls

In a second term, expect more chaotic, confident wheeling and dealing overseas.

By Walter Russell Mead, WSJ     Oct. 26, 2020

President Trump speaks on a conference call with leaders of Israel and Sudan in the Oval Office, Oct. 23.

The odds are against him again, but Donald Trump has every intention of winning four more years in office. In foreign policy at least, his second term would likely be even more transformative and unconventional than his first.

Most second-term presidents look to make a mark in foreign policy. This is partly because a president’s political clout at home diminishes as the definitive end of his mandate approaches, while overseas a president has a relatively free hand even at the end of a second term. So commanders in chief often go looking for diplomatic breakthroughs. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush both devoted great efforts to getting an Israeli-Palestinian agreement in their second terms. Barack Obama signed the Iran deal and the Paris Climate Accords. As unconventional a figure as Mr. Trump is, he is likely to look for trophy achievements overseas too.

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