President Joe Biden on Thursday issued an executive order targeting so-called “extremist settler violence” in the West Bank, but its terms are so broad that they do not allow Israel’s elected leaders or political parties to It may be used to impose sanctions.
The order was issued during President Biden’s visit to Michigan, where Arab and Muslim American voters perceive him as supporting Israel against Hamas. As a result, he is threatening not to support President Biden in key battleground states in the 2020 presidential election.
order Claim It says there is a “high level” of violence by Jewish Israeli settlers against Palestinian residents of the West Bank, known to Israelis as Judea and Samaria.In fact, no such violence has occurred. woke upand dwarfed by Palestinian violence.
“Settler violence”
According to Israeli police, from 2023 to the present, Palestinians have carried out 5,600 terrorist attacks in Judea and Samaria. That’s 16 pieces a day, every day.
In 2023, there were a total of 60 altercations between Palestinians and Israelis living in Judea and Samaria.— Caroline Glick (@CarolineGlick) December 18, 2023
Most recently as analyst David Weinberg. I got it. On Jewish News Syndicate:
In Judea and Samaria, there will be no escalation or unprecedented wave of settler violence under the cover of the war in Gaza. Washington officials’ frenzied focus on “settler terrorism” is based on fake news.
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Overall, the level of friction/violence in 2023 was similar to that in 2022, with a total of approximately 1,000 incidents of all types of violence for the year.
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In 2022, there were more than 5,000 Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israeli Jews, including car rammings, shootings, stabbings, and bombings of innocent men, women, and children. These attacks included more than 500 incendiary bombings, injuring more than 150 Israelis. Stone-throwing incidents in 2021 increased by 210% compared to 2020, and bomb-throwing incidents in 2021 increased by 156% compared to 2020.
Notably, the executive order provides no factual basis or evidentiary record to support its claims.
Claims about “extremist settler violence” are used as a way to balance criticism of Palestinian terrorism with appeasing anti-Israel opposition within the Democratic Party.
The vast majority of “settlers”, Israeli citizens living in areas beyond the 1949 armistice lines, are peaceful. But the executive order’s language is so broad that it could theoretically apply to nonviolent people as well.
For example, the executive order authorizes the imposition of sanctions on anyone who “acts or is deemed to have acted directly or indirectly for or on behalf of any person blocked pursuant to this order.” means that sanctions may also apply to lawyers. A person who speaks on behalf of an accused “settler.” Additionally, the executive order authorizes the president to sanction any “entity” with sanctioned members, which could mean the U.S. could sanction political parties and leaders in the Israeli government. There is. White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Air Force One that the United States is not sanctioning Israeli leaders “at this time,” but left open the possibility.
Already, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), whose executive director celebrated the October 7 terrorist attack, has called in a press release for the Biden administration to begin sanctions against right-wing members of the Israeli government.
As Breitbart News pointed out:
From 2007 to 2008, CAIR named Unindicted co-conspirator in Holy Land Relief and Development Foundation terrorist financing trial. This incident led to the F.B.I. call off Cooperation with organizations. In 2009, a federal judge control The government said it had “submitted sufficient evidence” to establish a link between CAIR and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.United Arab Emirates a label is attached CAIR was designated as a terrorist organization in 2014 (decision by the Obama administration) opposed).
The timing of this executive order comes as the US is pressuring Israel to accept a Palestinian state at the end of the war, despite the fact that doing so would be payback to Hamas for the October 7 attacks. It was conducted. And the US reportedly urged Israel to accept a hostage deal that would end the war before achieving Israel’s objective of destroying Hamas’ military capabilities and ending its governing role in Gaza. It’s putting pressure on you.
update: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement in response.
The vast majority of the population of Judea and Samaria are law-abiding citizens, many of whom are currently serving in the draft or reservists in defense of Israel.
Israel will take action against all Israelis who break the law everywhere. Therefore, no exceptional measures are required.
era of israel I got it. Four people were initially sanctioned.
The US State Department said in a statement that the four people named in the first phase are David Chai Chasdai, who is accused of carrying out a rampage in the village of Huwara in the northern West Bank last year that left one person dead. It was announced that. Palestinian residents. Eitan Tansil is suspected of attacking Palestinian farmers and Israeli activists with stones and clubs, inflicting injuries that required medical treatment. Shalom Zicharman is accused of assaulting Israeli activists and their vehicles in the West Bank, disrupting their activities on the street, and attempting to break the windows of passing vehicles with activists inside. Suspect Ynon Levy regularly led groups of settlers from the Meitalim farm outpost, attacking Palestinian and Bedouin civilians, committing additional violence if they did not leave their homes, burning fields, and property. He is said to have threatened to destroy the building.
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