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- Welcome to "The 700 Club."

Get ready for a very different approach

to Israel and the Middle East.

That could be the case undera Biden administration,

especially concerningthe Iran nuclear deal,

Middle East peace, andaid for the Palestinians.

- Israeli officials and analysts believe

that would actuallyerase the progress made

in the past four years.

Chris Mitchell brings usthe story from Jerusalem.

- [Chris] For the Biden campaign,

a renewed Iranian nucleardeal would be on the table.

While President Trump madehistory with the Abraham Accords,

some believe a Biden White House

would renew focus on the Palestinians.

- A Biden presidency wouldreturn to the policies

of both the Obama administration

and Clinton administration,where putting precedence,

giving precedence to achievementof a Palestinian state

based on the '67 borders, withEast Jerusalem as capital.

- [Chris] While the Biden-Harris website

does not address the issue directly,

Senator Harris told the"Arab American News,"

"We are committed to a two-state solution,

and we will oppose any unilateral steps

that undermine that goal.

We will also oppose annexationand settlement expansion.

And we will take immediatesteps to restore economic

and humanitarian assistanceto the Palestinian people."

In 2018, the Trump administrationended funding to UNRRWA,

the UN Relief and Works Agencyfor Palestinian refugees.

- Over a period of 2 1/2years, he got information

that showed that UNRWA wasactually a terrorist advocate

and he did what needed tobe done and cut them off.

UNRWA is making every sign

that they expect that Bidento reverse that process.

- [Chris] David Bedeinhas investigated UNRWA

for two decades.

- United Nations Relief and Works Agency

is a terror advocate openly, without any,

they don't mince words about it,

with military training in their schools,

with school books whichpraise those who murder Jews,

with school books whichget children in the morning

to start their day with singing songs

about wiping out the state of Israel.

This is not appropriate fora United Nations agency.

- [Chris] More than300,000 young Palestinians

attend these schools in theWest Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem.

Bedein asked Vice PresidentBiden about UNRWA in 2016.

Biden's written response said, in part,

"While there is still work to be done,

the Palestinian governmenthas made significant progress

in reducing inflammatory rhetoric

and revising official textbooks."

- Now, I want to be very fair about this.

If UNRWA has shown signs

that they were having a new curriculum,

listening to feedback, you'dhave to be fair about it,

but they're not.

And UNRWA is continuingto teach the theme,

right of return by forceof arms as their theme.

- [Chris] CBN News reachedout to the Biden campaign

for a response on aid to UNRWAbut has yet to get a reply.

In a documentary producedby Bedein's group in 2019,

filmmakers asked students in a Bethlehem

Palestinian refugee campabout what they're taught.

- [Interpreter] There's notwo-state or one-state solution.

There's only one-state andit will be Palestine forever.

And what was taken by battle

will be reconquered through battle.

- [Chris] With teaching like this,

Bedein sees UNRWA incitingan entire generation

of Palestinians away from peace.

Chris Mitchell, CBN News, Jerusalem.

- Well, this is absolutely chilling to me

that we could return tosomething where the US taxpayer

is funding terrorism.

And that is what happenedand what was going on,

and it goes back a long way.

It's not just the Clinton administration

and the Bush administration,the Obama administration.

All of our aid to thePalestinian Authority,

a portion of it, went to pay the families

of suicide bombers.

Anyone who was convicted in Israel

of a terrorist attack,anyone who had killed Jews,

their family would then receive a stipend.

And on a monthly basis, they would be paid

and they were considered martyrs.

They were considered heroesin the Palestinian Authority.

You go to their city squares

and you will find acelebration of bombers.

the famous refrigerator bomber

who set off a refrigeratorfull of explosives

in the middle of Zion Square in Jerusalem,

well, there's a statue to him.

So they honor them andthey pay their families.

And this is somethingthat I really applaud

the Trump administration for waking up to,

that US taxpayers shouldn'tbe a part of this.

Now Congress has passed two acts.

One is called the Taylor Force Act,

and it says that, as longas the Palestinian Authority

is paying the families ofsuicide bombers, of terrorists,

as long as they have thisstipend, that the US is prohibited

from funding the Palestinian Authority.

Let me add another act to it,

and this one you may not have heard of,

the Anti-TerrorismClarification Act of 2018.

Now what that provides isthat you and I, US citizens,

get to sue anyone who receives US aid

if they in turn fund acts of war,

and terrorism is included in that.

So this campaign of war against Israel

is something that thePalestinian Authority

is actually funding,and they're funding it

through these payments to the families.

So you and I, we get theopportunity to sue them

to recover our tax dollarsthat went into that,

so there's a privateenforcement mechanism.

So far,

Joe Biden hasn't answered these questions,

but do pay attention toKamala Harris' interview

with that Dearborn newspaper.

She did it in advance of the election.

She did it specifically to get votes

within the Muslim community in Michigan.

But when you look at that andsay there's an absolute pledge

to restore funding to thePalestinian Authority,

well, there needs to bea follow-up question.

What about the Taylor Force Act?

What about this terrorism act?

What about those kinds of provisions

that protect American taxpayers,

that our tax dollars are notbeing used to fund terrorism?

Those are hard questions.

So far, there haven'tbeen the hard answers.

Well, here at home, thenumber of coronavirus cases

is setting new records across the country,

so cities and statesare clamping down again.

John Jessup has that story

from our CBN news bureau in Washington.

John.

- That's right, Gordon.

State and local governments

are trying to hold off asecond wave of the virus,

but there is also somegood news on the horizon.

CBN's Eric Philips has the story.

- 150,000.

That is the number of new COVID cases

in the US just yesterday.

That's a record.

And consider this,

one in 378 Americans has testedpositive this week alone.

But new medical advances signal a light

at the end of the tunnel.

Major cities across the country

are imposing new restrictions

that sound all too eerily familiar.

In Chicago, where therate of positive tests

has tripled to 14%, themayor is asking Chicagoans

to only leave home foressential activities

like work or groceries, andto restrict social gatherings

to 10 people starting Monday,

less than two weeks before Thanksgiving.

- Our goal now is the same as it was

during the early days of this pandemic,

and that is to bend the curve.

We are back there.

- [Eric] In New York,Governor Andrew Cuomo

also restricting privategatherings to 10 people

and ordering restaurants, bars, and gyms

to close at 10:00 PM starting Friday,

a major blow for small businesses

still struggling fromprevious restrictions.

- There's only a few people

sitting down in therestaurant at 10:00 or 11:00,

and now we can't even acceptthose 10 to 20 customers

that we get late at night.

- [Eric] In California,restrictions are being renewed

as cases now top a million.

And Ohio Republican Governor Mike DeWine

issued a new mask mandate there.

- We know that masks work.

They are the easiest,most cost-effective way

to limit the spread of COVID-19.

- [Eric] The CDC now predicting that,

by the end of Thanksgiving weekend,

at least a quarter of a million Americans

will have died from COVID.

- I said, "if we didnot get control of this,

that we could reach a100,000 infections a day

and people thought I being hyperbolic,

and now look what's happening.

- [Eric] But Dr. Fauci believesnew vaccine development

will be our saving grace.

Pfizer says early data shows

its vaccine could be 90% effective

and may apply for emergency authorization

as soon as next week.

And Moderna, not farbehind with their vaccine,

saying they could be readyto apply for FDA approval

by next month.

- The good news about vaccines means that,

if we hunker down foranother six or eight months,

we may be in a much, muchbetter place next year.

- [Eric] Plus, new antibody treatments

are beginning to stave off the virus

for those who have mild to moderate cases

and catch it in the early days.

- This is a treatment that can keep them

from becoming sick enoughto be in the hospital.

So it keeps them out ofthe healthcare system.

- As restrictions tighten,

the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn

is asking the SupremeCourt to block limits

on in-person church attendance.

The church argues itshould not be effectively

forced to close while othersecular businesses remain open.

The court rebuffed similarchallenges over the summer,

but church leaders are hoping that,

with the addition ofJustice Amy Coney Barrett,

they will find success beforea now more conservative court.

Eric Phillips, CBN News.

- All right, thank you, Eric.

Well, Supreme Court AssociateJustice Samuel Alito

is sounding an alarm aboutsome coronavirus restrictions.

Alito told the Federalist Society,

"We've never seen limitationsas severe and prolonged."

He warned that laws givinggovernment officials

so much discretion to imposesuch regulations can be abused,

adding that religious freedomwas particularly at risk.

- It pains me to say this,but in certain quarters,

religious liberty is fastbecoming a disfavored right.

- Alito was also criticalof two cases this year

where the high court imposed restrictions

on religious gatherings.

Well, President Trump's legal team

scored its first court victory

challenging voter issues in the courts.

The Pennsylvania case involves

a small number of mail-inballots and voters

who still hadn't providedthe proper identification

more than a week after the election.

The case is still goingthrough the courts.

The Trump team has filedat least 15 challenges

in Pennsylvania, along with others

in Arizona, Nevada, and Michigan.

Well many Christians are divided

during this post-election season.

Whether they believe it's notover or it's time to move on,

most can agree it is acritical moment for the church,

no matter what the outcome.

Wendy Griffith brings us that story.

- This is the greatest hour of the church.

- [Wendy] Prophet Charlie Shamp

told the Elijah List'sSteve Shultz recently...

- The justice scale isresting in the center,

the heart of the nation,

and it is either going togo one way or the other way.

And the only deciding factorthat is going to change

this moment in history is the church.

The church has to rise, takehold of the prophetic word,

decree and do not let go of it,

and we would tip the scales of justice.

- [Wendy] Some Christians question,

"If God has already spoken,why do we need to pray?"

Dutch Sheets, author of"Intercessory Prayer"

and many other books, says...

- And don't buy into that theology

that says, "Well, God's just in control

and He's predestined everything

and He's gonna get it done anyway."

No, God needs our prayers.

He's using our prayers and,therefore, they matter.

And that means, you know, listen, yeah,

be a part of prayer meetings.

Get on prayer calls.

- [Wendy] Sheets adds this is not the time

to get discouraged.

- Don't be surprised thatthe enemy is fighting this.

Daniel, even though Godhad heard his prayer

for the restoration of Israel

and released angels immediately

to start working to bringforth the answer to Daniel,

Daniel had to fast and prayfor three more weeks, 21 days,

against a principality over Persia

before the battle could bewon in the invisible realm.

- [Wendy] Reverend Robert Jeffress,

a faith advisor to President Trump,

calls this a rubber meets theroad moment for Christians.

- Over the last fouryears, we've told people

that you need to respectthe governing authorities.

We quote Paul in Romans 13,

who says, "There's nogovernment authority that exists

that hasn't been established by God."

And when Paul wrote that, remember, Nero,

the evil emperor ofRome, was on the throne

and he was the one who ultimatelybeheaded the apostle Paul.

And yet, Paul would say Nero'sthere by God's permission.

- [Wendy] Still, otherslike Prophet Jeff Jansen

told Sid Roth the churchwill have the final say

in this election.

- We need to lift our voices

to have our voices countedin the courts of heaven

to be able to release theverdict that God wants.

God is looking for someone toagree with Him on the planet,

and that's the church.

- There's a saying, as thechurch goes, so goes the nation,

and many believe that statementhas never been more true.

Wendy Griffith, CBN News, Virginia Beach.

- Gordon, I like whatPastor Jeffress said,

whether it's Nero, Trump, or Biden,

God is still ultimately on the throne.

- He is on the throne, andrealize what He has done.

Let's go to the Book of Daniel.

And here you have the Ancient of Days.

God, He's seated.

And then the scrolls are produced

and the Son of Man is deemedworthy to open the scrolls.

And so the Ancient ofDays gives the government

to the Son of Man.

Then what does He do?

Well, He turns aroundand gives the government

to the saints of the Most High God.

And that's the great thingabout the American republic,

the great gift we havegiven by our forefathers.

We the people of theUnited States of America,

we get to govern ourselves.

We're no longer subjects.

We are citizens and wehave the right to vote.

That means we have the right

to have every single vote counted

and make sure that everyonefeels part of this system.

I remember, in the weeks leading up

to the elections, all the hue and cry

that there'll be Russianinterference again

or that somehow there'llbe voter suppression

and our entire democracy was at stake.

Well, all of that got proven wrong.

You talk about a display of democracy.

That's what we just went through.

In the middle of a pandemic,

record numbers showed up to vote.

Let's count those votes.

Let's go through whatever legalchallenges candidates have.

They have them under the law.

Those need to be honored.

Let's go through that process.

And at the end of the process,once again, recognize,

we the people of theUnited States of America

have chosen our leadership.

And the good news,

well, there's gonna beanother election in two years,

there's gonna be anotherelection two years after that,

and we get to have ourvote counted yet again.

So the republic is in good hands.

The republic is showing itself strong,

democracy is showing itself strong,

and most importantly, Godis always on the throne.