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* Amir Taheri: US Elections and the Old Family Album


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by Guy Millière • November 3, 2024 at 5:00 am
* US President Joe Biden said that Sinwar had been an "insurmountable obstacle" and that his death offered "the opportunity... for a political settlement" in Gaza. A short time later, US Vice President Kamala Harris said that it was now possible to "finally end the war in Gaza."
* Had Israel complied with the Biden-Harris administration's request and not gone into Rafah, Sinwar would still be preparing the next massacres and making sure that Hamas keeps stealing the humanitarian aid intended for the people of Gaza. When the IDF killed him, just a mile from the Egyptian border, he was found carrying a large sum of money and the passport of a man described as an "UNRWA teacher."
* Hamas continues to steal the humanitarian aid and then sells it on the black market at extortionate prices, from which Hamas has "profited by at least half a billion dollars." Approximately 200 trucks of aid enter Gaza every day, yet the media report that Gazans are "starving" and that the blame for the supposed "war crime" goes, of course, to -- Israel.
* [B]y waiving sanctions that block Iran from selling its oil, the Biden-Harris administration has effectively been funding Iran's nuclear weapons program to the tune of roughly $100 billion.
* "After Iran's Oct. 1 missile attack, Mr. Biden told Israel not to attack Iran's nuclear program. Mr. Trump replied, 'Isn't that what you're supposed to hit? It's the biggest risk we have, nuclear weapons.' He reportedly told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 'Do what you have to do'... [Trump] tells Israel to do what it needs to do to end the war quickly in victory. Ms. Harris piles on restrictions and insists a cease-fire lead to a two-state solution disconnected from reality."— Elliot Kaufman, Wall Street Journal, November 1, 2024.
* "Now, as the ICC expands and abuses its powers to attack Israel, and Unrwa is exposed as compromised by Hamas, Mr. Biden blocks new sanctions against the ICC and tries to preserve Unrwa." — Elliot Kaufman, Wall Street Journal, November 1, 2024.
* Which will Americans vote for this week? The policies of President Trump or the policies of Presidents Biden and Obama?

US President Joe Biden said that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar had been an "insurmountable obstacle" and that his death offered "the opportunity... for a political settlement" in Gaza. US Vice President Kamala Harris said that it was now possible to "finally end the war in Gaza." Had Israel complied with the Biden-Harris administration's request and not gone into Rafah, Sinwar would still be preparing the next massacres. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

October 17. Israeli authorities announce that Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the Hamas terrorist organization, the man who planned and ordered the atrocities of October 7, 2023 and the hostage-taking that accompanied them, has been eliminated. In the hours that followed, US President Joe Biden said that Sinwar had been an "insurmountable obstacle" and that his death offered "the opportunity... for a political settlement" in Gaza. A short time later, US Vice President Kamala Harris said that it was now possible to "finally end the war in Gaza."

This is not the first time the Biden-Harris administration has spoken of "political settlement" in Gaza and the possibility to "end the war in Gaza." It has, in fact, been putting pressure on Israel for months to end the conflict. Both Biden and Harris, earlier, also insisted that the Israeli military not enter Rafah, where weapons were being smuggled into Gaza from Egypt through at least 20 massive cross-border tunnels.

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by Amir Taheri • November 3, 2024 at 4:00 am
* The kinder authors use the label "conservative" against those left behind as if that were an insult. But one conserves only what one regards as precious and worth preserving. Advocates of wokeism never bother to ask why so many Americans don't wish to board that bus and try to cling to their American way of life, as portrayed in Rip Smith's old family album in "Magic Town".
* In theory, the US has a multiparty system. In practice, however, for the past few decades at least, it has appeared as 43 effectively one-party states with the remaining seven swinging between two parties.
* The strength of the American system lies in the fact that the structures of the republic set limits to democratic waywardness caused by momentary changes of public mood and cultural-ideological fashions such as wokeism.

(Photo by Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images)

For decades, at least until the early days of the current century, a saying attributed to a 19th century vaudeville troupe was often used to assess the prevailing political mood in an imaginary "average America": Will it play in Peoria?

I first heard the phrase in 1974 from Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neil, the 47th Speaker of the US House of Representatives. In answer to questions about likely policies the federal government might pursue on various issues, he said: "We have to see how it plays in Peoria!"

The subtext was that Peoria, a small town in Illinois, represents the mood in America.

In reality, however, Peoria has almost always leaned Democrat, a blue dot in an ocean of Republican red.

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