'Antisemitic lie': Biden considered sanctions against Smotrich and Ben-Gvir
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Axios Journalist Barak Ravid quoted senior US officials saying that the administration considered including ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich in the list of people to be sanctioned, but eventually decided to leave them out and focus at this stage on people who perpetrated attacks.
About a month ago, officials claimed that the US is deliberately delaying the sale of tens of thousands of rifles to Israel due to what they defined as “concern regarding the increase in violence among residents against Palestinians in Judea and Samaria.”
A few months before the outbreak of the Gaza war, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told then-foreign minister, Eli Cohen, that "Israel needs to do more to deal with Jewish violence."
Politico reported that these sanctions reflect the Biden administration's determination “that extremist ‘settler’ violence has reached levels that constitute a serious threat to security in the West Bank and the entire region and undermines U.S. foreign policy objectives, mainly the viability of a two-state solution,” but continued, saying that “Thursday's expected order comes ahead of Biden's visit to Michigan, which is home to the biggest population of Arab Americans.”
US Senator Tom Cotton responded in his X (Twitter) account, saying “Where's the action reinstating sanctions against Iran or actually cutting off funds to the terrorist linked-UNWRA?”
He added: "Biden treats Israel more harshly than Iran."
Religious Zionism Chairman, Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich responded, "The ‘violence campaign’ is an anti-Semitic lie spread by Israel's enemies, aimed at discrediting and harming the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria, thereby disputing the existence of the entire State of Israel. This is an anti-moral BDS campaign that turns the victim into the aggressor and permits Jewish blood. It's a shame that the Biden administration is cooperating with this at a time when Jews are paying a heavy price in blood and losing the best of their sons in the war in Gaza," he said.
"With God's help, I will continue to act fearlessly to strengthen and promote Jewish life in all parts of the Land of Israel and strive for sustainable peace, which will only be achieved when the Arabs' hope for the establishment of an Arab state on the ruins of the Jewish homeland is dashed. If the price of this is the imposition of American sanctions on me – then so be it.”
'Antisemitic lie': Biden considered sanctions against Smotrich and Ben-Gvir
'Antisemitic lie': Biden considered sanctions against Smotrich and Ben-Gvir
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