The lame-duck Biden-Harris administration has imposed new sanctions on Israelis while sending nearly $250 million in additional funding to Palestinians, compounding the final weeks of a failed policy. There is.
Washington Free Beacon noticed Monday:
The Biden-Harris administration announced new sweeping sanctions against Israeli Jews on Monday, days after giving the Palestinians an additional $230 million in taxpayer funds. The successive announcements suggest that diplomatic relations between Israel and the outgoing White House will continue to deteriorate until President-elect Donald Trump takes office next year.
The new sanctions are the most far-reaching yet and impose unprecedented punitive measures on three Israeli groups that the administration accuses of inciting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. They were leveled just days after a coalition of nearly 90 Congressional Democrats. petitioned The Biden administration plans to tighten sanctions against Israel before leaving the White House.
The sanctions were announced just three days after the Biden-Harris administration took office. Award An additional $230 million was provided for humanitarian projects in the West Bank and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The US government has now sent more than $2 billion in taxpayer funds to the Palestinians since Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel, but critics say this cash is keeping Hamas on life support. is warning.
Department of State website I will explain The sanctions against Israelis target “violent Israeli individuals and organizations,” but the “violence” two of them are accused of perpetrating is against settlements, which the State Department has described as illegal. It is nothing more than a provision of construction vehicles.
The Biden-Harris administration has sanctioned a wide range of Israeli individuals and entities, primarily at the instigation of anti-Israel groups and Congressional Democrats. Many of the sanctions target people who have not broken the law. Legal challenges to sanctions say some are targeting constitutionally protected protests in the United States
Israeli jurist Eugene Kontorovich added in new york post:
Sanctions typically target those responsible for serious wrongdoing, such as terrorist financing, nuclear proliferation, and large-scale human rights violations.
The new sanctions break with this norm by targeting Israeli Jews in the West Bank accused of property crimes, vandalism, or simply associating with the wrong people.
in spite of, Ongoing terrorist activities Biden has used the order to almost exclusively target Jews in attacks by Palestinians in the West Bank.
Kontorovich added that the Biden-Harris administration also created an exception for Palestinian organizations that would normally fall foul of existing anti-terrorism sanctions.
Immediately after taking office, the Biden-Harris administration restored funding to Palestinian organizations and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which helps Palestinians, dispelling concerns about terrorism. The administration also eased sanctions enforcement against Iran, which funds Palestinian terrorists.
Within months, Palestinian violence against Israel resumed after four years of silence under President Donald Trump.
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